www.leighcc.co.uk  All-Rounder  Awards for 2003  

Last year, in 2002, the all-rounder award was comfortably taken by Garry Wood with an all-round rating of 4.0 (that is a batting average of four times his bowling average). Note our very demanding qualification (300 runs and 15 wickets), ensuring that the test picks up the genuine batsmen-bowlers.

So how did the big guns shape up in 2003. Well, there were the usual surprises (?) with no appearance by Dave Walshe given his lack of batting this year; Steve Watson is clearly a class all-rounder but he failed by 17 runs to make the 300 cut (a contender for 2004 perhaps?). Martin Parfett, another class all-rounder in the 2nd XI, also failed to reach 300.

Here are the awards:~

Again this year a clear winner but it is not Garry Wood again, he only comes in second.  It should be no surprise really, in that it was David Wells who not only stormed away with the batting cup with a top class batting average of 43, but he bowled tidily for the first XI, taking 16 wickets at a parsimonious 20.7.  Well done, David. Slightly better performance from Ian Bishop this year who was joint-leading wicket taker and second behind Wells in the batting, proving that he is (just about) a genuine all-rounder. 

Interesting to note, that Watson's rating was an excellent 3.4....