CRICKET WICKETPLAYER CAREER
Billy Bates
International career statistics, records and scorecard analysis
BB
15Internationals
656Career runs
0Centuries
50Wickets
Career records by format
Test
Official international careerBatting
- Matches
- 15
- Innings
- 26
- Runs
- 656
- Average
- 27.33
- Strike rate
- —
- Highest score
- 64
- Not outs
- 2
- 100s
- 0
- 50s
- 5
- Ducks
- 0
- 4s
- —
- 6s
- 4
- Balls faced
- —
Bowling
- Matches
- 15
- Innings
- 23
- Balls
- 2,364
- Maidens
- 282
- Runs conceded
- 821
- Wickets
- 50
- Average
- 16.42
- Economy
- 2.08
- Strike rate
- 47.28
- Best innings
- 7/28
- Best match
- 14/102
- 4 wickets
- 2
- 5 wickets
- 4
- 10 wickets
- 1
Fielding
- Matches
- 15
- Innings
- 29
- Catches
- 9
- Stumpings
- 0
- Dismissals
- 9
- Keeper catches
- 0
- Fielder catches
- 9
- Dismissals / inns
- 0.310
- Best innings
- 1 (1ct 0st)
Career records checked: 2026-09-07. — means not recorded; N/A means the statistic does not apply. Career totals are independent of the scorecard archive.
Explore this player’s available match data
15 match appearances in available scorecards. Filters below apply to this archive only.
Recent available appearances
| Date | Match | Format | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1887-02-25 | Australia v England | Test | England won by 71 runs |
| 1887-01-28 | Australia v England | Test | England won by 13 runs |
| 1885-03-21 | Australia v England | Test | England won by inns & 98 runs |
| 1885-03-14 | Australia v England | Test | Australia won by 8 wickets |
| 1885-02-20 | Australia v England | Test | Australia won by 6 runs |
| 1885-01-01 | Australia v England | Test | England won by 10 wickets |
| 1884-12-12 | Australia v England | Test | England won by 8 wickets |
| 1883-02-17 | Australia v England | Test | Australia won by 4 wickets |
| 1883-01-26 | Australia v England | Test | England won by 69 runs |
| 1883-01-19 | Australia v England | Test | England won by inns & 27 runs |
| 1882-12-30 | Australia v England | Test | Australia won by 9 wickets |
| 1882-03-10 | Australia v England | Test | Match drawn |
THE SHAPE OF A CAREER
Available scorecardsPerformance by year
Formats are shown separately. These totals cover published scorecards against the twelve national teams; they can differ from complete official career records.
Test
Exact yearly figures · 6 seasons
| Year | Mat | Bat inns | Runs | HS | Avg | SR | 100s | 50s | 4s | 6s | BF | Bowl inns | Wkts | Bowl avg | Econ | Bowl SR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1887 | 2 | 4 | 70 | 30 | 17.50 | — | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | — | 3 | 5 | 10.60 | 1.24 | 51.20 |
| 1885 | 4 | 6 | 204 | 64 | 34.00 | — | 0 | 2 | 20 | 2 | — | 4 | 5 | 18.20 | 2.27 | 48.00 |
| 1884 | 1 | 1 | 18 | 18 | 18.00 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | — | 2 | 5 | 11.40 | 2.57 | 26.60 |
| 1883 | 3 | 5 | 133 | 55 | 33.25 | — | 0 | 1 | 8 | 0 | — | 5 | 18 | 12.94 | 2.20 | 35.22 |
| 1882 | 4 | 8 | 126 | 52 | 18.00 | — | 0 | 1 | 9 | 1 | — | 7 | 13 | 23.15 | 2.04 | 68.07 |
| 1881 | 1 | 2 | 105 | 58 | 52.50 | — | 0 | 1 | 9 | 0 | — | 2 | 4 | 21.50 | 2.38 | 54.00 |
Career timeline
Milestones found in available scorecards. The first recorded appearance here is not necessarily the international debut.
- First available scorecard
Test v Australia · Melbourne
- Best recorded bowling · 7/28
Test v Australia · Melbourne
- Highest recorded innings · 64 runs
Test v Australia · Sydney
- Latest available scorecard
Test v Australia · Sydney