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TTS Galacticos CC v South London's Number One CC >> Match Ratings
Match Ratings
TTS Galacticos CC South London's Number One CC
Batting - Top Order 12,337 13,880
Batting - Middle Order 10,932 11,951
Batting - Tail 6,483 5,579
Bowling - Seam 11,545 (40) 13,949 (40)
Bowling - Spin 12,400 (10) 14,194 (10)
Fielding/Keeping 15,017 16,838
Overall 216,161 240,566


won the toss and had a bat on slow/humid, Morrison played a magnificent innings with an unbeaten 122, crucially putting on 44 with Gallagher for the last wicket to drag us up to a respectable 222/9 in our 50. In response opps were going along nicely at 158/1, but a flurry of quick wickets saw us emerge victorious by 29 runs.

With our superior NRR promotion was virtually assured barring a truly disastrous performance, but it was pleasing to get over the line with a win. A super effort from the team to get promotion back to Div 2 at the first time of asking, special mention to Mateta who was superb throughout the season taking 36 wickets to comfortably win the bowling prize. Shame that Dann and Riedewald both had quiet ends to the season and neither could take top spot in the batting, but over 700 runs each is still a great effort, and to have three of the top five batters was pleasing to see.

Not sure what to expect next season, would be disappointed to be in a relegation battle, but I don't think we'll be a realistic promotion candidate either. Certainly Ffoh look like being heavy favourites for promotion in which ever league they find themselves, so hopefully we avoid them

[wolfberries]

Home Gavs Boys
Away wolfberries
Ground Gavs Boys CG
League Youth Twenty20 3.2
Date 27 Feb 23 10:00
Crowd 6,768
Weather Overcast
Pitch Dry

Toss: wolfberries won the toss and elected to bat.

C. Hyde (rfs) 4-0-17-1, S. Garland 0 (1b), B. Farrell 0 (3b)
End of over 20 (4 runs) - wolfberries(103-7) RR 5.15

We so aren't defending that!

[wolfberries]

Boys wolfberries
Batting - Top Order 4,729 5,535
Batting - Middle Order 4,082 3,923
Batting - Tail 3,631 3,208
Bowling - Seam 6,691 (8) 6,615 (16)
Bowling - Spin 7,549 (12) 5,508 (4)
Fielding/Keeping 4,715 8,076
Overall 96,319 103,654

wolfberries won by 4 runs

We so did!

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Staindrop Lordies Ruff Royals
Batting - Top Order 6,344 8,132
Batting - Middle Order 6,224 5,646
Batting - Tail 3,624 4,286
Bowling - Seam 6,018 (12) 6,618 (16)
Bowling - Spin 8,037 (8) 7,114 (4)
Fielding/Keeping 8,518 9,589
Overall 120,827 130,324

Ruff Royals won by 6 wickets

A decent but unspectacular bowling effort on an uneven pitch to restrict them to 130. A solid batting effort to get the win with 6 wickets remaining and 8 balls.

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Home Sledgingshire
Away Ruff Royals
Ground Bunsen Beach
League Twenty20 1.1
Date 28 Feb 23 10:00
Crowd 15,777
Weather Overcast
Pitch Dry

S. Hodges (rfs) 4-0-29-0, C. Richards 22 (18b), D. Oatley 11 (6b)
End of over 20 (10 runs) - Sledgingshire(146-5) RR 7.30

I think we might have let them get too much. Massey did well with 2-16 and Roberson managed to pick up 3 wickets.

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Sledgingshire Ruff Royals
Batting - Top Order 13,718 14,837
Batting - Middle Order 12,495 11,438
Batting - Tail 5,722 4,779
Bowling - Seam 13,842 (8) 13,506 (8)
Bowling - Spin 14,174 (12) 15,079 (12)
Fielding/Keeping 17,741 17,368
Overall 245,451 243,792

Close ratings and a close result. Sadly, it went against us this time. Promising batting from Clarke (56 from 52 balls) and Whitehead (44 from 31 balls).

Sledgingshire won by 3 runs.

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wolfberries Killingworth CC
Batting - Top Order 13,979 13,610
Batting - Middle Order 11,828 12,168
Batting - Tail 5,609 6,028
Bowling - Seam 14,160 (16) 12,094 (12)
Bowling - Spin 14,079 (4) 13,173 (8)
Fielding/Keeping 17,247 16,540
Overall 242,520 233,451

Result: wolfberries won by 2 runs

Giving away 40 runs from the last 3 overs nearly shafted us, but thankfully not!

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S. Ronan (rfm) 8-0-36-1, A. Bennett 19 (20b), D. Passailaigue 18 (22b)
End of over 40 (7 runs) - Ruff Royals(161-7) RR 4.03

35 for Durham and 43 for Banerjee. An okay score on a sticky pitch but it could go either way.

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Ruff Royals Oxhey Players
Batting - Top Order 6,871 8,426
Batting - Middle Order 7,281 6,872
Batting - Tail 4,385 4,237
Bowling - Seam 6,818 (29) 8,324 (24)
Bowling - Spin 7,220 (11) 8,111 (16)
Fielding/Keeping 9,605 7,315
Overall 133,225 137,043

Oxhey Players won by 7 wickets

A pretty easy win for Oxhey Players. Only taking 3 wickets on a sticky pitch is poor. I'm going to at least consider changing the pitch. I don't think I've ever regularly played on a flat pitch before but perhaps my weaker batting might benefit from that. Sadly, my batting is going to get weaker in a week or two with the loss of Laurence.

[wolfberries]

wolfberries Grays Thurrock CC
Batting - Top Order 5,681 5,154
Batting - Middle Order 3,950 4,912
Batting - Tail 3,331 3,030
Bowling - Seam 6,685 (32) 5,495 (40)
Bowling - Spin 5,576 (8) 0 (0)
Fielding/Keeping 7,871 8,434
Overall 104,449 102,134

Result: Grays Thurrock CC won by 3 wickets

Totally forgot there were games today!

[spark]

Totally forgot there were games today!

Some of my players did too; they didn't turn up!

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F. Yaseen (lfs) 10-0-74-1, C. Dickerson 65 (46b), R. Schneider 17 (6b)
End of over 50 (12 runs) - Ruff Royals(333-5) RR 6.66

I'm not sure a slow pitch was the best one to choose for the NRR boost. Some disappointing innings from players I'd expect to do better such as Mills and Schmidt and they both need to do better than they did last season. Bullock and Dennehy got the bulk of the runs with Dennehy getting 90 whilst Bullock scored 108.

R. Schneider (rm) 4-1-10-0, H. Brewster 2 (7b), L. Braafheid 10 (23b)
End of over 8 (1 run) - Zippys Rainbow Destroyers(23-2). 311 runs required from 42 overs. RR 2.88 RRR 7.40

Okay start to the bowling especially for Combs who has both wickets to fall so far.

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Ruff Royals won by 262 runs

Ruff Royals Zippys Rainbow Destroyers
Batting - Top Order 12,256 6,298
Batting - Middle Order 9,765 3,901
Batting - Tail 4,204 2,972
Bowling - Seam 12,030 (30) 6,675 (30)
Bowling - Spin 10,988 (20) 6,885 (20)
Fielding/Keeping 15,085 5,845
Overall 204,023 101,048

An expected big win with a good NRR boost. Slow pitch seemed fine in the end as we bowled them out for 71. Rush took 5-14.

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Ffoh wolfberries
Batting - Top Order 14,860 13,816
Batting - Middle Order 13,253 11,757
Batting - Tail 5,133 5,513
Bowling - Seam 13,879 (30) 14,107 (40)
Bowling - Spin 14,571 (20) 14,112 (10)
Fielding/Keeping 16,823 17,083
Overall 249,104 240,621

wolfberries won by 93 runs

Will take that win.

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Ruff Royals Danger Hotspurs
Batting - Top Order 8,099 6,698
Batting - Middle Order 5,742 5,915
Batting - Tail 3,966 4,517
Bowling - Seam 7,413 (9) 6,906 (12)
Bowling - Spin 6,530 (11) 7,664 (8)
Fielding/Keeping 9,626 8,397
Overall 130,778 125,241

Schwartz put in his best T20 performance yet with a fantastic 71 from 53 balls. 35 for Delap was also a good effort on a crumbling pitch in windy conditions. It was a good team effort with the bowling but Passailaigue stood out with his 3-13.

Ruff Royals won by 23 runs