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

The summer of cricket is in full swing and three bowlers are flying high at the top of more than 7000 across Adelaide. See where every player is ranked here.

A pair of Para Districts Cricket Association bowlers are giving opposition batsmen nightmares this season as they lead the way in The Messenger’s rankings of Adelaide’s top cricketers.

With more than 9000 players 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.

Rankings will be updated every week throughout the season.

Check back each Tuesday to see who has moved up and down.

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Adelaide’s most damaging bowlers

Angle Vale’s Justin Carman (left) is just two behind leading wicket-taker Troy Reciszen of Peninsula Pirates in Adelaide's top cricketers rankings.

A six-wicket haul has put a champion Angle Vale bowler in contention for top spot in Adelaide’s top wicket-taker rankings.

Justin Carman’s 6/80 from 24 overs against Eastern Park in Para Districts first grade on Saturday took his tally to 25 for the season.

He is now just two behind the leader in Peninsula Pirates’ Troy Reciszen with 27 in PDCA LO1.

Carman – a constant at the pointy end of the PDCA wicket-taker leaderboards over the past decade – has shouldered the bowling load once again this season with Angle Vale top of the ladder.

His 118 overs is 15 more than any other bowler in Adelaide.

Reciszen meanwhile held first place by snaring 3/39 for the Pirates.

Morphettville Park’s Matt Tansell also held his positing in the top three, taking 2/42 in Adelaide and Suburban section two.

Dominant West Torrens batsman Daniel Drew remained in the lead of the top run-scorers with 578, followed by Adelaide Risers’ Ankit Saksena on 503.