Archived [18/10/06] : Battrick

[Kweek]

Unobrow CC v VCC (198844)


god..nice game, a win too...needed one tooo

 

[Scaly piscine]

Opponents are 181-4 off 39 overs now, hoping for Dillon and Cahalane to clean up in the last 10.

But instead it's into sloblock mode.

 

[superkingdave]

340-2 off my 50, Tons for Webster and Lawrence. Slightly dissapointed, should have made 350plus IMO. Hopefully roll them for sub 200. On TIE neway

 

[trevor_vayro]

Oppos got 321/2, owing to a slight miscalculation on my part, whereby I failed to realise that if you don't allow enough time for your pitch to turn from H+F to Slow, then you end up with a Flat track, which appears even more benign than H+F.

Anyway, in reply I'm 80/2 from fourteen. Wynne-Willson out in the first over for a duck, before Staveley and Mullins added 74 in no time for the second wicket. Staveley's just gone LBW for 35, to a Comp, after seeing off their best bowler! And I tell you what else makes no sense, Mullins, set to Defensive, is on 35 (39), including 2 6s and 4 4s - Not that I'm complaining, long may it continue!

At least I'm in the match this week, but I think I've probably got too much to do - Guess it all depends on how this pair do?

Later, Trev

 

[Scaly piscine]

From my experience 'flat' pitches are more bowler friendly than hard and fast. I've seen quite a few 150 type scores on flat pitches where the bowling is only marginally better than the batting - whereas nearly every team scores 200+ on hard and fast.

 

[Jamee999]

Gonna win

214-3 after 32.1 chasing 244 to win.

I thought that these guys were good :S

 

[superkingdave]

ouch, just nearly fired my best player...

 

[Jamee999]

Bizzare match.

Svanholm Cricketklub 243 (Bradford 8-0-54-4, Sugden 10-0-46-4) (45.3)
Jamees 999ers 246-3 (Gowshall 88*(97), Field 93*(79) (37)

But the ratings..

Jamees 999ers Svanholm Cricketklub
Top Order: mediocre strong
Middle Order: feeble feeble
Lower Order: abysmal abysmal
Seam Bowling: mediocre feeble
Spin Bowling: useless competent
Fielding: feeble mediocre

MOTM: Sugden

I'm not complaining

 

[cricketboy29]

Won my league match quite handsomely

all rounders 163-10 (42.3 Overs) Singh- 4-23 Islam 2-26
Sad Decadent XI 163-1 (21.3 Overs) Abdul kadir 89(76) Hamed 75(56)

 

[Scaly piscine]

And that's the end of the match. Scaly Piscine CC won by 8 wickets.
Six Rivers 267-9
Scaly Piscine CC 268-2

Boring victory for me, won with 2 overs remaining. The required run rate only went over 6 for the one over. Armstrong got yet another century.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Figures. I lost last week, morale goes down two levels. I win this week, morale goes up one level.

 

[trevor_vayro]

Hmmm, have a slight dilemma now! Thanks to you Aussies stealing our rugby coach, (Guess it's still in the genes!), I've had to drag myself away from my desk to actually do some proper journalism this afternoon, and as a consequence I've missed the conclusion of what looked like being an interesting run chase. I was hoping to carefully avoid looking at the result, (One of the up-sides to being blind!), and catch up via the "View Match Commentary" link you get with full membership. Anyway, when I click on the aforementioned link, it tells me that the match is still in progress - Which it clearly isn't, as the completed scorecard is on the screen! So do I wait for the commentary to materialise? or succumb to the temptation of reading the scorecard?...Trev

 

[trevor_vayro]

A much improved performance, but ultimately pointless. Got 277 A/O in the penultimate over. Had wickets in hand for long enough to make it interesting but in truth I was never all that close.

And for the first time the spectre of automatic relegation rears its ugly head, as the team who were bottom of our league have just won two of their last three, having lost their first seven! They're now only four points behind me, and I play them next Friday.

Beginning to get really hacked off with my team, as I keep losing to teams of players who aren't that much better, if any, than my own. Guess it's down to my chronic fitness and morale. If it was the same players who were ****ing up all the time then I'd do something about it, but it's not. Mullins gotbugger all last week and 44 at a good rate today. Edworthy got cartted last and bowled 10/35 today. But then Atherton-Ham, who's not done bad since joining goes for 80 today and Bewers wasn't far behind with 75. That shouldn't be happening to a Prof LM with Med Stam and Cons! At least not against two Resp openers! All V.frustrating!

I'm off to do some damage to a box of Red wine now. Out of the office Mon and Tues, but see you all again on Wed, Trev

 

[GotSpin]

A much improved performance, but ultimately pointless. Got 277 A/O in the penultimate over. Had wickets in hand for long enough to make it interesting but in truth I was never all that close.

And for the first time the spectre of automatic relegation rears its ugly head, as the team who were bottom of our league have just won two of their last three, having lost their first seven! They're now only four points behind me, and I play them next Friday.

Beginning to get really hacked off with my team, as I keep losing to teams of players who aren't that much better, if any, than my own. Guess it's down to my chronic fitness and morale. If it was the same players who were ****ing up all the time then I'd do something about it, but it's not. Mullins gotbugger all last week and 44 at a good rate today. Edworthy got cartted last and bowled 10/35 today. But then Atherton-Ham, who's not done bad since joining goes for 80 today and Bewers wasn't far behind with 75. That shouldn't be happening to a Prof LM with Med Stam and Cons! At least not against two Resp openers! All V.frustrating!

I'm off to do some damage to a box of Red wine now. Out of the office Mon and Tues, but see you all again on Wed, Trev

Personal fitness may have a role in this?

 

[Adamc]

Close match in progress against Pebble Street, basically my biggest chance to beat one of the human teams in the premiership this season:

End of Over 37: 191-1, runrate=5.16, reqrunrate=9.85 (318-6)
Malik 7-0-39-0
Potter* 80 (97 balls)
Adams 15 (20 balls)
Last Wicket: Dobie b. Louis 84 (FOW: 166/1)

Got a nice total set up by Cuss' 146* off 128 (surpise, surprise), but Ashton did very well opening, scored 88 off 82 to get us off to a flyer. Disappointed with the bowling, but the slow-scoring middle overs thing is definitely working in my favour at the moment. Gillespie (destructive), Malik (destructive) and Badley (steady) to bowl the last ten, so they could get 100+ easily.

 

[GotSpin]

Jesus, someone bidding 1 million dollars for my mates best player:

Age: 18 Years Old
Battrick Rating: 24,676
Wages: £868 p/w

Stamina: superb Wicket Keeping: abysmal
Batting: proficient Concentration: mediocre
Bowling: respectable Consistency: respectable
Fielding: proficient

 

[Adamc]

Well squeezed out a 16-run win in the end, wasn't pretty but it's a win. Rubbish bowling figures all-round with the exception of Louis who was relatively economical.

Asterix XI - 318/6
Cuss 146* (128), Ashton 88 (82)

Pebble Street CC - 302/4
Louis 1-39, Malik 2-73, Gillespie 1-64

Even though it will most likely make no difference to the overall standings it will at least improve my members' confidence so I get a decent crowd next week. And should improve my ratings a bit as well, I've got bots for the next three weeks so I'll have max fitness and morale when I GFI in the last match of the season.

I Normalled this match btw, got my best ratings too (though the middle order is suspect):

	 [B]  Pebble Street CC  Asterix XI[/B]
Top Order: 	superb 	     wonderful
Middle Order: 	respectable  respectable
Lower Order: 	worthless    woeful
Seam Bowling: 	superb 	     quality
Spin Bowling: 	superb 	     quality
Fielding: 	competent    mediocre

 

[GotSpin]

Oh goody, got u this sundey

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Can't believe this result.

On a hard and fast track, with TIE, against number three in the league:

Dynamo Morpork 252 all out
Nigel Lewis (opener) 0
Shaka Herbert 120
Jon Lester 63
Garfield Marsden 29 (shared stand of 70 with Herbert)
Danny Carden 4-43

Banagher Knight 68 all out
Bill Thomson (specialist no. 8, respectable batsman, top scorer) 17
Dwight Tuck 8-0-26-6
Dennis Fear 5-0-20-3
Glenn Harris 2-0-17-1

I knew I needed one win against the top three teams to stand any chance of survival, but now things are interesting.

3rd Banagher Knight 24 pts (+20)
4th 3wide.com 24 pts (+10)
5th Dynamo 24 pts (+5)

I've got Badlands and Cyclones, the two top teams, in the next two matches, and then Golden Grove and Burlington City which are basically walk-overs. 3wide have Badlands and Cyclones as well, and then Banagher Knight in the 13th round and a walk-over against One World, while Banagher Knight have their two walk-overs in the 11th and 12th round before facing 3wide. So as long as I get three wins from the last four, I'm definitely safe - but that's gonna be very tricky because Badlands and Cyclones are really good teams. I was really banking on getting a string of TIE losses in before the Cyclones match and then hoping for a win there, but today's shock mauling (totally unfair on ratings, I might add - Tuck just had the wood on their top order) means I might survive even without beating Cyclones (requires 3wide to lose three matches).

But yeah. I bet my opponent is fuming right now. Mind you, my team still revolves around Shaka (season: 781 runs @ 78.10) and Tuck (season: 28 wickets @ 13.71). Lester was outstanding last season but only made his third fifty this year (and I think the other two were against very substandard opposition). Still averages 83 for his career, which should tell you how good he was last season. And my new man Kevin Fowler, who's been trained furiously on stamina, slogged a six and then got out.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Whoa, that was an incredible result - 68 all out on a hard and fast is freakish to start with, let alone when it's the better team that gets it.