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It's about time to start planning this I think, only have a few weeks before we want to get started.

I thought the last one worked really well, giving everyone plenty of games (and most of them weren't pointless!)

Does anyone have any suggestions to improve it?

Who wants to play this season?

Entry List:
1 Bongo
2 Sheriff
3 Booder
4 Matt
5 Newportlad
6 Silo
7 Wardonkey
8 Tractor
9 TheBigO
10 amcgrath
11 Yogi
12 Ironside
13 Nakor
14 Pokerram
15 Bazza
16 kingjon
17 diva
18 Bustler
19 cossieboy
20 brother
21 IlCapitano
22 Vogue (My Sokker Coach!)
23 KeithyB
24 and to make up numbers - my brother
24

Me!

Suggestion to improve: Let me win it.

You've drawn Jon every week, does that help?

 :hello:

You're in!

i'll put my name down but with the possible start of FC games and knowing my team isn't the greatest fitness wise i'm not sure how good a team i will be fielding until next season.

Me please

Count me in, nothing to lose

Up for the cup! (or plate)

Tractor & TheBigO in please

i'm in please.

All you people need a walkover so i'm in again.

Yogi

in

Gunning for the Plate.

can u put us in bongo mate

All added!

what is the standard bribing amount to get a decent draw?

 ;whistle;

stick me down mate

just noticed this. put me down if you like - if you think it'll be unfair then im happy to be left out (again!)

Maybe we could impose a limit on total BTR of team, or handicap you?

Just trying to think of things that would lead to an interesting competition, rather than you thrashing everyone!

how about a rule for everyone no player allowed to play with a BTR greater than 20k

some sports have a salary cap - maybe if you force him to sell most of his best players? :D

We could do something like that, but it would have to be a carefully chosen figure.

I have a couple of players approaching 20k, and it would severely weaken me if I wasn't allowed to play them, but other similar players would be allowed to play - I'm sure a few other teams would be in a similar situation (Booder, Tractor, cossieboy...)

Jon also has several players above 10k BTR (so quite good) but below 20k BTR so would be eligible.

well we should set a figure for a player and a team total aswell

sort of handicap everyone to allow newer players to compete

but without making it impossible for those more established

if FC are introuduced this season it will mean alot of people wont be able to field there first choice team anyway

Hi. I'm interested (been on holiday)

you wont of noticed that your friend the trundler lost the golden league by 1 point on the final event of the final meet then

and then also tried to spout off that his OAP italian was better than all my long distance runners but soon got slapped down with facts

I think something like this:
Max BTR for team
Max BTR for each player, with wild cards allowed (1 or 2?) so teams can still play a star or 2?

As we have over 16 here is my plan:

Invite a few more friends to play (they all joined around the same time, so should be decent matches), everyone else feel free to do the same.

Have 8 go through in the main comp, the rest go through to the consolation (with byes if needed, if we get > 24 runners only 16 go through here and rest through to main).

Anyone got anything else to say on a handicapping system?

I have a mate who has just started playing. I'm sure he would play if you have spaces. I'll get him to join blonde as well, he's a competent player in micro stake STTs....

Let me know his name/get him to post here and i'll add him to the list!

Sounds good!
I have one 20k+ player, he keeps my team together and is my wicky keeper, i couldnt do without him at the moment.
But appart from that sounds great.

can we make the cap £21k?? means i'll get an extra 2 players in :D

Hello all, I'm Bustler.

Wardonkey invited me to enter the Blonde Cup so you can all have some easy points.

Thank you.

Hi mate, welcome to blonde!

I'll add you to the list now.

I've had a think about the whole battrick rating limit and I'm not sure how well it will work.

e.g. I added up the BTR of Jon's worst 11 players, it came to: 124,696, so realistically we'd have to make the limit around 130k for Jon to be able to play (allowing for changes in form).

My first team currently has a BTR total of < 110k

are we free for friendlies this week wil accept a challange if we are

Jon is still in the cup so still free...

I'm thinking of finding a clueless noobie in a futile attempt to win a game this season.

I was thinking the same thing, unfortunately Bustler has already arranged a fixture...

I'll take on the first challenger.

i aint playing a friendly as i dont want the PFL hit that wiping the floor with bongo would achieve

you can play my reserves - challenge sent

As I'll only be playing 2 days in my FC game, i'm free for a friendly this week....

reserves at the ready!

I really miss being the whipping boy on Sundays. Do we have a plan for the cup yet??

Yogi

Jon is still in the cup, I don't think he'll win this week so so think we start a week on sunday.

(no good having the first games the w/e of the blonde bash anyways!)

 ;bump;

Are we starting this weekend, or should we arrange friendlies?

oops!

Jon is still in the cup so friendlies it is...

The cheek!

In that case... friendly anyone?

Want to get some of my lower order FC batters having a bash, as well as 2 new bowlers..

So if I'm right... jon's lot lost today.. meaning Cup next weekend onwards?

yep

Right, last reg will be tonight so we can sort out groups and fixtures tomorrow.

I think we need 3 more people to make a nice number!

<---------- Swings off to find 3 really bad Div 6 teams to make up "group monkey" in the draw

Yep count The Cossie Crusaders in!

Oh and my bro will play too (The Saphycozzy Sloggers)

Mat.

Uh oh - this isn't going to lead into a Pokerstars WCOOP type scandal is it?

 ;whistle;

The only scandal we might hear about is if Bongos wall falls down lol

kiethyb has just started have you asked him?

I posted in his thread about it :P

in it to win it!

Yes I'll play if there's still room.  No matter if not as my squad is nowhere near ready anyway! 

Draw

I made a mistake with the software - numbers 1 and 24 were excluded from the draw, and so ended up in group D by default.

I've corrected the error and shall now redraw.

Redraw.

Group A
Saphycossie sloggers
Matt
Rambamboolies (my brother)
Tractor
diva
Sheriff

Group B
Ironside
amcgrath
KeithyB
Wardonkey
Booder
TheBigO

Group C
Bustler
Newportlad
Pokerram
Vogue
Bongo
Silo

Group D
Bazza
Nakor
kingjon
cossieboy
IlCapitano
Yogi

I want the old one back  :'(

Nice draw - thanks for organising again Bongo.

Can we have clarification of rules regarding Cap/Value team etc.

The rules are there are no rules!!

now where on the "staff list" can i hire 3 expert pakistani ball tamperers?

 ;whistle;

Good draw.. looking forward to the fixtures and the start date. the league I'm in looks like it could be very competitive

Through the wonders of a google search I have a program that has provided the following schedule:

(Team 1 being first team listed in group, etc)

Round 1

Team 1 - Team 6
Team 2 - Team 3
Team 5 - Team 4

Round 2

Team 3 - Team 5
Team 4 - Team 1
Team 6 - Team 2

Round 3

Team 1 - Team 5
Team 2 - Team 4
Team 6 - Team 3

Round 4

Team 1 - Team 3
Team 4 - Team 6
Team 5 - Team 2

Round 5

Team 2 - Team 1
Team 3 - Team 4
Team 6 - Team 5

I think to stop the cup dragging out we should only meet each team once, otherwise we'd need 13 weeks!

So, as Team 5 in my group should I challenge Team 4 to a game this sunday at my ground?

Precisely.

When I get some more time I'll put up an actual fixture list!

Rambamboolies (http://www.battrick.org/nl/office.asp?userID=2782)

If anyone needs to know anyone else's team name/id let me know.

challenge issued to the donkey of war

yeah whats the bigos team name

already arranged for sunday :)

Have duly challenged Silo whose squad looks a bit too strong for me, and I hope he doesn't expect a big crowd....

What Jons team name please ?

Kamikaze Kricket (http://www.battrick.org/nl/office.asp?userID=3824)

Cheers Bongo.

The Magicians look forward to the thrashing.

Link needed to the Saphycossie sloggers please.

http://www.battrick.org/nl/office.asp?userID=10019

That explainswhy I couldn't find him - different spelling in the team name!

Cheers Bongo, challenge sent out.

Challenge sent to KeithyB!

challenge sent to TractorX1

Accepted.

challenge sent

sent challenge to thebigo

What's IlCapitanos name?

http://www.battrick.org/nl/office.asp?userID=3641

and here was me hoping he would be a weak link lol

New group please :)

Fancy mine?

I have both finalists from last year...

Anyone having any problems setting the first match up?

yeah the big o hasnt accepted yet

neither has yogi

I'm here Bazza,

I'll go accept now.

Yogi

:)up

Accepted!

neither has wardonk

Er...no you don't. My lot might have got beat but they were definitely in the final...

I thought you were in my group!

oops!

Silo are you Soldiers CC? - challenged you as Grolsch Guerillas.

Cheers

That'll be him...

Accepted !  I've shuffled the team around somewhat and, whilst not expecting to win having seen the strength of opposition, hope to make a game of it.

At least I should find out some worthwhile info on my players!

is snoopy writing the commentary now?

4.5 W Allen to Van der merwe
    Stick a fork in Van der merwe - he's done! Clean bowled!

95/3 from 20 against Jon.

Thought it would be over by now.

challenge sent to the donkey for next week

What team name is Nakor so I can challenge him?????

Yogi

Norfolk Magicians mate.

what is keithy b s   squad name please

After last week's exploits I was tempted to change the name to Useless B*****ds but I'm leaving it as Athletico Foxy for now.

Hi Booder,  I've sent the challenge out although please realise it will be a challenge in name only!!!    rotflmfao

It'll be a freeroll for you!    ;tightend;

Ummmmmm likes a Freeroll does Boo.

He runs so well

Not been challenged yet :(

I'm waiting for Silo to take up my challenge. 

Unbelievably it seems my brother accepted the first challenge he got assuming it would be the right one.

I hope he just forgot and was trying to think up a better excuse, otherwise I really do worry for him...

Anyway points go to you, and feel free to arrange another friendly. (Probably best to check you were actually meant to be playing him first, lest I've mixed you up again!)

Thanks, definitely your borther. Need a friendly this weekend as just bot-bashed so squad players need the game to keep up form.

Still waiting for my challenge for sundays game.

Silo still hasn't accepted my challenge.  I'm off to the APAT shortly, so wont know if i have a game or not.

whats ur username???
i cant find u to challenge you?

http://www.battrick.org/nl/office.asp?userID=10019

gl for tomorrow bongo hope its another epic

Cheers mate, same to you!

So this week, Vogue should challenge me?
If so, can you please advise his team name.

Think you should challenge him, as the home team, unless I got that wrong?

http://www.battrick.org/nl/office.asp?userID=11074

I've sent tractor a challenge for sundays game but still not accepted it. I'm in London this weekend so need to have it sorted by tonight otherwise if it gets accepted after this then i wont get chance to set my match orders or pick my reserves.

I dont want my first team playing because i want to conserve their energy!!

Cossieboys name anyone?

cossie crusadors m8 silo not accepted challenge yet

send him a PM

No hit for that name mate.

The Cossie Crusaders

http://www.battrick.org/nl/office.asp?userID=11558

Thanks Gents

Il Capitano has yet to accept my challenge

silo not accepted either

Spanked.

Shocked and surprised, my players just not turning up.

WP Cossie.

Hard conditions to bat and Hollis is a very good bowler!

Not a toss I would want to lose that one...

I think he has given up battrick...

Made a half decent score vs the ruswarp ponies... 261-8

They are 53-1 from 12.. think I need some wickets on this flat deck to stand a chance..

Cheers Nakor, I was suprised I did so well to be honest.  As Bongo says Hollis is damn good but he excelled himself. 

Thanks for the game.

Mat.

I played Bustler and thought he acquitted himself very well for a new team.

Please that I managed to get a respectable rating for seam bowling too!

you got any league tables bongo?

Im quite chuffed i scraped a win today. a really close game which i think my seamers are to thank for the win. definetly the best game ive had this season.

I ended up getting beat fairly easily

ruswarp only losing the 2 wickets with 3 and a half overs to go

Unfortunately for me, I didnt get the pitch changed to dusty in time, and it showed with my weaker spinner going for 82 from his 10.

Haven't had chance to do them yet.

I just spent another £1million on bowlers though! ;ashamed;

Cheers for the kind words Bongo, thought I'd give my best players a run out against a your far superior XI to see how they fared. Quite pleased with one or two of them....

Lost today but realistically things were as good as they could be. 

A respectable total of 233 was knocked off easily by BVCC but the squad had a run out with no real damage to fitness and I learnt a little more about some of them. 

Congrats to BigO    ;applause;

Yeah, well done :) That's the last time you get anything other than the first XI to play, although to be fair the bowlers I picked were all competent or better and I had my best batting line up in. Gutted!

well if its any consolation you'll be playing my reserves in your next game so your guaranteed a win even if you field your worst team :)

Waiting for Cossieboy to challenge me still

I'll give him a prod.

Any other problems?

No Challenge from IlCapitano


Norfolk Magicians if you reading mate.

Well Ive finally got around to challenging you (6am today)  I hope youre awake!

Mat.

Booder's team were absolutely racing along


End of Over 29: 166-3, runrate=5.72
Hyams   5-0-38-0
Butcher*   27 (40 balls)
Hendrie   108 (93 balls)
Last Wicket: Keith lbw b. Antonius 13 (FOW: 65/3)

Then

29.2    W   Downes to Hendrie
        Controversy here as Hendrie refuses to walk! Snicko is inconclusive, but Hendrie clearly felt there was no edge. Eventually he trudges disconsolately back to the pavilion, but the Match Referee may have something to say about that little episode!

Since that, my bowlers are doing much better


End of Over 34: 176-4, runrate=5.18
Antonius   7-0-25-1
Butcher*   33 (46 balls)
Anton   0 (24 balls)
Last Wicket: Hendrie c. Birchall b. Downes 108 (FOW: 167/4)

That completes an excellent fightback


End of Over 44: 218-10, runrate=4.95
Hyams   6-0-41-2
Schofield*   11 (16 balls)
   
Hopefully I can knock these off. Not going to be easy tho

Fell away from a respectable 165-5 to 182 all out on Ironshire's cracked pitch, mainly as none of my bowlers know which end of the bat to hold!  ;carlocitrone;

Unlikely to be enough but hopefully they'll be made to work a little before knocking the runs off!

Starting to look ominous.....

End of Over 11: 47-1, runrate=4.27, reqrunrate=3.49 (182-10)
Mansfield 6-0-14-0
Harrison* 19 (26 balls)
Williams 10 (24 balls)
 
Last Wicket: Devins c. Qaba b. Kilkenny 12 (FOW: 19/1)
 
Doesn't help that I've just noticed that my proficient keeper is not actually behind the stumps!  rotflmfao   Sack the manager!!

going well


End of Over 22: 127-1, runrate=5.77, reqrunrate=3.29 (218-10)
Brooker   6-0-22-0
Ashieq*   52 (65 balls)
Mpho   15 (9 balls)
Last Wicket: Barlow c & b. Stockdale 52 (FOW: 98/1)

Have a long batting line up, with my strongest bat at 6, and my resp YP at 8..

lool   forgot to set my team up . my wicket keeper is bowling today...........can you guess which one he is  lool

Cheers for playing your wk as a bowler.. was probably the difference between an early win and a close game



And that's the end of the match. Staples015 won by 9 wickets.
norfolkngood   218-10
Staples015   219-1

Baholo    9-0-85-0

All over for me too.......

And that's the end of the match. Ironshire won by 6 wickets.
Athletico Foxy 182-10
Ironshire 184-4   (43 overs)

Convincing enough but not too far away from being competitive so plenty of positives and all that!   ;)

Well done Iron!

Lol..the final stats are in and my wicketkeeper cockup resulted in 11 byes in the innings....not to mention a missed stumping I saw in commentary!

The result of a latenight reshuffle of the batting order which also had the knockon effect of the team being lead by a guy with worthless leadership skills!     

 ;marks;

The commentary is random (at the moment) so the missed stumping you saw is just a standard dot ball.

That's not to say there aren't missed stumpings that you didn't see though...

Relevant commentary is stated as an improvement for the future.

 18/11/2007 (friendly)     at TractorX1
SheriffsStars   313-3
TractorX1   118-10

I'm really puzzled by Tractor's results in this league as, on paper, he has a really strong team including a 24k rated opening batsmen.  By rights I shouldn't be winning by this sort of margin.

Our previous matches have always been tight games, so this was a surprise.  However, I'll settle for it!!!

The player's PFLs are very bad, the 24k opener has a PFL of low and won't perform very well at all - I'd guess about 20% of his true potential.

All results from the 4 weeks have been sent to bongo, he just needs to sort out the NRR and a couple of issues ( teams not challenging or accepting challenges).

hopefully, the full tables won't be too long in coming

kiethy you got unlucky today you should of won

your top and middle order was better than mine

your spin bowling was beter than mine

only my seam bowling was better than yours and it susited the pitch

a little tinkering with your match orders and you would be able to beat the team i put out today even on a seamers pitch

I'll put this up and edit as I go...

Group A
Team                  P  W  L  T  Pts   NRR
Saffycozzie Sloggers  5  5  0  0   20   -
SheriffsStars         5  4  1  0   16   -
Gorseybrigg old boys  5  3  2  0   12  -
Rambamboolies         5  1  3  1    6  -5.647
Matts Monkeys         5  1  4  0    4  -12.519
TractorX1             5  0  4  1    2  -9.869

No idea what happened between rambamboolies so have put it as a tie, although even a default loss to rambamboolies wouldn't see matt overtake on NRR. Left out NRR for top 3 as irrelevant!

Group B
Team                  P  W  L  T  Pts   NRR
Ironshire             5  5  0  0   16   -
Ruswarp Ponies        5  4  1  0   16   -
BVCC                  5  2  2  1   10  -1.506
Staples015            5  2  3  0    8   4.569
Athletico Foxy        5  1  4  0    4  -7.097
norfolkngood          5  0  4  1    2  -10.028

Again, no idea what happened with BVCC v norfolkngood, so awarded as tie
Group C
Team                  P  W  L  T  Pts NRR
Bigglesthwaite CC     5  5  0  0   20
St Woolos Old Boys    5  4  1  0   16
ramshire              5  3  2  0   12
Grolsch Guerillas     5  2  3  0    8
Caerphilly Dragons    5  1  4  0    4
Soldiers CC           5  0  5  0    0

Group D
Team                  P  W  L  T  Pts NRR
Kamikaze Kricket      5  5  0  0   20
The Cossie Crusaders  5  3  2  0   12
KBOTW                 5  3  2  0    12
Norfolk Magicians     5  2  3  0    8
Jellystone Parkers    5  2  3  0    8
Los Galactico         5  0  5  0    0


Need to calculate NRR for everyone here, which is annoying!

IlCapitano's team name if possible please
Yogi

Los Galactico (3641)

http://www.battrick.org/nl/office.asp?userID=3641

No cup-match acceptance from the cossie's yet....

Well I'm getting smashed by Ironshire today

Am batting first, and 113-7 from 34 overs with just worthless batters in

Could be a short game

I game out of the gates quick scoring almost 7 an over vs KBOTW.

First bowling change has screwed me to the floor and RR down to 4.5.

Need another 100 runs at least for my bowlers to have a chance.

Its looking evenly poised at the minute, you made good start and my spinners curtailed your run rate but a few good overs have picked it back up.  I wouldn't want to be chasing much over 250 on this pitch.

A collapse of English Football proportions.

Was hoping I would not have to rely on my bowling.

Yeah my opening bowler who got bashed about early on redeemed himself with 4-14 in his second spell.  I only bat to 6 though today so its far from over.

My batsmen got off to a flying start chasing divaflava's 231-4.   I'm 8-2 after 2 overs!

yeah, and now you are among the spinners you are getting eight an over!!!

End of Over 25: 108-4, runrate=4.32, reqrunrate=4.12 (210-10)
Anjum 3-0-17-0
Harris* 48 (58 balls)
Tau 1 (1 balls)
 
Last Wicket: Beattie c. Maylett b. Sharpe 17 (FOW: 101/4)
 


Nakor one wicket from victory here.  I do however have my best 2 batsmen at the crease.

He was scared!

gg nakor, match was closer than it looks, I hadno batting to come, without that partnership I'd have been well beaten.

And that's the end of the match. SheriffsStars won by 6 wickets.
Gorseybrigg old boys   231-4
SheriffsStars   232-4

GG diva.  Managed to steady the ship and avoid the usual collapse in that situation.

Good game mate, would have liked it a little closer ;)

A valiant effort in the field, despite defending a paltry 121, we had ironshire 0-2 and 45-4, they battled through to win easily enough by 5 wickets

Well done to iron for an unbeaten group phase!

WP, GG Sherrif :)

wohoooooooo i won

just checking at airport due to a 2 hour delayed flight

Congrats to Wardonkey who knocked off Athletico Foxy's meagre 144 for the loss of.....er.....no wickets!  ;surrender; :D

Not too despondent though as Wardonkey seemed to put out a reasonable team and I did manage my best set of results yet from the reporter.  ( might not be relevant but I'll take any plusses!  ;sark; )

Still moving in the right direction I believe and certainly these cup games have told me more about the squad than thrashing bots ever will! 

So thanks to all my opponents and good luck whoever progresses!   ;goodluck;

Everyone moves through to the knockout stages of 3 various cups now.

I just need to make the league tables up to date and we'll find out who is playing who.

Updated tables:

Group A
Team                  P  W  L  T  Pts   NRR
Saffycozzie Sloggers  5  5  0  0   20   -
SheriffsStars         5  4  1  0   16   -
Gorseybrigg old boys  5  3  2  0   12  -
Rambamboolies         5  1  3  1    6  -5.647
Matts Monkeys         5  1  4  0    4  -12.519
TractorX1             5  0  4  1    2  -9.869

No idea what happened between rambamboolies so have put it as a tie, although even a default loss to rambamboolies wouldn't see matt overtake on NRR. Left out NRR for top 3 as irrelevant!

Group B
Team                  P  W  L  T  Pts   NRR
Ironshire             5  5  0  0   16   -
Ruswarp Ponies        5  4  1  0   16   -
BVCC                  5  2  2  1   10  -1.506
Staples015            5  2  3  0    8   4.569
Athletico Foxy        5  1  4  0    4  -7.097
norfolkngood          5  0  4  1    2  -10.028

Again, no idea what happened with BVCC v norfolkngood, so awarded as tie
Group C
Team                  P  W  L  T  Pts NRR
Bigglesthwaite CC     5  5  0  0   20
St Woolos Old Boys    5  4  1  0   16
ramshire              5  3  2  0   12
Grolsch Guerillas     5  2  3  0    8
Caerphilly Dragons    5  1  4  0    4
Soldiers CC           5  0  5  0    0

Group D
Team                  P  W  L  T  Pts NRR
Kamikaze Kricket      5  5  0  0   20
KBOTW                 5  3  2  0   12  0.406
The Cossie Crusaders  5  3  2  0   12 -1.363
Norfolk Magicians     5  2  3  0    8  -2.255
Jellystone Parkers    5  2  3  0    8  -3.724
Los Galactico         5  0  5  0    0


Need to calculate NRR for everyone here, which is annoying!


Fixtures for next round (I'm sure ironside will be around in a minute to confirm the names of each):

Cup
Saffycozzie Sloggers v Ruswarp Ponies
ironshire v SheriffsStars
Bigglesthwaite CC v KBOTW
Kamikaze Kricket v St Woolos Old Boys

Plate
Gorseybrigg old boys v Staples015
BVCC v Rambamboolies
ramshire v Norfolk Magicians
The Cossie Crusaders v Grolsch Guerillas

Shield
Matts Monkeys v norfolkngood
Athletico Foxy v TractorX1
Caerphilly Dragons v Los Galactico
Jellystone Parkers v Soldiers CC

Anyone spot any mistakes, then shout up!

Can anyone remember what I said the semis would be, probably makes sense to have winner of 1st game play winner of 3rd game, and 2nd play 4th, home team decided by coin toss?

That way you avoid teams from same group until final...

Imagine my surprise.

Good luck mate.

gl to you too m8 by the way great win fri. our division really close

Kamikaze Kricket v St Woolos Old Boys

@Newportlad - isn't the match supposed to be at my ground? You've challenged me at yours... i'm happy to play on your ground instead - just wanted to mention it. Let me know what you want to do.

Anyone else have any problems?

yeah i will be traveling and i think the sherriff will pull a fast one

my mistake.
will cancel game now.

Appears i cant cancel a challenge after i've issued it.
Can you please refuse my challenge, then issue me a challenge.

oh well, i just accepted it incase we didn't get something organised by tomorrow. no worries that it's at your place.

Cossie Crusaders not accepted yet...

TractorX1 not accepted yet either   :(

norfolkngood still to accept

Just accepted, sorry been away and work is manic for me between now and xmas.
GL Everyone.

I'm getting a hammering here.

Kingjon's Kamikaze Kricket are currently   End of Over 13: 100-1, runrate=7.69

Going to be a long day in the field!

I don't think I have anywhere near enough batting to reach Bongos target, but you never know.  A couple of my batsmen may surprise me :)

End of Over 50: 314-7, runrate=6.28
Cranie 10-0-60-3
Pedro* 35 (17 balls)
Foot 0 (0 balls)
 
Last Wicket: Lonergan c. Morgan b. Cranie 0 (FOW: 314/7)

And that's the end of the match. Kamikaze Kricket won by 340 runs.
Kamikaze Kricket 380-4
St Woolos Old Boys 40-10

well, it was close....

The good news...

And that's the end of the match. SheriffsStars won by 129 runs.
SheriffsStars   271-2
Ironshire   142-10

The bad news...

I think I play kingjon next.

nice one nakor well desrved tx for the help in the league m8

Bit of giant killing going on from Athletico Foxy who managed to beat TractorX1 by five wickets!  ;yippee;

Really didn't believe I could compete against a lineup containing four 10K+ players including a 25k batter.   ;tightend;

Despite the 25k guy scoring a stylish 90 I managed to peg them back from 106-1 and 155-4 to 195 all out.

Game was in balance when Foxy fell to 54-3 in reply on an uneven pitch but a dour grinding 130 partnership for the fourth wicket saw the team nearly home.  Won with six overs to spare which sounds comfortable but I was very relieved to get the runs then as Tractor's dangerous opening bowlers were due to bowl the remainder.

Has to go down as my best Battrick performance so far, ;applause;

Thanks Tractor for a great game.  :cheers:

Good effort AMC but T'Briggites win by three wickets and 16 balls. The benefits of batting down to eight!

Staples 240-10 off 49.1
Briggites 241-7 off 47.2

I beat Ram wooo hoooo at last.

Hope we dont play next season mate.  All the best for the last few weeks.

Indeed. Quite happy with the overall result. Think it was more Ndebele's 2-14 from 10 overs, and Kerwin's 113no that won the game. happy with my top 4, happy with all 5 bowlers. Shame about the middle/lower order.

should i re-issue challenge again for this weekend?

Nope, not accepting a challenge means they forfeit the game, otherwise we end up with a mess!

oops sorry bout that guys,what with being away and everything i forgot all about it.  sacked half my team today so will have to pull out anyway.........sorry

wp Bongo.  Bit of a disappointing effort from my batsmen.

My bowlers are looking pretty good at the minute, I had a prof bowler on the bench as he didn't make the team!

Cup
Saffycozzie Sloggers v Ruswarp Ponies
ironshire v SheriffsStars
Bigglesthwaite CC v KBOTW
Kamikaze Kricket v St Woolos Old Boys

Plate
Gorseybrigg old boys v Staples015
BVCC v Rambamboolies (challenged too late, sat)
ramshire v Norfolk Magicians
The Cossie Crusaders v Grolsch Guerillas

Shield
Matts Monkeys v norfolkngood
Athletico Foxy v TractorX1
Caerphilly Dragons v Los Galactico (no challenge)
Jellystone Parkers v Soldiers CC (gone bot)

Fixtures:

Home advantage to be decided by coin toss, first person from each match to post here gets to call heads or tails.

Cup:
Saffycozzie Sloggers v Bigglesthwaite CC
SheriffsStars v Kamikaze Kricket

Plate:
Gorseybrigg old boys v Norfolk Magicians
The Cossie Crusaders v Rambamboolies

Shield:
Matts Monkeys v Caerphilly Dragons
Athletico Foxy v Jellystone Parkers

Tails

Heads please, not that it matters, your brother is going down biatch.

toooooo soooooooooooooooooon juuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuunior.

Heads


Tails.

Rigged, lol!

Heads

Heads     ;goodluck;

both heads!

Challenge sent.

Mine sent too!

Go Team Chorlton in both the shield semis!!!    :)up

Accepted - best of luck :)

Well I lost (unsurprisingly) to kingjon by 9 wickets but I'm taking positives from the fact that I survived for over 40 overs and that it took him 30 overs to reach the target of 137.

Small crumbs of comfort, maybe, but its an improvement on the last time I played him!

Good luck in the final (not that you'll need it!!)

I won a classic game against Saffycozzie Sloggers, was very close.

Not looking forward to next week - I'm not helped by the fact I have 2 crunch games in the week so I can't even rest my team. :(

Finals:
Bigglesthwaite CC v Kamikaze Kricket

Gorseybrigg old boys v The Cossie Crusaders

Matts Monkeys v Jellystone Parkers

Call heads or tails!

Thanks for the game, I'm also impressed with your progress since the last time, and it also looks like you're having a very fine season!

Bongo, challenge sent - good luck mate.

heads (and if i win, i'll have to re-issue a challenge!!)

Tails.

I think that will be the only part of the match i'll do well in!

rigged i tellls ya!

Tails. One Time!

tails

Golden I tell thee  ;)

well played today bongo. i knew i was out gunned but you never know with battrick. turned out closer than i thought it would. good luck in the finals everyone involved.

WP on Sunday Diva.

GL for this weekend.

i need a friendly for sunday if anyone wants to ship a challenge

done

Good luck all those in the finals!!   ;goodluck;

lol, I'll need it!  :'(

Results:

Bigglesthwaite CC v Kamikaze Kricket
Kamikaze Kricket win by a lot... I almost made 3 figures, shame I had to rest so many players too :(

Gorseybrigg old boys v The Cossie Crusaders
Gorseybrigg old boys 151-10
The Cossie Crusaders 152-4

Thought cracked was an odd choice of pitch, purely because The Cossie Crusaders have so many all rounders and a wicket taking pitch suits them quite well.

Matts Monkeys v Jellystone Parkers
Matts Monkeys 313-5
Jellystone Parkers 56-10

Congrats all.

Cheers as ever Bongo.

Well done all.

Looking for friendlies until the next one, so feel free to issue challenges.

Well done the winners.

Many thanks again to Bongo for arranging everything yet again.  I'm already looking forward to next seasons!!


Also open to friendlies here, esp if you're a div V side ( want to get my team ready for next season!)

well done the winners

thanks bongo for running a good comp

and congrats to mr mcgrath for the hammering he gave me today

Today was testemonial day at Monkey CCG as my star all rounder had a successful bid during the week after i lowered his price from £3.5m to £3m. With the deadline being at 13.42 i decided that despite his PFL only being fair it seemed fitting that he should take part as hopefully the money used from his sale will help build the team to challenge for honours next season. Also playing were the first two signings bought with some of the proceeds of his sale to see how they will fit in to their new monkey surroundings.

Things look promising for the two new arrivals with Findlay brought in as a batter who with a little training in the nets will also provide bowling cover in one day games making a debut century ably assisted by Killen on his last appearance in a total of 313. My second signing Wells brought in as a opening fast bowler managed to take 4 wickets in his opening burst to allow the monkeys to send Killen of in style and bring in a new era at Monkey HQ.

Well played to Yogi and thanks to Bongo for organizing everything - at least i managed to win something this season :)

Thanks Bongo for organising another successful cup, and well played everyone!

Cheers Bongo for the effort of organising and figuring out all those NRR's

Well played everyone.

Yep thanks and well done Bongo  ;applause;

A great tourny which has given me loads of info on the relative merits of my team / squad! 
Just a shame most of it's been bad news  rotflmfao

Congratulations to the winners....especially those involving Team Chorlton!   ;)      Nice one Matt!!   :)up

Belated congrats to the Crusaders, think I had a FC match I needed to have on cracked, or was just lazy and forgot about it. Actually, it was the latter... and thanks again for organising it all Bongo!