It was a season of struggle for Woodvale, who finished 9th in the table just avoiding relegation, while there was no decent cup run to take their mind off their woes.

You don't have to be Sherlocck Holmes to see why they struggled with the lack of depth in both the batting and bowling alarming.

Their overseas player Ludwig Kaestner hit 936 runs at 62.40 with four hundreds and half centuries in an impressive return.

Ruhan Pretorius made six fifties and a century on his way to 837 runs at 49.24 - his strike/rate of 125 is also worthy of mention.

There's a huge gap then to third place with former international James Hall making 307 at 25.58 (1 hundred, 1 fifty), while Aditya Adey scored 252 at 15.75, and James Rose made 201 at 22.23.

The bowling was if anything worse, with only two bowlers taking 20 wickets or more, and none managing a five-wicket return.

Ruhan Pretorius led the way with 21 at 25.81, just ahead of Aditya Adey, who got 20 at 27.70.

There is quite the gulf then to Stephen Bunting and Carl Robinson who just crept into double figures with 10 at 39.10 and 48.70.

Woodvale will certainly be looking to stregthen over the close season, althought their first priority may be to cling on to Ruhan Pretorius who is attracting the attention of several Irish clubs.

TOP RUNS

# Name Mat Inns NO Runs HS Ave BF SR 100 50 4s 6s
1 L Kaestner 17 17 2 936 151 62.40 812 104.80 4 4 83 36
2 R Pretorius 18 18 1 837 230 49.24 652 125.15 1 6 94 21
3 J Hall 14 13 1 307 122 25.58 300 95.00 1 1 25 13
4 A Adey 18 17 1 252 72* 15.75 278 72.66 - 1 21 5
5 James Rose 17 16 7 201 36 22.33 200 91.00 - - 19 2
6 S Bunting 16 13 4 130 57 14.44 170 63.53 - 1 7 2
7 C Robinson 12 12 2 127 32 12.70 99 109.09 - - 13 4
8 Harry Warke 8 8 1 123 33 17.57 162 75.93 - - 16 2
9 P Robinson 12 8 6 114 40* 57.00 46 123.91 - - 14 3
10 W Horwood 3 3 1 67 42 33.50 55 121.82 - - 4 5
11 E Scott 13 3 1 27 23 13.50 39 58.97 - - 3 -
12 J Gibson 18 6 2 26 17 6.50 35 74.29 - - 1 1
13 S Stephenson 4 3 - 13 6 4.33 6 50.00 - - - -
14 J Burnside 4 2 2 3 2* - 8 37.50 - - - -
15 L Boobyer 1 1 - 2 2 2.00 - - - - - -
16 K Walsh 14 3 - 2 1 0.67 8 25.00 - - - -
17 L Adair 6 1 1 1 1* - 2 50.00 - - - -

TOP WICKETS

# Name Mat Overs Mdns Runs Wkts BBI Ave Econ SR 5WI wds nbs
1 R Pretorius 18 98.5 11 542 21 3-26 25.81 5.48 28.24 - 13 2
2 A Adey 18 76.5 - 554 20 3-21 27.70 7.21 23.05 - 20 4
3 S Bunting 16 65.5 3 391 10 3-68 39.10 5.94 39.50 - 30 -
4 C Robinson 12 67 1 487 10 3-83 48.70 7.27 40.20 - 12 2
5 James Rose 17 31.3 - 240 8 3-17 30.00 7.62 23.62 - 30 1
6 L Kaestner 17 75 - 493 7 2-56 70.43 6.57 64.29 - 12 1
7 K Walsh 14 42 - 265 6 3-25 44.17 6.31 42.00 - 10 -
8 P Robinson 12 45 1 277 4 2-28 69.25 6.16 67.50 - 5 1
9 L Adair 6 6 1 33 3 3-21 11.00 5.50 12.00 - - -
10 J Hall 14 14 - 112 1 1-48 112.00 8.00 84.00 - 5 -
11 J Burnside 4 6 - 54 - 0-13 - 9.00 - - - -