England League and Cup Discussion

[wolfberries]

Home Lippas Lads
Away wolfberries
Ground The Lippadome
League Youth 3.1
Date 04 May 23 10:00
Crowd 4,688
Weather Humid
Pitch Uneven

Toss: Lippas Lads won the toss and elected to bow

N. Winding (rfm) 8-0-48-1, H. Goodrick 42 (45b), J. Buckingham 70 (55b)
End of over 40 (7 runs) - wolfberries(246-3) RR 6.15

Top on 24 points but three other clubs have the same points and one has 20, playing bottom so need to win today to keep the push for promotion.

Very happy with that total in these conditions.

[spark]

M. Gony (lf) 6-2-18-1, D. Passailaigue 1 (2b), Y. Banerjee 10 (26b)
End of over 20 (maiden) - Ruff Royals(55-6). 144 runs required from 20 overs. RR 2.75 RRR 7.20

Awful batting by us. We're scoring incredibly slowly whilst also losing wickets; not a great combination when you're trying to chase a decent score.

[spark]

The Middle Stump Lubricators Ruff Royals
Batting - Top Order 7,076 6,619
Batting - Middle Order 5,411 7,463
Batting - Tail 4,138 5,389
Bowling - Seam 6,827 (32) 6,764 (24)
Bowling - Spin 7,206 (8) 8,256 (16)
Fielding/Keeping 5,533 10,010
Overall 113,476 139,336

The Middle Stump Lubricators won by 93 runs

I can't imagine I've had a worse youth performance than this in my ftp career. Yes, we made a mistake bowling first but, even so, it's a really disappointing defeat. What's worse is that we could have been top if we had won or at least only been behind on NRR.

[wolfberries]

Lippas Lads wolfberries
Batting - Top Order 6,250 6,390
Batting - Middle Order 4,595 4,391
Batting - Tail 2,337 3,207
Bowling - Seam 4,930 (16) 6,040 (32)
Bowling - Spin 4,537 (24) 6,380 (8)
Fielding/Keeping 5,082 8,169
Overall 89,109 107,793

Result: wolfberries won by 79 runs

A win keeps us on top still.

[spark]

M. Roberson (lf) 10-1-31-3, E. Samsodien 7 (13b)
End of over 45 (maiden) - Topmen(156-10) RR 3.47

A competitive total for them on a sticky pitch.

[wolfberries]

Home wolfberries
Away Egham Town CC
Ground wolfberries CG
League One Day 2.2
Date 05 May 23 10:00
Crowd 18,210
Weather Humid
Pitch Slow

Toss: Egham Town CC won the toss and elected to bowl.

M. Forssberg (rm) 10-1-35-2, L. Lawrence 64 (79b), D. Ylyett 3 (4b)
End of over 50 (4 runs) - wolfberries(214-9) RR 4.28

Playing top today and just four points behind, need to win to stay in with a chance of promotion. Not the worst total in these conditions.

[spark]

Ruff Royals won by 2 wickets

Topmen Ruff Royals
Batting - Top Order 13,670 14,020
Batting - Middle Order 11,734 13,049
Batting - Tail 6,007 4,567
Bowling - Seam 14,780 (40) 14,320 (30)
Bowling - Spin 13,434 (10) 14,643 (20)
Fielding/Keeping 15,319 17,944
Overall 238,152 248,056

We were looking fairly comfortable at 68-0 and then about 6 overs later we were 89-6. I thought we were going to lose when they reduced us to 121-8 and still needing 36 to win. Thankfully, Clarke did excellent with farming the strike so that Massey only faced 7 balls whilst Clarke finished 42 not out. Another mention goes to Whitehead who scored 41 which is the 2nd decent score in SOD in as many weeks; pretty much unheard of for him.

8 points clear of the relegation zone. I think another win might be enough.

[wolfberries]

wolfberries Egham Town CC
Batting - Top Order 14,275 12,665
Batting - Middle Order 11,880 13,259
Batting - Tail 5,717 6,243
Bowling - Seam 14,206 (40) 14,365 (40)
Bowling - Spin 15,010 (10) 15,007 (10)
Fielding/Keeping 17,551 17,883
Overall 246,257 248,541

Result: wolfberries won by 23 runs

Nice set of ratings for div2, this win takes us up to second place just behind on NRR!

[wolfberries]

Home wolfberries
Away The Spitfires
Ground wolfberries CG
League Youth Twenty20 3.2
Date 08 May 23 10:00
Crowd 8,532
Weather Humid
Pitch Flat

Toss: The Spitfires won the toss and elected to bowl.

We are involved in a fight for second place between three teams possibly four, so can't afford to lose today.

[spark]

T. Ames (rm) 2-0-20-1, G. Jeffries 1 (1b), E. Bain 14 (7b)
End of over 20 (9 runs) - Relegation reprobates(183-4) RR 9.15

I didn't get around to changing my team. It would only have been a tweak here or there (more pace bowling and less spin) but it could have made all the difference.

It's a hard pitch and I think we're going to struggle to chase this.

[spark]

Relegation reprobates Ruff Royals
Batting - Top Order 7,668 7,809
Batting - Middle Order 5,690 6,385
Batting - Tail 4,272 5,090
Bowling - Seam 7,059 (16) 6,938 (10)
Bowling - Spin 8,426 (4) 7,727 (10)
Fielding/Keeping 8,078 10,204
Overall 127,145 139,328

Relegation reprobates won by 22 runs

We lost but we're still 8 points clear with 3 games to go after Snakey's Kent Stars also lost.

[wolfberries]

wolfberries The Spitfires
Batting - Top Order 6,191 6,068
Batting - Middle Order 4,319 4,752
Batting - Tail 3,076 3,293
Bowling - Seam 6,213 (16) 5,910 (18)
Bowling - Spin 6,039 (4) 5,810 (2)
Fielding/Keeping 8,132 6,616
Overall 106,558 102,511

Result: wolfberries won by 14 runs

Keeps us in the hunt for second place.

[spark]

Egham Town CC won by 49 runs

Egham Town CC Ruff Royals
Batting - Top Order 13,242 13,924
Batting - Middle Order 12,716 11,566
Batting - Tail 5,666 5,104
Bowling - Seam 14,118 (20) 13,002 (16)
Bowling - Spin 0 (0) 13,836 (4)
Fielding/Keeping 17,423 16,682
Overall 243,694 233,169

With a couple of key players away on international duty, I thought we'd struggle today. My bowlers did a bit worse than I would have hoped and the batters couldn't keep up with the run rate.

[eagles123]

Friday we had some bad luck with a 7K bat getting 90 odd to win the game for opp, yesterday we made up for it with some good luck.

South London's Number One CC v Bathaloner >> Match Ratings
Match Ratings
South London's Number One CC Bathaloner
Batting - Top Order 13,046 14,064
Batting - Middle Order 11,663 10,191
Batting - Tail 5,529 7,756
Bowling - Seam 13,501 (12) 11,567 (16)
Bowling - Spin 12,528 (8) 14,334 (4)
Fielding/Keeping 16,279 15,417
Overall 229,824 227,150

lost the toss and put in to bat on flat/humid, but would've batted anyway. Van Den Bergh did superbly to make an unbeaten 114 (60) but as I said a huge slice of luck in this one with him being dropped twice early in his innings. Captain fantastic Dann ably supported with 61 (34) as we racked up 229/3 in our 20. In reply opps always struggled with the run rate and Olise in particular was fantastic taking 3 of the top 4 wickets with overall figures of 4 - 0 - 34 - 3. A comfortable 70 run win in the end, and that should guarantee us at least 3rd place being 8 points clear of 4th with the league's whipping boys Red Fox still to play.

Tough game next week against Trevor Francis Tracksuit (great club name) who have 11 wins from 11 so far. Probably need to win all three of our remaining games to have a chance of catching up with Bathaloner in 2nd place.

[wolfberries]

Home wolfberries
Away Papa Pneumatic
Ground wolfberries CG
League Youth 3.1
Date 11 May 23 10:00
Crowd 8,790
Weather Humid
Pitch Sticky

Need a win to keep us top.