England League and Cup Discussion

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Snakey's Kent Stars won by 18 runs

Snakey's Kent Stars Ruff Royals
Batting - Top Order 13,969 14,389
Batting - Middle Order 12,135 10,403
Batting - Tail 4,826 4,629
Bowling - Seam 13,362 (8) 13,097 (8)
Bowling - Spin 13,330 (12) 14,182 (12)
Fielding/Keeping 16,962 16,888
Overall 236,496 232,460

Didn't do well enough with ball or bat. Decent effort from Paton with 45 and Hodges 36 not out but they had far too much to do with no real support from anyone else.

[wolfberries]

Zippys Rainbow Destroyers wolfberries
Batting - Top Order 12,622 12,165
Batting - Middle Order 9,832 8,955
Batting - Tail 4,316 4,151
Bowling - Seam 11,363 (16) 10,910 (20)
Bowling - Spin 13,461 (4) 0 (0)
Fielding/Keeping 15,152 14,685
Overall 207,132 195,544

Result: Zippys Rainbow Destroyers won by 8 wickets

Another last ball loss, didn't take long for the CENSORED take to start this season

[wolfberries]

Home ShrimperZone CC
Away wolfberries
Ground ShrimperZone CC CG
League Youth 2.1
Date 23 Sep 21 10:00
Crowd 7,284
Weather Cloudy
Pitch Uneven

Toss: wolfberries won the toss and elected to bat.

Can't see us winning today. or much this season with our youths. Our bowling is just too weak and young currently.

[wolfberries]

I. Jabir (rfm) 6-1-21-1, L. Lawrence 41 (50b), J. Easton 25 (48b)
End of over 20 (7 runs) - wolfberries(85-2) RR 4.25

Not too bad at the halfway point of our innings, Lawrence is the key for us.

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Home Ruff Royals
Away Ffoh
Ground Ruff Royals CG
League Youth 2.2
Date 23 Sep 21 10:00
Crowd 9,869
Weather Cloudy
Pitch Slow

A. Simmons (rm) 7-1-24-1, M. Schmidt 29 (43b), A. Dotson 66 (72b)
End of over 29 (13 runs) - Ruff Royals(140-2) RR 4.83

It's going to be a tough game but it's going okay so far.

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S. Mullen (rfs) 7-0-44-2, R. Gilbert 0 (0b), A. Patterson 0 (0b)
End of over 30 (4 runs) - Ruff Royals(144-4) RR 4.80

About a minute later and it's not going ok so far.

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B. Fortuyn (rm) 8-0-42-3, L. Bruce 22 (21b), B. Gardiner 4 (1b)
End of over 40 (8 runs) - Ruff Royals(202-7) RR 5.05

It went very badly after my first post but we managed to recover a bit thanks to Westerveld's 23 and Bruce's 22 not out. Dotson top-scored for us with 68.

D. Combs (lf) 2-0-3-0, C. Thorbourne 11 (17b), R. Blackburn 1 (7b)
End of over 4 (1 run) - Ffoh(13-0). 190 runs required from 36 overs. RR 3.25 RRR 5.28

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J. Westerveld (rfs) 2-0-11-0, J. Fischer 10 (8b), R. Blackburn 35 (44b)
End of over 20 (8 runs) - Ffoh(108-2). 95 runs required from 20 overs. RR 5.40 RRR 4.75

It doesn't look like it's going our way. We're going to need a really good performance from the bowlers after the break.

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Ruff Royals Ffoh
Batting - Top Order 6,979 7,714
Batting - Middle Order 5,027 6,251
Batting - Tail 3,310 4,051
Bowling - Seam 7,990 (16) 6,641 (24)
Bowling - Spin 6,647 (24) 6,852 (16)
Fielding/Keeping 9,038 9,694
Overall 120,990 130,724

Ffoh won by 3 wickets

A bit disappointing as I thought we might have scored enough. The bowlers didn't get the early wickets that we needed.

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ShrimperZone CC wolfberries
Batting - Top Order 7,383 6,261
Batting - Middle Order 6,547 5,995
Batting - Tail 4,600 3,380
Bowling - Seam 6,951 (24) 4,543 (32)
Bowling - Spin 8,501 (16) 4,035 (8)
Fielding/Keeping 6,063 8,692
Overall 125,566 107,454

Result: ShrimperZone CC won by 8 wickets

Was always going to lose, bowling just isn't strong enough.

[wolfberries]

Home Relegation reprobates
Away wolfberries
Ground Relegation reprobates CG
League One Day 2.1
Date 24 Sep 21 10:00
Crowd 17,831
Weather Cloudy
Pitch Dry

Toss: wolfberries won the toss and elected to bat.

Going to get beat today methinks

[eagles123]

home on sticky/cloudy against last season's champions Ffoh, strangely had the same opening fixture last season. not been a good start, 12/2 from 4.

[eagles123]

62/4 off 16, a runout not helping. really need a decent partnership here otherwise this could be over rather quickly

[spark]

Also a sticky pitch for me but we're bowling first against Topmen.

A. Ten Dam (rfm) 10-1-29-3, C. Winters 2 (4b), T. Sithole 8 (16b)
End of over 34 (4 runs) - Topmen(106-6) RR 3.12

We need to finish this off quickly but I'm not confident that's going to happen.

[eagles123]

all out for 124, not entirely expected against such a strong opposition. Hopefully our bowlers can get stuck in and make a game of things