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RJ Zimmer — Fitzroy Doncaster Cricket Club career — Morrie

Season by season

Season	M	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	Overs	Wkts	Best	Ct
1945-46	2	2	0	15	8	7.50	23 (8)	4	3/61
1947-48	3	2	0	31	28	15.50	11.5 (8)	1	1/24	1
1948-49	9	10	2	203	59	25.38	52.4 (8)	10	4/6	2
1949-50	12	13	1	165	57	13.75	40.6 (8)	4	1/13	10
1950-51	14	15	1	269	103	19.21	10.3 (8)	1	1/14	13
Career	40	42	4	683	103	17.97	138.2 (8-ball)	20	4/6	26

Milestones

DebutFirst matchv Northcote, 1945-46
First fifty59v Prahran, 1948-49
First hundred103v North Melbourne, 1950-51
Highest score103v North Melbourne, 1950-51
Best bowling4/6v Footscray, 1948-49
Last matchMatch 40v Essendon, 1950-51

Runs by season

Wickets by season

Every innings, in order

Against each club

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Essendon	5	36	13	5.14			0	–	0/14
Prahran	4	68	59	34.00	1		0	–	0/11
Northcote	4	28	14	7.00			3	23.33	3/61
Richmond	3	127	59	31.75	1		2	31.00	1/13
Casey South Melbourne	3	77	39	25.67			5	8.60	4/23
Kingston Hawthorn	3	38	28	12.67			0	–	0/15
Camberwell Magpies	3	35	26	11.67			2	3.00	2/6
Melbourne	3	31	28	10.33			2	33.00	1/24
Carlton	3	29	19	9.67			0	–	0/14
St Kilda	3	16	8	8.00			1	54.00	1/52
Greenvale Kanagaroos	2	103	103	103.00		1	1	47.00	1/32
Melbourne University	2	57	57	28.50	1		0	–	0/5
Footscray	2	38	31	38.00			4	2.00	4/6

Splits

By batting position

Pos	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	50s	100s	0s
1	9	1	186	103	23.25	1	1	1
2	19	1	338	59	18.78	2		3
3	1	0	45	45	45.00
6	3	0	12	8	4.00
7	6	1	66	39	13.20
8	1	0	7	7	7.00
9	3	1	29

At the club

In the record book

Among players of 1945-46 to 1950-51: 18th of 36 for runs, 20th of 29 for wickets, 23rd of 36 for matches, 11th of 13 for hundreds, 14th of 34 for catches, 17th of 25 for batting average.

Under Fitzroy: 73rd of 321 for runs, 71st of 172 for wickets, 83rd of 345 for matches, 30th of 50 for hundreds, 51st of 279 for catches, 67th of 126 for batting average.

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Season	Opponent	Batting	Bowling
1945-46	Northcote	7	3/61	Something wrong? Tell us
1945-46	St Kilda	8	1/52	Something wrong? Tell us
1947-48	Melbourne	28	1/24	Something wrong? Tell us
1947-48	Essendon	3	0/15	Something wrong? Tell us
1947-48	Prahran	dnb	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1948-49	Collingwood	3	2/6	Something wrong? Tell us
1948-49	Footscray	7*	4/6	Something wrong? Tell us
1948-49	South Melbourne	39 & 7*	4/23	Something wrong? Tell us
1948-49	Richmond	45	0/35	Something wrong? Tell us
1948-49	Prahran	59	0/11	Something wrong? Tell us
1948-49	Carlton	19	0/24	Something wrong? Tell us
1948-49	Northcote	14	0/9	Something wrong? Tell us
1948-49	Essendon	10	0/18	Something wrong? Tell us
1948-49	Hawthorn-East Melbourne	0	0/45	Something wrong? Tell us
1949-50	St Kilda	8	0/2	Something wrong? Tell us
1949-50	North Melbourne	dnb	1/32	Something wrong? Tell us
1949-50	Prahran	dnb	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1949-50	Essendon	1 & 1	0/14	Something wrong? Tell us
1949-50	Melbourne	2 & 0*	1/42	Something wrong? Tell us
1949-50	South Melbourne	24	1/20	Something wrong? Tell us
1949-50	Richmond	0 & 23	1/13	Something wrong? Tell us
1949-50	University	57	0/11	Something wrong? Tell us
1949-50	Collingwood	26	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1949-50	Hawthorn-East Melbourne	10	0/15	Something wrong? Tell us
1949-50	Carlton	9	0/19 & 0/14	Something wrong? Tell us
1949-50	Northcote	4	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1950-51	Essendon	8	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1950-51	Hawthorn-East Melbourne	28	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1950-51	Northcote	3	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1950-51	Carlton	1	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1950-51	Prahran	9	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1950-51	Richmond	59	1/14	Something wrong? Tell us
1950-51	South Melbourne	1 & 6*	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1950-51	North Melbourne	103	0/15	Something wrong? Tell us
1950-51	University	0	0/5	Something wrong? Tell us
1950-51	Footscray	31	0/2	Something wrong? Tell us
1950-51	Melbourne	1	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1950-51	Collingwood	6	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1950-51	St Kilda	dnb	–	Something wrong? Tell us
1950-51	Essendon	0 & 13	–	Something wrong? Tell us

	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	50s	100s	0s
Top order (1–3)	29	2	569	103	21.07	3	1	4
Middle order (4–7)	9	1	78	39	9.75
Lower order (8–11)	4	1	36	28	12.00

In wins and losses

	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	50s	100s	0s
In wins	24	1	485	103	21.09	3	1	1
In losses	17	3	197	45	14.07			3
In draws	1	0	1	1	1.00

	M	Wkts	Avg	Wkts / match
In wins	12	4	49.25	0.3
In losses	13	15	21.20	1.2
In draws	1	1	32.00	1.0

Scored 50+: the side won 4 of 4 (100%).
Every other match: the side won 20 of 36 (56%), lost 13.

	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	50s	100s	0s
Batting first	13	1	120	31	10.00			1
Batting second	23	0	513	103	22.30	3	1	3
Second innings of the match	6	3	50	23	16.67

By ground

Ground	M	Inn	Runs	HS	Avg	Wkts	Bowl avg	Best
Fitzroy Cricket Ground	21	26	420	103	19.09	13	19.54	4/6
Essendon Cricket Ground	3	3	21	10	7.00	–	–	0/15
Bill Lawry Oval, Northcote	2	2	11	7	5.50	3	20.33	3/61
Albert Ground	2	2	29	28	14.50	1	24.00	1/24
Richmond Cricket Ground	2	2	104	59	52.00	1	49.00	1/14
Carlton Cricket Ground	2	2	20	19	10.00	–	–	0/24
Glenferrie Oval	2	2	28	28	14.00	–	–	0/45
South Melbourne Cricket Ground	1	1	24	24	24.00	1	20.00	1/20
University Oval	1	1	0	0	0.00	–	–	0/5
Victoria Park	1	1	26	26	26.00	–	–	–
North Melbourne Cricket Ground	1	0	0	–	–	1	32.00	1/32
St Kilda Cricket Ground	1	0	0	–	–	–	–	–
Toorak Park	1	0	0	–	–	–	–	–

The shape of the career

Season by season

Runs, up Wickets, down Season away

The arc

R Zimmer's best season with the bat was 1950-51: 269 runs from 15 innings at 19.21. The best ten-innings patch came in 1947-48 to 1948-49: 224 runs at 28.00. The leanest, 1948-49 to 1949-50: 60 runs at 6.67.

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

Milestones

Milestone	When	Match
First fifty59	22 Jan 1949	v Prahran, 1948-49
First hundred103	20 Jan 1951	v North Melbourne, 1950-51

Streaks

Consecutive scores of 25 or more: 2 innings: from v Richmond, 1948-49 to v Prahran, 1948-49 · first · last
Consecutive matches played: 21 matches: from v South Melbourne, 1949-50 to v Essendon, 1950-51 · first · last
Consecutive matches with a wicket: 3 matches: from v Northcote, 1945-46 to v Melbourne, 1947-48 · first · last
Longest spell without a wicket: 7 matches bowled in: from v Richmond, 1948-49 to v St Kilda, 1949-50 · first · last
Longest run of single figures: 5 innings: from v Hawthorn-East Melbourne, 1948-49 to v Melbourne, 1949-50 · first · last

Best innings

Score	Match	Result
103	v North Melbourne, 1950-51	Won
59	v Prahran, 1948-49	Won
59	v Richmond, 1950-51	Won
57	v University, 1949-50	Won
45	v Richmond, 1948-49	Lost

Best bowling

More splits

Batting position over the years

Batted at 6th for 1 season, dropped to 7th from 1947-48, moved up to open from 1948-49.

Season	Usual spot	Inn	Avg
1945-46	6	2	7.50
1947-48	7	2	15.50
1948-49	2	10	25.38
1949-50	2	13	13.75
1950-51	2	15	19.21

Home and away

	M	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	Wkts	Bowl avg
Home	21	26	4	420	103	19.09	13	19.54
Away	19	16	0	263	59	16.44	7	41.86

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	33	35	3	626	103	19.56	16	31.13
Weekday	7	7	1	57	26	9.50	4	12.25

Month by month

Month	M	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	Wkts	Bowl avg
Oct	6	4	0	47	28	11.75	3	13.33
Nov	8	10	2	55	28	6.88	6	16.83
Dec	4	5	1	136	59	34.00	9	13.11
Jan	11	12	1	347	103	31.55	2	83.00
Feb	7	7	0	75	31	10.71
Mar	4	4	0	23	13

Finals

1Finals played

13Runs · avg 6.50

	M	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	Wkts	Bowl avg
Home and away	39	40	4	670	103	18.61	20	27.35
Finals	1	2	0	13	13	6.50

Fielding

Season	M	Ct
1945-46	2
1947-48	3	1
1948-49	9	2
1949-50	12	10
1950-51	14	13

Caught most off

BT Considine × 6
HAE Shillinglaw × 4
K Peters × 4
RHW Liddicut × 4
K Cant × 3
RJ Zimmer × 3

Figures	Match	Result
4/6	v Footscray, 1948-49	Lost
4/23	v South Melbourne, 1948-49	Lost
3/61	v Northcote, 1945-46	Lost
2/6	v Collingwood, 1948-49	Won
1/13	v Richmond, 1949-50	Lost