Western Stars were the only team to repeat this season in the seven major competitions -- excluding Cup Match.

So that makes it all the more incredible that all four leaders in the 1992 end-of-season averages are back again.

St. George's captain Wendell Smith, who missed a bulk of the season because of a knee injury, rebounded in style with five half-centuries in 10 innings to once again top the batting averages at 57.25.

Smith pipped his younger brother Clay (54.16) though the latter may have the final say when individual awards are passed out.

Willow Cuts off-spinner Kevin Fubler again took the bowling title by surprise.

Surprise, because he is often the fifth bowler used by skipper Dexter Basden, behind Rodney Fubler, Vance Gilbert, Richard Basden and fellow spinner Vivian Simons.

Fubler took 25 wickets, as he did in 1992, at an average of 10.96 to easily outdistance the equally surprising Mark Trott of Devonshire Rec.

The vaunted spin attacks of Stars and league and knockout champions St.

George's have meant that their wicket-keepers, Anthony Manders and Dean Minors respectively, have been kept busy.

Manders retained the 'keeping title, his the third in four years, with 32 dismissals of which 18 were stumpings. Minors was five behind on 27, which included 14 stumpings.

Arguably the most difficult discipline to repeat in is most catches as surely you cannot will the ball in your direction. But Stars captain Gary Brangman apparently has done just that with 17 grabs to beat St. David's vice-captain Herbie Bascome who was also second a year ago.

The leaders aside, there were a few new introductions into the averages from the last time they were published.

Cleveland captain Peter Philpott had a strong finish to slot in at number 12 with a 33.77 average, Southampton skipper Ricky Brangman is 14th at 32.36 and Richard Basden of Willow Cuts is 25th at 25.60.

In bowling, PHC's medium-pacer Neil Anglin is fourth in perhaps the single-most astonishing statistic. He claimed 21 wickets at 13.45 runs apiece.

Brian Gibbons of Somerset Bridge is fifth at 13.62, Clay Smith's off-spin has earned him 21st at 18.33, St. David's Eastern Counties star Reginald Pitcher is 24th at 19.38 and St. George's Greg Foggo used a fine performance in the knockout final to spirit him to 25th at 19.74.

The rest are either regulars in the respective categories or have maintained the form that put them among the best at mid-season.

Charlie Marshall and Albert Steede have put together solid back-to-back seasons where they have been among the top five run scorers in the Island while Allan Douglas' lofty fifth-place finish is evidence of his renewed appetite for batting.

Lionel Cann, who started in a blaze of fire, tailed off somewhat after Cup Match but nevertheless finished a highly creditable sixth. But, despite taking 34 wickets, he fell off the bowling averages with an expensive yield of 21.77 per wicket.

The team dominance of St. George's and Stars is somewhat reflected in the numbers. St. George's have three in batting -- Wendell, Clay and Dexter Smith -- and five in bowling.

The indomitable David Adams is the second leading wicket-taker with 47, but he was more than ably assisted by Eugene Foggo (40) and Kenny Phillips (39) who are fourth and fifth in the wicket-taking category. Clay Smith and Greg Foggo complete the group in the averages, while Ricky Hodsoll also took more than 20 wickets, but at too high an average.

Stars have five batsmen in the averages and they line up one behind the other from Cleon Scotland at joint 19th with Police skipper Dennis Archer to Andre Manders in 24th. In between are Jeff Richardson, who finished remarkably, Anthony Foggo and Arnold Manders, who endured a season-long battle for consistency with the bat.

But with the ball, Manders had few peers as his 51-wicket haul would attest.

And but for the final few months when the batsmen began to wisen up, Manders might have made a run at Fubler for the top spot. Wayne Richardson, with 47 wickets and Hasan Durham with 28 completed Stars' spin trio in the averages.

Fast bowler Allan Brangman had 29 scalps but was too expensive.

In every set of averages there are notable omissions.

In batting, Ricky Hill found that a prolonged slump presented a hole too deep to dig out of. He rebounded for an average just under 24 that left him quite a few places adrift. Others missing were Jason Lewis, who quit Devonshire Rec.

shortly after Cup Match, Mark Ray, Anthony Amory, Tyrone Smith, Stevie Lightbourne, Clevie Wade and Ferdinand Thorne, who was second last year.

In bowling, Cann and Brangman have already been mentioned but Gary Brangman and Garry Williams, with 19 wickets apiece, are two that might have helped their national team chances with a placing here.

National squad spinner Bruce Perinchief of Devonshire Rec. is another to have claimed only 19 wickets this season and Somerset captain Perry Maybury's decline is mirrored by his absence from the averages for the first time in several years when he has been healthy.

The other squad bowler on the outside looking in is Terry Burgess of Bailey's Bay, who has missed the averages for the second straight season.