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Away The Raging Speed Horns
Ground wolfberries CG
League Youth Twenty20 3.3
Date 11 Jul 22 10:00
Crowd 8,424
Weather Sunny
Pitch Flat

Toss: The Raging Speed Horns won the toss and elected to bowl.

A. Applebee (rm) 1-0-10-0, W. Chittleborough 10 (9b), K. Sheehan 3 (4b)
End of over 2 (10 runs) - wolfberries(14-0) RR 7.00

Need to be going at least 10 an over in these conditions.

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A. Applebee (rm) 4-0-33-3, T. Minter 1 (2b), T. Benneworth 0 (0b)
End of over 16 (9 runs) - wolfberries(151-5) RR 9.44

Not looking good so far, need at least 200, at the VERY least!

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D. Cypher (lm) 4-0-36-2, W. Sandri 23 (12b), A. McAndrews 6 (4b)
End of over 20 (10 runs) - wolfberries(193-7) RR 9.65

Can't see us defending this, need early wickets if we are to.

[spark]

fantastic effort, congrats Spark!

Ruff Royals won by 12 runs

It's taken far too long since I first started playing this game until I've finally won England SOD 1.1 but I have at last done it.

Well done fella, a great achievement.

Thanks. Not a homegrown win by any stretch but a good 7-8 first team players were my youth pulls which isn't too bad. Perhaps another 2-3 played a game here or there too.

[spark]

B. Williams (rfm) 4-0-29-1, D. Elijzen 1 (1b), A. Mpitsang 7 (8b)
End of over 20 (6 runs) - Staindrop Village CC(138-6) RR 6.90

That would be a decent bowling effort by us in most conditions. Sadly, it's a crumbling so we're going to struggle against the top side in the league.

[spark]

Staindrop Village CC won by 47 runs

Staindrop Village CC Ruff Royals
Batting - Top Order 7,773 7,592
Batting - Middle Order 6,277 5,263
Batting - Tail 4,449 3,788
Bowling - Seam 8,658 (12) 6,620 (8)
Bowling - Spin 9,634 (8) 6,811 (12)
Fielding/Keeping 8,733 8,696
Overall 140,989 122,553

A comprehensive defeat and we never really looked like chasing 139 for the win.

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wolfberries The Raging Speed Horns
Batting - Top Order 7,675 7,215
Batting - Middle Order 4,825 5,244
Batting - Tail 3,379 3,533
Bowling - Seam 5,484 (12) 7,057 (12)
Bowling - Spin 7,514 (8) 6,002 (8)
Fielding/Keeping 9,168 9,242
Overall 119,125 121,343

Result: wolfberries won by 32 runs

Great performance from our bowlers in such great batting conditions.

Pretty much ensured prize money, just need to push for 2nd spot.

[spark]

P. Massey (lfs) 2-0-19-0, L. Buckley 22 (18b), A. O'Keeffe 22 (21b)
End of over 11 (12 runs) - Ffoh(60-3). 85 runs required from 9 overs. RR 5.45 RRR 9.44

Dry pitch. We scored 144 which was ok although we only lost 3 wickets so perhaps we could have scored a bit quicker. Liberatore finished on 63 not out and Whitehead, who has taken over the captaincy for recently retired Albert Ten Dam, hit 38 not out.

The bowlers are being fairly economical but we've got to be careful about their batters really going for it in the last few overs.

[spark]

Ruff Royals won by 55 runs

Ruff Royals Ffoh
Batting - Top Order 14,776 13,336
Batting - Middle Order 12,488 12,298
Batting - Tail 4,670 6,897
Bowling - Seam 14,001 (8) 14,033 (8)
Bowling - Spin 14,959 (12) 14,020 (12)
Fielding/Keeping 17,182 16,213
Overall 247,499 241,994

Moses took 5-16 in what turned out to be a comfortable win. This sets up a winner takes all match against Inchigeela Angels next week. They're likely to rate over 255k and have home advantage so I think they're the favourites.

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Yorkshire Puddings wolfberries
Batting - Top Order 13,337 12,336
Batting - Middle Order 10,450 11,659
Batting - Tail 6,541 6,239
Bowling - Seam 13,329 (10) 13,280 (12)
Bowling - Spin 12,765 (10) 12,820 (8)
Fielding/Keeping 14,122 16,149
Overall 222,376 228,626

Result: Match tied

At least we can't relegate now, and we can even finish in 4th spot.

[spark]

R. McCoombe (lfs) 1-0-8-0, B. Jupp 8 (18b), C. Schwartz 15 (26b)
End of over 9 (8 runs) - Ruff Royals(33-2) RR 3.67

Bullock had a great start to the season but since we secured staying in the league and also went out of the promotion race he's been poor. Crumbling pitch so it's going to be quite difficult to bat on.

[spark]

R. McCoombe (lfs) 8-0-43-0, N. Laurence 46 (36b), D. Passailaigue 5 (4b)
End of over 40 (12 runs) - Ruff Royals(164-7) RR 4.10

Very nice batting by Laurence to get us to an respectable score. We were struggling with our run rate until Laurence came in. He didn't quite get his half century and I may have made a mistake in not batting him higher up the order.

B. Williams (rfm) 1-1-0-0, A. Evan 0 (0b), C. Walkerden 1 (8b)
End of over 2 (2 runs) - South Hill Slammers(5-1). 160 runs required from 38 overs. RR 2.50 RRR 4.21

Early wicket for Zondeki. We need to bowl well and pick up wickets regularly.

[spark]

D. Passailaigue (lfs) 4-0-24-0, P. Haymes 11 (19b), C. Walkerden 32 (42b)
End of over 15 (3 runs) - South Hill Slammers(68-2). 97 runs required from 25 overs. RR 4.53 RRR 3.88

Very disappointing so far. We need to get that run rate under control and pick up some more wickets now.

[spark]

South Hill Slammers Ruff Royals
Batting - Top Order 6,436 6,753
Batting - Middle Order 4,934 6,462
Batting - Tail 3,523 3,765
Bowling - Seam 5,321 (24) 6,691 (16)
Bowling - Spin 7,087 (16) 6,584 (24)
Fielding/Keeping 8,085 8,796
Overall 110,448 123,683

South Hill Slammers won by 1 wicket

Very disappointing. Walkerden, Brewer, and McCoombe all got their highest scores for South Hill Slammers. I'm not particularly looking forward to next season's youth games if this form continues.

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South Hill Slammers won by 1 wicket

That might have helped relegate us