England League and Cup Discussion

[spark]

Home Bathaloner
Away Ruff Royals
Ground Fish Bowl
League One Day 2.2
Date 19 Jun 20 10:00
Crowd 16,000
Weather Windy
Pitch Slow

Forgot to set my team so the orders aren't quite what I would have chosen but the default settings weren't terrible.

We were put into bat which I'm okay with.

K. Flens (lm) 4-0-16-0, L. Avila 18 (18b), P. Solomon 25 (25b)
End of over 7 (3 runs) - Ruff Royals(44-0) RR 6.29

We're out of the blocks quickly.

[spark]

K. Flens (lm) 6-0-20-0, J. Bass 4 (10b), B. Kirk 23 (28b)
End of over 21 (3 runs) - Ruff Royals(97-2) RR 4.62

Lost a couple of wickets and the run rate has, unsurprisingly, slowed down a bit. My two BH batters together now.

[wolfberries]

J. Omar (lfs) 1-0-4-0, C. Branston 16 (27b), E. McGhee 22 (34b)
End of over 11 (4 runs) - wolfberries(40-1) RR 3.64

Looking good.

Z. Mazin (rws) 1-1-0-0, E. McGhee 24 (50b), O. Harford 1 (9b)
End of over 21 (maiden) - wolfberries(51-3) RR 2.43

Not looking so good, unless FTP have suddenly implemented Test cricket

[wolfberries]

Z. Mazin (rws) 3-1-11-0, O. Harford 16 (19b), E. McGhee 28 (64b)
End of over 25 (3 runs) - wolfberries(71-3) RR 2.84

Interesting first 25 overs.

[spark]

J. Quintana (rfm) 6-0-45-0, C. Paton 24 (22b), B. Kirk 35 (51b)
End of over 31 (9 runs) - Ruff Royals(141-3) RR 4.55

Paton has come in on aggressive and has got it right so far. We could do with at least one of these two getting a big score.

[wolfberries]

Z. Mazin (rws) 8.1-2-20-1, E. Peden 11 (14b)
End of over 48 (maiden) - wolfberries(157-10) RR 3.27

Not sure we will defend this, even in these conditions.

[spark]

I said my orders were reasonable but completely forgot that it was international week so I'll have 2 players missing which will have screwed up my orders somewhat. Despite having my wicketkeeper playing, it will be a batsman that will be keeping wicket and I think my spin allrounder might be opening the bowling.

B. MacDoyo (lfs) 10-0-32-1, A. Ten Dam 1 (1b), A. Diaz 6 (6b)
End of over 50 (6 runs) - Ruff Royals(230-9) RR 4.60

Normally, I'd be reasonably confident that this was be a good total but with my failure to set orders I'm not so sure.

[spark]

C. Paton (lfs) 1-0-13-0, C. Hunter 10 (5b), I. Khalifah 2 (2b)
End of over 1 (13 runs) - Bathaloner(13-0). 218 runs required from 49 overs. RR 13.00 RRR 4.45

Okay, I've lost as it looks like the game has decided to bowl my back-up wicketkeeper instead of the allrounder that came in. I've only myself to blame.

[Monsieurflibble]

G. Njoroge (rm) 4-0-19-0, R. Niehuus 23 (21b), K. Alison 6 (13b)
End of over 8 (6 runs) - Relegation reprobates(39-1). 92 runs required from 42 overs. RR 4.88 RRR 2.19

Back to back matches of teams playing youngsters......?

Expected a tough one so for sure looking good. Spark doing his best to make this league interesting it seems.

Having been close to broke a few seasons back, feed me prize money happily.

[wolfberries]

E. Calder (rfm) 5-0-26-0, F. Gordon 23 (39b), H. Crawford 19 (25b)
End of over 10 (8 runs) - bluekipper8878(56-0). 102 runs required from 40 overs. RR 5.60 RRR 2.55

Well we aren't winning this game!

[wolfberries]

S. Payne (lfs) 3-1-11-1, M. Makongola 26 (23b), M. Cowmeadow 6 (17b)
End of over 25 (4 runs) - bluekipper8878(116-2). 42 runs required from 25 overs. RR 4.64 RRR 1.68

Unfortunately once again our bowling just isn't strong enough!

[wolfberries]

bluekipper8878 wolfberries
Batting - Top Order 13,174 12,321
Batting - Middle Order 12,015 11,769
Batting - Tail 6,880 4,545
Bowling - Seam 11,410 (20) 11,165 (20)
Bowling - Spin 13,143 (30) 11,953 (30)
Fielding/Keeping 14,260 14,989
Overall 226,425 213,150

bluekipper8878 won by 6 wickets

As expected another loss.

[spark]

Spark doing his best to make this league interesting it seems.

It was actually looking quite good for us with us getting them to 121-6 but we've not taken a wicket since. My back-up keeper, who is bowling, even managed a couple of wickets although he went for 70+ runs.

P. Callaway (rfs) 9-1-37-3, B. MacDoyo 0 (0b), B. Mobley 32 (40b)
End of over 38 (4 runs) - Bathaloner(195-7). 36 runs required from 12 overs. RR 5.13 RRR 3.00

Still in with a slight chance of a win but I get the feeling they'll manage to go at 3 runs an over for the rest of the game.

[spark]

Ruff Royals won by 19 runs.

Bathaloner Ruff Royals
Batting - Top Order 13,176 13,741
Batting - Middle Order 11,123 10,328
Batting - Tail 6,751 4,328
Bowling - Seam 12,746 (30) 11,587 (30)
Bowling - Spin 12,765 (20) 8,897 (20)
Fielding/Keeping 14,341 11,478
Overall 224,247 196,252

A massive let-off for my side.

It was largely the batting that got me out of trouble with a 46 from Solomon, 56 from Kirk, and 46 from Paton. Callaway also deserves a mention for picking up 4 wickets.

[wolfberries]

Home wolfberries
Away Sa beasts
Ground wolfberries CG
League Youth Twenty20 3.4
Date 22 Jun 20 10:00
Weather (forecast) Sunny
Pitch (current) Hard

Toss: wolfberries won the toss and elected to bat.