MJ Potts

Bowler ·Durham Active

  • 432wickets
  • 26.04bowling average
  • 3.84economy
  • 190matches
  • 1,976runs
  • 2017–2026 on record

Career record

Format M Runs HS Avg 100s 50s Balls Wkts Bowl avg BB
MDM 65 1,485 149* 22.85 1 5 12,729 257 25.37 9/68
ODI 18 98 30 19.60 0 0 786 28 27.64 4/38
T20 91 288 40* 14.40 0 0 1,914 110 24.33 5/17
Test 11 105 21 10.50 0 0 2,191 36 33.36 4/13
  • Fivefor 0
  • Tenfor 0

Career totals as recorded on Wikipedia, covering his whole career. They are kept separate from the figures above, which are counted from the ball-by-ball archive and cover only the matches in it — the two are different spans and adding them together would produce a number that is true of neither.

How he scores through an innings

A career strike rate describes a batter as if he were the same man in the first over and the last. This is the three of him.

05010093.0Middle146 off 157115.4Death240 off 208

Fastest in the death at 115.4, against 93.0 in the middle.

Counted from the over each ball was bowled in. Limited-overs cricket only — a Test innings has no death overs.

By format

FormatMInns NORunsHS AvgSR WktsEcon
T20 93 37 17 288 40 14.40 126.3 111 8.88
First-class 65 58 6 1,485 193 28.56 50.0 257 3.07
Test 14 10 2 105 23 13.13 46.3 36 3.29
ODI 10 6 5 45 15 45.00 72.6 12 5.97
List A 8 4 0 53 30 13.25 70.7 16 5.84

A dash is an average with no completed innings behind it, not a zero.

Against pace and spin

Pace 798 off 1,487 53.7
Spin 504 off 913 55.2

Strike rate against each. The archive names the bowler of every ball but not what kind of bowler he is, so this covers only the deliveries where his type is on record — 2,400 of 3,562 faced.

Best performances

193 off 294 v Warwickshire · Edgbaston, Birmingham · 2024-04-12 First-class
108 off 187 v Warwickshire · Riverside Ground, Chester-le-Street · 2025-04-11 First-class
81 off 127 v Northamptonshire · County Ground, Northampton · 2021-09-12 First-class
13/101 38.8 ov v Leicestershire · Grace Road, Leicester · 2022-09-12 First-class
12/126 50.3 ov v Lancashire · Riverside Ground, Chester-le-Street · 2024-09-09 First-class
11/101 38.8 ov v Glamorgan · Riverside Ground, Chester-le-Street · 2022-05-12 First-class

Grounds

Riverside Ground, Chester-le-Street 58
Headingley, Leeds 20
Trent Bridge, Nottingham 11
Riverside Ground 11
Lord's, London 10
Old Trafford, Manchester 9
Edgbaston, Birmingham 7
Grace Road, Leicester 6
County Ground, New Road, Worcester 6
Kennington Oval, London 4
County Ground, Bristol 4
The Rose Bowl, Southampton 4

Matches, not innings.

Opponents

Lancashire 16
Leicestershire 16
Yorkshire 14
Derbyshire 13
Nottinghamshire 12
Worcestershire 12
Northamptonshire 10
Australia 6
Manchester Originals 6
Birmingham Bears 6
London Spirit 5
Sussex 5

Matches, not innings.

Competitions

County Championship 54
Vitality Blast 41
The Hundred Men's Competition 29
Vitality Blast Men 20
Specsavers County Championship 9
Royal London One-Day Cup 8
Australia tour of England 5
West Indies tour of England 3
New Zealand tour of England 3
The Ashes 2
SA20 2
England tour of New Zealand 2

Matches, not innings.

How he gets out

Caught 46
Bowled 17
Lbw 10
Run out 8
Caught and bowled 3
Stumped 1

By year

2026 24 matches · 280 runs · 62 wickets 280
2025 33 matches · 328 runs · 58 wickets 328
2024 32 matches · 480 runs · 68 wickets 480
2023 18 matches · 174 runs · 59 wickets 174
2022 18 matches · 152 runs · 78 wickets 152
2021 26 matches · 305 runs · 45 wickets 305
2020 11 matches · 30 runs · 15 wickets 30
2019 20 matches · 76 runs · 29 wickets 76
2018 3 matches · 82 runs · 4 wickets 82
2017 5 matches · 69 runs · 14 wickets 69

Recent matches

DateMatch FormatBattingBowling
2026-08-04 Sunrisers Leeds v London Spirit Headingley, Leeds T20 — 1/42
2026-08-02 Sunrisers Leeds v Trent Rockets Trent Bridge, Nottingham T20 — 0/35
2026-07-28 Sunrisers Leeds v Manchester Super Giants Headingley, Leeds T20 — 0/33
2026-07-25 Sunrisers Leeds v Southern Brave Headingley, Leeds T20 — 1/46
2026-07-21 Sunrisers Leeds v MI London Kennington Oval, London T20 9 (6) 0/33
2026-07-12 Durham v Lancashire Old Trafford, Manchester T20 4 (8) 1/28
2026-07-10 Durham v Derbyshire Riverside Ground, Chester-le-Street T20 3* (2) 1/35
2026-07-08 Durham v Leicestershire Grace Road, Leicester T20 — 2/41
2026-07-05 Durham v Nottinghamshire Riverside Ground, Chester-le-Street T20 — 3/32
2026-07-03 Durham v Yorkshire Headingley, Leeds T20 11 (6) 0/58
2026-06-28 Durham v Middlesex Old Deer Park, Richmond T20 — 3/18
2026-06-19 Durham v Northamptonshire Riverside Ground, Chester-le-Street First-class 12 (27) 7/161
2026-06-12 Durham v Derbyshire Riverside Ground, Chester-le-Street First-class 36 (72) 10/93
2026-06-09 Durham v Lancashire Riverside Ground, Chester-le-Street T20 — 0/23
2026-05-31 Durham v Nottinghamshire Trent Bridge, Nottingham T20 3* (2) 2/39
2026-05-29 Durham v Yorkshire Riverside Ground, Chester-le-Street T20 19 (13) 3/20
2026-05-24 Durham v Leicestershire Riverside Ground, Chester-le-Street T20 — 3/28
2026-05-22 Durham v Derbyshire County Ground, Derby T20 3* (3) 1/49
2026-05-15 Durham v Kent Kent County Cricket Ground, Beckenham First-class 23 (18) 6/92
2026-05-01 Durham v Middlesex Lord's, London First-class 38 (45) 3/139

Every match, innings by innings Showing 20 of 190

Comparable records

Tom Blundell (cricketer) New Zealand 2014-2026 8,311 runs
Mohammad Ashraful Bangladesh 2003-2019 4,604 runs
Doug Bracewell New Zealand 2011-2025 422 wickets
Shamima Sultana Bangladesh 2014-2026 3,995 runs
Alfonso Thomas South Africa 2011-2026 200 wickets
MJ Swepson Australia 2016-2026 315 wickets
Blair Tickner New Zealand 2015-2026 409 wickets
ML Hayden Australia 2002-2012 9,608 runs

Figures counted from ball-by-ball match records, which begin in 2002 and are thin before it. A match with no ball-by-ball record does not appear here, so these are not whole-career totals.