England League and Cup Discussion

[eagles123]

well this is going remarkably well, 143/2 from 33 overs ... even a mad collapse from here should see us getting to a decent total in the conditions.

[eagles123]

well the collapse did come, 166-2 to 199/10, but I think it's still a pretty good score on a crumbling pitch. Hope a second ball drop doesn't come back to haunt us!

[casperj]

J. Andersen (rfs) 1-0-1-0, B. Weerasinghe 11 (28b), J. Raimondi 16 (28b)
End of over 9 (2 runs) - Camberwell Carrots(36-0). 207 runs required from 41 overs. RR 4.00 RRR 5.05

242 on an overcast/Crumbling *should* be enough, but the bowlers in this match so far are proving pretty ineffectual. Defeat would probably mean relegation from Div 2, so a lot riding on this.

[eagles123]

Ffoh v South London's Number One CC >> Match Ratings
Match Ratings
Ffoh South London's Number One CC
Batting - Top Order 13,380 14,311
Batting - Middle Order 12,246 12,358
Batting - Tail 7,217 4,216
Bowling - Seam 14,076 (30) 14,164 (30)
Bowling - Spin 13,953 (20) 14,232 (20)
Fielding/Keeping 16,188 17,854
Overall 242,851 243,846

excellent performance today, won by 78 runs. Johnson and Eze did little in their last match for the club, but Zubic signed off with a bang with 4-23. Will certainly miss all three of them next season, but I feel like there's still a good amount of talent in the side and we're saving over 50K in wages until we get some replacements in.

Safety secured now, but important game next week in terms of prize money, could be the difference between $200K and $70K. Hopefully the experience we've lost won't hurt us too badly.

[casperj]

Crestfallen Sidekicks Camberwell Carrots
Batting - Top Order 11,264 13,754
Batting - Middle Order 12,336 9,270
Batting - Tail 5,241 4,972
Bowling - Seam 12,308 (20) 13,743 (20)
Bowling - Spin 13,291 (30) 12,193 (30)
Fielding/Keeping 15,082 15,399
Overall 219,858 217,278

End of over 42 (maiden) - Camberwell Carrots(174-10). 69 runs required from 8 overs. RR 4.14 RRR 8.62
D. Angus 39 (69b), S. Saeed (rws) 9.1-0-47-4

Was looking dodgy at 109-2 with my Exceptional summary wristie going at >7 an over. Fortunately my finger spinners turned it around and the wristie got to massage his figures by running through the tail. One relegation battle survived, two more to battle through next week.

[spark]

Ruff Royals Topmen
Batting - Top Order 13,133 12,377
Batting - Middle Order 13,051 11,665
Batting - Tail 4,517 6,799
Bowling - Seam 13,702 (20) 13,696 (30)
Bowling - Spin 14,537 (30) 13,718 (20)
Fielding/Keeping 16,893 15,235
Overall 239,983 230,791

Topmen won by 63 runs

I feel like I got a few things wrong in this game. I should have batted first on this dry pitch and probably should have done something different with my bowling orders. We allowed them to get too many runs (227) and then my batters were pretty poor (probably because most of them lack a bit of power).

[Monsieurflibble]

Summary of a nuts week, Youth T20 championship dangling within reach, relegated from senior T20 div1, secured P6 in SOD div1 but then despite rating only 5th in the country on Thursday ..... YOD champs confirmed.

1 Relegation reprobates 13 11 2 0 44 +0.7183 2549 / 503.1 2218 / 510.1
2 Staindrop Village CC 13 9 4 0 36 +0.6366 2554 / 495.4 2325 / 514.5

Apprecaite changes in the game to come but dead chuffed with that against a team that dont really push seniors hence had a big cash advantage.

[wolfberries]

wolfberries St. Marks Hill Strollers
Batting - Top Order 12,699 12,128
Batting - Middle Order 10,596 10,766
Batting - Tail 4,611 5,608
Bowling - Seam 12,871 (50) 12,025 (33)
Bowling - Spin 0 (0) 13,184 (17)
Fielding/Keeping 15,842 14,999
Overall 218,899 215,497

End of over 38 (1 run) - St. Marks Hill Strollers(99-9). 32 runs required from 12 overs. RR 2.61 RRR 2.67
S. Matsikenyeri 0 (1b), M. Vaholiya 1 (2b), D. Ylyett (rm) 9-2-19-4

43.2.Window to Vaholiya : [dropped] Edged to the right of Katich who dives and just manages to get a glove to it. That will go down as a missed chance.

47.61Window to Matsikenyeri : [dropped] That's skied to mid-wicket where Lawrence is fielding and drops one he should have taken. Window and Katich shake their heads in disbelief as Lawrence looks for a shady spot to hide.

End of over 48 (6 runs) - St. Marks Hill Strollers(131-9) RR 2.73
M. Vaholiya 24 (50b), S. Matsikenyeri 6 (14b), S. Window (rm) 9-1-29-1

Result: St. Marks Hill Strollers won by 1 wicket

Well that really fucked our chance of 4th place

[wolfberries]

Home wolfberries
Away Waverley CC
Ground wolfberries CG
League Youth Twenty20 3.1
Date 04 Apr 22 10:00
Crowd 8,317
Weather Sunny
Pitch Dry

Toss: Waverley CC won the toss and elected to bat.

T. Benneworth (lws) 4-0-27-1, D. Fairbairn 1 (1b), R. Singh 31 (28b)
End of over 20 (4 runs) - Waverley CC(153-3) RR 7.65

Going to be a difficult chase, even with a loss we should avoid relegation.

[spark]

Ruff Royals Danger Hotspurs
Batting - Top Order 7,325 6,824
Batting - Middle Order 6,116 5,182
Batting - Tail 3,792 4,606
Bowling - Seam 7,357 (8) 7,027 (12)
Bowling - Spin 8,517 (12) 6,723 (8)
Fielding/Keeping 9,494 8,053
Overall 133,892 120,531

Ruff Royals won by 8 wickets

A big win which may see us climb a place depending on other results. It was a good bowling performance with all bowlers picking up a couple of wickets. Then Dickerson hit 36 and Alphonso Patterson 46 not out.

Elsewhere, Relegation reprobates are struggling so it looks like they might miss out on top spot. They're either going to need to score a lot of runs in a couple of overs on a slow pitch or they'll need Egham to score the 21 runs from the last over to beat second placed Staindrop Village. It is a hard pitch so it's not entirely impossible.

[wolfberries]

wolfberries Waverley CC
Batting - Top Order 7,337 7,268
Batting - Middle Order 5,633 5,597
Batting - Tail 3,338 3,908
Bowling - Seam 5,778 (12) 6,370 (16)
Bowling - Spin 6,072 (8) 3,173 (4)
Fielding/Keeping 8,549 6,164
Overall 117,021 110,335

Result: wolfberries won by 7 wickets

A win ensured we avoided relegation, although the other results meant we would have stayed up anyway.

[spark]

Home Gavs Boys
Away Ruff Royals
Ground Gavs Boys CG
League Twenty20 1.1
Date 05 Apr 22 10:00
Crowd 18,396
Weather Sunny
Pitch Crumbling

Just playing for 2nd or 3rd place. We decided to bowl first and it's not going great. Young allrounder Schneider and Whitehead play in place of better players for experience but other than them (and perhaps Clarke for Paton) it's a full strength team.

C. Moses (rws) 2-0-18-0, J. Koch 34 (27b), S. Iyer 8 (7b)
End of over 9 (10 runs) - Gavs Boys(66-2) RR 7.33

[casperj]

Poor last couple of overs have left us needing 116 to avoid relegation on a crumbling wicket!!. Think it might be a bit too much given how our batting line up normally perform.

L. Abbey (lm) 4-0-39-1, W. Hinkley 12 (11b), K. Black 12 (5b)
End of over 20 (12 runs) - Yorkshire Puddings(116-7) RR 5.80

[spark]

S. Hodges (rfs) 4-0-32-2, H. Bari 1 (2b), L. Pye 2 (1b)
End of over 20 (5 runs) - Gavs Boys(125-6) RR 6.25

Came back nicely although it's still not an easy target on crumbling.

L. Pye (rfs) 2-0-16-0, E. McCall 29 (23b), S. Whitehead 3 (2b)
End of over 4 (11 runs) - Ruff Royals(34-0). 92 runs required from 16 overs. RR 8.50 RRR 5.75

We seem to be making it look easy at the moment.

[casperj]

Poor last couple of overs have left us needing 116 to avoid relegation on a crumbling wicket!!. Think it might be a bit too much given how our batting line up normally perform.

L. Abbey (lm) 4-0-39-1, W. Hinkley 12 (11b), K. Black 12 (5b)
End of over 20 (12 runs) - Yorkshire Puddings(116-7) RR 5.80

W. Hinkley (rf) 1-0-7-0, D. Shephard 1 (2b), L. Crossan 5 (5b)
End of over 9 (7 runs) - Crestfallen Sidekicks(64-5). 53 runs required from 11 overs. RR 7.11 RRR 4.82

From 29/0 after 3 to 64/5 after 9. Back to Div3 next season.