Monday, October 7th, 2019

HINKLEY AND BAKER TAKES HONOURS FOR ACADEMY IN FINAL 2019 AVERAGES

HINKLEY AND BAKER TAKES HONOURS FOR ACADEMY IN FINAL 2019 AVERAGES

Alex Hinkley and Josh Baker finished as Worcestershire Academy-Under-17s leading run-scorer and wicket-taker respectively for the 2019 campaign.

Hinkley scored 642 runs at an average of 37.76 from his 18 visits to the middle this summer.

His highest score of exactly 100 came for the Under-17s in the drawn Specsavers County Championship match with Somerset Under-17s at Stourport.

Hinkley finished just ahead of Dan Holland, who amassed 603 runs at 33.50, and Pete Clarke who totalled 584 runs at 32.44.

Baker picked up 40 wickets at a cost of just 16.28 runs apiece and a best performance of 6-21 from 13 overs, five of which were maidens.

It was achieved in the Championship win over Gloucestershire at Bishopston.

Next in line with 19 wickets was Ed Bragg.

FINAL AVERAGES

(Qualification average of 25.00 or more with the bat and under 27.00 for bowling)

BATTING Mat Inns NO Runs HS Ave

O Westbury 1 1 0 59 59 59.00

Z Ul-Hassan 5 5 1 202 77 50.50

J Banton 12 14 2 466 139* 38.83

A Hinkley 14 18 1 642 100 37.76

D Holland 18 23 5 603 133* 33.50

P Clark 15 19 1 584 137 32.44

R Parker-Cole 6 5 2 87 82* 29.00

O Walker 16 17 3 388 109* 27.71

X Clarke 7 10 0 274 65 27.40

M Davis 13 11 2 232 51 25.78

J Dickenson 9 8 3 125 53* 25.00

BOWLING Ovs Mdns Runs Wkts Best Ave

R Edavalath 40.4 2 180 15 5-11 12.00

J Baker 199.3 40 651 40 6-21 16.28

F Fallows 34 0 169 10 4-27 16.90

R Hesketh 49 1 270 14 5-49 19.29

M Stanley 92 23 290 15 4-46 19.33

E Bragg 89.2 15 389 19 4-10 20.47

G D’Souza 15 4 42 2 2-20 21.00

D Holland 23 4 86 4 2-7 21.50

Z Ul-Hassan 32.1 4 129 5 2-22 25.80

S Smith 34 1 159 6 3-44 26.50

A Tomson 74 5 345 13 3-22 26.54

*Thanks to Worcestershire analyst-first team scorer Phil Mellish for the above information.