from the pavillion - another cricket game

[amcgrath1uk]

had a friendly today vs no 1 ranked in the country. Lost by just 3 wickets with 11 deliveries to go. if my star bowler and best 2 bats had performed, I would've sneaked it!

[Bongo]

had a friendly today vs no 1 ranked in the country.

Only because I rested players in a bot bash!

Dropped 10k in ratings

[amcgrath1uk]

fair enough.. I was 6k below in ratings..

      Yorkshire Puddings     Staples015
Batting - Top Order:    4,583    4,504
Batting - Middle Order:    4,845    4,490
Batting - Tail:    4,176    2,736
Bowling - Seam:    4,594 (    4,806 (4)
Bowling - Spin:    5,319 (2)    5,358 (6)
Fielding/Keeping:    5,558    4,746
Overall:    90,609    84,108

i'm not too fussed about the lack of the tail..am focusing on my bowling and my top/middle order batting.. and just hoping I pull a keeper at some point.. but my current best batter in the youths ( at 17) is a skilled keeper and he's not too bad already so he might well be the answer in the future..

[Bongo]

I have a capable bat/capable keeper in my youth team

I think the ratings are skewed somewhat by the tail - it gets 60% of the points of the entire bowling line up!

At the moment I can bat to 11, and have another all rounder in my youth team. Will be interesting to sort that lot next season!

[Jon MW]

The Twenty20 title for my division is mine now.

My only rivals were Hungryasthesea, and I convincingly beat them today:

Beloved Ltd:         142 runs for 5 wickets off 20 overs
Hungryas the sea:  98  runs all out off 18.4 overs



I think they're going to take the youth title, which only leaves the decider for the one day to decide which of us gets the majority.

[amcgrath1uk]

n1 Jon

I SHOULD win the OD league, I'm 4 points clear, play 2nd this week. Even if I lose, I have 2 very new teams to smash the following 2 weeks, and he has a hard game vs 3rd week after playing me

The 20/20 is going to be decided next week, 1st v 2nd

League promotion position1     Staples015     12     10     2     0     40     +1.9629     1326 / 192.4     1161 / 236.0
   2    Podges piglets    12    10    2    0    40    +1.7845    1611 / 223.2    1293 / 238.1

Youth league I should win 2moro, as I've got a huge NRR advantage over 2nd, with an 8 point lead.

[amcgrath1uk]

nice easy win for my youth team today.

means barring miracles ( I'm up 8 points with 2 games left with a massive NRR advantage) I've won that league

[Bongo]

Same for me, I have better NRR but if that comes into play I doubt it will stay better (as i'll have lost 2 games and oppo will have won 2).

Similar in 20 20, I'm 8 points clear of third (top 2 go up), 2 points behind 1st. Play 1st and 3rd in last 2 matches.

In 3 way tie on points in OD me ahead on NRR, but I have the easiest run in, 2 bots and the worst human team to play. 2nd and 3rd play each other last game of the season too, but again think it will be academic!

Trying out a strong team in 20:20 friendly tomorrow as I want to see what ratings I can get in that format. Thinking of trying a quick charge up to #1 in the world if poss

[amcgrath1uk]

yeah it should be a good game.

obv strongest team out for me too, with some tweaks to the team, adding batting and changing my batting and bowling orders.

need to find some working orders for my best bowler, as I've tried loads without success.

[amcgrath1uk]

shiiipppp the OD title...

played my nearest competitors today, and handed them a smashing..

they batted 1st, on a flat pitch, ideal conditions for batting, and we bowled them out for 147!!!  My opener took 2 early wickets, tho expensive, but my spinners just ripped through them.

B. Lamb (rfs)     10     0     37     4     3.70     2     3
T. McBeath (rfs)    9    1    33    1    3.67    0    0
J. Holmes (rfs)    8.3    1    27    3    3.18    2    0

Pretty astonishing figures for a batting pitch too.. just wish Lamb would stop the no balls and wides.

In reply, knocked off the runs before the half way point, losing just 2 wickets in the process. Bonus was that I put my average keeper in as a pinch hitter, and he hit 71no from 62 deliveries, meaning I could play my stronger batters further down the order

[Bongo]

I lost 7 wickets and just managed to limp over the line against a bot.

Flat pitch, all bats on normal, pretty much my strongest team - just had the all rounders in the tail to save fitness. All players were rested or revived too.

Don't know what they were playing at!

[vegaslover]

won mine easily again, have now won the league, should also win the youth league.

[Bongo]

My youth pull: 17yo reasonable medium pacer.

Always medium pacer

[amcgrath1uk]

got me a 16yo batter, tho he's poor.. he has better tech and power so I can just train him batting for the next 2 seasons

MaHOOSive game 2moro for me.. strong side coming up!

[Bongo]

I'm hoping to have the best T20 ratings in the world tomorrow.

If I win I'm promoted!

Then I need to concentrate on OD, some how my easy run in has gone tits up.

I'm playing 5th who have got a lot better, my rivals are playing 3rd who have got a lot worse. Neverends!