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Archived [18/10/06] : Battrick

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Agent TBY

Agent TBY

International Captain
Decent pops this week:

Shalin Abdul kadir - 19 yo, BT Rating=30,510
RH Batsman, RF Bowler, superb batting form, superb bowling form, energetic
A destructive player with abysmal leadership skills and woeful experience.
Stamina: proficient Wicket Keeping: abysmal
Batting: feeble Concentration: strong
Bowling: strong Consistency: competent
Fielding: superb

Taran Islam - 21 yo, BT Rating=16,070
RH Batsman, RM Bowler, superb batting form, superb bowling form, energetic
A destructive player with mediocre leadership skills and worthless experience.
Stamina: competent Wicket Keeping: abysmal
Batting: competent Concentration: proficient
Bowling: proficient Consistency: competent
Fielding: mediocre


Bhupendra Mohammed - 17 yo, BT Rating=6,727
LH Batsman, LFM Bowler, superb batting form, superb bowling form, invigorated
A steady player with strong leadership skills and worthless experience.
Stamina: mediocre Wicket Keeping: worthless
Batting: respectable Concentration: competent
Bowling: abysmal Consistency: abysmal
Fielding: abysmal

And this guy popped last week:


Giriraj Padayachie - 17 yo, BT Rating=7,322
RH Batsman, RH Spin Bowler, superb batting form, superb bowling form, sublime
A destructive player with respectable leadership skills and abysmal experience.
Stamina: woeful Wicket Keeping: proficient
Batting: feeble Concentration: woeful
Bowling: mediocre Consistency: woeful
Fielding: worthless
 
cricketboy29

cricketboy29

International Regular
Rujul Abdul kadir (850048)
RH Batsman, RH Spin Bowler, respectable batting form, respectable bowling form, fresh
A cautious player with woeful leadership skills and abysmal experience.

Plays For: Sad Decadent XI
Nationality: India
Age: 17 Years Old
Battrick Rating: 5,809
Wages: £1,006 p/w
Stamina: competent Wicket Keeping: woeful
Batting: respectable Concentration: feeble
Bowling: abysmal Consistency: worthless
Fielding: worthless

My 30 ITS YP, pretty happy with that:D. I'm thinking is pretty close to proficent as well. So If I can just get his concentration to pop to mediocre, he'd be pretty decent.
 
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trevor_vayro

U19 Vice-Captain
20 hours to D-Day - That is Dragnets Day! This game will almost certainly decide the outcome of V.76. Win and there's eight points daylight between us and I'm virtually home and dry. Lose and we'll have the same number of points, but with an inferior NRR of 0.4, (Which would worsen with defeat), The Gurs will have their work cut out to close the gap. It'll be an intriguing contest judging by the ratings. My last friendly was Resp/Comp/Abs - Comp/Strong/Feeb. Dragnets' last League ratings, which I'm presuming was a TIE going by the opposition, were: Sup/Woe/Wor - Resp/Resp/Feeb. I'll GFI, which will hopefully boost that a bit, but then again, presumably so will he!

I know who the personnel will be, but there's still a few tactical issues to iron out. Noon will keep, as he's now Comp+5Wks, whereas Carless is bottom Comp - Plus Carless is Abs Fielding, as opposed to Noon's Wor. However, Carless, with Top Comp Bat and Resp Conc, keeps his place as a specialist batsman. I was hoping to bring in better before the match, I'd saved up 35 ITS in hope of pulling a trainee batsman to replace him, but ended up with a Med/Med who's on the transfer list. And there's nothing for sale in my price-range on the transfer market at the moment! There are a couple of Resps who have value in them, and may be good squad players, but I figure that in order to better A top Comp with Resp Conc, you need at least a Top Resp with Med Conc?

Anyway, Dilemma 1. I'm toying with the idea of opening with Carless as a V.Attacking pinch-hitter, and moving Highish Strong Staveley down to No.3. Carless has proved quite adept at this role in the past, probably due to the Resp Conc I guess? The advantages of this are hopefully quick runs at the start, at relatively low risk, as Carless is pretty expendable in the grander scheme of things. Also it means that there's less likelihood of Noon having to bat soon after keeping for fifty overs if he bats No.4 instead of No.3. However, on the down side, it'll weaken the rating for my top order, and ratings do seem to have a massive bearing on the outcome of the match. Plus Carless only has Woe Stam. I'm hoping, that set to V.Attacking, this won't really come in to play, as sooner or later he'll get himself out, but is the risk of him hitting the Stam wall and snarling up the innings just too much to take?

Dilemma 2. Basically we're playing on a H+F, and they only have two scary batsmen, who both open. Well one scary (Sup+) and one decent, High Prof/Low Strong.) Do I A., Fight fire with fire and Throw Bewers, my best seamer, at them from the start? Or B, open up with my two highish Resps on defensive orders, and hit them with Bewers and Bridges M later on when their Stam's starting to go a bit? hope for a breakthrough and then clean up their weaker middle order?

And finally, Dilemma 3. Usually I choose to bowl first, as I seem to be better at chasing. There's no reason that I can think of why this should be, I can't point to anything in my side which should make this the case, it's just the way it seems to go. However, Dragnets' Gun batsman is also their keeper, so I'm wondering if, just this once, I'd ought to try and bat first, in order to knacker him out a bit before he gets the chance to bat?

All thoughts and suggestions more than welcome? Later, Trev
 
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trevor_vayro

U19 Vice-Captain
Hold the front page! New signing just in. Remember I said there were a few Resps with value in them, well here's one of them for £55K.

Anton Carey (322917)
gfx/sc

RH Batsman, RFM Bowler,
mediocre
batting form,
mediocre
bowling form,
sublime

A
destructive
player with
strong
leadership skills and
woeful
experience.

Table with 2 columns and 6 rows
Plays For:
Cymru Gurgitaters
Nationality:
West Indies
Age:
20 Years Old
Battrick Rating:
4,290 (+170)
Wages:
£843 p/w
*
table end

Table with 4 columns and 4 rows
Stamina:
mediocre
Wicket Keeping:
woeful
Batting:
respectable
Concentration:
woeful
Bowling:
abysmal
Consistency:
abysmal
Fielding:
mediocre

Bought him mainly as squad cover, because he could be easily brought up to Comp Stam for FC, and so I could feel a little more comfortable with leaving Staveley and Greening out in some of the easier matches. But thinking about it, I'm not entirely sure that he wouldn't make it into my best team. I know he only has Woe Conc, but he's not a bottom end Resp, and he's destructive, and he has Med Stam, so he's less likely to pack up on me, so he might be a better bet for the pinch-hitter role than Carless, if indeed pinch-hitting is the way to go? And there's always the Med fielding too, which makes him my joint third best fielder along with Bewers and Mullins, behind Prof Greening and Comp Patel. Basically it's two out of three between Carey, carless and Bennett. I'll post the others below to see who you reckon should get the nod, but bear in mind that Bennett has been receiving one batting net all season since his wages were last calculated, so by now he must be over half way to Prof?

Jordan Bennett (521631)
gfx/sc

LH Batsman, LH Spin Bowler,
superb
batting form,
superb
bowling form,
sublime

A cautious player with
strong
leadership skills and
abysmal
experience.

Table with 2 columns and 6 rows
Plays For:
Cymru Gurgitaters
Nationality:
England
Age:
18 Years Old
Battrick Rating:
6,431 (+167)
Wages:
£704 p/w
*
table end

Table with 4 columns and 4 rows
Stamina:
competent
Wicket Keeping:
worthless
Batting:
respectable
Concentration:
woeful
Bowling:
worthless
Consistency:
mediocre
Fielding:
worthless

Or:

Andy Carless (302230)
gfx/sc

RH Batsman, RFM Bowler,
superb
batting form,
superb
bowling form,
sublime

A
steady
player with
worthless
leadership skills and
abysmal
experience.

Table with 2 columns and 6 rows
Plays For:
Cymru Gurgitaters
Nationality:
England
Age:
21 Years Old
Battrick Rating:
6,698 (+8)
Wages:
£744 p/w
*
table end

Table with 4 columns and 4 rows
Stamina:
woeful
Wicket Keeping:
competent
Batting:
competent
Concentration:
respectable
Bowling:
abysmal
Consistency:
abysmal
Fielding:
Abysmal

Confused! Oh well, nice problem to have:-) Later, Trev
 
andyc

andyc

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
trevor_vayro said:
Anyway, Dilemma 1. I'm toying with the idea of opening with Carless as a V.Attacking pinch-hitter, and moving Highish Strong Staveley down to No.3. Carless has proved quite adept at this role in the past, probably due to the Resp Conc I guess? The advantages of this are hopefully quick runs at the start, at relatively low risk, as Carless is pretty expendable in the grander scheme of things. Also it means that there's less likelihood of Noon having to bat soon after keeping for fifty overs if he bats No.4 instead of No.3. However, on the down side, it'll weaken the rating for my top order, and ratings do seem to have a massive bearing on the outcome of the match. Plus Carless only has Woe Stam. I'm hoping, that set to V.Attacking, this won't really come in to play, as sooner or later he'll get himself out, but is the risk of him hitting the Stam wall and snarling up the innings just too much to take?

Dilemma 2. Basically we're playing on a H+F, and they only have two scary batsmen, who both open. Well one scary (Sup+) and one decent, High Prof/Low Strong.) Do I A., Fight fire with fire and Throw Bewers, my best seamer, at them from the start? Or B, open up with my two highish Resps on defensive orders, and hit them with Bewers and Bridges M later on when their Stam's starting to go a bit? hope for a breakthrough and then clean up their weaker middle order?
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Yeah, I reckon having Carless opening the batting as a pinch hitter should be fine. Worst case scenario, he gets out for not very much, and Staveley comes in a bit earlier. In terms of the bowlers, I often put my best bowler at number 2 (this is playing with 'Sets of 5'). That way, not only does he open the bowling (and in your case bowl to the superb bat), but he comes back during the 20-30 over period and gets a crack at their middle order. If you were to do that with Bewers, you could set Bridges M as bowler number 5, which means he would partner Bewers during 20-30, and then come back at the death as well.
 
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brenoevo

U19 12th Man
lol my opening bats must still think their playing that slogathon match. Where 0/125 off 12 overs, 20 off the last over. Kennedy is 50 off 32 balls and Jayasuriya 68 off 40.
 
andyc

andyc

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
brenoevo said:
lol my opening bats must still think their playing that slogathon match. Where 0/125 off 12 overs, 20 off the last over. Kennedy is 50 off 32 balls and Jayasuriya 68 off 40.
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Haha nice. Should have my game wrapped up fairly quickly here, they're currently 6/72 after 19. Hopefully they'll make a bit over 100 so Griffin and Farmer both have a chance to get fifties.
 
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brenoevo

U19 12th Man
Jayasuriya jus scored his century off 57 balls lol. The team im playings best bowler who seems to be strong jus finnished his 10 overs for 91 runs. Im now 0/190 off 20 overs runrate=9.50.
 
andyc

andyc

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
brenoevo said:
Jayasuriya jus scored his century off 57 balls lol. The team im playings best bowler who seems to be strong jus finnished his 10 overs for 91 runs. Im now 0/190 off 20 overs runrate=9.50.
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:laugh::laugh:

Heard (a very ordinary highish competent from my original team) just bowled a five over spell for me, in which he took 1/0, bowling five consecutive maidens. Additionally, the last over of his previous spell was '....wide.' Ends with the figures of 10-5-15-1
 
Robertinho

Robertinho

Cricketer Of The Year
Batting first, we made 5/367. The highlight was the 249-run stand from 211 balls from Gray (144 off 137) and Mcmillan (130 off 110). Jones (33* off 23) and Mclaren (21* off 11) pushed hard at the end of the innings to ensure that our final 5 was not as fruitless as our penultimate 5.

Fairly confident of defending that. They have 2 gun batsmen, one with wages of £3,352 and the other with £5,955. So I'm guessing that by now, they are Quality & Remarkable respectively. Really hinges on whether we can get them out. Hopefully they don't have that great stamina so if worst come to worst, they'll slow down enough to win me the game. Let me add, this is a really important game, because they're one of 3 teams that I need to be beating to make the top four, AND I'm PANing, so I need the morale boost to compensate for it.

Come on Millsy, Rayno, Mcmillan, stand up.
 
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