Adelaide’s top cricketers: Premier Cricket, Adelaide Turf, Adelaide & Suburban and Para Districts batting and bowling ranks

A mammoth 7483 batters and 5596 bowlers have taken to local cricket pitches this season and we’ve sorted the stats across every grade. See how you rank against the big names.

The Adelaide cricket season is in full swing as summer approaches and The Messenger has taken a deep dive into the top performers with bat and ball.

With more than 7400 cricketers taking to pitches so far, we’ve compiled the full list ranking every batter this season by runs scored and all bowlers by wickets taken.

Junior, senior, male and female players from Adelaide’s four main metropolitan competitions – Premier Cricket, Adelaide Turf, Adelaide & Suburban and Para Districts – have been included.

Scroll down for the full list and use the search bar to compare how you rank >>

Port Adelaide wicketkeeper-batsman Isaac Conway ranks eighth in Adelaide’s leading run scorers with 285 this season for the Magpies in Premier Cricket. Picture: Brenton Edwards

Sturt’s Zyggy Kulesza has taken 12 wickets this campaign – ranking him ninth across Adelaide. Picture: Stephen Laffer

Pirate’s swag of wickets is Adelaide’s best

Troy Reciszen was “sick of the politics” at local cricket clubs so he took matters into his own hands and started a new one.

Five years later, Reciszen is not only the founder, president and A grade bowler of the Peninsula Pirates Cricket Club, he is the leading wicket-taker across every junior and senior grade in Adelaide.

The 33-year-old’s swinging medium-pacers have claimed 18 scalps at 5.39 in Para Districts’ LO1 – more than any bowler in PDCA, Premier Cricket, Adelaide Turf and Adelaide & Suburban.

Peninsula Pirates Cricket Club president and bowler Troy Reciszen. Picture: Supplied

The Peninsula Pirates Cricket Club was established in 2018. Picture: Supplied

It has included a stellar 5/14 in the season opener, 5/26 in round four and another haul of 4/22.

Reciszen says his best ever start to a campaign has been helped by handing over the new ball and stepping back to first change.

“The hard work comes down to our opening bowlers that I’ve let take the reins this year … coming on first change I’ve then been able to run through them,” Reciszen said.

“So I’m kind of taking the credit for everything our openers are doing.

“But you’ve got to take it when it comes. I’ve had seasons where I haven’t taken any wickets.”

Reciszen, who previously played at Port District, Port Adelaide and North Haven cricket clubs, is well on track to smash the 29 wickets he snared in the 2018/19 season.

Peninsula Pirates’ Troy Reciszen in action. Picture: Supplied

But he was most proud of the Pirates – a club based out of Jubilee Reserve, West Lakes Shore which he played the major hand in building from the ground up.

“Me and one of my good mates were having a couple of beers about five years ago and we were sick of the politics associated with cricket clubs and decided to break away and start our own,” Reciszen said.

“We went to Para Districts and they accepted us into the competition.

“We’ve had two teams all the way through, which is a big thing for any club just starting out, and we’re on the verge of having a female team next year.

“I’ve worked my arse off to get the club where we are at the moment and it’s starting paying off.

“The credit card took a hit in the first season because we had no sponsors but that’s all right, it didn’t bother me because it’s going to something with value.”

And Reciszen is not the only Pirate with a swag of wickets so far this season.

Clubmate David Badcock, who plays in the LO3 side, is not far behind with 16 at 11.25.

Elsewhere, Morphettville Park’s Matt Tansell (14 at 4.21) is the leading bowler in the ASCA, Sturt’s Zyggy Kulesza (12 at 5.83) has been handy in Premier Cricket’s second grade and in Marion A1 bowler Jacob Roneberg (11 at 13.45) tops the rankings for Adelaide Turf.

Salisbury West No. 4 Jamie McIntyre has had his way with the bowlers in PDCA fifth grade, smashing a monster 257 and a 107 last month to be the top run-scorer in Adelaide.