Travis_Teh
International Regular
Nice, hopefully we keep the pressure on from the get go and claim another victory.
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The game is simmed, but I have a massive headache and have had a hard day at work. So will post it up tomorrow, hopefully.
Mister Wright
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Great win in the first test, I'm sure we can continue those performances for the rest of the tour.
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Cricket Web XI vs England - 2nd Test
Headingley, Leeds
Scorecard
Ball by Ball
Win the toss, bat first. The typical formula for an aggressive unit, but not the commonly trusted approach at seam-friendly Headingley. Before this series, the Cricket Web XI fast bowlers would have relished most the opportunity to operate at the Yorkshire homebase. Yet it was with little hesitation that Neil Pickup chose batting strike when he called correctly in the early exchanges of day one. The sky was clear and sunny, the pitch untainted and bouncy, and everything looked fine for a huge first innings total.
Matthew Hoggard dealt with Mamesh and Young early on, but the early glee for England - the visitors on 33 for 2 - was negated rather emphatically by the two form men of the first Test. Mørk was surprisingly stylish is his stance, scoring 7 fours and a six in his fifty, but Andrew Cloete partnered fluency with dominance. His hundred took 114 balls to compile amidst a session that yielded 142 runs to CW XI. Ultimately Broad ended the stand at 231, trapping Mørk in front of the stumps for an even 100. But Cloete simply carried on, overshadowing his partners and scaling the heights of 190, then again falling short of the magical 200. Hoggard had 7 wickets in the innings, and numbered Cloete among them with a well-disguised slower ball, full in length.
Tom Halsey and Neil Pickup warmed up for their more accustomed spinning roles by slogging the ball for a combined 59 runs in the lower order. With such unexpected delights, CW XI pushed on to 464 on the stroke of the second day's lunch. The progress by England after lunch was less stylish but just as assured, until Pickup bowled his opposite number, Vaughan, for 46. Shah bemusingly swept Halsey into the lap of Demeza at deep square leg, then Cook was taken by Young at bat-pad for Pickup's second success. The evident freefall continued with the removal of Collingwood's middle stump by Demeza, but was then arrested by Kevin Pietersen and Ian Bell.
Both batsmen showed glimmers of excellence in the first Test, and followed through on this occasion with a partnership of 108, amidst constant stoppages for inclement weather. Pietersen grew in confidence and improved in timing on his way to 86 and a caught-and-bowled dismissal to Mike Wilson. The tourists raced back into the lead, unsuspecting of the ability of Matt Prior. The sixth wicket teaming added 165 runs of an eventual 489 all out. Both Bell and Prior scored timely hundreds, though Prior should have gone on 85, had Pickup better handled his chance. The gloveman went on to score 140 unbeaten, including a hefty contribution to a harsh 39-run partnership with Panesar (14) for the final wicket. It was then with muted celebration that Pickup met his 5th wicket of a hard-fought haul.
Time was winding down and less than two days remained in a game winding toward a drawn result. But dull fixtures are not the hallmark of this CW XI team, and neither for an England side with such champion pedigree in Tests. Along such lines, the CW XI top order slumped to 110-4 as Panesar sneaked through the defences of Butler (3). Rob Dauth took guard under severe pressure and with Shan Jasotharan's Test debut looming. His failures in three previous innings came to nothing but the premise of a heroic, and for the moment, career-saving performance. At the other end Cloete was again on top of his opponents, though only briefly. England procured an enormous boost by Broad's breakthrough, Cloete caught at short leg for 77. The lead was then 117 with 5 wickets intact.
Wilson looked a mature batsman capable of better than his station of seven, if only for 45, short of a half-century for the second time in the game. His was the supporting role though, and Dauth made sure that his lead fiddle was potent enough to carry the Webheads through to day five and a final lead of 273 runs. Dauth made 86 of them, run out when he deserved many more than a century. England trotted off the field visibly content with their efforts and led by Broad, whose 6 wickets nearly turned the game. Just 274 runs and 85 overs remained to entertain thoughts of a level series.
Cook aside, the early casualty to Demeza, England advanced steadily toward the target. The reality of a victory looked sharper, even as Halsey broke through and snared Shah for 32. But when Pietersen (9) dragged a Demeza long-hop onto his stumps, the game swung back to par. Tea arrived at 128-3 and a further 146 were required from the 34 overs remaining. A thrilling final session was tempted and transpired. Vaughan batted on with care, crossing fifty, but playing slowly enough in difficult conditons that the final 15 overs arrived with the target still 90 runs away. On the stroke of the final hour, Collingwood perished in his attempts to build momentum. He holed out to Halsey at mid-off, skying a loft against Pickup's change of pace. Bell rocked back to cut and was caught behind before he could score.
Suddenly the score read 185-5. Pickup dropped Prior before he had scored, then found the thin edge of Vaughan's bat for a courageous 72. Prior lasted as long as 3 and edged Halsey behind to give Mørk a fourth catch in the innings. The field tightened to see Sidebottom turn Pickup into the lap of a legslip. Two wickets and 8.1 overs remained for the two teams to consider. For England, victory was too far out of reach, so the efforts turned squarely toward survival against the CW XI spin duo. A hero to that stage, Mørk could not cling on to a large bottom-edge deflection, a very difficult chance by Hoggard. With an over to go, Pickup finally threw his lots in with the new ball. He entrusted Demeza with the task of removing ten and Jack, and the fast bowler steamed in with such an effort that his first delivery was palmed by third slip to the gully - a wide. The remaining six balls were all on target, but Stuart Broad showed enough composure and technique to defy the last five of them and ensure a nailbiting draw.
Cricket Web XI 1st innings 464 (126.2 overs)
AP Cloete 190, H Mørk 100, MW Wilson 42
MJ Hoggard 7-105
England 1st innings 489 (157 overs)
MJ Prior 140*, IR Bell 108, KP Pietersen 86, MP Vaughan 46
NS Pickup 5-100, TJ Demeza 2-154
Cricket Web XI 2nd innings 298 (83.4 overs)
RJ Dauth 86, AP Cloete 77, MW Wilson 45
SCJ Broad 6-81, MS Panesar 2-60
England 2nd innings 205-8 (85 overs)
MP Vaughan 72, OA Shah 32, PD Collingwood 30
NS Pickup 3-31, TC Halsey 3-33, TJ Demeza 2-31
Match drawn.
Man of the Match: AP Cloete
Headingley, Leeds
Scorecard
Ball by Ball
Win the toss, bat first. The typical formula for an aggressive unit, but not the commonly trusted approach at seam-friendly Headingley. Before this series, the Cricket Web XI fast bowlers would have relished most the opportunity to operate at the Yorkshire homebase. Yet it was with little hesitation that Neil Pickup chose batting strike when he called correctly in the early exchanges of day one. The sky was clear and sunny, the pitch untainted and bouncy, and everything looked fine for a huge first innings total.
Matthew Hoggard dealt with Mamesh and Young early on, but the early glee for England - the visitors on 33 for 2 - was negated rather emphatically by the two form men of the first Test. Mørk was surprisingly stylish is his stance, scoring 7 fours and a six in his fifty, but Andrew Cloete partnered fluency with dominance. His hundred took 114 balls to compile amidst a session that yielded 142 runs to CW XI. Ultimately Broad ended the stand at 231, trapping Mørk in front of the stumps for an even 100. But Cloete simply carried on, overshadowing his partners and scaling the heights of 190, then again falling short of the magical 200. Hoggard had 7 wickets in the innings, and numbered Cloete among them with a well-disguised slower ball, full in length.
Tom Halsey and Neil Pickup warmed up for their more accustomed spinning roles by slogging the ball for a combined 59 runs in the lower order. With such unexpected delights, CW XI pushed on to 464 on the stroke of the second day's lunch. The progress by England after lunch was less stylish but just as assured, until Pickup bowled his opposite number, Vaughan, for 46. Shah bemusingly swept Halsey into the lap of Demeza at deep square leg, then Cook was taken by Young at bat-pad for Pickup's second success. The evident freefall continued with the removal of Collingwood's middle stump by Demeza, but was then arrested by Kevin Pietersen and Ian Bell.
Both batsmen showed glimmers of excellence in the first Test, and followed through on this occasion with a partnership of 108, amidst constant stoppages for inclement weather. Pietersen grew in confidence and improved in timing on his way to 86 and a caught-and-bowled dismissal to Mike Wilson. The tourists raced back into the lead, unsuspecting of the ability of Matt Prior. The sixth wicket teaming added 165 runs of an eventual 489 all out. Both Bell and Prior scored timely hundreds, though Prior should have gone on 85, had Pickup better handled his chance. The gloveman went on to score 140 unbeaten, including a hefty contribution to a harsh 39-run partnership with Panesar (14) for the final wicket. It was then with muted celebration that Pickup met his 5th wicket of a hard-fought haul.
Time was winding down and less than two days remained in a game winding toward a drawn result. But dull fixtures are not the hallmark of this CW XI team, and neither for an England side with such champion pedigree in Tests. Along such lines, the CW XI top order slumped to 110-4 as Panesar sneaked through the defences of Butler (3). Rob Dauth took guard under severe pressure and with Shan Jasotharan's Test debut looming. His failures in three previous innings came to nothing but the premise of a heroic, and for the moment, career-saving performance. At the other end Cloete was again on top of his opponents, though only briefly. England procured an enormous boost by Broad's breakthrough, Cloete caught at short leg for 77. The lead was then 117 with 5 wickets intact.
Wilson looked a mature batsman capable of better than his station of seven, if only for 45, short of a half-century for the second time in the game. His was the supporting role though, and Dauth made sure that his lead fiddle was potent enough to carry the Webheads through to day five and a final lead of 273 runs. Dauth made 86 of them, run out when he deserved many more than a century. England trotted off the field visibly content with their efforts and led by Broad, whose 6 wickets nearly turned the game. Just 274 runs and 85 overs remained to entertain thoughts of a level series.
Cook aside, the early casualty to Demeza, England advanced steadily toward the target. The reality of a victory looked sharper, even as Halsey broke through and snared Shah for 32. But when Pietersen (9) dragged a Demeza long-hop onto his stumps, the game swung back to par. Tea arrived at 128-3 and a further 146 were required from the 34 overs remaining. A thrilling final session was tempted and transpired. Vaughan batted on with care, crossing fifty, but playing slowly enough in difficult conditons that the final 15 overs arrived with the target still 90 runs away. On the stroke of the final hour, Collingwood perished in his attempts to build momentum. He holed out to Halsey at mid-off, skying a loft against Pickup's change of pace. Bell rocked back to cut and was caught behind before he could score.
Suddenly the score read 185-5. Pickup dropped Prior before he had scored, then found the thin edge of Vaughan's bat for a courageous 72. Prior lasted as long as 3 and edged Halsey behind to give Mørk a fourth catch in the innings. The field tightened to see Sidebottom turn Pickup into the lap of a legslip. Two wickets and 8.1 overs remained for the two teams to consider. For England, victory was too far out of reach, so the efforts turned squarely toward survival against the CW XI spin duo. A hero to that stage, Mørk could not cling on to a large bottom-edge deflection, a very difficult chance by Hoggard. With an over to go, Pickup finally threw his lots in with the new ball. He entrusted Demeza with the task of removing ten and Jack, and the fast bowler steamed in with such an effort that his first delivery was palmed by third slip to the gully - a wide. The remaining six balls were all on target, but Stuart Broad showed enough composure and technique to defy the last five of them and ensure a nailbiting draw.
Cricket Web XI 1st innings 464 (126.2 overs)
AP Cloete 190, H Mørk 100, MW Wilson 42
MJ Hoggard 7-105
England 1st innings 489 (157 overs)
MJ Prior 140*, IR Bell 108, KP Pietersen 86, MP Vaughan 46
NS Pickup 5-100, TJ Demeza 2-154
Cricket Web XI 2nd innings 298 (83.4 overs)
RJ Dauth 86, AP Cloete 77, MW Wilson 45
SCJ Broad 6-81, MS Panesar 2-60
England 2nd innings 205-8 (85 overs)
MP Vaughan 72, OA Shah 32, PD Collingwood 30
NS Pickup 3-31, TC Halsey 3-33, TJ Demeza 2-31
Match drawn.
Man of the Match: AP Cloete
chaminda_00
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N.S. Pickup not out 31
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Travis_Teh
International Regular
Bugger. Should've won that, I reckon. Quite thrilling.
Another golden pair, things are looking good on the batting front
Another golden pair, things are looking good on the batting front
dontcloseyoureyes
BARNES OUT
Cloete XI.
Gutted. We'll get 'em next time...
Magrat Garlick
Global Moderator
Top work by Pickup. Prior getting 140* though...serious embarrassment for our seamers. Should have used Halsey much earlier on day three, IMO.
Nate
You'll Never Walk Alone
Yeah, echoed. Pickup with some skills aswell.
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Demeza getting out on me and cutting off that maiden fifty, again. Never mind the fact that I'd been dropped five times in the process... Wonder what my average versus England/in England is?
All told probably a fair result as both sides had the ascendancy at various times - we have to remember England started this series favourites, and that last time around they were well on top of us. So 1-0 after two is more than acceptable going, particularly as we leaked nearly 500 in the first dig.
All told probably a fair result as both sides had the ascendancy at various times - we have to remember England started this series favourites, and that last time around they were well on top of us. So 1-0 after two is more than acceptable going, particularly as we leaked nearly 500 in the first dig.
Hoggy31
International Captain
How quickly we forget..
FaaipDeOiad
Hall of Fame Member
Geez, Cloete is in awesome touch.
Tom Halsey
International Coach
Cloete in gun form, shame we couldn't get the last two wickets mind.