*Official* Season XIV Discussion and Results

[Majin]

Nice game for the fans but could have been so much better for us. Catching all the way through the game was absolutely awful, 12 catches put down is just unacceptable. Some good performances though, Towns was good and Nick and Wilson were guns down the order.

Annoyed I didn't convert the starts I had personally but it's a slight improvement on the pre-season form so we're getting there

 

[Perm]

****ing Black. ****s.

 

[Raghav]

****ing Black. ****s.

really

 

[roseboy64]

Decent start. Not much in it for the bowlers but the batsmen did well.

 

[SJS]

I just discovered I have been scoring a lot of runs in my absence !!

90 and 0, 85 n.o. and 52, 39 and 37 in three matches of longer duration is much better than I thought I can do. Maybe I should stay away and allow my talent to flourish unhindered
By the way, who decides bating orders? I score 90 as an opener in my first game and get promptly pushed to number 7. Another 137 runs (for once out in that match) still I am stuck at number seven. I think I should talk to Sharad Pawar

.... aha. I see. You guys think I am some kind of 21st century Garfield Sobers - right ?

 

[PhoenixFire]

Carn the Blues.

 

[Matteh]

Huuuge total there. Top order really fired. Draw'll do on that pitch.

 

[Loony BoB]

Bugger. Just couldn't get those wickets cheaply enough in the last innings. Pleased to be in form but would rather the team won.

 

[Mister Wright]

We need to win those games if we're going to be a force this season, really shouldn't have let that one slip.

On the plus side, almost everyone made a major contribution. Fielding was poor though. Really need to sharpen up.

 

[Johnners]

****

 

[Simon]

Disapointing loss and a poor contribution from myself.

 

[Smudge]

Awesome start, Blacks.

Not such a great start for me, however.

Your first ball of the season proper - royal duck, innit?

 

[Sudeep]

Good game.

 

[steds]

Why do we always have to start like ****?

 

[Sudeep]

Why do we always have to start like ****?

Because you're ****?

 

[Indipper]

Strong stuff guys. And if we're looking weaker now as the peanut gallery suggests, what was it like in the olden days?

 

[Travis_Teh]

Awesome! Can't ask for more than a win in the first game. Tough, close game.

Happy with that, everyone contributed at one point or another. Nice.

Solid debut for Sudeep, too.

 

[NZTailender]

Oooh, tough match. 2 noticeable weak points let us down there imho - catching and that wayward speedster taking 1/160 odd.

I think we can take away some positives from that, even if we did lose.

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

I just discovered I have been scoring a lot of runs in my absence !!

90 and 0, 85 n.o. and 52, 39 and 37 in three matches of longer duration is much better than I thought I can do. Maybe I should stay away and allow my talent to flourish unhindered
By the way, who decides bating orders? I score 90 as an opener in my first game and get promptly pushed to number 7. Another 137 runs (for once out in that match) still I am stuck at number seven. I think I should talk to Sharad Pawar

.... aha. I see. You guys think I am some kind of 21st century Garfield Sobers - right ?

The first few games you played were pre-season warmups, so the captain (Samuel_Vimes) probably threw you around in the orders to see how you'd go in different positions.

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Your first ball of the season proper - royal duck, innit?

Keep rubbing it in and you might not get a "first ball of the the season proper" yourself tbh.