Darren Ironside
Batting – Top-Order Batter
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Competitions
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Hope Valley Cricket Club · Royal Park Brunswick Cricket Club · Tea Tree Gully Cricket Club
🏏 Century highlight · ball-by-ball
179 off 228
West End Mens 2nd Grade · 2024/25 · 18×4, 2×6
· SR 79
A front-loaded hundred: a quick first fifty off 40 balls (SR 125), then 50 to 100 at a steadier 178 balls (SR 28).
Scoring breakdown
84 of 179 runs (72%) in boundaries · 65% dots
Runs vs balls faced
0→20
· 17 balls · SR 118
steady
20→40
· 14 balls · SR 143
brisk
40→50
· 9 balls · SR 111
steady
50→60
· 18 balls · SR 56
watchful
60→80
· 39 balls · SR 51
watchful
80→100
· 121 balls · SR 17
watchful
Overall
Needs Work
31/100
fielding 40% · bat 30% · bowl 30%
Fielding
Needs Work
33/100
Batting
Advance
70/100
Bowling
Part Time
~21/100
discounted — banded on wickets per match
Representative pathway — 13 pathway points in the overall rating
- ● Premier or state pathway — 24 matches (+9.6)
- ● Regional representative — 8 matches (+1.2)
- ● Body of work — 122 imported matches (+2.4)
Critical recommendations
high
Batting
Strike rotation needs urgent work
Strike rate of 56.3 means long dot-ball chains and pressure on partners. Drill singles into gaps, soft-hand placement, and calling.
Strengths
- ✓ Proven ability to go big — 4 hundred(s), best of 179.
How these ratings are calculated
- Overall
- Weighted blend of the disciplines: Fielding 33 × 40% · Batting 70 × 30% · Bowling 21 × 30%. Unrated disciplines are dropped and the remaining weights rescaled, so a non-bowler is not punished for not bowling.
- Level
- ×0.68 for the level played (1st grade 21 · 2nd grade 11 · Club 7). The same score is worth more in harder cricket.
- Form
- Rated on the last 39 matches since 29 Oct 2024. Older cricket still shows in the career figures but does not count.
- Fielding
- Outfield: 38 catches + 1 run outs (1 direct, 0 assisted) in 122 matches — 0.32 per match.
- Batting
- 2,682 runs in 129 innings, adjusted average 24.0, strike rate 56.3. Qualifies on the floors (avg ≥ 20, SR ≥ 40).
- Bowling
- 62 wickets in 63 matches bowled in (of 122 played) — 0.98 per match at 25.3, economy 4.71, strike rate 32.2.
Fielding — imported matches (122)
38
Ct (field)
0
Ct (WK)
0.31
Catches / match
1
RO (direct)
0
RO (assist)
0
Stumpings
39
Total dismissals
0.32
Dismissals / match
Batting — imported matches
2682
Runs (129 inns)
24.01
Avg (adj)
56.29
Strike rate
179
High score
20
Not outs
3
Median position
Century (100+)
Fifty (50–99)
Not out (under 50)
Out (under 50)
Bowling — imported matches
62
Wickets (332.8 ov)
4.71
Economy
25.29
Average
26
Maidens
0.06
Extras / over
32.2
Strike rate
Dismissal pattern
Imported-match summary
| Matches | 122 imported |
| Batting | 2682 runs in 129 inns @ 24.01 (SR 56.29) |
| Milestones | 4×100, 9×50, HS 179, 11 ducks |
| Bowling | 62 wkts @ 25.29 (econ 4.71, SR 32.2) |
| Best / 5WI | 4-18 · 0 five-fors |
| Fielding | 38 ct, 1 RO, 0 st |
All figures from imported scorecards only.
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 39 dismissals they were involved in.
Per-match fielding rate
0.31
Catches / match
0.32
Dismissals / match
Across 122 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026/27 | 2 | 1 | 68 | 37 | 51 | 111.48 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025/26 | 20 | 4 | 357 | 117 | 21.42 | 58.72 | 1 | 1 |
| 2024/25 | 20 | 2 | 561 | 179 | 30.86 | 69.69 | 2 | 1 |
| 2023/24 | 22 | 2 | 372 | 123 | 18.45 | 52.62 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022/23 | 15 | 1 | 326 | 130* | 23.18 | 64.05 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021/22 | 20 | 3 | 368 | 61 | 21.16 | 49.26 | 1 | 0 |
| 2019/20 | 30 | 7 | 630 | 85 | 25.9 | 70.71 | 5 | 0 |
Bowling
| Season | Overs | Mdns | Runs | Wkts | Avg | Econ | SR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 | 13 | 0 | 100 | 5 | 20 | 7.69 | 15.6 |
| 2024/25 | 23.5 | 2 | 114 | 7 | 16.29 | 4.85 | 20.1 |
| 2023/24 | 23 | 1 | 131 | 10 | 13.1 | 5.7 | 13.8 |
| 2022/23 | 42.3 | 3 | 168 | 3 | 56 | 3.97 | 84.7 |
| 2021/22 | 84 | 11 | 365 | 19 | 19.21 | 4.35 | 26.5 |
| 2019/20 | 147 | 9 | 690 | 18 | 38.33 | 4.69 | 49 |
Fielding
| Season | Ct | WK Ct | RO | St | Dismissals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 |
| 2024/25 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| 2023/24 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| 2022/23 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2021/22 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 2019/20 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 |
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