Statistics confirm 2012 rain damage

By Andrew Hignell

The so-called summer of 2012 was, from a meteorological point of view, the wettest for a hundred years. As far as county cricketers were concerned, moreover, it was the dampest since the County Championship was split into two divisions for the start of the 2000 season.

During this time an average of 555 playing hours have been lost each year in the four-day competition, equating to around 8,880 overs not being delivered. The summer of 2011 was, rather ironically, the driest during this period with just 277 playing hours lost, while the wettest had previously been 2000 when 774 playing hours were lost.

However, this total was surpassed last summer as a grand total of 890 hours were washed away by the record levels of precipitation, leading to the loss of around 14,240 overs. Little surprise, therefore, that so few batsmen reached an aggregate in excess of 1,000 runs in Championship cricket, and a below par number of bowlers claimed 50 or more wickets.

Total amount of playing time lost each season in the LV=County Championship:

Year        Hours lost
2000         774
2001         628
2002         455
2003         595
2004         741
2005         471
2006         398
2007         757
2008         686
2009         477
2010         400
2011         277
2012         890

*Andrew Hignell is Glamorgan Cricket's official scorer and statistician




 

Date: 29/10/2012 10:51:58 by Andrew Hignell
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