England League and Cup Discussion

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Home Ruff Royals
Away Inchigeela Angels
Ground Ruff Royals CG
League One Day 1.1
Date 22 Apr 22 10:00
Crowd 16,536
Weather Hot
Pitch Dry

Tough game today. We won the toss and are batting first. It started well but 2 wickets in an over from Da Vinci has swung it back in Inchigeela's favour.

N. McPherson (rfs) 5-1-13-0, F. Best 2 (8b), E. McCall 36 (48b)
End of over 19 (3 runs) - Ruff Royals(90-3) RR 4.74

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N. McPherson (rfs) 8-1-25-1, B. Issa 2 (3b), F. Best 15 (28b)
End of over 25 (3 runs) - Ruff Royals(117-4) RR 4.68

Disappointing wicket in the final over to put things well and truly in Inchigeela Angels' favour. I think we need at least another 140 from here.

[eagles123]

having a bat on hot/dry. Was 200-3, very quickly 221/9 ... last wicket pair put on another 11, who knows how important that might prove to be. 232 feels like about a par score, but we'll have to bowl better than we did on Tuesday that's for sure

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S. Durani (rfm) 10-0-76-2, C. Moses 3 (4b), F. Best 115 (114b)
End of over 50 (7 runs) - Ruff Royals(288-8) RR 5.76

I'm happy with that total. We're playing a good team though so it might not be enough but it should give us a chance if we bowl well.

Some good batting performances with Best ending unbeaten on 115, Clarke with 49, and McCall hit 44.

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S. Hodges (rfs) 7-1-20-0, N. McPherson 10 (14b), B. Beck 63 (78b)
End of over 35 (1 run) - Inchigeela Angels(173-5). 116 runs required from 15 overs. RR 4.94 RRR 7.73

It's looking very even. At the same point in our innings we were 174-4. I suspect that they're going to do better batting in the last 15 overs than we did.

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A very close game.

Ruff Royals Inchigeela Angels
Batting - Top Order 13,674 13,965
Batting - Middle Order 12,986 13,381
Batting - Tail 4,000 8,557
Bowling - Seam 13,892 (20) 13,375 (30)
Bowling - Spin 14,173 (30) 14,085 (20)
Fielding/Keeping 16,686 16,223
Overall 239,003 252,024

Ruff Royals won by 9 runs.

It was looking like we weren't going to win for a while towards the end but we managed to pick up the wickets we needed. Medium pace allrounder Perry was our best bowler with 4-52 and he took some crucial wickets.

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Golden Lion wolfberries
Batting - Top Order 11,176 12,256
Batting - Middle Order 7,677 11,433
Batting - Tail 5,247 4,770
Bowling - Seam 11,053 (40) 12,943 (20)
Bowling - Spin 9,128 (10) 11,850 (30)
Fielding/Keeping 14,244 15,436
Overall 187,229 216,811

Result: wolfberries won by 130 runs

Nice win first up.

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Home Ruff Royals
Away Leyland Lions
Ground Ruff Royals CG
League Youth Twenty20 1.1
Date 25 Apr 22 10:00
Crowd 8,490
Weather Hot
Pitch Dry

We lost the toss and were put in to bat. 103-2 at the moment with Jupp out for 52 and Bullock for 38. It's good to have wickets in hand but we need to up the scoring rate massively as we've got less than 4 overs left.

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L. Brayshaw (rfs) 4-0-31-0, A. Patterson 23 (12b), C. Dickerson 29 (22b)
End of over 20 (11 runs) - Ruff Royals(143-2) RR 7.15

I'm not convinced that is enough so we're going to have to bowl really well.

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Ruff Royals Leyland Lions
Batting - Top Order 6,622 7,859
Batting - Middle Order 6,022 5,306
Batting - Tail 3,834 4,205
Bowling - Seam 7,495 (8) 7,115 (8)
Bowling - Spin 8,531 (12) 8,037 (12)
Fielding/Keeping 9,212 8,181
Overall 130,304 128,162

Match tied

A draw is okay, I guess. The ratings are decent considering we lost a couple of players to the seniors. Westerveld was the pick of our bowlers with 2-18 but, sadly, his last over went for 10 and that was the difference between 2 and 4 points.

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wolfberries Pedagogs
Batting - Top Order 7,482 5,262
Batting - Middle Order 5,883 5,787
Batting - Tail 3,325 3,833
Bowling - Seam 6,702 (8) 5,999 (12)
Bowling - Spin 5,479 (12) 5,484 (8)
Fielding/Keeping 8,765 7,095
Overall 119,573 105,949

Result: wolfberries won by 10 wickets

Far easier win than expected.

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Home Relegation reprobates
Away wolfberries
Ground Relegation reprobates CG
League Twenty20 2.1
Date 26 Apr 22 10:00
Crowd 16,256
Weather Hot
Pitch Dry

Toss: Relegation reprobates won the toss and elected to bowl.

Not really expecting much from today's game, put out a weakened team and not sure we would have much chance with a full team out.

R. Mangan (lf) 3-0-31-1, B. Hayne 39 (27b), T. Hopper 14 (9b)
End of over 10 (18 runs) - wolfberries(77-2) RR 7.70

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Home Ruff Royals
Away Topmen
Ground Ruff Royals CG
League Twenty20 1.1
Date 26 Apr 22 10:00
Crowd 18,008
Weather Hot
Pitch Dry

I won the toss and decided to bowl first.

S. Hodges (rfs) 4-0-19-1, C. Nel 6 (8b), D. Chilvers 3 (3b)
End of over 20 (6 runs) - Topmen(127-7) RR 6.35

We could do with a win here. I'd say things are still very much in the balance. One of my exceptional fielders dropping the first ball of the match wasn't a particularly encouraging sign.

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Ruff Royals won by 2 wickets

Ruff Royals Topmen
Batting - Top Order 14,336 12,100
Batting - Middle Order 10,301 10,479
Batting - Tail 3,929 5,427
Bowling - Seam 12,962 (8) 12,700 (12)
Bowling - Spin 14,076 (12) 13,968 (8)
Fielding/Keeping 16,425 14,691
Overall 227,767 216,708

My team decided to test my nerves but we got the win in the end.

In the chase to reach 128 to win, my batters were 71-1 after 6 overs, 91-2 after 9.3, and 110-4 after 13.3. Then we collapsed to 117-8 still needing 11 runs but with real tailenders batting. I was expecting to lose it from there but Massey (dreadful batting skill) managed 10 not out and hit the winning run.

It's looking like it's going to be a really tough season in T20 and I'll be happy just to survive.

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Relegation reprobates wolfberries
Batting - Top Order 13,604 10,826
Batting - Middle Order 10,313 8,586
Batting - Tail 5,697 4,130
Bowling - Seam 10,992 (8) 12,063 (8)
Bowling - Spin 13,170 (12) 11,613 (12)
Fielding/Keeping 15,163 14,044
Overall 219,749 191,139

Result: Relegation reprobates won by 8 wickets

No real surprise with this loss.