England League and Cup Discussion

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Opponents finished up 142 for 6, not sure we are going to chase that.

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S. Hodges (rfs) 4-0-27-4, B. Sthalekar 1 (1b), H. Douglas 12 (8b)
End of over 20 (8 runs) - Ffoh(149-6) RR 7.45

It's possible but I think they might have too many for us.

B. Sthalekar (rm) 1-0-14-0, L. Avila 3 (4b), A. Bowers 14 (7b)
End of over 2 (14 runs) - Ruff Royals(17-1). 133 runs required from 18 overs. RR 8.50 RRR 7.39

Lost an early wicket.

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H. Douglas (rfs) 1-1-0-1, C. Paton 4 (3b), B. Issa 0 (1b)
End of over 9 (maiden) - Ruff Royals(67-4). 83 runs required from 11 overs. RR 7.44 RRR 7.55

We're in trouble now. Bowers was doing well with 35 runs from 16 balls but then he got out and we started to struggle to score runs. We also lost wickets and now we'll need these 2 batters to get almost all of the runs we need.

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Ffoh won by 32 runs

Ruff Royals Ffoh
Batting - Top Order 13,828 13,735
Batting - Middle Order 10,768 12,373
Batting - Tail 4,429 6,391
Bowling - Seam 14,203 (8) 12,577 (8)
Bowling - Spin 13,556 (12) 12,348 (12)
Fielding/Keeping 16,680 16,391
Overall 230,791 234,984

They had better ratings but I'm a bit disappointed really. Aside from Hodges, my spin bowlers were more expensive than theirs (and they had an outstanding summary spinner). Callaway seems to have got worse since I trained his power. Although that's pretty anecdotal evidence (with a sample size of 1), I'm a little unsure about training power on some of my other spinners now.

Looks like I might have to switch focus to SOD and use T20 for experience for some of my younger players.

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Result: wolfberries won by 8 wickets

wolfberries Nether Regions CC
Batting - Top Order 11,255 12,112
Batting - Middle Order 8,442 7,792
Batting - Tail 4,091 5,808
Bowling - Seam 10,619 (12) 10,049 (16)
Bowling - Spin 9,944 (8) 12,607 (4)
Fielding/Keeping 13,921 11,499
Overall 184,574 184,342

Finished up 143 for 2 after 19.3 overs, wasn't expecting an 8 wicket win.

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Home Snakey's Kent Stars
Away wolfberries
Ground St Lawrence Ground
League Youth 2.1
Date 01 Jul 21 10:00
Weather (forecast) Humid
Pitch (current) Slow

Toss: wolfberries won the toss and elected to bat.

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L. MacGreevy (rfs) 3-0-21-0, J. Hicks 46 (40b), W. Mills 27 (32b)
End of over 14 (5 runs) - Ruff Royals(90-1) RR 6.43

Flat pitch so we're going to need to score a lot of runs.

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C. Allen (rm) 4-0-14-0, J. Lister 32 (71b), L. Lawrence 7 (12b)
End of over 20 (5 runs) - wolfberries(65-1) RR 3.25

Need to up the RR for sure, at least we've only lost one wicket.

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G. Barnard (rfm) 8-0-63-1, A. Dotson 33 (23b), R. Schneider 18 (12b)
End of over 40 (13 runs) - Ruff Royals(304-5) RR 7.60

It is a flat pitch but that seems like a decent score to me. Excellent innings by Hicks to score 145 from 102 balls which is his personal best.

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L. Bruce (rfs) 4-0-15-0, G. Barnard 4 (12b), R. Conner 13 (18b)
End of over 20 (6 runs) - bigsexybarry(85-5). 220 runs required from 20 overs. RR 4.25 RRR 11.00

It's looking pretty good.

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Ruff Royals won by 145 runs

bigsexybarry Ruff Royals
Batting - Top Order 7,696 8,162
Batting - Middle Order 5,770 6,830
Batting - Tail 3,280 3,558
Bowling - Seam 6,352 (24) 7,580 (24)
Bowling - Spin 8,137 (16) 5,955 (16)
Fielding/Keeping 5,827 9,378
Overall 116,519 133,432

4 wickets for Westerveld and 3 for Rush but it was Hicks' 145 that won us the game. Top of the table now!

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Away today in uneven and sunny conditions,lost the toss and bowling.

Currently have our opponents 16 for 1 from 3 overs.

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Opponents are 85 for 5 after 25 overs, happy enough with that.

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Crumbling pitch and we decided to bat first. It was going really well at 135-1 but we lost 3 wickets in 2 overs so we need another good partnership.

S. Jadeja (rws) 5-0-19-2, B. Issa 2 (5b), C. Paton 5 (5b)
End of over 29 (6 runs) - Ruff Royals(143-4) RR 4.93

McCall top scored for us with 54 but we might need Paton or Issa to beat that.

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J. Doyle (rfs) 7-0-38-0, C. Paton 24 (22b), B. Issa 19 (18b)
End of over 34 (8 runs) - Ruff Royals(179-4) RR 5.26

This might be enough anyway as they've picked quite a young side.