🥈 James van Niekerk (23)
Representative pathway — 5 pathway points in the overall rating
- ● Premier or state pathway — 3 matches (+1.2)
- ● Regional representative — 20 matches (+3.0)
- ● Body of work — 41 imported matches (+0.8)
Critical recommendations
Strike rate of 53.4 means long dot-ball chains and pressure on partners. Drill singles into gaps, soft-hand placement, and calling.
Only 0.10 catches per match over 41 matches. Fielding is the first thing selectors compare when batting/bowling are close — make catching the priority: 30 high balls + 30 flat catches per session, and ask to field in the ring/slips where chances come.
Out for 0 in 19% of imported innings. Build a repeatable start routine: watch the ball out of the hand, score first run with low-risk pushes.
Only 0% of 50+ scores become hundreds (4 fifties, 0 hundreds). Practise batting in long blocks and resetting targets at 50.
Economy of 3.13 is excellent but a wicket every 43 balls is slow. Develop a genuine wicket-taking variation and attack the stumps more.
Strengths
- Overall
- Weighted blend of the disciplines: Fielding 8 × 40% · Batting not rated (weight redistributed) · Bowling 36 × 30%. Unrated disciplines are dropped and the remaining weights rescaled, so a non-bowler is not punished for not bowling.
- Level
- ×0.40 for the level played (State competition 3 · 1st grade 5 · Rep Div 1 5 · 3rd grade 3 · Club 18 · 4th grade 7). The same score is worth more in harder cricket.
- Form
- No match in the last 2 years, so not ranked. The rating shown is from the career.
- Fielding
- Outfield: 4 catches + 2 run outs (2 direct, 0 assisted) in 41 matches — 0.15 per match.
- Batting
- Not rated: 42 innings at 17.8 average — below the 20 floor needed to be presented as a batter.
- Bowling
- 21 wickets in 23 matches bowled in (of 41 played) — 0.91 per match at 22.3, economy 3.13, strike rate 42.9.
Fielding — imported matches (41)
Batting — imported matches
Bowling — imported matches
Dismissal pattern
Imported-match summary
| Matches | 41 imported |
| Batting | 698 runs in 42 inns @ 17.81 (SR 53.35) |
| Milestones | 0×100, 4×50, HS 62, 8 ducks |
| Bowling | 21 wkts @ 22.33 (econ 3.13, SR 42.9) |
| Best / 5WI | 3-6 · 0 five-fors |
| Fielding | 4 ct, 2 RO, 0 st |
Further analysis
Batting form
Running not-out-adjusted average across innings (chronological).
Score distribution
How often each scoring band is reached — a read on consistency.
Scoring tempo
Runs vs balls faced per innings; line = a strike rate of 100.
Bowling form
Economy per spell (chronological) with the career economy as a baseline.
Wicket accumulation
Cumulative wickets across spells — the shape of their wicket-taking.
Fielding contribution
Breakdown of the 6 dismissals they were involved in.
Per-match fielding rate
Across 41 imported match(es).
Season by season
Seasons run 1 September – 31 August. Imported scorecards only.
Batting
| Season | Inns | NO | Runs | HS | Avg | SR | 50 | 100 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023/24 | 4 | 0 | 77 | 41 | 19.25 | 91.67 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022/23 | 2 | 0 | 60 | 51 | 30 | 50.85 | 1 | 0 |
| 2021/22 | 1 | 0 | 33 | 33 | 33 | — | 0 | 0 |
| 2020/21 | 6 | 0 | 40 | 12 | 6.67 | 48.78 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019/20 | 7 | 0 | 16 | 8 | 2.29 | 23.19 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018/19 | 5 | 0 | 36 | 33 | 7.2 | 41.38 | 0 | 0 |
| 2017/18 | 2 | 0 | 61 | 50 | 30.5 | 55.96 | 1 | 0 |
| 2016/17 | 7 | 1 | 223 | 62 | 36.41 | 82.59 | 2 | 0 |
| 2015/16 | 2 | 0 | 39 | 27 | 19.5 | 50 | 0 | 0 |
| 2014/15 | 5 | 1 | 94 | 42 | 22.56 | 63.95 | 0 | 0 |
| 2013/14 | 1 | 1 | 19 | 19* | 19 | — | 0 | 0 |
Bowling
| Season | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Avg | Econ | SR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023/24 | 4 | 0 | 23 | 0 | — | 5.75 | — |
| 2022/23 | 5 | 1 | 28 | 0 | — | 5.6 | — |
| 2020/21 | 16 | 0 | 57 | 2 | 28.5 | 3.56 | 48 |
| 2019/20 | 12 | 0 | 40 | 3 | 13.33 | 3.33 | 24 |
| 2018/19 | 44 | 10 | 123 | 5 | 24.6 | 2.8 | 52.8 |
| 2017/18 | 16 | 2 | 48 | 2 | 24 | 3 | 48 |
| 2016/17 | 18 | 3 | 68 | 2 | 34 | 3.78 | 54 |
| 2015/16 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 18 |
| 2014/15 | 30 | 8 | 67 | 6 | 11.17 | 2.23 | 30 |
| 2013/14 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 0 | — | 4.5 | — |
Fielding
| Season | Ct | WK Ct | RO | St | Dismissals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018/19 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 2017/18 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2016/17 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2014/15 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
How does James compare?
Year-by-year, aligned by age — against Sam Konstas or any player you pick.