England League and Cup Discussion

[eagles123]

At work will post more about an epic game later ... but we’ve done it promoted to div 1 finally

[casperj]

Finally back in Division 2 next season (unless I slip up against a managerless team next week). Also an ultra-rare occurrence of my team winning on a dry wicket (although typically, seamers took most of the wickets)!

Gully Boys CC Crestfallen Sidekicks
Batting - Top Order 13,274 12,104
Batting - Middle Order 10,316 11,045
Batting - Tail 4,573 5,170
Bowling - Seam 13,096 (30) 14,227 (20)
Bowling - Spin 12,497 (20) 12,840 (30)
Fielding/Keeping 15,972 15,676
Overall 220,280 222,113

Crestfallen Sidekicks won by 5 runs

[wolfberries]

wolfberries Pedagogs
Batting - Top Order 9,792 12,692
Batting - Middle Order 7,121 11,327
Batting - Tail 3,579 6,005
Bowling - Seam 10,587 (30) 13,517 (30)
Bowling - Spin 9,946 (20) 12,456 (20)
Fielding/Keeping 13,324 16,255
Overall 170,019 228,321

Result: Pedagogs won by 38 runs

As suspected.

[spark]

Home Exmouth Cricket Club
Away Ruff Royals
Ground Exmouth Cricket Club CG
League Youth Twenty20 2.1
Date 24 May 21 10:00
Crowd 6,870
Weather Humid
Pitch Dry

We were put into bat and it went quite well.

S. Hotham (rfs) 4-0-43-0, N. Gera 42 (26b), W. Mills 125 (68b)
End of over 20 (18 runs) - Ruff Royals(207-2) RR 10.35

Excellent innings by Mills with 125 not out.

C. Rush (lm) 2-0-10-4, S. Asher 6 (12b), A. Saleh 0 (3b)
End of over 4 (1 run) - Exmouth Cricket Club(17-4). 191 runs required from 16 overs. RR 4.25 RRR 11.94

Bowling is going very well too.

[spark]

Ruff Royals won by 147 runs

Exmouth Cricket Club Ruff Royals
Batting - Top Order 5,346 7,494
Batting - Middle Order 3,151 6,301
Batting - Tail 3,016 3,688
Bowling - Seam 5,653 (12) 7,262 (12)
Bowling - Spin 5,681 (8) 5,491 (8)
Fielding/Keeping 4,696 8,935
Overall 85,447 125,822

Easy win. 5-16 for Rush and 3 wickets for 2 runs for Westerveld.

[wolfberries]

wolfberries Ouch right in the googlies
Batting - Top Order 6,849 3,032
Batting - Middle Order 4,794 4,786
Batting - Tail 2,278 4,008
Bowling - Seam 5,505 (12) 4,205 (20)
Bowling - Spin 9,639 (8) 0 (0)
Fielding/Keeping 9,339 3,250
Overall 117,221 74,072

Result: wolfberries won by 59 runs

Easy win that sneaks us into 4th spot.

[wolfberries]

Home wolfberries
Away Blackburn Blues
Ground wolfberries CG
League Twenty20 3.4
Date 25 May 21 10:00
Crowd 9,688
Weather Sunny
Pitch Slow

Toss: wolfberries won the toss and elected to bat.

Should be an easy win today against the league Bot, could end up 4th but most likely 5th will be our final position.

[spark]

Home Ruff Royals
Away Gavs Boys
Ground Ruff Royals CG
League Twenty20 2.1
Date 25 May 21 10:00
Crowd 20,244
Weather Sunny
Pitch Green

Crucial game and I've changed my pitch to green even though I've been a spin orientated team this season and I'm playing 2 spinners. It looks like they're playing 3 spinners. I need to win and make sure my NRR ends up higher than 2nd placed Inchigeela Angels.

We won the toss and decided to bowl first.

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E. Perry (rm) 1-0-10-1, N. Young 0 (0b), D. Hodgeman 3 (1b)
End of over 2 (10 runs) - Gavs Boys(14-3) RR 7.00

A good start but they've got what I think might be their 2 best batters in now.

[wolfberries]

Z. Jalil (rfs) 2-0-19-0, M. Scholes 43 (26b), T. Hopper 28 (17b)
End of over 7 (8 runs) - wolfberries(73-0) RR 10.43

Going well enough so far.

[spark]

A. Diaz (rfm) 2-0-11-0, C. Baring 5 (10b), D. Hodgeman 8 (11b)
End of over 7 (8 runs) - Gavs Boys(33-4) RR 4.71

Baring is a wicketkeeper batsman who I suspect is also a good batter so they've still got a chance of getting a decent score. That means we need more wickets and can't afford to release any pressure that we have on them. I decided to give Diaz another chance in T20 after some poor performances in that format recently; he better not let me down again.

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P. Callaway (rfs) 3-0-21-1, W. Morres 0 (0b), C. Baring 17 (29b)
End of over 14 (8 runs) - Gavs Boys(78-6) RR 5.57

Another couple of wickets but can we wrap this up quickly now?

[wolfberries]

N. Govindasvamy (rfs) 4-0-38-0, D. Katich 3 (5b), D. Reeler 35 (26b)
End of over 20 (6 runs) - wolfberries(204-3) RR 10.20

We should be able to defend this.

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S. Hodges (rfs) 4-0-27-2, S. Van Oosterhout 2 (2b)
End of over 20 (5 runs) - Gavs Boys(122-10) RR 6.10

We didn't wrap it up that quicly but I would still have taken this chase if offered at the beginning. I'll cross my fingers that my batters don't mess this up.

In the other important match, Bathaloner need 177 to beat Inchigeela Angels on a hard pitch.

[spark]

S. Goodman (rm) 1-0-5-1, B. Issa 3 (2b), F. Best 3 (4b)
End of over 2 (5 runs) - Ruff Royals(20-2). 103 runs required from 18 overs. RR 10.00 RRR 5.72

Losing 2 of my best bats is not a great start.