Somethingfishy wrote: ↑Sun Sep 05, 2021 9:45 pm
We've only got one batting point and yet we regularly post scores above 200. How is that right or fair? Seems you only get them when batting second and getting close. Might explain it as we do tend to bat first given the chance more often than not.
Bonus points are given for the performance of the losing side in the second innings. If you don't bat second, your losing bonuses will be bowling bonuses.
The cricinfo site way of posting bonus points isn't helpful. The two columns say batting bonuses and bowling bonuses, but the Lancashire League doesn't allocate bonuses that way. The Lancashire League gives bowling bonuses (2 points for bowling the opposition out) and losing bonuses (up to 5 points for the losing side based on second innings). Cricinfo insists that the 2-point bowling bonuses and the up-to-5-point losing bonuses if the side bowling second loses, go into one column; the losing bonuses if the side batting second loses, go into the other column.
If the points table was shown differently, you'd see that it's not losing bonuses that cost Lowerhouse. Burnley have 7 losing bonuses, Darwen 5, Norden 8, Clitheroe 8, Walsden 4, Lowerhouse 6. Lowerhouse's problem is bowling teams out. Burnley have 24 bowling points in 2-point bonuses, Darwen 26, Norden 20, Clitheroe 24, Walsden 26, Lowerhouse 16. They aren't bowling sides out enough; it cost them up to 10 points compared with the top clubs.