A little later than planned we have the Merrion averages and ‘Player of the Month’ for July.
Overall 88 players turned out for Merrion in Open Competitions during July.
In terms of batting, 10 players got 100 runs or more. Swapnil Modgill was way out in front with 307 at an average of 51.17. Even at that he did not top the averages, Franco Marais sneaked in with the top average of 53.5.
| Name | Last Team | Mts | Inns | NOs | HS | 50/100 | Runs | Average |
| Swapnil Modgill | Merrion 2 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 129 | 1/1 | 307 | 51.17 |
| Sanjay Pahuja | Merrion 6 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 80 | 0/1 | 206 | 41.20 |
| Jack Carty | Merrion 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 62 | 0/2 | 146 | 36.50 |
| Shahrukh Nawaz | Merrion 6 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 67 | 0/2 | 145 | 48.33 |
| Liam Casey | Merrion 5 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 79 | 0/1 | 130 | 65.00 |
| Franco Marais | Merrion 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 54* | 0/1 | 107 | 53.50 |
| John Anderson | Merrion 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 51* | 0/1 | 106 | 53.00 |
| Rishabh Sharma | Merrion 6 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 33 | 0/0 | 105 | 13.13 |
| Dominick Joyce | Merrion 2 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 36 | 0/0 | 100 | 20.00 |
Five player got 8 or more wickets. Chetan Suthraway, Anish Sidhu and Declan deKock had ten each. But best average, with nine wickets, was Oisin Bhoja at 5.89 per wicket.
| Name | Last Team | Mts | Overs | Runs | Wickets | 5WI | BBI | Average | Econ |
| Chetan Suttraway | Merrion 5 | 5 | 22 | 74 | 10 | 0 | 4-17 | 7.4 | 3.36 |
| Amish Sidhu | Merrion 1 | 4 | 35.1 | 128 | 10 | 1 | 6-15 | 12.8 | 3.64 |
| Declan de Kock | Merrion 3 | 6 | 33.3 | 153 | 10 | 0 | 3-24 | 15.3 | 4.57 |
| Sean Sandys | Merrion 2 | 6 | 29 | 100 | 9 | 1 | 5-18 | 11.11 | 3.45 |
| Oisín Bhoja | Merrion 3 | 5 | 15.3 | 53 | 9 | 1 | 5-25 | 5.89 | 3.42 |
Jack Carty headed the all-rounder list with 226 points [64% coming from batting]. Three others made it past the 150 point mark for the month
| Name | Runs | Wickets | Points |
| Jack Carty | 146 | 4 | 226 |
| Rishabh | 105 | 4 | 185 |
| Himanshu Sharma | 85 | 4 | 165 |
| Alan Parkinson | 92 | 3 | 152 |
In all there were 24 Open Competition matches in July. There were very mixed fortunes with three teams failing to record a win during the month and the other three achieving a 50% win ratio or better.
| Matches | Win | Loss | NR | % Win | |
| 1st XI | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 75 |
| 2nd XI | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 50 |
| 3rd XI | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 4th XI | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 5th XI | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 60 |
| 6th XI | 5 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 |
PLAYER OF THE MONTH : SWAPNIL MODGILL