Archived [10/08/07] Battrick

[trevor_vayro]

Well done Scaly, looks like you're home and hosed for the league if not the match, likewise Mahindinho, congrats!

Does anyone know if there's a set time at which match commentary becomes available to members? Or is it just whenever the server pulls its finger out of it's arse. It's just that I've had to go to a colleague's mother's funeral this afternoon, and my match had finished by the time I got back. But when I click on the "View Match Commentary" link, it tells me that the match is still in progress. If I can watch it again by five or so, then I'll hold on, but I'm nearly breaking to the temptation of just looking at the scorecard.

Shame too, as it was shaping up for a much better match than I'd anticipated. When I had to leave, I'd won the toss and reached 189/2 after 38 - Cash 69* (75) (On V.Def!), Greening 49* (58). Earlier Staveley 33 and Patel 34 had put 67 on for the first wicket.

If all went well in my absense, then I could have reached close to 300, which could have been enough to bottle up their gun with my defensive bowling and pick off the weaker batsmen. If I had a bad last twelve overs, then I may only have made 230'ish, which I imagine they'll have cruised pretty comfortably.

And then of course there's everything in between! Later, Trev

 

[Scaly piscine]

You should have to wait longer than half an hour at the most Trev. Games are *all* done by 5, everything else like league tables, PFLs, morale etc. is usually sorted soon after.

 

[Mahindinho]

Well done Scaly, looks like you're home and hosed for the league if not the match, likewise Mahindinho, congrats!

Cheers!

I'm looking forward to seeing with whom I'll be sharing a II league next season.

Well, Trev, you lost your third wicket at 242...then 264, 264, 267, 267, 274 and 283.

Do you want to know how your opponents got on..?

 

[Scaly piscine]

Chinatown CC v Scaly Piscine CC (608743) 

Date: 15/12/2006 Ground: Chinatown CG 
Pitch: Green  Weather: Sunny 
 
Scaly Piscine CC won the toss and elected to field. 
First Innings of: Chinatown CC  
Name                           Runs Balls 4s 6s 
Manning         c. &  b. Dillon   42 69 1 0 
Moore                 b. Dillon   39 74 2 0 
Cudworth              b. Pace     53 56 2 2 
Barr     c. Armstrong b. Cahalane  9 17 1 0 
Gilks    c. Armstrong b. Pace     73 58 6 2 
Barrett (+)      lbw  b. Pace      1  2 0 0 
Nicholls              b. Pace     16 13 2 0 
Nyikadzino  c. Obrien b. Pace      1  2 0 0 
France           run  out          1  2 0 0 
Crick            not  out          1  2 0 0 
Emmanuel (*)          b. Horne     4  9 0 0 
Extras (3b, 0lb, 1w, 4nb)          8  
Total (50.0 overs, 10 wickets)   248  
 
FOW          1  2  3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10 
Total       83 95 116 194 196 230 232 239 243 248 
Batsman Out  2  1  4   3   6   7   8   9   5   11 
 
Name      O M  R W nb wd 
Horne    10 2 43 1  0  1 
Pace     10 0 47 5  1  0 
Lisbie   10 0 56 0  1  0 
Dillon   10 0 44 2  1  0 
Cahalane 10 0 55 1  1  0 

First Innings of: Scaly Piscine CC (play as normal)  
Name                           Runs Balls 4s 6s 
Packer           lbw  b. Cudworth  4 14 0 0 
Wheat      c. Manning b. Crick    60 69 4 1 
Armstrong (+)    not  out         80 95 5 1 
Obrien        c. Barr b. Emmanuel 71 82 6 0 
Dillon           not  out         28 19 4 0 
Terry        
Lisbie        
Appleby        
Horne        
Pace (*)       
Cahalane        
Extras (4b, 3lb, 2w, 0nb)          9  
Total (46.3 overs, 3 wickets)    252  
 
FOW          1  2  3 
Total       12 85 203        
Batsman Out  1  2  4        
 
Name        O M  R W nb wd 
Cudworth    8 1 30 1  0  0 
Emmanuel  8.3 0 44 1  0  0 
Crick      10 0 64 1  0  2 
Manning    10 0 46 0  0  0 
Nyikadzino 10 0 61 0  0  0 




Reporter's Summary 
   Chinatown CC        Scaly Piscine CC 
Top Order: strong      superb 
Middle Order: mediocre proficient 
Lower Order: woeful    woeful 
Seam Bowling: superb   proficient 
Spin Bowling: strong   strong 
Fielding: mediocre     mediocre 
 
MOTM: Pace

Now lets see who I get in the play-offs...

 

[trevor_vayro]

Mahindinho, without giving away who won, is it worth my while hanging on to watch it? Was it a good game either way?- That's a score towards the upper end of my predicted field, so I might just have managed to ramp their RRR up to a winning level.

Going to be interesting anyway,

 

[Scaly piscine]

Holy... the team in second place in my division was 233-1 and got bowled out for 247...

One bowler took 7 of those 9 collapse wickets. No. 5 batsman was stranded on 5* off 8.

 

[Jamee999]

Jamees 999ers 351/3 (50) Aldred 171*(152), Gowshall 82(61), Ndah 75*(69)
Pete Kelly XI 121 (29) Bardle 10-4-23-5, Aldred 4-1-10-3

Reporter's Summary
Pete Kelly XI Jamees 999ers
Top Order: woeful competent
Middle Order: feeble competent
Lower Order: worthless woeful
Seam Bowling: feeble respectable
Spin Bowling: useless useless
Fielding: abysmal feeble
MOTM: Aldred

Champions of V.145! All 56 points and a NRR of around 40

 

[Mahindinho]

Mahindinho, without giving away who won, is it worth my while hanging on to watch it? Was it a good game either way?- That's a score towards the upper end of my predicted field, so I might just have managed to ramp their RRR up to a winning level.

Going to be interesting anyway,

How do I put this without giving it away..?

You should read it.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Ah, Armstrong tops the IV.4 batting averages with 175.20 at a strike rate 102.5. Dillon was 3rd because he had a ton of not outs. Packer 8th. In the bowling averages I had 6th, 7th and 8th positions all with an average of 15 point something.

 

[chaminda_00]

Won my match pretty comfortable against one of the half decent sides in the comp. Ellis got his HS of 139 (130). Jeithoon got 3/23 and Muralitharan got 4/39. These were the ratings:

Top: Respectable
Middle: Competent
Lower: Worthless
Seam: Mediorce
Spin: Competent
Fielding: Woeful

First ever Competent spin bowling rating, but Murali played as lone spinner.

 

[chaminda_00]

As it is the end of the season my show my top 5 batsmen and bowlers:

Batsmen
Phil Nurse - 585 runs @ 117.00
Hamid Ellis - 563 runs @ 70.38
Marc Ferrier - 552 runs @ 78.86
Doug Clayton - 506 runs @ 56.22
Jason Quintin - 377 runs @ 75.40

Bowlers
Anton Baptiste - 30 wkts @ 15.20
Tristain Dowdall - 28 wkts @ 17.71
Prsanna Jeithoon - 26 wkts @ 17.31
Geoff Kinsella - 21 wkts @ 13.14
Kavith Priyantha - 21 wkts @ 25.00

My batsmen didn't get many chances to bat, as they were chasing a lot of small totals. Also i rotated the batting line up a lot to try some different things out. Next season i should have a lot more of a stable batting line up.

The bowlers got rotated a lot too with all eight bowlers getting a lot of games. Muralitharan finished the season off well taking 19 wkts @ 22.89, as well as 171 runs. Considering both him and Jeithoon hardly played a game at the start of the season, im very happy with the way they finished.

 

[Mahindinho]

PROMOTED!

Third in the III to II tables for BT-England...which is nice.

I'll stop banging on about it all now. Well, maybe just a little bit

 

[trevor_vayro]

Can't Believe it, I beat them like an Ipswich Ho!

Gurs - 283/9 - Cash 105, Greening 75, patel 34, Staveley 33, Bennett 24*
Them, (Can't spell their stupid name and can't be arsed to press Alt/Tab and look) - 101 A/O - Byrne 37. Bewers 3/19, Bent 4/20, Cash 2/25, Bridges M 1/3


Reporter's Summary
*
Cymru Gurgitaters Rehtakul Veets CC&FC
Top Order: proficient proficient
Middle Order: respectable feeble
Lower Order: abysmal worthless
Seam Bowling: respectable competent
Spin Bowling: proficient strong
Fielding: feeble feeble
*
MOTM: Cash


I'm off for an appointment with a bottle of red wine and a box of Cleanex! Bring on the Ponies!

BTW, Does anyoneintend on trying to win their play-off, and think they might have a close game? Looking for a match to watch necxt Fri? Later Trev

 

[cricketboy29]

OMG Gaurav your guy is going for over 2 mil:

Mansukh Ghandi (786681)
RH Batsman, RFM Bowler, superb batting form, superb bowling form, sublime
A destructive player with worthless leadership skills and abysmal experience.

Plays For: Sad Decadent XI
Nationality: India
Age: 18 Years Old
Battrick Rating: 12,137
Wages: £984 p/w

Stamina: competent Wicket Keeping: worthless
Batting: respectable Concentration: mediocre
Bowling: proficient Consistency: mediocre
Fielding: feeble

Jesus maybe i should put one of my trainee on the market

Yeah, Don't ya love it? :P

 

[The Baconator]

Owned by an NT bat today, he got 152* off 123 balls as they chased 286 with five down. Another fairly poor bowling performance, may have to look to invest in someone. Loss fairly inconsequential though, will finish 5th and have a play-off which I'll probably win next week.

 

[Kweek]

33rd team of the V leagues in England
33 VCC V.182 56 59.42

not so bad

back in IV and now lets roll on to III

 

[nibbs]

still a unlikely possibility that my side can promote to the top league in NZ today. we'll win our match. this i am very sure of. however, we need the top side, waitakere. to lose their match. the top side has 2 nz nt players, tim carbon and nathan etherington, in their squad. their opponent, the blondebombshells, has one in nigel henshaw. if henshaw can fire, whilst carbon and etherington are restricted in what they can do, perhaps it'll be heartbreak for waitakere. hope so anyway, although i ultimately doubt that this happen

this has been a good season. whatever happens today we have established ourselves as one of the top 20 sides in NZ imo. we should start the cup next season as 13th seeds, so our cup run should last at least 9 rounds, which could potentially jeopardise our cw bt cup campaign. speaking the cw bt cup we've also maintained our record as having made at least every semi final. perhaps the icing on the cake would be our second title come monday. woah yeah

 

[Scaly piscine]

Slightly surprised to have gotten this guy, I just thought I'd give it one last bid then did something else for 15 minutes and came back to find I'd got him. He's not a bargain or anything (well there's a little bit of extra value in there because the BTR is about 35% up the range).

I had 2.6m in the bank so figured I may as well buy someone around the 1m mark, will interest (financially) on this player - won't hardly get any on the 1.12m I spent.


Karl Bunn (352634)
LH Batsman, LM Bowler, superb batting form, superb bowling form, energetic
An attacking player with strong leadership skills and woeful experience.

Plays For: Scaly Piscine CC
Nationality: England
Age: 22 Years Old
Battrick Rating: 11,176
Wages: £1,986 p/w

Stamina: feeble Wicket Keeping: woeful
Batting: strong Concentration: competent
Bowling: abysmal Consistency: abysmal
Fielding: mediocre


He's my 8th strong+ bat.

 

[cricketboy29]

Hmmm. 2.777 million in the bank, but I need to get two decent bowlers for DIV III next season. Especially since im going to be promoting to one of the better leagues finishing so high, in the promotion tables. Is there any way of telling which league you'll be promoted to next season?

 

[Scaly piscine]

Predictably got a crap draw in my playoff:


The Lost Boys
Top Order: masterful
Middle Order: feeble
Lower Order: worthless
Seam Bowling: mediocre
Spin Bowling: respectable
Fielding: feeble

Most teams I'd beat easily, but this one on a hard and fast is going to be tough. Obviously if I get 2 of their top 3 reasonably early they're screwed, but that hardly ever happens in Battrick. I've got a few batsmen I can promote to hammer their bowling.