England League and Cup Discussion

[spark]

Ruff Royals Danger Hotspurs
Batting - Top Order 13,548 12,965
Batting - Middle Order 11,353 10,273
Batting - Tail 4,728 4,556
Bowling - Seam 13,225 (20) 13,791 (20)
Bowling - Spin 14,325 (30) 13,079 (30)
Fielding/Keeping 16,820 15,890
Overall 233,675 221,113

Danger Hotspurs won by 47 runs

Disappointing game for us. Maybe should have batted first but that could have gone wrong too.

Roberson and Hodges have been a bit rubbish this season so far and need to pick up more wickets. Most of my bats have been rubbish too but that is the same as normal.

[wolfberries]

Home Francis House
Away wolfberries
Ground Francis House CG
League Youth Twenty20 3.1
Date 17 Jan 22 10:00
Crowd 6,030
Weather Overcast
Pitch Slow

Toss: wolfberries won the toss and elected to bat.

Another 50/50 game methinks.

[spark]

Ruff Royals Egham Town CC
Batting - Top Order 7,125 5,600
Batting - Middle Order 5,496 5,774
Batting - Tail 3,660 4,058
Bowling - Seam 6,580 (8) 7,520 (8)
Bowling - Spin 7,295 (12) 6,843 (12)
Fielding/Keeping 8,690 8,246
Overall 122,581 117,983

Match Tied.

The result doesn't really help much. We needed 7 from the last over with 4 wickets remaining so it very much feels like a loss.

The bowling was okay on a dry pitch although it was bit mixed in that a couple did well, a couple did badly, and another took wickets but wasn't that economical. House did well with the bat for his 43 and Schmidt was great for his 75 not out from 51 balls.

[wolfberries]

Francis House wolfberries
Batting - Top Order 5,948 6,859
Batting - Middle Order 4,439 5,647
Batting - Tail 3,428 3,725
Bowling - Seam 6,234 (16) 6,108 (12)
Bowling - Spin 7,528 (4) 5,103 (8)
Fielding/Keeping 6,318 9,734
Overall 103,255 118,934

Result: wolfberries won by 13 runs

Looking at the ratings, they got a lot closer to the total than I had hoped.

[montyh]

Ruff Royals Egham Town CC
Batting - Top Order 7,125 5,600
Batting - Middle Order 5,496 5,774
Batting - Tail 3,660 4,058
Bowling - Seam 6,580 (8) 7,520 (8)
Bowling - Spin 7,295 (12) 6,843 (12)
Fielding/Keeping 8,690 8,246
Overall 122,581 117,983

Match Tied.

The result doesn't really help much. We needed 7 from the last over with 4 wickets remaining so it very much feels like a loss.

The bowling was okay on a dry pitch although it was bit mixed in that a couple did well, a couple did badly, and another took wickets but wasn't that economical. House did well with the bat for his 43 and Schmidt was great for his 75 not out from 51 balls.

Yep - I feel the opposite - lucky to not have lost with one over to go.

A tale of two 20.14's - my exp/exp bowl/tech being karted around for nearly 11 per over. Your $7.5k wage batsman hitting 75 from 51 balls...hope that means we'll be in a better position when we see you later in the season

All the best,
Montyh

[wolfberries]

Home wolfberries
Away Staindrop Lordies
Ground wolfberries CG
League Twenty20 3.1
Date 18 Jan 22 10:00
Weather (forecast) Overcast
Pitch (current) Green

Toss: Staindrop Lordies won the toss and elected to bat.

[spark]

Ruff Royals Egham Town CC
Batting - Top Order 7,125 5,600
Batting - Middle Order 5,496 5,774
Batting - Tail 3,660 4,058
Bowling - Seam 6,580 (8) 7,520 (8)
Bowling - Spin 7,295 (12) 6,843 (12)
Fielding/Keeping 8,690 8,246
Overall 122,581 117,983

Match Tied.

The result doesn't really help much. We needed 7 from the last over with 4 wickets remaining so it very much feels like a loss.

The bowling was okay on a dry pitch although it was bit mixed in that a couple did well, a couple did badly, and another took wickets but wasn't that economical. House did well with the bat for his 43 and Schmidt was great for his 75 not out from 51 balls.

Yep - I feel the opposite - lucky to not have lost with one over to go.

A tale of two 20.14's - my exp/exp bowl/tech being karted around for nearly 11 per over. Your $7.5k wage batsman hitting 75 from 51 balls...hope that means we'll be in a better position when we see you later in the season

All the best,
Montyh

That batter is the only player I'm going to lose this season so my side should still be quite similar. That said, my team might already be practically relegated by then so I might decide to play some even younger youngsters! I'm not having a great season so far and I'm struggling to pick up wins in all formats!

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R. Aitchison (rfs) 3.5-0-12-7, C. Moses 0 (1b)
End of over 19 (8 runs) - Ruff Royals(138-10) RR 7.26

Dry pitch. So my seam specialist who opens, McCall, was put on attacking as he's one of my lower powered batsmen and I wanted him to get a few quick runs before he inevitably got out. I was then expecting my more experienced and high powered batters to stick around and score relatively quickly. McCall ends up being last man out for 93 off 61 balls. Sadly for me, the next best batsman is the other player that opened and scored 22. The rest of the team combine to get 19 runs! I was unaware that I had accidentally picked the England test match team to play (obviously I'm not including McCall in that).

Their rfs, Aitchison, did quite well and picked up 7-12. My rfs spinner went for 14 runs in his first over and my rws went for 14 runs in his second over.

C. Moses (rws) 2-0-16-0, M. Gazali 4 (7b), R. Wyett 30 (27b)
End of over 9 (14 runs) - Ffoh(51-3). 88 runs required from 11 overs. RR 5.67 RRR 8.00

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Ruff Royals Ffoh
Batting - Top Order 14,244 12,878
Batting - Middle Order 10,599 11,975
Batting - Tail 4,697 6,797
Bowling - Seam 13,225 (8) 12,949 (12)
Bowling - Spin 14,130 (12) 13,758 (8)
Fielding/Keeping 16,680 16,219
Overall 232,346 234,825

Ffoh won by 4 wickets

It seems like nothing is going to go my way this season. Their spinners outperformed mine, in both wickets and economy, despite mine being better (judging by the ratings).

At least McCall played well.

[casperj]

First senior league win of the season, at the 5th time of asking... Batting line up were uncharacteristically competent in setting 137 on an overcast/crumbling.

Danger Hotspurs Crestfallen Sidekicks
Batting - Top Order 12,856 12,631
Batting - Middle Order 10,063 9,951
Batting - Tail 5,076 5,034
Bowling - Seam 13,826 (8) 11,770 (12)
Bowling - Spin 13,315 (12) 13,260 (8)
Fielding/Keeping 15,908 14,268
Overall 222,225 210,068

Crestfallen Sidekicks won by 9 runs
S. Kamphuis (rf) 4-0-24-0, J. Pokrovsky 27 (24b), F. Wako 3 (2b)
End of over 20 (9 runs) - Danger Hotspurs(127-6). 10 runs required from 0 overs. RR 6.35 RRR 0.00

[eagles123]

South London's Number One CC v Egham Town CC >> Match Ratings
Match Ratings
South London's Number One CC Egham Town CC
Batting - Top Order 13,258 11,787
Batting - Middle Order 10,921 9,179
Batting - Tail 4,901 4,983
Bowling - Seam 10,883 (16) 12,582 (16)
Bowling - Spin 13,947 (4) 10,171 (4)
Fielding/Keeping 12,026 14,929
Overall 204,979 204,105

lost by 7 wickets. Thought our fielding rating looked surprisingly poor, then realized I'd selected our world class keeper, reasonable captain as captain and our ordinry keeper, oustanding captain as keeper ... ah well silly mistake to make, without doubt cost us the win today. One of those things just have to laugh about it and move on.

[montyh]

South London's Number One CC v Egham Town CC >> Match Ratings
Match Ratings
South London's Number One CC Egham Town CC
Batting - Top Order 13,258 11,787
Batting - Middle Order 10,921 9,179
Batting - Tail 4,901 4,983
Bowling - Seam 10,883 (16) 12,582 (16)
Bowling - Spin 13,947 (4) 10,171 (4)
Fielding/Keeping 12,026 14,929
Overall 204,979 204,105

lost by 7 wickets. Thought our fielding rating looked surprisingly poor, then realized I'd selected our world class keeper, reasonable captain as captain and our ordinry keeper, oustanding captain as keeper ... ah well silly mistake to make, without doubt cost us the win today. One of those things just have to laugh about it and move on.

Ah bugger - in such a close game that probably made all the difference. Sorry about that

[wolfberries]

Home Ruff Royals
Away wolfberries
Ground Ruff Royals CG
League Youth 2.1
Date 20 Jan 22 10:00
Crowd 8,519
Weather Windy
Pitch Dry

Toss: wolfberries won the toss and elected to bat.

J. Westerveld (rfs) 5-2-8-2, G. Ebeling 14 (28b), T. Minter 7 (10b)
End of over 34 (2 runs) - wolfberries(131-6) RR 3.85

Not going so well currently.

[wolfberries]

J. Westerveld (rfs) 8-2-27-3, G. Ebeling 36 (43b), T. Benneworth 0 (2b)
End of over 40 (3 runs) - wolfberries(162-8) RR 4.05

Can't see us defending that.

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J. Westerveld (rfs) 8-2-27-3, G. Ebeling 36 (43b), T. Benneworth 0 (2b)
End of over 40 (3 runs) - wolfberries(162-8) RR 4.05

If I had any confidence in my batters, I'd be okay with this. Slightly more than 4 an over is certainly something my batsmen can mess up!