England League and Cup Discussion

[eagles123]

Ruff Royals The Raging Speed Horns
Batting - Top Order 14,722 14,058
Batting - Middle Order 12,073 10,865
Batting - Tail 4,950 4,364
Bowling - Seam 14,169 (30) 13,995 (30)
Bowling - Spin 13,540 (20) 14,508 (20)
Fielding/Keeping 17,468 18,063
Overall 244,020 237,975

The Raging Speed Horns won by 4 wickets

We didn't score enough and the medium pacers let us down. The biggest test in SOD so far this season was comprehensively failed and only losing by 4 wickets is somewhat generous to us.

This is a tight league with a nice balance between teams - top 5 on 8 points. It could end up decided on NRR (and mine's abysmal) if no one gets away from the pack.

Yeah, I missed the bulk of this game due to Burns Night alcohol abuse...probably for the best - that mini collapse towards the end of the innings wouldn't have been good for my constitution - but we muddled through in the end - Labyrinth was blatantly out to impress the tour selectors, the little show off

Had a look at the league, don't think I've ever seen such a big discrepancy in the quality of the Div 2 leagues ... absolutely stacked that 2.1 league ... @Wolfberries ... harsh result for you today, but must be glad you're in 2.2 instead

[spark]

South Hill Slammers Ruff Royals
Batting - Top Order 6,481 7,625
Batting - Middle Order 4,939 5,425
Batting - Tail 4,614 3,617
Bowling - Seam 6,929 (12) 7,180 (13)
Bowling - Spin 8,230 (8) 7,186 (7)
Fielding/Keeping 9,364 9,240
Overall 124,864 126,685

Ruff Royals won by 5 wickets

We did great to bowl them out for 96 with Pithey taking 4-27. However, we made hard work of the chase by scoring slowly despite having wickets in hand for most of the innings. We only got the winning run on the last ball of the match. Marwat was the star with the bat with 41 from 50 balls.

[Atko]

Matt Krevs Memorial Cup

Home The Raging Speed Horns
Away Ruff Royals
Ground The Horn

Date 04 Feb 24 10:00
Weather (forecast) Sunny
Pitch (current) Sticky

Rematch!

[wolfberries]

Knight Watchmen wolfberries
Batting - Top Order 6,546 6,768
Batting - Middle Order 5,035 4,625
Batting - Tail 4,007 3,438
Bowling - Seam 6,695 (12) 4,798 (12)
Bowling - Spin 5,903 (8) 5,729 (8)
Fielding/Keeping 7,076 8,857
Overall 111,467 108,313

Result: wolfberries won by 26 runs

Another win keeps us unbeaten and on top, not great ratings but our oldest player is 19.13 while the youngest is 16.02.

[wolfberries]

Had a look at the league, don't think I've ever seen such a big discrepancy in the quality of the Div 2 leagues ... absolutely stacked that 2.1 league ... @Wolfberries ... harsh result for you today, but must be glad you're in 2.2 instead

Not sure if that makes me feel better or worse

[casperj]

Crestfallen Sidekicks Cavendish Zeros
Batting - Top Order 10,864 11,447
Batting - Middle Order 9,762 8,669
Batting - Tail 4,864 5,074
Bowling - Seam 11,631 (16) 9,275 (16)
Bowling - Spin 13,825 (4) 9,514 (4)
Fielding/Keeping 14,698 12,153
Overall 201,548 178,765

Crestfallen Sidekicks won by 6 wickets

Thankfully relatively straightforward, even though the MKMC fatigure made my batting line up even weaker than usual.

[spark]

Matt Krevs Memorial Cup

Home The Raging Speed Horns
Away Ruff Royals
Ground The Horn

Date 04 Feb 24 10:00
Weather (forecast) Sunny
Pitch (current) Sticky

Rematch!

Probably not going to be much of a rematch as I imagine I'll just pick my reserve team. I might even be weaker than the last round!

[spark]

Knockout Heroes won by 1 run

Ruff Royals Knockout Heroes
Batting - Top Order 13,876 13,591
Batting - Middle Order 11,911 10,179
Batting - Tail 4,797 3,931
Bowling - Seam 13,189 (12) 12,753 (12)
Bowling - Spin 13,409 (8) 14,008 (8)
Fielding/Keeping 16,994 15,658
Overall 234,909 220,123

It was a slow pitch and we put them in to bat first. They made it look like it wasn't a slow pitch at all and scored 144. It very much seemed like a slow pitch at the start of our innings before a fantastic 85 from 60 balls for Dennehy and 37 from 30 balls by Whitehead got us close. We only needed 6 runs off the last over but 4 was all we could get.

We really need to start picking up some positive results as we're flirting with relegation at the moment.

[eagles123]

South London's Number One CC v Snakey's Kent Stars >> Match Ratings
Match Ratings
South London's Number One CC Snakey's Kent Stars
Batting - Top Order 12,086 13,839
Batting - Middle Order 12,561 11,316
Batting - Tail 7,399 6,624
Bowling - Seam 12,833 (12) 12,723 (12)
Bowling - Spin 12,933 (8) 13,871 (8)
Fielding/Keeping 16,187 15,942
Overall 233,716 234,228

won the toss and had a bowl on sticky/humid. New wristy Sparks had an unfortunate debut with no less than FOUR dropped catches off his bowling, but fortunately it didn't matter too much as we still restricted them to 106/8 in their 20. In reply we never looked in much danger, and Zaha's unbeaten 42 (35) saw us home in 16.3 overs. Result: Won by 7 wickets.

[spark]

Ruff Royals The Dross
Batting - Top Order 7,278 7,105
Batting - Middle Order 6,312 6,206
Batting - Tail 3,819 4,168
Bowling - Seam 6,856 (32) 6,600 (28)
Bowling - Spin 9,500 (8) 7,797 (12)
Fielding/Keeping 9,441 9,008
Overall 131,066 127,569

The Dross won by 7 wickets

A disappointing performance. We did not start well with the bat. Harrision did well with 65. Pithey began well with the ball and finished on 2-17 but no one else did much.

This league is looking tight; I'm in the relegation zone.

[wolfberries]

wolfberries Crestfallen Sidekicks
Batting - Top Order 6,312 5,349
Batting - Middle Order 5,599 4,799
Batting - Tail 3,548 3,166
Bowling - Seam 4,574 (32) 5,095 (24)
Bowling - Spin 6,270 (8) 5,813 (16)
Fielding/Keeping 9,024 6,607
Overall 109,930 96,823

Result: wolfberries won by 6 wickets

First win of the season, only just as we won with two balls to go.

[spark]

It was going quite well when we got them down to 100-4 on an even pitch. But they recovered to a massive 277-6.

We kept losing wickets regularly and made a pathetic 169 all out.

Snakey's Kent Stars Ruff Royals
Batting - Top Order 14,070 13,721
Batting - Middle Order 12,012 11,933
Batting - Tail 8,703 4,932
Bowling - Seam 12,280 (30) 13,967 (30)
Bowling - Spin 13,868 (20) 13,419 (20)
Fielding/Keeping 16,338 17,022
Overall 244,031 237,221

I just can't seem to get the team to click at the moment. My batters were poor again and their spinners did significantly better than mine.

[Atko]

League One Day 2.1
Surrey Cricket Club v The Raging Speed Horns
Result: The Raging Speed Horns won by 9 wickets

Match Ratings
Surrey Cricket Club The Raging Speed Horns
Batting - Top Order 10,809 13,723
Batting - Middle Order 9,830 10,639
Batting - Tail 5,195 4,432
Bowling - Seam 11,714 (20) 14,230 (30)
Bowling - Spin 12,041 (30) 14,307 (20)
Fielding/Keeping 12,569 17,903
Overall 195,402 235,760

Straightforward win against the bottom club puts us in second behind DangerDave's mob. Unfortunately we'll be playing Snakey's Kent Stars next week minus our top batsman and bowler - snakey, despite having the highest rated team, doesn't faff around with national players so we'll be up against it .

MKMC Sunday with sparky preeeesumably fielding a 2nd XI - so should round off a reasonable week (he said).

[eagles123]

Egham Town CC v South London's Number One CC >> Match Ratings
Match Ratings
Egham Town CC South London's Number One CC
Batting - Top Order 14,112 13,686
Batting - Middle Order 13,010 12,100
Batting - Tail 5,689 4,201
Bowling - Seam 14,994 (20) 13,194 (30)
Bowling - Spin 13,675 (30) 12,836 (20)
Fielding/Keeping 17,586 16,795
Overall 249,334 231,385

lost the toss and put in to bat on sunny/dry. Was a strange innings with no one getting 50, but everyone contributing (bar Richards who was out for a two ball duck) - giving us an excellent 255/7 in our 50. In reply, Modi put up some good resistance with 80, but it always looked like being a tough chase, and we ended up with a 70 run win. Sparks did well in his first OD game for us with figures of 9 - 1 - 37 - 3.

An unexpected win, and overall a pleasing start to the season. Looks like being an extremely tight relegation battle, so we're gonna need a few more performances like this to keep ourselves out of trouble!

[casperj]

Yorkshire Puddings Crestfallen Sidekicks
Batting - Top Order 12,702 9,643
Batting - Middle Order 9,541 11,756
Batting - Tail 5,827 7,549
Bowling - Seam 12,819 (50) 11,512 (30)
Bowling - Spin 0 (0) 13,883 (20)
Fielding/Keeping 14,547 14,857
Overall 214,191 215,119

Crestfallen Sidekicks won by 21 runs

Snuck home. Batting again frail, but a 127 from opener Wambau got us to a decent score despite a load of cheap wickets falling. Looked like the 250 wasn't going to be enough but our 2 spinners somehow bowled them out on a Sunny / Hard (because: match engine).