Archived [18/10/06] : Battrick

[dontcloseyoureyes]

I tried to tell him to keep training them otherwise it's just a waste but he won't listen to me, to be honest.

 

[Bobisback]

I tried to tell him to keep training them otherwise it's just a waste but he won't listen to me, to be honest.

When you show me your Remarkable+ players i will listen.

But yeah, i might keep on training them, i might just save and buy a decent player, even though by the time i have enough for a decent player now, it will only be enough for a resp-abys 29yr old.

Still a long way left in the season anyway, ill work all that out later.

 

[chaminda_00]

Man i wish i didn't have to go to my dad shop today. I missed what was probably the closest game i ever had in BT.

Sandringham - 3/281 (50)

Lakmal 107(111)
Jeithoon 0/43(10)
Muralitharan 1/42(10)
Baptiste 2/72(10)

Jaffna Jets - 5/283 (49.1)

Ellis 57(62)
Quintin 98*(115) MOTM
Muralitharan 61(71)
Allison 22(8)

Very happy with the ratings too:

Jaffna Jets Sandringham 
Top Order: [B]respectable[/B] mediocre 
Middle Order: mediocre mediocre 
Lower Order: worthless abysmal 
Seam Bowling: mediocre mediocre 
Spin Bowling: mediocre feeble 
Fielding: woeful feeble

Looks like Muralitharan and Quintin have come of age and Jeithoon continues to impressive with his defensive bowling, just needs to start taking some wickets. Allison what a freak 22 off 8 bowls stole the game away from them, another great buy.

Also got 80k in gate reciepts which is kind of disappointing after i expanded my ground, was hoping for 100k. Got a big game coming up against the team coming equal first with mw in two weeks.

 

[Mahindinho]

When you show me your Remarkable+ players i will listen.

How about these two, then:

Name            Age	Rating	  Batting
Mark Reed        23	 39744	  remarkable	
Dylan Sandwith   21	 50287	  remarkable

Both with superb+ concentration, and I don't think Sandwith's too far from popping. Reed's getting trained until he hits wonderful...just because

I've also got three 20/21yo bowlers at superb/superb or quality/superb. I can't check the exact stats as I don't have BT access at work

Can't remember how many of them were in my starting lineup, but they've all been trained up from resp/comp, with no more than one primary net each, over the last few seasons.

With the players you've got, you'd be the same or better in a couple of seasons' time.

UPDATE

Found some very old spreadsheets (including one from the Battrick Beta period!), and can tell you when I got the players mentioned above:

Starting Lineup (or pretty close to it)
Reed - resp/feeb 19yo bat - - - now remarkable/qual
Hirst - med/abys 17yo bowl - - - superb/qual
Brooker - med/feeb 17yo bowl - - - superb/qual

Season 1 (pulled or bought in - I can't tell)
Sandwith - prof/abys 17yo bat - - - remarkable/remarkable

Season 2 (pulled, I think)
John - resp/woe 17yo bowl - - - qual/qual

Looks as though I put two primary nets on Reed and John for about a season. Other than that, it's been one all the way.

Convinced? ;-)

 

[Adamc]

Hmm, Cuss out for 18, Watkins out for 2. Chalk up another loss.

 

[Scaly piscine]

My game finally comes up (and presumably all the rest of them as well):

End of Over 41: 220-2, runrate=5.37, reqrunrate=6.67 (279-3)
Barness 6-0-43-0
Dillon* 46 (44 balls)
Armstrong 58 (73 balls)

Last Wicket: Nile lbw b. Mccrave 78 (FOW: 127/2)


Would have needed a higher run rate but Armstrong hit a four and a six in both the 39th and 40th overs.

Good bowling from all of my lot except for Cahalane who got hammered yet again.

 

[superkingdave]

Woohoo, didn't give myself much chance of winning this one (top of the table clash) but managed to pull it out. Won by 4 wickets

Borders Batters v Lancashire (611839)  

Date: 06/10/2006 Ground: The Woodstock CG 
Pitch: Green Weather:  
 
Lancashire won the toss and elected to field. 
First Innings of: Borders Batters  
Name   Runs Balls 4s 6s 
 Teasdale (*)(+) c. &  b. Islam 0 1 0 0 
 Lonergan  c. Howell b. Pearce 117 135 9 2 
 Hennessy   b. Keane 60 98 1 2 
 Gabriel   b. Abdul kadir 15 34 0 0 
 Dharmapreya  lbw  b. Islam 6 4 1 0 
 Falken   b. Islam 0 1 0 0 
 Mansell  c. &  b. Islam 0 2 0 0 
 Warner  c. Howell b. Pearce 4 6 1 0 
 Keates  c. Howell b. Islam 1 2 0 0 
 Tate        
 Barat   b. Islam 0 2 0 0 
Extras (10b, 7lb, 2w, 0nb) 19  
Total (47.3 overs, 10 wickets) 222  
 
FOW 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 
Total 0 164 208 216 216 216 220 222 222 222 
Batsman Out 1 3 4 5 6 7 2 8 9 11 
 
Name O M R W nb wd 
Islam 8.3 2 35 6 0 0 
Pearce 9 0 45 2 0 1 
Keane 10 0 42 1 0 0 
Norris 10 2 33 0 0 1 
Abdul kadir 10 1 50 1 0 0 

First Innings of: Lancashire (go for it!)  
Name   Runs Balls 4s 6s 
 Magloire  c. Teasdale b. Mansell 18 27 1 0 
 Challinor (*) run  out 4 10 0 0 
 Abdul kadir  not  out 109 114 8 1 
 Webster  c. Teasdale b. Warner 0 4 0 0 
 Mcewen  lbw  b. Warner 0 1 0 0 
 Lawrence  c. Teasdale b. Keates 44 85 5 0 
 Howell (+) c. Tate b. Warner 28 23 2 1 
 Keane  not  out 12 5 0 1 
 Islam        
 Pearce        
 Norris        
Extras (0b, 1lb, 3w, 4nb) 8  
Total (44.1 overs, 6 wickets) 223  
 
FOW 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 
Total 10 34 36 36 165 209     
Batsman Out 2 1 4 5 6 7     
 
Name O M R W nb wd 
Mansell 7 0 31 1 0 0 
Warner 7.1 0 33 3 1 0 
Keates 10 0 46 1 1 1 
Tate 10 2 19 0 1 0 
Barat 10 0 93 0 1 2

Islam got MOM which i suppose is fair enough but Abdul Kadir unlucky to miss out on it.

Reporter's Summary 
 Borders Batters Lancashire 
Top Order: proficient proficient 
Middle Order: competent mediocre 
Lower Order: abysmal abysmal 
Seam Bowling: proficient proficient 
Spin Bowling: proficient respectable 
Fielding: mediocre mediocre

ratings are pretty similar but i guess the fact that i had 4 seamers, two of which were only respectable, disguises Islam's impact.

Pretty happy atm

 

[The Baconator]

Nice and easy win today, probably easier than expected against Pakistani Cobra. Bowled them out for for 180, 3 each for Rahimuddin and Rhodes. Rhodes and Umar got the runs easily, now to get thrashed in the cup and another important game next week.

 

[superkingdave]

Happiness quickly turns to despondency as i see who i've got next week. They'll hammer me


UFC CCC
Top Order: superb
Middle Order: respectable
Lower Order: abysmal
Seam Bowling: strong
Spin Bowling: useless
Fielding: feeble

though how they managed to lose this match i don't know.

The week after i get these lot


Ganzfeld
Top Order: strong
Middle Order: mediocre
Lower Order: abysmal
Seam Bowling: strong
Spin Bowling: respectable
Fielding: woeful

have to hope for some Islam heroics

 

[Scaly piscine]

Scaly Piscine CC v topmonkeys men in whites (608703)  

Date: 06/10/2006 Ground: Scaly Piscine CG 
Pitch: Green     Weather:  Sunny
 
topmonkeys men in whites won the toss and elected to bat. 
First Innings of: topmonkeys men in whites  
Name                       Runs Balls 4s 6s 
 Lynch    c. Appleby b. Dillon 76 108 5 1 
 Mccrav c. Armstrong b. Horne  10  12 1 0 
 Rasheed (*)         b. Dillon 13  25 1 0 
 Dennis         not  out      110 118 8 1 
 Chandrakantha  not  out       60  41 8 0 
 Makhaya        
 Brazier        
 Lucketti (+)       
 Anthony        
 Barness        
 Speed        
Extras (0b, 5lb, 1w, 4nb)      10  
Total (50.0 overs, 3 wickets) 279  
 
FOW          1  2  3  4 5 6 7 8 9 10 
Total       18 49 180        
Batsman Out  2  3  1        
 
Name      O M  R W nb wd 
Horne    10 0 62 1 0 1 
Pace     10 1 34 0 0 0 
Cahalane 10 0 74 0 2 0 
Dillon   10 0 46 2 1 0 
Lisbie   10 0 58 0 1 0 

First Innings of: Scaly Piscine CC (play as normal)  
Name                       Runs Balls 4s 6s 
 Nile           lbw  b. Mccrave 78 94 6 2 
 Packer st. Lucketti b. Dennis  35 37 3 0 
 Armstrong (+)  not  out        82 95 4 3 
 Dillon         not  out        82 64 9 2 
 Lisbie        
 Obrien        
 Appleby        
 Barton        
 Horne        
 Pace (*)       
 Cahalane        
Extras (0b, 0lb, 1w, 2nb)        3  
Total (48.0 overs, 2 wickets)  280  
 
FOW         1   2   3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 
Total      100 127          
Batsman Out 2   1         
 
Name     O M  R W nb wd 
Barness  9 0 65 0 1 0 
Speed   10 0 42 0 0 0 
Anthony 10 1 65 0 0 0 
Dennis  10 0 45 1 1 0 
Mccrave  9 0 63 1 0 1 



              Scaly Piscine CC   topmonkeys men in whites 
Top Order:    strong                           proficient 
Middle Order: competent                         competent 
Lower Order:  woeful                              abysmal 
Seam Bowling: respectable                     respectable 
Spin Bowling: proficient                           strong 
Fielding:     mediocre                             feeble 

 
MOTM: [B]Armstrong !!![/B]

 

[Mahindinho]

I had a bit of a crunch match - away at the best team in my league. Fortunately, he'd gotten drunk and forgotten to set his team orders! So, just Normal and a strong first XI to contend with...

            NorfolkENchance  Withington Wonderers 
Top Order:          quality  superb 
Middle Order:     competent  respectable 
Lower Order:        abysmal  abysmal 
Seam Bowling:    proficient  quality 
Spin Bowling:    remarkable  strong 
Fielding:            feeble  feeble

I'm Withington, BTW, and GFIed. Just as well that Freaky didn't get the chance to do the same!

Bowled them out for 146 in 40.2 overs, then scored 146/2 in 23.4...which was nice

That puts me 4 points clear at the top, with vastly superior NRR, having beaten both my main rivals pretty soundly.

Div II here I come! Yay!

 

[Scaly piscine]

Ok wondering what pitch I should go for, these are my last ratings - I won:

              Scaly Piscine CC   
Top Order:    strong                            
Middle Order: competent                        
Lower Order:  woeful                               
Seam Bowling: respectable                     
Spin Bowling: proficient                          
Fielding:     mediocre

Team I'm playing, they lost:

              Chonner CC 
Top Order:    respectable 
Middle Order: mediocre 
Lower Order:  abysmal  
Seam Bowling: proficient  
Spin Bowling: feeble 
Fielding:     woeful

I usually have 4 seamers and 1 spinner, but I'm probably gonna dump my prof-comp medium pacer for a (high) strong-feeble spinner, so I'll probably get proficientx3 seam and respectablex 2 spin ratings.

I don't want to play on a dusty pitch, they seem to throw up upsets and weird results. I'm thinking maybe flat or hard & fast. If the weather is sunny I figure I'll win easily, but obviously I can't control that, their best bowlers are two mediums and a FM.

 

[Mahindinho]

Ok wondering what pitch I should go for...

Sounds sensible to me. How defensive/attacking are your bowlers and your opponent's?

If you've got the more defensive attack (esp. spinners), you could try Hard & Fast - suits batsmen and fast bowlers, and you say that Chonner don't have any good quicks. I used to get some decent results on these by just squeezing the runs out of team...but ended up getting annoyed by star players scoring shedloads against me.

Other than that, Flat sounds pretty sensible - your batting should carry you through.

 

[nibbs]

Just goes to show the perils of transfers over the markets when Ladbroke has money. The arranged buyer, Team Monster, ended up getting edged out when Pob got online at 4am to bid on Matthews. Set a world record quite comfortably though....

jacob. you'd better not become a one post wonder, or i'll be profoundly hurt. yup, consider yourself warned.

 

[Jungle Jumbo]

Zebras 349-3
M Bhutia 56, R Chanderpaul 76, S Blackburn 11, A Langer 86*, Z Ghandi 106*
Amravati 271-9
W Beckwith 3-43, D Flint 5-53, A de Mel 5c, 1st

Not as comfortable as I had hoped, and I required Ghandi's 1st XI pedigree to carry me through. I did however play three spinners on a green wicket. I'm also now back in the automatic promotion slots.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Well I figure I should play a friendly this week, so challenge away. Will play a significantly weaker lineup than today, I have 1550 members with over the moon confidence.

 

[lord_of_darkness]

Guys,, ive got 15 ITS do i wait till 21 to assign them to the youth player?

and in my game against Hvhs this week they at 162-9 after 45 overs ..teams doing pretty well ..

 

[lord_of_darkness]

I'll post my squad up after the game , so i can get help on who should i focus training on and who should i sell etc..

 

[Cloete]

Ended up winning by 80 runs after they were bowled out for 219.

Moodley man of the match again for his 120* (118) and 3/11 (10). Shame my new trainee (17yo resp/med batting with feeble stamina) got out for a golden, but it's probably the only game he'll play this season.

 

[Jamee999]

Well I figure I should play a friendly this week, so challenge away. Will play a significantly weaker lineup than today, I have 1550 members with over the moon confidence.

I'll play. Huge stadium, right? (Mine's 17700)