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Jack Worrall

Played 1890-91 – 1894-95

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Player records

State Representative

Career totals

Career

27

Games

5

Seasons

1890-91 – 1894-95

Played

Batting

39

Innings

4

Not outs

1,722

Runs

245

High score

49.20

Average

7

50s

5

100s

Bowling

53

Wickets

8/20

Best bowling

14.43

Average

1

5-fors

1

10-fors

224.3

Overs

Fielding

15

Catches

From the record books

First XI · 1891-92 to 1893-94 · 17 matchesFull archive career →

Around this dayin 1893: 1 & 79 and 3/50 v East Melbourne

SeasonMRunsHSAvgOversWktsBestCt
1891-92549724562.1359168/206
1892-937594158*84.8687.183/213
1893-9451957921.6778.2103/501
Career171,28624553.58348/2010
Every scorecard · 17
1891-92v St Kilda0 & 33–Something wrong? Tell us
1891-92v North Melbourne5 & 132/26Something wrong? Tell us
1891-92v Richmond2451/26Something wrong? Tell us
1891-92v East Melbourne36 & 332/33Something wrong? Tell us
1891-92v Port Melbourne1323/17 & 8/20Something wrong? Tell us
1892-93v Melbourne1100/44Something wrong? Tell us
1892-93v North Melbourne391/28Something wrong? Tell us
1892-93v St Kilda158*1/38Something wrong? Tell us
1892-93v East Melbourne00/29Something wrong? Tell us
1892-93v South Melbourne82 & 73*0/15Something wrong? Tell us
1892-93v North Melbourne58 & 151/14 & 3/21Something wrong? Tell us
1892-93v South Melbourne592/20Something wrong? Tell us
1893-94v Carlton411/20Something wrong? Tell us
1893-94v East Melbourne1 & 793/50Something wrong? Tell us
1893-94v Melbourne0 & 120/17 & 1/17Something wrong? Tell us
1893-94v South Melbourne40 & 12/39 & 3/54Something wrong? Tell us
1893-94v North Melbourne0 & 210/33Something wrong? Tell us

Milestones

  1. DebutFirst matchv St Kilda, 1891-92
  2. First fifty245v Richmond, 1891-92
  3. First hundred245v Richmond, 1891-92
  4. First five-for8/20v Port Melbourne, 1891-92
  5. Highest score245v Richmond, 1891-92
  6. Best bowling8/20v Port Melbourne, 1891-92
  7. Last matchMatch 17v North Melbourne, 1893-94

Runs by season

1891-92: 497 runs49791-921892-93: 594 runs59492-931893-94: 195 runs19593-94

Wickets by season

1891-92: 16 wickets1691-921892-93: 8 wickets892-931893-94: 10 wickets1093-94

Every innings, in order

245501891-92 v St Kilda: 01891-92 v St Kilda: 331891-92 v North Melbourne: 51891-92 v North Melbourne: 131891-92 v Richmond: 2451891-92 v East Melbourne: 361891-92 v East Melbourne: 331891-92 v Port Melbourne: 1321892-93 v Melbourne: 1101892-93 v North Melbourne: 391892-93 v St Kilda: 158*1892-93 v East Melbourne: 01892-93 v South Melbourne: 821892-93 v South Melbourne: 73*1892-93 v North Melbourne: 581892-93 v North Melbourne: 151892-93 v South Melbourne: 591893-94 v Carlton: 411893-94 v East Melbourne: 11893-94 v East Melbourne: 791893-94 v Melbourne: 01893-94 v Melbourne: 121893-94 v South Melbourne: 401893-94 v South Melbourne: 11893-94 v North Melbourne: 01893-94 v North Melbourne: 21

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

Against each club

Greenvale Kanagaroos41515821.571717.433/21
Casey South Melbourne32558263.753718.293/54
Kingston Hawthorn31497929.801522.403/50
St Kilda2191158*95.501138.001/38
Melbourne212211040.671178.001/17
Richmond1245245245.001126.001/26
Port Melbourne1132132132.001113.368/2011
Carlton1414141.00120.001/20

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
PosInnNORunsHSAvg50s100s0s
13028159.33
2219473*94.001
32011,16424561.26443
1110000.001
InnNORunsHSAvg50s100s0s
Top order (1–3)2521,28624555.91543
Lower order (8–11)10000.001

Batted most often at 3rd.

Scores and consistency
  • Ducks4
  • 1–93
  • 10–193
  • 20–291
  • 30–496
  • 50–995
  • 100+4

Turned 4 of 9 fifty-plus scores into hundreds. 26.3% of the side's runs in the innings batted. Top-scored for the side 11 times.

Dismissals
  • Caught12 · 50%
  • Bowled8 · 33%
  • Run out2 · 8%
  • Caught & bowled2 · 8%

Most often dismissed by: Woodhouse (2), Costello (2), Carlton (2), Letcher (2), Bean (2).

In wins and losses
InnNORunsHSAvg50s100s0s
In wins13293324584.82331
In losses13035311027.15213
MWktsAvgWkts / match
In wins82312.262.9
In losses81125.361.4
  • Scored 50+: the side won 5 of 8 (63%), lost 3.
  • Took 5+ in an innings: the side won 1 of 1 (100%).
  • Every other match: the side won 4 of 9 (44%), lost 5.
Batting first or second
InnNORunsHSAvg50s100s0s
Batting first12194224585.64242
Batting second50645812.8012
Second innings of the match912807935.002
As captain and keeper
InnNORunsHSAvg50s100s0s
As captain2421,25324556.95543
Otherwise20333316.501
By ground
GroundMInnRunsHSAvgWktsBowl avgBest
Fitzroy Cricket Ground57308158*51.33916.443/21
East Melbourne Cricket Ground241497937.25516.603/50
South Melbourne Cricket Ground241968265.33521.603/54
North Melbourne Cricket Ground23603920.00161.001/28
Warehousemen's Ground1212126.00134.001/17
St Kilda Cricket Ground12333316.50–––
Port Melbourne Cricket Ground11132132132.00113.368/20
Richmond Cricket Ground11245245245.00126.001/26
the Triangle11414141.00120.001/20
Melbourne Cricket Ground11110110110.00––0/44
Wickets taken
  • Bowled20 · 59%
  • Caught9 · 26%
  • Stumped2 · 6%
  • LBW2 · 6%
  • Caught & bowled1 · 3%

Batters dismissed

  • Top order (1–3)11 · 32%
  • Middle order (4–7)12 · 35%
  • Lower order (8–11)11 · 32%

1 five-wicket haul. Best in a match: 11/37 v Port Melbourne, 1891-92. 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 1891-92 to 1893-94: 3rd of 30 for runs, 4th of 11 for wickets, 7th of 30 for matches, 1st of 3 for hundreds, 6th of 25 for catches, 1st of 7 for batting average.

Under Fitzroy: 41st of 321 for runs, 51st of 172 for wickets, 133rd of 345 for matches, 12th of 50 for hundreds, 105th of 279 for catches, 1st of 126 for batting average.

Played like…

  • RJ Bailey1985-86 · 16 m · 747 runs · 0 wkts
  • LR Joslin1977-78 · 14 m · 515 runs · 25 wkts
  • WA Tarrant1891-92 to 1921-22 · 52 m · 2,368 runs · 0 wkts
  • GJ Maxwell2007-08 to 2025-26 · 84 m · 2,769 runs · 134 wkts

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

As captain

Led the side in 16 matches (1891-92 to 1893-94): won 8, lost 8, drawn 0.

Most often led

The shape of the career

Season by season

1891-92: 5 matches, 497 runs, 16 wickets · 1st XI Batting · 1st XI Bowling1891-921892-93: 7 matches, 594 runs, 8 wickets · 1st XI Batting1892-931893-94: 5 matches, 195 runs, 10 wickets1893-94

Runs, up Wickets, down Honour in his name

1891-92: 1st XI Batting, 1st XI Bowling · 1892-93: 1st XI Batting

The arc

Jack Worrall's best season with the bat was 1892-93: 594 runs from 9 innings at 84.86. The best ten-innings patch came in 1891-92 to 1892-93: 908 runs at 113.50. The leanest, 1892-93 to 1893-94: 248 runs at 24.80.

Rolling average, innings 5 to 26: 24.8 to 113.5113.5

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

Milestones

MilestoneWhenMatch
First fifty2455 Dec 1891v Richmond, 1891-92
First hundred2455 Dec 1891v Richmond, 1891-92
First five-for8/2020 Feb 1892v Port Melbourne, 1891-92
1,000th run58 took him to 1,0174 Feb 1893v North Melbourne, 1892-93

Streaks

Consecutive scores of 25 or more: 7 innings
from v Richmond, 1891-92 to v St Kilda, 1892-93 · first · last
Consecutive matches played: 12 matches
from v St Kilda, 1891-92 to v South Melbourne, 1892-93 · first · last
Consecutive matches with a wicket: 6 matches
from v North Melbourne, 1892-93 to v South Melbourne, 1893-94 · first · last
Longest spell without a wicket: 2 matches bowled in
from v East Melbourne, 1892-93 to v South Melbourne, 1892-93 · first · last
Longest run of single figures: 2 innings
from v South Melbourne, 1893-94 to v North Melbourne, 1893-94 · first · last

More splits

Batting position over the years16111891-92: 3 (8 inns, avg 62.13)1892-93: 3 (9 inns, avg 84.86)1893-94: 3 (9 inns, avg 21.67)189118921893

Batted at 3rd in every one of his 3 seasons.

SeasonUsual spotInnAvg
1891-923862.13
1892-933984.86
1893-943921.67
Home and away
MInnNORunsHSAvgWktsBowl avg
Home571308158*51.33916.44
Away1219197824554.332516.52

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

Month by month
MonthMInnNORunsHSAvgWktsBowl avg
Oct57024111034.43429.50
Nov351250158*62.50524.40
Dec34028624571.50624.67
Jan3612458249.00240.50
Feb34026413266.00175.41
Favourite victims
  1. HW Elms × 2
  2. JH Stuckey × 2
  3. T Purvis × 2
  4. T Testro × 2
  5. WG Ingleton × 2
  6. AE Whitehead × 1
  7. C Begg × 1
  8. CE Letcher × 1
Fielding
SeasonMCt
1891-9256
1892-9373
1893-9451

Caught most off

  1. G Beacham × 4
  2. J Drysdale × 1
  3. J Worrall × 1
  4. JC McKirdy × 1
  5. R Mitchell × 1
  6. W Hannah × 1

Career figures combine what's recorded live in Morrie with the club's own historical records — averages are shown only where there's enough real data to be honest about.

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