2nd XI — 2026 Team Selection Stats

Everything is explained in full on one page, the cricket methodology. Each line below takes you to the right part of it.

This page. Every finished 2026 league game for the club's teams, taken from the public play-cricket scorecards. Cup games and friendlies are left out unless you tick the boxes above. Each division is measured against its own typical scores, updated whenever new results come in: Division 4 21.3 runs/wkt, 64.5 runs/100 balls; Division 7 20.6 runs/wkt, 63.5 runs/100 balls.

• Impact per game: one score for each player in each game, adding up their batting, bowling and fielding. Nobody gets extra for winning, captaining or doing both jobs.
• Where the scoring comes from: based on the published approach of the PCA MVP rankings.
• Batting, what a run is worth at each position, easy and hard pitches.
• What a wicket is worth, keeping the runs down, fielding, wicket-keeping.
• The recent-games slider: what it changes.
• Batters, bowlers and all-rounders, players with only a few games, how they get out.
• Players worth talking about and who’s ready for a step up: picked out automatically from the scorecards by fixed rules.
• The written notes: written by AI, and how every number in them is checked.
• Keeping it fair, including scorecards that only give initials.

Inspired by the player-value models used in the professional game — most notably the PCA MVP rankings — and adapted for league cricket, so each division is measured against its own scores. Full method: selectionroom.co.uk/cricket/methodology. The score is a starting point for a conversation, not a verdict.