Find out which Mackay players have achieved the best individual batting seasons since 2014/15

From 2014 through to today, take a look at the best one-day batting seasons Mackay Cricket has witnessed.

Mitchell English (pictured batting for Mackay-Whitsunday) had several entries in our top 50.

Cricket in the Mackay region has changed a lot over the past 10 years, with plenty of brilliant players coming and going over that period of time.

In light of this, take a trip down memory lane as we list the 50 greatest one-day batting seasons since the 2014/15 season of Mackay Cricket.

Mitchell English’s efforts for Norths during the 17/18 season stand apart from the rest on the averages front, as he scored 261 runs while being dismissed only twice, for an average of 130.5.

Shaun Austin (15/16), Kristopher Lemm (14/15), Joel Bock (19/20) and Benjamin Clements (21/22) were the other players to break the 100-average barrier.

Austin was the highest run-gatherer over a single season with 691 runs to his name in 20/21, while Peter Shepherd (19/20) and English (18/19) were the others to break the 600-run barrier.

Note: In the earlier seasons this ranking covers (the 2014/15 through to 2017/18 seasons) the one-day format represented a smaller sample of the overall season, with two-day matches still being played at that time.

As a result, the selection criteria for those seasons was reduced from 300 to 200 runs, and averages are likely to be skewed in favour of those earlier seasons where one big score could significantly increase a player’s average over a five-innings sample.

How the reader elects to weigh higher averages with lower run totals versus higher run totals and lower averages is ultimately up to their own discretion - it is possible to sort the chart by either stat, however it is ranked by average by default.

Due to some oddities with the stat collections in a couple of seasons, additional stats such as top scores and number of 50s/100s scored are not available.