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R Hodges

1943-44 to 1945-46 · 22 matches for the club

Debut v University, 1943-44 (11 Dec 1943)Last game v Brunswick, 1945-46 (17 Nov 1945)Player no. 251 to appear for the club

Around this dayin 1944: 30* and 1/67 and 1 ct v Carlton in 1945: 0 and 1/61 v Hawthorn-East Melbourne

22

Matches

78

Runs

7.80

Average

30*

Highest

0 / 0

100s / 50s

38

Wickets

28.11

Bowling avg

5/41

Best

13

Catches

Season by season

SeasonMInnNORunsHSAvgOversWktsBestCt
1943-44620874.007 (8)83/483
1944-4512945730*11.40176.5 (8)285/4110
1945-464411310*4.3344 (8)21/26
Career221557830*7.80227.5 (8-ball)385/4113

Milestones

  1. DebutFirst matchv University, 1943-44
  2. First five-for5/41v Melbourne, 1944-45
  3. Highest score30*v Carlton, 1944-45
  4. Best bowling5/41v Melbourne, 1944-45
  5. Last matchMatch 22v Brunswick, 1945-46

Runs by season

1943-44: 8 runs843-441944-45: 57 runs5744-451945-46: 13 runs1345-46

Wickets by season

1943-44: 8 wickets843-441944-45: 28 wickets2844-451945-46: 2 wickets245-46

Every innings, in order

501943-44 v North Melbourne: 11943-44 v Collingwood: 71944-45 v Hawthorn-East Melbourne: 0*1944-45 v Preston: 81944-45 v Carlton: 30*1944-45 v Northcote: 01944-45 v Northcote: 7*1944-45 v St Kilda: 10*1944-45 v South Melbourne: 01944-45 v Prahran: 01944-45 v North Melbourne: 21945-46 v Collingwood: 10*1945-46 v Carlton: 11945-46 v Hawthorn-East Melbourne: 01945-46 v Brunswick: 2

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

Against each club

Carlton33130*31.00434.503/58
Camberwell Magpies31710*17.001174.001/87
Kingston Hawthorn300*0.00432.001/9
Greenvale Kanagaroos2321.50242.002/54
Melbourne University2–––524.803/48
Melbourne2–––611.175/411
St Kilda11010*–328.673/81
Preston1888.0049.503/36
Northcote177*7.00313.333/35
Brunswick1222.00137.001/26
Casey South Melbourne1000.00326.332/69
Essendon1–––0–0/25
Prahran1000.00224.002/29

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
710777.00
810111.00
10946830*13.602
1141220.672
InnNORunsHSAvg0s
Middle order (4–7)10777.00
Lower order (8–11)1457130*7.894

Batted most often at 10th.

Scores and consistency
  • Ducks4
  • 1–97
  • 10–192
  • 20–290
  • 30–491
  • 50–990
  • 100+0

2.7% of the side's runs in the innings batted.

Dismissals
  • LBW3 · 30%
  • Stumped3 · 30%
  • Run out2 · 20%
  • Caught1 · 10%
  • Bowled1 · 10%
In wins and losses
InnNORunsHSAvg0s
In wins21888.00
In losses1135930*7.384
In draws211110*11.00
MWktsAvgWkts / match
In wins51415.862.8
In losses152431.331.6
In draws20–0.0
  • Took 5+ in an innings: the side won 1 of 1 (100%).
  • Every other match: the side won 4 of 21 (19%), lost 15.
Batting first or second
InnNORunsHSAvg0s
Batting first613930*7.802
Batting second833210*6.402
Second innings of the match1177*–
By ground
GroundMInnRunsHSAvgWktsBowl avgBest
Fitzroy Cricket Ground13103710*5.292526.843/35
Albert Ground200––611.175/41
South Melbourne Cricket Ground11000.00326.332/69
Toorak Park11000.00224.002/29
Carlton Cricket Ground113030*–167.001/67
North Melbourne Cricket Ground11111.00––0/17
Victoria Park111010*–––0/81
Glenferrie Oval100––113.001/13
Essendon Cricket Ground100––––0/25
Wickets taken
  • Bowled20 · 57%
  • Caught9 · 26%
  • LBW4 · 11%
  • Stumped1 · 3%
  • Caught & bowled1 · 3%

Batters dismissed

  • Top order (1–3)21 · 60%
  • Middle order (4–7)7 · 20%
  • Lower order (8–11)7 · 20%

1 five-wicket haul. Best in a match: 5/41 v Melbourne, 1944-45. 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 1943-44 to 1945-46: 36th of 42 for runs, 14th of 33 for wickets, 29th of 43 for matches, 23rd of 42 for catches.

Under Fitzroy: 187th of 321 for runs, 47th of 172 for wickets, 113th of 345 for matches, 88th of 279 for catches.

Played like…

  • R Jones1921-22 to 1923-24 · 26 m · 109 runs · 47 wkts
  • SD Hubber1994-95 to 1996-97 · 29 m · 59 runs · 48 wkts
  • Sherriff2009-10 to 2019-20 · 12 m · 34 runs · 22 wkts
  • J Paterson1963-64 to 1964-65 · 15 m · 47 runs · 24 wkts

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

The shape of the career

Season by season

1943-44: 6 matches, 8 runs, 8 wickets1943-441944-45: 12 matches, 57 runs, 28 wickets1944-451945-46: 4 matches, 13 runs, 2 wickets1945-46

Runs, up Wickets, down

The arc

R Hodges' best season with the bat was 1944-45: 57 runs from 9 innings at 11.40. The best ten-innings patch came in 1944-45 to 1945-46: 67 runs at 13.40. The leanest, 1944-45 to 1945-46: 32 runs at 4.57.

Rolling average, innings 9 to 15: 4.6 to 13.413.4

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

Milestones

MilestoneWhenMatch
First five-for5/4116 Dec 1944v Melbourne, 1944-45

Streaks

Consecutive matches played: 16 matches
from v Hawthorn-East Melbourne, 1944-45 to v Brunswick, 1945-46 · first · last
Consecutive matches with a wicket: 8 matches
from v Hawthorn-East Melbourne, 1944-45 to v South Melbourne, 1944-45 · first · last
Longest spell without a wicket: 2 matches bowled in
from v Collingwood, 1945-46 to v Carlton, 1945-46 · first · last
Longest run of single figures: 3 innings
from v North Melbourne, 1943-44 to v Preston, 1944-45 · first · last

More splits

Batting position over the years16111943-44: 7 (2 inns, avg 4.00)1944-45: 10 (9 inns, avg 11.40)1945-46: 10 (4 inns, avg 4.33)194319441945

Batted at 7th for 1 season, dropped to 10th from 1944-45.

SeasonUsual spotInnAvg
1943-44724.00
1944-4510911.40
1945-461044.33
Home and away
MInnNORunsHSAvgWktsBowl avg
Home131033710*5.292526.84
Away9524130*13.671330.54

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

By day
MInnNORunsHSAvgWktsBowl avg
Saturday211557830*7.803827.45
Weekday1000––
Month by month
MonthMInnNORunsHSAvgWktsBowl avg
Oct4421910*9.50631.00
Nov4313230*16.00463.00
Dec43187*4.001113.27
Jan6211010*10.001126.09
Feb320773.50432.50
Mar110222.00233.50
Favourite victims
  1. J Daniel × 2
  2. JJ Moore × 2
  3. AR Barnes × 1
  4. BT Taylor × 1
  5. CN Parry × 1
  6. EF Du Vergier × 1
  7. FAW Freer × 1
  8. GE Tamblyn × 1

The card names his victims in 16 of 17 wicket-taking games.

Fielding
SeasonMCt
1943-4463
1944-451210
1945-464

Caught most off

  1. IT Clay × 5
  2. E Moore × 2
  3. K Campbell × 2
  4. AD Woodford × 1
  5. R Hodges × 1
  6. Ray Harvey × 1

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Every match · 22 · tap to show
SeasonOpponentBattingBowling
1943-44Universitydnb3/48Something wrong? Tell us
1943-44North Melbourne10/17Something wrong? Tell us
1943-44Carltondnb3/58Something wrong? Tell us
1943-44Melbournednb1/26Something wrong? Tell us
1943-44Hawthorn-East Melbournednb1/13Something wrong? Tell us
1943-44Collingwood70/6Something wrong? Tell us
1944-45Hawthorn-East Melbourne0*1/45 & 1/9Something wrong? Tell us
1944-45Preston83/36 & 1/2Something wrong? Tell us
1944-45Carlton30*1/67Something wrong? Tell us
1944-45Collingwooddnb1/87Something wrong? Tell us
1944-45Northcote0 & 7*3/35 & 0/5Something wrong? Tell us
1944-45Melbournednb5/41Something wrong? Tell us
1944-45St Kilda10*3/81 & 0/5Something wrong? Tell us
1944-45South Melbourne02/69 & 1/10Something wrong? Tell us
1944-45Essendondnb0/25Something wrong? Tell us
1944-45Universitydnb2/33 & 0/43Something wrong? Tell us
1944-45Prahran02/29 & 0/19Something wrong? Tell us
1944-45North Melbourne22/54 & 0/13Something wrong? Tell us
1945-46Collingwood10*0/81Something wrong? Tell us
1945-46Carlton10/13Something wrong? Tell us
1945-46Hawthorn-East Melbourne01/61Something wrong? Tell us
1945-46Brunswick21/26 & 0/11Something wrong? Tell us

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