FTP: From the Pavilion general chat

[Iridium]

Do you set all your batsmen to aggressive in every game? :laugh You seem to chase down every score you're set like a madman!

Won my match by 119 runs. Scored 273/4 from my 40 overs. Bowled out opposition for 154. Had two centuries in my innings. Broadfoot scored 125 from 101 and Powell 106 from 99. Powell now averages 100.33 from 3 youth matches with scores of 100, 95 and 106 (no not-outs to corrupt the average). Hope this continues!

My next match is against Hedger. Not looking forward to that.

 

[hedger_14]

Got off to a great start in my youth game, with a 145 run opening partnership before Murch was dismissed for 80 off 66 as he continues his wonderful youth form. Mol then was dismissed a few overs later for 69 off 82 as he starts with a wonderful start to both his youth and T20 career. Young unfortunately got out for 12. Mohammad made 51 though as I scored 257/6 from my 40 overs. I currently have them at 212/5 from 34 overs, with another 46 runs to win from 6 overs at 7.67. Really close. Habeebulaah has been the stand out bowler with 1/39 from 8, as Kasee Baldry has also bowled well with 0/35 from 8. Whiteman took 2/52 from 8.

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fearsome tweak. Their new batsman is destroying us. He is 30* off 13 and they only need 27 runs from 28 balls. I really need a wicket.

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Got rid of Durani for 48 off 37 and they have 4 wickets in hand, needing 24 from 4 overs. Sipho is still at the crease though.

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fearsome tweak. they need 4 from 1.5 overs. Only good thing is that the new batsman is on strike after Kumari got out for 7. I need 3 wickets before they score 3 runs.

 

[Chewie]

Do you set all your batsmen to aggressive in every game? :laugh You seem to chase down every score you're set like a madman!
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In the OD and T20 games I tend to set my batsmen to aggressive, because normally the other teams are terrible and I can score heaps or chase in real short periods of time.

I don't in youth matches though. They must have terrible bowlers for me to do that

 

[hedger_14]

Murubi has pretty much costed us the game now. He has taken 1/71 off 7.3 overs. They needed 10 an over at one stage but his ████ second spell has cost us the match.

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A run out has helped our cause but unfortunately the wrong person was run out. Now they need 1 run to win so I can't win with 2 wickets in hand. It's all up to Reshma who has taken 3/54 in 7 overs, well now 3/51 in 7.1 overs.

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This is unbelievable. 3 dot balls in a row. 2 balls to keep their #10 scoreless. A wicket would be priceless as long as his #11 is not better than his #10.

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NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

They won with 1 ball to spare. And a quick single cost us the match. That has been the closest match I have ever had.

 

[hedger_14]

Murch has been very consistent this year in Youth. Averaging 72 in 4 matches, 4 fifties and a HS of 80 and he has got out in all matches which shows that nearly all his scores are around 70. My best Youth batsman have been:

Murch - 291 runs @ 72.75
Young - 213 runs @ 213
Mohammad - 211 runs @ 70.33

And my 3 best youth bowlers have been:

Agasti Reshma - 7 wickets @ 32, ER of 7.04
Aravinda Habeebulaah - 5 wickets @ 32.2, ER of 5.03
Andrew Whiteman - 5 wickets @ 33.4, ER of 5.22

Murubi has also taken 6 wickets @ 40.5, ER of 7.59


My best OD batsman have been:

Zafar Ali - 120 runs @ 40
Murray Oldroyd - 97 runs @ 32.33
James Fiebig - 84 runs @ 28

That shows how ████ my batting is in my OD division. My best bowlers have been:

LeBron James - 4 wickets @ 22.25, ER of 3.3
Graham Phillips - 4 wickets @ 30.25, ER of 4.4
Bob Kwistel - 3 wickets @ 30, ER of 4.29

And my best T20 batsman are:

Jake Miller - 155 runs @ 51.67
Aidan O'Leary - 100 runs @ 50
Malcolm Elgin - 97 runs @ 48.5

And now Ruben Mol with 81 runs @ 81. Shame on the rest of our batsman.

Best bowlers are:

William Muddle - 9 wickets @ 11, ER of 6.99
LeBron James - 7 wickets @ 15.14, ER of 6.62
James Fiebig - 7 wickets @ 20.86, ER of 9.12

Habeebulaah has also turned out well with 5 wickets @ 15.2 with an ER of 9.5

 

[Iridium]

Bummer on that loss. Don't worry, you can thrash me when we play our match next.

 

[AngryPixel]

Lost my Youth match ... Bowlers sucked. Gave away 305 in 40 overs

 

[Chewie]

lol I'm getting hammered, which I suppose was to be expected

They're 292/5 after 44 overs on an uneven pitch and cloudy conditions

They scored 352/6 lol

Hopefully I can get more than 150.



Had some really good pops this week though. Two of my bowlers had their bowling pop to expert (Baddewithana), with one of them also popping technique to Accomplished. As well as those two, had two second XI players pop technique to accomplished, a batsman and a medium pacer. Also had a power pop to poor and a fielding pop to poor.

 

[Chewie]

lol I've already lost my first wicket on the second legal ball. I'm 1/1 with the 1 run coming from a no ball :laugh

 

[Iridium]

Not a bad start for me against Hedger. He's 29/3 with van Dalen taking all 3 wickets. Hedger must not be playing his first XI.

 

[Chewie]

I lost by 264 runs

You are doing extremely well so far though, lets hope you can cause an upset

 

[Iridium]

Ouch! 264 runs! I'm really not looking forward to playing him.

Yea, an upset would be nice. But I've been in this situation before. In the last 10 or so overs, he'll launch forth with a load of runs and rip through my batting lineup.

 

[Chewie]

lol I don't think you're going to recover from 18/4 Ali really smashed you there and now their bowlers are ripping through your lineup

 

[Iridium]

What did I tell ya! I can take consolation that I restricted Hedger to under 300.

 

[hedger_14]

Pretty poor batting effort apart from Ali and with help from Fiebig. Never was going to be hard to bowl them out though and Phillips bowled well with 3/30 along with 2/15 from Habeebulaah in 7 overs and James 2/19 from 7 overs so far. Just need to take the last wicket.

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I've completed the signing of Watkin for $400,000 and he better live up to that price tag. Him being a fast bowler will help though. I'll train him on strength until his power is average then chuck him on bowling to try and get it up to spectacular before giving him strength or endurance training.