Archived [18/10/06] : Battrick

[nibbs]

won an important match today in my sides quest to finally go up to division II. we were 31/3, before lennon (155*) hit his 4th 100, and cuss (competent, 3800 bt rating journey) scored his maiden 100, hitting 102 in a 4th wicket partnership worth 254. cuss went with 2 balls left in the innings meaning duggan finished 1* (1). we made a healthy 286/4, while duggan's fitness wasn't hurt too much i hope. their openers gave me quite a scare on the hard and fast pitch reaching 93/0 in the 19th over, before they started losing wickets before succumbing for 207.

this season we still haven't lost, going 12 games without defeat. however, in what is probably the teams biggest match to date in the cup on monday against afc wombles, home of joe harriot who is one of the best batsmen going in battrick. if we get to bowl first, hopefully my bowlers will find a way to limit what their openers can do. if this is achieved i think maybe duggan with the aide of hamshaw and waddell may just be able to get us over the line. i do not think we'll be able to defend a score against them, so i just hope that we win that toss. fitness level must be sublime++++ by now, so hopefully that will count for something. i've left posts on the nz sledging board suggesting that i intend to TIE, when in actual fact, that is a lie. yup. but anyhow, looks like it'll be back to friendlies from next week onwards

 

[Jamee999]

New YP, looking for a bowler to be the 5th member in the 3 man pace "rotation". If it goes well, it'll mean that I can choose from any of Johnson, Sugden, Bradford and new bowler to take 2 spots with Bardle, and 3 with out Gareth.

Here goes.

Graham Loxley (839273) 
LH Batsman, LF Bowler, respectable batting form, respectable bowling form, fresh 
A destructive player with feeble leadership skills and worthless experience. 

Plays For: Jamees 999ers 
Nationality: England 
Age: 17 Years Old 
Battrick Rating: 4,790  
Wages: £999 p/w 
 
Stamina: mediocre Wicket Keeping: worthless 
Batting: worthless Concentration: feeble 
Bowling: respectable Consistency: feeble 
Fielding: worthless

Get in Get in Get In Get in

This gives me a nets dilemma though. I'll deal with that sometime.

 

[Jamee999]

Right, training.

Gareth Bardle - 18 yo, BT Rating=22,942  
RH Batsman, RFM Bowler, superb batting form, superb bowling form, energetic 
A cautious player with woeful leadership skills and abysmal experience. 
Stamina: competent Wicket Keeping: worthless 
Batting: worthless Concentration: feeble 
Bowling: superb Consistency: respectable 
Fielding: strong

Graham Loxley - 17 yo, BT Rating=4,790  
LH Batsman, LF Bowler, respectable batting form, respectable bowling form, fresh 
A destructive player with feeble leadership skills and worthless experience. 
Stamina: mediocre Wicket Keeping: worthless 
Batting: worthless Concentration: feeble 
Bowling: respectable Consistency: feeble 
Fielding: worthless

Maurice Aldred - 20 yo, BT Rating=13,452  
RH Batsman, RFM Bowler, superb batting form, superb bowling form, invigorated 
An attacking player with woeful leadership skills and abysmal experience. 
Stamina: competent Wicket Keeping: worthless 
Batting: proficient Concentration: competent 
Bowling: respectable Consistency: competent 
Fielding: abysmal

Hamid Gowshall - 29 yo, BT Rating=22,610  
RH Batsman, RH Spin Bowler, superb batting form, superb bowling form, sublime 
A defensive player with woeful leadership skills and mediocre experience. 
Stamina: competent Wicket Keeping: abysmal 
Batting: proficient Concentration: competent 
Bowling: abysmal Consistency: superb 
Fielding: proficient

Loxley and Bardle will take up most of the nets. The rest will go to Aldred, except one which will go to Gowshall.

10 Nets

Bardle 2 Bowling
Loxley 2 Bowling

6 Nets

Bardle 1 Stamina
Loxley 1 Stamina

4 Nets

Bardle 1 Fielding
Loxley 1 Fielding

2 Nets

Aldred 1 Bowling
Gowshall 1 Batting

That should work.

BTW, anyone want a friendly tomorrow?

 

[superkingdave]

wouldn't bother giving Bardle any fielding,or Gowshall any batting

 

[Jamee999]

Gowshall's batting is because I don't want his consistency to carry on spiking as that means unneccesary outgoings.

I want Bardle's consistency to keep going.

 

[AussieDominance]

nice few bwolers you got there

 

[Scaly piscine]

Marc has a point, if you think about it. Batsmen having been in for 40 overs, best bowlers coming back for end and anyway, I'd flipping take 9.3 an over in a OD game from the last ten.

Are you mad?

If you're on 250 or 300 etc. after 40 overs then the bowling is obviously tripe. If having batted for 40 overs is such a factor then why does D/L give them such a high resource percentage for the last 10 (32.1, which is higher than 1 wicket lost, 2 wickets lost etc.)?

For the record D/L predicts 144.6... for the last 10 for 306-0 which is by no means that out of the question (Australia scored 133 after being 301-2 off 40) although obviously that sort of score is generally out of D/L's standard sort of scores that the percentages are used for. 113.0... off the last 10 for 252-2 after 40.

Still, it's not like D/L is based on reality now is it...

 

[superkingdave]

For the record, i agree with Scaly about the last 10 being incredibly unrealistic, but we know that now so there's no need to go on about it every week

 

[roseboy64]

Horace Soloman (839512)
LH Batsman, LFM Bowler, respectable batting form, respectable bowling form, fresh
An attacking player with abysmal leadership skills and abysmal experience.

Plays For: Boulevard Bombers
Nationality: West Indies
Age: 17 Years Old
Battrick Rating: 1,150
Wages: £276 p/w

Stamina: abysmal Wicket Keeping: worthless
Batting: worthless Concentration: worthless
Bowling: worthless Consistency: worthless
Fielding: mediocre

My YP. Fired.

 

[andyc]

My YP:

Owen Sealey (839574)
RH Batsman, RF Bowler, respectable batting form, respectable bowling form, changeable
A defensive player with woeful leadership skills and abysmal experience.

Plays For: Magical Ponies
Nationality: Australia
Age: 17 Years Old
Battrick Rating: 706
Wages: £271 p/w
Stamina: feeble Wicket Keeping: worthless
Batting: worthless Concentration: worthless
Bowling: feeble Consistency: abysmal
Fielding: abysmal

Would've been a decent bowler had I used some ITS. Fired all the same.

 

[andyc]

Canning's tearing it up in some friendly against a random team that decided to challenge me.

End of Over 10: 26-5, runrate=2.60
Canning 5-0-11-4
Barton* 13 (19 balls)
Chillingworth 0 (1 balls)
Last Wicket: Salhan c. Parr b. Canning 2 (FOW: 26/5)

 

[chaminda_00]

Getting smashed by Noorga here:


End of Over 9: 43-2, runrate=4.78, reqrunrate=6.90 (325-4)
Unsworth 5-1-14-2
Ellis* 2 (2 balls)
Hanson 0 (0 balls)

Last Wicket: Ferrier c. Wilkey b. Unsworth 18 (FOW: 43/2)

Oh well hopefully the boys can get over a hundred. Got nearly 10k in gate receipts, which would be up there with the most i got for a friendly, so im happy with that.

 

[Robertinho]

Someone bid 50k for Tebogo http://www.battrick.org/nl/playerDetails.asp?playerID=394476

No complaints here.

 

[nooga99]

Getting smashed by Noorga here.

Everytime youve mentioned my name you have got it wrong, its Nooga not Noorga.

 

[brenoevo]

used 0 ITS and got this guy...

Toby Manchester (839734)
RH Batsman, RH Spin Bowler, respectable batting form, respectable bowling form, fresh
A steady player with respectable leadership skills and worthless experience.

Plays For: College Dropouts
Nationality: Australia
Age: 17 Years Old
Battrick Rating: 3,665
Wages: £660 p/w

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

damn it for his concentration. looks close to respectable batting with that wage, my guess 1 to 2 nets to pop. argh if only secondaries popped like they used to oh well cant complain cause he cost me nothing and my training shedule if full neways so might jus sell him off.

 

[chaminda_00]

Everytime youve mentioned my name you have got it wrong, its Nooga not Noorga.

Sorry mate, i'll try and get it right in the future. Anyway thanks for the match, we got smashed, but i happy with the money.

Dalmeny Cricket Club - 4/325 (50)
Mansfield 137 (124)
Wight 100 (98)
Baptiste 2/58 (10) - ok debut i guess

Jaffna Jets - 184 All Out
Ellis 47(91)
Unsworth 4/21 (6.4) - MOTM

Ratings:
Dalmeny Cricket Club Jaffna Jets
Top Order: respectable mediocre
Middle Order: mediocre feeble
Lower Order: abysmal worthless
Seam Bowling: respectable feeble
Spin Bowling: mediocre mediocre
Fielding: feeble woeful

 

[AussieDominance]

ive made a pact with myself to improve my secondries

 

[nooga99]

No worries mate

Looking for a friendly at my ground again as ive got 3 away games.

 

[Robertinho]

I'm up for it, noorga

 

[chaminda_00]

ive made a pact with myself to improve my secondries

So have i thats why i brought in a couple players and being training up my players in fitness and fielding. With my latest two signings i got my stamina up to 50 and consistency up to 48, but my concentration still 41. Overall that averages out to feeble to mediorce, which isn't great but a lot better then what it was when i first started.

Anyway if your looking for some players who have ok secondaries i have a couple on the market:

Abdul Da silva
Hemachandra Luxman