England League and Cup Discussion

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Knockout Heroes wolfberries
Batting - Top Order 12,418 13,849
Batting - Middle Order 10,804 11,275
Batting - Tail 4,194 5,498
Bowling - Seam 11,835 (16) 13,689 (16)
Bowling - Spin 12,258 (4) 13,926 (4)
Fielding/Keeping 14,546 16,451
Overall 208,709 235,025

Result: wolfberries won by 42 runs

Easy enough win in the end.

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Home wolfberries
Away Betty Swallocks
Ground wolfberries CG
League Youth 3.1
Date 30 Mar 23 10:00
Crowd 8,552
Weather Cloudy
Pitch Uneven

Toss: Betty Swallocks won the toss and elected to bowl.

T. Wolfe (lfm) 3-1-12-1, J. Buckingham 30 (17b), B. Bambury 11 (15b)
End of over 6 (8 runs) - wolfberries(45-1) RR 7.50

Decent start by our batsmen today.

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B. Olsen (rf) 6-1-22-2, S. Obuya 11 (15b), Y. Banerjee 22 (34b)
End of over 19 (4 runs) - Ruff Royals(77-4) RR 4.05

Flat/cloudy and I'm definitely going to have to rethink my choice of a flat pitch. The perfect combination of scoring quite slowly and losing wickets!

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J. Kipchoge (lfs) 8-0-54-1, T. Ames 9 (5b), S. Obuya 84 (77b)
End of over 40 (12 runs) - Ruff Royals(225-7) RR 5.62

I'm not convinced that's enough.

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E. Branagan (rm) 8-0-72-1, B. Swanson 20 (16b), H. Goodrick 48 (48b)
End of over 40 (16 runs) - wolfberries(240-5) RR 6.00

Very happy with this total, will be disappointed if we can't defend this with our seam attack in these conditions.

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Ruff Royals Leyland Lions
Batting - Top Order 6,237 7,400
Batting - Middle Order 7,182 6,066
Batting - Tail 4,423 3,980
Bowling - Seam 7,041 (30) 7,043 (24)
Bowling - Spin 7,569 (10) 7,902 (16)
Fielding/Keeping 9,770 7,997
Overall 132,127 126,728

Ruff Royals won by 25 runs

84 not out for Obuya more than doubles his previous best high score. Banerjee also weighs in with 57. Zondeki took 3-38 and Delap 3-35. We won again but I'm still not sure whether to stick with a flat pitch.

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wolfberries Betty Swallocks
Batting - Top Order 5,981 5,549
Batting - Middle Order 4,218 4,355
Batting - Tail 3,340 3,381
Bowling - Seam 7,099 (32) 3,432 (32)
Bowling - Spin 5,847 (8) 6,847 (8)
Fielding/Keeping 8,245 6,862
Overall 109,796 90,928

Result: wolfberries won by 78 runs

Eased through to victory today, that keeps us in third spot.

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Home C.C.DeVille CCC
Away wolfberries
Ground C.C.DeVille CCC CG
League One Day 2.2
Date 31 Mar 23 10:00
Crowd 16,948
Weather Sunny
Pitch Hard

Toss: C.C.DeVille CCC won the toss and elected to bowl.

I suppose it really depends on the team our opponents puts out, their ratings have been very up and down so far this season but their squad seems fit enough.

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Home Ruff Royals
Away Bathaloner
Ground Ruff Royals CG
League One Day 1.1
Date 31 Mar 23 10:00
Crowd 21,162
Weather Sunny
Pitch Slow

It's going to be tough and we could do with a win. We decided to bowl first this time.

J. Westerveld (rfs) 3-0-20-0, R. Dahlhaus 44 (59b), P. Arnold 28 (33b)
End of over 22 (5 runs) - Bathaloner(100-1) RR 4.55

It's looking easy for Bathaloner so far.

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C. Moses (rws) 10-0-70-0, R. Dahlhaus 93 (115b), R. Burdett 29 (33b)
End of over 39 (6 runs) - Bathaloner(197-2) RR 5.05

Moses has been really expensive in the last couple of games. I think I might have to make some changes to the orders that used to work for him and possibly even consider dropping him.

With 11 overs to go, this is already going to be a challenging total and by the end of their innings I think we'll be certain to lose.

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W. Blease (rfs) 10-0-81-0, J. Lord 19 (19b), L. Shurmer 49 (34b)
End of over 50 (13 runs) - wolfberries(320-8) RR 6.40

Will take that total.

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J. Westerveld (rfs) 10-0-51-6, D. Duckworth 3 (2b), L. Waterhouse 24 (25b)
End of over 50 (8 runs) - Bathaloner(248-9) RR 4.96

200-2 to 248-9 is a pretty good comeback. Sadly, I still think that's going to be too difficult to chase successfully.

It was great work by Westerveld in a rare first team appearance. He's still a little way from a regular appearance but he's gone some distance towards changing my mind about that.

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Bathaloner won by 64 runs

Ruff Royals Bathaloner
Batting - Top Order 13,745 14,057
Batting - Middle Order 12,256 12,290
Batting - Tail 4,670 8,889
Bowling - Seam 13,473 (20) 13,149 (40)
Bowling - Spin 13,056 (30) 14,651 (10)
Fielding/Keeping 16,653 16,165
Overall 234,092 247,802

With us missing 3 internationals I guess that's not too bad a rating.

Quite a big loss but there were some positives with Westerveld getting 6 wickets and McCall scoring a century at 3 so it looks like I've finally found where to position him now he's a bit older.

There were also some negatives with Moses being expensive with the ball again and Whitehead being out for next to nothing again.

The other bad news is that I think it's time to retire Liberatore. He's been one of our best bats so far this season but another skill decrease means he's a spectacular/spectacular bat with an exceptional summary. In some ways he's worthy of a place in the side but it's time to give a youngster more game time. Liberatore might make a last appearance for us in the MKMC.

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C.C.DeVille CCC wolfberries
Batting - Top Order 10,393 13,834
Batting - Middle Order 8,589 11,518
Batting - Tail 5,709 4,873
Bowling - Seam 10,989 (30) 13,133 (40)
Bowling - Spin 10,768 (20) 14,060 (10)
Fielding/Keeping 12,501 16,877
Overall 185,063 233,252

Result: wolfberries won by 104 runs

Today's win keeps us in second place.

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South London's Number One CC v bluekipper8878 >> Match Ratings
Match Ratings
South London's Number One CC bluekipper8878
Batting - Top Order 14,084 13,177
Batting - Middle Order 10,371 10,096
Batting - Tail 4,641 6,179
Bowling - Seam 12,287 (40) 11,373 (40)
Bowling - Spin 13,486 (10) 14,702 (10)
Fielding/Keeping 16,162 13,780
Overall 222,867 213,162

big win today, winning by 140 on uneven/sunny. Won the toss and had a bat, Kouyate standing out with a run a ball unbeaten 83, ably supported by Zaha with 72, rescuing us from a potentially troubling 90/4. About time Kouyate put in a good innings, been getting a fed up with him lately, an average of 24.56 is pretty disappointing for a player of his ability. In reply a first ball drop looked a bit ominous, but we took wickets regularly, and the victory never looked in much doubt. Olise took care of the tail to finish with impressive figures of 8-2-17-4.

Ffoh next week and really depends what sort of team they put out. If they go full strength then we have next to no chance, if they rest players for the cup then you never know!