Story Brendon vs Callum vs Jono - A Worcestershire Battle

[Chewie]

You seem to have found a great young player

 

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Worcestershire vs Warwickshire
Twenty Over Cup - group match
16th July 2010​

Teams:

Worcestershire

1. Vikram Solanki*
2. Daryl Mitchell
3. Alex Kervezee
4. Ben Smith
5. Moeen Ali
6. Shakib Al Hasan
7. Alan Darbon
8. Jeff Ingram?
9. Imran Arif
10. Matthew Mason
11. Alan Richardson

Warwickshire

1. Jeet Raval
2. Darren Maddy
3. Jonathan Trott
4. Ian Bell
5. Rikki Clarke
6. N... Skillbeck?
7. Jim Troughton
8. Chris Woakes
9. Naqaash Tahir
10. Imran Tahir
11. Boyd Rankin

Toss:

Worcestershire won the toss, and chose to bat first.

Match:

Worcestershire - 156 for 6 (20 overs)

Vikram Solanki 37 (28)
Daryl Mitchell 27 (16)

Rikki Clarke 3-28 (4)

Warwickshire - 159 for 4 (18.5 overs)

Jonathan Trott 87 (52)
Rikki Clarke 26* (29)

Matthew Mason 2-29 (3.5)

Result:

Warwickshire win by 6 wickets, with 7 balls remaining

Points:

Warwickshire 2
Worcestershire 0

MOTM:

Jonathan Trott (87 runs off 52 balls)

Reaction:

Lol again, every other team has now won eight games, except us who've won the big fat zero!

Shakib Al Hasan's batting and what comes out of my ass have a lot in common. We raced to 50 inside six overs, so I promoted him to three, but then he goes and plays some BS slow piece of ████ knock that ****s our innings up.

That total was never going to be enough on the perfect batting strip, yes it was absolutely perfect. Raval was dismissed first ball of their innings for a diamond duck, but Trott just smashed our bowling all over the place.

Just one more T20 match to go.

 

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Worcestershire vs Lancashire
Twenty Over Cup - group match
18th July 2010​

Teams:

Worcestershire

1. Vikram Solanki*
2. Daryl Mitchell
3. Alex Kervezee
4. Shaaiq Choudhry
5. Moeen Ali
6. Shakib Al Hasan
7. Alan Darbon
8. Jeff Ingram?
9. Imran Arif
10. Matthew Mason
11. Alan Richardson

Lancashire

1. Mark Chilton
2. A... Drinkell?
3. Shivnarine Chanderpaul
4. Paul Horton
5. M... Dwyer
6. Steven Croft
7. Tom Smith
8. Kyle Hogg
9. Glen Chapple*
10. Sajid Mahmood
11. James Anderson

Toss:

Lancashire won the toss, and chose to bat first.

Match:

Lancashire - 116 all out (19 overs)

Steven Croft 33 (29)
Glen Chapple 22* (21)

Daryl Mitchell 4-9 (4)
Matthew Mason 2-19 (3)
Imran Arif 2-26 (4)

Worcestershire - 117 for 3 (17 overs)

Daryl Mitchell 64* (50)
Imran Arif 31 (31)

Result:

Worcestershire win by 7 wickets, with 18 balls remaining!!!

Points:

Worcestershire 2
Lancashire 0

MOTM:

Daryl Mitchell (64* off 50 and 4 for 9 from 4 overs)

Reaction:

Daryl Mitchell, you flingen legend!!!

I'm absolutely speechless, 15 games without a win, and bang, we absolutely waste up a decent (without being amazing) Lancashire side.

Our bowling was superb, a late cameo partnership by Croft and Chapple got them up over 100, but some once in a life time death bowling by Daryl Mitchell made sure they would walk off the field with the sick feeling of getting all out. Both our opening bowlers also took two wickets apiece.

When we lost two very early wickets I though it was all over, but I made a gutsy move and decided to promote Imran Arif. Last match promoted Shakib flinged us up, so it was always going to be a gamble. Him and Mitchell played steadily at first, and the required run rate hovered around 6.5 an over, but it wasn't until Arif was dismissed that Mitchell went into overdrive bringing the game home along with Shaaiq Choudhry.

What a day for man of the match Daryl Mitchell, about a month ago he played the worst knock in the history of T20 cricket, but today he became a Worcestershire cult hero, taking us to our first and only T20 win of the 2010 season.

How ironic is it, that our only T20 win comes against my favourite county.

Next up we head back into the 40 over stuff. Remember we won our last 40 over match which was almost two months ago, and now we're on a high after this incredible victory.

I'll post our teams full T20 stats a little later tonight.

 

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16th July 2010
Worcestershire vs Warwickshire
Twenty Over Cup - Group Match​

Teams:

Worcestershire

1. Stuart Adler?
2. Vikram Solanki*
3. Jack Manuel
4. Steven Smith
5. Alex Kervezee
6. Julian Stafford
7. Matthew Pardoe
8. James Cameron
9. Imran Arif
10. Gareth Andrew
11. Jack Shantry


Warwickshire

1. Darren Maddy
2. Ian Westwood*
3. Jonathan Trott
4. Ian Bell
5. Robert Barrie
6. Rikki Clarke
7. Tim Ambrose?
8. Chris Woakes
9. Ant Botha
10. Naqaash Tahir
11. Imran Tahir


Toss:

Worcestershire have won the toss and elected to bowl first


Warwickshire - 226/6

Darren Maddy 109 (59)
Jonathan Trott 52 (30)

Imran Arif 2/41 (4)
Matthew Pardoe 1/18 (1)


Worcestershire - 142/6

James Cameron 28* (20)
Matthew Pardoe 26* (28)

Ant Botha 1/25 (4)
Naqaash Tahir 1/26 (4)


Warwickshire won by 84 runs


Points:

Warwickshire 2
Worcestershire 0


MOTM:

Darren Maddy (109 off 59)


Comments:

What a load of ████, the bowling was. Everyone bowled at least one over apart from the keeper, Adler. The most economical bowlers were Kervezee and Shantry who both conceded 26 runs @ 8.67 an over in their 3 overs each. Darren Maddy just totally destroyed us though. Adler was unable to repeat his good form as he got out for a golden duck. Unfortunately, Solanki and Stafford were both ran out when they were getting settled but we never had a chance chasing 226.

 

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It's amazing how different out line-ups are, only three players are common between them.

 

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Worcestershire's Twenty Over Cup Statistics for 2010

Best Batsman - Alex Kervezee
Best Bowler - Matthew Mason
MVP - Daryl Mitchell​

Batting

Alex Kervezee - 16 matches, 317 runs @ 19.8 (S/R 105)
Vikram Solanki - 16 matches, 306 runs @ 19.1 (S/R 122)
Daryl Mitchell - 9 matches, 293 runs @ 48.8 (S/R 119)
Steven Smith - 5 matches, 228 runs @ 57.0 (S/R 137)
Phil Jacques - 8 matches, 153 runs @ 19.1 (S/R 124)
Ben Smith - 13 matches, 153 runs @ 17.0 (S/R 110)
Shaaiq Choudhry - 10 matches, 140 runs @ 20.0 (S/R 127)
Imran Arif - 16 matches, 130 runs @ 21.7 (S/R 111)
Sanath Jayasuriya (Including IPL) - 16 matches, 117 runs @ 7.8
Moeen Ali - 11 matches, 116 runs @ 14.5 (S/R 121)
James Cameron - 7 matches, 72 runs @ 12.0 (S/R 126)
Jack Manuel - 4 matches, 34 runs @ 11.3 (S/R 110)
Jeff Ingram - 4 matches, 33 runs @ 16.5 (S/R 122)
Joe Leach - 2 matches, 30 runs @ 15 (S/R 158)
Matthew Mason - 16 matches, 30 runs @ 6.0 (S/R 70)
Alan Darbon - 4 matches, 24 runs @ 8.0 (S/R 126)
Shakib Al Hasan - 2 matches, 21 runs @ 10.5 (S/R 72)
Alan Richardson - 14 matches, 16 runs @ 16.0 (S/R 100)
Chris Whelan - 1 match, 6 runs @ 6.0 (S/R 120)
Jack Shantry - 3 matches, 5 runs @ 5.0 (S/R 100)
Gareth Andrew - 4 matches, 3 runs @ 3.0 (S/R 150)
Chris Russell - 1 match, DNB

Bowling

Matthew Mason - 59 overs, 16 wickets @ 27.6 (E/R 7.4)
Imran Arif - 58 overs, 14 wickets @ 32.3 (E/R 7.7)
Alan Richardson - 52 overs, 10 wickets @ 42.6 (E/R 8.2)
Steven Smith - 17 overs, 6 wickets @ 24.7 (E/R 8.7)
James Cameron - 21 overs, 6 wickets @ 26.8 (E/R 7.7)
Daryl Mitchell - 24 overs, 6 wickets @ 27.3 (E/R 6.7)
Sanath Jayasuriya - 31 overs, 3 wickets @ 82.7 (E/R 8.0)
Shakib Al Hasan - 8 overs, 2 wickets @ 29.0 (E/R 7.3)
Moeen Ali - 1 over, 1 wicket @ 15.0 (E/R 15.0)
Gareth Andrew - 6 overs, 1 wicket @ 68.0 (E/R 11.3)
Chris Russell - 1 overs, 0 wickets (E/R 8.0)
Shaaiq Choudhry - 3 overs, 0 wickets (E/R 10.0)
Chris Whelan - 3 overs, 0 wickets (E/R 10.0)
Joe Leach - 2 overs, 0 wickets (E/R 10.0)
Jack Shantry - 9 overs, 0 wickets (E/R 10.1)

DNP

Ben Cox
Richard Jones
Matthew Pardoe
Neil Pinner
David Wheeldon

 

[Chewie]

I just got home from my two hour test, it started an hour late

I've gotta wake up early tomorrow, so I'll try and catch up tomorrow night.

Chewie added 0 Minutes and 28 Seconds later...

But lol at Hedger getting owned and Callum finally winning a match :happy

 

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I'll have a rest tomorrow, so that should give you guys some time to catch up.

I'll play (and post) my next 40 over match on Thursday.

 

[Varun]

Daryl Mitchell has been fantastic recently.

 

[Chewie]

16th July 2010
Worcestershire vs Warwickshire
Twenty Over Cup - Group Match
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Playing XI?s

Worcestershire

1. Daryl Mitchell
2. Steven Smith
3. Neil Pinner
4. Vikram Solanki *?
5. Alex Kervezee
6. Moeen Ali
7. Jack Manuel
8. Imran Arif
9. David Wheeldon
10. Matthew Mason
11. Chris Russell


Warwickshire

1. Varun Chopra
2. Ian Westwood*
3. Jonathan Trott
4. Marcus Garforth
5. Rikki Clarke
6. Tim Ambrose?
7. Chris Woakes
8. Ant Botha
9. Naqaash Tahir
10. Imran Tahir
11. Boyd Rankin
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Pinner comes in for Jayasuriya as we play only one international player. Arif also goes back down to a normal position in the batting lineup.

I won the toss and decided to bat. Mitchell continued his good form from the previous game with some nice shots, but the run rate was not high due to many singles being taken instead of boundaries. Mitchell tried to up the run rate but after hitting one four off N Tahir, he was out the next ball attempting the same thing, having scored 33(26). Pinner had a forgetable T20 debut, getting out for a first ball duck. Solanki didn't last long, while Smith was playing very slowly at the other end and it didn't seem as if we would post a challenging total. It seemed that his difficulties were only against spin however, as with the introduction of Clarke into the attack, Smith hit him for consecutive fours. He managed to reach his century with a pair of fours off Rankin, but was out next ball LBW. He had managed to bring the run rate up, and we were 119/4 with 5 overs left at this stage. We eventually reached 151/6, which was a respectable total.

Both Russell and Mason managed to trouble the batsmen, with the first boundaries only coming in the 6th over. Despite this, no wickets fell, and after 9 overs they were 72 without loss, having just hit Arif for 18 runs in one over. Despite their slow start, it seemed like the openers were not going to require any support in reaching their total. The breakthrough finally came off the bowling of Kervezee with Chopra out for 59. It looked like it would be too little too late, especially when Trott strode out to the crease. He was removed by Russell, but Warwickshire only required 5 more runs at this point. Westward brought up the winnings runs the next over, with Warwickshire winning by 8 wickets.

It was a terrible bowling performance in that match, and my batsmen could have scored at a quicker rate. A disappointing performance overall that means that we cannot finish above last place any more.

Warwickshire win by 8 wickets
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Lol, their top order is way overpowered when compared to our bowling attack.

 

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18th July 2010
Worcestershire vs Lancashire
Twenty Over Cup - Group Match
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Playing XI?s

Worcestershire

1. Daryl Mitchell
2. Steven Smith
3. Shakib Al Hasan
4. Vikram Solanki *?
5. Alex Kervezee
6. Moeen Ali
7. Jack Manuel
8. Imran Arif
9. Matthew Mason
10. Alan Richardson
11. Chris Russell


Lancashire

1. Paul Horton
2. Stephen Moore
3. Anthony Aimson
4. Shivnarine Chanderpaul
5. Len Whitehead
6. Tom Smith
7. Luke Sutton
8. Kyle Hogg
9. Glen Chapple*
10. James Anderson
11. Gary Keedy
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Shakib is back so slots straight back into the side in the place of Pinner. Richardson also gets a go in place of Wheeldon. That Lancashire have a batsman batting above Chanderpaul suggests that he is really good, and I'll have to watch out for him.

I lost the toss and was made to bat. Mitchell couldn't continue his good run of form, out for 7, while Shakib looked out of sorts to be out for 2. The captain would have to stand up and show the rest of the team how to bat, but he too departed in single figures. Kervezee looked terrible in the middle and departed for 1, but Ali was in good form and concentrated on staying out in the middle. These two put on a huge partnership of 126 for the fifth wicket, after it looked like we would be skittle for not many at 27-4. Smith was eventually run out in the 19th over for 72 (46), but Ali stayed till the end to end up unbeaten on 67(52) as we made 165/5.

Russell managed to get Horton out in the third over with the score on 16 to bring the youngster Aimson into the middle. He opened his account with a six first ball, and it was looking like his stay could be deadly. He didn't last for too long however, with Arif bowling him for 16 in his first over. Arif had Moore caught in his next over, but at the other end Richardson was getting smacked everywhere. Shakib came into the attack and somehow Chanderpaul managed to get a top edge off a sweep go over the wicket-keeper's head and for six. It was the most ridiculous shot ever. There were sixes galore in the run chase with Shakib and Arif particularly getting targeted. All the edges went to the boundary, with Lancashire eventually reaching the target with 10 balls remaining.

While it had been a good innings from Ali and Smith, the rest of the batsman will have questions waiting for them in the next training session. The bowlers were unlucky not to have more wickets, but the influence of Chanderpaul got Lancashire over the line in the end. We finished last in our group, 4 points behind Warwickshire.

Lancashire win by 5 wickets
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Smith's just so overrated with the bat.
He's in the top two scorers in 90% of the matches he plays, in all three of our games.

 

[hedger_14]

18th July 2010
Worcestershire vs Lancashire
Twenty Over Cup - Group Match​

Teams:

Worcestershire

1. Stuart Adler?
2. Vikram Solanki*
3. Jack Manuel
4. Steven Smith
5. Shakib Al Hasan
6. Julian Stafford
7. Alex Kervezee
8. David Wheeldon
9. Imran Arif
10. Jack Shantry
11. Richard Jones


Lancashire

1. Martin Chilton
2. Paul Horton
3. Shivnarine Chanderpaul
4. Steve Croft
5. Tom Smith
6. Nathan McCullum
7. Luke Sutton?
8. Glen Chapple*
9. Kyle Hogg
10. Sajid Mahmood
11. James Anderson


Toss:

Lancashire won the toss and elected to bat first


Lancashire - 206/6

Mark Chilton 110* (59)
Shiv Chanderpaul 46 (30)

Alex Kervezee 3/12 (2)
Richard Jones 2/38 (4)


Worcestershire - 151/5

Steven Smith 53* (44)
Vikram Solanki 51 (38)

Tom Smith 2/25 (4)
James Anderson 2/28 (4)


Lancashire won by 55 runs


Points:

Lancashire 2
Worcestershire 0


MOTM:

Mark Chilton (110* off 59)


Comments:

Finally, the T20s are over. We finished last. Noone bowled well apart from Kervezee really who took 3 wickets. Jones contributed with the wickets of Horton and Croft but Chilton destroyed us hitting a century. Smith and Solanki batted well and although we were ahead of them for the first 10 overs, scoring 100 odd runs in that period, only half of that amount was scored in the second half of the innings. Anyway, back to the real stuff now.

 

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Twenty Over Cup

| . P . | . W . | . L . | . T . | . NR . | . Pts . Jono |

16​

|

4​

|

12​

|

0​

|

0​

|

8​

Brendon. |

16​

|

3​

|

13​

|

0​

|

0​

|

6​

Callum |

16​

|

1​

|

15​

|

0​

|

0​

|

2​