Melvin John - Purleigh CC

Melvin John profile

Melvin "The West Indian Express, Resident Drama Queen" John
One of Purleigh's imports from East London, comes down from Leyton to play each week. Came to Purleigh via Milton Keynes. Relied upon to arrive each week in Steve Rynn's van eating a chicken salad or a McDonalds. Devastating opening bowler, big hitting lower order batsman, quick between the wickets and in the field. Loves an injury.

Performance Details

Batting and fielding history

Season	Team	Matches	Innings	NO	Runs	HS	Average	4s	6s	100s	50s	Catches	Stumpings
Total		99	70	20	1037	84	20.74	131	17	0	4	24	1
Season: 2025
2025	Saturday 1st XI	12	9	0	168	65	18.67	26	3	0	1	3	0
	All teams	12	9	0	168	65	18.67	26	3	0	1	3	0
Season: 2024
2024	Saturday 1st XI	16	10	4	211	70 *	35.17	23	3	0	2	6	0
	All teams	16	10	4	211	70	35.17	23	3	0	2	6	0
Season: 2023
2023	Saturday 1st XI	15	10	4	92	38	15.33	8	7	0	0	2	0
	All teams	15	10	4	92	38	15.33	8	7	0	0	2	0
Season: 2022
2022	Saturday 1st XI	14	9	0	183	84	20.33	25	2	0	1	4	0
	All teams	14	9	0	183	84	20.33	25	2	0	1	4	0
Season: 2021
2021	Saturday 1st XI	12	9	6	84	30	28.00	9	1	0	0	3	0
	All teams	12	9	6	84	30	28.00	9	1	0	0	3	0
Season: 2019
2019	Saturday 1st XI	10	10	2	94	27	11.75	13	0	0	0	1	0
2019	Midweek T20 XI	2	2	1	8	7 *	8.00	0	0	0	0	0	0
	All teams	12	12	3	102	27	11.33	13	0	0	0	1	0
Season: 2018
2018	Saturday 1st XI	14	8	2	116	28 *	19.33	16	0	0	0	2	0
2018	Midweek T20 XI	2	1	1	28	28 *	0.00	5	1	0	0	2	1
2018	Friendly XI	2	2	0	53	36	26.50	6	0	0	0	1	0
	All teams	18	11	3	197	36	24.63	27	1	0	0	5	1

Bowling history

Season	Matches	Overs	Maidens	Runs	Wickets	Best Bowling	Average	Economy
Total	90	644.1	90	2415	114	4 - 14	21.18	3.75
2025	12	92.4	11	289	20	4 - 20	14.45	3.12
2024	12	88.1	5	351	17	4 - 14	20.65	3.98
2023	14	99.1	14	381	22	4 - 40	17.32	3.84
2022	13	92.0	9	370	16	3 - 18	23.13	4.02
2021	10	70.2	19	237	11	4 - 19	21.55	3.37
2019	11	84.2	12	336	13	3 - 31	25.85	3.98
2018	18	117.3	20	451	15	3 - 21	30.07	3.84

Recent performances

For performances since

Date	Fixture	Batting	Bowling	Fielding

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09 Aug 2025	Saturday 1st XI v Great Wakering 1	2	1-27(9.0)	Ct 0, St 0, Ro 0
02 Aug 2025	Saturday 1st XI v Old Chelmsfordians 2	24	2-18(9.0)	Ct 0, St 0, Ro 0
12 Jul 2025	Saturday 1st XI v Springfield 3	DNB	1-18(8.0)	Ct 0, St 0, Ro 0
05 Jul 2025	Saturday 1st XI v High Easter 1	25	1-25(9.0)	Ct 0, St 0, Ro 0
28 Jun 2025	Saturday 1st XI v Brookweald 1	5	2-33(9.0)	Ct 0, St 0, Ro 1
21 Jun 2025	Saturday 1st XI v Rayleigh 2	DNB	4-20(6.1)	Ct 0, St 0, Ro 0
14 Jun 2025	Saturday 1st XI v Navestock 1	DNB	2-25(9.0)	Ct 0, St 0, Ro 0
31 May 2025	Saturday 1st XI v Old Chelmsfordians 2	0	3-31(8.3)	Ct 1, St 0, Ro 0
24 May 2025	Saturday 1st XI v Eastwood 1	13	2-18(5.0)	Ct 0, St 0, Ro 0
17 May 2025	Saturday 1st XI v Great Waltham 2	8	0-14(6.0)	Ct 1, St 0, Ro 0

Position	Innings	Average	Total Runs

3	5	9.60	48
4	11	27.60	276
5	1	1.00	1
6	12	17.82	196
7	13	26.57	186
8	7	26.50	53
9	9	11.33	68