England League and Cup Discussion

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wolfberries Castle Rock CC
Batting - Top Order 6,777 6,650
Batting - Middle Order 5,415 4,642
Batting - Tail 3,603 3,191
Bowling - Seam 6,117 (12) 6,143 (16)
Bowling - Spin 4,573 (8) 5,625 (4)
Fielding/Keeping 9,917 6,821
Overall 116,825 105,402

Castle Rock CC won by 5 wickets

Relegated, Humid weather hurt us as well a few other things!

Hopefully we will have better luck in division three next season.

[spark]

The Ashes CC won by 6 wickets

The Ashes CC Ruff Royals
Batting - Top Order 6,728 7,023
Batting - Middle Order 4,073 5,083
Batting - Tail 3,378 2,990
Bowling - Seam 5,989 (20) 5,314 (12)
Bowling - Spin 0 (0) 6,768 (8)
Fielding/Keeping 8,108 8,151
Overall 107,612 111,327

We were already promoted so I picked a weaker team (I think we both did). I still played some regulars for experience such as House, who scored 83 from 54 balls, and Schmidt, who scored 55 not out. The bowlers weren't good enough to defend 151 on a green pitch. Milton did finish with 2-19 though.

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Home Yorkshire Puddings
Away wolfberries
Ground Shaw Lane CG
League Twenty20 3.3
Date 21 Dec 21 10:00
Crowd 17,868
Weather Sunny
Pitch Crumbling

Toss: Yorkshire Puddings won the toss and elected to bat.

[spark]

Relegation reprobates Ruff Royals
Batting - Top Order 13,990 12,458
Batting - Middle Order 10,893 8,877
Batting - Tail 7,412 4,242
Bowling - Seam 13,246 (8) 10,259 (12)
Bowling - Spin 14,811 (12) 14,463 (8)
Fielding/Keeping 16,417 15,282
Overall 241,946 203,616

Relegation reprobates won by 30 runs

Another game for experience with nothing really to play for on my part. We bowled first on a dry pitch and we did alright until towards the end when my young bowlers got punished. The batters struggled but there was one stand-out performance by 22-year-old opener Mills, who hit a fine 59 from 65 balls.

We stayed in the league which was the main thing this season.

[Monsieurflibble]

Thanks Spark, we had the runs in the end but had some serious prise money up for grabs, that was a 125k match for us.

Highest rated T20 league in the world that Eng D1, not bad going. See you next year.

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Yorkshire Puddings wolfberries
Batting - Top Order 12,696 12,482
Batting - Middle Order 11,783 9,732
Batting - Tail 8,816 4,415
Bowling - Seam 13,540 (12) 12,294 (8)
Bowling - Spin 14,363 (8) 11,252 (12)
Fielding/Keeping 16,123 15,214
Overall 242,084 206,090

Result: Yorkshire Puddings won by 37 runs

K. Gregg (rfs) 3-0-19-0, T. Gregg 5 (3b), M. Scholes 42 (42b)
End of over 13 (11 runs) - wolfberries(77-1). 50 runs required from 7 overs. RR 5.92 RRR 7.14

R. Ring (rf) 3-0-12-2, D. Bonnor 1 (1b)
End of over 18 (1 run) - wolfberries(89-10). 38 runs required from 2 overs. RR 4.94 RRR 19.00

But we still got 4th place in the end, phew...

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Home Bedfordshire Jats
Away wolfberries
Ground Bedfordshire Jats CG
League Youth 2.1
Date 23 Dec 21 10:00
Crowd 8,654
Weather Sunny
Pitch Uneven

Toss: Bedfordshire Jats won the toss and elected to bowl.

Not the worst start by our batsmen.

C. McKinney (lfm) 4-0-13-1, S. Munday 41 (70b), J. Easton 41 (39b)
End of over 21 (3 runs) - wolfberries(98-1) RR 4.67

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G. Wiener (lfm) 8-0-45-1, F. Clingeleffer 52 (36b), C. Martel 25 (13b)
End of over 40 (9 runs) - wolfberries(241-3) RR 6.03

Will take that score.

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Bedfordshire Jats wolfberries
Batting - Top Order 5,499 7,438
Batting - Middle Order 4,723 5,500
Batting - Tail 3,261 3,473
Bowling - Seam 5,195 (32) 5,157 (24)
Bowling - Spin 5,341 (8) 4,656 (16)
Fielding/Keeping 6,425 9,880
Overall 96,067 116,600

Bedfordshire Jats won by 5 wickets

Thankfully we had already avoided relegation, so this embarrassing loss doesn't matter.

[spark]

That turned out to be closer to relegation than I would have liked.

Dry pitch and we decided to bat first. I was really happy to reach 243. Bullock hit 43, Patterson 73, and Schmidt 56 not out from 48 balls.

We struggled to take wickets but 2 quick wickets brought things back in our favour at 135-4 with 25 overs gone. Again, the wickets dried up and it wasn't looking good after an onslaught left them at 225-4 needing 19 with 2 overs left. There were 3 wickets in the penultimate over, including 2 runouts. With only 13 runs needed to save themselves and get us relegated the nerves were certainly jangling. It was OBB Westerveld to bowl the last over and his figures were standing at 0-55 from 7 overs; I was not confident! He was excellent in the last over though; he only conceded 4 runs and picked up a wicket on the last ball of the season.

Ruff Royals Snakey's Kent Stars
Batting - Top Order 7,299 7,980
Batting - Middle Order 5,783 5,891
Batting - Tail 3,725 3,867
Bowling - Seam 7,273 (8) 5,995 (24)
Bowling - Spin 7,895 (32) 6,098 (16)
Fielding/Keeping 8,772 8,552
Overall 128,671 122,925

Ruff Royals won by 8 runs

So it's survival but I'm not exactly proud of myself as I felt we should have been too good to go down.

If it wasn't for the nail-biting last few overs this would have been my favourite moment of the match (I'm easily amused, I know):

28.5
W
A. Patterson to A. Patterson : Brings out the reverse sweep, but didn't read the change and loses the middle peg.
A. Patterson b. A. Patterson 73 (91b 6x4 0x6) SR:80.22

[spark]

Home Ruff Royals
Away Inchigeela Angels
Ground Ruff Royals CG
League One Day 1.1
Date 24 Dec 21 10:00
Crowd 19,489
Weather Sunny
Pitch Dry

I've picked up bunch of youngsters and I'm expecting the team to get smashed.

C. Rush (lm) 5-1-23-1, W. Gordon 67 (68b), E. Douglas 20 (24b)
End of over 20 (11 runs) - Inchigeela Angels(117-2) RR 5.85

It's going as expected.

[spark]

P. Massey (lfs) 10-1-59-1, R. Creevey 7 (6b), C. Baijnauth 10 (5b)
End of over 50 (7 runs) - Inchigeela Angels(286-8) RR 5.72

Something tells me we're not going to successfully chase that. Let's see if we can get less than a 150 run loss.

[eagles123]

South London's Number One CC v Camberwell Carrots >> Match Ratings
Match Ratings
South London's Number One CC Camberwell Carrots
Batting - Top Order 14,184 13,276
Batting - Middle Order 12,377 8,707
Batting - Tail 4,099 5,221
Bowling - Seam 13,969 (30) 13,720 (40)
Bowling - Spin 14,451 (20) 12,224 (10)
Fielding/Keeping 17,191 15,316
Overall 240,928 216,652

solid performance to finish off the season, winning by 59 runs. Consecutive 2nd place finishes which is nice, although the circumstances couldn't be any different to last season when we only just missed out on the title, this season Inchigeela have been head and shoulders above the rest of the field, and will go into next season as heavy favourites again.

Gonna be very close for the 2nd relegation spot between Ffoh and Pedagogs, commiserations to whoever does go down, which if my calculations are right will be Pedagogs by the smallest of margins. Tough to be going down with a 6/8 record, but it's been a very competitive league this year.

Need to try and bring in a few reinforcements over preseason, as things will only be harder next season!

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wolfberries Gavs Boys
Batting - Top Order 11,475 13,062
Batting - Middle Order 10,077 10,033
Batting - Tail 4,389 5,617
Bowling - Seam 11,028 (40) 13,751 (20)
Bowling - Spin 11,552 (10) 14,336 (30)
Fielding/Keeping 14,965 16,982
Overall 199,935 230,692

Weather Sunny
Pitch Crumbling

Result: Gavs Boys won by 135 runs

An expected loss, was already relegated, so gave a couple of younger players much needed experience.

[Pedagog]

South London's Number One CC v Camberwell Carrots >> Match Ratings
Match Ratings
South London's Number One CC Camberwell Carrots
Batting - Top Order 14,184 13,276
Batting - Middle Order 12,377 8,707
Batting - Tail 4,099 5,221
Bowling - Seam 13,969 (30) 13,720 (40)
Bowling - Spin 14,451 (20) 12,224 (10)
Fielding/Keeping 17,191 15,316
Overall 240,928 216,652

solid performance to finish off the season, winning by 59 runs. Consecutive 2nd place finishes which is nice, although the circumstances couldn't be any different to last season when we only just missed out on the title, this season Inchigeela have been head and shoulders above the rest of the field, and will go into next season as heavy favourites again.

Gonna be very close for the 2nd relegation spot between Ffoh and Pedagogs, commiserations to whoever does go down, which if my calculations are right will be Pedagogs by the smallest of margins. Tough to be going down with a 6/8 record, but it's been a very competitive league this year.

Need to try and bring in a few reinforcements over preseason, as things will only be harder next season!

Thanks Eagles ,
Agree about it being competitive this year, although thought I’d done enough to avoid the chop - now ive stopped swearing, it might be the glass is half full: should be able to bounce back next year, give my youngsters some experience and have a decent cup run