Battrick Cup Part Three

[Magrat Garlick]

And Watkins smacks six.

*another curse...pretty please...*

 

[brenoevo]

Both my openers out now cant really see the rest of my bats scoring round 8 an over from now on

 

[Adamc]

Hmm well Watkins is out, match is as good as over for me I'm afraid.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Werent far off ur prediction of u scoring 300 scaly.
End of Over 50: 298-9, runrate=5.96
Hamilton 10-0-71-2
Cahalane* 3 (2 balls)
Callery 24 (17 balls)

If my openers dont score many you should win comfortably.

So...

Kennedy c. Armstrong b. Cahalane 87
Jayasuriya c. Armstrong b. Pace 69


90 off the last 11 needed, or 8 wickets for me. Horne and Dillon usually clean up in the last 10.

 

[brenoevo]

Ye i cant see the rest of my bats scoring round 8 an over to win the game, predicting huge collapse

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Ye i cant see the rest of my bats scoring round 8 an over to win the game, predicting huge collapse

Slightly horrible innings from Westhead.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Well into collapse mode now, just a case of who finishes with the most wickets - Dillon or Horne.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Meh, Horne misses out on a five-fer, Scaly Piscine CC win by 53 runs.

College Dropouts ended up losing 9 for 42 after my lot lost 6 for 47.


Ratings were as expected:

Scaly Piscine CC College Dropouts
Top Order: superb quality
Middle Order: competent mediocre
Lower Order: woeful abysmal
Seam Bowling: proficient proficient
Spin Bowling: strong respectable
Fielding: competent feeble


Horne ended up with MOTM with 4-38, as opposed to Dillon's 113 off 119 and 3-28.

 

[brenoevo]

Ye good match was a bit of a collapse-a-thon

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Asterix 132-6 - thankfully Lewis doesn't get to face good batsmen, as Wynand appears to have hit the stamina wall and Monk can't score. Should get them out for 200 now.

 

[Adamc]

Don't think Wynand's hit a stamina wall, he's got competent stamina which is more than enough for OD matches. I've got batsmen down to no. 10 (no. 11 is feeble), only problem is most of them are only competent or respectable so they get destroyed by halfway decent bowling. Wasn't expecting two wonderful batsmen to get out for 1 and 27 respectively though. I would be confident defending 200 on this pitch if I had Louis, but without him none of my bowlers can really take wickets.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Don't think Wynand's hit a stamina wall, he's got competent stamina which is more than enough for OD matches.

I needed some kind of explanation for Lewis to make 4-1-8-0. Mind, he's getting slogged about royally now, ten off the last overs and you're 223-8. Luckily Harris is going to bowl to Nahal now.

Edit: And Louis couldn't have taken all ten, could he?

Edit 2: Maiden wicket over from Harris

 

[Adamc]

I needed some kind of explanation for Lewis to make 4-1-8-0. Mind, he's getting slogged about royally now, ten off the last overs and you're 223-8. Luckily Harris is going to bowl to Nahal now.

Edit: And Louis couldn't have taken all ten, could he?

He's come close, took the first eight wickets against 3wide before someone else stole the last two. I set Watkins to attacking bowling today (instead of v. def which I usually set him to), maybe he'll pick up a few. 231 isn't enough though, considering who my other opening bowler is.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

I set Watkins to attacking bowling today (instead of v. def which I usually set him to), maybe he'll pick up a few.

Or a six against him.

 

[Jamee999]

Herbert and Cable go.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

OK, match officially Adam's. Herbert gets himself run out for 31 and Cable nicks through to leave me at 68 for 5. Well played.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Hmm there goes Herbert, shortly followed by Cable and that's morpork officially written off now...

(looking forward to playing MOREPORK in Scrabble some day)

 

[Jamee999]

16.1 W Malik to Marsden
Attempted reverse sweep, but only succeeds in getting a top-edge to Ashton. Marsden is furious with himself for playing such an ill-advised shot.

Shot.

 

[Scaly piscine]

16.1 W Malik to Marsden
Attempted reverse sweep, but only succeeds in getting a top-edge to Ashton. Marsden is furious with himself for playing such an ill-advised shot.

Shot.

32.1 [B]W[/B] Malik to Fear 
    [B][COLOR="Red"]Plum in front going for reverse sweep. What was Fear thinking? [/COLOR][/B]

No Steve Harmison this lot.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

32.1 [B]W[/B] Malik to Fear 
    [B][COLOR="Red"]Plum in front going for reverse sweep. What was Fear thinking? [/COLOR][/B]

No Steve Harmison this lot.

No, they'd be gone on 0 in that case.

Definitely deserved win, though. Most of my guys except Virk and Fear (with ball) performed above expectation.