MANDARINS CRICKET CLUB 2023 SUMMARY

Played 28, Won 11, Lost 13, Drew 4 including one abandoned.  Win percentage 46.4% (2022 45.6%). 4 games were cancelled.

Heaviest Victories: By 6 wickets vs Bank of England and Green Sox, by 120 runs vs North Enfield.

Narrowest Victories: By 2 wickets vs Erratics, by 3 runs vs Sutton, last ball vs Green Sox.

Heaviest Defeats: By 9 wickets vs DEFRA Agricola (T20), by 6 wickets vs Heber; by 136 runs vs Framlingham College Quilibets.

Narrowest Defeats: By 13 runs vs Graces, by 1 wicket vs Elstead.

Highest score for: 233 for 5 vs North Enfield and SMCC Midweek. Highest score against 242 for 8 vs Quilibets. 165 vs Green Sox was highest T20 chase.

Lowest score for 70 all out vs Graces (0nly below 100 score in proper cricket, also 97 for 7 off 20 vs FFTMCC).

Lowest score against 76 all out vs Banstead. Dismissed opponents for less than 100 4 times.

Mandarins scored 13 x 50s and 1 century. 

Healey 100* vs Brightwell, 68* vs Kings School Rochester, 55 vs SMCC

Nawaz 83* vs North Enfield

Baxter 80* vs Sutton

G Jones 63 vs North Enfield

H Forman-W 59 vs Quilibets, 51 vs Kings School

Satagopan 57 vs Mandarins A

Wilmot 56* vs Peper Harow; 50 vs Limpsfield Chart, 50 vs Vipers Elite

Stancombe 54 vs Mandarins B 

Lowen 50* vs Norfolk & Suffolk over 75s

Best bowling was Rakesh Ramani 6-3-9-5 vs Graces. Dan Forman took 3-0-9-5 vs Harwell International, and Martin Hurst’s 8-1-39-5 vs SMCC included a second spell of 4-1-9-5.  

Notable events: 65 players turned out for the Mandarins (2022,50) of whom 24 appeared just once. Mandarins took 86 catches and 6 stumpings. Ramani had most victims, 9.  Worst collapses were 4-7 vs HMT, 6-6 vs Qulibets, 7-18 vs Brill and 9-21 vs Graces, including 8-11. Versus Brill, Sam Keayes and Prof Heather broke the all time club record for the 10th wicket, scoring 56, overtaking the 54 made by Tunbridge and Manian at SMCC on 9/8/2020. Mandarins passed 50 for the 9th and 10th wicket for the first time in the same season, and only failed by 4 runs (vs DEFRA) to record a 50 partnership for every wicket. Even so, 50 for 9 out of 10 wickets is unprecedented. The 27 50 plus partnerships was the most since 1991. Johnny Extras had another exceptional season, top scored for us with 32 vs Abinger, got 49 vs Limpsfield and 52 vs SMCC in a 33 run victory. Chris Healey’s aggregate of 406 runs was the best since Sam Cook’s 383 in 2011, and his century at Brightwell the first since Tim Baxter’s at North Enfield in 2018. Mandarins recorded 35 ducks out of 214 completed innings, 16.35%, vs historic average of 14.39%. Dan Forman took a hat-trick at Harwell, and he, Rakesh Ramani and Martin Hurst all took 5-fers.

Best Partnerships for each wicket

1st    82 vs Kings School Rochester (H Forman-W/Brand)

2nd 84 vs Limpsfield Chart (Brand/Wilmot) 

3rd 102 (Composite) vs Norfolk & Suffolk over 75 (Lowen/Hawkins/Hawkhead)  

4th 60 vs Reading (Wilmot/Stancombe)

5th 106(Composite) vs Brightwell (Healey/Wilmot/D Forman)

6th 55 vs Heber (Hawkins/Healey) 

7th 61 vs Sutton (Baxter/Ackland-Snow)

8th 46 (Composite) vs DEFRA (Diagenda/Jackson/ Mills) 

9th 57* vs Erratics (Healey/Heard)

10th 56 vs Brill (Keayes/Heather) – all time club record for 10th wicket.

Other 50 partnerships:

93 (5th) vs SMCC (Healey/Mills)

82 (3rd) vs North Enfield (Jones/Nawaz)

70 (2nd) vs Brightwell (Healey/Hawhead)

69 (3rd) A vs B (Murali/Wilmot) 

66 (5th) vs Reading (Wilmot/Williams)

63 (1st) vs Erratics (Williams/Somerville)

62 (3rd) vs SMCC (Baxter/Lowin)

59 (1st) vs Heber (Wilmot/Tunbridge)

59 (4th) vs Vipers Elite (Wilmot/Nawaz)

59 (3rd) vs KSR (Healey/Jarvis)

59 (2nd) vs Green Sox (Composite: Stancombe/Dom/Mills/Hawkhead)

57 (3rd) A vs B (Stancombe/Ramani)

56* (4th) vs KSR (Healey/Ramani)

56 (3rd) vs Vipers Elite (Brand/Wilmot)

55 (2nd) vs Peper Harow (Brand/Nawaz)

54 (6th) vs North Enfield (Nawaz/Wilmot)

52 (2nd) vs Harwell (Healey/Ramani)

51 (1st) vs North Enfield (Frankpitt/Lowen)

BATTING AVERAGES (qualification is 3 completed innings)

Also batted, appeared more than once, in order of appearance:

Jackson 3-2-1-29-27*-29.00; Singh 2-2-0-0-0-0.00; N Smith 2-1-0-11-11-11.00; Diagenda 4-1-1-13-13*-&&&&;  Thompson 2-1-0-0-0.00; Jarvis 2-2-0-27-18 -13.50; Heard 6-3-1-62-34*-31.00; Parthasarathy 2-1-1-24-24*-&&&&; Lowen 2-2-1-87-50*- 87.00; Frankpitt 2-2-0-58-33-29.00; Siddiqi 2-2-0-4-4-2.00; Plahe 2-2-0-0-0-0.00.

One appearance: Umair 14; Taylor 9; Brockbank 9; Vijay Anand 30*; Farnham 2; Hill 0; Ackland-Snow 26; Keayes 44*;  O Wood 2*; Pharoah 37* Taraki 4; Jones 63; Govindarajan 20; Buhran 6; L Williams (Mk 2) DNB; Chetan 2; Rich 23; Dom 25* Cook 17; Ward 3*; Dudley-Fryar 4; Konrad 1*; A Eastaway 8; Kulkarni 3; 

BOWLING AVERAGES (Bowled more than once, minimum 10 overs and took a wicket)

Also bowled: Mills 9.3-0-90-2;  H Forman-W 27-0-135-0; Vijay 4-0-34-0; Kulkarni 6-1-25-0; Keayes 5-0-12-0; Somerville 2-0-18-1; Manian 5-1-22-1; Thompson 5-0-36-0; Chetan 2-0-6-0; Nawaz 7-0-44-1; L Wiiliams Mk 2 1-0-6-0; Konrad 6-1-29-2; Parthasarathy 7-4-16-0; Ackland-Snow 8-0-28-2; Singh 8-0-43-1; Buhran 1-0-3-0; Siddiqi 7-0-28-1; Umair 2-0-6-2; Farnham 2-0-21-1; Hill 4-0-12-1; N Smith 7-0-34-1; Brand 4.3-1-6-2; Lowin 6-1-24-1; Taraki 3-0-14-0; Dudley-Fryar 4-0-19-0; O Wood 3-0-21-1; Ward 4-0-32-1; Jones 2-0-15-0.

Catches and Stumpings

Mandarins took 86 catches and 6 stumpings: Ramani 9; Healey 8 Wilmot  5+3; Eastaway 6;  D Forman, Stancombe, Baxter, Satagopan; Nawaz 4; C McKeon 3+1; Brand, Mills 3; Lowin 2+1 Tivey, Baker, Hawkhead, H Forman -W, N Smith 2; Williams, Parthasarathy, S Forman-W, Hawkins, Somerville, Jackson, Vijay, Taraki, Pharoah, Ward, L Davidson, Frankpitt , Ackland-Snow, Plahe, Heard, A Eastaway 1; D Cook 0+1 . 

Chris Baker