Wow ty for noticing that - i had not spotted it - poor old Bell - he did good things for Jura back in the day - what a humiliating return that must have been for him - 43 off the over - almost impossible and a not so bad 5.5 / 10 an over
It's early days yet and 10 teams have a XPV ranking of 50k plus so plenty of possibilities for everyone beating each other and with so many matches each week the table changing - especially as JoJo expanded the knockouts to 6 to keep a lot of ongoing interest for everyone - liked you said for 90% of our game you looked the favourites and there's not much one can do about that sort of randomnessI expected Mooo to lose and they didn’t,
the opposite happened for GG. They are not doing well in this version of CWC
Good summary, disappointing for us to lose that to be honest. Right now our pitch seems too kind even – really the military mediums should be sporting BQs of 3.5! In the end it was fabulous selection on your part, bowling-wise. Wear seems to lessen the difference between bowling types, and the Basin has hosted many games recently. Hanley's innings was perfectly timed to annoy offie Waters: the left-hander entered two overs after Chris' first spell ended, and exited two balls before Chris was to come on again!Against Ataraxla - well no-one could accuse the manager of springing a surprise on us - dry pitch 4 spinners and a fast bowler exactly as he said!
Richardson opened for them and play a brilliant innings - Dee supported but was a tad slow and was disappointed to see the back of him when we ran him out and would have preferred a throw to the other end!
I managed to roll out 3 spinners and was sweating a bit on two military medium pacers , Marwick is pretty skilful but Gopalan is an A/R - in the end no one got too caned so 236 was achievable on paper though tough with those 4 spinners to come out of the pavillion
We started so slowly - and even our Top bat Palanth could only make progress at 3 rpo and then any platform was lost with a couple of quick wickets so after 27 overs we were 87/3 (3.22 rpo) needing 150 off 23 at 6 and a half an over- with the opener Sampson struggling along it seemed at a strike rate of just 3.5 rpo.
Hanley and Ramsey chanced their arms and just about got away with it and must have shouted at Sampson as he scored his next 50 off 58 balls. From a distance it looked like a smoothly planned acceleration but in reality we were 1 ball away from defeat until the last 5 overs
Really enjoyable games (I just mean in terms of closeness and twists and turns)
it's the case with players who have decent/high SS too. Or a set batter who enters the death overs. The engine just overrides and takes over.It's partly due to low SS making distribution between the five strokes somewhat random, ftr