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R Mitchell — Fitzroy Doncaster Cricket Club career — Morrie

Season by season

Season	M	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	Overs	Wkts	Best	Ct
1891-92	5	8	0	59	23	7.38	88.3	17	5/15	1
1892-93	8	13	1	275	106	22.92	168	22	6/82	5
1893-94	5	9	0	131	54	14.56	200	18	5/46	1
1895-96	7	12	0	341	56	28.42	123.4	26	7/39	6
1896-97	8	12	0	275	81	22.92	32.5	13	6/85	4
1897-98	6	8	0	194	79	24.25	127.5	10	4/114
1898-99	9	11	0	167	43	15.18	114.2	24	6/12	2
1899-00	7	10	1	93	31	10.33	148.4	39	6/2	8
1900-01	4	7	1	174	46	29.00	65	6	2/21	2
Career	59	90	3	1,709	106	19.64	1068.5	175	7/39	29

Milestones

DebutFirst matchv St Kilda, 1891-92
First fifty60v East Melbourne, 1892-93
First hundred106v Melbourne, 1892-93
First five-for5/15v St Kilda, 1891-92
Highest score106v Melbourne, 1892-93
Best bowling7/39v South Melbourne, 1895-96
Last matchMatch 59v Melbourne, 1900-01

Runs by season

Every innings, in order

Against each club

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Casey South Melbourne	9	323	81	21.53	1		31	14.13	7/39	2	1
Greenvale Kanagaroos	9	320	53	22.86	1		20	22.95	6/85	1
Kingston Hawthorn	8	141	60	10.85	1		18	30.67	5/107	1
Melbourne	7	265	106	22.08	1	1	16	35.81	4/41
St Kilda	7	242	79	22.00	1		37	7.49	6/28	3	1
Richmond	6	183	59	26.14	1		16	13.00	6/12	2
Carlton	6	150	54	25.00	2		20	17.80	6/2	2	1
Prahran	5	73	34	12.17			12	19.58	5/53	1
Melbourne University	1	8	6	4.00			0	–	0/0
Port Melbourne	1	4	4	4.00			5	10.20	4/27

Clubs that merged are counted as one, under today's name. Tap a heading to sort; open a club for every match against it.

Splits

By batting position

Pos	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	50s	100s	0s
1	25	1	565	81	23.54	4		2
2	7	0	138	60	19.71	1		2
3	7	0	26	10	3.71			1
4	15	0	224	79	14.93	1		2
5	15	0	426	106	28.40	2	1
6	9	0	146	39	16.22
7	8	0	124

At the club

In the record book

Among players of 1891-92 to 1900-01: 2nd of 62 for runs, 1st of 23 for wickets, 1st of 65 for matches, 4th of 5 for hundreds, 2nd of 53 for catches, 6th of 12 for batting average.

Under Fitzroy: 35th of 321 for runs, 17th of 172 for wickets, 50th of 345 for matches, 30th of 50 for hundreds, 49th of 279 for catches, 57th of 126 for batting average.

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Season	Opponent	Batting	Bowling
1891-92	St Kilda	2 & 23	5/15 & 2/6	Something wrong? Tell us
1891-92	North Melbourne	16 & 8	0/29	Something wrong? Tell us
1891-92	Richmond	3	1/29	Something wrong? Tell us
1891-92	East Melbourne	3 & 0	4/65	Something wrong? Tell us
1891-92	Port Melbourne	4	4/27 & 1/24	Something wrong? Tell us
1892-93	Melbourne	12 & 4	2/79	Something wrong? Tell us
1892-93	North Melbourne	12* & 4	3/56	Something wrong? Tell us
1892-93	St Kilda	25	6/82	Something wrong? Tell us
1892-93	East Melbourne	30 & 60	3/61	Something wrong? Tell us
1892-93	South Melbourne	0 & 4	4/58	Something wrong? Tell us
1892-93	North Melbourne	6 & 0	0/8 & 3/13	Something wrong? Tell us
1892-93	South Melbourne	12	1/40	Something wrong? Tell us
1892-93	Melbourne	106	0/38	Something wrong? Tell us
1893-94	Carlton	54	5/46	Something wrong? Tell us
1893-94	East Melbourne	3 & 3	5/107	Something wrong? Tell us
1893-94	Melbourne	0 & 18	1/45 & 0/57	Something wrong? Tell us
1893-94	South Melbourne	2 & 17	2/32 & 3/32	Something wrong? Tell us
1893-94	North Melbourne	2 & 32	2/61	Something wrong? Tell us
1895-96	Melbourne	47 & 56	4/150	Something wrong? Tell us
1895-96	East Melbourne	10 & 7	2/110	Something wrong? Tell us
1895-96	Carlton	53	3/93	Something wrong? Tell us
1895-96	North Melbourne	12 & 34	2/91	Something wrong? Tell us
1895-96	Richmond	45	0/36	Something wrong? Tell us
1895-96	St Kilda	15 & 0	4/64	Something wrong? Tell us
1895-96	South Melbourne	36 & 26	7/39 & 4/27	Something wrong? Tell us
1896-97	Richmond	47 & 7	1/53	Something wrong? Tell us
1896-97	Melbourne	4 & 8	4/41 & 0/10	Something wrong? Tell us
1896-97	Hawksburn	19 & 4	0/?	Something wrong? Tell us
1896-97	South Melbourne	81 & 10	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1896-97	Carlton	0	0/68	Something wrong? Tell us
1896-97	East Melbourne	0	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1896-97	St Kilda	42	1/8 & 1/?	Something wrong? Tell us
1896-97	North Melbourne	53	6/85	Something wrong? Tell us
1897-98	St Kilda	79	2/17	Something wrong? Tell us
1897-98	Carlton	14	1/31	Something wrong? Tell us
1897-98	East Melbourne	4 & 11	4/114	Something wrong? Tell us
1897-98	South Melbourne	14 & 4	0/77	Something wrong? Tell us
1897-98	Hawksburn	9	3/88	Something wrong? Tell us
1897-98	Richmond	59	0/14	Something wrong? Tell us
1898-99	East Melbourne	2	0/40	Something wrong? Tell us
1898-99	Richmond	6	6/12	Something wrong? Tell us
1898-99	Carlton	25	1/81	Something wrong? Tell us
1898-99	University	6 & 2	0/?	Something wrong? Tell us
1898-99	St Kilda	16 & 9	2/18 & 4/19	Something wrong? Tell us
1898-99	Hawksburn	34	3/68	Something wrong? Tell us
1898-99	North Melbourne	43	2/27 & 0/?	Something wrong? Tell us
1898-99	South Melbourne	16	3/39	Something wrong? Tell us
1898-99	Melbourne	8	3/62 & 0/35	Something wrong? Tell us
1899-00	North Melbourne	15	1/12	Something wrong? Tell us
1899-00	St Kilda	0 & 31	6/28 & 4/20	Something wrong? Tell us
1899-00	South Melbourne	1 & 14	5/72	Something wrong? Tell us
1899-00	Hawksburn	4	5/53	Something wrong? Tell us
1899-00	East Melbourne	8	0/55	Something wrong? Tell us
1899-00	Carlton	4 & 0*	4/35 & 6/2	Something wrong? Tell us
1899-00	Richmond	16	3/22 & 5/42	Something wrong? Tell us
1900-01	Hawksburn	3	1/26	Something wrong? Tell us
1900-01	South Melbourne	40* & 46	2/22	Something wrong? Tell us
1900-01	North Melbourne	39 & 44	0/48 & 1/29	Something wrong? Tell us
1900-01	Melbourne	2 & 0	2/21 & 0/35	Something wrong? Tell us

	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	50s	100s	0s
Top order (1–3)	39	1	729	81	19.18	5		5
Middle order (4–7)	47	0	920	106	19.57	3	1	3
Lower order (8–11)	4	2	60	40*	30.00			1

In wins and losses

	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	50s	100s	0s
In wins	34	2	682	79	21.31	3		2
In losses	56	1	1,027	106	18.67	5	1	7

	M	Wkts	Avg	Wkts / match
In wins	25	98	10.43	3.9
In losses	32	77	27.62	2.4

Scored 50+: the side won 3 of 9 (33%), lost 6.
Took 5+ in an innings: the side won 9 of 12 (75%), lost 3.
Every other match: the side won 14 of 40 (35%), lost 26.

	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	50s	100s	0s
Batting first	37	2	984	106	28.11	6	1	2
Batting second	22	0	239	43	10.86			3
Second innings of the match	31	1	486	60	16.20	2		4

	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	50s	100s	0s
As captain	49	2	912	81	19.40	4		4
Otherwise	41	1	797	106	19.93	4	1	5

By ground

Ground	M	Inn	Runs	HS	Avg	Wkts	Bowl avg	Best
Fitzroy Cricket Ground	30	44	995	106	23.69	74	17.12	6/2
South Melbourne Cricket Ground	5	10	118	36	11.80	25	13.48	7/39
East Melbourne Cricket Ground	5	9	49	11	5.44	15	30.07	5/107
St Kilda Cricket Ground	3	5	135	79	27.00	19	4.53	6/28
Melbourne Cricket Ground	3	5	127	56	25.40	9	36.22	4/150
North Melbourne Cricket Ground	3	5	65	32	16.25	6	21.50	3/56
Richmond Cricket Ground	3	4	63	47	15.75	8	11.75	6/12
the Triangle	3	3	107	54	35.67	11	18.09	6/85
Warehousemen's Ground	1	2	18	18	9.00	1	102.00	1/45
Port Melbourne Cricket Ground	1	1	4	4	4.00	5	10.20	4/27
Carlton Cricket Ground	1	1	25	25	25.00	1	81.00	1/81
Toorak Park	1	1	3	3	3.00	1	26.00	1/26

The shape of the career

Season by season

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

1893-94: 1st XI Bowling · 1899-00: 1st XI Bowling

The arc

Robert Mitchell's best season with the bat was 1895-96: 341 runs from 12 innings at 28.42. The best ten-innings patch came in 1893-94 to 1895-96: 311 runs at 31.10. The leanest, 1891-92 to 1892-93: 66 runs at 7.33.

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

Milestones

Milestone	When	Match
First five-for5/15	10 Oct 1891	v St Kilda, 1891-92
First fifty60	3 Dec 1892	v East Melbourne, 1892-93
First hundred106	25 Mar 1893	v Melbourne, 1892-93
50th wicket1/45 took him to 50	18 Nov 1893	v Melbourne, 1893-94
1,000th run42 took him to 1,028	20 Mar 1897	v St Kilda, 1896-97
100th wicket4/114 took him to 103	8 Jan 1898	v East Melbourne, 1897-98

Streaks

Consecutive scores of 25 or more: 4 innings: from v South Melbourne, 1900-01 to v North Melbourne, 1900-01 · first · last
Consecutive matches played: 41 matches: from v Melbourne, 1895-96 to v Melbourne, 1900-01 · first · last
Consecutive matches with a wicket: 10 matches: from v Richmond, 1891-92 to v South Melbourne, 1892-93 · first · last
Longest spell without a wicket: 2 matches bowled in: from v Hawksburn, 1896-97 to v Carlton, 1896-97 · first · last
Longest run of single figures: 5 innings: from v North Melbourne, 1891-92 to v Port Melbourne, 1891-92 · first · last

Best innings

Score	Match	Result
106	v Melbourne, 1892-93	Lost
81	v South Melbourne, 1896-97	Lost
79	v St Kilda, 1897-98	Won
60	v East Melbourne, 1892-93	Lost
59	v Richmond, 1897-98	Won

Best bowling

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Batting position over the years

Moved about the order across 9 seasons: at 5th in 3, opened in 3, at 4th in 2, at 6th in 1.

Season	Usual spot	Inn	Avg
1891-92	4	8	7.38
1892-93	5	13	22.92
1893-94	1	9	14.56
1895-96	1	12	28.42
1896-97	1	12	22.92
1897-98	4	8	24.25
1898-99	5	11	15.18
1899-00	6	10	10.33
1900-01	5	7	29.00

Home and away

	M	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	Wkts	Bowl avg
Home	30	44	2	995	106	23.69	74	17.12
Away	29	46	1	714	79	15.87	101	18.63

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	57	87	3	1,678	106	19.98	172	17.74
Weekday	2	3	0	31	19	10.33	3	32.33

Month by month

Month	M	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	Wkts	Bowl avg
Oct	13	19	1	320	79	17.78	33	14.33
Nov	10	18	1	425	81	25.00	31	22.65
Dec	8	13	0	271	60	20.85	18	25.78
Jan	9	16	0	133	34	8.31	29	18.45
Feb	8	11	1	131	45	13.10	22	17.50
Mar	7	8	0	247	106

Favourite victims

CG Wilson × 4
J Harry × 4
TS Warne × 4
BCE Kemp × 3
D Sutherland × 3
GA Bean × 3
HC Maplestone × 3
J Marshall × 3

The card names his victims in 45 of 47 wicket-taking games.

Fielding

Season	M	Ct
1891-92	5	1
1892-93	8	5
1893-94	5	1
1895-96	7	6
1896-97	8	4
1897-98	6
1898-99	9	2
1899-00	7	8
1900-01	4	2

Caught most off

Figures	Match	Result
7/39	v South Melbourne, 1895-96	Won
6/2	v Carlton, 1899-00	Won
6/12	v Richmond, 1898-99	Won
6/28	v St Kilda, 1899-00	Lost
6/82	v St Kilda, 1892-93	Won