1938-39: 50 runs

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Season by season

Season	M	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	Overs	Wkts	Best	Ct
1938-39	4	4	0	50	27	12.50	4 (8)	4	4/63	1
1940-41	2	2	1	3	3*	3.00	5 (8)	0	0/14
1942-43	1	1	0	0	0	0.00	–	–	–
1945-46	1	0	0	0	–	–	10 (8)	0	0/44
1946-47	11	12	2	79	28	7.90	114 (8)	20	5/35	1
1947-48	10	8	4	44	17*	11.00	132.7 (8)	23	4/35	1
1948-49	13	11	3	53	21*	6.63	162.6 (8)	30	6/28	3
1949-50	13	10	2	36	10*	4.50	186 (8)	29	6/38	5
1950-51	15	7	4	31	16*	10.33	201 (8)	32	4/20	2
Career	70	55	16	296	28	7.59	815.5 (8-ball)	138	6/28	13

Milestones

DebutFirst matchv Carlton, 1938-39
First five-for5/35v North Melbourne, 1946-47
Highest score28v St Kilda, 1946-47
Best bowling6/28v Carlton, 1948-49
Last matchMatch 70v Hawthorn-East Melbourne, 1950-51

Runs by season

Wickets by season

Every innings, in order

Against each club

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Kingston Hawthorn	7	34	16*	11.33	12	26.00	3/14
Melbourne University	7	28	13	7.00	13	24.62	4/35
Northcote	6	37	21*	18.50	7	34.71	2/19
Prahran	6	28	11*	14.00	17	17.24	4/63
Greenvale Kanagaroos	6	5	4	1.67	10	20.10	5/35	1
Carlton	5	29	27	14.50	16	15.13	6/28	2
Richmond	5	26	17*	13.00	16	11.19	6/35	1
Essendon	5	18	15*	3.00	16	15.81	6/38	1
Camberwell Magpies	5	15	7*	7.50	5	39.20	3/78
Melbourne	5	5	4	1.25	9	18.33	4/32
St Kilda	4	37	28	12.33	6	29.33	4/59
Casey South Melbourne	4	23	13	11.50	6	27.33	5/15	1
Footscray	3	11	8	5.50	3	34.33	1/23
Preston	1	0	0	0.00	–	–	–
Coburg	1	0	0	0.00	2	23.50	2/47

Splits

By batting position

Pos	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	0s
3	1	1	5	5*	–
4	1	1	15	15*	–
6	2	0	13	13	6.50	1
7	6	1	56	28	11.20	1
8	4	1	20	12	6.67	1
9	17	3	95	27	6.79	6
10	21	8	86	21*	6.62	6
11	3	1	6

At the club

In the record book

Among players of 1938-39 to 1950-51: 32nd of 59 for runs, 8th of 43 for wickets, 17th of 63 for matches, 27th of 54 for catches, 33rd of 35 for batting average.

Under Fitzroy: 116th of 321 for runs, 21st of 172 for wickets, 46th of 345 for matches, 88th of 279 for catches, 121st of 126 for batting average.

Played like…

DD Weir1969-70 to 1972-73 · 40 m · 206 runs · 85 wkts
JP Renkin

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Season	Opponent	Batting	Bowling
1938-39	Carlton	27	0/61	Something wrong? Tell us
1938-39	North Melbourne	0	0/18	Something wrong? Tell us
1938-39	University	12	0/59	Something wrong? Tell us
1938-39	Prahran	11	4/63	Something wrong? Tell us
1940-41	Hawthorn-East Melbourne	0	0/17	Something wrong? Tell us
1940-41	Northcote	3*	0/14 & 0/16	Something wrong? Tell us
1942-43	Preston	0	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1945-46	University	dnb	0/44	Something wrong? Tell us
1946-47	South Melbourne	13	0/42	Something wrong? Tell us
1946-47	St Kilda	28	0/17 & 0/29	Something wrong? Tell us
1946-47	Richmond	4*	2/44	Something wrong? Tell us
1946-47	Northcote	7 & 5*	0/68	Something wrong? Tell us
1946-47	Melbourne	0	4/32 & 0/1	Something wrong? Tell us
1946-47	Collingwood	4	0/30	Something wrong? Tell us
1946-47	Prahran	0	3/63	Something wrong? Tell us
1946-47	North Melbourne	4	5/35 & 0/10	Something wrong? Tell us
1946-47	Carlton	1	2/46	Something wrong? Tell us
1946-47	Hawthorn-East Melbourne	dnb	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1946-47	University	0 & 13	4/44	Something wrong? Tell us
1947-48	Hawthorn-East Melbourne	8*	1/42	Something wrong? Tell us
1947-48	Northcote	dnb	1/26 & 2/19	Something wrong? Tell us
1947-48	Melbourne	0	4/42 & 0/3	Something wrong? Tell us
1947-48	Essendon	1 & 15*	2/82	Something wrong? Tell us
1947-48	Richmond	17*	1/29	Something wrong? Tell us
1947-48	North Melbourne	dnb	0/47	Something wrong? Tell us
1947-48	University	3*	4/35	Something wrong? Tell us
1947-48	Prahran	dnb	3/45	Something wrong? Tell us
1947-48	Collingwood	0	3/78	Something wrong? Tell us
1947-48	Coburg	0	2/47	Something wrong? Tell us
1948-49	St Kilda	0	0/27	Something wrong? Tell us
1948-49	Collingwood	4*	0/18	Something wrong? Tell us
1948-49	Footscray	3	1/29	Something wrong? Tell us
1948-49	Melbourne	1	0/18	Something wrong? Tell us
1948-49	University	dnb	2/30	Something wrong? Tell us
1948-49	North Melbourne	1	2/37	Something wrong? Tell us
1948-49	South Melbourne	0	1/42 & 5/15	Something wrong? Tell us
1948-49	Richmond	4	6/35 & 0/8	Something wrong? Tell us
1948-49	Prahran	11*	2/15	Something wrong? Tell us
1948-49	Carlton	dnb	6/28	Something wrong? Tell us
1948-49	Northcote	21*	1/23 & 0/12	Something wrong? Tell us
1948-49	Essendon	0	2/48	Something wrong? Tell us
1948-49	Hawthorn-East Melbourne	8	1/49 & 1/8	Something wrong? Tell us
1949-50	St Kilda	9	4/59	Something wrong? Tell us
1949-50	North Melbourne	dnb	0/19	Something wrong? Tell us
1949-50	Prahran	dnb	3/56	Something wrong? Tell us
1949-50	Essendon	2 & 0	6/38	Something wrong? Tell us
1949-50	Melbourne	4	0/21	Something wrong? Tell us
1949-50	Footscray	8	1/51	Something wrong? Tell us
1949-50	South Melbourne	10*	0/35	Something wrong? Tell us
1949-50	Richmond	1	2/6 & 1/12	Something wrong? Tell us
1949-50	University	dnb	0/47	Something wrong? Tell us
1949-50	Collingwood	dnb	1/41	Something wrong? Tell us
1949-50	Hawthorn-East Melbourne	0	2/70	Something wrong? Tell us
1949-50	Carlton	1*	5/43 & 2/19	Something wrong? Tell us
1949-50	Northcote	1	2/56	Something wrong? Tell us
1950-51	Essendon	dnb	4/20 & 2/20	Something wrong? Tell us
1950-51	Hawthorn-East Melbourne	2*	3/51 & 3/14	Something wrong? Tell us
1950-51	Northcote	dnb	1/9	Something wrong? Tell us
1950-51	Carlton	dnb	1/45	Something wrong? Tell us
1950-51	Prahran	6*	2/51	Something wrong? Tell us
1950-51	Richmond	dnb	4/35 & 0/10	Something wrong? Tell us
1950-51	South Melbourne	dnb	0/30	Something wrong? Tell us
1950-51	North Melbourne	dnb	3/35	Something wrong? Tell us
1950-51	University	0	3/61	Something wrong? Tell us
1950-51	Footscray	dnb	1/23	Something wrong? Tell us
1950-51	Melbourne	dnb	1/48	Something wrong? Tell us
1950-51	Collingwood	7*	1/29	Something wrong? Tell us
1950-51	St Kilda	dnb	2/44	Something wrong? Tell us
1950-51	Essendon	0 & 0	0/8 & 0/37	Something wrong? Tell us
1950-51	Hawthorn-East Melbourne	16*	1/61	Something wrong? Tell us

	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	0s
Top order (1–3)	1	1	5	5*	–
Middle order (4–7)	9	2	84	28	12.00	2
Lower order (8–11)	45	13	207	27	6.47	15

In wins and losses

	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	0s
In wins	27	11	167	28	10.44	6
In losses	27	5	129	27	5.86	10
In draws	1	0	0	0	0.00	1

	M	Wkts	Avg	Wkts / match
In wins	41	87	19.44	2.1
In losses	23	47	22.68	2.0
In draws	4	4	34.25	1.0

Took 5+ in an innings: the side won 3 of 6 (50%), lost 3.
Every other match: the side won 39 of 64 (61%), lost 20.

	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	0s
Batting first	25	7	119	21*	6.61	8
Batting second	25	7	144	28	8.00	7
Second innings of the match	5	2	33	15*	11.00	2

By ground

Ground	M	Inn	Runs	HS	Avg	Wkts	Bowl avg	Best
Fitzroy Cricket Ground	39	31	155	28	7.05	67	21.70	6/38
University Oval	5	5	28	13	7.00	13	17.62	4/35
Glenferrie Oval	4	4	18	8*	9.00	9	20.11	3/14
Albert Ground	4	3	1	1	0.33	9	16.00	4/32
Essendon Cricket Ground	3	3	16	15*	8.00	10	17.00	4/20
Carlton Cricket Ground	3	1	27	27	27.00	7	19.14	6/28
Bill Lawry Oval, Northcote	2	3	13	7	6.50	2	62.00	2/56
Richmond Cricket Ground	2	1	4	4	4.00	10	8.80	6/35
Toorak Park	2	1	0	0	0.00	6	19.83	3/56
Melbourne Cricket Ground	1	1	16	16*	–	1	61.00	1/61
Western Oval	1	1	8	8	8.00	1	51.00	1/51
South Melbourne Cricket Ground	1	1	10	10*	–	–	–	0/35
St Kilda Cricket Ground	1	0	0	–	–	2	22.00	2/44
Victoria Park	1	0	0	–	–	1	41.00	1/41
North Melbourne Cricket Ground	1	0	0	–	–	–	–	0/19

The shape of the career

Season by season

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

1947-48: 1st XI Bowling

The arc

R Liddicut's best season with the bat was 1946-47: 79 runs from 12 innings at 7.90. The best ten-innings patch came in 1938-39 to 1946-47: 98 runs at 12.25. The leanest, 1947-48 to 1948-49: 16 runs at 2.00.

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

Milestones

Milestone	When	Match
First five-for5/35	25 Jan 1947	v North Melbourne, 1946-47
50th wicket2/30 took him to 50	13 Nov 1948	v University, 1948-49
50th match1, 2/6 & 1/12	7 Jan 1950	v Richmond, 1949-50
100th wicket5/43 took him to 102	18 Feb 1950	v Carlton, 1949-50

Streaks

Consecutive matches played: 43 matches: from v Collingwood, 1947-48 to v Hawthorn-East Melbourne, 1950-51 · first · last
Consecutive matches with a wicket: 10 matches: from v University, 1948-49 to v St Kilda, 1949-50 · first · last
Longest spell without a wicket: 5 matches bowled in: from v Hawthorn-East Melbourne, 1940-41 to v St Kilda, 1946-47 · first · last
Longest run of single figures: 8 innings: from v Collingwood, 1947-48 to v Richmond, 1948-49 · first · last

Best innings

Score	Match	Result
28	v St Kilda, 1946-47	Won
27	v Carlton, 1938-39	Lost
21*	v Northcote, 1948-49	Won
17*	v Richmond, 1947-48	Won
16*	v Hawthorn-East Melbourne, 1950-51	Lost, Final

Best bowling

More splits

Batting position over the years

Moved about the order across 8 seasons: at 9th in 4, at 10th in 2, at 8th in 1, at 7th in 1.

Season	Usual spot	Inn	Avg
1938-39	9	4	12.50
1940-41	9	2	3.00
1942-43	8	1	0.00
1946-47	7	12	7.90
1947-48	9	8	11.00
1948-49	9	11	6.63
1949-50	10	10	4.50
1950-51	10	7	10.33

Home and away

	M	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	Wkts	Bowl avg
Home	39	31	9	155	28	7.05	67	21.70
Away	31	24	7	141	27	8.29	71	20.28

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	61	49	15	276	28	8.12	111	22.85
Weekday	9	6	1	20	11	4.00	27	13.26

Month by month

Month	M	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	Wkts	Bowl avg
Oct	12	8	3	64	28	12.80	23	19.96
Nov	16	16	5	74	17*	6.73	29	21.72
Dec	5	4	1	41	27	13.67	10	22.80
Jan	18	11	2	46	12	5.11	43	16.51
Feb	11	8	3	34	21*	6.80	21	23.67
Mar	8	8	2	37	16*

Finals

2Finals played

16Runs · avg 8.00

1Wickets

	M	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	Wkts	Bowl avg
Home and away	68	52	15	280	28	7.57	137	20.35
Finals	2	3	1	16	16*	8.00	1	106.00

Favourite victims

IR Porter × 4
DRM Caithness × 3
EL Carter × 3
HL Numa × 3
KG Pummeroy × 3
KT Rawle × 3
GL Spriggins × 2
H Mathers × 2

Fielding

Season	M	Ct
1938-39	4	1
1940-41	2
1942-43	1
1945-46	1
1946-47	11	1
1947-48	10	1
1948-49	13	3
1949-50	13	5
1950-51	15	2

Caught most off

Figures	Match	Result
6/28	v Carlton, 1948-49	Won
6/35	v Richmond, 1948-49	Lost
6/38	v Essendon, 1949-50	Lost
5/15	v South Melbourne, 1948-49	Lost
5/35	v North Melbourne, 1946-47	Won

RHW Liddicut — Fitzroy Doncaster Cricket Club career — Morrie