NT League Matches

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Re: NT League Matches

Post by spark » Mon Feb 17, 2020 3:59 pm

UAE USA
Batting - Top Order 14,831 14,736
Batting - Middle Order 13,341 14,011
Batting - Tail 6,811 4,411
Bowling - Seam 14,154 (8) 14,588 (8)
Bowling - Spin 14,383 (12) 14,277 (12)
Fielding/Keeping 16,889 17,210
Overall 255,248 251,863

UAE won by 5 wickets

Yeah, probably about 20 runs short. That extra run rate pressure could have made all the difference. The positives are a nice 38 from Kirk in testing conditions and a good competitive debut for Vaughn who took 2-20. Dunn also did well with 2-20.
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Re: NT League Matches

Post by spark » Tue Feb 18, 2020 3:04 pm

Zimbabwe USA
Batting - Top Order 11,790 13,636
Batting - Middle Order 12,276 14,430
Batting - Tail 6,779 5,168
Bowling - Seam 0 (0) 14,816 (8)
Bowling - Spin 12,182 (20) 13,935 (12)
Fielding/Keeping 17,078 17,266
Overall 228,746 251,004

USA won by 10 wickets.

A win is a win. A nice 43 not out for Riggins in his competitive debut, and the same score for Graves, and Hernandez was excellent with the ball too.
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Re: NT League Matches

Post by spark » Thu Feb 20, 2020 3:18 pm

USA won by 9 runs.

Canada USA
Batting - Top Order 13,049 14,630
Batting - Middle Order 14,551 10,944
Batting - Tail 9,911 4,608
Bowling - Seam 13,979 (4) 13,880 (8)
Bowling - Spin 14,269 (16) 14,403 (12)
Fielding/Keeping 17,161 16,948
Overall 262,677 237,937

A fantastic 51 not out from 33 balls for Todd saw us to a respectable 128 on this crumbling pitch in overcast conditions. Some good bowling saw us reduce them to 78-8 before we threatened to let them back in it. Eventually bowling them out on the last ball of the innings for 119.

Kenya next in what could be an interesting last day.

Edit: A win should see us promoted!
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Re: NT League Matches

Post by spark » Fri Feb 21, 2020 3:06 pm

USA Kenya
Batting - Top Order 13,203 13,247
Batting - Middle Order 11,882 11,204
Batting - Tail 4,397 4,383
Bowling - Seam 14,139 (8) 13,812 (8)
Bowling - Spin 13,869 (12) 13,525 (12)
Fielding/Keeping 16,063 15,423
Overall 231,607 225,426

USA won by 7 wickets.

A good win to finish the tour off.

A nice team bowling performance where all the bowlers took at least one wicket and we bowled them out for 100. The batsmen also did well with 31 for Lamb, 25 for Simpson, and 26 not out for Bowers. We reached the required total in 17.1 overs.

That means we promote! :party :dance
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Re: NT League Matches

Post by darkmatter » Sat Feb 22, 2020 11:19 am

Nice job guys! :party

In particular that Canada victory, beating our rivals across the border is always sweet, but even more so with a crazy ratings upset (did they play five ARs, haha)
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Re: NT League Matches

Post by spark » Sat Apr 18, 2020 2:02 pm

Friendly against Ireland today in sunny/flat conditions.

We're bowling first and I decided to go quite aggressive with Garcia, in particular, and some others later on. Garcia picked up a couple of early wickets and wasn't too expensive so that seemed to go ok. Looks like they've got a lot more batting depth though with their number 9 being a spectacular summary bat.

M. Pugh (rf) 6-0-42-1, C. Sheehan 8 (16b), C. Donnelly 44 (44b)
End of over 24 (5 runs) - Ireland(126-4) RR 5.25

Not too bad so far but with a long batting line-up they could easily get to a competitive total.

Edit: Apparently, they're playing 5 allrounders so definitely plenty of batting left and also probably the reason we took a number of early wickets too.
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Re: NT League Matches

Post by spark » Sat Apr 18, 2020 2:58 pm

C. Gallegos (rfm) 8-0-56-0, C. Donnelly 135 (101b), S. Chapman 3 (2b)
End of over 45 (11 runs) - Ireland(301-7) RR 6.69

We've struggled towards the end of this and we're going to be chasing a big total. At least it's on flat so that's kinda possible. Shields on debut dropping Donnelly looks like it's going to cost us about 70 runs.
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Re: NT League Matches

Post by spark » Sat Apr 18, 2020 3:10 pm

D. Hernandez (lfs) 10-0-95-1, S. Chapman 25 (16b), P. of Samos 13 (10b)
End of over 50 (13 runs) - Ireland(353-8) RR 7.06

Hernandez would have preferred to have finished his bowling after his first ball where he took a wicket; a least he didn't go for 100. Going to be a tough chase and I think we're going to struggle.
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Re: NT League Matches

Post by spark » Sat Apr 18, 2020 4:03 pm

A. Buckley (rws) 5-0-41-0, M. Simpson 51 (53b), F. Shields 14 (12b)
End of over 21 (6 runs) - USA(121-1). 233 runs required from 29 overs. RR 5.76 RRR 8.03

We've lost only 1 wicket but the RRR is looking difficult to overcome.
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Re: NT League Matches

Post by Ippyluver » Sat Apr 18, 2020 4:25 pm

spark wrote:
Sat Apr 18, 2020 4:03 pm
A. Buckley (rws) 5-0-41-0, M. Simpson 51 (53b), F. Shields 14 (12b)
End of over 21 (6 runs) - USA(121-1). 233 runs required from 29 overs. RR 5.76 RRR 8.03

We've lost only 1 wicket but the RRR is looking difficult to overcome.
21 runs ahead of where they were at this stage and 4 wickets better off
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Re: NT League Matches

Post by spark » Sun Apr 19, 2020 10:06 am

USA won by 4 wickets

USA Ireland
Batting - Top Order 15,135 15,148
Batting - Middle Order 11,875 14,214
Batting - Tail 5,162 10,572
Bowling - Seam 14,563 (40) 14,567 (20)
Bowling - Spin 14,505 (10) 14,937 (30)
Fielding/Keeping 17,233 17,655
Overall 247,986 276,079

We needed 2 runs from the last ball and Wood managed to get those 2 runs.

121 runs from Simpson set the platform with Solomon (53). Shields got a nice 59 on debut and Wood's 54 not out saw us home but only just.
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Re: NT League Matches

Post by Philly » Mon Apr 20, 2020 12:57 am

Two decent friendly wins. :party
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Re: NT League Matches

Post by spark » Sat Apr 25, 2020 2:30 pm

A friendly against the Dutch today and it's another flat pitch.

This time we've been asked to bat first and we couldn't have started much worse being 57-4 at one point. Wood, Simpson, Richardson, and Graves were all out cheaply. Thankfully, Shields has stayed in and worked his way to a ton, whilst wicketkeeper Harvey has stuck with him and is approaching his half-century.

B. Kusters (rf) 8-1-39-1, F. Shields 105 (111b), J. Harvey 47 (53b)
End of over 34 (5 runs) - USA(189-4) RR 5.56
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Re: NT League Matches

Post by spark » Sat Apr 25, 2020 3:08 pm

J. Vermeltfoort (rf) 10-0-45-1, C. Gallegos 20 (36b), D. Hernandez 15 (31b)
End of over 50 (9 runs) - USA(264-8) RR 5.28

Shields out for 135 and Harvey out for 48. The damage was done by losing those early wickets so we're probably about 80-100 runs short.
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Re: NT League Matches

Post by spark » Sat Apr 25, 2020 3:43 pm

R. Fletcher (rf) 6-0-32-1, R. De Gans 28 (41b), A. Delryn 1 (1b)
End of over 12 (6 runs) - Netherlands(53-3). 212 runs required from 38 overs. RR 4.42 RRR 5.58

Not the worst start to our bowling on a flat pitch. We missed running out De Gans and he could easily go on to make a century.
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