England League and Cup Discussion

[casperj]

Yorkshire Puddings Crestfallen Sidekicks
Batting - Top Order 12,782 13,697
Batting - Middle Order 11,915 9,468
Batting - Tail 6,981 5,228
Bowling - Seam 12,626 (12) 13,077 (8)
Bowling - Spin 13,387 (8) 13,448 (12)
Fielding/Keeping 14,627 15,008
Overall 228,268 219,868

Yorkshire Puddings won by 23 runs

Didn't even get that close in the end. Playing more spinners on a Crumbling wicket didn't seem to help much.

[eagles123]

Needed to win to stay up, and fortunately we managed it. Lost the toss on Hard/Sunny was put into bat. Riedewald was the star of the show with an unbeaten 105 in our 201/4, and in response Danger Hotspurs always seemed to struggle with the rate required despite some decent middle order resistance. In the end a 24 run win and another season at this level.

South London's Number One CC v Danger Hotspurs >> Match Ratings
Match Ratings
South London's Number One CC Danger Hotspurs
Batting - Top Order 13,412 12,634
Batting - Middle Order 11,006 9,703
Batting - Tail 4,038 3,741
Bowling - Seam 12,158 (16) 13,319 (12)
Bowling - Spin 14,023 (4) 12,895 (8)
Fielding/Keeping 16,898 16,138
Overall 223,142 214,734

[spark]

Gavs Boys Ruff Royals
Batting - Top Order 12,557 13,835
Batting - Middle Order 10,248 12,144
Batting - Tail 5,517 4,457
Bowling - Seam 13,510 (4) 11,223 (8)
Bowling - Spin 14,112 (16) 14,606 (12)
Fielding/Keeping 15,441 16,712
Overall 224,056 233,692

Ruff Royals won by 6 wickets

40 runs from McCall and 34 not out from Best saw us to the win with a couple of balls to spare. It means we finish 2nd and secure ourselves a decent amount of prizemoney.

[montyh]

Egham Town CC If theres grass on the Wicket
Batting - Top Order 12,629 11,853
Batting - Middle Order 9,983 9,030
Batting - Tail 4,586 5,134
Bowling - Seam 13,141 (20) 11,256 (16)
Bowling - Spin 0 (0) 9,294 (4)
Fielding/Keeping 16,080 12,325
Overall 218,156 190,235

Today was a tidy victory which helped secure a completely unexpected promotion to Division 1! A big challenge on Thursday to stay in Division 1 YOD, but if we can manage it we'll have 3/4 sides in Division 1 next season.

In any case, this promotion (and the prizemoney & gate receipts) could be well timed to help push my developing seniors to Div1 OD too. Time to push on...

Congratulations and commiserations to all as end of season positions are settled,
Montyh

[wolfberries]

wolfberries Ffoh
Batting - Top Order 7,607 7,027
Batting - Middle Order 5,732 5,067
Batting - Tail 3,578 3,179
Bowling - Seam 6,716 (16) 5,937 (32)
Bowling - Spin 5,282 (24) 10,787 (8)
Fielding/Keeping 8,743 8,191
Overall 119,603 117,025

Eight wickets for our opponents seam attack in Dry and Sunny conditions, we lost 7 wickets for 44 runs Well that pitch selection didn't work , and cost us 4th place! If this continues this week we will be getting very little prize money!

[casperj]

wolfberries Ffoh
Batting - Top Order 7,607 7,027
Batting - Middle Order 5,732 5,067
Batting - Tail 3,578 3,179
Bowling - Seam 6,716 (16) 5,937 (32)
Bowling - Spin 5,282 (24) 10,787 (8)
Fielding/Keeping 8,743 8,191
Overall 119,603 117,025

Eight wickets for our opponents seam attack in Dry and Sunny conditions, we lost 7 wickets for 44 runs Well that pitch selection didn't work , and cost us 4th place! If this continues this week we will be getting very little prize money!

That's pretty much classic dry wicket behaviour - team with 1 spinner beats similarly rated team with 4 spinners!

On tuesday my senior side got relegated with 6 wins and a positive NRR.
Today my Youth team somehow stay up with only 4 wins and a heavily negative NRR!

Knight Watchmen Crestfallen Sidekicks
Batting - Top Order 7,476 5,815
Batting - Middle Order 5,038 6,722
Batting - Tail 3,744 2,188
Bowling - Seam 7,350 (24) 5,045 (20)
Bowling - Spin 8,849 (16) 5,583 (20)
Fielding/Keeping 8,516 7,735
Overall 126,591 106,492
Knight Watchmen won by 106 runs

[montyh]

And our stay in YOD Div 1 has come to an end...such a shame. Will be tough to get back out of Div 2 but we'll give it a go!

[spark]

Ruff Royals won by 93 runs

Ruff Royals TTS Galacticos CC
Batting - Top Order 6,425 4,159
Batting - Middle Order 6,927 4,775
Batting - Tail 3,183 3,037
Bowling - Seam 6,473 (16) 6,591 (32)
Bowling - Spin 8,599 (24) 8,091 (8)
Fielding/Keeping 8,855 5,559
Overall 128,271 95,981

A nice win to finish off the youth season. Jupp hit 68, there was a rapid 30 not out for Mark Patterson and 28 not out for Westerveld. Patterson also took 3-24. We were already guaranteed a 2nd place finish and we ended up with 44 points which is just the 12 points off top spot!

[spark]

Home gRhyllidae
Away Ruff Royals
Ground Jiminy Cricket
League One Day 1.1
Date 08 Apr 22 10:00
Crowd 12,616
Weather Sunny
Pitch Dry

Schneider gets another game as an allrounder and Clarke gets the chance to play as keeper again as he pretty much moves to being my regular keeper. Whitehead captains again and takes the batting spot of Best.

It's a game where a bit of luck and a fairly big win could see us move to 3rd. If it goes badly we could finish in 6th.

P. Massey (lfs) 6.4-1-13-4, K. Darke 0 (3b)
End of over 40 (maiden) - gRhyllidae(109-10) RR 2.73

It's not going badly at all and we really should be getting a big win here. Massey picks up some late wickets to end with 4-13 and Moses gets 3-15.

[spark]

Ruff Royals won by 9 wickets

gRhyllidae Ruff Royals
Batting - Top Order 10,310 12,978
Batting - Middle Order 8,716 12,480
Batting - Tail 4,598 4,531
Bowling - Seam 7,049 (10) 11,401 (20)
Bowling - Spin 11,015 (40) 14,767 (30)
Fielding/Keeping 12,490 16,578
Overall 178,480 232,268

McCall hits a 57 and Mills 35 not out. We're just waiting on other results now to see what position that leaves us in. I think we're sure to be in the top 4 now.

[wolfberries]

marks marvels wolfberries
Batting - Top Order 12,019 12,461
Batting - Middle Order 8,957 10,347
Batting - Tail 4,711 4,644
Bowling - Seam 10,862 (30) 12,075 (40)
Bowling - Spin 12,435 (20) 12,684 (10)
Fielding/Keeping 12,212 15,518
Overall 192,131 212,706

Result: wolfberries won by 52 runs

Avoided relegation and finished in 5th spot.

[eagles123]

South London's Number One CC v Danger Hotspurs >> Match Ratings
Match Ratings
South London's Number One CC Danger Hotspurs
Batting - Top Order 13,875 11,137
Batting - Middle Order 12,042 8,363
Batting - Tail 4,053 4,111
Bowling - Seam 12,846 (30) 12,365 (20)
Bowling - Spin 14,469 (20) 11,973 (30)
Fielding/Keeping 17,279 13,933
Overall 235,142 192,782


survived a hell of a scare to sneak home with a three wicket win and secure third place. Looked like we were heading for defeat at one stage, but fortunately Dann played a captain's knock to see us home with a very patient unbeaten 62 from 126 balls.

Definitely need to strengthen over pre-season, no chance of doing well at this level with only 12 senior players Think we could be in for a tough season unless we can unearth a few bargains on the transfer list, but we'll see ...

[spark]

So I started the season by being 4 minutes late on setting my team for the MKMC so that's not helped fatigue! At least the league season got off to a good start.

Ruff Royals won by 23 runs

Egham Town CC Ruff Royals
Batting - Top Order 6,362 7,407
Batting - Middle Order 6,666 6,460
Batting - Tail 3,845 3,902
Bowling - Seam 7,000 (8) 8,473 (8)
Bowling - Spin 7,848 (12) 8,457 (12)
Fielding/Keeping 8,898 9,393
Overall 127,888 137,672

Dickerson (40) and House (38) saw us start well against Egham Town on a slow pitch but then we scored less than 20 in the last 5 overs to leave them a very chaseable 119 to win.

Thankfully, the bowlers did a good job. Westerveld (3-11) was the best of the bunch but Bardoliya (2-17) also performed on his debut which will also be his last in the YT20 game.

[wolfberries]

Buffalos wolfberries
Batting - Top Order 6,199 7,382
Batting - Middle Order 4,684 5,833
Batting - Tail 3,197 3,318
Bowling - Seam 7,092 (12) 6,640 (8)
Bowling - Spin 8,185 (8) 5,418 (12)
Fielding/Keeping 6,853 8,672
Overall 111,329 118,368

Result: Buffalos won by 5 wickets

It took one competitive game

Another last ball loss and fielding cost us!

[wolfberries]

Home wolfberries
Away Camberwell Carrots
Ground wolfberries CG
League Twenty20 2.1
Date 19 Apr 22 10:00
Crowd 15,401
Weather Humid
Pitch Crumbling

Toss: Camberwell Carrots won the toss and elected to bowl.

Humid weather not ideal!