STRABANE (League position 11th; Senior Cup 2nd round)

Strabane struggled for consistency throughout the season, proving the equal of many on their day, but they suffered more than most with injuries and availability throughout the year.

They had a quality overseas player in Nasir Nawaz who hit the only two senior hundreds for the Red Caps in his 799 at 47, also making five fifties. He forged a successful opening partnership with Kevin Gallagher – 580 runs at 29 – who hit two half centuries. Aaron Gillespie made 472 at 31.47 despite missing a chunk of the year, but those three aside there wasn’t much else with Ryan Gallagher (219) and Usman Azhar (214) the next best.



Gallagher topped the bowling charts with 31 wickets at 15.81, followed by fellow spinner Rhys Logue who picked up 28 at 16.07, including a five-wicket haul. The new ball duo of Nawaz – 26 at 23.81 – and Usman Azhar – 25 at 23.08 – proved a real handful at times, while Andy Mullen (17 at 27.35) was the fifth member of the bowling unit.

Strabane will be one of the favourites for what is sure to be a keenly contested Championship, and if they can add a player or two to improve their depth, then a return to the Premiership may not be too far away.

TOP RUNS

# Name Mat Inns NO Runs HS Ave BF SR 100 50 4s 6s
1 N Nawaz 21 20 3 799 121 47.00 743 107.54 2 5 95 29
2 K Gallagher 22 22 2 580 65 29.00 702 82.62 - 2 69 10
3 A Gillespie 15 15 - 472 93 31.47 434 108.76 - 3 65 14
4 R Gallagher 19 17 2 239 71* 15.93 337 70.92 - 1 23 4
5 U Azhar 18 15 4 214 34 19.45 340 62.94 - - 18 9
6 C Graham 19 16 1 164 53 10.93 305 53.77 - 1 16 2
7 V Moorthy 13 9 4 93 26* 18.60 122 76.23 - - 11 -
8 R Logue 16 16 5 86 21* 7.82 144 59.72 - - 8 1
9 Mk McNulty 10 9 1 41 17 5.12 86 47.67 - - 2 2
10 G Gillespie 16 7 - 24 10 3.43 86 27.91 - - 2 -
11 A Ganesan 7 4 - 21 12 5.25 28 75.00 - - 2 1
12 A Mullen 17 8 1 19 7 2.71 27 70.37 - - - 2
13 P Gillespie 1 1 - 18 18 18.00 34 52.94 - - 1 -
14 K Ravichandran 6 4 2 12 7* 6.00 24 50.00 - - 1 -
15 Tom Harpur 1 1 - 9 9 9.00 34 26.47 - - 1 -
16 T Barr 1 1 - 6 6 6.00 10 60.00 - - 1 -
17 R Chhibber 6 3 2 6 4 6.00 14 42.86 - - 1 -
18 L McGarrigle 3 3 - 5 4 1.67 26 19.23 - - - -
19 T Mandeep 6 3 1 1 1 0.50 4 25.00 - - - -
20 R Kanala 5 2 - 1 1 0.50 14 7.14 - - - -

TOP WICKETS

# Name Mat Overs Mdns Runs Wkts BBI Ave Econ SR 5WI wds nbs
1 R Gallagher 19 103 8 490 31 3-7 15.81 4.76 19.94 - 21 -
2 R Logue 16 82.4 2 450 28 5-8 16.07 5.44 17.71 1 5 -
3 N Nawaz 21 114.5 7 619 26 3-12 23.81 5.39 26.50 - 32 9
4 U Azhar 18 100.5 4 577 25 5-16 23.08 5.72 24.20 1 49 3
5 A Mullen 17 90 5 465 17 3-16 27.35 5.17 31.76 - 7 -
6 V Moorthy 13 25.4 - 165 8 4-24 20.62 6.43 19.25 - 17 -
7 Mk McNulty 10 23 - 130 6 4-9 21.67 5.65 23.00 - 5 -
8 A Gillespie 15 8 1 19 2 2-19 9.50 2.38 24.00 - 1 -
9 R Kanala 5 4.2 - 26 2 1-1 13.00 6.00 13.00 - 1 -
10 P Gillespie 1 8 - 33 1 1-33 33.00 4.12 48.00 - 2 -
11 K Singh 2 2 - 8 - 0-8 - 4.00 - - - 1
12 S Narayan 1 .5 - 8 - 0-8 - 9.60 - - - -
13 P Carlin 2 2 - 9 - 0-9 - 4.50 - - 1 -
14 T Barr 1 1 - 17 - 0-17 - 17.00 - - 2 2
15 K Gallagher 22 4.4 - 37 - 0-4 - 7.93 - - 4 1
16 K Ravichandran 6 7.5 - 59 - 0-22 - 7.53 - - 3 -