England League and Cup Discussion

[eagles123]

YorkshireTykes v South London's Number One CC >> Match Ratings
Match Ratings
YorkshireTykes South London's Number One CC
Batting - Top Order 14,564 14,017
Batting - Middle Order 10,153 10,073
Batting - Tail 5,377 4,910
Bowling - Seam 13,223 (16) 12,741 (16)
Bowling - Spin 12,161 (4) 13,873 (4)
Fielding/Keeping 15,552 16,132
Overall 226,715 224,326

won the toss and had a bowl on hard/sunny. Opps hit a respectable 188/6 in their 20, but we put on a unbeaten 3rd wicket partnership of 178 from 102 balls to win by 8 wickets. Another great win, the only downside being that our best player and captain is now on passable fatigue ahead of a crucial OD game on friday. Hopefully a bit of rest training and he can at least recover to revived

[spark]

Danger Hotspurs won by 5 wickets

Danger Hotspurs Ruff Royals
Batting - Top Order 8,246 6,780
Batting - Middle Order 6,388 6,430
Batting - Tail 4,647 4,324
Bowling - Seam 6,661 (24) 6,993 (24)
Bowling - Spin 9,054 (16) 8,367 (16)
Fielding/Keeping 8,894 9,802
Overall 137,254 132,935

A great innings of 90 for Laurence but it only helped us get to 177 on a slow pitch. The bowlers couldn't take enough wickets and couldn't get the run rate under control.

It was Wheeler's last game of his YOD career as he's away on international duty next week. Laurence will also be away which will leave a big hole in my batting line-up which could already do with a bit of strengthening.

[wolfberries]

Oxhey Players wolfberries
Batting - Top Order 8,795 5,204
Batting - Middle Order 6,718 3,775
Batting - Tail 4,247 3,448
Bowling - Seam 7,788 (32) 6,469 (40)
Bowling - Spin 8,698 (8) 0 (0)
Fielding/Keeping 6,911 7,817
Overall 135,381 102,062

Result: Oxhey Players won by 6 wickets

All those seasons of CENSORED youth pulls are catching up with us now!

[wolfberries]

Home wolfberries
Away Egham Town CC
Ground wolfberries CG
League One Day 2.2
Date 27 Jan 23 10:00
Weather (forecast) Cloudy
Pitch (current) Green

Toss: Egham Town CC won the toss and elected to bowl.

Pushing for prizemoney but today's game is going to be very tough!

[eagles123]

won the toss and having a bat on cloudy/crumbling, in all manor of trouble, 19 gone, 61/4. The run rate is ok, just need to stop losing wickets quite so regularly

[spark]

Home Topmen
Away Ruff Royals
Ground Topmen CG
League One Day 1.1
Date 27 Jan 23 10:00
Crowd 20,857
Weather Cloudy
Pitch Sticky

We lost the toss and they decided to bat first which was okay with me. With three players away on international duty, it should be a tough game (it was going to be tough anyway).

The bowling started quite well then I thought they were going to recover to get a very challenging score but we managed to get them all out for 136. That's still not a definite win in these conditions and it's proving to be very difficult so far as we just lost two quick wickets. These two are my last proper batsmen so it's not looking good.

D. Chilvers (rws) 1-0-1-2, T. Liberatore 10 (21b), S. Whitehead 0 (0b)
End of over 13 (1 run) - Ruff Royals(35-4). 102 runs required from 37 overs. RR 2.69 RRR 2.76

[spark]

24.4
W
Chilvers to Whitehead : [runout] Whitehead pushes that one to mid on and sets off immediately. But Liberatore doesn't want the run! Confusion in the middle as both batsmen are left stranded at one end. Chilvers collects the throw from Hurn and simply rolls it down the pitch for Ngidhi to whip off the bails!
S. Whitehead run out (S. Hurn) 19 (36b 2x4 0x6) SR:52.78

A run out when we only need 2.56 an over.

[spark]

Losing McCall for 0 and Whitehead to that run out were probably the key wickets in what now looks like an inevitable defeat.

T. Sithole (rws) 3-0-10-0, C. Moses 2 (6b), P. Massey 5 (12b)
End of over 36 (5 runs) - Ruff Royals(98-8). 39 runs required from 14 overs. RR 2.72 RRR 2.79

Only dreadful skill batters left to do what the proper batters couldn't do.

[eagles123]

Bedfordshire Jats v South London's Number One CC >> Match Ratings
Match Ratings
Bedfordshire Jats South London's Number One CC
Batting - Top Order 14,028 14,407
Batting - Middle Order 13,034 11,366
Batting - Tail 5,217 5,483
Bowling - Seam 13,010 (30) 13,828 (40)
Bowling - Spin 12,567 (20) 13,883 (10)
Fielding/Keeping 16,688 16,661
Overall 238,133 238,720

lost by 4 wickets: The batting was very poor, 142 all out against a fairly mediocre bowling attack. The only positive is it shouldn't hit our NRR too much, so still in prime position for promotion, but a frustrating performance nonetheless.

[spark]

Topmen won by 9 runs

Topmen Ruff Royals
Batting - Top Order 13,863 12,925
Batting - Middle Order 12,042 11,883
Batting - Tail 6,333 4,100
Bowling - Seam 14,656 (30) 13,171 (30)
Bowling - Spin 15,020 (20) 15,268 (20)
Fielding/Keeping 15,736 16,490
Overall 243,833 231,053

Good effort by my dreadful skilled batters and Liberatore but pretty rubbish by everyone else.

[spark]

Home Staindrop Lordies
Away Ruff Royals
Ground Staindrop Lordies CG
League Youth Twenty20 1.1
Date 30 Jan 23 10:00
Crowd 8,062
Weather Sunny
Pitch Uneven

It's a match we need to win if we're to have any chance of staying top. Two players away on international duty for us and we're really going to miss them, especially the batter Laurence.

We've won the toss and are bowling first.

[spark]

Staindrop Lordies Ruff Royals
Batting - Top Order 5,660 6,574
Batting - Middle Order 6,044 5,556
Batting - Tail 3,154 3,920
Bowling - Seam 7,947 (12) 6,659 (14)
Bowling - Spin 7,455 (8) 6,976 (6)
Fielding/Keeping 8,088 9,406
Overall 119,295 122,273

My bowling looks a little weak on those match ratings but they did a very good job to keep them down to a total of 128. Zondeki was class with his 2-15 and Bennett was pretty economical, albeit wicketless, for his 0-20.

My batters looked like they were struggling to keep up with the run rate throughout their innings but we just managed to get the win with a couple of balls to spare. Banerjee was particularly good and handled the pressure of needing 12 runs from the last over really well to finish 43 not out from 31 balls.

In news elsewhere, there is a big shock as Danger Hotspurs were defeated by bottom side Scotland Youth to leave us 4 points ahead with 2 games to go. It just goes to show that anything can happen and it wouldn't be unexpected if there was another twist or two in the title race in the coming couple of weeks.

Ruff Royals won by 7 wickets

[spark]

Zippys Rainbow Destroyers Ruff Royals
Batting - Top Order 6,205 13,940
Batting - Middle Order 3,772 10,703
Batting - Tail 3,030 4,976
Bowling - Seam 6,560 (8) 12,939 (20)
Bowling - Spin 6,459 (12) 0 (0)
Fielding/Keeping 5,948 17,196
Overall 99,338 229,785

Ruff Royals won by 9 wickets

We bowled them out for 25 and something told me that they had played a weaker team than normal. We chased that difficult total down after 3 overs.

It's seems Zippys Rainbow Destroyers have sold up their senior squad. That's baffling to me as they were top of the league with an 8 point lead. They're now 4 points ahead (once the result of Ffoh v Egham goes through) but have effectively thrown away the title unless they change tack and buy up a whole new senior team. They also may struggle to avoid relegation from SOD 1.1 if I can manage 2 wins in the last 3 games (one of which is against them).

[eagles123]

South London's Number One CC v wolfberries >> Match Ratings
Match Ratings
South London's Number One CC wolfberries
Batting - Top Order 14,043 13,659
Batting - Middle Order 11,016 11,951
Batting - Tail 5,505 5,718
Bowling - Seam 13,755 (16) 14,450 (16)
Bowling - Spin 13,883 (4) 14,174 (4)
Fielding/Keeping 16,491 17,253
Overall 235,135 243,331


our bowlers have been on fire lately in the T20 league, and it was the same again today. Won the toss on cloudy/sticky and had a bowl, and opps were skittled for 85. looked a little scary at 4-58 and 5-68, but Zhiyi hit a couple of boundaries to get us over the line with 1.3 overs remaining.

Guaranteed some prize money now, think promotion is unlikely even if we are level on points with Snakey's, but would be nice to finish top three get a much needed cash injection!

[wolfberries]

Leyland Lions wolfberries
Batting - Top Order 7,494 5,024
Batting - Middle Order 5,346 3,807
Batting - Tail 4,382 3,367
Bowling - Seam 6,921 (8) 7,441 (12)
Bowling - Spin 7,484 (12) 4,004 (8)
Fielding/Keeping 7,589 7,732
Overall 123,571 98,955

Result: Leyland Lions won by 6 wickets

Another expected loss, relegation is still possible!