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Debut v Essendon, 1975-76 (24 Jan 1976)Last game v Prahran, 1979-80 (9 Feb 1980)Player no. 402 to appear for the club

11

Matches

118

Runs

14.75

Average

44

Highest

0 / 0

100s / 50s

0

Wickets

–

Bowling avg

–

Best

9

Catches

Season by season

SeasonMInnNORunsHSAvgOversWktsBestCt
1975-76551854421.25–––7
1976-77552332611.00–––2
1979-80110000.00–––
Career111131184414.7500–9

Milestones

  1. DebutFirst matchv Essendon, 1975-76
  2. Highest score44v Richmond, 1975-76
  3. Last matchMatch 11v Prahran, 1979-80

Runs by season

1975-76: 85 runs8575-761976-77: 33 runs3376-771979-80: 0 runs79-80

Every innings, in order

501975-76 v Essendon: 61975-76 v Northcote: 17*1975-76 v South Melbourne: 91975-76 v Carlton: 91975-76 v Richmond: 441976-77 v Richmond: 2*1976-77 v Collingwood: 0*1976-77 v St Kilda: 261976-77 v Waverley: 01976-77 v Hawthorn-East Melbourne: 51979-80 v Prahran: 0

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

Against each club

Richmond2464446.00
Kingston Hawthorn2552.50
St Kilda1262626.00
Northcote11717*–
Casey South Melbourne1999.00
Carlton1999.00
Essendon1666.00
Camberwell Magpies100*–
Prahran1000.00

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
110999.00
210999.00
310000.001
510000.001
620312615.50
710444444.00
821868.00
91100*–
10111717*–
InnNORunsHSAvg0s
Top order (1–3)301896.001
Middle order (4–7)40754418.751
Lower order (8–11)432517*25.00

Batted most often at 6th.

Scores and consistency
  • Ducks2
  • 1–95
  • 10–191
  • 20–291
  • 30–491
  • 50–990
  • 100+0

5.8% of the side's runs in the innings batted.

Dismissals
  • Caught4 · 50%
  • Run out2 · 25%
  • Bowled1 · 13%
  • LBW1 · 13%
In wins and losses
InnNORunsHSAvg0s
In wins30352611.671
In losses73774419.251
In draws10666.00
Batting first or second
InnNORunsHSAvg0s
Batting first821104418.331
Batting second31864.001
As captain and keeper
InnNORunsHSAvg0s
As wicketkeeper51854421.25
Otherwise6233268.252
By ground
GroundMInnRunsHSAvg
Fitzroy Cricket Ground66592614.75
Carlton Cricket Ground11999.00
Central Reserve South Oval11000.00
Essendon Cricket Ground11666.00
Richmond Cricket Ground11444444.00
Victoria Park1100*–

At the club

In the record book

Among players of 1975-76 to 1979-80: 33rd of 42 for runs, 33rd of 43 for matches, 25th of 38 for catches.

Under Fitzroy: 174th of 321 for runs, 166th of 345 for matches, 112th of 279 for catches.

Played like…

  • WH Brendel1926-27 to 1928-29 · 17 m · 182 runs · 0 wkts
  • RH Hill2004-05 · 19 m · 195 runs · 0 wkts
  • JW Mason1965-66 to 1971-72 · 11 m · 139 runs · 0 wkts
  • GC Sholly1976-77 to 1978-79 · 16 m · 208 runs · 0 wkts

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

The shape of the career

Season by season

1975-76: 5 matches, 85 runs1975-761976-77: 5 matches, 33 runs1976-771977-78: did not play1977-781978-79: did not play1978-791979-80: 1 match, 0 runs1979-80

Runs, up Season away

The arc

R Clough's best season with the bat was 1975-76: 85 runs from 5 innings at 21.25. The best ten-innings patch came in 1975-76 to 1976-77: 118 runs at 16.86. The leanest, 1975-76 to 1979-80: 112 runs at 16.00.

Rolling average, innings 8 to 11: 16.0 to 22.622.6

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

Streaks

Consecutive matches played: 6 matches
from v Essendon, 1975-76 to v Richmond, 1976-77 · first · last
Longest run of single figures: 3 innings
from v Waverley, 1976-77 to v Prahran, 1979-80 · first · last

More splits

Batting position over the years16111975-76: 1 (5 inns, avg 21.25)1976-77: 6 (5 inns, avg 11.00)1979-80: 3 (1 inns, avg 0.00)197519761979

Opened for 1 season, dropped to 6th from 1976-77, moved up to 3rd from 1979-80.

SeasonUsual spotInnAvg
1975-761521.25
1976-776511.00
1979-80310.00
Home and away
MInnNORunsHSAvg
Home662592614.75
Away551594414.75

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

By day
MInnNORunsHSAvg
Saturday9911014412.63
Sunday11100*–
Weekday1111717*–
Month by month
MonthMInnNORunsHSAvg
Oct22222*–
Jan551542613.50
Feb3301896.00
Mar110444444.00
Fielding
SeasonMCtSt
1975-76561
1976-7752
1979-801

Caught most off

  1. EP Illingworth × 5
  2. AL Thomson × 2
  3. LA Holland × 1
  4. NR Buszard × 1

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