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Story Time 139 – Here comes the injured No. 11

The Final Word Cricket Podcast

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The Highest Sheffield Shield Averages Ever

Chris Dobbin's first number is Chris Dobbin's. 1140... You just made that up. If your last name's Dobbin's, you are a Dobo. Every person I've played football or cricket with, that last name is Dobo. And other numbers. Braben averaged 110.2. He played 62 shield matches between 1927-49 and hit 36th century. This kind of reinforces what a frog display was. That's 1.72 matches per 100. We're going to spend a lot of time in early 20th century times through the course of the next little while.

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