Magrat Garlick
Rather Mad Witch
Solid rebuild for Jura. Palathingal has stepped up.
Congratulations @SillyCowCorner1 and well played for reaching the final @Charlie B. And echo SCC's sentiments - many thanks @cnerd123 for organising CWC3!Andddddddddd we have a winnner!!!!!
GG CC!!! Triumphant.
First, let's start with the expert preview, Jura was clearly 2K higher than GG. I was most worried about their excellent bowling ratings...all over 50K.
Jura batted first, with the pair of Baverstock and Tino Zikhungwini giving their team a rapid start-- 25 in 3.2 overs, before skipper of GG CC, Levy, snared the big fish, Tino. Baverstock fell soon after, and the rebuild began between Pickering and Palathingal...just as when they were looking to push on the scoring, Peter Sutherland architected a run-out of Pickering to end a 77-run partnership-- the biggest in the innings. Brooks held an end while wickets fell at the other.
200 was breached in the 37th over, but a Plaatjies double strike ended Jura's innings-- 203
The opening pair for GG started the same way as Jura's...but Bram Human was the first to fall, rather cheaply, in the 5th over. At this stage Riaan de Villiers joined his skipper and they basically bossed the chase with a 137-run 2nd wicket partnership...Gopalan made a double blow, getting rid of Levy (75 off 66) and Sutherland (2 off 2)....after that the pair of de Villiers (78* off 95) and Watt (32* off 20) saw GG home to the target....Watt smacked a six to get the winning runs.
Commiserations @Charlie B
It was an awesome competition. Thank you @cnerd123 for organizing it.
And thank you to all the fellow competitors!
A double whammy for me today with Lewis losing the World championship in controversial circumstances!Andddddddddd we have a winnner!!!!!
GG CC!!! Triumphant.
First, let's start with the expert preview, Jura was clearly 2K higher than GG. I was most worried about their excellent bowling ratings...all over 50K.
Jura batted first, with the pair of Baverstock and Tino Zikhungwini giving their team a rapid start-- 25 in 3.2 overs, before skipper of GG CC, Levy, snared the big fish, Tino. Baverstock fell soon after, and the rebuild began between Pickering and Palathingal...just as when they were looking to push on the scoring, Peter Sutherland architected a run-out of Pickering to end a 77-run partnership-- the biggest in the innings. Brooks held an end while wickets fell at the other.
200 was breached in the 37th over, but a Plaatjies double strike ended Jura's innings-- 203
The opening pair for GG started the same way as Jura's...but Bram Human was the first to fall, rather cheaply, in the 5th over. At this stage Riaan de Villiers joined his skipper and they basically bossed the chase with a 137-run 2nd wicket partnership...Gopalan made a double blow, getting rid of Levy (75 off 66) and Sutherland (2 off 2)....after that the pair of de Villiers (78* off 95) and Watt (32* off 20) saw GG home to the target....Watt smacked a six to get the winning runs.
Commiserations @Charlie B
It was an awesome competition. Thank you @cnerd123 for organizing it.
And thank you to all the fellow competitors!
Winning 2 out of 3 against your team was quite something. The first win where we chased down 280 in 36 overs was based on the performance of one man-- Peter Sutherland.A double whammy for me today with Lewis losing the World championship in controversial circumstances!
Fortunately though I can have no complaints about Jura's defeat to GG - they were the better team and deserved their victory. Many congratulations sir , and thanks again to the excellent organisation. CWC really does add a great deal of fun to Stumped in my opinion.
A good write up from GG of the match . From the Jura perspective the loss of Bavers for only 16 was always a worry. There was some blazing but without the platform of Bavers it had to start too early and the GG bowlers stuck really well to their task and just kept chipping away. The fast bowler Xenos was particularly effective and our middle order found him difficult to get away and consequently made mistakes against other bowlers who nagged away at them and restricted their efforts to raise the score to the levels they have been used to.
We still had hope of our (on paper) superior bowling attack. Perhaps (hindsight is a wonderful thing!) they were a little too aggressive but it has worked many a time before so instead I would say it was the excellent batting of Levy and de Villiers that won it. Together they scored at 6 an over with relative ease, so that by the time Levy was out - they needed only 50 runs from 25 overs.
It was no consequence that we managed to remove those fearsome danger men Human and Levy cheaply, when Levy and de Villiers then batted with such maturity against all style of bowling and in the end we were made to look very ordinary as Watt rocketed GG to a very easy win.
Once again - congratulations to the new and first time champions
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We look forward to CWC 4 and will enjoy pitting our wits against you all again in a new format and this time with 2 teams in the pot .........Let the games begin!!! (ME permitting
Boxer
I love this ! Long may you continue to create such colourful statistical spaghett!Good win for FHK in the end, just too many runs on the board.
Time for another ranking update
***** CC 2163 (=)
Free HK 2139 (=)
Dynamo Morpork 2133 (=)
Jura 2043 (=)
Dynamo Schmaltzberg 2007 (+2)
Winton 1957 (+2)
Ashgrove Astronauts 1951 (-1)
GG 1942 (+3)
ataraXIa 1937 (-4)
The Merry Orangutans 1921 (=)
Honest Hunks 1916 (-2)
Moooo 1892 (=)
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(the rankings might not agree with the published rankings at the time, this is due to improvements in the ranking method)
the Schmaltzberg bowlers and GG CW3 champion players read this post, clearlyThe third tier of CW looks to be merging into the second tier, with the fourth tier (Schmaltzberg, Moooo, GG) being left behind.
Yeah the generator didn't allowed a bye. If it comes down to a bonus point earned or not earned against the bot I'm not entirely sure what to do
We had the same problem in CWC1. Needed a bot to make up the numbers, and then @JOJOXI signed up late. I got around that by manually maintaining a points table. Bit more effort tho, let me see if I can find the google sheet I used and send it to you.Yeah the generator didn't allowed a bye. If it comes down to a bonus point earned or not earned against the bot I'm not entirely sure what to do
I'm sure they will express some regretful, doleful, nostalgic and somewhat rueful yearnings for the good old days before they were a BOT! Oh how we used to 'knock on wood' and 'tap away' at a score until we'd holed outI'm sorry to see what will happen to the Wistful Woodpeckers tomorrow...
GG CC V Woodpeckers
Seeing the alliteration of their name, I am sure that they never had an owner. Beep bop beep booI'm sure they will express some regretful, doleful, nostalgic and somewhat rueful yearnings for the good old days before they were a BOT! Oh how we used to 'knock on wood' and 'tap away' at a score until we'd holed out