Archived [19/01/09] Battrick

[headhunter]

2nd XI got trounced today.

BEST Indies 57/10 (13.3)
Dudgeon 21 off 23

Lee All Stars 58/1 (5.5)
Darby 2.5-0-27-1

 

[andruid]

Swamibapa Leeds CC won the toss and elected to bat.
Pitch: Hard and Fast

End of Over 13: 86-6, runrate=6.62, reqrunrate=17.14 (205-0)
Kirby 3-0-17-3
Thoibo* 1 (1 balls)
Batson 0 (1 balls)
Last Wicket: Nkosinathi c. Mabaso b. Kirby 0 (FOW: 86/6)

Specialist fielder and resreve spinner combine to remove the middle order. This will be over quickly

 

[Dead Badger]

Just came >that< close to losing to a month-old team, thanks to some overzealous resting of bowlers. Needed 16 off the last over, so Bromby did this:

19.5	6	Ranchod to Bromby
 	 	Big six over long leg, that was more like a golf shot.
19.4	2	Ranchod to Bromby
 	 	Ranchod drifts onto leg stump and Bromby wristily turns it away to deep square leg. Great running as they scurry back for a second.
19.3	4	Ranchod to Bromby
 	 	Crash! That's gone like a bullet through point, four runs.
19.2	4	Ranchod to Bromby
 	 	Shot! Moves back to give himself room, then steps elegantly into an aerial extra cover drive which nearly carries for a clean six. It's a clean four instead!
19.1	4	Ranchod to Bromby
 	 	Nicely picked up off the toes to a vacant square leg boundary.

Feel a bit bad for the opponent actually, that's pretty cruel.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Just came >that< close to losing to a month-old team, thanks to some overzealous resting of bowlers. Needed 16 off the last over, so Bromby did this:

19.5	6	Ranchod to Bromby
 	 	Big six over long leg, that was more like a golf shot.
19.4	2	Ranchod to Bromby
 	 	Ranchod drifts onto leg stump and Bromby wristily turns it away to deep square leg. Great running as they scurry back for a second.
19.3	4	Ranchod to Bromby
 	 	Crash! That's gone like a bullet through point, four runs.
19.2	4	Ranchod to Bromby
 	 	Shot! Moves back to give himself room, then steps elegantly into an aerial extra cover drive which nearly carries for a clean six. It's a clean four instead!
19.1	4	Ranchod to Bromby
 	 	Nicely picked up off the toes to a vacant square leg boundary.

Feel a bit bad for the opponent actually, that's pretty cruel.

Yea, twas extremely annoying when Ladbroke needed 20/21 off the last 5 balls against Summers and a guy who'd been in for all of 3 balls magically smashed the remaining deliveries for 22.

 

[Bobisback]

Name		Age	   BTR	Stamina	Batting	Conc	Bowling	Cons	Keeping	Type
Allison		28	6,819	Med	Prof	Woeful	
Hocking		22	40,378	Resp	Wonder	Remark
Gravey		31	11,634	Resp	Resp	Feeble
Beaumont	20	60,286	Med	Wonder	Wonder			Quality
Brinkhuys	18	15,841	Med	Quality	Resp
Stonehedge	26	136,991	Superb	Sensat	Excep	Excep	Excep		LHS
Brookfield	18	3,364	Med	Med	Comp
Crouse		17	7,208	Med	Comp	Worth	Prof	Comp		RHS
Poulter		24	4,440	Med	Abys	Med	Comp	Med		LF
Sicelo		19	22,350	Resp	Worth	Worth	Wonder	Strong		RM
Wikus		22	64,584	Prof	Worth	Worth	Excep	Excep		RHS

Got bored, so thought i should do this. Lots of holes need plugging after my selling spree, but i dont see that happening anytime soon. Not sure what to do with Crouse. Thinking about training him to strong, selling him and picking up a superb 17yr old in the last week. But on the other hand, i could keep him and buy a strong 5th bowler, or 5th, 6th or 7th bat.

I suppose, no point planning things now, anything could happen by now and the end of the season.

Happy with 6 of my players, 7 if you include Crouse, should be enough to keep me in Div III. Am in 2nd currently, with 5 wins 2 losses, 3rd has the same, and 4th and 5th are 3 wins 4 losses, so a bit of a gap.

 

[cricketboy29]

RH Batsman, RF Bowler, mediocre batting form, woeful bowling form, lively fitness.
A defensive player with worthless leadership skills and mediocre experience.

Plays For: Inter Lancs
Nationality: New Zealand
Age: 21 Years Old
Battrick Rating: 15,298
Wages: £5,022 p/w
Processing ...
Stamina: feeble Wicket Keeping: worthless
Batting: competent Concentration: feeble
Bowling: quality Consistency: proficient
Fielding: feeble
Processing ...

Any opinions on him, worth it at 4 mil?

 

[cameeel]

High scoring T20 win yesterday;

Holstein Fresians v Kipper XI

Kipper XI: 1-265

Khulelaphi 115*
Brydon 113

Gilroy 1-57

Holstein Fresians: 8-202

Howell 83
Janes 78*

Davies 5-33

Result: Kipper XI win by 63 runs

 

[Son Of Coco]

This is ridiculous...Mabudhafasi, a bowler in my team with superb PFL and superb bowling (rating 29000) has been taken apart last over by batsmen with ratings of 5000 and 3000 respectively. We should still win though.

 

[Son Of Coco]

Ended up bowling them out in the last over...

O'Grady took 4 wickets in the first 4 balls of the last over to finish them off after Hartburn took 2 wickets in the last two balls of the previous over. Naked CC went from 159/4 to 159 all out in 6 balls.

We scored 182/1.

Another good win after a slow start to the 20/20. Won't get anywhere, but it's nicer winning.

 

[pasag]

My second XI got bowled for 40, better than yesterday's game when they got bowled for 36. How does throwing the matches effect my team morale and in turn what impact does low morale have?

 

[AussieDominance]

Battrick is a great past time.

 

[mikeW]

The great man is back!

How's life post battrick?

 

[chaminda_00]

Current Starting XI:

Player	        Batting	        Conc	Bowling	        Cons	Stamina
+D Clayton	Quality	        Resp	Superb wk		Mediocre
J Lucas	        Remarkable	Rem			        Strong
*J Quintin 	Quality	        Strong			        Mediocre
S Muralitharan 	Wonderful	Qual	Wonderful	Qual	Respectable
H Ellis	        Quality	        Prof			        Mediocre
D Evans	        Proficient	Fee			        Woeful
H Obeysekera 	Respectable	Fee	Competent	Fee	Respectable
M Sishayi 	Mediocre	Woe	Remarkable	Prof	Mediocre
V Matharu	Abysmal	        Med	Strong	        Strong	Mediocre
P Jeithoon  	Abysmal	        Resp	Exquiste	Excep	Superb
K Willetts	Worthless	Wor	Remarkable	Prof	Mediocre

Not sure how much longer I can carry Clayton, Quintin, Ellis and Matharu. They all seem to be going enough to keep their spot in the squad. But our batting line in particular is very relient on Lucas and Muralitharan in the big matches.

I have a 2-2.5 mil in the bank and a proficient seamer off the bench. So I'm thinking about selling Ellis and Matharu and buying a new opener. I should get 2-2.5 mil for Matharu, 3.5-4 mil for Ellis. So basically that is 7 mil to spend on a new batsmen, so only about Remarkable/Remarkable.

The other option is just training up a couple new top order batsmen and let Quintin, Ellis & Clayton play lesser roles in the middle order. Would take atleast a season and a half before any batsmen would be ready to bat at the top though.

Stamina another big issue, as mediocre not really enough for my bowlers. As well as respectable for an all rounder. A few decisions to make.

 

[AussieDominance]

The great man is back!

How's life post battrick?

Haha I still play! The great man is back!

 

[Magrat Garlick]

My second XI got bowled for 40, better than yesterday's game when they got bowled for 36. How does throwing the matches effect my team morale

Doesn't. Morale has been disabled. (Just pandering to the masses, clearly.)

and in turn what impact does low morale have?

Pretty big, though it used to be bigger. Three extra levels of morale probably gives you a skill level up across the board.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Haha I still play! The great man is back!

I'm sure there's some admins who would savour this information...

 

[AussieDominance]

I'm sure there's some admins who would savour this information...

Yeah your a good bloke.

 

[Spitfires_Fan]

Introducing the new signing for The Heath, formerly of Brackenhurst fame:

Brett Read (1026828)


LH Batsman, LM Bowler, superb batting form, woeful bowling form, invigorated fitness.
An attacking player with competent leadership skills and feeble experience.

Plays For: The Heath CC
Nationality: Australia
Age: 26 Years Old
Battrick Rating: 8,082 (+115)
Wages: £1,715 p/w

Stamina: mediocre Wicket Keeping: worthless
Batting: proficient Concentration: feeble
Bowling: abysmal Consistency: feeble
Fielding: competent Processing ...

 

[headhunter]

3.6 W Lane to Bannister 
    Bowled him! A relatively harmless ball, straight on the stumps, Bannister has an ugly swipe across the line and loses his composure and stumps. Vital strike from Lane, who lets forth a nice verbal volley at Bannister as he passes him, much fun!  
3.5 W Lane to Darby 
    What were they thinking? There was never a run in that. 
3.4 W Lane to Prior 
    A bit more pace on that one and it's hit Prior on his boot. An enormous shout for LBW as Lane, Guinan and all the fielders go up in synch. The umpire is quick to nod whilst raising his finger.  
3.3 . Lane to Prior 
    That one was right up in the blockhole and Prior did well to squeeze it out to extra cover. 
3.2 W Lane to Dudgeon 
    What a catch, what a marvellous catch by Husbands. 
3.1 W Lane to Brook 
    Gone! Guinan snaps up the ball after taking Brook's thin outside edge. Good length delivery, it was straight and the batsman had an apprehensive poke at it.

Hahaha near perfect over for them, could be my lowest score ever here.

EDIT:

And that's the end of the match. Parrot Got Onion won by 254 runs.
Parrot Got Onion 267-1
BEST Indies 13-10

(H)

 

[EARLOBE]

I'm fairly pissed at BT at the moment. I am 100% sure I set my B team as default orders for BT20 before I left, but my A team has been playing the whole time, so now I'm PFL ****ed.