Pre-Season Friendly games

[Simon]

Some pleasing results there. It was no surprise that NSW scored a big total against only 1 of my first choice 4d bowlers. The batting will be a concern I think. I will trying not to get relegated back to Division 2. I think Surrey and us will be fighting that battle.

i think u will be safe Jason, stronger than Lancs and kent too i think...

 

[Mr. P]

What were ground conditions in these games?

 

[Blewy]

Games were simmed under 5-5-5 conditions...

 

[Blewy]

Ok here are the OD Games...


Groups as follows:

Group 1 - ACT, Tamil Nadu, Lancashire, South Australia, Western Australia, Auckland

Group 2 - Colts, Leicestershire, Victoria, Hampshrie, Kent, Warwickshire

Group 3 - Worcestershire, Queensland, Karnataka, NSW, Free State, Yorkshire

Group 4 - Northerns, Western Province, Canterbury, Somerset, Karachi, Barbados

Group 5 - Galle, Mashonaland, Surrey, Jamaica, Guyana, Chittagong

Group 6 - Glamorgan, Mumbai, Northern Districts, Tasmania, Gauteng, Lahore

Also Run was the Annual Mark Waugh Shield between ACT and New South Wales...

Any problems with these games let me know...

NOTE: Bowling orders and 1st XI's weren't in play when these games were run...

 

[Blewy]

The Rest...

 

[Simon]

theres a mistake in the files, ill let ya know in a sec

 

[Blewy]

Fixed..

 

[mikeW]

pretty impressed with some of my OD results esspecially Orton 2 centuries both not out 1 being 158* in his 3 games and Gavaskers 181 not out off just 152 balls on the bowling side of things 5/19 from Khan was excellent too.

 

[Slats4ever]

3 from 5 is hopefully a sign that Western Province OD cricket is on the mend.

Guys who look to be in good touch are: W Anderson 82 (121), G Shaw 4/9, Samaraweera 113 (86), J Schofield 95 (57), F Funston 108 (117).

A positive start but one that shows a lot more work is still needed if we're going to get promotion this year.

 

[Mr. P]

EXTREMELY happy at those results 4 from 5 is great with my team especially...

As expected, the batsmen had to heave us home time after time...though bowlers were better then expected...

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

4 of 5 for Auckland. Most significantly, the bowling looks better than it was at any stage last season.

 

[The Argonaut]

These results are concerning. A couple of first teamers didn't get many games so I hope that's a good thing. Could be a long season.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Qld 76 all out (W Jones 6-3-8-6, Engineer 6-1-21-3) lost to Karnataka 77/0 (13 ovs, Kale 37*, Kripal Singh 40*)

Apart from that, we seem to have serious problems with economy...Jones and Ali take wickets, but whenever we get down to Liyanage/Engineer there's problems...3 from 5, however, not to be sneezed at!

 

[Mister Wright]

Guyana will take 5 from 5. What is encouraging from those performances is that we were able to hold on to the close games, something we couldn't do last season. However, I am not looking too much into the performances, as the teams were no where near our First XI line-up and the ground conditions neutral.

In saying that however, we've only lost one game in the trial so we go into the season proper with some needed confidence.

 

[Cloete]

Blewy just wondering why you played all of my OD friendlies with such bad teams? I mean Beasley opening the batting and Greaves and Harkness playing almost every match. I thoghut you were using the first XI's?

 

[James90]

How are all these people winning more games than they lose? Are the losers just too ashamed to show themselves?

 

[bryce]

I thoghut you were using the first XI's?

i thought it was fairly obvious he wasn't, i suppose that makes it better since it will make the season more unpredictable with the pre-season games having little bearing(IMO anyway) on the actual quality of the teams

 

[Simon]

Blewy just wondering why you played all of my OD friendlies with such bad teams? I mean Beasley opening the batting and Greaves and Harkness playing almost every match. I thoghut you were using the first XI's?

did u not bother to read the original post that said he wasnt?!?!

 

[Graham]

Here's a 'loser' showing his face. I'm not too concerned though as these preseason games give no indication at all as to how players will perform in the season ahead. A separate file needs to be created and used for the season's competitions proper and these preseason performances will count for zilch. It's just a bit of fun!

 

[age_master]

well there were some amusing results in those OD games, will be good on a home pitch with bowling order selected


we shall just ignore the 4 dayers