England League and Cup Discussion

[wolfberries]

Home South Hill Slammers
Away wolfberries
Ground South Hill Slammers CG
League Youth Twenty20 3.1
Date 03 Jan 22 10:00
Crowd 6,699
Weather Cloudy
Pitch Crumbling

Toss: South Hill Slammers won the toss and elected to bowl.

K. Brewer (rfs) 4-0-22-1, F. Clingeleffer 1 (7b), J. Easton 14 (12b)
End of over 15 (8 runs) - wolfberries(86-2) RR 5.73

D. Flynn (rfs) 4-0-14-3, C. Martel 2 (2b), D. Tumilty 0 (1b)
End of over 16 (3 runs) - wolfberries(89-4) RR 5.56

Well. that's not helped!

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A. Egglestone (rfm) 4-0-17-3, G. Ebeling 3 (4b), T. Benneworth 2 (4b)
End of over 20 (2 runs) - wolfberries(112-8) RR 5.60

Well, that went tits up very quickly!

[spark]

Ruff Royals Relegation reprobates
Batting - Top Order 6,911 7,833
Batting - Middle Order 5,451 7,391
Batting - Tail 3,668 4,418
Bowling - Seam 6,208 (8) 7,036 (8)
Bowling - Spin 7,078 (12) 8,779 (12)
Fielding/Keeping 8,539 8,623
Overall 119,723 140,433

Relegation reprobates won by 8 wickets

Very much outclassed today. Maybe in 3 or 4 weeks we would have had a better chance. Technically I didn't play my strongest team as I'm considering selling my best spinner whilst he's young enough to get something for him. I think I'll sell him despite this team performance as it just feels like the right thing to do.

We were still quite poor though. We didn't score enough and I'm placing the blame on my more senior youths as they just didn't perform.

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South Hill Slammers wolfberries
Batting - Top Order 6,381 6,790
Batting - Middle Order 5,505 5,547
Batting - Tail 3,934 3,696
Bowling - Seam 6,537 (8) 6,017 (12)
Bowling - Spin 6,913 (12) 4,919 (8)
Fielding/Keeping 7,591 9,838
Overall 115,932 117,839

Result: South Hill Slammers won by 5 wickets

Our spinners letting us down again!

[eagles123]

Home to Crestfallen Sidekicks in Sticky/Cloudy lost the toss and having a bat. Been a bit disappointed not to have added anyone over pre-season, but prices have been so mental. Don't mind a slight overpay but there is a limit hopefully things will settle down in the next couple of weeks!

[wolfberries]

Home wolfberries
Away JAffna8CC
Ground wolfberries CG
League Twenty20 3.1
Date 04 Jan 22 10:00
Crowd 15,823
Weather Cloudy
Pitch Green

Toss: JAffna8CC won the toss and elected to bowl.

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L. Alfred (rm) 4-0-26-2, L. Lawrence 12 (10b), L. Shurmer 9 (6b)
End of over 20 (6 runs) - wolfberries(127-6) RR 6.35

Not the worst total.

[eagles123]

South London's Number One CC v Crestfallen Sidekicks >> Match Ratings
Match Ratings
South London's Number One CC Crestfallen Sidekicks
Batting - Top Order 13,192 12,225
Batting - Middle Order 12,009 10,211
Batting - Tail 3,726 4,774
Bowling - Seam 12,642 (12) 12,521 (12)
Bowling - Spin 13,605 (8) 13,053 (8)
Fielding/Keeping 16,477 14,270
Overall 226,554 210,550

excellent performance, especially with the ball, to kick off the new season. Result won by 30 runs, Gootjes with 5/11 the standout performer.

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wolfberries JAffna8CC
Batting - Top Order 12,362 13,029
Batting - Middle Order 9,467 10,175
Batting - Tail 4,376 5,112
Bowling - Seam 11,841 (20) 13,241 (16)
Bowling - Spin 0 (0) 14,211 (4)
Fielding/Keeping 15,303 14,406
Overall 205,562 218,548

Result: wolfberries won by 30 runs

Will take that win.

[spark]

Not a great start to the season. We needed the last ball of the innings to go for less than 2 to win the match; it went for 4.

Topmen won by 2 wickets.

Topmen Ruff Royals
Batting - Top Order 14,657 14,344
Batting - Middle Order 11,208 12,580
Batting - Tail 5,790 4,791
Bowling - Seam 13,845 (16) 14,225 (8)
Bowling - Spin 15,129 (4) 14,259 (12)
Fielding/Keeping 16,775 17,246
Overall 241,672 245,037

I certainly have to take some of the blame for this one as I should maybe have picked more seamers due to the weather conditions on this sticky pitch. Having said that, 1 of my 3 spinners got 5-17 and another got 2-24 so that's not exactly terrible (the 3rd spinner was terrible though).

I also thought I'd strengthen my batting line-up by playing 2 allrounders and that went well with my 2 allrounders scoring a combined 1 run and ending with combined figures of 0-67 from their total of 8 overs!

[wolfberries]

Not a great start to the season. We needed the last ball of the innings to go for less than 2 to win the match; it went for 4.

Topmen won by 2 wickets.

Topmen Ruff Royals
Batting - Top Order 14,657 14,344
Batting - Middle Order 11,208 12,580
Batting - Tail 5,790 4,791
Bowling - Seam 13,845 (16) 14,225 (8)
Bowling - Spin 15,129 (4) 14,259 (12)
Fielding/Keeping 16,775 17,246
Overall 241,672 245,037

Despite the loss, some nice ratings there

[wolfberries]

Home wolfberries
Away Scotland Youth
Ground wolfberries CG
League Youth 2.1
Date 06 Jan 22 10:00
Crowd 6,625
Weather Windy
Pitch Dry

Toss: wolfberries won the toss and elected to bat.

Another loss methinks, our opponents another 50% can't be arsed to play the game properly type!

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B. wa Muchiri (rf) 8-1-45-4, C. Martel 81 (93b), T. Minter 3 (4b)
End of over 40 (9 runs) - wolfberries(204-6) RR 5.10

Not the worst total by us, not sure our bowlers are strong enough to defend that though.

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wolfberries Scotland Youth
Batting - Top Order 7,345 8,473
Batting - Middle Order 5,663 6,236
Batting - Tail 3,031 4,302
Bowling - Seam 5,695 (24) 8,008 (32)
Bowling - Spin 5,012 (16) 8,531 (8)
Fielding/Keeping 9,651 8,240
Overall 117,195 137,024

Result: Scotland Youth won by 3 wickets

We couldn't defend, as expected.

[wolfberries]

Home Trevor Francis Tracksuit
Away wolfberries
Ground Nags Head
League One Day 3.3
Date 07 Jan 22 10:00
Crowd 16,269
Weather Cloudy
Pitch Uneven

Toss: wolfberries won the toss and elected to bat.

B. Calusky (lfm) 7-0-19-2, L. Lawrence 10 (23b), F. Hills 17 (36b)
End of over 26 (1 run) - wolfberries(93-5) RR 3.58

Not going great so far.