Highlights
Played 25, Won 10, Lost 11, Drew 4, plus one inter-Mandarin game. Win percentage 48%, (2025 39.1%.) 3 games were cancelled, only one of which lost to weather.
Heaviest Victories: By 8 wickets vs St Annes Allstars and The
Spread; by 123 runs vs Weekenders.
Narrowest Victories: By 5 wickets vs Elstead); by 12 runs vs Heber
Nomads.
Heaviest Defeats: By 9 wickets vs Taplow and Brightwell; by 107
runs vs Covenant/Rotten Livers.
Narrowest Defeats: By 25 runs vs Erratics, by 4 wickets vs
Treasury (check Charlatans).
Highest score for 287 for 5 vs South London Oddballs. Highest
score against 303 for 6 vs SMCC Midweek.
Lowest score for 71 for 3 to win vs Alton; 74 all out vs
Quilibets. Lowest score against 70 (Alton).
Mandarins scored 16 50s, and 3 centuries:
Frankpitt 104* vs Brixton Barbarians, 77* vs Weekenders, 74 vs
South London Oddballs, 54 vs SMCC, 52 vs Rotten Livers.
Nawaz 103* vs South London Oddballs
Rangarajan 100* vs Brixton Barbarians
Saunders 82* vs Weekenders
Ramani 68 vs North Enfield, 55 vs Brill
Lowin 65 vs SMCC, 50* vs St Annes, 50* vs Mickleham
S Forman-Wilshaw 59 vs SMCC Midweek
Siddiqi 57 vs ODB
S Tunbridge 54* vs Abinger
Garrett 53 vs Taplow
G Tunbridge 53 vs Erratics
Dasgupta 51* vs The Spread
There was only one 5-fer: best bowling was Graeme Tunbridge
6-0-31-5 vs Mickleham. Vinoth Kanna took
4 twice, and Dan Forman once.
Notable events: 63 players turned out for the Mandarins (2024, 66)
of whom 15 appeared just once. On 19 April vs South London Oddballs Barrie
Temple became the oldest Mandarin player – just how old, nobody knows…. Worst
collapses: Mandarins had no proper collapses this year, unless you count the
last 4 for 3 vs Quilibets. Against us, Elstead lost 4 for 0 (46-2 to 46-6).
Playing for Harwell, Sooraj was “Timed out” - I think a first for Mandarins.
Jonathan Wilmot beat Peter Lewy’s all-time stumping record of 40
victims on 28 June vs Heber. Our 287 for 5 vs S London Oddballs was the third
highest ever for the club and the most in limited overs. Our 181 for 4 vs
Treasury was our best ever T20 score – it follows that their 182 to win was our
worst effort. The SMCC game on 26 April saw the 2nd highest match aggregate,
536, and the second highest failed Mandarin run chase, 244. That was until the
SMCC Midweek game in July when both were eclipsed, 569 aggregate, 266 to fail
to win. The 266 was our 5th highest ever score, and their 303 for 6 the second
most runs ever conceded by us (Barnes Common 2005 still unsurpassed). We passed
200 8 times – not quite matching the 9 occasions of 1994, but 1994 was 9 out of
36 games (25%), easily beaten this year: 8 out of 25 = 32%. Our 8th 200 plus
score was actually after 17 games (47%). We passed 250 three times, having only
got there once per season before.
There were 23 50 plus partnerships. The 182 (a composite as both
retired not out, exact score unrecorded but probably around 130 added together)
added for the 2nd wicket vs Brixton Barbarians by Alex Frankpitt and Kishen
Rangarajan was the third highest for any wicket. It is only the second time
that two centuries have been made in the same match. Sam Tunbridge became the
youngest scorer of a Mandarins 50 at Abinger (about 70 years younger than
Barrie). Batting with Sam, Harry Wigram achieved batting nirvana by becoming
the first ever Mandarin to score 6 sixes in an over.
Johnny Extras had another decent season, scoring 44 vs Brill (43
last year) and 41 vs Treasury. He/she/they accumulated 546 at an average of
over 22. Net contribution was 159, sustaining an as yet not satisfactorily
explained trend going back to the earliest records. Alex’s aggregate of 462 was
the highest since Chris Healey’s 518 in 2009, and Kishen also passed 400 for
the second year running. Mandarins
recorded 24 ducks (2025 = 31) out of 186 completed innings, 12.9%, vs historic
average of 14.5%. Vinoth Kanna, despite missing the first 6 games took 11
outfield catches, including 4 in the last game, likely equalling the Mandarin
record for a single match.
Best Partnerships for each wicket
1st 69 ( C ) vs Treasury (Baxter/Harry
Forman-W/Lowin); 65 vs Reach (Satagopan/G Porter)
2nd 182 ( C ) vs
Brixton Barbarians (Frankpitt/Rangarajan/Wilmott) Probably c 130 added by Alex
and Kishen together; 90 vs St Annes (Siddiqi/Lowin)
3rd 80 vs South
London Oddballs (Frankpitt/Nawaz)
4th 100 vs South
London Oddballs (Nawaz/Lowin)
5th 75 ( C ) vs
Treasury (Saunders/G Tunbridge/Hopkinson/Hyde/Forman); 65 vs SMCC
(Lowin/Rangarajan)
6th 78 vs SMCC
Midweek (S Forman-W/Saunders)
7th 72 vs Abinger (S
Tunbridge/Nair)
8th 71 vs ODB
(Siddiqi/Timmins (scored 6))
9th 26 vs Taplow
(Saad Hasan/Gidwani)
10th 23 vs Taplow
(Gidwani/Baker)
Other 50 partnerships:
67 ( C ) for 4th vs Mickleham (Lowin/Rangarajan/Wigram)
65* for 7th vs Weekenders (Saunders/Ramani)
63* 2nd vs Norfolk/Suffolk over 75 (Lowen/Madrezevic)
60 3rd vs Brightwell (J Porter/Ramani)
60 3rd vs North Enfield
(Ramani/Wilmot)
58 2nd vs Abinger
(Sajjan/Wilmot)
56 3rd vs Heber
(Lowin/Wilmot)
55 2nd vs Heber
(Siddiqi/Lowin)
54 for 6th vs SMCC (Lowin/Darmarla)
52 for 1st vs Weekenders (McKeon/Frankpitt)
51 ( C ) 3rd vs Brixton Barbarians (Rangarajan/Lowin/ Saunders)
BATTTING AVERAGES (qualification is 3 completed innings)
|
|
Played |
Innings |
N.O. |
Runs |
Highest |
Average |
100/50 |
|
Frankpitt |
9 |
9 |
3 |
462 |
104* |
77.00 |
1/4 |
|
Lowin |
9 |
9 |
3 |
289 |
65 |
48.17 |
-/3 |
|
Ramani |
15 |
12 |
4 |
336 |
68 |
42.00 |
-/2 |
|
Rangarajan |
17 |
15 |
4 |
405 |
100* |
36.81 |
1/0 |
|
Siddiqi |
4 |
4 |
0 |
141 |
57 |
35.25 |
-/1 |
|
Wigram |
6 |
5 |
2 |
70 |
38* |
23.33 |
|
|
Tunbridge |
9 |
7 |
1 |
131 |
53 |
21.81 |
-/1 |
|
S Forman-W |
6 |
4 |
0 |
80 |
59 |
20.00 |
-/1 |
|
Satagopan |
4 |
4
|
0 |
80 |
45 |
20.00 |
|
|
Wilmot |
15 |
15 |
2 |
234 |
44 |
18.00 |
|
|
Kanna |
12 |
10 |
1 |
142 |
33* |
15.77 |
|
|
R Eastaway |
14 |
7 |
3 |
61 |
42 |
15.25 |
|
|
Sajjan |
5 |
5 |
0 |
76 |
34 |
15.20 |
|
|
Darmarla |
3 |
3 |
0 |
40 |
18 |
13.33 |
|
|
Mills |
8 |
8 |
1 |
91 |
38 |
13.00 |
|
|
J Porter |
6 |
4 |
0 |
49 |
19 |
12.25 |
|
|
Baker |
7 |
6 |
3 |
34 |
19 |
11.33 |
|
|
D Williams |
5 |
5 |
1 |
43 |
22 |
10.75 |
|
|
Nair |
11 |
9 |
2 |
75 |
24* |
10.72 |
|
|
D Forman |
17 |
10 |
4 |
61 |
13 |
10.17 |
|
|
A
Eastaway |
4 |
4 |
1 |
21 |
10 |
7.00 |
|
|
C McKeon |
7 |
7 |
1 |
40 |
18 |
6.66 |
|
|
Baxter |
3 |
3 |
0 |
20 |
14 |
6.66 |
|
|
Timmins |
5 |
5 |
0 |
26 |
12 |
5.20 |
|
|
Gidwani |
6 |
3 |
0 |
9 |
6 |
3.00 |
|
|
Hurst |
6 |
4 |
0 |
9 |
6 |
2.25 |
|
|
Heather |
3 |
3 |
0 |
3 |
1 |
1.00 |
|
|
Heard |
5 |
3 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
0.33 |
|
Also batted, appeared more than once, in order of appearance
Nawaz, 3-3-2-120-103*-120.00; Hyde, 3-1-0-2-2-2,00; Hasan,
5-3-1-58-30*-29.00; Thompson, 2-2-0-1-1-0,50; Channeth, 4-2-0-21-13-10.5;
Garrett 2-2-0-58-53-29.00; Tivey, 3-3-1-45-23-22.5; Dasgupta,
2-2-1-51-51*-51-00; Brown, 3-3-1-43-17-21.5; Brand, 2-2-1-24-23*-24.00;
Hawkins, 3-1-0-0-0-0.00; Keayes, 2-2-1-17-11-17.00; Saunders,
5-4-2-171-82*-85.50; Hawkhead, 2-2-0-13-13-6.50; N Kulkarni, 2-2-0-19-13-9.50;
G Porter, 3-3-2-52-30*-52.00; Manian, 3-3-1-53-26-26.50; Healey
3-1-1-5-5*-&&&; Jarvis 2-2-0-11-10-5.50; S Tunbridge,
2-1-1-54-54*-&&&;
One appearance: Temple,2; Lowen, 34*; Hewitson, 0; H
Forman-Wilshaw, 28*; Jackson, 6; D Chave, 15; L Williams, 4; Madrezevic, 30*;
Vijay, 16; Junaid, 7: A Kulkarni, 4; Apavoo, 0*; Ralph, 2; Hopkinson, 26; Iyer,
DNB.
BOWLING AVERAGES (Bowled more than once, minimum 10 overs and took a wicket)
|
|
Overs |
maidens |
Runs |
Wickets |
Av |
Econ |
Strike |
|
G
Porter |
12 |
2 |
31 |
6 |
5.20 |
2.67 |
12.00 |
|
Kanna |
75 |
22 |
220 |
21 |
10.91 |
2.93 |
21.43 |
|
Thompson |
10 |
0 |
46 |
4 |
11.50 |
4.60 |
15.00 |
|
Jon Porter |
21.4 |
4 |
99 |
7 |
14.14 |
4.57 |
18.57 |
|
G
Tunbridge |
19.5 |
1 |
92 |
6 |
15.33 |
4.64 |
19.83 |
|
Mills |
36.1 |
1 |
186 |
11 |
16.91 |
5.14 |
19.72 |
|
Ramani |
28 |
4 |
107 |
6 |
17.83 |
3.82 |
28.00 |
|
A Eastaway |
12 |
2 |
54 |
3 |
18.00 |
4.50 |
24.00 |
|
R
Eastaway |
85 |
10 |
355 |
19 |
18.68 |
4.17 |
26.84 |
|
Nair |
52.5 |
3 |
334 |
17 |
19.65 |
6.32 |
18.65 |
|
Rangarajan |
21 |
3 |
122 |
6 |
20.33 |
5.81 |
21.00 |
|
D Forman |
97 |
9 |
508 |
25 |
20.34 |
5.24 |
23.28 |
|
Hurst |
34 |
5 |
172 |
8 |
21.50 |
5.05 |
25.50 |
|
S Forman-W |
21 |
1 |
152 |
7 |
21.63 |
7.68 |
18.00 |
|
Channeth |
28 |
4 |
97 |
4 |
24.25 |
6.66 |
39.50 |
|
Wigram |
39.5 |
6 |
172 |
7 |
24.67 |
4.35 |
34.14 |
|
Satagopan |
22.5 |
2 |
97 |
3 |
32.33 |
4.24 |
45.66 |
|
Hasan |
33 |
0 |
146 |
4 |
36.50 |
4.41 |
49.50 |
|
Saunders |
21 |
0 |
151 |
4 |
37.75 |
5.25 |
31.50 |
|
Gidwani |
29.5 |
0 |
170 |
4 |
42.50 |
5.70 |
44.75 |
|
Siddiqi |
15 |
0 |
96 |
2 |
48.00 |
6.33 |
45.00 |
|
S Tunbridge |
10 |
0 |
76 |
1 |
76.00 |
7.60 |
60.00 |
|
Heard |
26 |
4 |
101 |
1 |
101.00 |
3.88 |
156.00 |
Also bowled : Hyde, 9-0-69-0-&&&; Darmarla,
8-0-72-0-&&&; Jackson, 3-0-16-0; Baker 5-0-32-0; Vijay 3-0-9-1-
9.00; Heather 4.4-0-39-2-19.50; Keayes, 9-1-42-2-21.00; Timmins,
24.1-158-0-&&&; Lowin, 3-1-20-1-20.00; A Kulkarni,
2-0-5-0-&&&; Healey, 10-1-56-0-&&&; Ralph, 5-1-20-0-&&&; Baxter,
2-0-13-2-6.50; Hopkinson, 1-0-12-0-&&&; Junaid, 8-0-34-1-34.00;
Brand, 2-0-18-0-&&&; Manan, 7.2-0-49-1-49.00; Brown,
4-0-27-0-&&&; Iyer, 4-3-3-1-3.00; N Kulkarni,
4-0-26-0-&&&; Garrett, 3-0-22-1-22.00; Hewitson, 4-0-35-2-17.50;
Dasgupta, 1-0-8-0-&&& .
Mandarins took 85 catches and 6 stumpings: Kanna 11, including 4
vs Rotten Livers; Frankpitt 8; Rangarajan 7; Ramani 6; Wilmot 2+3; Forman 5; Lowin 3+1; Nair 4; McKeon 2+1;
Jackson, Satagopan, Apavoo 3; Madrezevic 1+1; Dasgupta, Baxter, Nawaz, J
Porter, Brand, Brown 2; Siddiqi, Channeth, R Eastaway, Heard, Healey, Ralph,
Garrett, Thompson, Manian, G Porter, Iyer, Saunders, G Tunbridge, L Williams,
Sajjan, 1.
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