England League and Cup Discussion

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Ruff Royals Inchigeela Angels
Batting - Top Order 13,823 14,680
Batting - Middle Order 11,892 11,891
Batting - Tail 4,258 6,215
Bowling - Seam 14,075 (20) 14,108 (30)
Bowling - Spin 14,563 (30) 14,207 (20)
Fielding/Keeping 16,968 17,457
Overall 238,380 248,038

Inchigeela Angels won by 5 wickets on a slow pitch.

We started okay and made it nicely to 105-2. We soon collapsed to 138-7 before we limped along to 170 all out. That was never going to be enough. They made it to 98-0 before we finally managed to take some wickets. However, there was never any real runrate pressure so they eventually reached 171-5 with just under 12 overs to go.

Only 4 points clear of the relegation zone now.

[casperj]

Registered my highest ever SOD rating....
...still got beat. Putting promotion to Div 2 in doubt. My apparently strong batting order could only register 175 on a sunny/slow!

Grays Thurrock CC Crestfallen Sidekicks
Batting - Top Order 11,938 12,437
Batting - Middle Order 11,038 13,204
Batting - Tail 5,875 5,922
Bowling - Seam 12,323 (30) 13,397 (30)
Bowling - Spin 13,066 (20) 13,614 (20)
Fielding/Keeping 17,434 16,096
Overall 224,935 236,043


Grays Thurrock CC won by 6 wickets

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Home Henley Cricket Club
Away wolfberries
Ground Henley Cricket Club CG
League Youth Twenty20 3.2
Date 15 May 23 10:00
Crowd 5,882
Weather Sunny
Pitch Hard

Toss: Henley Cricket Club won the toss and elected to bat.

Must win game today as we are currently 2nd place on NRR against today's opponents in third spot, first place is near enough out of reach.

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B. Farrell (lf) 2-0-7-4, S. Harper 0 (0b), J. Biffin 2 (1b)
End of over 4 (3 runs) - Henley Cricket Club(19-5) RR 4.75

A nice hattrick from Farrell has certainly put us on top.

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Ruff Royals Dunbrody Academy London
Batting - Top Order 7,285 7,139
Batting - Middle Order 6,023 4,799
Batting - Tail 4,719 3,098
Bowling - Seam 5,721 (8) 5,505 (12)
Bowling - Spin 7,454 (12) 5,521 (8)
Fielding/Keeping 8,049 7,408
Overall 125,339 106,830

Ruff Royals won by 6 wickets

It didn't start very well when they 77-0 on a crumbling pitch but we started picking some wickets and restricted them to 116. We also had a great opening partnership with allrounder Ames scoring 56 from 39 balls and allrounder Bennett got 45 not out from 36 balls.

We're 8 points clear now with 2 games to go.

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Henley Cricket Club wolfberries
Batting - Top Order 6,657 6,332
Batting - Middle Order 4,393 4,271
Batting - Tail 2,507 3,515
Bowling - Seam 6,377 (8) 7,205 (12)
Bowling - Spin 4,673 (12) 5,593 (8)
Fielding/Keeping 8,138 8,461
Overall 102,912 111,141

Result: wolfberries won by 6 wickets

To bowl out our opponents for 99 in sunny and hard conditions was a great feat, wasn't the greatest of chases but a win is a win.

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Ruff Royals Topmen
Batting - Top Order 14,655 13,384
Batting - Middle Order 10,916 12,006
Batting - Tail 4,212 6,271
Bowling - Seam 14,259 (12) 15,310 (12)
Bowling - Spin 14,619 (8) 13,879 (8)
Fielding/Keeping 18,087 15,567
Overall 241,201 240,765

Ruff Royals won by 6 wickets

I was a bit worried when the first over went for 14 on a slow pitch but we ended up restricting them to 118. Moses returned to form with 2-13.

We chased the total down with just over 2 overs to go. McCall was key with 45 from 26.

We're now 8 points clear of the relegation zone with 2 games to go. That means we're pretty much safe as we've got to play the bottom side who only rate less than 100k.

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wolfberries Knockout Heroes
Batting - Top Order 14,328 14,688
Batting - Middle Order 11,753 11,976
Batting - Tail 5,704 6,718
Bowling - Seam 14,331 (16) 14,452 (12)
Bowling - Spin 14,234 (4) 15,259 (8)
Fielding/Keeping 17,329 17,040
Overall 244,987 251,811

Result: wolfberries won by 7 wickets

Keeps us in the hunt for promotion.

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Home Betty Swallocks
Away wolfberries
Ground Stadium of Light
League Youth 3.1
Date 18 May 23 10:00
Crowd 6,152
Weather Cloudy
Pitch Dry

Toss: Betty Swallocks won the toss and elected to bowl.

D. Petersen (rfm) 8-0-81-0, G. Gee 82 (44b), B. Swanson 28 (18b)
End of over 40 (13 runs) - wolfberries(297-5) RR 7.42

Will take that total, pushing for promotion this season and need to win today.

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Leyland Lions Ruff Royals
Batting - Top Order 8,538 6,683
Batting - Middle Order 5,516 6,877
Batting - Tail 3,846 4,850
Bowling - Seam 6,423 (24) 5,931 (20)
Bowling - Spin 8,416 (16) 7,978 (20)
Fielding/Keeping 8,384 8,230
Overall 129,011 128,260

Ruff Royals won by 28 runs

We scored 256 on a slow pitch and we needed to as they did a good, if ultimately futile, job of chasing. We lost 3 fairly early wickets before batter Schwartz got his highest score of 94 and allrounder Delap got his highest score of 111 not out.

Our bowling wasn't great but Passailaigue picked up 3-39.

It seems increasingly likely that Oxhey Players aren't going to be caught at the top of the league. The combination of 4 points advantage and better net run rate is going to be difficult to overcome.

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L. Waterhouse (rfs) 9.4-0-30-2, C. Rush 7 (7b)
End of over 49 (maiden) - Ruff Royals(207-10) RR 4.22

It was a good recovery on a slow pitch from 66-5 but it's still a disappointing batting display. It took good batting from McCall (64) and allrounder Hodges (51) to get us to 207.

I make top of the table Bathaloner firm favourites in this match. We'll need some top class bowling to get us the win.

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Bathaloner Ruff Royals
Batting - Top Order 14,570 13,846
Batting - Middle Order 12,729 12,917
Batting - Tail 8,999 4,562
Bowling - Seam 13,511 (40) 14,293 (30)
Bowling - Spin 14,752 (10) 14,644 (20)
Fielding/Keeping 16,856 17,854
Overall 255,564 246,469

Bathaloner won by 1 wicket

An incredibly close game in the end. Rush dropped a catch to win us the match when they only needed 6 runs to win. That could be the difference between us staying up or getting relegated.

It's really tight at the bottom of the table with 3 teams on 20 points with one relegation spot to be decided. We play one of those teams next week at their ground.

[casperj]

Registered my highest ever SOD rating....
...still got beat. Putting promotion to Div 2 in doubt. My apparently strong batting order could only register 175 on a sunny/slow!

Grays Thurrock CC Crestfallen Sidekicks
Batting - Top Order 11,938 12,437
Batting - Middle Order 11,038 13,204
Batting - Tail 5,875 5,922
Bowling - Seam 12,323 (30) 13,397 (30)
Bowling - Spin 13,066 (20) 13,614 (20)
Fielding/Keeping 17,434 16,096
Overall 224,935 236,043


Grays Thurrock CC won by 6 wickets

Repeat this week - two ME screwings in a row and promotion is gone!

Crestfallen Sidekicks Captain Speccy's Muppets
Batting - Top Order 12,399 13,144
Batting - Middle Order 13,276 9,468
Batting - Tail 6,072 4,805
Bowling - Seam 13,504 (30) 12,987 (30)
Bowling - Spin 14,077 (20) 14,114 (20)
Fielding/Keeping 16,190 16,265
Overall 238,156 220,850

Captain Speccy's Muppets won by 57 runs

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wolfberries C.C.DeVille CCC
Batting - Top Order 14,366 12,658
Batting - Middle Order 11,837 10,590
Batting - Tail 5,585 6,705
Bowling - Seam 14,240 (40) 12,008 (40)
Bowling - Spin 14,260 (10) 13,538 (10)
Fielding/Keeping 17,278 14,527
Overall 244,624 218,259

Result: wolfberries won by 135 runs

Third from top on NRR, yet could easily end up fifth!

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bluekipper8878 v South London's Number One CC >> Match Ratings
Match Ratings
bluekipper8878 South London's Number One CC
Batting - Top Order 13,220 13,508
Batting - Middle Order 10,875 10,986
Batting - Tail 5,660 4,754
Bowling - Seam 11,061 (20) 13,786 (30)
Bowling - Spin 12,988 (30) 12,484 (20)
Fielding/Keeping 14,665 16,489
Overall 218,444 228,034

won the toss on crumbling/sunny and had a bat. Fairly disappointing effort with the bat, limping to 180/10 in 41.4, Zaha yet again being our best player with 49 (54). In reply however our bowling was brilliant. Gallagher set the tone ripping out the top order with wickets in his first three overs, and Doucoure took care of the middle order with excellent figures of 6.1 - 0 - 14 - 4, as we skittled the opps for 99 to win by 81 runs.

Nice easy game against Ffoh next week, sure their near 270K ratings won't be a problem ... on a more serious note hopefully we can just keep the NRR damage to a minimum going into the final week of the season.