Story Brendon vs Callum vs Jono - A Worcestershire Battle

[hedger_14]

Yeah, I was bored so I decided to play the final considering we each had one game each. I'll post my challenge trophy stats tomorrow as well. And it would be nice to finish this by christmas. Jono, play your game

 

[CG123]

I think he's gone away now until like the 27th, then he might be going away again for new years.

Actually wait, he was showing activity like half an hour ago.

 

[Chewie]

I'm away until the 26th but I have internet sometimes.

I'm not going away after Christmas though.

But I don't have ICC on my mac so I can't play my match down here

 

[CG123]

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

Teams:

Worcestershire

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

Sussex

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

Toss:

Worcestershire won the toss, and chose to bat first.

Match:

Worcestershire - 510 for 9 declared

Jeff Ingram 130
Alan Darbon 58
Imran Arif 57*
Alex Kervezee 56

Corey Collymore 4-120
Luke Wright 2-69
Ragheb Aga 2-157

Sussex - 402 all out

Joe Gatting 106
Matt Prior 103
Michael Yardy 59

Shakib Al Hasan 5-95
Alan Richardson 2-74

Worcestershire - 96 for 0 declared

Daryl Mitchell 43*
Vikram Solanki 43*

Sussex - 170 for 6

Joe Gatting 68

Shakib Al Hasan 3-43
Alan Richardson 2-45

Result:

Match Drawn

Points:

Sussex 9
Worcestershire 8

MOTM:

Jeff Ingram (130 runs off 260 balls, 2 catches and 1 stumping)

Reaction:

I can't ****en stand the County Championship points scoring system, we dominated the match, yet somehow we end up with less points than them, fearsome tweak that.

The scorecard pretty much sums up the match, it was a road, but they almost folded on day five when we set them 205 runs to win in 35 overs, I though that was very generous of me, but they still didn't go all out for the win.

Most of our batsmen got amongst the runs, which would have been a lot more useful earlier on in the season, of course Shakib had the second lowest score, putting more emphasize on the fact that his batting in my game is what comes out of my ass. He does continue a late season revival with the ball however, being really our only bowler to prosper on the flat deck.

Anyway we ended up last by 22 points, despite only losing three out of 16 matches. I'd say about half of my 11 draws I would have gone on to win if there was a day five, hence again why the County Championship points scoring system is a piece of ████. Ironically Sussex finished in eighth, and they were the other team relegated from division one last season.

 

[CG123]

Worcestershire's County Championship Statistics for 2010

Best Batsman - Daryl Mitchell
Best Bowler - Alan Richardson
MVP - Imran Arif​

Batting

Daryl Mitchell - 17 matches, 1082 runs @ 36.1 (S/R 40)
Vikram Solanki - 16 matches, 913 runs @ 30.4 (S/R 46)
Alex Kervezee - 16 matches, 912 runs @ 39.7 (S/R 33)
Imran Arif - 16 matches, 719 runs @ 30.0 (S/R 40)
Alan Darbon - 8 matches, 693 runs @ 63.0 (S/R 54)
Moeen Ali - 13 matches, 691 runs @ 31.4 (S/R 48)
Jeff Ingram - 8 matches, 440 runs @ 44.0 (S/R 45)
Phil Jacques - 5 matches, 400 runs @ 57.1 (S/R 50)
Shakib Al Hasan - 11 matches, 372 runs @ 24.8 (S/R 46.7)
Ben Smith - 7 matches, 368 runs @ 33.5 (S/R 35)
Matthew Mason - 17 matches, 282 runs @ 14.8 (S/R 33)
David Wheeldon - 7 matches, 277 runs @ 34.6 (S/R 37)
Jack Manuel - 5 matches, 243 runs @ 30.4 (S/R 48)
Shaaiq Choudhry - 7 matches, 192 runs @ 21.3 (S/R 38)
Neil Pinner - 2 matches, 160 runs @ 40.0 (S/R 41)
Ben Cox - 7 matches, 122 runs @ 11.1 (S/R 37)
Alan Richardson - 16 matches, 89 runs @ 17.8 (S/R 26)
Gareth Andrew - 3 matches, 65 runs @ 21.7 (S/R 30)
Joe Leach - 2 matches, 51 runs @ 17.0 (S/R 40)
Matthew Pardoe - 1 match, 38 runs @ 38.0 (S/R 37)
James Cameron - 2 matches, 19 runs @ 6.3 (S/R 59)
Chris Russell - 2 matches, 2 runs @ 2.0 (S/R 20)

Bowling

Alan Richardson - 640 overs, 66 wickets @ 29.5 (E/R 3.0)
Imran Arif - 456 overs, 56 wickets @ 28.1 (E/R 3.5)
Matthew Mason - 712 overs, 55 wickets @ 36.8 (E/R 2.8)
Shakib Al Hasan - 455 overs, 36 wickets @ 35.0 (E/R 2.8)
David Wheeldon - 116 overs, 17 wickets @ 27.9 (E/R 4.1)
Daryl Mitchell - 79 overs, 6 wickets @ 54.8 (E/R 4.2)
Vikram Solanki - 28 overs, 4 wickets @ 17.3 (E/R 2.5)
Gareth Andrew - 56 overs, 4 wickets @ 39.3 (E/R 2.8)
James Cameron - 37 overs, 3 wickets @ 55.7 (E/R 4.5)
Alex Kervezee - 17 overs, 2 wickets @ 29.5 (E/R 3.5)
Alan Darbon - 3 overs, 1 wicket @ 23.0 (E/R 7.7)
Joe Leach - 47 overs, 0 wickets (E/R 3.4)
Moeen Ali - 24 overs, 0 wickets (E/R 4.0)
Chris Russell - 38 overs, 0 wickets (E/R 4.3)
Shaaiq Choudhry - 2 overs, 0 wickets (E/R 4.5)

DNP

Richard Jones
Jack Shantry
Chris Whelan

 

[hedger_14]

Worcestershire's Challenge Trophy Statistics for 2010​

MVP - Daryl Mitchell​

Batting

Daryl Mitchell - 13 matches, 746 runs @ 67.82 (S/R 103.47)
Alex Kervezee - 14 matches, 377 runs @ 34.27 (S/R 91.94)
Shakib Al Hasan (Including Int. Matches) - 15 matches, 352 runs @ 27.08 (S/R 71.53)
Stuart Adler - 9 matches, 281 runs @ 35.12 (S/R 105.22)
Julian Stafford - 6 matches, 245 runs @ 81.67 (S/R 99.58)
Phil Jaques (Including Int. Matches) - 7 matches, 214 runs @ 30.57 (S/R 83.91)
Vikram Solanki - 10 matches, 161 runs @ 16.1 (S/R 88.45)
Jack Manuel - 6 matches, 132 runs @ 22.0 (S/R 107.3)
David Wheeldon - 10 matches, 111 runs @ 15.86 (S/R 68.51)
Imran Arif - 12 matches, 79 runs @ 19.75 (S/R 69.29)
Shaaiq Choudhry - 3 matches, 76 runs @ 38.0 (S/R 105.54)
Moeen Ali - 5 matches, 71 runs @ 17.75 (S/R 62.28)
Ben Smith - 4 matches, 70 runs @ 23.33 (S/R 53.83)
Gareth Andrew - 14 matches, 55 runs @ 18.33 (S/R 52.88)
Ben Cox - 3 matches, 33 runs @ 11.0 (S/R 70.19)
Neil Pinner - 2 matches, 27 runs @ 13.5 (S/R 72.95)
Alan Richardson - 8 matches, 25 runs @ 25.0 (S/R 44.63)
Jack Shantry - 7 matches, 12 runs @ 4.0 (S/R 42.85)
Matthew Mason - 13 matches, 9 runs @ 4.5 (S/R 40.89)
James Cameron - 1 match, DNB


Bowling

Imran Arif - 89 overs, 25 wickets @ 19.84 (E/R 5.57)
Matthew Mason - 95 overs, 24 wickets @ 17.21 (E/R 4.34)
Shakib Al Hasan - 102 overs, 19 wickets @ 28.53 (E/R 5.31)
Gareth Andrew - 85 overs, 17 wickets @ 27.29 (E/R 5.46)
Alex Kervezee - 28 overs, 9 wickets @ 21.89 (E/R 6.83)
David Wheeldon - 61 overs, 8 wickets @ 43.25 (E/R 5.67)
Jack Shantry - 42 overs, 7 wickets @ 33.0 (E/R 5.46)
Alan Richardson - 54 overs, 5 wickets @ 62.2 (E/R 5.71)
Daryl Mitchell - 9 overs, 2 wickets @ 27.0 (E/R 6.0)


DNP

Matthew Pardoe
Joe Leach
Chris Whelan

 

[CG123]

Worcestershire's Season Summary for 2010

Overall

Best Batsman - Daryl Mitchell
Best Bowler - Alan Richardson
MVP - Daryl Mitchell

County Championship

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

16​

|

2​

|

3​

|

0​

|

11​

|

28​

|

38​

|

131​

Best Batsman - Daryl Mitchell - 17 matches, 1082 runs @ 36.1 (S/R 40)
Best Bowler - Alan Richardson - 16 matches, 66 wickets @ 29.5 (E/R 3.0)
MVP - Imran Arif - 16 matches, 719 runs @ 30.0 (S/R 40) and 56 wickets @ 28.1 (E/R 3.5)

Challenge Trophy

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

12​

|

4​

|

8​

|

0​

|

0​

|

8​

Best Batsman - Daryl Mitchell - 11 matches, 383 runs @ 42.6 (S/R 66)
Best Bowler - Alan Richardson - 12 matches, 17 wickets @ 24.7 (E/R 5.1)
MVP - Daryl Mitchell - 11 matches, 383 runs @ 42.6 (S/R 66) and 9 wickets @ 21.0 (E/R 5.7)

Twenty Over Cup

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

16​

|

1​

|

15​

|

0​

|

0​

|

2​

Best Batsman - Alex Kervezee - 16 matches, 317 runs @ 19.8 (S/R 105)
Best Bowler - Matthew Mason - 16 matches, 16 wickets @ 27.6 (E/R 7.4)
MVP - Daryl Mitchell - 9 matches, 293 runs @ 48.8 (S/R 119) and 6 wickets @ 27.3 (E/R 6.7)

Second Team

Best Batsman - Neil Pinner - 40 matches, 1949 runs @ 42.4 (S/R 54)
Best Bowler - Chris Russell - 41 matches, 117 wickets @ 33.1 (E/R 3.6)
MVP - Joe Leach - 34 matches, 1805 runs @ 44.0 (S/R 56) and 68 wickets @ 37.8 (E/R 3.8)​

 

[Varun]

A good chance lost hedger, Daryl Mitchell was fantastic though, the other guy completely halted the run-rate. Nevertheless, Worchestershire reaching the finals was surely a lovely sight after we saw all others' (CG and Chewie ones), succumb in the prelims only.

 

[hedger_14]

So what were we going to do now. Are we going to play another season or not?

And Jono stlil needs to play his final game.

 

[6ry4nj]

I for one would like to see you play on. I'd be particularly fascinated as to how you tried to improve the squad in the off-season. Worcs did a dreadful job, losing almost all their key players, in between '09 and 2010. Financial reasons presumably. Would love to see you start to rebuild. They were quite a strong team in 2009 - in the game anyway.

Excellent story either way. Kudos!

 

[hedger_14]

Yeah, I wouldn't mind doing a second season at least. I would like to see what we come up with in the offseason.

 

[CG123]

Like you said we're still waiting for Jono's final game. I was going to VM him yesterday, but I think he's away ATM.

Also when you (Jono) post your final game, can you post your full CC points (wins/losses/draws/batting/bowling/total etc.), so I can update the first post.

After Jono's final match I think we should at least post an update about our off season, but I'm not really sure if I'll be up to doing another whole season.

Sure the updates don't take long, but towards the end of this season I was more just posting them for the sake of it, and I know when that happens I'm more or less done. I guess you (Brendon) may have been slightly different, as you were actually winning games.

I'll see what happens over the off season, a few decent buys could sway me towards carrying on.

BTW I think it's pretty safe to say that Brendon won the first season.

 

[AbhishekS]

I have a small suggestion for you Callum. Transfer the first post either to Hedger or to Chewie so that instead of one, two guys (either Hedger or Chewie and you) will have the command of the first post.

I guess it might reduce the confusion, if there exists any.

 

[hedger_14]

Ok, yeah. I see what you mean Callum. We'll see what happens. Let's go through to the new season and play about 10 matches I think and then decide whether we want to continue.

And there's not really any confusion. It's just that Callum doesn't know Jono's batting and bowling points exactly.

 

[CG123]

Yeah, during the season it doesn't matter much, but it's just that it's the end of the season, so I want to get it exactly right.