England League and Cup Discussion

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L. Kukadiya (lws) 9.1-1-39-4, C. Rush 0 (0b)
End of over 45 (maiden) - Ruff Royals(168-10) RR 3.73

I think I'm clutching at straws if I say this one is just about defendable. I fully expect to lose. The three early wickets really hurt us as did Clarke's failure to get a decent score and Whitehead's continual poor scores. I think Whitehead's top score in three seasons is 45 and he barely average 20 in those 3 seasons.

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M. Roberson (lf) 6-0-36-0, C. Haydar 13 (16b), C. Deane 35 (39b)
End of over 14 (8 runs) - St. Marks Hill Strollers(69-1). 100 runs required from 36 overs. RR 4.93 RRR 2.78

We're not going to win this one. I really need to do something about the batting; it's just not been good enough for a couple of seasons now.

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St. Marks Hill Strollers won by 6 wickets

Ruff Royals St. Marks Hill Strollers
Batting - Top Order 13,715 13,400
Batting - Middle Order 12,546 11,428
Batting - Tail 4,599 6,603
Bowling - Seam 13,797 (30) 12,590 (22)
Bowling - Spin 14,180 (20) 13,727 (28)
Fielding/Keeping 17,363 16,023
Overall 240,686 233,325

Massively let down by the batting and failure to take early wickets also didn't help.

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Relegation reprobates wolfberries
Batting - Top Order 13,967 14,169
Batting - Middle Order 11,280 11,758
Batting - Tail 5,439 5,536
Bowling - Seam 12,826 (30) 14,095 (40)
Bowling - Spin 14,183 (20) 14,587 (10)
Fielding/Keeping 15,578 17,090
Overall 230,887 242,555

Very poor batting and bowling today cost us the game and most probably any change of promotion, after batting first we ended up 188ao when we should have been expecting at least 225 against our opponents attack. After a great start by our bowlers having the reprobates 59 for 5, we then bowled poorly to allow then to knock off the total only 6 down!

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Ffoh v South London's Number One CC >> Match Ratings
Match Ratings
Ffoh South London's Number One CC
Batting - Top Order 12,922 13,261
Batting - Middle Order 11,457 11,323
Batting - Tail 5,509 5,214
Bowling - Seam 13,525 (30) 13,136 (40)
Bowling - Spin 12,702 (20) 13,082 (10)
Fielding/Keeping 16,837 16,149
Overall 230,537 228,053

Excellent win for us today, batting first on humid/crumbling and winning by 52 runs. Took a risk in the week by selling off two of our more experienced bats and bringing in a couple of younger ones, but one of the main reasons for that was to give Van Den Bergh more game time and he certainly repaid the faith with 75 (139) at the top of the order. Kouyate also did well for the second week running with an unbeaten 50 (41) when we looked in a bit of trouble at 117-4. Nice to see all the bowlers taking a wicket too, Mateta going at over five an over for only one tail end wicket the only slight disappointment.

Three wins and three losses to start the season, next week against Camberwell will make this either a decent first half of the season or a very good first half of the season. Feels like Egham are already champions elect and CC Deville face an enormous battle to stay up, but 2nd - 7th looks like being a real shoot out.

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T. Ames (rm) 2-0-25-1, N. Nikitaras 3 (2b), W. Hutchinson 69 (47b)
End of over 20 (10 runs) - Camberwell Carrots(143-6) RR 7.15

It's looking like it's going to be a tough chase on an uneven pitch against the bottom placed team.

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Ruff Royals won by 7 wickets

Camberwell Carrots Ruff Royals
Batting - Top Order 7,455 6,969
Batting - Middle Order 4,929 6,374
Batting - Tail 4,119 4,458
Bowling - Seam 6,177 (12) 7,225 (14)
Bowling - Spin 7,035 (8) 7,826 (6)
Fielding/Keeping 8,049 9,899
Overall 118,641 133,474

Only made it with a ball to spare. 58 for Banerjee and 60 not out for Schwartz saw us home. I'm now 4 points clear at the top. I don't think I'm going to be at the top much longer as my best bowler will move to the seniors next week.

[wolfberries]

Home wolfberries
Away The Warriors
Ground wolfberries CG
League Youth Twenty20 3.2
Date 10 Apr 23 10:00
Crowd 8,862
Weather Cloudy
Pitch Uneven

Result: wolfberries won by 6 wickets

Much needed win to keep us in a prize money spot.

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Match Details
Home Indian Avengers
Away wolfberries
Ground Indian Avengers CG
League Twenty20 2.2
Date 11 Apr 23 10:00
Crowd 9,479
Weather Sunny
Pitch Uneven

Toss: Indian Avengers won the toss and elected to bowl.

Taking a bit of a chance today as picked a couple of younger seniors to rest a couple of players, we are playing bottom and we are top but our opponents are certainly capable of beating us today.

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D. Combs (lf) 2.2-0-16-1, P. Ganegoda 0 (4b)
End of over 17 (maiden) - Zippys Rainbow Destroyers(50-10) RR 2.94

Slow pitch and we lost the toss so had to bowl first. I picked a young team and Patterson had a great game with 6 wickets for 6 runs in his 4 overs.

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P. Ganegoda (rm) 2-0-18-0, I. Dennehy 22 (18b), M. Schmidt 10 (6b)
End of over 7 (8 runs) - Ruff Royals(54-1) RR 7.71

We lost a wicket which was a shame.

Ruff Royals Zippys Rainbow Destroyers
Batting - Top Order 11,793 6,069
Batting - Middle Order 8,897 3,838
Batting - Tail 4,288 2,654
Bowling - Seam 11,428 (12) 6,409 (12)
Bowling - Spin 11,427 (8) 6,589 (8)
Fielding/Keeping 15,228 5,886
Overall 198,444 97,658

Ruff Royals won by 9 wickets

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Indian Avengers wolfberries
Batting - Top Order 13,282 14,197
Batting - Middle Order 9,334 11,013
Batting - Tail 4,481 5,018
Bowling - Seam 12,722 (16) 11,967 (20)
Bowling - Spin 12,515 (4) 0 (0)
Fielding/Keeping 15,569 16,647
Overall 214,025 225,677

Result: wolfberries won by 12 runs

The gamble paid off and we are still top.

[wolfberries]

Home South London's Number One CC
Away wolfberries
Ground South London's Number One CC CG
League Youth 3.1
Date 13 Apr 23 10:00
Crowd 8,976
Weather Sunny
Pitch Slow

Toss: South London's Number One CC won the toss and elected to bowl.

E. Duldig (rm) 8-1-35-0, A. McAndrews 27 (25b), W. Sandri 103 (123b)
End of over 40 (10 runs) - wolfberries(215-2) RR 5.38

Nice batting by opener Sandri to carry his bat for a century.

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South London's Number One CC wolfberries
Batting - Top Order 6,707 6,039
Batting - Middle Order 4,845 4,351
Batting - Tail 2,896 3,409
Bowling - Seam 5,108 (24) 7,358 (32)
Bowling - Spin 8,959 (16) 5,981 (8)
Fielding/Keeping 7,890 8,319
Overall 111,810 112,164

wolfberries won by 28 runs

Will take that win.

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Ruff Royals St. Marks Hill Strollers
Batting - Top Order 7,041 7,408
Batting - Middle Order 6,752 6,098
Batting - Tail 4,312 3,551
Bowling - Seam 7,578 (24) 7,390 (20)
Bowling - Spin 7,271 (16) 7,385 (20)
Fielding/Keeping 9,860 8,372
Overall 134,964 126,730

Ruff Royals won by 7 wickets

We won with a little more than 3 overs to go. I thought all of my bowlers 7 did well to restrict them to 191 on a flat pitch although some were more expensive than others. We seemed to get off to a bit of a slow start with the bat but it was comfortable enough at the end with Banerjee reaching his highest score of 105 not out from 110 balls.

It was the last match for my premier fast bowler, Zondeki, and we have a big game next week against 2nd place Oxhey Players so he's going to be missed.