England League and Cup Discussion

[wolfberries]

Yes we are both surprised but well done

Nice to see your homegrown players helping to beat us, you can't beat homegrown.

[wolfberries]

All Action Rejects wolfberries
Batting - Top Order 12,905 12,294
Batting - Middle Order 9,565 11,388
Batting - Tail 3,280 4,178
Bowling - Seam 10,638 (20) 10,292 (30)
Bowling - Spin 11,064 (30) 12,019 (20)
Fielding/Keeping 9,743 14,624
Overall 183,418 206,048

Result: All Action Rejects won by 5 wickets

Not the start we wanted really!

[montyh]

Pleased to have won my first PC / MKMC match, although my opponent essentially threw the game playing a number of youth team players. A shame, because we were closely rated.

The #3 seed up next - was fun while it lasted...

[wolfberries]

Home Golden Lion
Away wolfberries
Ground Burridge
League Youth Twenty20 3.4
Date 20 Apr 20 10:00
Weather (forecast) Overcast
Pitch (current) Slow

Toss: wolfberries won the toss and elected to bat.

After throwing yesterdays Cup game it's back to the leagues.

[wolfberries]

B. Griffith (lm) 3-0-23-0, T. Duldig 44 (36b), D. Reeler 23 (14b)
End of over 10 (12 runs) - wolfberries(83-1) RR 8.30

Very happy with the start from our batsmen.

[wolfberries]

L. McCarthy (lm) 4-0-55-1, T. Duldig 94 (68b), F. Hills 5 (3b)
End of over 20 (17 runs) - wolfberries(169-3) RR 8.45

Will take that final score,feel for opener Duldig who carried his bat but just missed out on a century.

[spark]

C. Chudasama (rf) 4-0-34-1, J. Van Dijk 58 (51b), R. Santiago 13 (5b)
End of over 20 (15 runs) - Staindrop Village CC(125-5) RR 6.25

They decided to bat on an uneven pitch. I've not picked a full strength team so I'm not unhappy with the bowling. It's certainly not going to be an easy chase though.

M. Srivastava (rfm) 2-0-7-0, A. Evans 5 (10b), I. Santos 5 (8b)
End of over 3 (4 runs) - Ruff Royals(10-0). 116 runs required from 17 overs. RR 3.33 RRR 6.82

Looks like we're going quite slowly.

[wolfberries]

Golden Lion wolfberries
Batting - Top Order 6,330 6,038
Batting - Middle Order 4,572 5,336
Batting - Tail 4,344 3,839
Bowling - Seam 5,946 (20) 6,499 (16)
Bowling - Spin 0 (0) 7,159 (4)
Fielding/Keeping 5,353 7,816
Overall 102,436 113,620

wolfberries won by 38 runs

Will take this win.

[spark]

Staindrop Village CC won by 6 runs.

Staindrop Village CC Ruff Royals
Batting - Top Order 6,869 7,125
Batting - Middle Order 5,971 4,769
Batting - Tail 4,274 2,712
Bowling - Seam 6,451 (16) 5,850 (16)
Bowling - Spin 8,597 (4) 9,475 (4)
Fielding/Keeping 8,166 7,542
Overall 123,084 111,217

We didn't win but I'm pleased with the performance. Roberson was our best bowler with a miserly 2-10 from his 4 overs and 2 batters got us close to their total with Whitehead scoring 44 from 37 balls and bowler Clouston hitting 35 from 26 balls.

[wolfberries]

Played a bot so it was an easy win.

For you or the Bot

[wolfberries]

Home wolfberries
Away Ruff Royals
Ground wolfberries CG
League Twenty20 2.2
Date 21 Apr 20 10:00
Crowd 15,878
Weather Cloudy
Pitch Crumbling

Toss: Ruff Royals won the toss and elected to bowl.(Wanted to bat anyway)

Good to be playing Ruff Royals again but methinks Sparks boys are the favorites today, hence why I've gone with the upset pitch that is Crumbling.

[wolfberries]

A. Diaz (rfm) 1-0-4-1, R. Fontaine 0 (0b), C. Branston 3 (6b)
End of over 5 (4 runs) - wolfberries(18-2) RR 3.60

Well that's both our openers gone!

[spark]

A. Diaz (rfm) 1-0-4-1, R. Fontaine 0 (0b), C. Branston 3 (6b)
End of over 5 (4 runs) - wolfberries(18-2) RR 3.60

Well that's both our openers gone!

Rightly or wrongly, I almost always have more confidence that we can successfully chase a total in T20 rather than successfully defend a total. I've gone for 4 seamers due to the weather but I was very tempted to give my young spin allrounder a game instead of Perry.

I'm happy so far but who knows what's going to be good enough on a crumbling pitch?

[spark]

I going to say sticking with Perry was probably a good idea.

E. Perry (rm) 4-1-10-2, O. Harford 1 (3b), R. Fontaine 3 (8b)
End of over 8 (2 runs) - wolfberries(30-3) RR 3.75