ICC Sim League VII

[jimmy101]

Round 13

Lancashire vs England - Old Trafford, Manchester


England 1st Innings

Lancashire 1st innings

England 2nd Innings

Lancashire 2nd Innings

Lancashire won by 8 wickets.

Man of the match: Maurice Tate

Points: LCS 6 ENG 0

 

[jimmy101]

Well, well, well. Lancs continue to impress by knocking off England for the first time in this tournament. I think Lancs have now won each of the matches Andrew thought they were gonna lose.

 

[jimmy101]

Round 13

New Zealand vs Pakistan - Eden Park, Auckland


New Zealand 1st Innings

Pakistan 1st Innings

New Zealand 2nd Innings

Pakistan 2nd Innings

New Zealand won by 102 runs.

Man of the match: Roger Blunt

Points: NZ 6 PAK 0

 

[jimmy101]

The quiet achievers, New Zealand, finish their tournament off strongly with their first win in quite a while.

 

[jimmy101]

Round 13

India vs New South Wales - Eden Gardens, Calcutta


New South Wales 1st innings

India 1st Innings

India 2nd Innings (following on)

New South Wales 2nd Innings

New South Wales won by 9 wickets.

Man of the match: Ray Lindwall

Points: NSW 6 IND 0

 

[jimmy101]

Alas, this loss sees the hard charging Indians exiting the tournament.

 

[jimmy101]

Round 13

Australia vs West Indies - Adelaide Oval, Adelaide


West Indies 1st innings

Australia 1st innings

West Indies 2nd Innings

Australia 2nd Innings

West Indies won by 37 runs.

Man of the match: Jeffrey Stollmeyer

Points: WI 6 AUS 2

 

[jimmy101]

Oh man, that's a crushing loss for the Aussies. They should have won that, but Bradman ended up having his worst match all tournament.

 

[jimmy101]

Rather than bringing quotient into the mix I will award 2nd position to the Windies, for defeating Lancashire in R11, and 5th to South Africa, for defeating Yorkshire in Round 7. This gives us a final points table of...


Tournament Standings

England (59)
West Indies (46)
Lancashire (46)
New South Wales (44)
South Africa (40)
Yorkshire (40)
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Victoria (34)
India (32)
Australia (30)
New Zealand (26)
World XI (20)
Pakistan (12)
Surrey (12)

Hard luck to Battlers, Shri and morgieb, who were all knocked out in that final round. Thanks for participating guys, I always enjoy it when you guys are in it.

Finals in week one will look like...

1st Elimination Final: New South Wales vs South Africa

2nd Elimination Final: Lancashire vs Yorkshire

Qualifying Final: England vs West Indies

Those who are still win, please post your teams when ready.

 

[jimmy101]

Finals series works like this.

 

[kingkallis]

Unchanged for the finals please.

 

[AndrewB]

Final results table:

    Eng WIn Lan NSW SAf Yor Vic Ind Aus NZe Wor	Pak Sur 
Eng  x   W   L   W   W   W   W   W   W   W   W   D+  T   59
WIn  L   x   W   L+  W   L   W   D   W   W   W   W   L+  46
Lan  W   L   x   W   L+  W   D+  W   D   W   L   W   W   46
NSW  L   W   L+  x   W   L   W   W   L   L   W   W   W   44
SAf  L   L   W   L   x   W   W   L+  D+  W   D   W   W   40
Yor  L+  W   L+  W   L   x   L   L   W   L   W   W   W   40
Vic  L+  L   D   L   L   W   x   L+  L   W   W   W   W   34
Ind  L   D+  L+  L   W   W   W   x   D   D   D+  W   D+  32
Aus  L   L+  D+  W   D   L   W   D+  x   D+  D+  D+  W   30
NZe  L+  L   L   W   L   W   L+  D+  D   x   L   W   D+  26
Wor  L   L   W   L   D+  L   L   D   D   W   x   D   W   20
Pak  D   L   L+  L   L   L   L+  L   D   L   D+  x   W   12
Sur  T+  W   L   L   L   L   L   D   L   D   L+  L   x   12

Interesting that all the games between the top 6 qualifiers were decisive, with 4 wins for England, 3 for Lancs and 2 for each of the others.

 

[AndrewB]

Well, well, well. Lancs continue to impress by knocking off England for the first time in this tournament. I think Lancs have now won each of the matches Andrew thought they were gonna lose.

Well, at the start I thought they might well lose most of them... but of the "tough run in" they lost to West Indies before beating NSW and England.

 

[AndrewB]

Top 20 batting averages

Aus       D Bradman 12 23  7 1421  88.81 150  6  5
S A        J McGlew 12 23  2 1256  59.81 149  4  6
W I       F Worrell 12 23  2 1245  59.29 140  3  9
Aus         B Brown 12 24  2 1222  55.55 199  4  4
NSW        S McCabe 12 21  2 1047  55.11 224  2  4
Lan      N Oldfield  5  9  0  469  52.11  95  0  5
Aus       J Badcock 12 20  3  872  51.29 144  1  6
Ind        V Hazare 12 22  3  943  49.63 144  3  4
S A         E Rowan 12 23  1 1083  49.23 208  4  3
NSW       A Jackson 12 24  4  982  49.10 120  3  5
Aus        C McCool 12 17  2  730  48.67 157  2  3
Yor     H Sutcliffe 12 24  1 1116  48.52 152  4  6
Wor          V Jupp 12 20 10  483  48.30  52  0  1
W I    J Stollmeyer 12 24  1 1104  48.00 116  1  9
Eng       D Compton 12 22  1 1000  47.62 138  2  6
N Z     B Sutcliffe 12 24  1 1095  47.61 254  3  6
W I        E Weekes 12 24  2 1032  46.91 146  3  7
Wor       J Moroney 12 24  1 1072  46.61 194  3  4
Wor  K Duleepsinhji 12 24  2 1023  46.50 138  3  5
Sur         J Hobbs 12 24  0 1066  44.42 184  4  4

Big names who averaged under 40 include Hutton (39 - he had a terrible run towards the end), Hanif Mohammad (39), Merchant (38), Morris (36), Harvey (36), May (36), Headley (32), Dempster (32), Hammond (27), Ponsford (25). And I don't know what the sim has against Paul Gibb (55 runs at an average of 3.06).

Top 20 bowling averages

Eng       T Freeman 3568 1824 85  21.46 3 8-54    3.07  41.98
NSW      R Lindwall 2590 1266 57  22.21 2 6-65    2.93  45.44
Yor        H Verity 3457 1658 74  22.41 5 7-73    2.88  46.72
Lan       B Statham 3174 1686 75  22.48 3 7-54    3.19  42.32
Yor       F Trueman 2452 1083 47  23.04 1 5-103   2.65  52.17
S A      H Tayfield 3621 1889 78  24.22 5 9-94    3.13  46.42
Eng       H Larwood 2292 1119 46  24.33 0 4-37    2.93  49.83
NSW       J Gregory 2016  952 38  25.05 0 3-22    2.83  53.05
Sur         A Gover 1550  689 27  25.52 0 4-25    2.67  57.41
Ind      L Amarnath  831  411 16  25.69 0 4-53    2.97  51.94
Ind         F Gupte 3928 1848 71  26.03 3 6-35    2.82  55.32
W I      S Ramadhin 3784 1844 70  26.34 4 6-73    2.92  54.06
Pak       F Mahmood 3294 1587 60  26.45 4 6-91    2.89  54.90
Aus        R Archer 3160 1627 61  26.67 1 5-66    3.09  51.80
Lan     D Tyldesley 2789 1387 52  26.67 3 6-57    2.98  53.63
Vic    B Ironmonger 3508 2029 74  27.42 6 6-65    3.47  47.41
Wor         N Clark 3176 1569 57  27.53 0 4-25    2.96  55.72
N Z         J Cowie 3762 1764 63  28.00 2 5-48    2.81  59.71
S A        N Adcock 2887 1569 56  28.02 2 5-40    3.26  51.55
Lan       D Pollard 1903 1024 36  28.44 1 5-53    3.23  52.86

Interesting that Grimmett, O'Reilly and Laker all took plenty of wickets but averaged 30+.

There weren't many starring all-rounders - the only players with batting average > bowling average (with 10+ wickets) were Frank Woolley, Lala Amarnath, Vallance Jupp, Keith Miller, Jack Gregory, Colin McCool and Wilfred Rhodes.

 

[jimmy101]

I can't thank you enough for this Andrew. Thanks for taking the time to provide us with this, really brings the tournament to life. Truly excellent work!

 

[Jarquis]

My bowling attack turned up in the 4th innings, praise be.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

If I haven't stated it already Jimmy...

Unchanged Windies team

 

[jimmy101]

Alrighty guys, those who haven't posted your sides please post them when ready and we'll dive straight into it.

 

[AndrewB]

Rather than bringing quotient into the mix I will award 2nd position to the Windies, for defeating Lancashire in R11, and 5th to South Africa, for defeating Yorkshire in Round 7.

For what it's worth, I think WI and SA have higher quotients than Lancs and Yorks anyway.

 

[AndrewB]

Lancs unchanged