Ranked: 10,000-plus Sydney park cricketers for season 2021-22

A lawyer has won the title of Sydney’s most in-form park cricketer after we crunched the data of the 10,000-plus batters who walked to the crease this summer. See where you rank:

Meet Sydney’s most in-form park cricketer.

Chris Kok, a 36-year-old corporate lawyer who opens the batting for St Ives Wahroonga Cricket Club is the number one run scorer across all of Sydney’s local cricket competitions.

The passionate cricketer, who moved to Australia from South Africa five years ago, has been immense at the crease this summer compiling 456 runs across eight innings in the Hornsby,

Ku-ring-gai and Hills’ D-Grade competition at an average of 65.

Christopher Kok. Picture: Abhik Sengupta

Kok said when his cricket team’s group chat pinged with a message about him being Sydney’s leading scorer in park cricket, he first thought he was being stitched up.

“I knew I was making lots of runs but I didn’t think the most across Sydney,” he said. “Long may it continue.”

The 36-year-old said he was no stranger to a big score with the bat but had never enjoyed such a stretch of form, modestly highlighting there had been a “bit of luck”.

Kok is hoping he can contribute to his team making the finals for the first time in recent years to help St Ives Wahroonga Cricket Club celebrate its centenary.

RANKED: SYDNEY’S 10,000-PLUS PARK CRICKETERS

Cricket is, at its heart, a numbers game with tens of thousands of Sydneysiders competing on community ovals across the city every summer.

With more than 10,000 people in Sydney alone enjoying park cricket this summer – in competitions located across Manly, Sutherland, St George, Inner West Harbour, Parramatta, Nepean and more – NewsLocal has crunched the numbers to see who is leading the way.

The top batter across Sydney park cricket competitions so far this summer is Christopher Kok, who has compiled 456 runs across eight innings for St Ives Wahroonga in D Grade.

Just days before Christmas, Kok blasted his maiden century for the summer with every other innings bar one seeing the cricketer raise his bat for a half century.

His run scoring efforts are closely followed by Dean Vandine, who has scored 416 runs for the Newtown Bluebags in 5th grade, and Lachlan Edwards who has smashed 402 runs for West Pennants Hills.

See the full list of runscorers in our searchable graphic below.

In the bowling stakes, Sanjeewa Wandala Gamage of Kings Langley Cricket Club leads the way with 24 wickets for 176 runs, averaging just 7.3 runs per wicket.

Wandala Gamage’s best figures are 7/21 so far this season.

Berowa Cricket Club’s Edward Blackwood has collected 22 scalps with a fierce strike rate of 13.2 to be second in the list.

More than 9000 cricketers have rolled the arm over in park cricket this season so far.

See a full list of wicket takers in the table below.

Editors note: Not all data for competitions was available.