England League and Cup Discussion

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We're now 4 points clear at the top.

Nice win

[wolfberries]

Well, we've actually been winning in division 1.

2 wins from 5 so far with possibly our 3rd coming today...

M. Haqq (rf) 10-0-74-2, R. Ponting 49 (59b), R. Giggs 51 (55b)
End of over 30 (10 runs) - Munich CC(174-3) RR 5.80

Well done but this is the English leagues, away with your Irish stuff....

It appears that there are a few teams still in the Cup, so if you can make hay while they are weakened then you have a good chance of staying up.

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Leyland Lions wolfberries
Batting - Top Order 12,084 12,079
Batting - Middle Order 8,364 11,602
Batting - Tail 5,903 4,339
Bowling - Seam 10,974 (40) 10,586 (30)
Bowling - Spin 11,972 (10) 11,933 (20)
Fielding/Keeping 12,079 14,569
Overall 191,613 207,075

Result: wolfberries won by 29 runs

Another much needed win, which puts us up to 5th spot.

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Home Ruff Royals
Away Camberwell Carrots
Ground Ruff Royals CG
League Youth Twenty20 3.1
Date 25 May 20 10:00
Crowd 9,536
Weather Sunny
Pitch Sticky

We lost the toss and were put into bat. I was planning on batting anyway.

A good 31 for McCall and a fantastic 58 for Santos put us in a good position but we're currently in the process of collapsing.

E. Jordan (rfs) 3-0-34-3, W. Mills 2 (2b), S. Clouston 0 (0b)
End of over 18 (8 runs) - Ruff Royals(128-5) RR 7.11

Still, it's not a bad score so far. We need to try to get to 140+ though.

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E. Jordan (rfs) 4-0-39-4, W. Mills 9 (7b), T. Ball 0 (0b)
End of over 20 (5 runs) - Ruff Royals(140-6) RR 7.00

Exactly 140 so this should be interesting. We're slight favourites, perhaps?

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S. Clouston (rf) 2-0-12-0, R. Fitchett 15 (19b), A. Fairley 11 (19b)
End of over 7 (4 runs) - Camberwell Carrots(27-2). 114 runs required from 13 overs. RR 3.86 RRR 8.77

2 wickets in the first over from Roberson means that we're favourites now although we've not taken a wicket since then.

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Ruff Royals won by 48 runs.

Ruff Royals Camberwell Carrots
Batting - Top Order 8,043 6,678
Batting - Middle Order 5,059 4,634
Batting - Tail 3,176 3,056
Bowling - Seam 6,347 (12) 6,136 (12)
Bowling - Spin 9,071 (8) 6,294 (8)
Fielding/Keeping 8,618 8,220
Overall 124,981 110,075

A good win which gives us a 4 point lead over 4th and 5th place.

Roberson was the star with the ball picking up 4-12 and Ball cleared up at the end with 4-19.

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wolfberries bigsexybarry
Batting - Top Order 7,121 7,564
Batting - Middle Order 4,686 5,918
Batting - Tail 3,444 4,679
Bowling - Seam 7,153 (12) 6,691 (16)
Bowling - Spin 6,546 (8) 7,539 (4)
Fielding/Keeping 8,140 5,200
Overall 116,532 117,875

bigsexybarry won by 6 wickets

Bad loss for our title hopes, especially when our opponent had four quicks on a slow wicket!

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Home Bowled As Love
Away wolfberries
Ground Electric Ladyland
League Twenty20 2.2
Date 26 May 20 10:00
Crowd 16,168
Weather Humid
Pitch Slow

Toss: wolfberries won the toss and elected to bat.

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Home gRhyllidae
Away Ruff Royals
Ground Jiminy Cricket
League Twenty20 2.2
Date 26 May 20 10:00
Crowd 14,012
Weather Humid
Pitch Crumbling

I won the toss and decided to bowl. I was in two minds over whether to bat or bowl.

E. Perry (rm) 2-0-12-0, J. Chilvers 3 (7b), P. Plumpton 16 (17b)
End of over 4 (5 runs) - gRhyllidae(20-0) RR 5.00

One drop in the first over means and no wickets means it's slightly in their favour with wickets in hands. Still early though.

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A. Qambrani (rfs) 1-0-1-0, E. McGhee 13 (23b), C. Branston 5 (10b)
End of over 6 (1 run) - wolfberries(20-1) RR 3.33

Messed up the batting today, left out one of our best batsmen!

Not looking good as need to up the RR.

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A. Qambrani (rfs) 1-0-1-0, E. McGhee 13 (23b), C. Branston 5 (10b)
End of over 6 (1 run) - wolfberries(20-1) RR 3.33

Messed up the batting today, left out one of our best batsmen!

Not looking good as need to up the RR.

Yeah, that's a bit slow even for a slow pitch! A big over or two would change things pretty quickly though.

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A. Ten Dam (rfm) 2-0-8-0, K. 'Ole Rudisha 6 (11b), L. Stockley 2 (8b)
End of over 11 (6 runs) - gRhyllidae(45-6) RR 4.09

My match changed pretty quickly. Three wickets for Perry made up for the drop he had earlier (although McCutchin probably doens't think that).

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P. Callaway (rfs) 3.2-1-16-4, K. Broughton 2 (2b)
End of over 20 (1 run) - gRhyllidae(104-10) RR 5.20

I would have liked to have got them out for below 100 after we had them at 47-7. We still need to bat well.