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  1. Charlie B

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    We reached the halfway stage of CWC6 today. In the premier division my affiliate Wrath of Kandy had a much-needed win in order to stay in touch with the Top 4. Atara initially gave us a fright by running up 223 off their 40 overs and then having us 11-2. Steady, and then explosive batting from...
  2. Charlie B

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    Well you could have blown me down with a feather!!! Boxer and DEV agree re gardening leave - Halley's comet goes by twice in a week ! There again a visit by the DEV is pretty 'comet' like in the first place , rare , fast , gone!:eek:
  3. Charlie B

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    talk about raining on my parade :pokey:??
  4. Charlie B

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    Guys - I have a sense there have been a lot of good youth pulls this season in CWC- if anyone has a super batter or bowler POT 47 or more they are willing to sell then I am certainly interested - I have a coaching space - we could discuss price! Many thanks Box
  5. Charlie B

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    Fielding is a quite nice to have trait in a coach but i couldn't dive into having just a specialised fielding coach at the expense of a BAT/BOWL- So then you start to think about training up their Fielding but of course that then is at the expense of losing them to coaching for a week when they...
  6. Charlie B

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    Yeah, i agree with you that it is a nice thing- most of us love a free lottery ticket with the chance to win $10m and are still happy if we pick up $1 - that's how this thing works - it also fills up a Stumped day with something different that you look forward to A while back (I posted in...
  7. Charlie B

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    Very interesting idea - you'd have to keep a record of your pull times over a few years! or if we all did it over a few months! As there is only about 250? teams it is quite a small population of data Oh and by the way my recent pulls have been dire for both teams! quality hasnt improved in my...
  8. Charlie B

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    Oh no that is gutting news ! I had a quick look at the last 16 after the matches ended and before the draw was made and found Jura to be the 15th strongest team - I thought the only teams I had a 50/50 chance against were Basco and Mentone. Free HK I rate the 12th best team left - so it is a...
  9. Charlie B

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    Yes, desperately unlucky Cowboy, that's a gut wrencher
  10. Charlie B

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    Yes, and to be fair they attacked or slogged every delivery they faced but just weren't good enough to score more than 1 off 10 balls! Hope FHK will lighten your mood a little later in the CUP
  11. Charlie B

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  12. Charlie B

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    The wild Geese have had a rough time of it recently - particularly in the CWC cup but also in the normal matches. Just beginning a match against Winton CC in OD Div 3. We are sitting 1st and 2nd and based on the XPV if we could get a 4 point win here it would be a major leg up to taking the...
  13. Charlie B

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    Thanks Stephen - yes a lot of fact and sensible speculation there - i think my 5.5 guy is a bit mean now that Jura are edging into the Top 50 - it is time to bite the bullet and spend a bit more I was going to nose around some teams and get an idea what kind of groundsman skill and or wage...
  14. Charlie B

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    You will probably be amazed at my ignorance (there again based on my normal posts, probably not ! :)) but you cannot request ground/pitch changes for individual matches can you ? you can only make a real time adjustment? So let's say you would like to play your spinners on a real dry pitch in 3...
  15. Charlie B

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    Ok thanks - well i hope for both our sakes I can deliver you a decent player ofc but I'll link him in!
  16. Charlie B

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    That sounds right - I'm hoping your 3 x 1 is nearer the mark than 2 x 1 as this will enable you to select a good youth captain with minimal experience sooner in his career in meaningful and tight games Of course this is a real head scratcher in terms of judging how important a captain of 12...
  17. Charlie B

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    Z - I pulled a poor BD youth this week and have already retired him. I would feel a fraud to link such a player to your admirable and generous YP comp come nov 2 but if i read the rules rightly every BD YP you pull you should post on the thread as they will then be an entrant in the 'lucky draw'...
  18. Charlie B

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    Just fluttering back to the captaincy chat a bit back. Can captaincy level be considered alone or only in conjunction with experience? So, you have a captain of 12 and a captain of 10 but the first has experience of 6 and the latter 13 which would you choose (and is the rule of thumb to multiply...
  19. Charlie B

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    And a double whammy as Jura lost to Charminster albeit a close battle! A bit of a turnover on paper as we have the upper hand XPV wise. The batting was held by decent bowling, our bowling was of a similar level ...so I attribute the win to steady accumulation of runs by Char throughout their...
  20. Charlie B

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    A stonking win for you yesterday - A very nasty pitch on which you put up a very formidable 155 - and our batting had no answer at all and crumbled away to 0 points!
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