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K Cant — Fitzroy Doncaster Cricket Club career — Morrie

Season by season

Season	M	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	Overs	Wkts	Best	Ct
1949-50	5	7	3	129	47	32.25	56.7 (8)	13	5/44	2
1950-51	15	13	4	259	52	28.78	147.4 (8)	25	5/23	8
1951-52	15	19	0	270	63	14.21	257.6 (8)	44	6/58	4
1952-53	6	5	0	45	19	9.00	69.6 (8)	11	3/58	2
Career	41	44	7	703	63	19.00	531.7 (8-ball)	93	6/58	16

Milestones

DebutFirst matchv Melbourne, 1949-50
First fifty52v Prahran, 1950-51
First five-for5/44v Melbourne, 1949-50
Highest score63v Collingwood, 1951-52
Best bowling6/58v South Melbourne, 1951-52
Last matchMatch 41v Prahran, 1952-53

Runs by season

Wickets by season

Every innings, in order

Against each club

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Kingston Hawthorn	4	101	27	20.20		8	20.13	5/25	1
Prahran	4	61	52	30.50	1	8	22.13	4/69
Melbourne	4	54	35*	13.50		14	17.21	5/44	1
St Kilda	4	48	28	12.00		6	17.50	4/43
Melbourne University	3	91	47	22.75		8	14.25	4/38
Camberwell Magpies	3	88	63	22.00	1	7	15.57	3/48
Richmond	3	77	40*	25.67		4	39.25	2/33
Footscray	3	48	17*	48.00		3	11.00	2/8
Casey South Melbourne	3	41	18	20.50		7	15.71	6/58	1
Essendon	3	41	30	13.67		6	19.50	3/64
Northcote	3	9	9	9.00		7	11.29	5/23	1
Greenvale Kanagaroos	2	31	24*	15.50		7	10.57	4/37
Carlton	2	13	13	6.50		8	10.25	4/36

Splits

By batting position

Pos	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	50s	0s
2	1	1	15	15*	–
4	7	1	132	63	22.00	1
5	2	0	11	10	5.50
6	4	0	91	47	22.75		1
7	10	3	122	35*	17.43
8	12	1	186	30	16.91		2
9	5	1	114	52	28.50

At the club

In the record book

Among players of 1949-50 to 1952-53: 15th of 28 for runs, 8th of 24 for wickets, 21st of 29 for matches, 19th of 28 for catches, 12th of 24 for batting average.

Under Fitzroy: 71st of 321 for runs, 31st of 172 for wickets, 80th of 345 for matches, 74th of 279 for catches, 63rd of 126 for batting average.

Played like…

MW Ridgway1989-90 to 1992-93 · 56 m · 788 runs · 150 wkts
RC Bitmead

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Season	Opponent	Batting	Bowling
1949-50	Melbourne	1 & 3*	5/44 & 2/38	Something wrong? Tell us
1949-50	Footscray	14*	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1949-50	South Melbourne	18	0/23	Something wrong? Tell us
1949-50	Richmond	6 & 40*	2/33 & 0/16	Something wrong? Tell us
1949-50	University	47	4/38	Something wrong? Tell us
1950-51	Essendon	dnb	0/13 & 1/10	Something wrong? Tell us
1950-51	Hawthorn-East Melbourne	19	0/13 & 0/4	Something wrong? Tell us
1950-51	Northcote	dnb	5/23	Something wrong? Tell us
1950-51	Carlton	0	4/36	Something wrong? Tell us
1950-51	Prahran	52	0/28	Something wrong? Tell us
1950-51	Richmond	0	1/25 & 1/35	Something wrong? Tell us
1950-51	South Melbourne	15*	1/29	Something wrong? Tell us
1950-51	North Melbourne	24*	2/29	Something wrong? Tell us
1950-51	University	20	1/48	Something wrong? Tell us
1950-51	Footscray	17*	1/7	Something wrong? Tell us
1950-51	Melbourne	35*	3/20	Something wrong? Tell us
1950-51	Collingwood	12	3/48	Something wrong? Tell us
1950-51	St Kilda	dnb	0/20	Something wrong? Tell us
1950-51	Essendon	10 & 30	2/23 & 0/7	Something wrong? Tell us
1950-51	Hawthorn-East Melbourne	25	0/36	Something wrong? Tell us
1951-52	North Melbourne	1 & 6	4/37 & 1/8	Something wrong? Tell us
1951-52	University	19 & 5	3/28	Something wrong? Tell us
1951-52	Footscray	17	2/8 & 0/18	Something wrong? Tell us
1951-52	Melbourne	11	0/26	Something wrong? Tell us
1951-52	Collingwood	6 & 63	1/24 & 1/21	Something wrong? Tell us
1951-52	St Kilda	10	1/24	Something wrong? Tell us
1951-52	South Melbourne	8	6/58	Something wrong? Tell us
1951-52	Richmond	31	0/48	Something wrong? Tell us
1951-52	Prahran	dnb	4/69	Something wrong? Tell us
1951-52	Carlton	13	4/46	Something wrong? Tell us
1951-52	Northcote	9	1/12	Something wrong? Tell us
1951-52	Hawthorn-East Melbourne	11 & 27	5/25 & 0/8	Something wrong? Tell us
1951-52	Essendon	1	3/64	Something wrong? Tell us
1951-52	St Kilda	28	4/43	Something wrong? Tell us
1951-52	Melbourne	0 & 4	2/66 & 2/47	Something wrong? Tell us
1952-53	Northcote	dnb	1/44	Something wrong? Tell us
1952-53	Collingwood	7	2/16	Something wrong? Tell us
1952-53	Prahran	dnb	1/22	Something wrong? Tell us
1952-53	St Kilda	6 & 4	1/18	Something wrong? Tell us
1952-53	Hawthorn-East Melbourne	19	3/60 & 0/15	Something wrong? Tell us
1952-53	Prahran	9	3/58	Something wrong? Tell us

	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	50s	0s
Top order (1–3)	1	1	15	15*	–
Middle order (4–7)	23	4	356	63	18.74	1	1
Lower order (8–11)	20	2	332	52	18.44	1	2

In wins and losses

	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	50s	0s
In wins	25	5	451	52	22.55	1	1
In losses	17	2	242	63	16.13	1	1
In draws	2	0	10	10	5.00		1

	M	Wkts	Avg	Wkts / match
In wins	25	50	15.98	2.0
In losses	12	37	18.32	3.1
In draws	3	6	13.67	2.0

Scored 50+: the side won 1 of 2 (50%), lost 1.
Took 5+ in an innings: the side won 2 of 4 (50%), lost 2.
Every other match: the side won 23 of 35 (66%), lost 9.

	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	50s	0s
Batting first	17	3	281	52	20.07	1
Batting second	18	2	240	47	15.00		3
Second innings of the match	9	2	182	63	26.00	1

By ground

Ground	M	Inn	Runs	HS	Avg	Wkts	Bowl avg	Best
Fitzroy Cricket Ground	20	25	411	52	20.55	49	14.78	5/23
South Melbourne Cricket Ground	3	4	30	18	7.50	10	19.40	6/58
Glenferrie Oval	2	2	38	19	19.00	3	30.67	3/60
Western Oval	2	2	31	17	31.00	2	13.00	2/8
St Kilda Cricket Ground	2	1	28	28	28.00	4	15.75	4/43
Bill Lawry Oval, Northcote	2	1	9	9	9.00	2	28.00	1/12
Toorak Park	2	0	0	–	–	5	18.20	4/69
North Melbourne Cricket Ground	1	2	7	6	3.50	5	9.00	4/37
Victoria Park	1	2	69	63	34.50	2	22.50	1/21
Carlton Cricket Ground	1	1	0	0	0.00	4	9.00	4/36
Albert Ground	1	1	35	35*	–	3	6.67	3/20
Richmond Cricket Ground	1	1	0	0	0.00	2	30.00	1/25
University Oval	1	1	20	20	20.00	1	48.00	1/48
Melbourne Cricket Ground	1	1	25	25	25.00	–	–	0/36
Essendon Cricket Ground	1	0	0	–	–	1	23.00	1/10

The shape of the career

Season by season

Runs, up Wickets, down

The arc

K Cant's best season with the bat was 1951-52: 270 runs from 19 innings at 14.21. The best ten-innings patch came in 1949-50 to 1950-51: 234 runs at 39.00. The leanest, 1951-52 to 1952-53: 97 runs at 9.70.

Batting average over the last ten innings, at each innings of the career.

Milestones

Milestone	When	Match
First five-for5/44	12 Nov 1949	v Melbourne, 1949-50
First fifty52	25 Nov 1950	v Prahran, 1950-51
50th wicket1/21 took him to 50	13 Nov 1951	v Collingwood, 1951-52

Streaks

Consecutive scores of 25 or more: 2 innings: from v Richmond, 1949-50 to v University, 1949-50 · first · last
Consecutive matches played: 30 matches: from v Essendon, 1950-51 to v Melbourne, 1951-52 · first · last
Consecutive matches with a wicket: 13 matches: from v Prahran, 1951-52 to v Prahran, 1952-53 · first · last
Longest run of single figures: 5 innings: from v Melbourne, 1951-52 to v St Kilda, 1952-53 · first · last

Best innings

Score	Match	Result
63	v Collingwood, 1951-52	Lost
52	v Prahran, 1950-51	Won
47	v University, 1949-50	Won
40*	v Richmond, 1949-50	Lost
35*	v Melbourne, 1950-51	Won

Best bowling

More splits

Batting position over the years

Batted at 4th for 1 season, dropped to 7th from 1950-51, moved up to 4th from 1951-52, dropped to 10th from 1952-53.

Season	Usual spot	Inn	Avg
1949-50	4	7	32.25
1950-51	7	13	28.78
1951-52	4	19	14.21
1952-53	10	5	9.00

Home and away

	M	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	Wkts	Bowl avg
Home	20	25	5	411	52	20.55	49	14.78
Away	21	19	2	292	63	17.18	44	18.98

Home taken as the ground the club played at most in each season: Fitzroy Cricket Ground, Schramms Reserve.

By day

	M	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	Wkts	Bowl avg
Saturday	34	38	7	571	52	18.42	77	16.55
Weekday	7	6	0	132	63	22.00	16	17.81

Month by month

Month	M	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	Wkts	Bowl avg
Oct	5	5	0	50	19	10.00	10	15.70
Nov	10	10	2	174	63	21.75	23	13.22
Dec	4	4	0	36	18	9.00	9	18.33
Jan	8	8	3	196	47	39.20	18	19.78
Feb	5	7	2	109	35*	21.80	11	8.18
Mar	8	8	0	134	30

Finals

5Finals played

106Runs · avg 15.14

13Wickets

	M	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	Wkts	Bowl avg
Home and away	36	37	7	597	63	19.90	80	15.99
Finals	5	7	0	106	30	15.14	13	21.54

Favourite victims

RI Maddocks × 3
A Jinks × 2
AJ Southwell × 2
AL Price × 2
BM Lynch × 2
CC McDonald × 2
DH Townsend × 2
DK Mathieson × 2

Fielding

Season	M	Ct
1949-50	5	2
1950-51	15	8
1951-52	15	4
1952-53	6	2

Caught most off

K Peters × 5
BT Considine × 4
HAE Shillinglaw × 2
RHW Liddicut × 2
JR Beitzel × 1
K Cant × 1

Figures	Match	Result
6/58	v South Melbourne, 1951-52	Lost
5/23	v Northcote, 1950-51	Won
5/25	v Hawthorn-East Melbourne, 1951-52	Won
5/44	v Melbourne, 1949-50	Lost
4/36	v Carlton, 1950-51	Drawn