Archived [10/08/07] Battrick

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Haha just realised I lost 6 wickets for 3 runs today. Dire. I guess it makes up for taking 5 wickets in 5 balls last week.

 

[chaminda_00]

Won my cup match quite easierly in the end.

N88 XI 221 All Out Jeithoon 4/30(8.4), Dowdall 3/46(8), Muralitharan 1/25(10)

Jaffna Jets 2/222 (36.4) Clayton 105(100), Ellis 67*(72), Quintin 45(46)

Ratings on PAN:

Top: Respectable
Middle: Competent
Lower: Abysmal
Seam: Competent
Spin: Competent
Fielding: Woeful

Very happy with the performance of the whole team. Muralitharan bowled really well and got their best batsmen out for 26 (17k wages). Thats the 3rd time this season his got the best batsmen from the other team out. A really tight spell that took the game away from them as well. Jeithoon and Dowdall just rolled their lower order.

Once again we chased down the total at six an over, again the 3rd time this season we did that. Clayton got his first ever hundred in a cup/league match. In the last three weeks his increased his highest score each week. Maybe he'll score 150 next match.

Hopefully i get a beatable Div 2 side next week and have a 3rd seamer of some note.

 

[Johnners]

I'm thinking about selling Groves. Once again today he was slaughtered (1-52 from just 8) against anything resembling a decent batting line-up. He'll do the Job easy in Div 5, but atm it seems inevitable that i'll be promoted to Div 4 again next season, and i really can't afford to have one of my bowlers consistently going for 5+ rpo (as he has done against anything barring Div 5 teams).

Judging by the market atm, would i be correct in saying that i could get anywhere between 800k to 1.2m for him? If i could get that amount, it would allow me to then upgrade my stadium, and then look at purchasing another bowler later in the season.

Thoughts?

Lloyd Groves (893963)
RH Batsman, RF Bowler, superb batting form, superb bowling form, sublime
A steady player with competent leadership skills and woeful experience.

Plays For: Clapo's XI
Nationality: England
Age: 19 Years Old
Battrick Rating: 8,288
Wages: £1,940 p/w

Stamina: feeble Wicket Keeping: worthless
Batting: woeful Concentration: woeful
Bowling: strong Consistency: mediocre
Fielding: woeful

EDIT: Forgot to mention... can't afford give him a net, so can't get his crap secondaries up anymore (which i'd imagine is the reason he gets hammered regularly)

 

[mikeW]

Gah.. just lost to wilson by 5 wickets in the 46th... i really needed Meyer to take a bag as 225 isn't near enough runs on a Hard & Fast pitch.

Congrats

Yep good match mate

Tharmi fancy another match?

 

[chaminda_00]

I'm thinking about selling Groves. Once again today he was slaughtered (1-52 from just 8) against anything resembling a decent batting line-up. He'll do the Job easy in Div 5, but atm it seems inevitable that i'll be promoted to Div 4 again next season, and i really can't afford to have one of my bowlers consistently going for 5+ rpo (as he has done against anything barring Div 5 teams).

Judging by the market atm, would i be correct in saying that i could get anywhere between 800k to 1.2m for him? If i could get that amount, it would allow me to then upgrade my stadium, and then look at purchasing another bowler later in the season.

Thoughts?

Lloyd Groves (893963)
RH Batsman, RF Bowler, superb batting form, superb bowling form, sublime
A steady player with competent leadership skills and woeful experience.

Plays For: Clapo's XI
Nationality: England
Age: 19 Years Old
Battrick Rating: 8,288
Wages: £1,940 p/w

Stamina: feeble Wicket Keeping: worthless
Batting: woeful Concentration: woeful
Bowling: strong Consistency: mediocre
Fielding: woeful

EDIT: Forgot to mention... can't afford give him a net, so can't get his crap secondaries up anymore (which i'd imagine is the reason he gets hammered regularly)

Sell him to me for cheaper, i think i can turn him into a half decent bowler.

 

[chaminda_00]

Yep good match mate

Tharmi fancy another match?

Still in the cup, sorry.

 

[mikeW]

Still in the cup, sorry.

woops yeah, brain fade.

 

[Johnners]

forgot to ask... Anyone for a friendly next week? Preferably someone i haven't played yet

 

[mikeW]

Same goes for me...

 

[Mahindinho]

Guys, I'm playing the Vague Vagrants in my next league match, and am at a loss as to whether I should TIE, PAN or GFI.

I reckon you've got a chance - if I was a betting man, I'd put you at something like 3/1 - so PAN gets my vote. I reckon you'd take him on GFI, but do you really want to do that?

I had a banana skin of a tie today - playing a Div V side who happen to have a chap called Maurice Hutchinson (BTR 169k, England NT). With Hutchinson being LF and it being a cracked pitch, I had my worries but TIEd it anyway.

Having logged in expecting to see Hutch going through my batsmen like a vindaloo through a nun, I now find them 94/1 off 20.

Reed cracked Hutchinson for 6 during his 10th over, leaving him with figures of 10-0-30-1. That'll do nicely!

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

I haven't played either of you, so one of you challenge me and I'll accept.

 

[mikeW]

I haven't played either of you, so one of you challenge me and I'll accept.

i'll play you

 

[mikeW]

I can't challenge atm bwcause it wont let me so i'll do it tomorrow

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Okay.

 

[NZTailender]

Tharmi; buying a bowler from Smith. So hold off on listing one of your guys. Thanks though I'll elt you know if I need a bowler.

 

[chaminda_00]

OMG i have to play Div 1 side in Sri Lanka next week in the cup. My run is over, got a home game so its pay day.

Samvirkelaget
Top Order: remarkable
Middle Order: respectable
Lower Order: feeble
Seam Bowling: superb
Spin Bowling: respectable
Fielding: feeble

 

[Jamee999]

End of Over 28: 111-6, runrate=3.96
Locke 9-1-40-3
Wanless* 15 (23 balls)
Ndah 3 (21 balls)
Last Wicket: Gowshall c. Stevens b. Locke 46 (FOW: 88/6)

999ers on the back foot

 

[Scaly piscine]

Haha, that's crazy, I win the game.

East Bentleigh Central CC 161 (34.2)
Tedstone 4/20 (7), Canning 4/37 (10), Norris 2/57 (7.2)

Magical Ponies 3/162 (39.5)
Kilkenny 37 (57), Sutton 37 (65), Tedstone 31* (53) [Canning 28* (33)]

Magical Ponies East Bentleigh Central CC
Top Order: competent respectable
Middle Order: respectable strong
Lower Order: abysmal abysmal
Seam Bowling: proficient proficient
Spin Bowling: proficient strong
Fielding: woeful woeful
MOTM: Gibbins

Canning really won it for me, took 3-fer in his opening spell. No idea why Gibbins (72 off 71) got MOTM. Still, am very lucky to have won that looking at the ratings. Guess it was just my day.

Edit: First time I've pulled proficient spin too

Gibbins is an U19 player (he's probably wonderful with decent concentration), so that's where most of their middle order rating comes from. So basically both teams have bowling > batting, yours had a good day first and so your batting didn't have to score many so took it steady.

 

[Tom Halsey]

Gah accidentally batted Shackell up the order against the Bearded Wonders, he's slowing my innings down horribly.

 

[Adamc]

This focus group thing is potentially disastrous, having read today's Q+A it's abundantly obvious that nearly everyone has NFI what they're talking about.