Which first grade team had the most individual 50 plus scores in the 2023–24 NSW Premier Cricket season?

Paul Ryan | April 07, 2024

Winning premierships and making the semi finals in cricket is never easy.

Cricket typically spans six months, from September to March, during which each club, team, and player must contend with factors such as player availability, weather, pitches, fast and slow outfields, and dropped catches.

What makes it undeniable to play semi final cricket and win premierships is the need to have a connected team with a strong work ethic who play good cricket with the bat, ball, on and the field.

It’s true that catches win matches, but it’s the bowlers who create the chances. Bowlers rely heavily on the batters to score the runs needed to win the game to capitalise on their good efforts when they bowl first and score enough runs to give the bowlers a target to bowl to when the team bats first.

In the 2023–24 NSW Premier Cricket season, St George won the premiership after defeating Manly in the final by 9 wickets.

The top 6 teams after the preliminary rounds were:

1. St George (86 points)

2. Manly Warringah (73 points)

3. Northern Districts (72 points)

4. Parramatta (61 points)

5. Gordon (52 points)

6. Randwick Petersham (49 points)

Last week I shared a piece about a batter’s IPF Batting Index. The number of innings on average for a batter to score 50 runs or more.

Here’s the link – https://www.cricconnect.com/profile/32/paul-ryan/blog/2088/how-regularly-do-you-need-to-be-scoring-50-or-more-runs

I mentioned in the piece cricket is a statistical game but sometimes they don’t paint the full picture (the variables or lack of accountability) but they’re a good place to start.

So, without judgement, the following is simply another statistical observation.

The ranking of first grade team in NSW Premier Cricket with the number of scores above 50 during the 2023-24 cricket season.

1. Manly Warringah - 5 players scored a total of 8 centuries and 13 players scored 30 half centuries.

38 individual scores above 50. 

2. St George – 3 players scored a total of 7 centuries. 8 players scored 30 half centuries.

37 individual scores above 50

3. Northern District – 5 players scored a total of 8 centuries. 8 players scored 22 half centuries.

30 individual scores above 50

4. Gordon – 3 players scored a total of 7 centuries. 9 players scored 17 half centuries.

24 individual scores above 50

5. Mosman – 1 player scored a total of 1 century. 10 players scored 23 half centuries.

24 individual scores above 50

6. Penrith – 4 players scored a total of 5 centuries. 7 players scored 18 half centuries.

23 individual scores above 50

7. Parramatta – 2 players scored a total of 3 centuries. 8 players scored 20 half centuries.

23 individual scores above 50

8. Sydney University – 4 players scored a total of 5 centuries. 8 players scored 17 half centuries.

22 individual scores above 50

9. Campbelltown-Camden – 1 player scored a total of 2 centuries. 6 players scored 19 half centuries.

21 individual scores above 50

10. Fairfield – 3 players scored a total of 4 centuries. 6 players scored 16 half centuries.

20 individual scores above 50

11. Eastern Suburbs – 4 players scored a total of 4 centuries. 9 players scored 15 half centuries.

19 individual scores above 50

12. UTS North Sydney - 2 players scored a total of 2 centuries. 10 players scored 17 half centuries.

19 individual scores above 50

13. Blacktown – 2 players scored a total of 2 centuries. 7 players scored 15 half centuries.

17 individual scores above 50

14. Randwick Petersham – 4 players scored a total of 4 centuries. 8 players scored 12 half centuries.

16 individual scores above 50

15. Sutherland – 3 players scored a total of 3 centuries. 8 players scored 12 half centuries.

15 individual scores above 50

16. Hawkesbury – 1 player scored a total of 1 century. 8 players scored 14 half centuries.

15 individual scores above 50

17. Western Suburbs– 3 players scored a total of 4 centuries. 5 players scored 10 half centuries.

14 individual scores above 50

18. Bankstown – 2 players scored a total of 3 centuries. 9 players scored 11 half centuries.

14 individual scores above 50

19. UNSW – 1 player scored one century. 7 players scored a total of 11 half centuries.

12 individual scores above 50

20. Sydney - 2 players scored a total of 2 centuries. 7 players scored 9 half centuries.

11 individual scores above 50

Examples of the very best IPF Batting Index in world cricket - click here