MANDARINS CRICKET CLUB 2025 SUMMARY

Results

Played 23, Won 7, Lost 12, Drew 4, plus one inter-Mandarin game.  Win percentage 39.1%, (2024 45.45%.) It was looking OK to the end of the tour then we lost 5 on the bounce. 4 games were cancelled, one of which lost to weather.

Heaviest Victories

By 4 wickets vs North Enfield, by 96 runs vs Chippenham.

Narrowest Victories

By 4 wickets vs North Enfield (yes we only chased once to win); by 12 runs vs Brill. In 3 games the margin of victory was less than 21.

Heaviest Defeats

By 7 wickets vs Catford/Cyphers; by 97 runs vs Millfields.

Narrowest Defeats

By one run vs Harwell International, by 4 wickets vs Weekenders.

Highlights

• Highest score for 240 for 4 vs Chippenham. Highest score against 292 for 6 declared vs ODB. 
• Lowest score for 45 vs Millfields. Lowest score against 100 for 6 to win vs Weekenders. Lowest completed innings against vs Brightwell 104 all out. 
• Mandarins scored 16 x 50s, and one century. 

Personal Bests

• Harry Forman-Wilshaw 126 vs SMCC, 86 vs North Enfield, 50* vs Chippenham
• Ramani 87* vs Graces, 66 vs Abinger, 57 vs Catford
• Rangarajan 75* vs Mickleham, 61 vs ODB, 59* vs Abinger, 50* A vs B and 50* vs Chippenham
• Healey 70* vs St Annes
• D Forman 62 vs North Enfield (Maiden 50)
• Baxter 59* A vs B
• Kulkarni 56* vs Brightwell
• Ankit 56 vs Catford
• Wilmot 50 vs Harwell

There were two 5-fers. Best bowling was Ramani, 8-2-23-6 vs Brill. Owen Jackson took 9-1-39-6 vs Brixton Barbarians. Rangarajan took 4 for 6 vs Brightwell, and 4 for 12 against us, playing for Brixton Barbarians.  

Notable Events

66 players turned out for the Mandarins (2024, 64) of whom 23 appeared just once. Worst collapses were   9 for 20, (3rd worst of all time); 8 for 13 (2nd worst); 7 for 8 (=2nd worst) vs Millfelds, plus 9 for 37 and 8 for 23 vs Weekenders. The 45 scored against Millfields was the 8th lowest score in club records. The 287 for 5 scored against us by Graces was the 4th highest score conceded in club records, until it was eclipsed by the 292 for six scored by ODB. 

More positive, the 223 for 4 scored to beat North Enfield was the equal 2nd highest run chase in club records, and the 127 added by Harry and Dan the highest partnership for the first wicket since 2004 and the 9th highest ever. Harry’s 126 vs SMCC was the highest individual score since David Williams 133 in 2010, and the 7th highest ever by a Mandarin. His 10 sixes is a very likely record, tbc idc. The 136 added by Kishen and Rakesh for the 5th wicket vs Abinger was the 2nd highest in cub records for that wicket. There were 21 50 plus partnerships, nine featuring Rakesh. The 9th wicket club record was broken by him and Rob Eastaway vs Brixton Barbarians, adding 88. 

Johnny Extras had another exceptional season, scoring 43 vs Brill (!) in a 12 run victory, and 23 vs Heber in a 21 run victory. He/she/they/it accumulated 552 at an average of 25. Vs Erratics we conceded no extras at all in a total of 138 – very rare. Rakesh aggregated 447 and Kishen 443. These were the highest aggregates since Chris Healey’s 518 in 2009, and Kishen’s 5 50s the most since 2003. Kishen would have equalled Raki’s aggregate if his first potential boundary vs HMT had not been stopped by hitting a goose – did Bradman have this problem?  Mandarins recorded 31 ducks (same as last year out of 188 completed innings, 16.56%, vs historic average of 14.45%. Rakesh also broke the record for most catches in a season by a pure outfielder, 14.

Best Partnerships for each wicket

1st       127 vs North Enfield (Harry F-W and Dan Forman)

2nd     101 vs Harwell Int (McKeon/Wilmot)

3rd     102 vs Mickleham (Wilmot/Rangarajan)

4th     120 (composite) vs Chippenham (Satagopan/H Forman-Wilshaw/Rangarajan/Ramani); 63 vs St Annes (Healey/Baxter); 63 vs Brightwell (Kulkarni/Lowin)

5th     136 vs Abinger Rangarajan/Ramani (2nd highest for this wicket)

6th     43 vs ODB (Rangarajan/Nair)

7th     72 vs Catford/Cyphers (Ramani/Ankit)

8th     74 approx vs SMCC (H Forman-Wilshaw/Ramani) 

9th     88 vs Brixton Barbarians (Ramani/R Eastaway) – Club record for 9th wicket.

10th    25 vs Brill (Ramani/Hurst)

Other 50 Partnerships

• 101 (composite) vs Brightwell for 4th wicket as above, adding Rangarajan
• 70 A VS B (Brown/Ramani)
• 64 vs Mickleham (Baxter/Govindarajan)
• 62 vs N Enfield (D Forman/McKeon)
• 59 vs Chippenham (McKeon/Rangarajan)
• 59 vs Catford/Cyphers (Ramani/Hurst)
• 57 vs Graces (Baxter/Ramani)
• 55 vs Norfolk/Suffolk Over 75s (McKeon/Williams)
• 53 vs Chippenham (Williams/Tunbridge)
• 51 (Composite vs Norfolk/Suffolk over 75s ( Williams/Mills/Nair)
• 50 vs Brixton (Brockbank/Wilmot)

BATTTING AVERAGES

Qualification is 3 completed innings

Player	Played	Innings	N.O.	Runs	Highest	Average	100/50
H Forman-W	7	7	1	314	126	52.33	1 / 2
Rangarajan	16	16	6	443	75*	44.3	-/5
Ramani	17	16	5	447	87*	40.63	-/3
Wilmot	16	16	2	184	50*	27.03	-/1
R Eastaway	13	9	4	133	15	26.6
Tunbridge	10	10	3	185	35*	26.41
S Forman-W	6	4	0	95	40	23.75
Williams	6	6	1	119	38*	23.75
Mills	9	9	2	158	53	22.64	-/1
Baxter	8	8	0	150	59*	18.75	-/1
Nair	8	8	5	55	21*	18.33
C McKeon	10	10	0	165	38	16.5
Satagopan	3	3	0	38	33	12.66
Lowin	8	8	0	99	44	12.37
D Forman	15	10	0	104	62	10.4	-/1
Hurst	9	5	2	29	11*	9.66
Tivey	4	4	1	24	16*	8
Heard	8	5	2	22	10	7.33
Sajjan	4	4	0	29	14	7.25
Hawkins	7	6	2	22	7	5.5
Hawkhead	7	7	0	38	19	5.41
Brand	3	3	0	11	9	3.75
Wahaj	3	3	0	8	8	2.66
A Eastaway	5	4	0	10	4	2.5
Hyde	3	3	0	6	4	2

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

Healey 5-2-1-76-70*- 76.00; Gidwani 5-3-1-11-5*-5.50; J Porter 5-3-1-58- 32*- 27.00; Vijay Anand 2-2-0-15-11-7.50; Brockbank 2-2—0-22-18-11.00; Jackson 2-1-0-3-3-3.00; P Heather 2-2-0-2-2-1.00; N Kulkarni 3-3-1-84-56*-42,00; Thompson 3-0-0-0-&&&; S Tunbridge 2-1-0-4-4-4.00; Brown 3-3-1-31-20*-16.50; Wigram 2-2-2-35-19*-&&&&  Shackleford 2-2-2-3-2*-&&&&; Timmins 2-1-0-5-5-5.00.

One appearance: Sunmonu 1; J Porter JNR DNB; Keayes 10; Plahe 8; Jarvis 14; Patel 7; Taraki 19; Hubbard DNB; Harris 7; S Chadwick 11; M Chadwick 0; Nawaz 3; Saunders 2; Daniyal 0; Hasan 15; Wickrampala 0; Govinderajan 26; Singh 0*; Baker DNB; Proctor 6; Ankit 56; Cole 0; Lowen 29; D Chave 5*; G Porter 19

BOWLING AVERAGES

Bowled more than once, minimum 10 overs and took a wicket

Player	Overs	maidens	Runs	Wickets	Av	Econ	Strike
Jackson	14	1	63	6	10.5	4.5	13
Ranagrajan	57.5	7	255	23	11.09	4.41	15.08
Wahaj	15.4	2	54	4	13.5	3.24	16
S Forman-W	18	3	82	6	13.66	4.61	18
Ramani	110.3	17	435	26	16.73	3.93	16.73
Wigram	12	3	40	2	20	3.33	36
R Eastaway	86	16	334	16	20.87	3.88	32.5
Nair	39.5	3	172	8	21.5	4.32	29.87
M Hurst	63	7	240	11	21.82	3.81	34.36
Heard	35.5	1	212	9	23.55	5.91	23.89
Healey	21	0	90	3	30	4.29	22
Thompson	11.5	0	60	2	30	5.07	68.5
Tunbridge	14.4	0	97	3	32.33	6.61	29.66
H Forman-W	20.4	2	99	3	33	4.93	41.33
J Porter	24	0	101	3	33.66	4.21	48
D Forman	82	8	419	12	34.92	5.11	41
A Eastaway	17	0	148	4	37	8.7	25.5
Satagopan	13	1	50	1	50	3.87	78
Gidwani	19	1	131	2	65.5	6.89	57
Shackleford	11	1	70	1	70	6.66	66

Also bowled : Mills 8.3-0-50-2-25.00;  Vijay 5-0-31-1-31.00; N Kulkarni 5-0-37-1-37.00; Keayes 4-1-16-0; Singh 2-0-18-1; Sumnonu 6-0-43-0; Williams 1-0-6-1-6.00; Brand 3-0-20-0; Baker 2-0-26-0;  S Tunbridge 7-0-26-2- 13.00; Plahe 2-0-15-0; Brown 2-0-24-0; S Chadwick 7-2-56-4- 14.00; Harris 3-0-24-1- 24.00; O Chadwick 1-0-7-0; Duggan 3-0-16-0; Govinderajan 2-1-2-0; Hubbard 6-0-45-1-45.00; Nawaz 4-0-20-0; Hyde 1.1-0-14-0; Lowin 6-0-46-2-23.00; Wickrampala 8-0-40-0; Hasan 3-0-23-0; Taraki 4-0-11-2-5.50; Cole 3-1-9-1; Saunders 8-0-46-0; Timmins 9-1-42-3- 14.00; Daniyal 2-0-16-0 . 

Fielding & Keeping

Mandarins took 72 catches and 6 stumpings: Ramani 14; Wilmot 7+3; H Forman-Wilshaw 6; Rangarajan 5; Baxter 4+1; Mills 4:, Lowin, Heard, D Forman, J Porter 3: Tunbridge, McKeon 2; Tivey, Williams 1+1; Healey, Sajjan, Nair, Wahaj, A Kulkarni; Gidwani, A Eastaway, Brown, Hurst, Lowen, Satagopan, Wigram 1. 

Chris Baker