England League and Cup Discussion

[eagles123]

first of two games this week against Sledgingshire who appear to have built a very handy home grown side which is always impressive. Lost the toss on humid/hard (didn't particularly want a hard pitch but forgot to change it in time ), and having a bat.

[wolfberries]

A. Wearing (lfm) 1-0-8-0, F. Hills 7 (9b), M. Scholes 16 (24b)
End of over 10 (8 runs) - wolfberries(48-5) RR 4.80

Not a great start so far!

[wolfberries]

O. Ayaz (rfs) 4-0-32-1, L. Lawrence 3 (1b), M. Scholes 62 (65b)
End of over 20 (10 runs) - wolfberries(120-6) RR 6.00

Decent comeback by our batsmen, not sure will defend this though.

[eagles123]

211/3 in our 20, very pleased with that. Dann with an excellent 89, but Edouard eclipsed him with a slightly better 90. Still chaseable on a hard pitch, but will definitely take it!

[spark]

Crumbling pitch and we were made to bat first. It started off great in the first 5 overs.

K. Funke (rfm) 3-1-18-1, T. Liberatore 6 (6b), E. McCall 27 (17b)
End of over 5 (10 runs) - Ruff Royals(39-1) RR 7.80

Not so great in the last 15.

C. Coomaraswamy (lm) 4-0-27-2, C. Moses 0 (0b), M. Roberson 9 (13b)
End of over 20 (3 runs) - Ruff Royals(106-9) RR 5.30

We're now struggling with the ball.

M. Roberson (lf) 3-0-16-0, J. Koch 20 (17b), D. Hodgeman 15 (19b)
End of over 6 (6 runs) - Gavs Boys(35-0). 72 runs required from 14 overs. RR 5.83 RRR 5.14

[eagles123]

well, an absolutely dreadful bowling performance, lost by eight wickets. Fair play to the opps batsmen, but no way should we be losing that game from the position we were in. Just a truly terrible effort with the ball, none of them come out with any credit whatsoever. Going to be a long hard season in both senior formats, just hope we can at least be competitive. conceding 134/1 in 8.4 overs at the end ... just beyond disgraceful performance. Should be an option in this game to fine players a weeks wages lol. One of the worst bowling performances I've ever seen.

South London's Number One CC v Sledgingshire >> Match Ratings
Match Ratings
South London's Number One CC Sledgingshire
Batting - Top Order 13,940 13,492
Batting - Middle Order 9,456 12,196
Batting - Tail 4,384 5,752
Bowling - Seam 11,540 (16) 12,126 (12)
Bowling - Spin 14,352 (4) 13,282 (8)
Fielding/Keeping 16,408 16,949
Overall 216,476 233,800

[spark]

Gavs Boys won by 4 wickets

Gavs Boys Ruff Royals
Batting - Top Order 13,801 13,604
Batting - Middle Order 9,526 10,717
Batting - Tail 6,079 4,062
Bowling - Seam 13,415 (8) 13,638 (8)
Bowling - Spin 14,521 (12) 14,293 (12)
Fielding/Keeping 16,772 16,570
Overall 232,259 229,338

Disappointing that we collapsed as much as we did but I guess they would have said the same if they hadn't won it off the last ball. Having fully rested players could have made all the difference; I'm kicking myself for that.

[montyh]

So I started the season by being 4 minutes late on setting my team for the MKMC so that's not helped fatigue! At least the league season got off to a good start.

Ruff Royals won by 23 runs

Egham Town CC Ruff Royals
Batting - Top Order 6,362 7,407
Batting - Middle Order 6,666 6,460
Batting - Tail 3,845 3,902
Bowling - Seam 7,000 (8) 8,473 (8)
Bowling - Spin 7,848 (12) 8,457 (12)
Fielding/Keeping 8,898 9,393
Overall 127,888 137,672

Dickerson (40) and House (38) saw us start well against Egham Town on a slow pitch but then we scored less than 20 in the last 5 overs to leave them a very chaseable 119 to win.

Thankfully, the bowlers did a good job. Westerveld (3-11) was the best of the bunch but Bardoliya (2-17) also performed on his debut which will also be his last in the YT20 game.

Good job spark! I was a little disappointed my batsmen didn't put up a better showing, but you had the stronger outfit so not too hard done by there

My seniors had a baptism of fire for our first ever Div 1 game:

Inchigeela Angels Egham Town CC
Batting - Top Order 14,183 13,058
Batting - Middle Order 13,009 9,761
Batting - Tail 5,550 4,492
Bowling - Seam 13,722 (20) 12,888 (20)
Bowling - Spin 0 (0) 0 (0)
Fielding/Keeping 16,634 15,989
Overall 243,936 217,163
Inchigeela Angels won by 56 runs

Perhaps no big surprise losing to the #1 ranked side in the country with a $422k seniors wage bill (mine is $252k). Hope that with my young and improving squad plus a bit of fatigue/rotation for others we may be able to sneak a couple of wins - otherwise could be a long season!
Montyh

[spark]

Home Gold Prospectors X1
Away Ruff Royals
Ground Gold Prospectors X1 CG
League Youth 2.2
Date 21 Apr 22 10:00
Crowd 7,783
Weather Humid
Pitch Dry

We won the toss and are batting first.

S. Saheed (rws) 1-0-6-0, F. Bullock 8 (7b), B. Jupp 4 (5b)
End of over 2 (6 runs) - Ruff Royals(12-0) RR 6.00

[spark]

R. Rohoman (rfm) 3-0-8-1, F. Bullock 27 (40b), A. Patterson 3 (6b)
End of over 13 (3 runs) - Ruff Royals(62-3) RR 4.77

Not going great with 2 runouts so far.

[wolfberries]

Home wolfberries
Away South Hill Slammers
Ground wolfberries CG
League Youth 2.2
Date 21 Apr 22 10:00
Crowd 7,269
Weather Humid
Pitch Dry

Toss: wolfberries won the toss and elected to bat.

D. Flynn (rfs) 3-0-4-0, K. Sheehan 24 (39b), S. Munday 27 (48b)
End of over 14 (1 run) - wolfberries(56-0) RR 4.00

Not the worst start.

[wolfberries]

D. McGregor (lm) 8-0-37-0, G. Ebeling 34 (38b), G. Lampe 2 (3b)
End of over 40 (7 runs) - wolfberries(201-6) RR 5.03

Decent enough total.

[spark]

S. Saheed (rws) 8-0-57-1, R. Gilbert 49 (44b), N. Bardoliya 34 (23b)
End of over 40 (8 runs) - Ruff Royals(240-5) RR 6.00

It turned out quite well. The main disappointment was that Bullock didn't get his century and was out for 95. Gilbert got 49 not out and Bardoliya in his one and only YOD game for us hit 34 not out.

[spark]

Gold Prospectors X1 Ruff Royals
Batting - Top Order 7,909 7,443
Batting - Middle Order 5,988 6,891
Batting - Tail 4,489 3,949
Bowling - Seam 5,415 (16) 8,516 (16)
Bowling - Spin 6,458 (24) 8,531 (24)
Fielding/Keeping 6,216 9,446
Overall 117,910 140,148

Ruff Royals won by 111 runs

A comprehensive win. We won't be rating that high next week with batter House and bowler Bardoliya moving up to the senior squad. Westerveld ended up with the best figures of 4-10 although that was finishing off the innings and Gardiner was probably our best bowler with 3-33.

[wolfberries]

wolfberries South Hill Slammers
Batting - Top Order 7,677 6,476
Batting - Middle Order 5,873 6,106
Batting - Tail 3,370 4,099
Bowling - Seam 5,965 (24) 6,540 (24)
Bowling - Spin 6,452 (16) 8,302 (16)
Fielding/Keeping 8,855 8,586
Overall 121,682 124,614

Result: South Hill Slammers won by 4 wickets

Another disappointing loss!