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MW Sievers — Fitzroy Doncaster Cricket Club career — Morrie

Season by season

Season	M	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	Overs	Wkts	Best	Ct
1934-35	9	9	1	90	52	11.25	57 (8)	41	6/12	4
1935-36	1	1	0	0	0	0.00	19 (8)	2	2/55	2
1936-37	8	7	2	191	64*	38.20	10 (8)	11	3/16	5
1937-38	8	9	0	209	89	23.22	56.4 (8)	35	6/46	4
1938-39	10	13	1	383	117	31.92	124 (8)	29	5/24	11
1939-40	9	12	0	340	93	28.33	68 (8)	23	4/31	3
1940-41	10	9	2	291	106	41.57	80 (8)	32	8/61	4
1941-42	12	13	3	460	108*	46.00	78 (8)	52	9/34	4
1943-44	3	3	0	50	42	16.67	6 (8)	0	0/8	1
1944-45	3	2	1	108	56*	108.00	41.7 (8)	5	2/47
1945-46	4	4	2	258	119*	129.00	54.7 (8)	9	4/62
Career	77	82	12	2,380	119*	34.00	595.2 (8-ball)	239	9/34	38

Milestones

DebutFirst matchv Northcote, 1934-35
First fifty52v Northcote, 1934-35
First hundred117v North Melbourne, 1938-39
First five-for6/12v Hawthorn-East Melbourne, 1934-35
Highest score119*v Prahran, 1945-46
Best bowling9/34v Melbourne, 1941-42
Last matchMatch 77v University, 1945-46

Runs by season

Every innings, in order

Against each club

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Melbourne University	9	356	96	44.50	4		35	11.89	6/58	2
Prahran	7	235	119*	58.75	1	1	12	19.83	3/38
Essendon	7	220	65	44.00	3		15	16.00	6/62	1
St Kilda	7	214	51	26.75	1		22	18.45	5/24	2
Melbourne	6	227	93	28.38	1		23	15.26	9/34	1	1
Northcote	6	213	58	42.60	2		19	19.47	8/61	1
Camberwell Magpies	6	210	108*	42.00		1	27	8.56	6/22	2
Richmond	5	129	54	25.80	1		11	17.82	4/90
Casey South Melbourne	5	127	106	31.75		1	16	11.00	8/55	2
Carlton	5	105	41*	26.25			13	19.69	6/46	1
Kingston Hawthorn	5	58	25	11.60			20	11.30	6/12	1
Greenvale Kanagaroos	4	126	117	42.00		1	14	12.14	7/58	2
VCA Colts	3	87	38	21.75			7	20.71	2/25
Coburg	2	73	47	36.50			5	12.00	4/44

Splits

By batting position

Pos	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	50s	100s	0s
1	10	2	126	34*	15.75			1
2	7	0	202	89	28.86	2		1
3	18	1	614	117	36.12	4	1	1
4	12	1	419	106	38.09	2	1	3
5	16	4	569	119*	47.42	2	2	2
6	11	2	273	58	30.33	2		1
7	4	1	130

At the club

In the record book

Among players of 1934-35 to 1945-46: 15th of 65 for runs, 6th of 46 for wickets, 18th of 70 for matches, 7th of 21 for hundreds, 15th of 61 for catches, 5th of 36 for batting average.

Under Fitzroy: 25th of 321 for runs, 11th of 172 for wickets, 42nd of 345 for matches, 12th of 50 for hundreds, 40th of 279 for catches, 9th of 126 for batting average.

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Season	Opponent	Batting	Bowling
1934-35	Northcote	52	3/19	Something wrong? Tell us
1934-35	Hawthorn-East Melbourne	3 & 1	6/12 & 3/19	Something wrong? Tell us
1934-35	Collingwood	0	6/22 & 2/13	Something wrong? Tell us
1934-35	South Melbourne	2	6/32	Something wrong? Tell us
1934-35	Prahran	0	2/16	Something wrong? Tell us
1934-35	North Melbourne	1	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1934-35	Essendon	dnb	6/62	Something wrong? Tell us
1934-35	University	10*	6/58	Something wrong? Tell us
1934-35	Melbourne	21	1/54	Something wrong? Tell us
1935-36	St Kilda	0	2/55 & 0/7	Something wrong? Tell us
1936-37	Richmond	10	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1936-37	Carlton	38	0/49	Something wrong? Tell us
1936-37	North Melbourne	–	2/18	Something wrong? Tell us
1936-37	University	64*	3/16 & 0/13	Something wrong? Tell us
1936-37	Prahran	51	3/72	Something wrong? Tell us
1936-37	Hawthorn-East Melbourne	16*	2/47 & 0/5	Something wrong? Tell us
1936-37	Northcote	9	1/68	Something wrong? Tell us
1936-37	St Kilda	3	0/64	Something wrong? Tell us
1937-38	South Melbourne	11	2/29	Something wrong? Tell us
1937-38	Collingwood	4	4/30	Something wrong? Tell us
1937-38	VCA Colts	1	2/45 & 2/38	Something wrong? Tell us
1937-38	Hawthorn-East Melbourne	25	3/67	Something wrong? Tell us
1937-38	Carlton	21	6/46	Something wrong? Tell us
1937-38	University	89	4/32 & 3/26	Something wrong? Tell us
1937-38	Prahran	3	3/38 & 1/?	Something wrong? Tell us
1937-38	Melbourne	49 & 6	3/32 & 2/56	Something wrong? Tell us
1938-39	Hawthorn-East Melbourne	9	2/34	Something wrong? Tell us
1938-39	Northcote	16	4/92	Something wrong? Tell us
1938-39	Melbourne	4	0/6	Something wrong? Tell us
1938-39	St Kilda	0 & 34	5/24	Something wrong? Tell us
1938-39	Essendon	62	3/45	Something wrong? Tell us
1938-39	Richmond	39	4/90	Something wrong? Tell us
1938-39	North Melbourne	117	5/94	Something wrong? Tell us
1938-39	VCA Colts	25 & 38	2/25	Something wrong? Tell us
1938-39	Collingwood	1 & 34*	1/37	Something wrong? Tell us
1938-39	Richmond	4	3/41	Something wrong? Tell us
1939-40	Essendon	40	2/26	Something wrong? Tell us
1939-40	Richmond	22	2/29	Something wrong? Tell us
1939-40	Carlton	5	1/54	Something wrong? Tell us
1939-40	Northcote	41	0/63	Something wrong? Tell us
1939-40	University	0 & 6	3/35 & 0/12	Something wrong? Tell us
1939-40	Collingwood	35	4/31 & 0/8	Something wrong? Tell us
1939-40	VCA Colts	23	1/37	Something wrong? Tell us
1939-40	St Kilda	51 & 5	3/41 & 3/56	Something wrong? Tell us
1939-40	Melbourne	93 & 19	1/33 & 3/25	Something wrong? Tell us
1940-41	Carlton	41*	4/61	Something wrong? Tell us
1940-41	North Melbourne	8	7/58	Something wrong? Tell us
1940-41	University	0	3/20 & 1/11	Something wrong? Tell us
1940-41	South Melbourne	106	0/52	Something wrong? Tell us
1940-41	Collingwood	28	3/25	Something wrong? Tell us
1940-41	Coburg	47	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1940-41	Northcote	37*	8/61 & 0/16	Something wrong? Tell us
1940-41	Melbourne	24	2/50	Something wrong? Tell us
1940-41	St Kilda	0	2/23	Something wrong? Tell us
1940-41	Essendon	dnb	2/32	Something wrong? Tell us
1941-42	Carlton	0	2/46	Something wrong? Tell us
1941-42	University	35 & 0	5/49	Something wrong? Tell us
1941-42	Prahran	20*	0/46	Something wrong? Tell us
1941-42	South Melbourne	dnb	8/55	Something wrong? Tell us
1941-42	Collingwood	108*	5/41 & 2/24	Something wrong? Tell us
1941-42	Coburg	26	4/44 & 1/16	Something wrong? Tell us
1941-42	Hawthorn-East Melbourne	4	4/42	Something wrong? Tell us
1941-42	Northcote	58	3/51	Something wrong? Tell us
1941-42	Melbourne	11	2/61 & 9/34	Something wrong? Tell us
1941-42	St Kilda	37 & 42*	5/52	Something wrong? Tell us
1941-42	Essendon	65	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1941-42	Richmond	54	2/36	Something wrong? Tell us
1943-44	South Melbourne	8	0/8	Something wrong? Tell us
1943-44	Prahran	42	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1943-44	University	0	0/20	Something wrong? Tell us
1944-45	Essendon	52	0/28	Something wrong? Tell us
1944-45	University	56*	2/47 & 1/15	Something wrong? Tell us
1944-45	Prahran	–	2/50	Something wrong? Tell us
1945-46	St Kilda	42*	2/84	Something wrong? Tell us
1945-46	Essendon	1	2/47	Something wrong? Tell us
1945-46	Prahran	119*	1/16	Something wrong? Tell us
1945-46	University	96	4/62	Something wrong? Tell us

	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	50s	100s	0s
Top order (1–3)	35	3	942	117	29.44	6	1	3
Middle order (4–7)	43	8	1,391	119*	39.74	7	3	7
Lower order (8–11)	4	1	47	26	15.67

In wins and losses

	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	50s	100s	0s
In wins	53	11	1,726	119*	41.10	11	3	6
In losses	22	1	489	117	23.29	1	1	3
In draws	7	0	165	52	23.57	1		1

	M	Wkts	Avg	Wkts / match
In wins	45	171	12.86	3.8
In losses	20	49	20.04	2.5
In draws	7	19	15.79	2.7

Scored 50+: the side won 14 of 17 (82%), lost 2.
Took 5+ in an innings: the side won 12 of 15 (80%), lost 2.
Every other match: the side won 22 of 47 (47%), lost 19.

	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	50s	100s	0s
Batting first	39	3	1,098	119*	30.50	5	3	6
Batting second	33	7	1,097	106	42.19	8	1	3
Second innings of the match	10	2	185	42*	23.13			1

By ground

Ground	M	Inn	Runs	HS	Avg	Wkts	Bowl avg	Best
Fitzroy Cricket Ground	45	48	1,247	117	28.34	155	14.09	9/34
Victoria Park	4	5	182	108*	60.67	16	10.69	5/41
Toorak Park	4	3	142	119*	142.00	7	21.43	3/38
Essendon Cricket Ground	4	2	114	62	57.00	11	15.18	6/62
Melbourne Cricket Ground	3	4	83	49	20.75	10	17.90	3/32
St Kilda Cricket Ground	3	4	90	42*	30.00	5	24.80	5/52
Glenferrie Oval	2	3	20	16*	10.00	11	7.55	6/12
Albert Ground	2	3	116	93	38.67	4	16.00	3/25
South Melbourne Cricket Ground	2	2	108	106	54.00	6	14.00	6/32
Carlton Cricket Ground	2	2	79	41*	79.00	4	27.50	4/61
Richmond Cricket Ground	2	2	76	54	38.00	4	16.25	2/29
University Oval	2	2	64	64*	64.00	3	16.33	3/16
Bill Lawry Oval, Northcote	1	1	58	58	58.00	3	17.00	3/51
North Melbourne Cricket Ground	1	1	1	1	1.00	–	–	–

The shape of the career

Season by season

Runs, up Wickets, downPremiership Honour in his name Season away

1934-35: 1st XI Bowling · 1937-38: 1st XI Bowling · 1938-39: premiership, 1st XI Bowling · 1939-40: premiership · 1940-41: 1st XI Batting · 1941-42: 1st XI Batting, 1st XI Bowling

The arc

Morris Sievers' best season with the bat was 1941-42: 460 runs from 13 innings at 46.00. The best ten-innings patch came in 1941-42 to 1945-46: 470 runs at 67.14. The leanest, 1934-35 to 1936-37: 48 runs at 5.33.

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

Milestones

Milestone	When	Match
First fifty52	20 Oct 1934	v Northcote, 1934-35
First five-for6/12	3 Nov 1934	v Hawthorn-East Melbourne, 1934-35
50th wicket3/72 took him to 51	21 Nov 1936	v Prahran, 1936-37
100th wicket5/24 took him to 100	1 Nov 1938	v St Kilda, 1938-39
First hundred117	14 Jan 1939	v North Melbourne, 1938-39
1,000th run35 took him to 1,022	24 Feb 1940	v Collingwood, 1939-40

Streaks

Consecutive scores of 25 or more: 6 innings: from v St Kilda, 1938-39 to v VCA Colts, 1938-39 · first · last
Consecutive matches played: 11 matches: from v University, 1941-42 to v Richmond, 1941-42 · first · last
Consecutive matches with a wicket: 10 matches: from v South Melbourne, 1937-38 to v Northcote, 1938-39 · first · last
Longest spell without a wicket: 3 matches bowled in: from v South Melbourne, 1943-44 to v Essendon, 1944-45 · first · last
Longest run of single figures: 6 innings: from v Hawthorn-East Melbourne, 1934-35 to v North Melbourne, 1934-35 · first · last

Best innings

Score	Match	Result
119*	v Prahran, 1945-46	Won
117	v North Melbourne, 1938-39	Lost
108*	v Collingwood, 1941-42	Won
106	v South Melbourne, 1940-41	Won
96	v University, 1945-46	Won

Best bowling

More splits

Batting position over the years

Moved about the order across 11 seasons: opened in 3, at 4th in 3, at 3rd in 3, at 5th in 2.

Season	Usual spot	Inn	Avg
1934-35	1	9	11.25
1935-36	5	1	0.00
1936-37	4	7	38.20
1937-38	2	9	23.22
1938-39	1	13	31.92
1939-40	3	12	28.33
1940-41	4	9	41.57
1941-42	3	13	46.00
1943-44	3

Home and away

	M	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	Wkts	Bowl avg
Home	45	48	4	1,247	117	28.34	155	14.09
Away	32	34	8	1,133	119*	43.58	84	15.44

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	69	72	9	2,021	117	32.08	219	14.46
Weekday	8	10	3	359	119*	51.29	20	15.75

Month by month

Month	M	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	Wkts	Bowl avg
Oct	16	15	1	256	52	18.29	40	16.05
Nov	14	16	2	445	106	31.79	56	12.14
Dec	4	4	1	179	108*	59.67	16	11.56
Jan	12	12	3	503	119*	55.89	32	16.75
Feb	15	15	3	400	89	33.33	52	14.08
Mar	15	19	2	593	96

Finals

6Finals played

283Runs · avg 31.44

20Wickets

	M	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	Wkts	Bowl avg
Home and away	71	72	11	2,097	119*	34.38	219	14.18
Finals	6	10	1	283	93	31.44	20	18.75

Favourite victims

GE Tamblyn × 4
AA Horneman × 3
AM Barker × 3
CT McCall × 3
EA Baker × 3
EHG Vernon × 3
J Ryder × 3
KJ Millar × 3

The card names his victims in 62 of 63 wicket-taking games.

Fielding

Season	M	Ct
1934-35	9	4
1935-36	1	2
1936-37	8	5
1937-38	8	4
1938-39	10	11
1939-40	9	3
1940-41	10	4
1941-42	12	4
1943-44	3	1

Figures	Match	Result
9/34	v Melbourne, 1941-42	Won
8/55	v South Melbourne, 1941-42	Drawn
8/61	v Northcote, 1940-41	Won
7/58	v North Melbourne, 1940-41	Won
6/12	v Hawthorn-East Melbourne, 1934-35	Won