Archived [18/10/06] : Battrick

[Robertinho]

Hoyboy MAY or MAY NOT have just pulled an U19 prospect..

 

[thewizard1o1]

Got very luck with my youth pull...just need to train him up and look after him now

Nick Saint - 17 yo, BT Rating=4,133
RH Batsman, RM Bowler, respectable batting form, respectable bowling form, fresh
An attacking player with competent leadership skills and worthless experience.
Stamina: abysmal Wicket Keeping: abysmal
Batting: mediocre Concentration: woeful
Bowling: respectable Consistency: abysmal
Fielding: worthless

 

[cricketboy29]

When that wage was calculated they were between 10% and 30% of the way up proficient.

wow, scaly, you ve got it down to a science now

when are the wages usually recalculated?

 

[Robertinho]

At the beginning of every season..

 

[Hoggy31]

End of Over 27: 134-2, runrate=4.96, reqrunrate=8.09 (Me-319-3)
Colley 7-0-20-1
Drench* 0 (3 balls)
Griffin 22 (44 balls)

Hmm, should beat andys team from here

 

[cameeel]

College Dropouts v Kipper XI @ College Dropouts CC (Friendly)

College Dropouts: 10-256 (49.4)

Kennedy 129*
Chambers 4-61

Kipper XI: 8-255 (50)

Brydon 78
Waterhouse 64
South 53
Gothard 4-53

Result: College Dropouts win by 1 run

MOTM: Kennedy (129*)

 

[GotSpin]

Don't belive this. Friend just sold a strong batsmen with only feeble secondries for 1.2million. His asking price was 600k. Lucky bugger

 

[PY]

Don't belive this. Friend just sold a strong batsmen with only feeble secondries for 1.2million. His asking price was 600k. Lucky bugger

I shall have an 18yo superb within 6 weeks with much better secondaries than that. Would take 1.2mill.

 

[Scaly piscine]

So I get exactly what I said I didn't want last week, put 12 into batting, stamina, fielding and 10 into concentration on a 20yo and get the LOWEST possible level for each one of those (mediocre x 3 and feeble respectively). The only vaguely good thing is that they have respectable w/keeping - but that's pretty much useless to me. So this now makes 5 weeks of the new YP system and 5 pulls without any batting or bowling initial skill above worthless.

 

[brenoevo]

College Dropouts v Kipper XI @ College Dropouts CC (Friendly)

College Dropouts: 10-256 (49.4)

Kennedy 129*
Chambers 4-61

Kipper XI: 8-255 (50)

Brydon 78
Waterhouse 64
South 53
Gothard 4-53

Result: College Dropouts win by 1 run

MOTM: Kennedy (129*)

That was a great game cameeel after seeing my batting performance i thought you would win easily. What happened at the end of your innings i didnt see the commentary, did yous jus keep getting out?

 

[cricketboy29]

you got me ash, that was your backup 11? i think im depressed

First innings of Sad Decadent XI- 177 all out
First Innings of Viveash 178-7

 

[Adamc]

Got through to the round of 16 in the cup, but got a nightmare fixture next round, exactly the one I didn't want. Have to play my old nemesis Borderliners, beat them twice in season one but they've improved a lot since then. Got quality/quality/woeful/remarkable/superb/competent in his last match, miles ahead of me. He gets to play a bot on Friday as well, so meh.

Anyway my cup match today, lost the toss and bowled on a cracked pitch:

NYC 151-10 (43.2 overs)
Malik 4-15, Gillespie 4-30, Male 2-29

Asterix XI 152-3 (31.4 overs)
Hera 68* (96), Wynand 44 (70), Cuss 28* (25)

Bowling was very good, Malik picked up a career best and a MotM as well. Lost two wickets in the second over of the run chase, but Hera and Wynand made pretty easy work of it, and Cuss didn't have to bat for too long. Ratings were interesting:

  	           [B]NYC 	Asterix XI[/B]
Top Order: 	strong 	strong
Middle Order: 	mediocre strong
Lower Order: 	woeful 	woeful
Seam Bowling: 	proficient strong
Spin Bowling: 	proficient superb
Fielding: 	competent mediocre

Not sure how I got a higher spin rating than seam, my one spinner has a lower primary than all of my seamers, and his secondaries aren't outstandingly high either. Oh well, if I improve a level in every department by next Sunday I might have a shot, but then Borderliners will probably do the same. Not that I'd get anywhere in the cup even if I won next week, just that cup matches at this level bring in a hell of a lot more money than friendlies.

 

[Robertinho]

Training time -

Michael Payton - 19 yo, BT Rating=4,800
LH Batsman, LF Bowler, proficient batting form, strong bowling form, sublime
A defensive player with woeful leadership skills and worthless experience.
Stamina: woeful Wicket Keeping: worthless
Batting: abysmal Concentration: abysmal
Bowling: competent Consistency: respectable
Fielding: woeful

Roger Mcmillan - 17 yo, BT Rating=6,607
LH Batsman, LH Spin Bowler, mediocre batting form, competent bowling form, lively
A destructive player with respectable leadership skills and abysmal experience.
Stamina: respectable Wicket Keeping: abysmal
Batting: competent Concentration: feeble
Bowling: competent Consistency: feeble
Fielding: mediocre

Marvin Gray - 18 yo, BT Rating=9,189
RH Batsman, RH Spin Bowler, strong batting form, superb bowling form, energetic
A defensive player with abysmal leadership skills and woeful experience.
Stamina: competent Wicket Keeping: mediocre
Batting: proficient Concentration: mediocre
Bowling: abysmal Consistency: feeble
Fielding: feeble

Gray HAS to pop soon in concentration. Soon. I'm going to try to get him to respectable conc before the changes. Very happy to see McMillan is now competent/feeble in both bat and bowl, I've decided I'm going to train him up to strong/superb stamina. I'm going to try and get his secondaries to competent/competent before the training changes, aswell.

 

[33/3from3.3]

In a friendly vs Xavier's team right now
heres the state of it
End of Over 26: 121-4, runrate=4.65, reqrunrate=3.00 (192-10)
Stanton 3-0-12-0
Muirhead* 6 (10 balls)
Stearman 19 (26 balls)

 

[roseboy64]

Good win there. Played a 2nd XI so expected it. Congrats to you though.

 

[nibbs]

Well, my side was bundled out the cup today. After having the Colonels 96/4, the bowlers weren't able to push on from there as they got through to 299/7. Holmes finished with 4/59, taking him to 101 career wickets, and probably the top 15 wickets takers in NZ.

The batting was absolutely terrible. The Colonels, who are now in NZ's top league, were originally in my league but have since moved up and on to better things. They have bowlers that just seem to be able to dominate nearly everything they play. As it stands my side has compiled 429/40, or scores of 134, 80, 97 and 118, against them. The most disappointing aspect of this is despite all the improvement my side has made, we're still a long way off of competing with the top sides in NZ which is quite concerning looking ahead to the high probability of promotion at the end of the season. In our batting effort today, we made 118. 82 of those runs were scored by Jason Duggan off only 66 balls. He was there at the start and battled right to the end. 36 runs came off the other 99 balls (+ no balls/wides) from the 10 other batsmen. I think that I'll be looking to improve the stamina of several players come week 8 and the training changes.

All in all, happy to have reached the fifth round of the cup for a second season running. The club has £539,122 in the bank. There is no reason to part with any of this just yet. With a little luck we'll be able to push it up and over the £1million mark by the end of the season.



The Colonels 299-7
Holmes 59-4

Whenuapai CC 118-10
Duggan 82* (66)

 

[andyc]

Training:

Gavin Canning - 17 yo, BT Rating=4,747
RH Batsman, RFM Bowler, competent batting form, strong bowling form, fresh
An attacking player with woeful leadership skills and abysmal experience.
Stamina: feeble Wicket Keeping: worthless
Batting: mediocre Concentration: woeful
Bowling: respectable Consistency: feeble
Fielding: abysmal

 

[33/3from3.3]

Good win there. Played a 2nd XI so expected it. Congrats to you though.

Nice close game
Ohara was having a traning match
got 4 catches behind and 1 with the bat if he can improve his batting he'll be awesome

 

[nibbs]

oh gosh. i need a friendly

 

[33/3from3.3]

not doing a friendly this week for fitness reasons