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A brief history of Red Bat

The Red Bat Cricket Collective has a history dating back further than most of its members are willing (or able) to recall, and much of it is best left undisturbed.  A few of the more salubrious episodes are recalled in these pages.

Highlights

• NEW: Phil Jones's History of RBCC on Tour
• If you can remember Wylam you weren't there
• Hobbs, Ranji, and now RedBat: Paul O'Connor's The Beautiful Game
• Words from the little master: Phil Jones's ton
• All for one and seventeen all out - now with extra humiliating detail from one of the guilty men.
• The now-legendary Bruised Coccyx Incident.   Sitting down can be Really Dangerous.

[A note from your Editor: the coccyx incident, though tragically unnoticed by anyone except its victim for all these years, suggests a new theme for reminiscences: Great Injuries I Have Known.  I'm happy to hear from any member of the collective with an amusing tale of cricket-related lesions, dislocations or fractures to tell, but a few categories spring to mind.

• Injuries of a personal nature occasioned by wasps or other insectivora
• Damage sustained while washing hair, or otherwise attending to personal hygiene
• Non-specific back trouble brought on by getting out LBW
• Apoplexy or other psychological dysfunction brought on by getting out LBW

Gory accounts of trips to Casualty to have teeth re-inserted are perhaps beyond the bounds of light entertainment, and the urge to recount these should be resisted.]

RedBat by numbers

If you just want the cold hard facts, you've come to the right place.

The summary of the summary

All Our Yesterdays

An occasional series of matches recalled by an occasional statistician

• Pacific, 13 June 1987

Red Bat matches season by season
 

The Memory Hole

It's sadly not unknown for the RedBat scorebook to depart from the rigorous standards of exactness which might be desired by the more pedantic reader.  Generally this isn't a big problem, but there are some matches where vital information is missing beyond any hope of being reconstructed.  Quite a number of catches have been taken without the name of the catcher being recorded, and in one or two cases entire bowling analyses are absent.  This means that some players' career statistics are not complete.  There's not much to be done about this, but here's a list of the dodgy scoresheets, in case anyone wants to claim some extra wickets and/or catches.

It's more complicated than that

You just have to add everything up and write it down, surely? 

In an ideal world this might be the case.  Given that these statistics are compiled months or years after the event, and given also that the scorebooks are generally written by a random selection of chemically-impaired and questionably numerate conscripts dragooned into holding a pencil for a few minutes while awaiting their turn to bat, the world is usually not ideal.  In a desperate attempt to create an oasis of order in sea of chaos (can you have an oasis in the sea ?) the wise statistician will cling to a clear set of principles.  In our case however, we make do with some vague aspirations.

General Meetings through the ages

Sound and fury signifying who knows what?

 

2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006
AGM EGM	EGM1 EGM2
1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999
AGM EGM	AGM EGM	AGM EGM	AGM EGM	AGM EGM	AGM EGM	AGM EGM	AGM EGM	AGM EGM	AGM EGM
				1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989
				AGM	AGM	AGM	AGM	EGM	AGM EGM