It was a disappointing Premiership campaign which culminated in an eighth place finish, but there was a cup run which saw them beaten by Waringstown in a memorable final.

Overseas professional Michael Rippon topped both the batting and bowling charts, hitting three hundreds and half centuries in his haul of 857 runs at 65.92. 

Craig Averill (567 at 27), CJ van der Walt (560 at 35) and Jake Egan (511 at 24.33) also scored three fifties, while Averill and Egan also made a senior century.

There was quite a gap then to Alex Haggan (275 at 19.64) and Michael Gilmour (216 at 13.50).

Only two of their attack passed 20 wickets with Rippon taking 28 at 24.14, while Haggan had their only five-wicket haul as he claimed 20 at 28.45.

Others worthy of mention are skipper Van Der Walt (19), Averill (15), and Egan (11) who all averaged in the mid-30s with the ball.

No doubt there are some talented players at Middle Road, but they need to add more depth and quality to their ranks in what has become a very high standard Premiership.

TOP RUNS

# Name Mat Inns NO Runs HS Ave BF SR 100 50 4s 6s
1 M Rippon 19 19 6 857 121* 65.92 954 89.83 3 3 86 16
2 C Averill 22 22 1 567 113 27.00 762 74.41 1 3 74 6
3 C van der Walt 22 21 5 560 97 35.00 620 90.32 - 3 53 17
4 J Egan 22 22 1 511 104 24.33 600 85.17 1 3 43 23
5 RA Haggan 21 19 5 275 55* 19.64 324 84.88 - 1 22 12
6 M Gilmour 20 16 - 216 40 13.50 242 89.26 - - 25 6
7 I Parkhill 15 10 - 167 72 16.70 331 50.45 - 1 18 -
8 Ben Cave 14 13 3 157 51 15.70 175 89.71 - 1 12 8
9 A Shetty 18 11 3 61 15 7.62 58 105.17 - - 4 2
10 L Cave 15 10 2 60 20 7.50 115 52.17 - - 8 1
11 Jacques Snyman 1 1 - 32 32 32.00 41 78.05 - - 3 1
12 A Armstrong 11 3 2 10 10* 10.00 19 52.63 - - 1 -
13 C Styles 7 5 2 8 6* 2.67 28 28.57 - - 1 -
14 Robin Arbuthnot 11 6 2 7 4 1.75 18 38.89 - - 1 2
15 R Armstrong 8 3 1 4 3* 2.00 19 21.05 - - - -
16 C Poole 1 1 - 1 1 1.00 3 33.33 - - - -
17 M Armstrong 7 2 - 1 1 0.50 5 20.00 - - - -

TOP WICKETS

# Name Mat Overs Mdns Runs Wkts BBI Ave Econ SR 5WI wds nbs
1 M Rippon 19 135.2 4 676 28 4-34 24.14 5.00 29.00 - 9 1
2 RA Haggan 21 89.2 4 569 20 5-32 28.45 6.37 26.80 1 18 3
3 C van der Walt 22 128.1 6 685 19 2-11 36.05 5.34 40.47 - 17 -
4 C Averill 22 86.3 3 542 15 3-4 36.13 6.27 34.60 - 7 1
5 J Egan 22 53 1 390 11 3-20 35.45 7.36 28.91 - 8 -
6 A Shetty 18 103 2 610 10 3-29 61.00 5.92 61.80 - 28 -
7 A Armstrong 11 23.4 - 159 8 3-13 19.88 6.72 17.75 - 13 1
8 M Armstrong 7 48 4 272 7 3-58 38.86 5.67 41.14 - 5 -
9 Robin Arbuthnot 11 39 4 242 5 1-16 48.40 6.21 46.80 - 5 -
10 Jacques Snyman 1 10 4 22 3 3-22 7.33 2.20 20.00 - 3 -
11 R Armstrong 8 24 - 143 3 2-24 47.67 5.96 48.00 - 6 -
12 R McIlwrath 1 1 - 14 - 0-14 - 14.00 - - 1 -
13 A Martin 1 2 - 22 - 0-22 - 11.00 - - - -