Thursday, October 19th, 2017

Hepburn Top Scorer And Wicket-Taker In Red Ball Cricket For Seconds

Alex Hepburn finished as Worcestershire Seconds leading run-scorer and wicket-taker in red ball cricket this summer.

The Australian born all-rounder, who last week signed a new one year contract with the County, scored 753 runs at an average of nearly 40 in the Championship and three-four day friendly matches.

Tom Fell was not far behind with 730 at an average of 48.67 including a score of 223 v MCC Young Cricketers at Barnt Green – the highest ever score by a Worcestershire player in the Championship.

George Rhodes, with 620 runs at 44.29 before his promotion to the first team, and Josh Dell (529) were the other players to top 500 runs.

Keeper Alex Milton, who signed his first professional contract with the County, Alexei Kervezee – who has since departed from New Road – and Ben Twohig also chipped in with 400 plus runs,

On the bowling front, Hepburn amassed 37 wickets at 25.25.

Spinner Twohig (26) and paceman Charlie Morris (20) were the other main contributors with the ball.


FINAL THREE-FOUR DAY AVERAGES

BATTING

R Tongue Matches 1, Inns 1, Not Out 0, Runs 70, Highest 70, Average 70.00

Dudley 1, 2, 1, 50, 35, 50.00

Fell 9, 15, 0, 730, 223, 48.67

Kohler-Cadmore 1, 2, 0, 92, 55, 46.00

Rhodes 8, 15, 1, 620, 125, 44.29

Dell 10, 14, 1, 529, 95*, 40.69

Hepburn 13, 22, 3, 753, 98, 39.63

Kervezee 7, 12, 0, 423, 140, 35.25

Shantry 3, 5, 2, 61*, 34.33

Milton 9, 15, 2, 434, 91, 33.38

Whiteley 6, 10, 2, 235, 65, 29.38

Wiffen 3, 5, 1, 117, 77, 29.25

Twohig 14, 20, 3, 400, 83, 23.53

Morris 9, 11, 4,161, 44*, 23.00

Malik 11, 14, 1, 268, 63*, 20.62

Simpson 1, 1, 0, 20, 20, 20.00

Westbury 14, 24, 0, 417, 118, 17.38

Ul-Hassan 3, 3, 0, 51, 28, 17.00

Brown 9, 10, 3, 118, 34, 16.86

Dodd 5, 7, 2, 81, 27, 16.20

Pennington 5, 6, 1, 71, 49, 14.20

Hammond 1, 1, 0, 8, 8, 8.00

Jack Haynes 5, 8, 0, 59, 21, 7.38

Scrimshaw 5, 8, 4, 25, 10*, 6.25

Finch 8, 3, 1, 7, 4, 3.50

Wilkinson 2, 1, 1, 7, 7* —–


BOWLING

Wearing Overs 15, Miadens 1, Runs 57, Wickets 3, Best 3-48, Average 19.00

Wilkinson 31, 2, 140, 7, 4-53, 20.00

Hepburn 268.4, 49, 930, 37, 5-43, 25.25

Malik 100.5, 10, 405, 15, 4-55, 27.00

Finch 130.3, 15, 488, 15, 5-19, 32.53

Morris 194.4, 38, 664, 20, 4-80, 33.20

Rhodes 144.5, 14, 599, 17, 4-55, 35.24

Scrimshaw 78, 10, 380, 10, 4-63, 38.00

Ul Hassan 50, 6, 192, 5, 3-78, 38.40

Brown 177.5, 34, 727, 18, 4-34, 40.39

Twohig 281.1, 21, 1173, 26, 5-87, 45.12

Pennington 65, 13, 256, 4, 1-8, 64.00

Simpson 10, 0, 69, 1, 1-69, 69.00

Westbury 18, 1, 82, 1, 1-24, 82.00

Davis 16, 0, 82, 1, 1-42, 82.00

Kervezee 22, 4, 97, 1, 1-24, 97.00

Whiteley 48, 5, 188, 1, 1-40, 188.00

Wheldon 2, 0, 12, 0, 0-12, —–