Page 17 - WPHCC 2023-2024 Cricket Season Yearbook

Batting
• Lakshya Rao was the season's highest run scorer with 763 runs @58.7, followed by Rizul Gulati C3 Blue (586 @58.6) and Sparsh Polepalle C4 Blue (572 @44)
• Lakshya's 763 was the 10th highest season tally of all time, and the 2nd highest in D1. Sparsh now holds the record for the largest C4 season on record
• Sean Clarence (A1) will retire with the 3rd best batting average of all time (for those scoring over 1,000 runs) - 47.9
• Rishab Iyer's (C2 Red) 163 was the highest score for the year, followed by Rizul's 150no
• Raynaldo Howard’s (C4 Red) 102no was only the 2nd T20 century ever scored and is the
highest T20 score of all time. He also scored the highest C4 score ever (131no)
• Raynaldo is also the 1st player in our history to have scored a century in every form of the
game – T20 / 1-day and 2-day games
• Michael Banner (B1 Blue) notched up his 7th century to equal Laurie Tuckerman's record
(from the 1950s)
Bowling
• Pat Watkins (C3 Red) topped the wicket tallies with 33 @12.1, followed by Jack Marsden also C3 Red (31 @12.3) and Aayush Kumar C1 (30 @8.9)
• Pat Watkins's 8/23 were the best bowling figures for the year, followed by Henry Kelly's 7/41
• John Rose (C2 Red) now has the 6th best bowling average (12.5) of all time (for bowlers with
over 100 wickets), and the 5th best economy of 2.6 runs / over (we only have records back to 1990 for this one)
Fielding
• Cameron Bish (B2) took the most dismissals this year with 24 (19 catches, 1 run out and 4 stumpings)
Special performances
Major Award Winners
Congratulations to our major Award winners:
• Player of the Year – Lakshya Rao (D1 Blue)
• Outstanding Prospect – Jack Hutchinson (B1 Blue)