England League and Cup Discussion

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Home Sa beasts
Away wolfberries
Ground Sa beasts CG
League Youth Twenty20 3.4
Date 04 May 20 10:00
Crowd 5,970
Weather Cloudy
Pitch Uneven

Toss: Sa beasts won the toss and elected to bat.

Playing the bottom side who are winless, then again so were the team we lost to last Thursday!

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C. Penman (rf) 3-0-35-0, O. McAndrew 33 (34b), P. McCowan 33 (28b)
End of over 10 (14 runs) - Sa beasts(68-0) RR 6.80

Uneven and Cloudy conditions

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M. Retallick (rm) 3-0-13-1, A. Evans 4 (5b), A. Clarke 12 (7b)
End of over 17 (9 runs) - Ruff Royals(111-3) RR 6.53

Slow pitch and we've only recently lost 2 quick wickets. I feel like we need to get to at least 140.

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H. Flaherty (rws) 4-0-28-2, A. Clarke 27 (16b), S. Clouston 0 (0b)
End of over 20 (7 runs) - Ruff Royals(134-5) RR 6.70

An okay total but I'm not sure it'll be enough.

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F. Hills (rm) 4-0-29-2, T. Kamaru 2 (2b), R. Kirkpatrick 19 (19b)
End of over 20 (9 runs) - Sa beasts(124-4) RR 6.20

Certainly not the easiest of targets to chase in these conditions.

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K. Pettiford (lfs) 1-0-14-1, D. Katich 18 (12b), D. Reeler 0 (0b)
End of over 5 (14 runs) - wolfberries(36-1). 89 runs required from 15 overs. RR 7.20 RRR 5.93
4.6W Pettiford to Holland : [catch] Wider ball that no one expected to be hit, but a rash swing from Holland draws the thick edge to Burns at gully.S. Holland c B. Burns b. K. Pettiford 15 (18b 2x4 0x6) SR:83.33

Chase was going great until that last ball.

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We were well in it here:

P. Massey (lfs) 2-0-14-1, D. Langton 38 (31b), R. Bell 1 (1b)
End of over 12 (8 runs) - Captain Speccy's Muppets(72-2). 63 runs required from 8 overs. RR 6.00 RRR 7.88

2 overs later and a particularly expensive Terry Ball over:

T. Ball (lws) 1-0-17-0, R. Bell 15 (6b), D. Langton 51 (38b)
End of over 14 (17 runs) - Captain Speccy's Muppets(99-2). 36 runs required from 6 overs. RR 7.07 RRR 6.00

With hindsight, I should have given some of my weaker players more experience.

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Captain Speccy's Muppets won by 5 wickets

Captain Speccy's Muppets Ruff Royals
Batting - Top Order 7,037 7,743
Batting - Middle Order 5,424 5,163
Batting - Tail 2,882 3,210
Bowling - Seam 5,775 (16) 6,292 (12)
Bowling - Spin 7,851 (4) 8,616 (8)
Fielding/Keeping 7,467 8,115
Overall 111,847 121,710

A disappointing result. That bad over from Ball may have made all the difference.

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Sa beasts wolfberries
Batting - Top Order 6,040 6,038
Batting - Middle Order 4,952 4,968
Batting - Tail 3,187 3,568
Bowling - Seam 6,118 (8) 6,215 (20)
Bowling - Spin 6,717 (12) 0 (0)
Fielding/Keeping 4,293 8,154
Overall 98,799 110,272

wolfberries won by 6 wickets

Thankfully another win which keeps us unbeaten in this league so far, plus we played eleven future senior squad members.

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Home wolfberries
Away C.C.DeVille CCC
Ground wolfberries CG
League Twenty20 2.2
Date 05 May 20 10:00
Weather (forecast) Humid
Pitch (current) Crumbling

Toss: wolfberries won the toss and elected to bat.

Looking at another loss today!

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Home Ruff Royals
Away Snakey's Kent Stars
Ground Ruff Royals CG
League Twenty20 2.2
Date 05 May 20 10:00
Crowd 18,154
Weather Humid
Pitch Uneven

I was in two minds over whether to bat or bowl first but I decided to bowl first after winning the toss.

A. Diaz (rfm) 1-0-3-2, J. Blinman 7 (11b), C. Dunn 0 (0b)
End of over 5 (3 runs) - Snakey's Kent Stars(21-3) RR 4.20

Two wickets in the last over has really helped us.

Edit: And now Perry has his first wicket to put them four down. Two successful bowling triggers so far; one for Diaz and one for Perry.

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A. Ten Dam (rfm) 3-0-9-1, C. Dunn 16 (20b), C. Hillsz 1 (3b)
End of over 13 (3 runs) - Snakey's Kent Stars(61-5) RR 4.69

5 wickets needed to bowl them out which would be a great effort. It would be even better if we could do it with a couple of overs left.

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C. Moreno (rm) 4-0-24-1, O. Harford 9 (5b), L. Cody 5 (3b)
End of over 15 (7 runs) - wolfberries(98-4) RR 6.53

Decent enough score at the moment in these conditions, specialist finisher Harford is the key here for us.

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A. Diaz (rfm) 4-0-22-4, P. O'Mara 3 (4b), E. Kamal 0 (0b)
End of over 19 (11 runs) - Snakey's Kent Stars(106-8) RR 5.58

Just got their number 8 out for 26 after a destructive 16 balls. I don't want to be chasing 120+ especially as it had looked like we might have got them out for less than 100.

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P. Callaway (rfs) 4-0-27-1, P. O'Mara 5 (6b), K. Schreiber 3 (3b)
End of over 20 (5 runs) - Snakey's Kent Stars(111-9) RR 5.55

With conditions ideal for seam bowlers, it's probably not going to be an easy chase but we've given ourselves a good chance. We don't want to be losing early wickets though.