I was reading Ask Bearders on the BBC website today and the following question and answer intrigued me to take a look at the Rosaneri stats in closer detail.

Q. If 15 overs are taken as a minimum requirement, are there any bowlers who have conceded 0 runs in a Test match innings. If not, who has the most economical figures?
Eddie (Yorkshire)

Bearders' Answer: Taking your qualification of 15 overs (presumably six-ball ones giving 90 balls), the fewest runs conceded in an innings in Test cricket are five by RG ('Bapu') Nadkarni for India v England at the Corporation Ground in Madras in January 1964. His full analysis was 32-27-5-0.
The next most frugal analyses both involved the concession of seven runs in matches against South Africa - by HL Collins for Australia at the Old Wanderers, Johannesburg in November 1921 (15-12-7-0), and by Jim Laker for England v South Africa at Cape Town in January 1957 (14.1-9-7-2).

As you can see from Bearders answer the Indian chap in 1964 must have been one hell of a tight bowler. But who among the Rosaneri ranks are the bowlers who keep it the tightest ?

Tight bowling is always judged by runs per over and obviously the more overs a bowler has bowled the more genuine the statistic is.

Graham Mully is our current king of keeping it tight, but it is only fair to point out that he has only bowled 7 overs for the club. With this in mind the following table lists overs bowled and runs per over conceded.

Bowler	Overs	Runs per over
Graham Mully	7	1.86
Graham Hooper	26	2.81
Stephen Underwood	68.3	2.86
Sheridan Leigh	7	3.14
Mat Freeman	166.3	3.17
Paul Sindrey	112	3.72

There are some great figures on display here, and if we put the work in during winter nets there is no reason why these figures can’t get even better.