Story Brendon vs Callum vs Jono - A Worcestershire Battle

[CG123]

Just put it on random!

Pressure on you guys:

| . P . | . W . | . L . | . T . | . D . | . Bat . | . Bwl . | . Pts . Callum |

13​

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2​

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3​

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0​

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8​

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22​

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32​

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110​

Brendon. |

12​

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1​

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4​

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1​

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6​

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20​

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29​

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91​

Jono |

12​

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1​

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5​

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0​

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6​

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27​

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25​

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86​

 

[hedger_14]

16th August 2010
Worcestershire vs Surrey
County Championship - D2​

Teams:

Worcestershire

1. Daryl Mitchell*
2. Stuart Adler?
3. Alex Kervezee
4. Shakib Al Hasan
5. Julian Stafford
6. Jack Manuel
7. David Wheeldon
8. Imran Arif
9. Matthew Mason
10. Jack Shantry
11. Alan Richardson


Surrey

1. Michael Brown
2. Mitchell Smith
3. Usman Afzaal
4. Mark Ramprakash
5. Rory Hamilton-Brown*
6. Nick Poole
7. Chris Schofield
8. Gary Wilson?
9. Chris Tremlett
10. Iftikhar Anjum
11. Andre Nel


Toss:

Worcestershire won the toss and elected to bowl first


Surrey - 386 all out

Mark Ramprakash 111 (174)
Rory Hamilton-Brown 102 (163)
Michael Brown 95 (182)

Matthew Mason 5/108 (33)
Shakib Al Hasan 3/41 (18)


Worcestershire - 275 all out

Daryl Mitchell 87 (211)
Alex Kervezee 48 (122)

Chris Schofield 4/48 (25)
Andre Nel 2/63 (30.5)


Surrey - 254/4 dec

Usman Afzaal 123* (203)
Nick Poole 70* (84)

Shakib Al Hasan 2/32 (11)
Imran Arif 2/62 (15)


Worcestershire - 212/9

Julian Stafford 54* (190)
Jack Manuel 25 (74)

Chris Tremlett 5/57 (18)
Andre Nel 2/48 (20)


Match Drawn


Points:

Surrey 10
Worcestershire 8


MOTM:

Mark Ramprakash (111 and 31)


Comments:

We scraped a draw thanks to some great great batting from Stafford in the second innings. Big scores from Ramprakash, Brown and Hamilton-Brown made us pay as they scored 308 of the 386 runs. Mason bowled well taking 5 wickets while Al Hasan bowled pretty well as well. In our first innings, a fair few of our batsman got starts with Kervezee, Al Hasan and Wheeldon scoring in the 40's but it was the skipper, Daryl Mitchell who went on to make a good score with 87 as we made 275. From there, we really had no chance of winning and were lucky to come out with a draw.

 

[Chewie]

16th August 2010
Worcestershire vs Surrey
County Championship -D2​

Playing XI?s

Worcestershire

1. Daryl Mitchell
2. Vikram Solanki *
3. Moeen Ali
4. Ben Smith
5. Shakib Al Hasan
6. Jack Manuel
7. Tony Stack ?
8. Imran Arif
9. David Wheeldon
10. Matthew Mason
11. Alan Richardson

A spinning pitch so Wheeldon comes in to support Shakib

Surrey

1. Michael Brown
2. Mitchell Smith
3. Usman Afzaal
4. Mark Ramprakash
5. Rory Hamilton-Brown*
6. Nick Poole
7. Chris Schofield
8. Gary Wilson?
9. Chris Tremlett
10. Iftikhar Anjum
11. Andre Nel

Surrey win by 6 wickets

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We struggled with the bat, with contributions from the lower order getting us over 300 in the first innings. Surrey were batting incredibly well to begin with, with none of the bowlers able to extract any of the batsmen until they had at least made their half-century. At one stage they were 340-3, before Ramprakash's dismissal sparked a collapse, with Shakib taking 7 wickets as they lost 7 wickets in the space of 54 runs. In the second innings, we would have been very happy to reach 350 and attempt to bowl them out, but the lower middle order didn't do anything with the bat, and they only needed to chase down 189 to win with just over 2 sessions left. Any hopes of a Shakib inspired collapse disappeared as Ramprakash stayed strong at the crease and got Surrey over the line. We got 5 points.

So far this season Shakib has 62 wickets @ 21.16 to be our best bowler by far, while Ali has 1219 runs @ 55.4 to be our best batsman. Apart from these two however, no one else has made a statement.
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[Varun]

I want to say here that this is the best story I've seen around for a while.

 

[CG123]

I'll post my next match tomorrow.
I've got a two week holiday coming up, so I'm not sure how busy you guys are ATM, but shall we try and finish this over the next few weeks?

 

[Chewie]

An 2000 word essay due on Monday which I've only just started, a group project due next Friday, another 2000 word essay due the Monday after that which I haven't started, weekly assignments, and exams coming up in 5 weeks.

I should be able to post a reply once every few days. It'll be a good way to have a break. And doesn't really take that long tbh.

 

[hedger_14]

I've got a 2 week holiday coming up as well.... but most of it is being spent in Bali. I can update up until Tuesday next week as I'm going on Wednesday and then will probably be able to start updating again on Wednesday a fortnight later since I come back on the Saturday night I think but then I will have to study for trial school certificate which goes from Monday-Wednesday.

 

[6ry4nj]

What have they done with our keeper?

I just started a Worcestershire game on the trial version. I thought we were a bit light-on at wickie, so I checked cricinfo, and guess what? The database has our wickie, Ben Scott, playing for Middlesex. To add irony to injury, I note that he plays against us in our first game! :

Sure, I can see that he's a loan player, but that means he should be in our squad. That would mean we have a keeper (other than Solanki whose credibility in the role I would view with scepticism a la Trescothick) who has played more than one FC match!

 

[CG123]

Worcestershire vs Glamorgan
Challenge Trophy - group match
22nd August 2010​

Teams:

Worcestershire

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

Glamorgan

1. Mark Cosgrove
2. Gareth Rees
3. Jamie Dalrymple*
4. Jim Allenby
5. E... Cale
6. Mike Powell
7. William Bragg?
8. James Harris
9. Adam Shantry
10. David Harrison
11. Dean Cosker

Toss:

Worcestershire won the toss, and chose to bat first.

Match:

Worcestershire - 151 for 9 (40 overs)

No one even got into the 30's...

David Harrison 5-42 (8)
Dean Cosker 2-19 (8)

Glamorgan - 156 for 4 (23.1 overs)

Jim Allenby 55* (35)
Mark Cosgrove 45 (41)

Shakib Al Hasan 2-36 (5.1)

Result:

Glamorgan win by 6 wickets, with 101 balls remaining

Points:

Glamorgan 2
Worcestershire 0

MOTM:

David Harrison (5 for 42 off 8 overs)

Reaction:

TBH I CBF writing anything, after that mega fail performance.

Our batting was back to the shittest of ████, while our bowling actually managed to get worse.

Glamorgan's playing XI is almost as bad as ours, and it's a flingen joke that we got wasted so badly.

Meh, back to the drawing board I guess.

Also Ali just got a four week injury.

 

[Chewie]

lol! You got owned there!

 

[hedger_14]

22nd August 2010
Worcestershire vs Glamorgan
Challenge Trophy - group match​

Teams:

Worcestershire

1. Daryl Mitchell*
2. Stuart Adler?
3. Alex Kervezee
4. Shakib Al Hasan
5. Julian Stafford
6. Jack Manuel
7. David Wheeldon
8. Imran Arif
9. Gareth Andrew
10. Matthew Mason
11. Alan Richardson


Glamorgan

1. Mark Cosgrove
2. Gareth Rees
3. Jamie Dalrymple*
4. Jim Allenby
5. Tom Maynard
6. Peter Jewell
7. Mark Wallace?
8. James Harris
9. Adam Shantry
10. David Harrison
11. Dean Cosker


Toss:

Worcestershire have won the toss and elected to bowl


Glamorgan - 165 all out

Tom Maynard 63 (70)
Mark Wallace 21 (49)

Imran Arif 3/34 (8)
Matthew Mason 2/25 (7.1)
Gareth Andrew 2/32 (8)
Shakib Al Hasan 2/34 (8)


Worcestershire - 166/6

Stuart Adler 57 (66)
Shakib Al Hasan 35* (57)

Dean Cosker 3/15 (7)
Adam Shantry 2/34 (8)


Worcestershire won by 4 wickets with 7 balls remaining


Points:

Worcestershire 2
Glamorgan 0


MOTM:

Stuart Adler (57 and 2 catches)


Comments:

Well we beat the team on top of the ladder. Now we have every chance in the world of qualifying for the next stage. The bowling was excellent although at 52/5, we should have bowled them out for a lot less. Our opening partnership was great, worth 87 runs, before Mitchell was dismissed for 32. Adler went onto make 57 but we weren't getting along so easily after that, Shakib's 35* along with 28 from Wheeldon and a late cameo from Arif with 9* off 5 just got us over the line with an over to spare. We're in fourth place now but we have a game in hand at least over every team in front of us, Sussex 1st with 14 points from 10 games, Glamorgan 2nd with 12 points from 10 games, Surrey 3rd with 12 points from 9 games and us 4th with 12 points from 8 games. We have a 4 point buffer over Lancashire in 5th.

 

[CG123]

You know you can post your match before I post mine, you don't need to wait until I post my one.

Another OD win for you though.

 

[hedger_14]

I know I can but I prefer waiting.

 

[Chewie]

22nd August 2010
Worcestershire vs Glamorgan
Challenge Troph - Group Match​

Playing XI?s

Worcestershire

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

Kervezee has been better than Manuel in the ODs so he comes into the side.

Glamorgan

1. Mark Cosgrove
2. Gareth Rees
3. Jamie Dalrymple
4. Jim Allenby
5. Mike Powell
6. Tom Maynard
7. David Brown
8. Will Bragg
9. Robert Croft
10. James Harris
11. Adam Shantry

Worcestershire win by 4 wickets
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Our first OD win in a while which is a refreshing change from the norm. Bowling first, Mason was effective and economical, with Arif and Shakib providing good support. Ali bowled an over and took a wicket as well which was nice. They only managed 197 which was definitely a chaseable total. Solanki batted well at the top of the order, but everyone else kept on getting starts, as the NRR crept up and up. Kervezee and Arif came together, and in his usual fashion, Arif was aggressive without giving away chances, piecing together a 17 ball 28 to take us over the line with 10 balls to spare.


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[CG123]

Dam, I'm the only one who lost... :o