Story Brendon vs Callum vs Jono - A Worcestershire Battle

[Chewie]

 

[Bevab]

How is that possible, Hedger?

 

[CG123]

Someone adjusted their ratings a few matches back...

 

[Varun]

Stuart Adler!
Great win there hedger!

 

[hedger_14]

haha Callum, I would never do that

Yeah, Stuart Adler is a very good regen keeper batsman. Although I wonder what I would have scored if Stafford was playing as well.

 

[CG123]

Worcestershire vs Middlesex
County Championship - D2
7th September 2010​

Teams:

Worcestershire

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

Middlesex

1. Scott Newman
2. Sam Robson
3. Neil Dexter
4. Owais Shah
5. Dawid Malan
6. Ben Scott?
7. Dan Housego
8. Tim Murtagh
9. Shaun Udal*
10. Robbie Williams
11. Pedro Collins

Toss:

Worcestershire won the toss, and chose to bat first.

Match:

Worcestershire - 246 all out

Imran Arif 55

Shaun Udal 5-54
Pedro Collins 2-57

Middlesex - 363 all out

Ben Scott 112
Shaun Udal 63
Owais Shah 53
Scott Newman 42

Shakib Al Hasan 5-79
David Wheeldon 4-78

Worcestershire - 264 for 7

Vikram Solanki 53
Alan Darbon 41

Shaun Udal 3-44
Pedro Collins 3-66

Result:

Match Drawn

Points:

Middlesex 9
Worcestershire 6

MOTM:

Shaun Udal (5-54, 3-44 and 63)

Reaction:

I think Ben Scott scoring 112 and Shaun Udal scoring 63 sums up our first class season, as we secure our tenth draw in 15 first class matches.

Yet again our batting fails, despite on paper having a stronger batting line-up than Brendon. The match was very evenly poised, and even with five hours of rain on the final day, it could have been interesting if it wasn't for their massive eighth wicket partnership.

Towards the back end of the season my three main pace bowlers who've played in every match have really started to struggle, only taking on wicket from 62 overs between them.

Shakib continues to do wonders with the bat, this time scoring 32 and 6 (both times out), god knows how he just keeps on doing so flingen little for me with the bat. His decent bowling continues to keep his place in the side as very much a bowling all-rounder.

Anyway, only one more first class match to go for me, I think I'm guaranteed of finishing last (despite only losing three out of 15 matches), so it may just be a case of going out and having a bit of fun.

 

[Chewie]

7th September 2010
Worcestershire vs Middlesex
County Championship -D2​

Playing XI’s

Worcestershire

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


Middlesex

1. Andrew Strauss
2. Scott Newman
3. Neil Dexter
4. Dawid Malan
5. Sam Robson
6. Ben Scott†
7. Gareth Burg
8. Tim Murtagh
9. Shaun Udal*
10. Steven Finn
11. Danny Evans

Middlesex win by 141 runs
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>.<

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[CG123]

Lol at Andrew Strauss not playing for England in your game.

CG123 added 0 Minutes and 57 Seconds later...

IIRC we have to wait for Brendon now, as he made it into the CT semis.

 

[hedger_14]

11th September 2010
Worcestershire vs Northamptonshire
Challenge Trophy - Semi-Final​

Teams:

Worcestershire

1. Daryl Mitchell
2. Stuart Adler?
3. Vikram Solanki*
4. Alex Kervezee
5. Shaaiq Choudhry
6. Moeen Ali
7. Shakib Al Hasan
8. Gareth Andrew
9. Jack Shantry
10. Matthew Mason
11. Alan Richardson


Northamptonshire

1. Mal Loye
2. Niall O'Brien?
3. David Sales
4. Andrew Hall*
5. Stephen Peters
6. Nicky Boje
7. Robert White
8. Elton Chigumbura
9. David Lucas
10. Lee Daggett
11. Jack Brooks


Toss:

Worcestershire won the toss and elected to bowl first


Northamptonshire - 194/8

Andrew Hall 57 (66)
Robert White 51 (35)

Matthew Mason 4/37 (8)
Daryl Mitchell 2/26 (6)
Shakib Al Hasan 2/29 (8)


Worcestershire - 198/8

Stuart Adler 59 (40)
Alex Kervezee 56* (88)
Daryl Mitchell 31 (30)

Jack Brooks 2/36 (8)
Nicky Boje 2/43 (8)
Andrew Hall 2/51 (8)
David Lucas 2/55 (8)


Worcestershire won by 2 wickets with 0 balls remaining


MOTM:

Matthew Mason (4/37 off 8 and 4* off 6)


Comments:

What a match!!! Bowling first, Mason got us off to a beautiful start taking 3 wickets in his opening spell. Hall and Peters fought back after that but Al Hasan's double blow had Peters and Boje back in the pavilion. Mitchell then removed the skipper for 57 but White made 51 before Mitchell also got him out as they made 194/8 from their 40 overs.

Mitchell and Adler got us off to a great start with the bat, a 64 run opening stand off 47 balls before Mitchell got out for 31 off 30 balls. Solanki only made 5 though and Adler went soon after for his quickfire 59 coming off only 40 deliveries but we had already lowered the RRR by a lot. Choudry and Ali weren't able to support Kervezee for long but Kervezee stuck in there but lost wickets at regular rates as we fell to 8/185 with 3 overs remaining, Mason and Kervezee at the crease now. Kervezee decided that he needed to get them across the line and took control of the strike turning down an easy single but then smacking a four next ball and then hitting a single off the fifth ball of the 48th over so 5 off the over and 5 runs needed off the last 2 overs. He still didn't take the risk of giving Mason the strike though as he only scored one run on the next over so the match was going to be a close one. Kervezee played and missed the second ball of the over before knocking the ball into the gap for 2 and then hitting a single to level things up with 2 balls to play, but Mason was on strike. The 5th ball was a dot ball and now it all came down to this ball. I'm not sure what would have happened if we didn't score a run, or worse lose a wicket but it didn't matter in the end as Mason gave it his all smashing it down through mid on for the boundary to take Worcestershire through to the Challenge Trophy final. Unbelievable!!! Luckily Arif will be back for that match as well. We have one County Championship game before that though.

 

[CG123]

Wow, congratz.

 

[hedger_14]

13th September 2010
Worcestershire vs Sussex
County Championship - D2​

Teams:

Worcestershire

1. Daryl Mitchell
2. Vikram Solanki*
3. Alex Kervezee
4. Stuart Adler?
5. Moeen Ali
6. Shakib Al Hasan
7. David Wheeldon
8. Imran Arif
9. Jack Shantry
10. Matthew Mason
11. Chris Russell


Sussex

1. Christopher Nash
2. Joe Gatting
3. Ed Joyce
4. Matt Prior?
5. Michael Yardy*
6. Luke Wright
7. Murray Goodwin
8. Robin Martin-Jenkins
9. Ragheb Aga
10. Billy Taylor
11. Corey Collymore


Toss:

Worcestershire won the toss and elected to bowl first


Sussex - 460 all out

Joe Gatting 93 (182)
Ed Joyce 67 (86)
Christopher Nash 66 (85)

Shakib Al Hasan 7/82 (31)
Jack Shantry 2/105 (20)


Worcestershire - 320 all out

Alex Kervezee 168 (325)
Daryl Mitchell 79 (155)

Corey Collymore 3/59 (26)
Ragheb Aga 3/71 (23)
Billy Taylor 2/94 (21)


Sussex - 245/3 dec.

Christopher Nash 159* (213)
Ed Joyce 41 (98)

Chris Russell 1/33 (10)
Jack Shantry 1/39 (13)


Worcestershire - 260/4

Stuart Adler 111* (232)
Alex Kervezee 66 (211)

Robin Martin-Jenkins 3/39 (15)


Match Drawn


Points:

Sussex 11
Worcestershire 9


MOTM:

Alex Kervezee (168 off 325 and 66 off 211)


Comments:

Not the best performance but came out with a draw. After choosing to bowl first, our pace bowlers failed and only Shakib Al Hasan's 7 wicket haul kept them to under 500. We didn't get off to the best start with the bat when Solanki got out cheaply but Mitchell and Kervezee got things back on track before Mitchell was finally dismissed for 79. After that, all the batsman failed, not one batsman scoring over 15 but Kervezee battled through, before he was the 9th wicket to fall, out for a great 168 as we were bowled out for 320. Nash fired for Sussex as they got to 245/3 before giving us a little under a full day to get around 380. We opted to battle out the day for a draw, led by Adler with an unbeaten century while Kervezee again played a superb innings, a well fought 66 as he took the MOTM award for his great performance in both innings. We still finished last though, 27 points behind 8th place. The Challenge Trophy final now though and it would be one spectacular match.

 

[hedger_14]

Worcestershire's County Championship Statistics for 2010​

MVP - Alex Kervezee​

Batting

Alex Kervezee - 16 matches, 1412 runs @ 52.3
Daryl Mitchell - 15 matches, 1200 runs @ 46.15
Shakib Al Hasan (Including Int. matches) - 13 matches, 925 runs @ 40.22
Vikram Solanki - 15 matches, 730 runs @ 26.07
Moeen Ali - 10 matches, 671 runs @ 37.28
Stuart Adler - 8 matches, 588 runs @ 49.0
David Wheeldon - 14 matches, 506 runs @ 28.11
Imran Arif - 16 matches, 439 runs @ 23.11
Phil Jaques (Including Int. matches) - 7 matches, 430 runs @ 35.83
Ben Cox - 8 matches, 339 runs @ 26.08
Julian Stafford - 6 matches, 330 runs @ 41.25
Jack Manuel - 7 matches, 274 runs @ 22.83
Matthew Mason - 16 matches, 200 runs @ 11.76
Ben Smith - 4 matches, 188 runs @ 31.33
Gareth Andrew - 6 matches, 145 runs @ 20.71
Alan Richardson - 15 matches, 90 runs @ 6.92
Neil Pinner - 2 matches, 79 runs @ 19.75
Shaaiq Choudry - 2 matches, 64 runs @ 21.33
Jack Shantry - 8 matches, 47 runs @ 7.83
Chris Whelan - 2 matches, 45 runs @ 15.0
Chris Russell - 2 matches, 3 runs @ 3.0


Bowling

Shakib Al Hasan - 422 overs, 59 wickets @ 19.39 (E/R 2.71)
Imran Arif - 489 overs, 46 wickets @ 36.61 (E/R 3.44)
Matthew Mason - 519 overs, 43 wickets @ 33.42 (E/R 2.77)
David Wheeldon - 368 overs, 31 wickets @ 49.19 (E/R 4.14)
Jack Shantry - 246 overs, 28 wickets @ 32.18 (E/R 3.65)
Alan Richardson - 385 overs, 24 wickets @ 51.46 (E/R 3.21)
Alex Kervezee - 63 overs, 7 wickets @ 43.14 (E/R 4.73)
Gareth Andrew - 145 overs, 7 wickets @ 73.71 (E/R 3.56)
Daryl Mitchell - 49 overs, 3 wickets @ 50.0 (E/R 3.02)
Vikram Solanki - 65 overs, 3 wickets @ 71.0 (E/R 3.28)
Chris Whelan - 39 overs, 1 wicket @ 122.0 (E/R 3.13)
Chris Russell - 43 overs, 1 wicket @ 193.0 (E/R 4.49)


DNP

Matthew Pardoe
James Cameron
Joe Leach
Richard Jones

 

[6ry4nj]

Shame to see Chris Whelan had such a bad year. As his economy rate suggests, he's better than that! Ben Smith likewise, although I suppose in his case it might be old-age

Whereas, Richard Jones! Oh dear!! To think that some half-way decent players like Knappett (formerly of Worcs) and Hardinges etc. have gone the way of the Unicorns (), yet Worcestershire cling to this Jones character as if for dear life!

 

[hedger_14]

18th September 2010
Worcestershire vs Sussex
Challenge Trophy - Final​

Teams:

Worcestershire

1. Daryl Mitchell
2. Stuart Adler?
3. David Wheeldon
4. Alex Kervezee
5. Vikram Solanki*
6. Moeen Ali
7. Shakib Al Hasan
8. Imran Arif
9. Gareth Andrew
10. Jack Shantry
11. Matthew Mason


Sussex

1. Christopher Nash
2. Joe Gatting
3. Ed Joyce
4. Luke Wright
5. Murray Goodwin
6. Matt Prior?
7. Michael Yardy*
8. James Kirtley
9. Monty Panesar
10. Billy Taylor
11. Corey Collymore


Toss:

Worcestershire won the toss and elected to bowl first


Sussex - 221 all out

Ed Joyce 67 (78)
Matt Prior 46 (41)

Matthew Mason 2/17 (8)
David Wheeldon 2/32 (8)
Jack Shantry 2/33 (3.2)


Worcestershire - 208/4

Daryl Mitchell 126* (126)
Moeen Ali 47* (79)

Billy Taylor 2/35 (8)


Sussex won by 13 runs


MOTM:

Daryl Mitchell (126* off 126 and 1 catch)


Comments:

Moeen Ali, you son of a *****. On course to win the match but an extremely slow innings left us just short. Mitchell was superb with the bat. Wheeldon's promotion to #3 as a pinch hitter didn't work too well although he bowled really well. Despite our loss, I am really pleased with the teams efforts in this competition although it would have been nice to win a competition. Mitchell had a superb season, especially in One Day cricket where he scored 746 runs @ 67.82 with 4 centuries to go with his 1200 runs in FC cricket. A great season for the young batsman. He should be in for a great career over the next 5 seasons.

 

[CG123]

Sorry, my computer broke yesterday while I was playing my match.
It seems to be working fine now, so I'll definitely post it along with my stats tomorrow, as I have nothing planned.

Unlucky with the loss there in the final.