England League and Cup Discussion

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Camberwell Carrots Ruff Royals
Batting - Top Order 6,787 7,635
Batting - Middle Order 5,103 5,311
Batting - Tail 3,315 4,045
Bowling - Seam 6,891 (12) 6,061 (16)
Bowling - Spin 7,483 (8) 8,534 (4)
Fielding/Keeping 9,005 9,089
Overall 120,165 123,962

Camberwell Carrots won by 48 runs

Nothing went right really. From a drop in the first over, when we were bowling, to one of my best bowlers getting smashed all around the park. Despite that, 160 wasn't a complete disaster on an uneven pitch. We did find out what a complete disaster actually looked like when we lost 3 wickets in our first over. If that hadn't ended our chances then the wicket of my best batter, Durham, did as we were now just 9 runs for 4 wickets.

Miracles aside, this ends any chance we might have had for the title. There was also quite a considerable drop in ratings despite only having one player away on international duty albeit an important allrounder.

[casperj]

Crestfallen Sidekicks Cavendish Zeros
Batting - Top Order 12,106 11,983
Batting - Middle Order 10,235 9,082
Batting - Tail 5,455 6,116
Bowling - Seam 12,517 (12) 10,967 (16)
Bowling - Spin 14,054 (8) 9,195 (4)
Fielding/Keeping 15,304 12,944
Overall 217,303 194,511

Crestfallen Sidekicks won by 13 runs

Had to sell/fire my two best players to balance the books, so match ratings have taken a bit of a hit. However given how poorly the team performed in the first half of the season, I'm not too concerned about the impact on results! Third win from the last 4 T20 matches, but league is still really tight with 5 teams on 16 points, so still plenty to do if we are to avoid relegation.

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Danger Hotspurs Ruff Royals
Batting - Top Order 14,814 14,410
Batting - Middle Order 11,088 11,615
Batting - Tail 4,508 4,704
Bowling - Seam 14,539 (12) 13,510 (12)
Bowling - Spin 14,895 (8) 12,506 (8)
Fielding/Keeping 17,955 16,997
Overall 244,410 234,748

Ruff Royals won by 12 runs

We were made to bat first and I did not expect 126 to be enough on dry. It was a great bowling effort and the best figures were for Schneider who took 3-24.

We're now just 4 points from safety although I suspect our NRR is going to be a big problem.

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wolfberries Inchigeela Angels
Batting - Top Order 12,963 15,213
Batting - Middle Order 9,673 9,942
Batting - Tail 3,909 5,292
Bowling - Seam 10,613 (16) 14,190 (8)
Bowling - Spin 11,593 (4) 14,596 (12)
Fielding/Keeping 15,519 16,269
Overall 202,876 237,470

Result: Inchigeela Angels won by 7 wickets

Another T20 loss and some more experience for our younger seniors.

[wolfberries]

Home wolfberries
Away Gold Prospectors X1
Ground wolfberries CG
League Youth 3.1
Date 23 Nov 23 10:00
Crowd 7,454
Weather Humid
Pitch Dry

Toss: wolfberries won the toss and elected to bat.

C. Quinn (rfm) 6-1-29-1, D. Zesers 18 (27b), H. Goodrick 37 (50b)
End of over 20 (1 run) - wolfberries(86-2) RR 4.30

Not the worst start by our batsmen, and not sure how we are top of the league but we need a win today.

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We started off great by winning the toss on a dry pitch, batting first, and getting to 99-0. Then we were 118-1 but not long after we had collapsed to 143-6 before finally ending on 192-9. So we were a bit short of what I had hoped we'd get. Mitchell performed best for us with 73 from 94 balls.

G. Pithey (lf) 5-0-39-1, U. Tendulkar 0 (0b), E. Prospere 61 (98b)
End of over 26 (7 runs) - Relegation reprobates(106-7). 87 runs required from 14 overs. RR 4.08 RRR 6.21

The bowling is going pretty well but it looks like Prospere will be the key. Reynolds has done surprisingly well with the ball so far with 2-15 from his 4 overs.

[wolfberries]

wolfberries Gold Prospectors X1
Batting - Top Order 5,466 6,528
Batting - Middle Order 5,386 4,514
Batting - Tail 3,411 3,850
Bowling - Seam 5,683 (24) 6,353 (8)
Bowling - Spin 4,899 (16) 6,912 (32)
Fielding/Keeping 8,835 7,043
Overall 106,997 110,852

wolfberries won by 94 runs

Surprised by the size of the win but six wickets for our quality bowler Swanson no doubt helped.

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Q. Fattah (rfs) 8-1-23-2, E. Prospere 106 (142b), U. Tendulkar 10 (19b)
End of over 36 (3 runs) - Relegation reprobates(165-7). 28 runs required from 4 overs. RR 4.58 RRR 7.00

I can't really see us winning now. Prospere is proving impossible to get out and is taking most of the strike. Tendulkar's accumulator talent keeps triggering too.

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Relegation reprobates Ruff Royals
Batting - Top Order 7,608 7,678
Batting - Middle Order 6,278 5,509
Batting - Tail 3,392 4,054
Bowling - Seam 6,089 (16) 6,048 (32)
Bowling - Spin 7,116 (24) 8,455 (8)
Fielding/Keeping 7,432 8,996
Overall 121,543 124,545

Relegation reprobates won by 2 wickets

We managed to get Prospere out in the end but it was too late and Tendulkar more than doubled his previous best score to remain 23 not out and hit the winning runs.

We're now level on points at the top with 3 teams. It's going to be an interesting title run-in.

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Topmen Ruff Royals
Batting - Top Order 13,486 13,114
Batting - Middle Order 12,667 11,872
Batting - Tail 6,599 4,728
Bowling - Seam 13,505 (40) 13,624 (30)
Bowling - Spin 12,755 (10) 12,535 (20)
Fielding/Keeping 15,227 16,718
Overall 236,870 230,224

Topmen won by 86 runs

I rested a couple of players (and I've only just realised that I wasn't 8 points behind safety; I was only behind on nrr. I shouldn't have rested those players ). My replacement keeper dropped 2 or 3 chances which wasn't great. I probably shouldn't have decided to switch things up by bowling first on a sticky pitch either.

Other than that the game/day went well!

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South London's Number One CC v Camberwell Carrots >> Match Ratings
Match Ratings
South London's Number One CC Camberwell Carrots
Batting - Top Order 14,137 13,757
Batting - Middle Order 12,572 10,435
Batting - Tail 5,782 5,590
Bowling - Seam 13,701 (40) 14,001 (30)
Bowling - Spin 13,541 (10) 13,282 (20)
Fielding/Keeping 17,199 15,611
Overall 244,128 228,945

Won the toss and had a bat on sunny/sticky. Ebiowei did very well to make 63 (80) and Puncheon and Kouyate both made decent contributions to drag us to 194/10 in our 50 overs. In reply Gallagher was absolutely superb with figures of 6.5 - 1 - 15 - 6 as we emerged with a 55 run win. In a decent position 8 points clear with 5 games to go, but got a tricky run of fixtures coming up and our NRR isn't great, so still a lot of work to do.

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Crestfallen Sidekicks Gully Boys CC
Batting - Top Order 10,558 13,716
Batting - Middle Order 12,069 8,917
Batting - Tail 6,141 3,793
Bowling - Seam 11,751 (20) 13,577 (30)
Bowling - Spin 13,720 (30) 14,140 (20)
Fielding/Keeping 15,333 16,228
Overall 219,593 219,611

Gully Boys CC won by 74 runs

Another disappointing result in a season of disappointing results. Home advantage, and playing more spinners on a crumbling wicket, can't save us from a thrashing against a similar rated team. Opponent also bought 10 highly rated older players for next to nothing in the last week or so, meaning that their team has gone from rating 180k to 220k in a fortnight. Unfortunately the state of the transfer market makes that possible, but it makes it hard to prepare against teams.

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wolfberries South Yorkshire CC
Batting - Top Order 14,114 13,020
Batting - Middle Order 11,736 9,302
Batting - Tail 5,589 4,876
Bowling - Seam 14,399 (30) 12,069 (30)
Bowling - Spin 13,582 (20) 13,210 (20)
Fielding/Keeping 17,303 15,960
Overall 242,436 214,424

Result: wolfberries won by 47 runs

Decent enough win, although I'd hoped it would have been a bigger margin.

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Ruff Royals won by 11 runs

Ruff Royals Staindrop Lordies
Batting - Top Order 7,466 8,071
Batting - Middle Order 6,757 6,546
Batting - Tail 4,067 4,281
Bowling - Seam 7,055 (16) 8,165 (12)
Bowling - Spin 8,932 (4) 9,235 (8)
Fielding/Keeping 9,369 9,683
Overall 134,355 143,330

140 on a green pitch wasn't too bad but was certainly not going to be easy to defend either. Marwat hit 62 from 48 balls for a personal best. We made a good start to the bowling and kept the pressure on throughout. Fattah ended up with 4-23.

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Just can't get anything to go for me this season...

Run Machine Crestfallen Sidekicks
Batting - Top Order 14,122 12,462
Batting - Middle Order 10,505 9,942
Batting - Tail 5,723 5,734
Bowling - Seam 13,159 (8) 12,701 (8)
Bowling - Spin 12,602 (12) 13,633 (12)
Fielding/Keeping 13,277 15,414
Overall 219,637 219,362

Run Machine won by 1 run

Exceptional rated finger spinner going for 10.5 an over on a windy/crumbling cost me. If we lose next week as well we'll be back in the relegation area.