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RC Bitmead — Fitzroy Doncaster Cricket Club career — Morrie

Season by season

Season	M	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	Overs	Wkts	Best	Ct
1961-62	5	5	0	82	28	16.40	71 (8)	13	5/24	3
1962-63	12	10	1	52	13	5.78	158.1 (8)	30	5/22	7
1963-64	14	13	3	185	82	18.50	196.1 (8)	38	5/12	14
1964-65	13	16	0	538	87	33.63	124.4 (8)	23	3/24	5
1965-66	13	16	0	259	46	16.19	144.1 (8)	32	5/27	6
1966-67	4	2	0	13	7	6.50	45 (8)	5	4/19	2
1967-68	7	6	2	18	9	4.50	93.7 (8)	16	4/31	1
1968-69	8	6	1	22	15	4.40	110.1 (8)	14	4/55	3
1970-71	1	1	0	26	26	26.00	18 (8)	3	3/21
1971-72	4	2	0	8	8	4.00	43 (8)	2	2/51	1
Career	81	77	7	1,203	87	17.19	1003.7 (8-ball)	176	5/12	42

Milestones

DebutFirst matchv Essendon, 1961-62
First fifty82v Melbourne, 1963-64
First five-for5/24v Northcote, 1961-62
Highest score87v South Melbourne, 1964-65
Best bowling5/12v Collingwood, 1963-64
Last matchMatch 81v Richmond, 1971-72

Runs by season

Wickets by season

Every innings, in order

Against each club

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Melbourne	8	147	82	24.50	1	15	15.27	4/30
Prahran	8	81	40	16.20		15	14.73	4/19
Kingston Hawthorn	8	78	46	13.00		19	19.21	4/63
Richmond	7	52	24	10.40		14	11.36	4/1
Northcote	7	31	13	6.20		22	12.00	5/22	2
St Kilda	6	149	32	18.63		18	11.56	4/23
Carlton	6	116	84	23.20	1	10	19.70	3/21
Camberwell Magpies	6	64	43	12.80		14	12.14	5/12	1
Footscray	6	59	21	9.83		16	18.13	5/27	1
Essendon	5	132	63	26.40	1	10	17.20	5/37	1
Casey South Melbourne	5	124	87	20.67	1	6	20.33	4/55
Greenvale Kanagaroos	5	90	61	22.50	1	9	14.78	4/39
Melbourne University	4	80	31	20.00		8	17.63	3/52

Splits

By batting position

Pos	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	50s	0s
1	29	0	691	87	23.83	4	3
2	3	0	22	21	7.33		1
4	1	0	18	18	18.00
5	2	0	16	12	8.00
6	3	0	78	46	26.00		1
7	4	1	14	8	4.67		1
8	11	0	115	26	10.45

At the club

In the record book

Among players of 1961-62 to 1971-72: 14th of 64 for runs, 4th of 43 for wickets, 16th of 67 for matches, 16th of 58 for catches, 20th of 38 for batting average.

Under Fitzroy: 43rd of 321 for runs, 15th of 172 for wickets, 40th of 345 for matches, 37th of 279 for catches, 73rd of 126 for batting average.

Played like…

TL Lawford2015-16 to 2018-19 · 77 m · 1,327 runs · 193 wkts
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Season	Opponent	Batting	Bowling
1961-62	Essendon	17	1/0 & 0/12	Something wrong? Tell us
1961-62	Northcote	13	3/13 & 5/24	Something wrong? Tell us
1961-62	Collingwood	0	1/33	Something wrong? Tell us
1961-62	Richmond	24	1/22	Something wrong? Tell us
1961-62	St Kilda	28	2/62	Something wrong? Tell us
1962-63	St Kilda	dnb	2/21	Something wrong? Tell us
1962-63	Melbourne	0	0/33	Something wrong? Tell us
1962-63	Richmond	1	2/7	Something wrong? Tell us
1962-63	Carlton	dnb	1/22	Something wrong? Tell us
1962-63	Essendon	4	5/37 & 1/14	Something wrong? Tell us
1962-63	University	10	2/43	Something wrong? Tell us
1962-63	South Melbourne	1	1/47	Something wrong? Tell us
1962-63	North Melbourne	13	4/39	Something wrong? Tell us
1962-63	Prahran	5*	3/38	Something wrong? Tell us
1962-63	Northcote	12 & 0	5/22 & 1/30	Something wrong? Tell us
1962-63	Footscray	6	2/63	Something wrong? Tell us
1962-63	Hawthorn-East Melbourne	dnb	1/33	Something wrong? Tell us
1963-64	South Melbourne	5 & 18	1/9	Something wrong? Tell us
1963-64	North Melbourne	dnb	2/18	Something wrong? Tell us
1963-64	Prahran	dnb	4/20 & 0/3	Something wrong? Tell us
1963-64	Collingwood	dnb	5/12	Something wrong? Tell us
1963-64	Northcote	dnb	1/6 & 0/19	Something wrong? Tell us
1963-64	Footscray	21	4/50 & 1/38	Something wrong? Tell us
1963-64	Hawthorn-East Melbourne	6 & 12*	3/38 & 1/20	Something wrong? Tell us
1963-64	St Kilda	5 & 10	3/34	Something wrong? Tell us
1963-64	Melbourne	20*	4/58	Something wrong? Tell us
1963-64	Richmond	3	1/17	Something wrong? Tell us
1963-64	Carlton	0	0/6 & 3/35	Something wrong? Tell us
1963-64	University	dnb	1/21 & 1/13	Something wrong? Tell us
1963-64	Melbourne	82	3/43	Something wrong? Tell us
1963-64	Essendon	0 & 3*	0/52	Something wrong? Tell us
1964-65	Melbourne	18 & 8	1/5 & 0/4	Something wrong? Tell us
1964-65	St Kilda	30 & 31	3/24 & 2/14	Something wrong? Tell us
1964-65	Footscray	21	3/46	Something wrong? Tell us
1964-65	Northcote	2	2/18	Something wrong? Tell us
1964-65	Collingwood	43	3/34	Something wrong? Tell us
1964-65	Prahran	40	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1964-65	North Melbourne	61	0/35	Something wrong? Tell us
1964-65	Essendon	63	1/12	Something wrong? Tell us
1964-65	University	28	3/52	Something wrong? Tell us
1964-65	South Melbourne	87	0/11	Something wrong? Tell us
1964-65	Carlton	84	1/26	Something wrong? Tell us
1964-65	Richmond	17	2/23	Something wrong? Tell us
1964-65	Hawthorn-East Melbourne	5 & 0	2/24	Something wrong? Tell us
1965-66	Footscray	2	5/27 & 0/11	Something wrong? Tell us
1965-66	Northcote	4	3/23 & 0/14	Something wrong? Tell us
1965-66	Collingwood	14	2/26 & 0/3	Something wrong? Tell us
1965-66	Prahran	29	2/17	Something wrong? Tell us
1965-66	North Melbourne	0 & 12	0/12	Something wrong? Tell us
1965-66	South Melbourne	11	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1965-66	University	11 & 31	1/12	Something wrong? Tell us
1965-66	Essendon	45	2/45	Something wrong? Tell us
1965-66	Carlton	6	1/14	Something wrong? Tell us
1965-66	Richmond	0	4/1	Something wrong? Tell us
1965-66	Melbourne	4	4/30	Something wrong? Tell us
1965-66	St Kilda	12 & 32	4/23	Something wrong? Tell us
1965-66	Hawthorn-East Melbourne	46	4/63	Something wrong? Tell us
1966-67	Prahran	7	4/19 & 1/30	Something wrong? Tell us
1966-67	Collingwood	6	0/15	Something wrong? Tell us
1966-67	Hawthorn-East Melbourne	dnb	0/34	Something wrong? Tell us
1966-67	Melbourne	dnb	0/28	Something wrong? Tell us
1967-68	Prahran	0	0/43	Something wrong? Tell us
1967-68	St Kilda	1	1/5 & 1/25	Something wrong? Tell us
1967-68	Richmond	7*	4/31	Something wrong? Tell us
1967-68	Melbourne	0*	3/28	Something wrong? Tell us
1967-68	Hawthorn-East Melbourne	9	3/57	Something wrong? Tell us
1967-68	Northcote	dnb	1/43	Something wrong? Tell us
1967-68	Collingwood	1	3/11 & 0/36	Something wrong? Tell us
1968-69	South Melbourne	2	4/55	Something wrong? Tell us
1968-69	Melbourne	15	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1968-69	Hawthorn-East Melbourne	dnb	2/12 & 1/33	Something wrong? Tell us
1968-69	Northcote	dnb	1/52	Something wrong? Tell us
1968-69	North Melbourne	4*	3/29	Something wrong? Tell us
1968-69	Carlton	0	1/73	Something wrong? Tell us
1968-69	Footscray	1	1/25	Something wrong? Tell us
1968-69	Prahran	0	1/34	Something wrong? Tell us
1970-71	Carlton	26	3/21	Something wrong? Tell us
1971-72	Hawthorn-East Melbourne	0	2/51	Something wrong? Tell us
1971-72	Footscray	8	0/30	Something wrong? Tell us
1971-72	Prahran	dnb	0/17	Something wrong? Tell us
1971-72	Richmond	dnb	0/58	Something wrong? Tell us

	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	50s	0s
Top order (1–3)	32	0	713	87	22.28	4	4
Middle order (4–7)	10	1	126	46	14.00		2
Lower order (8–11)	35	6	364	82	12.55	1	6

In wins and losses

	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	50s	0s
In wins	34	4	650	87	21.67	4	3
In losses	37	3	482	84	14.18	1	8
In draws	4	0	27	15	6.75		1
In ties	2	0	44	32	22.00

	M	Wkts	Avg	Wkts / match
In wins	39	97	13.39	2.5
In losses	31	69	17.33	2.2
In draws	7	6	25.50	0.9
In ties	1	4	5.75	4.0

Scored 50+: the side won 4 of 5 (80%), lost 1.
Took 5+ in an innings: the side won 2 of 5 (40%), lost 3.
Every other match: the side won 35 of 71 (49%), lost 27.

	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	50s	0s
Batting first	33	2	334	45	10.77		6
Batting second	33	3	712	87	23.73	5	4
Second innings of the match	11	2	157	32	17.44		2

By ground

Ground	M	Inn	Runs	HS	Avg	Wkts	Bowl avg	Best
Fitzroy Cricket Ground	39	35	534	61	17.23	90	14.89	5/24
Albert Ground	7	8	154	82	22.00	6	37.83	3/43
Western Oval	4	4	32	21	8.00	11	16.45	5/27
Victoria Park	4	3	15	14	5.00	11	11.00	5/12
Carlton Cricket Ground	4	3	110	84	36.67	6	23.67	3/21
Glenferrie Oval	4	3	14	9	4.67	6	24.67	3/57
Bill Lawry Oval, Northcote	3	3	14	12	4.67	9	13.56	5/22
Richmond Cricket Ground	3	3	10	7*	5.00	9	5.44	4/1
Toorak Park	3	3	52	40	26.00	8	10.88	4/19
St Kilda Cricket Ground	2	4	59	32	14.75	7	8.14	4/23
Essendon Cricket Ground	2	2	67	63	33.50	7	9.00	5/37
University Oval	2	2	42	31	21.00	3	15.33	1/12
North Melbourne Cricket Ground	2	2	12	12	6.00	2	15.00	2/18
South Melbourne Cricket Ground	2	2	88	87	44.00	1	58.00	1/47

The shape of the career

Season by season

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

1961-62: 1st XI Bowling · 1962-63: 1st XI Bowling · 1963-64: 1st XI Bowling · 1965-66: 1st XI Bowling · 1967-68: 1st XI Bowling

The arc

Bob Bitmead's best season with the bat was 1964-65: 538 runs from 16 innings at 33.63. The best ten-innings patch came in 1964-65: 460 runs at 46.00. The leanest, 1967-68 to 1968-69: 39 runs at 5.57.

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

Milestones

Milestone	When	Match
First five-for5/24	10 Feb 1962	v Northcote, 1961-62
50th wicket4/20 took him to 50	2 Nov 1963	v Prahran, 1963-64
First fifty82	14 Mar 1964	v Melbourne, 1963-64
100th wicket1/26 took him to 100	6 Feb 1965	v Carlton, 1964-65
50th match11	27 Nov 1965	v South Melbourne, 1965-66
1,000th run45 took him to 1,016	8 Jan 1966	v Essendon, 1965-66
150th wicket

Streaks

Consecutive scores of 25 or more: 7 innings: from v Collingwood, 1964-65 to v Carlton, 1964-65 · first · last
Consecutive matches played: 31 matches: from v University, 1963-64 to v Collingwood, 1966-67 · first · last
Consecutive matches with a wicket: 23 matches: from v Richmond, 1962-63 to v Melbourne, 1963-64 · first · last
Longest spell without a wicket: 4 matches bowled in: from v Collingwood, 1966-67 to v Prahran, 1967-68 · first · last
Longest run of single figures: 7 innings: from v Prahran, 1966-67 to v South Melbourne, 1968-69 · first · last

Best innings

Score	Match	Result
87	v South Melbourne, 1964-65	Won
84	v Carlton, 1964-65	Lost
82	v Melbourne, 1963-64	Won, Semi-final
63	v Essendon, 1964-65	Won
61	v North Melbourne, 1964-65	Won

Best bowling

More splits

Batting position over the years

Moved about the order across 10 seasons: opened in 4, at 9th in 3, at 8th in 2, at 6th in 1.

Season	Usual spot	Inn	Avg
1961-62	8	5	16.40
1962-63	9	10	5.78
1963-64	9	13	18.50
1964-65	1	16	33.63
1965-66	1	16	16.19
1966-67	1	2	6.50
1967-68	9	6	4.50
1968-69	2	6	4.40
1970-71	8

Home and away

	M	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	Wkts	Bowl avg
Home	39	35	4	534	61	17.23	90	14.89
Away	42	42	3	669	87	17.15	86	15.48

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	71	70	6	1,074	84	16.78	153	15.97
Weekday	10	7	1	129	87	21.50	23	9.91

Month by month

Month	M	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	Wkts	Bowl avg
Oct	18	18	0	189	31	10.50	35	15.37
Nov	21	14	2	192	43	16.00	45	13.33
Dec	6	8	2	131	61	21.83	11	22.64
Jan	17	16	2	210	63	15.00	36	16.42
Feb	10	12	0	267	87	22.25	31	10.94
Mar	9	9	1	214	82

Finals

4Finals played

137Runs · avg 34.25

6Wickets

	M	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	Wkts	Bowl avg
Home and away	77	72	6	1,066	87	16.15	170	14.66
Finals	4	5	1	137	82	34.25	6	29.83

Favourite victims

PM Hosking × 4
BK Jones × 3
KW Dearing × 3
B Mackenzie × 2
CF Fildes × 2
DC McClean × 2
DH Foster × 2
EAN Thomson × 2

Fielding

Season	M	Ct
1961-62	5	3
1962-63	12	7
1963-64	14	14
1964-65	13	5
1965-66	13	6
1966-67	4	2
1967-68	7	1
1968-69	8	3
1970-71	1

Figures	Match	Result
5/12	v Collingwood, 1963-64	Won
5/22	v Northcote, 1962-63	Lost
5/24	v Northcote, 1961-62	Won
5/27	v Footscray, 1965-66	Lost
5/37	v Essendon, 1962-63	Lost