England League and Cup Discussion

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Relegation reprobates won by 34 runs.

Ruff Royals Relegation reprobates
Batting - Top Order 11,547 12,857
Batting - Middle Order 9,732 10,483
Batting - Tail 3,787 6,191
Bowling - Seam 11,796 (12) 12,775 (8)
Bowling - Spin 11,618 (8) 13,420 (12)
Fielding/Keeping 14,738 14,938
Overall 199,317 222,559

82-1 to 108 all out.

I’ll roll over and you can tickle my tummy in youths for now but a fair result based on ratings.

Yeah, the result was fair enough. The manner of the result made me sad though; those kind of collapses aren't fun!

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Golden Lion wolfberries
Batting - Top Order 9,898 10,571
Batting - Middle Order 9,240 9,225
Batting - Tail 5,764 3,889
Bowling - Seam 10,752 (8) 8,600 (16)
Bowling - Spin 9,982 (12) 7,847 (4)
Fielding/Keeping 12,748 12,649
Overall 183,541 171,054

Result: Golden Lion won by 5 wickets

Just keep repeating that they need experience...

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Match Details
Home OverTheRope
Away wolfberries
Ground OverTheRope CG
League Youth 2.2
Date 27 Aug 20 10:00
Crowd 5,269
Weather Windy
Pitch Green

Toss: OverTheRope won the toss and elected to bat.

3.2.Lord to Eathorne : [missed runout] Eathorne calls for a single but is sent back by his partner. Shurmer makes a wild return and misses the run out opportunity.

Not really helping ourselves so far, as well as the missed run out we bowled a wide off the 4th ball then conceded a boundary from the extra ball!

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6.3 2 Shurmer to Eathorne : [dropped] Dug in short and Eathorne skies a pull shot. Katich runs back, gets to the ball, but drops a tough chance.

L. Shurmer (rf) 4-0-20-0, W. Eathorne 14 (23b), A. Ali 16 (19b)
End of over 7 (3 runs) - OverTheRope(31-0) RR 4.43

We've been watching the England Test side...

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S. Clouston (rf) 4-0-12-0, B. Brindley 13 (21b), T. Geeves 12 (28b)
End of over 8 (3 runs) - Sledgingshire(26-0) RR 3.25

We decided to bowl first on a sticky pitch; I'm not sure that was a good idea after how the USA have been doing batting first on sticky pitches.

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J. Lord (rm) 6-0-23-0, A. Ali 35 (51b), W. Eathorne 54 (70b)
End of over 20 (3 runs) - OverTheRope(99-0) RR 4.95

Poor fielding is really shafting us today!

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T. Ball (lws) 2-0-7-2, T. McGinty 5 (7b), D. Oatley 2 (2b)
End of over 20 (4 runs) - Sledgingshire(84-2) RR 4.20

The ball before the first wicket was a drop by my keeper Clarke and the ball after the second wicket was a drop by Clarke. Both wickets taken from Ball's bowling. Sledgingshire well in control at the moment so we need those 2 wickets to be the start of a major collapse.

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S. Clouston (rf) 7-0-20-1, C. Richards 11 (7b), L. Mosbey 4 (13b)
End of over 25 (2 runs) - Sledgingshire(102-4) RR 4.08

Things are a bit better but the run rate is still too high and we need to keep taking wickets. We got the last wicket from a handled ball which you don't see that much.

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R. Salvana (rfm) 7-0-24-1, B. Blade 3 (2b), A. Ali 50 (73b)
End of over 29 (8 runs) - OverTheRope(128-3) RR 4.41

At least we've taken wickets but we need more.

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T. Vaughn (rm) 6-0-25-0, M. Mueller 7 (12b), M. Weare 14 (23b)
End of over 35 (1 run) - Sledgingshire(141-6) RR 4.03

Wish I could find a way to get Vaughn to take wickets; my worse younger mediums always seem to do better than him. I think we're going to struggle to chase their total which could see all hopes of surviving in the division take a serious blow.

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C. Chudasama (rf) 8-0-56-0, M. Weare 25 (35b), M. Mueller 39 (30b)
End of over 40 (10 runs) - Sledgingshire(191-6) RR 4.78

The run rate pressure is sure to kill our chances of picking up any points from this game.

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C. Chudasama (rf) 8-0-56-0, M. Weare 25 (35b), M. Mueller 39 (30b)
End of over 40 (10 runs) - Sledgingshire(191-6) RR 4.78

The run rate pressure is sure to kill our chances of picking up any points from this game.

D. Bonnor (rws) 8-1-32-2, C. Dolman 6 (6b), M. Baisya 1 (2b)
End of over 40 (3 runs) - OverTheRope(188-9) RR 4.70

Very similar chase for us, not confident to reach that.

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M. Baisya (lm) 1-0-3-0, D. Reeler 38 (42b), D. Katich 33 (37b)
End of over 22 (3 runs) - wolfberries(114-2). 75 runs required from 18 overs. RR 5.18 RRR 4.17

Going well so far.

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Ruff Royals Sledgingshire
Batting - Top Order 7,353 6,151
Batting - Middle Order 6,345 5,367
Batting - Tail 3,600 3,973
Bowling - Seam 6,343 (32) 6,704 (26)
Bowling - Spin 9,351 (8) 7,288 (14)
Fielding/Keeping 8,934 9,195
Overall 127,119 120,120

Match tied

I probably would have taken that result after our bowling display but when you only need 4 runs from the last over in order win then I think I've got to be disappointed in that. And even moreso with the ratings.

A very nice 62 from Evans and a decent 32 from Schneider.

Edit: I've just seen the other results in my league; including my game there were 3 ties!

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OverTheRope wolfberries
Batting - Top Order 6,001 6,345
Batting - Middle Order 5,602 5,167
Batting - Tail 3,574 3,586
Bowling - Seam 6,027 (40) 7,335 (24)
Bowling - Spin 0 (0) 6,799 (16)
Fielding/Keeping 6,800 9,042
Overall 107,674 119,544

Result: wolfberries won by 8 wickets

Batsmen coasted to victory in the end.