England League and Cup Discussion

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Ruff Royals won by 8 wickets.

Nice win, you were just too good for them today.

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wolfberries gRhyllidae
Batting - Top Order 11,983 12,281
Batting - Middle Order 11,503 8,899
Batting - Tail 4,350 6,558
Bowling - Seam 10,887 (8) 10,938 (8)
Bowling - Spin 11,406 (12) 11,980 (12)
Fielding/Keeping 14,199 14,913
Overall 205,584 206,950

gRhyllidae won by 22 runs

Never in todays game, poor performance all round.

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Home Bathaloner
Away Ruff Royals
Ground Fish Bowl
League Youth 1.1
Date 21 May 20 10:00
Crowd 8,560
Weather Sunny
Pitch Slow

We were put into bat which is what I would have done anyway.

E. Ritchie (rfm) 1-0-2-1, E. McCall 1 (2b), I. Santos 1 (2b)
End of over 1 (2 runs) - Ruff Royals(2-1) RR 2.00

Not a great start.

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M. Spencer (rfs) 2-1-6-0, E. McCall 39 (40b), I. Santos 20 (31b)
End of over 12 (4 runs) - Ruff Royals(71-1) RR 5.92

These are my 2 best batsmen so it could still go wrong if one or both of these get out.

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Home Gold Prospectors X1
Away wolfberries
Ground Gold Prospectors X1 CG
League Youth 2.1
Date 21 May 20 10:00
Crowd 6,698
Weather Sunny
Pitch Dry

Toss: Gold Prospectors X1 won the toss and elected to bowl.

H. Pydanna (rm) 3-0-17-0, S. Holland 19 (39b), T. Duldig 21 (40b)
End of over 13 (4 runs) - wolfberries(46-0) RR 3.54

Was panicking after we started off quite slowly, then I remembered it was 40 overs and not 20

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G. Nandu (lm) 6-0-17-1, M. Scholes 12 (15b), F. Hills 0 (2b)
End of over 20 (2 runs) - wolfberries(73-2) RR 3.65

Certainly need to up the RR but at least we have wickets in hand.

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Was panicking after we started off quite slowly, then I remembered it was 40 overs and not 20

I've done something similar for the last couple of international friendlies. I thought they were one day games and was very concerned about the high RR of the opposition. It took me a worrying amount of time to realise it was a T20 game!

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E. Ritchie (rfm) 8-0-54-1, E. McCall 71 (80b), I. Santos 64 (63b)
End of over 24 (18 runs) - Ruff Royals(149-1) RR 6.21

A fantastic over and these two are still together. I'm starting to wonder if there is a display error and that this is not a slow pitch at all.

Edit: McCall has just got out. Are we going to collapse or are we still going to make 220+?

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D. Duckworth (lm) 6-0-35-1, S. Whitehead 13 (12b), R. Norris 0 (3b)
End of over 28 (5 runs) - Ruff Royals(173-3) RR 6.18

It seems like we're trying to mess this up now. Still, we're not far off a decent score for a slow pitch but I'd really like us to be completely out of sight by the end of our innings.

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A. McCarthy (rfs) 7-1-13-3, D. Ylyett 1 (4b), B. Hayne 1 (3b)
End of over 29 (2 runs) - wolfberries(99-6) RR 3.41

Well it doesn't matter what over game this is as I think we are going to lose now, our batsmen have been ripped apart!

They are missing two internationals as well!

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G. Griffin (rm) 8-0-49-0, D. Ylyett 40 (39b), B. Hayne 37 (36b)
End of over 40 (9 runs) - wolfberries(176-6) RR 4.40

Well that was certainly a good comeback, not sure we can defend that but we have three wrist spinners so you never know.

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153-1 to 199-3 to 240-9. It looks like we've tried to grab defeat from the jaws of victory although I'd still like to think we've just about got enough runs here.

75 for McCall and 69 for Santos held our innings together. Without this: That is the 150 partnership (152 runs, 143b, 14x4, 2x6) SR:106.29, we would have been in real trouble.

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P. Massey (lfs) 1-0-1-1, R. Burdett 11 (17b), M. Spencer 0 (1b)
End of over 14 (1 run) - Bathaloner(62-3). 179 runs required from 26 overs. RR 4.43 RRR 6.88

We're in a good position on slow but so were the USA and they lost.

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C. Fox (rws) 3-0-23-0, S. Campbell 18 (31b), H. Haniff 39 (37b)
End of over 13 (13 runs) - Gold Prospectors X1(64-1). 113 runs required from 27 overs. RR 4.92 RRR 4.19

Well when your easily best spinner gets smashed then you know the game is other!

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J. Lord (rm) 6-0-30-1, H. Haniff 53 (54b), P. Fredericks 9 (14b)
End of over 20 (6 runs) - Gold Prospectors X1(93-2). 84 runs required from 20 overs. RR 4.65 RRR 4.20

Well we need wickets and quickly.