England League and Cup Discussion

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C. Moses (rws) 1-0-3-0, D. Angus 6 (9b), B. Weerasinghe 30 (59b)
End of over 17 (3 runs) - Camberwell Carrots(60-2). 172 runs required from 33 overs. RR 3.53 RRR 5.21

We need more wickets. They'll chase this easily otherwise.

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C. Moses (rws) 7-1-24-1, H. Mullings 26 (53b), O. Ayaz 0 (8b)
End of over 39 (3 runs) - Camberwell Carrots(129-7). 103 runs required from 11 overs. RR 3.31 RRR 9.36

This has certainly turned in our favour now. We need to make sure Mullings doesn't farm the strike too much.

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Ruff Royals won by 94 runs

Ruff Royals Camberwell Carrots
Batting - Top Order 13,741 12,970
Batting - Middle Order 9,995 8,599
Batting - Tail 4,592 4,929
Bowling - Seam 12,767 (20) 12,832 (20)
Bowling - Spin 13,789 (30) 10,906 (30)
Fielding/Keeping 16,002 14,201
Overall 223,631 202,049

I'm very happy with that especially after resting Paton and giving Clarke a chance behind the stumps.

92 for Liberatore was key and the bowlers did well. Hodges finished with 3-20 but Ten Dam and Moses also picked up 3 wickets each.

Topmen beat Inchigeela Angels too so that means we're out on our own at the top.

[eagles123]

South London's Number One CC v Danger Hotspurs >> Match Ratings
Match Ratings
South London's Number One CC Danger Hotspurs
Batting - Top Order 13,259 12,762
Batting - Middle Order 12,182 10,767
Batting - Tail 5,881 4,761
Bowling - Seam 13,115 (30) 12,863 (30)
Bowling - Spin 13,416 (20) 12,694 (20)
Fielding/Keeping 16,355 15,604
Overall 234,658 219,191

by far our best game of the season, picking up our first points at the 4th attempt. a solid effort with the bat, with 5 of them hitting at least 20, and Mitchell top scoring with 52. And then all bowlers picking up at least one wicket which is nice, Gootjes the pick with 3-29 from 8, including one with his bouncer talent. A big swing happened in the match happened the very first ball when our opener was dropped, and then went on to hit 48, but I think we deserve some luck after recent weeks.

fatigue is going to be a big problem now, and I might have to consider chucking either the PC/T20/SOD game ... but we'll see

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wolfberries Yorkshire Puddings
Batting - Top Order 12,250 13,463
Batting - Middle Order 8,949 11,978
Batting - Tail 4,204 5,798
Bowling - Seam 11,568 (40) 13,171 (40)
Bowling - Spin 10,794 (10) 13,315 (10)
Fielding/Keeping 14,628 15,934
Overall 198,359 232,964

Result: Yorkshire Puddings won by 7 wickets

Well that wasn't unexpected.

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Home Ruff Royals
Away The Middle Stump Lubricators
Ground Ruff Royals CG
League Youth Twenty20 2.1
Date 18 Oct 21 10:00
Crowd 9,774
Weather Sunny
Pitch Dry

We were put into bat first and I thought we did alright.

R. Ramchand (rm) 4-0-37-0, J. House 80 (51b), M. Schmidt 13 (7b)
End of over 20 (12 runs) - Ruff Royals(181-2) RR 9.05

A very good innings from House (80 not out) and Dotson 67 from 45 balls.

D. Combs (lf) 2-0-23-0, D. Goodhart 17 (10b), O. Rawlins 17 (9b)
End of over 3 (10 runs) - The Middle Stump Lubricators(35-0). 147 runs required from 17 overs. RR 11.67 RRR 8.65

The bowling has not got off to a great start. There's been a dropped catch too.

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B. Gardiner (rws) 2-0-19-0, I. Stevenson 11 (14b), A. Talukhdar 1 (4b)
End of over 10 (6 runs) - The Middle Stump Lubricators(79-5). 103 runs required from 10 overs. RR 7.90 RRR 10.30

Things are a lot better after the spinners came on.

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Ruff Royals won by 39 runs

Ruff Royals The Middle Stump Lubricators
Batting - Top Order 7,214 7,474
Batting - Middle Order 5,214 5,508
Batting - Tail 3,135 3,417
Bowling - Seam 4,961 (8) 7,412 (12)
Bowling - Spin 7,165 (12) 7,722 (8)
Fielding/Keeping 8,908 5,685
Overall 117,262 116,920

A big win and fairly comfortable once the spinners came on. The big difference between the two sides appears to have been the fielding judging by those ratings (and us playing more spinners on a dry pitch).

House and Dotson were the stars with the bat. Westerveld did well with the ball (3-25) but Bruce was brilliant taking 4 wickets from his 4 overs and only conceding 3 runs!

We're still top which is something that can't last too much longer considering our match ratings.

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OU812 wolfberries
Batting - Top Order 5,372 6,024
Batting - Middle Order 4,846 4,833
Batting - Tail 4,568 3,338
Bowling - Seam 6,145 (16) 5,129 (12)
Bowling - Spin 5,676 (4) 3,874 (8)
Fielding/Keeping 6,993 8,836
Overall 105,814 103,088

Result: OU812 won by 4 wickets

Another last ball loss

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Home today in Humid and Slow conditions , lost the toss and batted first

Ended up 145 for 3.

Only scored 18 runs from the last three overs today, struggling to find a way over increasing end of innings runs.

Our opponents consistently twat our bowlers all over the CENSORED place at the end, so not sure what the issue is!

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Home Ruff Royals
Away Topmen
Ground Ruff Royals CG
League Twenty20 1.1
Date 19 Oct 21 10:00
Crowd 20,314
Weather Humid
Pitch Dry

We decided to bowl first.

It went from this:

A. Ten Dam (rfm) 3-0-21-0, H. Herbst 9 (12b), M. Meech 27 (19b)
End of over 17 (8 runs) - Topmen(114-2) RR 6.71

To this:

S. Hodges (rfs) 4-0-49-0, M. Meech 56 (28b), A. Dowlath 6 (4b)
End of over 20 (10 runs) - Topmen(162-3) RR 8.10

So just the 48 runs in the last 3 overs! I think we're going to struggle and we might be in the relegation zone by the end of the day.

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South London's Number One CC v gRhyllidae >> Match Ratings
Match Ratings
South London's Number One CC gRhyllidae
Batting - Top Order 11,803 6,890
Batting - Middle Order 8,492 4,120
Batting - Tail 3,274 4,086
Bowling - Seam 11,490 (16) 8,346 (8)
Bowling - Spin 13,335 (4) 7,485 (12)
Fielding/Keeping 14,382 10,129
Overall 193,446 125,831

opps played a lot of youth today, and although we had a couple of youth in there ourselves, it was a comfortable win by 9 wickets in very quick time, which hopefully will have preserved some energy!

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Topmen won by 1 run

Ruff Royals Topmen
Batting - Top Order 14,502 13,095
Batting - Middle Order 10,972 9,950
Batting - Tail 4,517 5,315
Bowling - Seam 13,883 (8) 11,932 (12)
Bowling - Spin 13,464 (12) 11,136 (8)
Fielding/Keeping 16,780 14,169
Overall 233,954 208,700

So they scored 48 from their last 3 overs and we scored 24. We had 8 wickets in hand going into the last 3 overs too and the ratings make it worse. We should be doing it when needing 14 runs from the last 2 overs.

Only consolation is that we just about manage to stay out of the relegation zone.

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wolfberries South Hill Slammers
Batting - Top Order 12,224 12,358
Batting - Middle Order 8,273 7,801
Batting - Tail 4,211 5,281
Bowling - Seam 11,286 (16) 11,252 (16)
Bowling - Spin 10,892 (4) 10,072 (4)
Fielding/Keeping 14,413 13,356
Overall 193,898 191,632

Result: wolfberries won by 22 runs

Surprised we won in the end.

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D. Anderson (rf) 8-0-40-2, D. Combs 2 (4b), M. Patterson 16 (12b)
End of over 40 (9 runs) - Ruff Royals(197-9) RR 4.92

Hard pitch so I consider this a very poor batting effort. We've given our bowlers no chance. 45 from Alphonso Patterson was the only decent attempt for my batters.


B. Gardiner (rws) 4-0-23-0, K. Jagath 9 (15b), R. Betts 45 (59b)
End of over 19 (5 runs) - Inchigeela Angels(95-3). 103 runs required from 21 overs. RR 5.00 RRR 4.90

There were a couple of early wickets for Combs but we're not going to be able to bowl them out and they're not going to have a problem with their run rate.