Story Brendon vs Callum vs Jono - A Worcestershire Battle

[CG123]

Last season it was my batting that was a fail, while my bowling was solid as.
This season Richardson and Arif have been absolute fails, and despite picking up three solid domestic bowlers, my bowling's been all at sea.
It makes no sense really...

 

[6ry4nj]

their no name attack

A couple of brief comments on the Unicorns? no-name attack.

Chris Peploe in real life averages 23.36 in List A at 4.38 economy. If you get as far as next off-season and he?s available, you could do worse?

And Carl Greenidge, who fits the ?no-name? description in spirit, escapes it on a technicality, being the son of the legendary Gordon.

 

[6ry4nj]

btw Aimson played one test and scored to half centuries to average like 60 in tests

Good news for Worcestershire, but a bad selection that pays off is still a bad selection. I still say England should never've hired Hilditch...

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Six specialist batsmen are averaging over 40 this season, and they've all got over four stars of form, but I can only play five of them.

Go on, play them all! Mitchell and Solanki opening, and Solanki keeping if necessary. As you say, it's a great problem to have.

 

[CG123]

Go on, play them all! Mitchell and Solanki opening, and Solanki keeping if necessary. As you say, it's a great problem to have.

I could drop Wright as well, but he's also averaging over 40 with the bat, and he provides a more than adequate fifth bowling option.

Ideally though five specialist batsmen, one all-rounder, one keeper, and four bowlers seems like a nice formula to work with FC and OD.

I'll probably to chuck in Christian for the T20s instead of one of my "defensive" batsmen, as that will give me a genuine sixth bowling option.

 

[CG123]

Worcestershire vs Middlesex
County Championship - D2
24th May 2011​

Teams:

Worcestershire

1. Jeet Raval
2. Daryl Mitchell*
3. Alex Kervezee
4. Alan Darbon
5. Eric Matthews
6. Luke Wright
7. Jeff Ingram?
8. Mark Davies
9. Dewald Nel
10. Monty Panesar
11. Alan Richardson

Middlesex

1. Sam Robson
2. Scott Newman
3. Neil Dexter
4. Owais Shah
5. Dan Housego
6. Ben Scott?
7. Gareth Berg
8. Iain O'Brien
9. Steven Finn
10. Pedro Collins
11. Danny Evans

Toss:

Worcestershire won the toss, and chose to bat first.

Match:

Worcestershire - 189 all out

Alan Darbon 47
Jeff Ingram 42

Steven Finn 4-57
Iain O'Brien 3-61
Pedro Collins 2-24

Middlesex - 200 all out

Dan Housego 60
Neil Dexter 48

Dewald Nel 4-52
Alan Richardson 3-51
Mark Davies 3-53

Worcestershire - 291 all out

Luke Wright 120
Mark Davies 43

Pedro Collins 4-58
Sam Robson 2-8

Middlesex - 100 all out

Alan Richardson 4-13
Mark Davies 3-32
Dewald Nel 2-34

Result:

Worcestershire win by 180 runs

Points:

Worcestershire 19
Middlesex 4

MOTM:

Luke Wright (3, 0/15, 120 and 1/21)

Reaction:

Wow, what a win.

At two stages in the match we were dead and buried, but somehow we got up to win rather easily in the end.

On an absolute road we won the toss and chose to bat, but it turned pear shaped rather quickly, as we were rolled without even picking up one bonus point.

They were then cursing at 191 for four, having just taking over our first innings total, but that inspired spell of pace bowling I was looking for finally occurred, as they lost their last six wickets for nine runs.

We were then gone at 115 for six, only leading by 104 runs, but an incredible 137 run seventh wicket partnership propelled us up to 291, setting them 281 for victory in over four sessions.

When we got a few early wickets I began to realise we should we the match, and for the second innings in a row their middle - lower order self-destructed, with their bottom five scoring a grand total of six runs in the match.

For the first time this season my batsmen really struggled, but also for the first time this season my pace bowlers did something really worthwhile.

Also Alan Darbon has been selected for England, for the ODIs against Sri Lanka. In 14 FC matches he's averaging 57, and in 12 OD matches he's averaging 45.

 

[hedger_14]

haha, I'm still going the best but I'm the only one not to have a player selected for England.

 

[Chewie]

I also had Sehwag and Vettori away on international duty too. Haven't looked at any ratings, but I would guess Aimson's would be quite high to be selected for England with a batting average of 35. Though he was averaging something like 80 for the season.

How many matches am I behind now?

My bowling seems to the problem normally. Though my batting was suffering before with Aimson away and Ali injured.

 

[CG123]

How many matches am I behind now?

Only one.

I've played my next match though, but I won't post it until you've posted your next one.

 

[hedger_14]

but I would guess Aimson's would be quite high to be selected for NZ with a batting average of 35

Isn't Aimson English??

 

[Chewie]

woops typo

An average of 35 would be great for a NZer

 

[Chewie]

23rd May 2011
Worcestershire vs Essex
Challenge Trophy - Group Match​

Playing XI?s

Worcestershire

1. Vic Kelly
2. Anthony Aimson
3. Daryl Mitchell
4. Moeen Ali
5. Vikram Solanki *
6. Alex Kervezee
7. Niall O'Brien +
8. Alan Richardson
9. Chanaka Komasaru
10. Anthony Ireland
11. Boyd Rankin


Essex

1. Jimmy Adams
2. Billy Godleman
3. Ryan ten Doeschate
4. Ravi Bopara
5. David Cooke
6. Mark Pettini
7. James Foster
8. Graham Napier
9. Tony Palladino
10. Maurice Chambers
11. Timothy Phillips

Essex win by 7 wickets
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It's rather hard winning OD matches when you only have one bowler who actually does well in them. This was more of the same, losing a OD match by a big margin. Aimson and Mitchell swapping places did pretty well, but Ali and Solanki were unable to provide support when they were out and it was up to Kervezee and O'Brien to steer us to a semi-decent total. On his OD return Ireland wasn't too bad, but Richardson and all the part-timers got smacked around, with Essex winning with plenty of time left over.
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[hedger_14]

29th May 2011
Worcestershire vs Leicestershire
County Championship - D2​

Teams:

Worcestershire

1. Stephen Moore
2. Daryl Mitchell
3. Alex Kervezee*
4. Shaaiq Choudhry
5. Julian Stafford
6. David Wheeldon
7. Stuart Adler?
8. Calvin Flowers
9. Imran Arif
10. Chris Russell
11. Boyd Rankin


Leicestershire

1. James Benning
2. Jacques du Toit
3. Jesse Ryder
4. James Taylor
5. Tom New
6. Paul Nixon?
7. Ken Cullin
8. Wayne White
9. Jigar Naik
10. Nadeem Malik
11. Chris Whelan


Toss:

Worcestershire won the toss and elected to bowl first


Leicestershire - 185 all out

Ken Cullin 49 (78)

Calvin Flowers 8/71 (22.5)
Boyd Rankin 1/33 (11)


Worcestershire - 478/5 dec.

Alex Kervezee 128 (224)
Julian Stafford 100* (174)
Daryl Mitchell 100 (227)
Stuart Adler 65 (99)
Shaaiq Choudhry 54 (133)

Jigar Naik 2/136 (43)


Leicestershire - 148 all out

Jacques du Toit 35 (54)

Calvin Flowers 7/47 (23.1)
Imran Arif 2/35 (11)


Worcestershire won by an innings and 145 runs


MOTM:

Calvin Flowers (8/71 and 7/47)


Points:

Worcestershire 23
Leicestershire 1


Comments:

Well enough talking about Flowers as he adds another 15 wickets to his tally. Great batting with 3 centurians, a different sight from the last game from where 5 players past 50 but noone could score a century. Adler and Choudhry also batted well scoring 65* and 54 respectively. Moore and Wheeldon failed though and Wheeldon will likely be dropped below Adler after he had scored 87 and 65* in his last 2 innings.

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btw 6ry4nj, what was that about Whelan making us pay. He's averaging over 100 with the ball this season.

 

[CG123]

Wtf...

 

[hedger_14]

I wonder how my team will go without Flowers?

 

[CG123]

Worcestershire vs Sussex
County Championship - D2
29th May 2011​

Teams:

Worcestershire

1. Jeet Raval
2. Daryl Mitchell*
3. Vikram Solanki
4. Alex Kervezee
5. Eric Matthews
6. Luke Wright
7. Jeff Ingram†
8. Mark Davies
9. Dewald Nel
10. Monty Panesar
11. Alan Richardson

Sussex

1. Chris Nash
2. Joe Gatting
3. Matt Prior†
4. Murray Goodwin
5. Dominic Telo
6. Michael Thornely
7. Robin Martin-Jenkins
8. Luke Wells
9. Ragheb Aga
10. James Anyon
11. Corey Collymore

Toss:

Worcestershire won the toss, and chose to bat first.

Match:

Worcestershire - 274 all out

Jeet Raval 62

Corey Collymore 3-57
James Anyon 2-50
Ragheb Aga 2-67

Sussex - 316 all out

Chris Nash 135
Murray Goodwin 41

Dewald Nel 4-79
Mark Davies 3-79
Luke Wright 2-44

Worcestershire - 208 all out

Eric Matthews 66
Luke Wright 52

Ragheb Aga 6-59
Corey Collymore 3-40

Sussex - 167 for 5

Mark Davies 3-40

Result:

Sussex win by 5 wickets

Points:

Sussex 22
Worcestershire 5

MOTM:

Chris Nash (0/32, 135, 0/20 and 10)

Reaction:

What a dismal effort, against the team one place above us on the table.

Our batting failed to fire for the second match a row, and dispite playing a get our of jail free card in their first innings, we failed to take advantage of the situtaion.

Our first innings of 274 was well under par. Excluding Raval who made 62, everyone else from 2 - 8 made at least 14, but no one went past 36.

We were looking down a massive deficient when they were going along comfortably at 266 for 3, but their middle - lower order fell apart, and we were still in the game when they were dismissed for 316.

Sadly we were playing catch-up from there though. We lost four wickets before wiping off the small deficient, and despite getting a total on the board, it was never going to trouble their batting line-up with a specialist batsman down at eight.