Three pops:
Gene Bewers (326242)
LH Batsman, LM Bowler, superb batting form, superb bowling form, energetic
A cautious player with strong leadership skills and feeble experience.
Plays For: Cymru Gurgitaters
Nationality: Australia
Age: 22 Years Old
Battrick Rating: 29,207 (+98)
Wages: £8,488 p/w
*Stamina: competent Wicket Keeping: abysmal
Batting: feeble Concentration: feeble
Bowling: remarkable Consistency: *superb*
Fielding: mediocre
Alton Staveley (374819)
LH Batsman, LM Bowler, strong batting form, superb bowling form, sublime
A cautious player with mediocre leadership skills and mediocre experience.
Plays For: Cymru Gurgitaters
Nationality: England
Age: 23 Years Old
Battrick Rating: 27,146 (+1638)
Wages: £7,714 p/w
Stamina: competent Wicket Keeping: abysmal
Batting: *remarkable* Concentration: superb
Bowling: abysmal Consistency: mediocre
Fielding: feeble
Jon Wilde (939069)
RH Batsman, RM Bowler, superb batting form, strong bowling form, invigorated
A cautious player with proficient leadership skills and abysmal experience.
Plays For: Cymru Gurgitaters
Nationality: New Zealand
Age: 19 Years Old
Battrick Rating: 13,741 (+473)
Wages: £2,709 p/w
Stamina: mediocre Wicket Keeping: abysmal
Batting: feeble Concentration: feeble
Bowling: superb Consistency: *respectable*
Fielding: abysmal
Amongst others, I challenged every fourth placed Div III side in England on Friday, just to try and get an idea of how I'd fair if I were to get promoted. In the end, the first team to accept turned out to be worse than most of the teams in my Div IV league.
DILLIGAF 238 A/O (48.4) Hodges 101 (106), Coogan 84 (110), Bewers 9/0/43/4, Wilde 8.4/0/51/4.
Cymru Gurgitaters 240/2 (39.1) Noon 64* (51), Greening 62 (64), Patel 55 (57), Staveley 52* (53),
Cymru Gurgitaters Dilligaf
Top Order: superb superb
Middle Order: respectable competent
Lower Order: abysmal woeful
Seam Bowling: strong respectable
Spin Bowling: proficient useless
Fielding: feeble woeful
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MOTM: Noon
I'm surprised that their batting ratings were as low as that, as going on primary wages at least, their top three were all Rem+, and their top Seven were all Qual+, with two strongs 8 and 9. I can only imagine that there was some pretty lousy secondaries and stam going on somewhere in there. Having said that, their bowling was dog-dirt! They only had two specialist bowlers, a Rem and a Sup, and the other three all had averages over 50, although amazingly they'd each bowled over 500 overs in their careers!?!
I'm after a friendly against a weaker team this week, or maybe someone's seconds? I want to start getting My youth protégé, Akhtar's form up before I blood him in the first team on a regular basis. It'll mainly be a team of Comps and Resps, save for Staveley (Rem/Sup bat), and Wilde (Sup/Resp bowl), who also need to play to find some form. Any takers?
Oh, and finally, please can someone explain to a Luddite, in words of one syllable, what exactly that Egg U19 bloke has done wrong?
Tar, Trev