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Magrat Garlick
Rather Mad Witch
Disappointing first innings for both Dynamo teams. Conceding 252 when having the Buy-Ins 27 for three probably the worst and a real blow to the playoff hopes
Magrat Garlick
Rather Mad Witch
CLUTCH SIX FROM MARITA
Magrat Garlick
Rather Mad Witch
Magrat Garlick
Rather Mad Witch
Round 8 summary
The title race and race for the two play-off spots in the Second Division heated up as Ashgrove Astronauts did what they had to do at ataraXIa's Basin Reserve. Incredibly, despite five established batsmen making less than five runs and the visitors crashing to 82 for six, Milan Kudesia came up with a remarkable rearguard 46 to help fellow recent acquisition Marsden drag the total to 183. Then Tadi Hlengwa ran through the hosts in two spells, well helped by a barrage from the other bowlers - Piyush Yeluri's niggly medium pace should not have worked here but the Bangladeshi finished with remarkable figures of 10-2-21-2.
In the other games, Honest Hunks and JoJo notched up easy wins - the Hunks despite a sizeable ratings advantage, but when Chunky hits a fifty and takes four for 9, you really have nowhere to hit. In the last match, Moooo failed to take advantage of ataraXIa's collapse; the total of 243 for six looked competitive, but the Moooo bowling, so strong earlier in the tournament, couldn't get consistent inroads against a much improved Winton team who will be looking to throw more banana skins into the title race.
The Championship saw four totals chased down, but all with the teams nervously looking on their batting teammates; GG CC were the first to win, having notched up a good net run rate to leapfrog their table neighbours Jura, but the chase of 145 was punctured by regular wickets and if the normally reliable Goon hadn't misfired today Jura might well have defended that. Dynamo Schmaltzberg and Free HK both threatened to defend sub-200 totals, Sean Prescott and Joshua Wong respectively getting the breakthroughs that could have caused the upset, but in the end the wins were fairly comfortable. *CC pushed Free HK down to third place, though still with a strong run rate, while the Orangutans currently sit second as the only other team above .500.
The final match of the round was also the only one with twoteam innings over 200 and indeed the only one where a batsman passed 55; Shamiso Zondi played a blinder to lead the Buy-Ins back from the wilderness, cruelly being denied two short of a century, but a mammoth stand of 94 between Margenout and Marita and then Marita's resolute batting with the rest of the order saw a tricky chase negotiated despite the Wild Geese bowlers regularly making inroads. With seven balls to spare, Dynamo's Barbadian No. 10 Fred "Molly" Clarke launched the tournament's leading wicket-taker into the stands for the winning six. This puts Morpork back in the play-off spots, four points behind the Orangutans, who go in as slight favourites in next week's key clash with The Buy-Ins for the "best of the rest" status.
To finish off, a rankings update
1 ***** CC 2280 (=)
2 Dynamo Morpork 2123 (+2)
3 The Buy-Ins 2084 (+3)
4 The Merry Orangutans 2078 (+4)
5 Ashgrove Astronauts 2064 (corrected, +6!)
6 Jura CC 2024 (-4)
7 GG CC 2017 (+3)
8 Free HK 2002 (-5)
9 ataraXIa 1985 (-2)
10 Dynamo Schmaltzberg 1971 (-5)
11 Plymouth Pirates 1951 (provisional)
12 Winton CC 1945 (+1)
13 Moooo 1915 (-4)
14 Honest Hunks 1757 (=)
15 JoJo 1726 (-3)
16 ataraX Wellington 1679 (-1)
The 150-point lead by ZCC is the largest since I've started doing these rankings. It can be partially explained by full-strength teams nearly always playing now.
The title race and race for the two play-off spots in the Second Division heated up as Ashgrove Astronauts did what they had to do at ataraXIa's Basin Reserve. Incredibly, despite five established batsmen making less than five runs and the visitors crashing to 82 for six, Milan Kudesia came up with a remarkable rearguard 46 to help fellow recent acquisition Marsden drag the total to 183. Then Tadi Hlengwa ran through the hosts in two spells, well helped by a barrage from the other bowlers - Piyush Yeluri's niggly medium pace should not have worked here but the Bangladeshi finished with remarkable figures of 10-2-21-2.
In the other games, Honest Hunks and JoJo notched up easy wins - the Hunks despite a sizeable ratings advantage, but when Chunky hits a fifty and takes four for 9, you really have nowhere to hit. In the last match, Moooo failed to take advantage of ataraXIa's collapse; the total of 243 for six looked competitive, but the Moooo bowling, so strong earlier in the tournament, couldn't get consistent inroads against a much improved Winton team who will be looking to throw more banana skins into the title race.
The Championship saw four totals chased down, but all with the teams nervously looking on their batting teammates; GG CC were the first to win, having notched up a good net run rate to leapfrog their table neighbours Jura, but the chase of 145 was punctured by regular wickets and if the normally reliable Goon hadn't misfired today Jura might well have defended that. Dynamo Schmaltzberg and Free HK both threatened to defend sub-200 totals, Sean Prescott and Joshua Wong respectively getting the breakthroughs that could have caused the upset, but in the end the wins were fairly comfortable. *CC pushed Free HK down to third place, though still with a strong run rate, while the Orangutans currently sit second as the only other team above .500.
The final match of the round was also the only one with twoteam innings over 200 and indeed the only one where a batsman passed 55; Shamiso Zondi played a blinder to lead the Buy-Ins back from the wilderness, cruelly being denied two short of a century, but a mammoth stand of 94 between Margenout and Marita and then Marita's resolute batting with the rest of the order saw a tricky chase negotiated despite the Wild Geese bowlers regularly making inroads. With seven balls to spare, Dynamo's Barbadian No. 10 Fred "Molly" Clarke launched the tournament's leading wicket-taker into the stands for the winning six. This puts Morpork back in the play-off spots, four points behind the Orangutans, who go in as slight favourites in next week's key clash with The Buy-Ins for the "best of the rest" status.
To finish off, a rankings update
1 ***** CC 2280 (=)
2 Dynamo Morpork 2123 (+2)
3 The Buy-Ins 2084 (+3)
4 The Merry Orangutans 2078 (+4)
5 Ashgrove Astronauts 2064 (corrected, +6!)
6 Jura CC 2024 (-4)
7 GG CC 2017 (+3)
8 Free HK 2002 (-5)
9 ataraXIa 1985 (-2)
10 Dynamo Schmaltzberg 1971 (-5)
11 Plymouth Pirates 1951 (provisional)
12 Winton CC 1945 (+1)
13 Moooo 1915 (-4)
14 Honest Hunks 1757 (=)
15 JoJo 1726 (-3)
16 ataraX Wellington 1679 (-1)
The 150-point lead by ZCC is the largest since I've started doing these rankings. It can be partially explained by full-strength teams nearly always playing now.
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SillyCowCorner1
Moooo
I know that it was against a weakened Ataraxia side, but a win is a win for GG CC.
They batted first and were bundled out for 83 in the 16th over. Kasun Obeysekere snared a career-best 6 for 20. Speedsters Ijaz (2) and Xenos (1) were the other wicket-takers. Kurt Murdoch was the only batsman who put up some sort of resistance, with an unbeaten 25 off 24...he came in to bat at number 5.
In reply, GG lost Bram Human in the 2nd over for a golden duck and a few overs later captain Levy perished for a painstaking 4 off 14 balls...two further wickets would fall in the 30s...and that saw Peter Sutherland (23* off 13 balls) and Tony Watt (29* off 19 balls) seeing GG to the target in the 14th over.
Michael Winton was the pick of the bowlers for ATX with 2 for 25; Kaiser and Darnell were the other bowlers to pick up a wicket. Kaiser was a miser with the ball, opening the bowling and only conceding 15 runs off his 4 overs.
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Now onto our GG v Moo match coming up in a few hours. Hype!
They batted first and were bundled out for 83 in the 16th over. Kasun Obeysekere snared a career-best 6 for 20. Speedsters Ijaz (2) and Xenos (1) were the other wicket-takers. Kurt Murdoch was the only batsman who put up some sort of resistance, with an unbeaten 25 off 24...he came in to bat at number 5.
In reply, GG lost Bram Human in the 2nd over for a golden duck and a few overs later captain Levy perished for a painstaking 4 off 14 balls...two further wickets would fall in the 30s...and that saw Peter Sutherland (23* off 13 balls) and Tony Watt (29* off 19 balls) seeing GG to the target in the 14th over.
Michael Winton was the pick of the bowlers for ATX with 2 for 25; Kaiser and Darnell were the other bowlers to pick up a wicket. Kaiser was a miser with the ball, opening the bowling and only conceding 15 runs off his 4 overs.
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Now onto our GG v Moo match coming up in a few hours. Hype!
SillyCowCorner1
Moooo
Peter Sutherland's last four innings (in all formats, most recent first):
24 (25)
23* (13)
83 (60)
48 (26)
He's playing that mad max role perfectly.
24 (25)
23* (13)
83 (60)
48 (26)
He's playing that mad max role perfectly.
Magrat Garlick
Rather Mad Witch
Narrow win for Schmaltzberg over Ashgrove today, surprising counterattacking 51 from Steenkamp (his first SOD fifty against human) turning the game around
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Tough day out for the ZCC Dev XI. They've been put up against a full-strength FHK U21 side - 43k vs 54k, and the result is bearing that out. Not going to inspire a lot of confidence ahead of the league game tomorrow, tho some lessons might be learnt.
As for FHK, they'll just be disappointed they can't put this side out every week in the Dev League! A lot of them are senior team regulars, which means they often have to sit out of league games due to fitness concerns. However the good news is one side in their T20 league has gone bot, which means we can perhaps field stronger Dev XIs on the weeks we play them.
As for FHK, they'll just be disappointed they can't put this side out every week in the Dev League! A lot of them are senior team regulars, which means they often have to sit out of league games due to fitness concerns. However the good news is one side in their T20 league has gone bot, which means we can perhaps field stronger Dev XIs on the weeks we play them.
Magrat Garlick
Rather Mad Witch
Interestingly poised ata v Mooo U21 match. Old McCormack coming up with a good new ball spell but still feels like 200+ is very much on
Magrat Garlick
Rather Mad Witch
yes, unfortunate for the cows that Gul's good spin didn't get a breakthrough
Magrat Garlick
Rather Mad Witch
Six needed from the last over...Gul redemption arc?
