Cricket Web ICC Team

[thewizard1o1]

Geez...make my way into the top side and then out for the season....oh well there is always next season.

 

[Mister Wright]

Take the job.

 

[scottcraze]

Is there going to be end of season awards? Players players, Managers player, Club Rabbit etc etc?

 

[kears_falcon_9]

mmm i guess its up to you if u wanna take the job.

 

[SJS]

I edited the ICC database using Magpie to replace Middlesex with Cricket Web and all the players were changed to people who signed up. I post the progress here

And how do you select the CW team ?

 

[bugssy]

i would say take the job but then you have the cw problem. knock it back and continue how we are going mate

totally enjoyable and what a great finish to the season.

 

[superkingdave]

The last match of the season saw CW face one of 2 teams that have beaten them this year in the National League, Warwickshire at Edgbaston. They won the toss and put CW in to bat. A strong side was put out but perhaps the motivation wasnt there after a long hard season. Dougie Brown was the destroyer - Taking 4 wickets before CW had reached 50. Malone and Craze provided some resistance but Warwickshire were rampant and dismissed the Web for 196.


Cricket Web - 1st Innings
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S Bennett c Frost b Brown 14
S Vimes b Brown 2
BlueFox lbw b Brown 0
N Nichani c Frost b Brown 35
A Cloete c Knight b Brown 9
S Craze c Frost b Carter 48
B Malone lbw b Sheikh 31
P Nath b Giles 20
R Thomas lbw b Richardson 18
D Chapman b Richardson 10
N Pickup not out 5
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Extras (nb2,w2) 4
TOTAL (all out, 42.2 overs) 196

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O M R W
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M Powell 2 0 7 0
M Sheikh 7 0 30 1
A Giles 9 1 41 1
A Richardson 6.2 1 24 2
N Carter 9 1 50 1
D Brown 9 1 44 5
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1-3 2-3 3-32 4-46 5-69
7-145 8-179 9-185 10-196


The web desperately needed early wickets but the Warwickshire batters denied them the success and once Ostler and Penney came to the crease at 78-3, they took control, both hitting fine half centuries as Warwickshire did the double over the champions.


Warwickshire - 1st Innings
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N Knight c Nath b Pickup 40
M Powell c Nath b Chapman 20
I Bell c Craze b Chapman 16
D Ostler not out 53
T Penney not out 65
M Sheikh
A Giles
D Brown
T Frost
N Carter
A Richardson
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Extras (w2,lb2) 4
TOTAL (3 wkts, 42.4 overs) 198

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O M R W
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A Cloete 8 1 25 0
R Thomas 9 0 56 0
D Chapman 9 0 36 2
N Pickup 5 0 27 1
P Nath 4 1 24 0
B Malone 7.4 3 28 0
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1-46 2-74 3-78


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Warwickshire won by 7 wickets
Man of the match: D Brown
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Poor Loss - but the trophy is paraded around afterwards anyway and CW have been given an open top bus parade through the streets to celebrate the double, aslo being runners up in the other 2 comps.


2nd Team:
Gray injured, Hoy injured
Brad Smith(9), CHaulk(31), Ferd(120), Blewy(40*), BK Smith(83), Eclsipe(3*), Jellett(19), Age Master(67*), Weber(20), Richards(18, 1-24), Hall(8*, 3-78), Mr Wright(9, 3-18 ), Kearsley(50, 2-64), Halsey(8 , 2-90 )

 

[superkingdave]

Some Stats


2003 Season - FC
Most Runs:748 -Scott Craze
Best Ave:100.14 - Nichani
Highest Score:261* - Nichani
Most Wickets:52 -Chapman
Best Average:20.04 Chapman
Best Bowling: 6-40 Chapman

OD
Most Runs:651- Eclipse
Best Ave:50.55 - Sean Bennett
High Score:123* - Nichani
Highest SR:164.99 per 100 balls - Nathan Hoy
Most wickets: 48-Tom Halsey
Best Ave: 15.00 - Dave Richards
Best Bowling:6-21 - Dave Richards
Best RPO:3.75 - Dave Richards

Full season and career stats attached, tables to follow

 

[Neil Pickup]

Yay, top wicket taker for the Second XI.

 

[superkingdave]

Here are the tables. and some news on current international rankings for CW players.

Test Batting
Jamee Gray 269- 51st
Buggsy Malone 233-58th
Sean Bennett 187 - 63rd
Age Master 182 - 65th
Bluefox 143 - 70th
Samuel Vimes 36 - 110th
BK Smith 16 - 120th

Test Bowling
Buggsy Malone 636 - 7th

ODI Batting
Sam Vimes 327 - 33rd
Buggsy Malone 246 - 47th
Andrew Cloete 210 - 52nd
Dave Richards 64 - 112th

ODI Bowling
Malone 738 - 3rd

 

[superkingdave]

England get New Coach

England look to CW to change fortunes

Reuters- England today unveiled a landmark deal that will see the coach of the highly succesfull Cricket Web side leading the national side in South Africa this winter. England, currently lying Eigth in the ICC test and ODI championships felt they needed a change of coach and struck a deal that includes a rolling one winter contract that enables the new coach to continue full time duties at his beloved Cricket Web side.

In a statement issued by the ECB, chairman of selectors David Graveney
said
"We are delighted with this appointment of someone who has shown his ability to coach at the highest level. we look forward to a bright future"

The post of Summer Coach is yet to be advertised.

Touring Squad announced -Coach Denies Cronyism

The England touring squad was today announced, including 8 Cricket Web contracted players. The coach was adamant that the players were selected on performance basis, saying "The likes of Bluefox, Nichani and Craze have been top of the batting averages this year and we all know what Chapman can do"

Squad:
M Powell(Warks)
M Wood(Yorks)
I Bell (Warks)
S Bennett(CW)
N Nichani(CW)
K Peitersen(Notts)
Bluefox(CW)
S Vimes(CW)
Craze(CW)
Cloete(CW)
Malone(CW)
Hamilton(Yorks)
K Dean(Derby)
A Giles(Warks)
Hoggard(Yorks)
Smethurst(Lancs)
R Anderson(Northants)
Chapman(CW)

 

[NikhilN]

w00t w00t...best high scores in both forums

 

[lord_of_darkness]

good choice just doing it for winter..

happy with my effort.. hopefully better next season !

First Class : 33.78 - 32 wickets @ 29.38 avg
OD : 23.4 - 22 wickets @ 23.82
Second Team : 28.42 - 32 wickets @ 21.59..

noice..

 

[bugssy]

good stuff mate
some interesting stats there, happy with my bowling in the international arena 7th and 3rd, good stuff guys lets keep the juggernaught moving.

 

[superkingdave]

After landing in South Africa the squad had a few days to acclimatise and see a bit of the local 'wildlife'. Different people had different interpretations of this and to a lot of them it certainly didn't involve going on Safari. The South African food was also a welcome part of the trip and a certain rotund member of the party made sure he ate more than his fair share.

The first tour match was against Border and all the 8 CW players were selected in strong side, with Both other openers and Kevin Pietersen in poor form, Bennett was given a chance to stake his claim for a place and Smethurst and Dean were given the chance to secure bowling spots.

England won the toss and put Border in, Malone soon had Mitchell feeling ouside off and edging to Vimes at slip. Machelm and Boucher added 50 but Smethurst got 2 in 2 balls to remove Machelm and Strydom. Dean removed Boucher for 40 and Chapman had Dawson caught for 1 to leave Border 93-5.
Good lower order batting from Johnson(45), Hudson(45) and top scorer Brink(59) took them to 248-6 but Smethurst returned to blow away the tail and get a 5 wicket haul as Border succumbed for 259.

In reply the opening partnership between Bennett and Vimes was sublime, 201 runs added and Bennett scoring his maiden FC ton. Vimes made 93 but England slumped from 201-0 to 236-4 after Cloete and Nichani failed. Bell and Bluefox put England back on track with solid but unspectacular innings to leave it at 329-6. The Scott Craze and Buggsy Malone put together a cracking partnership that put CW in complete control yet ended in disaster as Malone was hit on the hand by a Makhaya Ntini delivery that fractured his middle and index fingers and rendered him out of action for 4 weeks at least. Dissapointing for perhaps England's most accomplished international. After he went Craze was out for 69 and England finished up on 452.

Coming out to bat to save the match, Smethurst and Dean immediately had Border in trouble, 16-2 after a wicket each. Brief respite was followed by 3 quick wickets with Cloete taking 2. The rest of the innnings was a mopping up exercise that produced 3 wickets for Chapman and another each for Dean and Smethurst. A succesful start to the tour but dissapointing news about Malone's injury.



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Border v England
Four Day Friendly - 15 Nov 2003
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Border - 1st Innings
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M MacHelm c Craze b Smethurst 46
I Mitchell c Vimes b Malone 4
M Boucher c Vimes b Dean 40
P Strydom b Smethurst 0
A Dawson c BlueFox b Chapman 1
H Johnson b Dean 45
S Brink c & b Malone 59
P Hudson lbw b Smethurst 45
M Light c Cloete b Smethurst 4
T Henderson b Smethurst 5
M Ntini not out 1
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Extras (nb4,w2,b3) 9
TOTAL (all out, 113.4 ovrs) 259

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O M R W
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A Cloete 17 4 35 0
D Chapman 30 8 62 1
M Smethurst 23.4 2 42 5
B Malone 19 4 60 2
K Dean 24 6 57 2
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1-16 2-74 3-74 4-85 5-93 6-170
7-248 8-248 9-258 10-259

England - 1st Innings
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S Bennett c MacHelm b Ntini 106
S Vimes c Mitchell b Ntini 93
N Nichani lbw b Ntini 8
A Cloete b Ntini 14
I Bell b Ntini 45
BlueFox lbw b Henderson 38
S Craze not out 69
B Malone rtrd ht 37
D Chapman b Strydom 8
M Smethurst c Mitchell b Henderson 0
K Dean b Henderson 1
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Extras (nb11,w6,b6,lb10) 33
TOTAL (9 wkts, 140 ovrs) 452

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O M R W
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P Hudson 2 0 13 0
S Brink 6 1 27 0
P Strydom 35 5 96 1
M Light 24 2 81 0
T Henderson 37 6 108 3
M Ntini 36 4 111 5
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1-201 2-215 3-233 4-236 5-325
6-329 7-420 8-441 9-452

Border - 2nd Innings
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M MacHelm b Dean 2
I Mitchell c Vimes b Cloete 22
M Boucher c & b Smethurst 1
P Strydom c Cloete b Chapman 34
A Dawson b Cloete 6
H Johnson lbw b Dean 27
S Brink b Smethurst 17
P Hudson c Cloete b Chapman 15
M Light c Chapman b Dean 6
T Henderson not out 19
M Ntini c Craze b Chapman 0
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Extras (nb5,b1,lb9) 15
TOTAL (all out, 65.1 overs) 164

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O M R W
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A Cloete 19 7 43 2
D Chapman 19.1 7 39 3
M Smethurst 14 3 33 2
K Dean 13 2 39 3
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1-5 2-16 3-70 4-70 5-79
6-120 7-128 8-138 9-164 10-164

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England won by an innings and 29 runs
Man of the match: S Bennett
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[NikhilN]

meh...only 8 congrats Sean

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Clinical effort team!

Now, if I only could do that in Tests...

 

[superkingdave]

The final warm up game pitted England against a strong Western Province side that contained established test stars Smith, Kirsten, Gibbs and Kallis, as well as fringe players such as Ackerman, Prince, Adams and Henderson. England made one change with Hoggard coming in for the injured Malone, which lengthened the tail somewhat.

Winning the toss gave England the chance to bat first and though they lost Vimes early on, Nichani and Bennett progressed well. Bennett was clearly on a high following his maiden ton and though he lost Nichani for 67 with score on 200 followed soon by Bell and Bluefox, he crashed another century and went on to make it a big one with Bluefox chipping in with a half century. The tail fell away for England being out for 399.

The strong Western Province batting order was then brought to heel by some fantastic bowling from Hoggard, Smethurst and Chapman, who got a five for. WP out for 223 in their first dig and forced to follow on.

They fought harderin theur second dig and saw Prince, Gibbs and Kallis hit 50's but Dean, who had gone wicketless in his first innings took 7-74 to bowl them out for 288 and leave England 113 to win.

First innings centurian Bennett fell for 3 and Vimes and Nichani followed, but the victory was secured by Cloete and Bell.

A great way to go in to the test series with a convincing win over a side packed with test players, a magnificent 170 from Bennett winning him the MOM



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Western Province v England
Four Day Friendly - 20 Nov 2003
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England - 1st Innings
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S Bennett run out 170
S Vimes b Dawson 13
N Nichani c & b Telemachus 67
A Cloete c Prince b Adams 3
I Bell b Henderson 2
BlueFox b Adams 74
S Craze c Prince b Adams 8
D Chapman b Henderson 14
M Smethurst c Prince b Dawson 4
K Dean c & b Adams 1
M Hoggard not out 10
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Extras (nb9,w4,b20) 33
TOTAL (all out, 137.2 ovrs) 399

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O M R W
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C Henderson 10.2 2 25 2
P Adams 35 7 73 4
J Kallis 18 2 62 0
A Dawson 38 4 108 2
R Telemachus 36 3 111 1
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1-20 2-200 3-212 4-218 5-331
6-363 7-368 8-380 9-381 10-399

Western Province - 1st Innings
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G Smith b Smethurst 46
G Kirsten c Vimes b Smethurst 16
J Kallis c Vimes b Chapman 22
H Gibbs b Chapman 3
A Prince c Craze b Chapman 10
H Ackerman c Craze b Hoggard 74
A Puttick c Craze b Hoggard 1
A Dawson c Vimes b Chapman 26
P Adams c Vimes b Chapman 11
C Henderson not out 3
R Telemachus b Hoggard 0
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Extras (nb3,w4,b3,lb1) 11
TOTAL (all out, 86.2 overs) 223

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O M R W
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A Cloete 7 1 16 0
D Chapman 29 9 63 5
M Smethurst 19 4 57 2
M Hoggard 17.2 2 49 3
K Dean 14 4 34 0
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1-57 2-69 3-72 4-92 5-111
6-112 7-169 8-209 9-223 10-223

Western Province - 2nd Innings
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G Smith c Chapman b Dean 10
G Kirsten lbw b Dean 2
J Kallis b Dean 57
H Gibbs c Vimes b Dean 66
A Prince b Dean 58
H Ackerman b Hoggard 14
A Puttick b Dean 25
A Dawson b Chapman 21
P Adams c Smethurst b Dean 0
C Henderson not out 8
R Telemachus st Vimes b Chapman 7
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Extras (nb10,lb10) 20
TOTAL (all out, 115 ovrs) 288

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O M R W
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A Cloete 11 3 31 0
D Chapman 28 3 72 2
M Smethurst 26 2 62 0
M Hoggard 22 8 39 1
K Dean 28 4 74 7
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1-10 2-24 3-146 4-154 5-180
6-247 7-256 8-260 9-276 10-288

England - 2nd Innings
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S Bennett c Kallis b Dawson 3
S Vimes c Kirsten b Telemachus 19
N Nichani c Gibbs b Dawson 17
A Cloete not out 32
I Bell not out 28
BlueFox
S Craze
D Chapman
M Smethurst
K Dean
M Hoggard
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Extras (nb2,b12) 14
TOTAL (3 wkts, 42.5 overs) 113

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O M R W
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C Henderson 4 0 10 0
J Kallis 5 0 12 0
P Adams 8 2 12 0
A Dawson 12 1 35 2
R Telemachus 13.5 3 32 1
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1-7 2-47 3-51

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England won by 7 wickets
Man of the match: S Bennett
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[Kweek]

Well done england!! now do it in the tests!!

 

[Jamee999]

Extremely dissapointed not to go even with a OD average of ~55