Some time in November last year, quite probably unbeknownst to those playing, Derek Oram broke a very long-standing record, becoming the top masterpoint scorer in English history. John Durden, who sadly passed away in 2005, had built up such a huge lead at the top that it took over 13 years to catch him up.
Masterpoint records from the early years are unfortunately a little patchy. When they were digitised in the 1990s, they went on to the new database in one big lump, so we have no way of knowing, for example, who was #1 in 1985. But from the data we have available, it seems likely that John had held the number one spot for at least 30 years, and it may well be longer.
1989
This is the earliest year that our database has information for.
| 1 |
John Durden |
485,386 |
| 2 |
Raymond Brock |
483,142 |
| 3 |
Bob Rowlands |
431,530 |
| 4 |
Bob Sharples |
336,367 |
| 5 |
Douglas Smerdon |
317,459 |
| 9 |
(Derek Oram) |
286,972 |
1995
| 1 |
John Durden |
596,104 |
| 2 |
Raymond Brock |
500,089 |
| 3 |
Bob Rowlands |
459,972 |
| 4 |
Derek Oram |
365,039 |
| 5 |
Steve Preston |
353,191 |
2000
| 1 |
John Durden |
754,675 |
| 2 |
Raymond Brock |
519,202 |
| 3 |
Bob Rowlands |
517,268 |
| 4 |
Derek Oram |
470,827 |
| 5 |
Steve Preston |
435,303 |
2005
John Durden passed away in June 2005
| 1 |
John Durden |
844,176 |
| 2 |
Bob Rowlands |
599,344 |
| 3 |
Jon Williams |
597,091 |
| 4 |
Derek Oram |
565,150 |
| 5 |
Raymond Brock |
540,006 |
2010
| 1 |
John Durden |
844,176 |
| 2 |
Jon Williams |
689,975 |
| 3 |
Derek Oram |
680,430 |
| 4 |
Bob Rowlands |
656,043 |
| 5 |
Jeremy Dhondy |
632,653 |
2015
| 1 |
John Durden |
844,176 |
| 2 |
Derek Oram |
792,770 |
| 3 |
John Holland |
765,012 |
| 4 |
Celia Oram |
731,681 |
| 5 |
Jeremy Dhondy |
710,306 |
