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LV Straw — Fitzroy Doncaster Cricket Club career — Morrie

Season by season

Season	M	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	Overs	Wkts	Best	Ct
1943-44	18	16	3	197	38*	15.15	7 (8)	1	1/30	7
1944-45	1	1	0	12	12	12.00	–	–	–	1
1945-46	1	1	0	5	5	5.00	–	–	–
1946-47	2	2	0	26	21	13.00	–	–	–	1
1947-48	8	8	2	334	85*	55.67	–	–	–	1
1948-49	13	13	3	481	100	48.10	1 (8)	1	1/2	4
1949-50	13	16	2	132	26	9.43	1 (8)	0	0/2	2
1950-51	7	6	3	80	36*	26.67	–	–	–	4
1951-52	14	17	5	418	72*	34.83	1.5 (8)	1	1/9	9
1952-53	13	16	1	280	102	18.67	3 (8)	2	1/4	8
1953-54	13	17	6	309	65*	28.09	–	–	–	11
Career	103	113	25	2,274	102	25.84	13.5 (8-ball)	5	1/2	48

Milestones

DebutFirst matchv St Kilda, 1943-44
First fifty53v Essendon, 1947-48
First hundred100v Northcote, 1948-49
Highest score102v Essendon, 1952-53
Best bowling1/2v Hawthorn-East Melbourne, 1948-49
Last matchMatch 103v Prahran, 1953-54

Runs by season

Wickets by season

Every innings, in order

Against each club

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Melbourne University	10	294	64	36.75	3		–	–	–
Greenvale Kanagaroos	10	292	85*	41.71	2		0	–	0/3
Melbourne	9	159	40*	19.88			0	–	0/19
Kingston Hawthorn	9	134	35	16.75			1	4.00	1/2
Prahran	9	111	41*	22.20			2	17.50	1/5
Northcote	8	232	100	38.67	1	1	–	–	–
Camberwell Magpies	8	172	66	21.50	1		–	–	–
St Kilda	7	220	44*	31.43			0	–	0/12
Essendon	7	196	102	32.67	1	1	–	–	–
Carlton	7	64	41	10.67			1	4.00	1/4
Casey South Melbourne	6	99	38*	19.80			–	–	–
Richmond	6	89	34	14.83			1	9.00	1/9
Footscray	4	118	50	29.50	1		–	–	–
Coburg	1	74	74	74.00	1		–	–	–
Yarraville (Sub-District)	1	20	20	20.00			–	–	–
Brunswick	1	0	0	0.00			–	–	–

Splits

By batting position

Pos	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	50s	100s	0s
1	1	1	19	19*	–
2	1	1	0	0*	–
3	26	2	507	102	21.13	1	1
4	11	1	359	100	35.90	2	1	3
5	35	9	679	85*	26.12	4		4
6	23	5	453	72*	25.17	2
7	7	3	138

At the club

In the record book

Among players of 1943-44 to 1953-54: 14th of 57 for runs, 35th of 45 for wickets, 15th of 59 for matches, 11th of 17 for hundreds, 11th of 56 for catches, 8th of 38 for batting average.

Under Fitzroy: 28th of 321 for runs, 112th of 172 for wickets, 30th of 345 for matches, 22nd of 50 for hundreds, 29th of 279 for catches, 25th of 126 for batting average.

Played like…

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Season	Opponent	Batting	Bowling
1943-44	St Kilda	20	0/12	Something wrong? Tell us
1943-44	Melbourne	23	0/19	Something wrong? Tell us
1943-44	Northcote	12	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1943-44	Brunswick	0	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1943-44	Collingwood	1	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1943-44	South Melbourne	14	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1943-44	University	21*	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1943-44	North Melbourne	12	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1943-44	Carlton	?	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1943-44	Melbourne	dnb	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1943-44	Northcote	16	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1943-44	Hawthorn-East Melbourne	dnb	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1943-44	Yarraville (Sub-District)	20	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1943-44	Collingwood	0	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1943-44	South Melbourne	38*	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1943-44	Prahran	4*	1/30	Something wrong? Tell us
1943-44	University	12	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1943-44	North Melbourne	4	0/3	Something wrong? Tell us
1944-45	Hawthorn-East Melbourne	12	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1945-46	Carlton	5	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1946-47	North Melbourne	5	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1946-47	Essendon	21	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1947-48	Melbourne	35	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1947-48	Essendon	53	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1947-48	Richmond	20	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1947-48	North Melbourne	85*	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1947-48	University	39	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1947-48	Prahran	dnb	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1947-48	Collingwood	22 & 6*	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1947-48	Coburg	74	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1948-49	St Kilda	44*	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1948-49	Collingwood	66	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1948-49	Footscray	19	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1948-49	Melbourne	40*	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1948-49	University	61*	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1948-49	North Melbourne	18	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1948-49	South Melbourne	18	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1948-49	Richmond	27	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1948-49	Prahran	14	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1948-49	Carlton	41	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1948-49	Northcote	100	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1948-49	Essendon	2	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1948-49	Hawthorn-East Melbourne	31	1/2	Something wrong? Tell us
1949-50	St Kilda	26	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1949-50	North Melbourne	dnb	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1949-50	Prahran	2*	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1949-50	Essendon	1 & 9	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1949-50	Melbourne	1 & 0	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1949-50	Footscray	22 & 3*	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1949-50	South Melbourne	1	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1949-50	Richmond	0	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1949-50	University	21	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1949-50	Collingwood	5	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1949-50	Hawthorn-East Melbourne	15	0/2	Something wrong? Tell us
1949-50	Carlton	6	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1949-50	Northcote	4 & 16	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1950-51	Essendon	dnb	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1950-51	Hawthorn-East Melbourne	7	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1950-51	Northcote	4*	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1950-51	Carlton	0	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1950-51	North Melbourne	36*	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1950-51	University	8*	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1950-51	Hawthorn-East Melbourne	25	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1951-52	North Melbourne	7* & 9	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1951-52	University	55*	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1951-52	Footscray	50	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1951-52	Melbourne	1	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1951-52	Collingwood	11 & 5	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1951-52	St Kilda	35*	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1951-52	South Melbourne	26	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1951-52	Richmond	2	1/9	Something wrong? Tell us
1951-52	Prahran	41*	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1951-52	Carlton	8	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1951-52	Northcote	72*	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1951-52	Hawthorn-East Melbourne	35	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1951-52	St Kilda	21 & 25	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1951-52	Melbourne	15	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1952-53	Northcote	dnb	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1952-53	Collingwood	14	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1952-53	Prahran	0*	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1952-53	North Melbourne	23 & 28	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1952-53	South Melbourne	2	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1952-53	University	1 & 5	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1952-53	Essendon	102	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1952-53	Carlton	4	1/4	Something wrong? Tell us
1952-53	Richmond	34	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1952-53	Melbourne	34	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1952-53	St Kilda	8 & 4	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1952-53	Hawthorn-East Melbourne	8	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1952-53	Prahran	8 & 5	1/5	Something wrong? Tell us
1953-54	Hawthorn-East Melbourne	1	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1953-54	Footscray	24	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1953-54	Northcote	8	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1953-54	Collingwood	42*	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1953-54	Prahran	0	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1953-54	North Melbourne	65*	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1953-54	University	0 & 4	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1953-54	Essendon	8*	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1953-54	Richmond	6	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1953-54	Melbourne	10	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1953-54	St Kilda	18 & 19*	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1953-54	University	64 & 3*	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1953-54	Prahran	16 & 21*	–	Something wrong? Tell us

	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	50s	100s	0s
Top order (1–3)	28	4	526	102	21.92	1	1
Middle order (4–7)	76	18	1,629	100	28.09	9	1	7
Lower order (8–11)	8	3	119	38*	23.80

In wins and losses

	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	50s	100s	0s
In wins	60	14	1,571	102	34.15	9	2	1
In losses	45	8	651	53	17.59	1		5
In draws	7	3	52	35*	13.00			1

	M	Wkts	Avg	Wkts / match
In wins	2	2	6.50	1.0
In losses	7	3	24.33	0.4

Scored 50+: the side won 11 of 12 (92%), lost 1.
Every other match: the side won 44 of 91 (48%), lost 39.

	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	50s	100s	0s
Batting first	41	6	1,003	102	28.66	6	2	1
Batting second	55	14	1,109	85*	27.05	4		5
Second innings of the match	16	5	162	28	14.73			1

By ground

Ground	M	Inn	Runs	HS	Avg	Wkts	Bowl avg	Best
Fitzroy Cricket Ground	52	58	1,171	102	24.91	3	22.67	1/5
University Oval	5	6	124	61*	31.00	–	–	–
Albert Ground	5	5	146	40*	48.67	–	–	–
St Kilda Cricket Ground	4	6	141	38*	35.25	–	–	0/12
Victoria Park	4	5	64	42*	16.00	–	–	–
Bill Lawry Oval, Northcote	4	4	104	72*	34.67	–	–	–
North Melbourne Cricket Ground	4	4	93	65*	46.50	–	–	–
South Melbourne Cricket Ground	4	4	44	26	11.00	–	–	–
Glenferrie Oval	4	3	46	31	15.33	1	2.00	1/2
Essendon Cricket Ground	4	3	76	53	25.33	–	–	–
Western Oval	3	4	99	50	33.00	–	–	–
Carlton Cricket Ground	3	3	45	41	15.00	1	4.00	1/4
Toorak Park	3	3	43	41*	–	–	–	–
Richmond Cricket Ground	2	2	33	27	16.50	–	–	–
Melbourne Cricket Ground	1	1	25	25	25.00	–	–	–
Yarraville Oval	1	1	20	20	20.00	–	–	–

The shape of the career

Season by season

Runs, up Wickets, downPremiership Honour in his name

1948-49: 1st XI Batting · 1953-54: premiership

The arc

LV Straw's best season with the bat was 1948-49: 481 runs from 13 innings at 48.10. The best ten-innings patch came in 1947-48 to 1948-49: 456 runs at 91.20. The leanest, 1949-50: 63 runs at 7.00.

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

Milestones

Milestone	When	Match
First fifty53	15 Nov 1947	v Essendon, 1947-48
First hundred100	5 Feb 1949	v Northcote, 1948-49
1,000th run100 took him to 1,022	5 Feb 1949	v Northcote, 1948-49
50th match1	10 Dec 1949	v South Melbourne, 1949-50
2,000th run42* took him to 2,040	7 Nov 1953	v Collingwood, 1953-54
100th match10	20 Feb 1954	v Melbourne, 1953-54

Streaks

Consecutive scores of 25 or more: 3 innings: from v Coburg, 1947-48 to v Collingwood, 1948-49 · first · last
Consecutive matches played: 32 matches: from v Collingwood, 1947-48 to v Carlton, 1950-51 · first · last
Longest spell without a wicket: 2 matches bowled in: from v St Kilda, 1943-44 to v Melbourne, 1943-44 · first · last
Longest run of single figures: 6 innings: from v St Kilda, 1952-53 to v Hawthorn-East Melbourne, 1953-54 · first · last

Best innings

Score	Match	Result
102	v Essendon, 1952-53	Won
100	v Northcote, 1948-49	Won
85*	v North Melbourne, 1947-48	Won
74	v Coburg, 1947-48	Won
72*	v Northcote, 1951-52	Won

Best bowling

More splits

Batting position over the years

Moved about the order across 11 seasons: at 5th in 4, at 3rd in 3, at 6th in 2, at 7th in 1, at 10th in 1.

Season	Usual spot	Inn	Avg
1943-44	7	15	16.42
1944-45	10	1	12.00
1945-46	6	1	5.00
1946-47	5	2	13.00
1947-48	3	8	55.67
1948-49	5	13	48.10
1949-50	3	16	9.43
1950-51	6	6	26.67
1951-52	5

Home and away

	M	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	Wkts	Bowl avg
Home	52	58	11	1,171	102	24.91	3	22.67
Away	51	54	14	1,103	72*	27.57	2	9.00

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	88	96	22	2,091	102	28.26	5	17.20
Weekday	15	16	3	183	41	14.08

Month by month

Month	M	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	Wkts	Bowl avg
Oct	17	15	4	313	66	28.45
Nov	25	30	6	485	61*	20.21
Dec	8	9	3	184	65*	30.67
Jan	25	22	5	521	102	30.65	2	6.50
Feb	16	18	4	413	100	29.50	2	17.00
Mar	11	17	3	343	74

Finals

6Finals played

203Runs · avg 25.38

1Wickets

	M	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	Wkts	Bowl avg
Home and away	97	102	23	2,071	102	26.22	4	20.25
Finals	6	10	2	203	64	25.38	1	5.00

Fielding

Season	M	Ct
1943-44	18	7
1944-45	1	1
1945-46	1
1946-47	2	1
1947-48	8	1
1948-49	13	4
1949-50	13	2
1950-51	7	4
1951-52	14	9

Figures	Match	Result
1/2	v Hawthorn-East Melbourne, 1948-49	Lost
1/4	v Carlton, 1952-53	Won
1/5	v Prahran, 1952-53	Lost, Semi-final
1/9	v Richmond, 1951-52	Won
1/30	v Prahran, 1943-44	Lost