England League and Cup Discussion

[spark]

Home Ruff Royals
Away South London's Number One CC
Ground Ruff Royals CG
League One Day 1.1
Date 08 Sep 23 10:00
Crowd 20,016
Weather Hot
Pitch Slow

I've left my best medium pacer out to give another player experience. Once again the ratings will be interesting as it's not going to be too far away from what I'll rate next season.

M. Patterson (rfs) 3-0-4-0, D. Van den Bergh 58 (69b), J. Puncheon 19 (35b)
End of over 20 (1 run) - South London's Number One CC(91-1) RR 4.55

It's not going great so far. We're struggling to take wickets and have only just dragged the run rate down to being respectable (but not particularly good).

[spark]

D. Combs (lf) 9-0-49-0, D. Van den Bergh 93 (102b), W. Zaha 48 (47b)
End of over 36 (5 runs) - South London's Number One CC(180-2) RR 5.00

It's not looking good. We can't get Van den Bergh out and now Zaha keeps hitting 6 for his BH trigger. We going to need them to collapse and then we'll need to show some excellent batting.

[spark]

wolfberries Snakey's Kent Stars
Batting - Top Order 14,435 13,802
Batting - Middle Order 10,713 11,463
Batting - Tail 5,522 7,126
Bowling - Seam 14,430 (12) 12,994 (8)
Bowling - Spin 13,533 (8) 12,904 (12)
Fielding/Keeping 17,459 16,014
Overall 239,894 235,183

Result: wolfberries won by 53 runs

Well, that ensured promotion to division one!

Not sure that is a good thing with our squad!

Providing you don't drop too much in ratings you should be competitive. You could rate higher than I will although I am expecting to be involved in a relegation battle.

[spark]

Ruff Royals South London's Number One CC
Batting - Top Order 14,017 13,139
Batting - Middle Order 12,273 11,227
Batting - Tail 4,964 4,859
Bowling - Seam 12,110 (30) 14,411 (30)
Bowling - Spin 12,636 (20) 12,907 (20)
Fielding/Keeping 17,174 16,787
Overall 233,180 231,450

South London's Number One CC won by 3 runs

That was a bit of a rollercoaster. Most of the time it felt like we were plummeting to our doom but when we were 261-5 with only 17 needed from 5.1 overs we were on top of the world. But we exited the rollercoaster after only 13 runs scored for 5 wickets lost so this particular rollercoaster is not one we're going to recommend.

On the plus side, Mills scored 123 although I think of his 4 senior centuries at least the last 2 have been in losing causes.

[eagles123]

ridiculous game mate, thought even with our shite bowling we'd be able to defend 277 on hot/slow quite easily ... needed a minor miracle in the end to get the win relegation all but mathematically confirmed, not unexpected in the slightest!

[spark]

Ruff Royals won by 56 runs

Ruff Royals Snakey's Kent Stars
Batting - Top Order 7,330 6,594
Batting - Middle Order 7,402 5,479
Batting - Tail 5,131 4,489
Bowling - Seam 7,316 (12) 6,696 (20)
Bowling - Spin 9,082 (8) 0 (0)
Fielding/Keeping 9,144 8,462
Overall 141,865 120,625

A good win yesterday but we ended up a fair bit behind top spot on nrr despite only losing 2 games this season. Congratulations to Oxhey Players for taking the title.

[spark]

Home Topmen
Away Ruff Royals
Ground Topmen CG
League Twenty20 1.1
Date 12 Sep 23 10:00
Crowd 21,672
Weather Sunny
Pitch Sticky

We only need a big miracle to take the title today. We need Trevor Francis Tracksuit to lose and us to win whilst making up a net run rate deficit of about 1. So I'm just trying to give as much experience as possible to certain players who need it.

We were put in to bat first.

It's not going well.

J. Birch (lm) 4-1-7-2, F. Bullock 12 (22b), J. Westerveld 0 (5b)
End of over 16 (maiden) - Ruff Royals(66-7) RR 4.12

[wolfberries]

Relegation reprobates wolfberries
Batting - Top Order 14,415 11,456
Batting - Middle Order 11,725 9,752
Batting - Tail 6,492 5,813
Bowling - Seam 13,899 (8) 10,562 (8)
Bowling - Spin 14,216 (12) 12,540 (12)
Fielding/Keeping 16,661 14,258
Overall 244,468 203,794

Relegation reprobates won by 9 wickets

Already promoted, so decided to play some younger lads.

[wolfberries]

Providing you don't drop too much in ratings you should be competitive. You could rate higher than I will although I am expecting to be involved in a relegation battle.

We are going to lose one or two players due to age, if they can hold off plopping long enough we may have chance of avoiding relegation.

[spark]

Topmen won by 7 wickets

Topmen Ruff Royals
Batting - Top Order 14,573 14,217
Batting - Middle Order 13,261 11,129
Batting - Tail 7,812 4,802
Bowling - Seam 14,988 (16) 11,965 (12)
Bowling - Spin 13,773 (4) 12,383 (8)
Fielding/Keeping 16,290 16,786
Overall 257,370 226,812

Not exactly promising signs for next season. I didn't realise that Topmen were rating so highly either.

We finish 3rd which I'm very happy to do as I was fully expecting a relegation battle.

It's looking like 500k+ in prizemoney which means I seem to be making a profit even with a deluxe academy. I'd expect that to turn in to losses if I was relegated into division 2 in the senior leagues (I'm pretty sure I'll find out exactly how much I'll lose by the end of season 57)!

[eagles123]

Bathaloner v South London's Number One CC >> Match Ratings
Match Ratings
Bathaloner South London's Number One CC
Batting - Top Order 13,026 13,024
Batting - Middle Order 9,525 11,767
Batting - Tail 7,656 5,614
Bowling - Seam 11,779 (12) 14,071 (16)
Bowling - Spin 13,727 (8) 13,992 (4)
Fielding/Keeping 15,254 17,069
Overall 221,729 237,491


went with pretty much our strongest possible team for this one and managed to win by 6 wickets to secure 2nd place and some much needed prize money!

[aarong]

TFT win Division 1, honestly didn’t think that would be the case at the start of the season being 6th in the ratings.
Have a glimmer to do the double, but will need to win and hope Inchigeela Angels lose.
Will need to add to the squad during the break given more players are getting into Nat squads and i do lack depth, especially batting.

[wolfberries]

Home Ruff Royals
Away wolfberries
Ground Ruff Royals CG
League Youth 2.1
Date 14 Sep 23 10:00
Crowd 10,652
Weather Sunny
Pitch Slow

Toss: wolfberries won the toss and elected to bat.

Q. Fattah (rfs) 5.5-0-16-2, M. Idowu 5 (11b)
End of over 36 (3 runs) - wolfberries(105-10) RR 2.92

I can't see us getting our first win of the season against Spark and his boys!

[spark]

TFT win Division 1, honestly didn’t think that would be the case at the start of the season being 6th in the ratings.
Have a glimmer to do the double, but will need to win and hope Inchigeela Angels lose.
Will need to add to the squad during the break given more players are getting into Nat squads and i do lack depth, especially batting.

Congratulations on the title!

[spark]

Home Ruff Royals
Away wolfberries
Ground Ruff Royals CG
League Youth 2.1
Date 14 Sep 23 10:00
Crowd 10,652
Weather Sunny
Pitch Slow

Toss: wolfberries won the toss and elected to bat.

Q. Fattah (rfs) 5.5-0-16-2, M. Idowu 5 (11b)
End of over 36 (3 runs) - wolfberries(105-10) RR 2.92

I can't see us getting our first win of the season against Spark and his boys!

My lot have had a great season in this league; not sure I've ever only lost 1 game before especially in a league without bots.

Ruff Royals wolfberries
Batting - Top Order 6,569 4,408
Batting - Middle Order 8,311 4,756
Batting - Tail 4,582 3,062
Bowling - Seam 6,840 (24) 5,087 (24)
Bowling - Spin 9,293 (16) 3,687 (16)
Fielding/Keeping 9,015 7,803
Overall 139,420 91,891

Ruff Royals won by 7 wickets