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ME Sykes

1945-46 to 1946-47 · 11 matches for the club

Debut v Collingwood, 1945-46 (6 Oct 1945)Last game v Prahran, 1946-47 (11 Jan 1947)Player no. 270 to appear for the club

Around this dayin 1946: 1/52 v Richmond in 1945: 11 and 4/86 v Hawthorn-East Melbourne

11

Matches

106

Runs

13.25

Average

21

Highest

0 / 0

100s / 50s

28

Wickets

24.29

Bowling avg

6/53

Best

7

Catches

Season by season

SeasonMInnNORunsHSAvgOversWktsBestCt
1945-4656146159.2077 (8)114/863
1946-47652602120.0054 (8)176/534
Career111131062113.25131 (8-ball)286/537

Milestones

  1. DebutFirst matchv Collingwood, 1945-46
  2. First five-for6/53v St Kilda, 1946-47
  3. Highest score21v Northcote, 1946-47
  4. Best bowling6/53v St Kilda, 1946-47
  5. Last matchMatch 11v Prahran, 1946-47

Runs by season

1945-46: 46 runs4645-461946-47: 60 runs6046-47

Wickets by season

1945-46: 11 wickets1145-461946-47: 17 wickets1746-47

Every innings, in order

501945-46 v Collingwood: 91945-46 v Carlton: 21945-46 v Hawthorn-East Melbourne: 111945-46 v Brunswick: 151945-46 v Brunswick: 6*1945-46 v Richmond: 31946-47 v St Kilda: 10*1946-47 v Northcote: 9*1946-47 v Northcote: 211946-47 v Collingwood: 201946-47 v Prahran: 0

Lighter bars are not-out innings. Hover a bar for the match.

Against each club

Camberwell Magpies2292014.50627.174/76
Richmond2333.00256.001/52
Northcote1302130.000–0/59
Brunswick1211521.00429.002/54
Kingston Hawthorn1111111.00421.504/86
St Kilda11010*–87.006/531
Carlton1222.000–0/16
Melbourne1–––314.003/42
Prahran1000.00130.001/30

Clubs that merged are counted as one, under today's name. Tap a heading to sort; open a club for every match against it.

Splits

By batting position
PosInnNORunsHSAvg0s
210212121.00
31166*–
610000.001
83022117.33
910151515.00
10211310*13.00
1121292029.00
InnNORunsHSAvg0s
Top order (1–3)21272127.00
Middle order (4–7)10000.001
Lower order (8–11)82792013.17

Batted most often at 8th.

Scores and consistency
  • Ducks1
  • 1–95
  • 10–193
  • 20–292
  • 30–490
  • 50–990
  • 100+0

5.5% of the side's runs in the innings batted. Top-scored for the side 1 time.

Dismissals
  • Caught6 · 75%
  • Stumped1 · 13%
  • Bowled1 · 13%
In wins and losses
InnNORunsHSAvg0s
In wins111010*–
In losses82852114.171
In draws201195.50
MWktsAvgWkts / match
In wins31212.504.0
In losses61430.502.3
In draws2251.501.0
  • Took 5+ in an innings: the side won 1 of 1 (100%).
  • Every other match: the side won 2 of 10 (20%), lost 6.
Batting first or second
InnNORunsHSAvg0s
Batting first30332011.00
Batting second62461511.501
Second innings of the match21272127.00
By ground
GroundMInnRunsHSAvgWktsBowl avgBest
Fitzroy Cricket Ground66642016.002119.146/53
Bill Lawry Oval, Northcote12302130.00––0/59
Victoria Park11999.00243.502/87
Richmond Cricket Ground11333.00160.001/60
Toorak Park11000.00130.001/30
Albert Ground100––314.003/42
Wickets taken
  • Caught14 · 50%
  • Caught & bowled5 · 18%
  • Stumped4 · 14%
  • LBW3 · 11%
  • Bowled2 · 7%

Batters dismissed

  • Top order (1–3)8 · 29%
  • Middle order (4–7)14 · 50%
  • Lower order (8–11)6 · 21%

1 five-wicket haul. Best in a match: 8/56 v St Kilda, 1946-47. Wicket types count only matches where the card's dismissals add up to the bowling figures.

At the club

In the record book

Among players of 1945-46 to 1946-47: 22nd of 29 for runs, 15th of 25 for wickets, 25th of 29 for matches, 24th of 29 for catches.

Under Fitzroy: 178th of 321 for runs, 56th of 172 for wickets, 166th of 345 for matches, 129th of 279 for catches.

Played like…

  • BW Walder1983-84 to 1984-85 · 13 m · 49 runs · 28 wkts
  • JC McKirdy1891-92 to 1896-97 · 20 m · 219 runs · 37 wkts
  • PJ Allan1960-61 to 1962-63 · 36 m · 197 runs · 75 wkts
  • LA Childs1997-98 to 2000-01 · 59 m · 426 runs · 137 wkts

The careers nearest Sykes’s in length, runs and wickets a match, average and the balance of batting to bowling.

The shape of the career

Season by season

1945-46: 5 matches, 46 runs, 11 wickets1945-461946-47: 6 matches, 60 runs, 17 wickets1946-47

Runs, up Wickets, down

The arc

ME Sykes' best season with the bat was 1946-47: 60 runs from 5 innings at 20.00. The best ten-innings patch came in 1945-46 to 1946-47: 106 runs at 15.14. The leanest, 1945-46 to 1946-47: 97 runs at 13.86.

Rolling average, innings 6 to 11: 9.2 to 15.115.1

Batting average over the last ten innings, at each innings of the career.

Milestones

MilestoneWhenMatch
First five-for6/5319 Oct 1946v St Kilda, 1946-47

Streaks

Consecutive matches played: 6 matches
from v St Kilda, 1946-47 to v Prahran, 1946-47 · first · last
Consecutive matches with a wicket: 5 matches
from v Hawthorn-East Melbourne, 1945-46 to v Richmond, 1946-47 · first · last
Longest run of single figures: 2 innings
from v Collingwood, 1945-46 to v Carlton, 1945-46 · first · last

More splits

Batting position over the years16111945-46: 8 (6 inns, avg 9.20)1946-47: 11 (5 inns, avg 20.00)19451946

Batted at 8th for 1 season, dropped to 11th from 1946-47.

SeasonUsual spotInnAvg
1945-46869.20
1946-4711520.00
Home and away
MInnNORunsHSAvgWktsBowl avg
Home662642016.002119.14
Away551422110.50739.71

Home taken as the ground the club played at most in each season: Fitzroy Cricket Ground, Schramms Reserve.

By day
MInnNORunsHSAvgWktsBowl avg
Saturday101131062113.252723.26
Weekday1000––152.00
Month by month
MonthMInnNORunsHSAvgWktsBowl avg
Oct3312110*10.501015.90
Nov552622120.671229.58
Dec220232011.50527.20
Jan110000.00130.00
Fielding
SeasonMCt
1945-4653
1946-4764

Caught most off

  1. ME Sykes × 5
  2. AD Woodford × 1
  3. HAE Shillinglaw × 1

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