STATS: Women’s County Championship 2017: Batting Rankings

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The Women’s County Championship can be an unforgiving place to be a batsman – matches are mostly played on used club pitches, often with huge boundaries (in contrast to KSL) and unforgiving outfields where the ball will quickly run out of puff. So if you are thinking these numbers look low… perhaps they are, but there’s a reason!

Sophie Devine tops the 2017 batting rankings, largely thanks to one of the greatest innings in the history of the Women’s County Championship – 122 off 78 balls for Warwickshire versus Middlesex. (Incidentally, this was the only century scored in Div 1 this season.)

Middlesex’s own Beth Morgan comes in at No. 2 – six years after retiring from England duty, she still looks a classy player, with the numbers and consistency to back it up – having reached double-figures in all 7 innings, with a high of 80 against Yorkshire.

The leading run-scorer this season was Notts’ veteran skipper Sonia Odedra with 253 – including carrying her bat for the 79* which deprived Yorkshire of the County Championship title in the final game. (Notts won the match, finishing on 178-4 – if they had finished on 178-5, Yorkshire would have got the one extra bonus point they needed to win the title.)

Batting Played Runs Strike Rate
1. Sophie Devine 4 159 135.9
2. Beth Morgan 7 245 71.85
3. Amy Jones 3 136 127.1
4. Sonia Odedra 7 253 63.57
5. Danielle Wyatt 4 163 94.22
6. Amy Satterthwaite 7 242 63.35
7. Rachel Priest 5 146 97.99
8. Katherine Brunt 2 146 94.19
9. Evelyn Jones 6 218 59.73
10. Hollie Armitage 6 192 54.55
11. Marie Kelly 7 140 72.54
12. Anna Nicholls 7 140 70.71
13. Georgia Hennessy 6 152 61.79
14. Sarah Taylor 3 118 69.41
15. Catherine Dalton 5 94 87.04
16. Kathryn Bryce 7 127 60.19
17. Sophie Ecclestone 7 100 70.92
18. Danielle Hazell 3 98 72.06
19. Alice Davidson-Richards 5 140 49.47
20. Lissy Macleod 7 104 65

Batting Ranking = Runs * Strike Rate

2 thoughts on “STATS: Women’s County Championship 2017: Batting Rankings”

    • Yup – Runs * Strike Rate – it is pretty arbitrary, but so is a classic “average”, which gets horribly distorted by Not Outs in tournament cricket. Runs are obviously what it is all about, but if your Strike Rate is over 100, you deserve a little more credit for them… if it is under 100, a little less – this achieves that.

      It deliberately doesn’t take into account how many innings you have played (i.e. divide the result by the number of innings) because it is a measure of your contribution to the tournament as a whole.

      Of course, there are plenty of other ways to calculate a ranking – many of them more sophisticated – but I’ve tried them, and oddly enough they actually tend to produce the same result at the end of the day.

      One of the reasons I like ranking systems is that they sometimes pull out the unexpected – e.g. Katherine Brunt as the highest ranked England batsman in KSL17!

      But… totally… the end of the day they aren’t the ultimate measure of a player – they are just a bit of fun 🙂

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