England League and Cup Discussion

[aarong]

Tough game next week against Trevor Francis Tracksuit (great club name) who have 11 wins from 11 so far. Probably need to win all three of our remaining games to have a chance of catching up with Bathaloner in 2nd place.

Cheers mate

[wolfberries]

Home wolfberries
Away Middlesex Gurus
Ground wolfberries CG
League Youth Twenty20 3.2
Date 22 May 23 10:00
Crowd 8,700
Weather Windy
Pitch Flat

Toss: wolfberries won the toss and elected to bat.

A. Kuria (rm) 3.5-0-39-1, D. Frakes 11 (4b)
End of over 20 (9 runs) - wolfberries(167-10) RR 8.35

A collapse of five wickets in sixteen balls has probably cost us the game!

[spark]

Snakey's Kent Stars Ruff Royals
Batting - Top Order 7,145 7,962
Batting - Middle Order 6,122 6,464
Batting - Tail 4,172 5,126
Bowling - Seam 5,594 (20) 5,750 (10)
Bowling - Spin 0 (0) 7,914 (10)
Fielding/Keeping 8,470 10,216
Overall 118,968 137,892

Ruff Royals won by 7 wickets

We managed to chase 153 to win the game and the title!

It wasn't the best bowling performance with Harrison in particular suffering as he went for 10 an over. We only took 4 wickets but it turned out not to be as difficult a chase as I thought it might be.

81 for Banerjee to continue his excellent season with the bat. Bennett also contributed well with 49 not out; he seems to do much better in T20 (averaging about 37) than in YOD (averaging about 12). We won with a couple of overs to spare.

[wolfberries]

We managed to chase 153 to win the game and the title!

Well done and a week early

[wolfberries]

Home St. Marks Hill Strollers
Away wolfberries
Ground The Sheraton
League Twenty20 2.2
Date 23 May 23 10:00
Crowd 14,409
Weather Sunny
Pitch Dry

Toss: St. Marks Hill Strollers won the toss and elected to bat.

Could possibly push for promotion if we win the last two games, but not sure our aging squad could cope in division one. So decided to play a few prospects today and see how it goes.

[spark]

Snakey's Kent Stars won by 49 runs

Ruff Royals Snakey's Kent Stars
Batting - Top Order 12,612 13,326
Batting - Middle Order 9,955 11,988
Batting - Tail 4,351 7,370
Bowling - Seam 11,778 (12) 14,159 (8)
Bowling - Spin 12,096 (8) 12,840 (12)
Fielding/Keeping 16,947 16,395
Overall 213,688 239,389

Despite not being safe from relegation, I played a weakened team to rest some players for a big game on Friday. As long as Zippy's Rainbow Destroyers don't buy a whole new senior squad, I should have won by this tim next week and secured my place in T20 1.1 for another season.

[eagles123]

South London's Number One CC v Pedagogs >> Match Ratings
Match Ratings
South London's Number One CC Pedagogs
Batting - Top Order 12,991 13,856
Batting - Middle Order 11,306 11,582
Batting - Tail 5,001 7,153
Bowling - Seam 13,151 (4) 13,868 (12)
Bowling - Spin 11,035 (16) 12,535 (8)
Fielding/Keeping 15,519 16,143
Overall 216,042 238,314


woke up and saw I set the pitch to dry by mistake so decided to have a bit of fun and play 4 spinners, including a 20 and 21 yo. Unsurprisingly they struggled somewhat and opps made 173/5 in their 20. We batted pretty well and Richards made a nice unbeaten half-century with 66* (59) but the run rate was always going to be too much and we fell 21 runs short. Bit frustrating as this costs us any chance of 2nd place, but only have myself to blame ... no idea what I was thinking with the pitch selection

[wolfberries]

St. Marks Hill Strollers wolfberries
Batting - Top Order 12,105 13,785
Batting - Middle Order 10,879 9,143
Batting - Tail 7,086 4,838
Bowling - Seam 11,735 (4) 10,256 (8)
Bowling - Spin 13,172 (16) 11,806 (12)
Fielding/Keeping 14,779 15,524
Overall 221,952 208,732

Result: Wolfberries Too won by 26 runs

Coasting to victory but two collapses cost us, plus the fact our keeper missed his first four chances didn't help

[wolfberries]

Home Daredevil rocker
Away wolfberries
Ground Daredevil rocker CG
League Youth 3.1
Date 25 May 23 10:00
Crowd 6,366
Weather Humid
Pitch Hard

Toss: Daredevil rocker won the toss and elected to bowl.

R. Sneeboer (rm) 8-0-46-1, A. McAndrews 70 (78b), D. Townsend 8 (13b)
End of over 31 (5 runs) - wolfberries(174-3) RR 5.61

First vs second today and only separated by NRR, so a must win game.

[wolfberries]

P. Bhatti (lm) 8-0-48-1, G. Gee 3 (3b), D. Townsend 28 (32b)
End of over 40 (5 runs) - wolfberries(235-4) RR 5.88

Not a great total, lets just hope our four seam bowlers can use the humid weather.

[wolfberries]

Home wolfberries
Away Relegation reprobates
Ground wolfberries CG
League One Day 2.2
Date 26 May 23 10:00
Crowd 18,906
Weather Humid
Pitch Slow

Toss: wolfberries won the toss and elected to bat.

Top five are separated by four points, we are currently third and playing forth so really need a win.

[spark]

Ruff Royals Bathaloner
Batting - Top Order 6,888 7,326
Batting - Middle Order 7,679 5,907
Batting - Tail 5,446 5,244
Bowling - Seam 5,917 (22) 6,639 (32)
Bowling - Spin 8,235 (18) 6,517 (8)
Fielding/Keeping 10,390 8,662
Overall 140,580 127,730

Ruff Royals won by 6 wickets

A decent win yesterday. Banerjee 71 not out and Durham with 44 enabled us to chase 187 to win on a slow pitch. We're still 4 points behind top spot and with a far inferior net run rate it seems extremely unlikely we'll get promoted this season.

[spark]

A huge game today in the relegation battle in division 1. There's 3 teams on 20 points battling relegation. Sledgingshire, us and, the side we're facing today, St Marks Hill Strollers.

It's a dry pitch and pretty much a must win game.

[spark]

G. Zakayo (lf) 7-0-27-2, S. Whitehead 66 (81b), A. Clarke 6 (6b)
End of over 32 (2 runs) - Ruff Royals(155-4) RR 4.84

It's very much in the balance at the moment. Whitehead's move to the opening position continues to pay off as did Schmidt's move to number 3 although he was out for 52. I've no idea what sort of total is going to be good enough; my suspicion is that we're going to need to get to at least 250. I doubt that it is likely we'll make it to as much as that.

[spark]

End of over 47 (maiden) - Ruff Royals(240-10) RR 5.11

110 for Whitehead. 52 for Schmidt and not much from everyone else. Whitehead dropped on 76 and 98 so a little lucky to get a century but he probably deserved that luck.

I don't know if this is going to be enough.