England League and Cup Discussion

[wolfberries]

J. Uma (lm) 8-0-35-0, G. Ebeling 30 (22b), G. Lampe 5 (3b)
End of over 40 (9 runs) - wolfberries(212-5) RR 5.30

Very happy with that score.

[spark]

Ruff Royals Dunbrody Academy London
Batting - Top Order 6,765 6,869
Batting - Middle Order 6,420 5,956
Batting - Tail 3,737 4,231
Bowling - Seam 6,620 (16) 7,189 (24)
Bowling - Spin 6,553 (24) 5,859 (16)
Fielding/Keeping 8,716 8,128
Overall 123,001 121,668

Dunbrody Academy London won by 3 wickets

I'm thinking that I might knock my experiment with sticky pitches on its head. It has not gone well. Numbers 5-8 did do alright but their number 5 and 7 did even better. Perhaps I'll give it another set of home fixtures but maybe I should use something to take advantage of my good fielding?

[wolfberries]

wolfberries Danger Hotspurs
Batting - Top Order 6,335 8,176
Batting - Middle Order 6,415 6,799
Batting - Tail 3,459 4,080
Bowling - Seam 5,484 (24) 7,049 (24)
Bowling - Spin 7,587 (16) 7,404 (16)
Fielding/Keeping 9,185 9,174
Overall 120,558 135,621

Result: wolfberries won by 49 runs

Very happy and very surprised with today's win, not out of danger for relegation but today certainly helped us.

[spark]

Home Ruff Royals
Away Ffoh
Ground Ruff Royals CG
League One Day 1.1
Date 08 Jul 22 10:00
Weather (forecast) Cloudy
Pitch (current) Dry

We could win the title today if we pick up 4 points. It's going to be a difficult game even though we're playing the 6th placed team as they'll be wanting a win to pretty much secure their status in division 1 next season.

[wolfberries]

Home wolfberries
Away Cutting Edge CC
Ground wolfberries CG
League One Day 3.3
Date 08 Jul 22 10:00
Crowd 17,136
Weather Cloudy
Pitch Green

Toss: Cutting Edge CC won the toss and elected to bat.

Need a win to keep up our push for promotion.

J. Lord (rm) 4-1-18-2, T. Kakde 2 (5b), T. van der Zanden 0 (1b)
End of over 7 (maiden) - Cutting Edge CC(29-2) RR 4.14

Decent start by our bowlers.

[spark]

W. Robertson (rm) 5-0-19-1, A. Clarke 1 (3b), W. Mills 15 (24b)
End of over 9 (3 runs) - Ruff Royals(37-2) RR 4.11

It's not going very well so far, especially as we haven't seen their spinners yet.

[eagles123]

away to Inchigeela on hard, playing three of our 20/21 year old's as already relegated so why not, gives them a bit of experience. Lost the toss and having a bowl, opps 184/2 from 27, looking set for probably 400+

[spark]

Mills out before he made it to 50 but Clarke does make it to the half century.

H. Albert (rf) 8-0-39-0, A. Clarke 50 (62b), F. Best 11 (19b)
End of over 31 (12 runs) - Ruff Royals(132-3) RR 4.26

It might be alright but we'll need at least 100 more runs.

[spark]

Well, things have gone bad quite quickly. 142-3 to 145-7; an impressive collapse which has almost certainly cost us the game.

[spark]

S. Lucas (lfs) 9.3-0-26-3, C. Moses 0 (2b)
End of over 43 (maiden) - Ruff Royals(171-10) RR 3.98

It all went wrong and to make things worse the last wicket was a run out which is criminal when there's 7 overs to go.

[spark]

S. Hodges (rfs) 9-3-13-2, A. O'Keeffe 44 (66b), H. Albert 0 (3b)
End of over 42 (1 run) - Ffoh(150-7). 22 runs required from 8 overs. RR 3.57 RRR 2.75

I think we've lost this and it'll be partly due to dropping O'Keeffe in 2 consecutive balls when he was on 17.

[spark]

Ruff Royals Ffoh
Batting - Top Order 13,493 13,538
Batting - Middle Order 12,910 11,729
Batting - Tail 4,656 5,033
Bowling - Seam 14,001 (20) 14,033 (20)
Bowling - Spin 15,091 (30) 13,975 (30)
Fielding/Keeping 16,932 16,031
Overall 243,656 234,254

Ruff Royals won by 12 runs

It's taken far too long since I first started playing this game until I've finally won England SOD 1.1 but I have at last done it.

They never seem to want to make it easy on me and my team (not necessarily these players) have disappointed me many times before.

Mills' 39 and Clarke's 55 got us to a low but (with hindsight) defendable total of 171. The bowlers kept it pretty tight and managed to pick up wickets fairly regularly. Hodges was the best and finished with 3-15 from his 10 overs and Massey picked up 3 crucial wickets at the end.

[eagles123]

Ruff Royals Ffoh
Batting - Top Order 13,493 13,538
Batting - Middle Order 12,910 11,729
Batting - Tail 4,656 5,033
Bowling - Seam 14,001 (20) 14,033 (20)
Bowling - Spin 15,091 (30) 13,975 (30)
Fielding/Keeping 16,932 16,031
Overall 243,656 234,254

Ruff Royals won by 12 runs

It's taken far too long since I first started playing this game until I've finally won England SOD 1.1 but I have at last done it.

They never seem to want to make it easy on me and my team (not necessarily these players) have disappointed me many times before.

Mills' 39 and Clarke's 55 got us to a low but (with hindsight) defendable total of 171. The bowlers kept it pretty tight and managed to pick up wickets fairly regularly. Hodges was the best and finished with 3-15 from his 10 overs and Massey picked up 3 crucial wickets at the end.

fantastic effort, congrats Spark!

Inchigeela Angels v South London's Number One CC >> Match Ratings
Match Ratings
Inchigeela Angels South London's Number One CC
Batting - Top Order 14,666 14,255
Batting - Middle Order 13,641 9,418
Batting - Tail 7,563 3,360
Bowling - Seam 14,333 (20) 10,832 (40)
Bowling - Spin 14,994 (30) 8,557 (10)
Fielding/Keeping 16,501 15,820
Overall 259,070 204,118

was obviously expecting a loss with the team I picked, quite happy with the batting effort nearly getting to 300. Musyoka really struggled with the ball, going at 11.2 per over, but not too surprising given he's reliable summary right now!

[wolfberries]

Ruff Royals won by 12 runs

It's taken far too long since I first started playing this game until I've finally won England SOD 1.1 but I have at last done it.

Well done fella, a great achievement.

[casperj]

Makes up for the last ME screwing I got a few weeks ago - outrated by 12k, with worse seamers (especially F/FMs) on a Cloudy/Uneven, but squeak a win. Not as ridicuous as the loss I suffered two weeks ago, but just about evens things up for my team.

Camberwell Carrots Crestfallen Sidekicks
Batting - Top Order 13,778 11,689
Batting - Middle Order 11,330 12,437
Batting - Tail 5,104 5,129
Bowling - Seam 13,218 (40) 12,031 (40)
Bowling - Spin 13,886 (10) 13,246 (10)
Fielding/Keeping 16,036 15,063
Overall 230,614 218,453

End of over 47 (3 runs) - Camberwell Carrots(172-10). 2 runs required from 3 overs. RR 3.66 RRR 0.67
A. Wearing 2 (3b), J. Hawkins (rf) 8.3-0-44-3
Crestfallen Sidekicks won by 1 run