Story A Season in Battrick - The TT Lions Story

[The Spin]

I won the competition

Nice wisdom there from Shaka Nelson, a BT tip in disguise...

 

[aussie1st]

Even I know that BT tip Will have to wait next Wednesday where hopefully better Words of Wisdom come out

 

[surendar]

Nice words of Wisdom there Zorax! And congrads for having crossed 100 posts of ths thread! Its going on nicely with interesting ideas and shows!

 

[ZoraxDoom]

Even I know that BT tip Will have to wait next Wednesday where hopefully better Words of Wisdom come out

Alright your highness
Anyways, an interesting plot is about to develop...

 

[plympilgrim]

great updates as usual zorax

 

[Jaztheman]

nice updates as usual zorax loving reading about your team

 

[mehkar]

nice update great story to read

 

[borncricketer]

i missed a week of updates 8-) oh well i am bak....keep it up

 

[ZoraxDoom]

Ok.
Since there was this big party thingy at my house and now loads of HW, I'm cancelling this week's Tour Through History
*Cue 'Awww '*
But, I'll still have the Match Preview, and an extra special tour for next week...

Match Preview​

One Day League
TT Lions vs. Armadillos
The Lion Stands
Friday 19/01/2007, 15:30 GMT​

The first League clash for the TT Lions, and at home too. A good start is expected, seeing as the Armadillos aren't the best of teams. While they do have a fairly good squad, they have lost to the Lions 5 times out of 6, there only win being in the first time they met, when batsman Mike Greenwood was made to bowl.
At last look, the ratings went something like:

		[B]Armadillos	TT Lions[/B]

[B]Top Order:[/B]	feeble	        feeble
[B]Middle Order:[/B]	woeful	        mediocre
[B]Lower Order:[/B]	worthless       abysmal
[B]Seam Bowling:[/B]	feeble      	proficient
[B]Spin Bowling:[/B]	mediocre	respectable
[B]Fielding:[/B]       woeful		feeble

Take into account the home advantage and the fact that the team's morale is high after two crushing wins recently, this should be a no-contest for the Lions.
But everyone's eyes will be one two young stars who are expected to make their debut - Mohaideen Abdeen and Xavier Eli. The players expcted to make way are Arthur Dennis -who's poor fitness and fielding counts against him- and Keith Andrews. Although Keith has experience on his side, and it would be unwise to have two debutants playing in the same match, the weak opposition and home advantage means that Xavier is very likely to be given a shot. Abdeen might keep wicket on his debut, although don't be suprised if Finlayson keeps the gloves. Finlayon merits a spot not only on his batting, but according to some rumours, he is a better fielder than keeper.
The match should be relatively one-sided, although it will be significant as an insight into the new-look side for the season and as well as the club's future.

Playing XI (Expected): Whing, Abdeen (+), Rudi, Gallagher, Crouch, Finlayson, Shipp, Spearitt, Eli, Tuckett (*), Folkes.

 

[Jaztheman]

you have a strong team there zorax good luck

 

[aussie1st]

Someone give Zorax a challenge Should be another easy win for you Zorax.

 

[ZoraxDoom]

I feel bad for not having a Tour Through History yesterday, so here is a small one...

Thursday's Tour through History

This is the segment where we visit the historical places and moments in TT Lion's history. Today, we investigate a rather unusual match​

After reading the recent Match Preview, us here at Nosyparker News found the fact a little strange that the Lions had lost only 1 of their 6 encounters against the Armadillos, strange because of the reason provided:
"...when batsman Mike Greenwood was made to bowl."
This intrigued us, so we decided to dig a little deeper, and what we found makes for a nice little tale...

The Day of the Drunk Skipper​

The day was 20th January 2005, pretty much exactly a whole year ago. It was a cold but sunny day. Both the teams had arrived at The Lion Stands, the place where the match was to be played. The pitch was relatively unfamiliar to both teams, dry weather and the extreme cold making it rather cracked up and uneven as a result.
At the toss, Armadillo skipper Allanson walked out to the middle. But Artur was no-where to be seen. Stand in skipper Ryan Crouch walked out instead, called incorrectly, and the Lions were fielding first.
Just as the team were about to take the field, with Mike Leonard as the subsitute fieldsman, guess who decided to stumble in but Arthur Dennis. He looked a little off-color, but claimed he was fine. His speech was slurred to.
But I ignored that and sent him onto the field with today's team list. Since he had mist the meeting, I had written this for him, to inform him of the new bowling pattern we were trying today and to also make him aware that Ryan Crouch had been promoted up the batting order and would be bowling fifth as a result.
Everything started dandy. Dennis looked a little sleepy and stumbled about everywhere, misfielded a few, but otherwise everything was fine. That is, until it came Ryan's turn to bowl.
It was the 20th over, and by then I had realised that I had sent in our skipper on the field drunk. I was praying for nothing to go wrong, and till then nothing really did. But, when he tossed the ball to Greenwood, I knew something was wrong. Greenwood tossed it over to Ryan, but then Dennis got mad. He stumbled his way over to Billy, and gave him a good yelling. Ryan, Ny, Delop and the keeper Anton all walked over. Dennis yelled at everyone, and pulled out his bowling sheet and waived it about like a madman.
With his blurred vision, he saw the bowling marker I placed on Ryan against Billy's name instead. And he was relentless. I was helpless - subs aren't allowed in BT mid-way through a match, and manager can't walk onto the pitch. So, as it turned out, Billy bowled. Left arm quick with no accuracy. He got pasted for 83 runs, and they managed 311/3. Crouch not even bowling one over.
When they walked back, and dunked Arthur into an ice bath, gave him an asprin, and he was fit to go. Turned out he had a drinking competition on the way here with his mates. Bad idea. After he apologised profusley to everyone, I told him he didn't need to bat if he didn't want to. He did, and he clubbed a 50 ball 69. But apart from him and Cox, who made 84, no one got any good scores. The total was too large, Crouch's promotin failed with him making only 22, and we were bowled out for 253 in 46.3 overs. But Arthur learned his lesson, and every game against the Armadillos is a big one for him. It shows, we've won the next 5 games against them. And it also was a good learning curve for the younger members, never drink on the eve of a big match!

Join us next week for another Tour through History !

 

[zainawan89]

nice history.

 

[ZoraxDoom]

One Day League
TT Lions vs. Armadillos
The Lion Sands
Sunday 19/01/2007, 15:30 GMT​

Watch the match Live and Exclusive Here!​

Note: Only registered BT members may be able to view the live ball-by-ball commentary of this match. For none-BT members, you can follow any updates provided by me in this thread.

 

[plympilgrim]

come on TT lions should be an easy win here