Story Brendon vs Callum vs Jono - A Worcestershire Battle

[CG123]

Worcestershire vs Durham
Twenty Over Cup - group match
8th June 2010​

Teams:

Worcestershire

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

Durham

1. Kyle Coetzer
2. Phil Mustard*†
3. Michael Clarke
4. VVS Laxman
5. Paul Collingwood
6. Dale Benkenstein
7. Ian Blackwell
8. Liam Plunkett
9. Murtaza Hussain
10. Graeme Onions
11. Steve Harmison

Toss:

Worcestershire won the toss, and chose to bowl first.

Match:

Durham - 188 for 8 (20 overs)

Kyle Coetzer 72 (45)

Mark Davies 3-34 (4)
Dewald Nel 2-31 (4)

Worcestershire - 128 for 8 (20 overs)

Jeff Ingram 58* (45)

Murtaza Hussain 2-23 (4)
Steve Harmison 2-29 (4)
Graeme Onions 2-32 (4)

Result:

Durham win by 60 runs

Points:

Durham 2
Worcestershire 0

MOTM:

Kyle Coetzer (72 runs off 45 balls)

Reaction:

Lol, what a joke.

In actual news, Alan Darbon made 58 runs off 50 balls in his ODI debut against Sri Lanka.

 

[Chewie]

8th June 2011
Worcestershire vs Durham
Twenty Over Cup - Group Match​

Playing XI’s

Worcestershire

1. Vikram Solanki
2. Vic Kelly
3. Anthony Aimson
4. Niall O'Brien
5. Moeen Ali
6. Alex Kervezee
7. David Wheeldon
8. Alan Richardson
9. Chanaka Komasaru
10. Steven Finn
11. Anthony Ireland


Durham

1. Michael Di Venuto
2. Kyle Coetzer
3. Ross Taylor
4. Rahul Dravid
5. Paul Collingwood
6. Philip Mustard
7. Gareth Breese
8. Graham Onions
9. Callum Thorp
10. Stephen Harmison
11. Mark Davies

Durham win by 9 wickets
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I don't like T20s Especially when your first match is up against the reigning champions of all three formats. My batsman had no clue whatsoever against the Durham bowlers, and there were an incredible amount of play and misses. It's saying something when your second best batsman was down at number 9 and his 14 runs came off 25 balls. O'Brien was the only one who looks reasonably comfortable and so he will probably open next match. Di Venuto and Taylor chased down our total with ease. Nothing more to say about that.



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[hedger_14]

haha, they had Dravid in Chewie's Durham team, they had Laxman in Callum's Durham team and Tendulkar in mine.

 

[Chewie]

I have Sehwag in my team

 

[CG123]

Worcestershire vs Nottinghamshire
Twenty Over Cup - group match
10th June 2010​

Teams:

Worcestershire

1. Jeet Raval
2. Daryl Mitchell*
3. Vikram Solanki
4. Alan Darbon
5. Luke Wright
6. Jeff Ingram?
7. Dan Christian
8. Mark Davies
9. Dewald Nel
10. Monty Panesar
11. Alan Richardson

Nottinghamshire

1. Alex Hales
2. Neil Edwards
3. David Hussey
4. Samit Patel
5. N... Swanton
6. Chris Read*?
7. Graeme Swann
8. Stuart Broad
9. Andre Adams
10. Ryan Sidebottom
11. Dirk Nannes

Toss:

Worcestershire won the toss, and chose to bat first.

Match:

Worcestershire - 132 for 5 (20 overs)

Daryl Mitchell 46 (38)
Jeff Ingram 31* (24)
Dan Christian 30* (24)

Graeme Swann 2-21 (4)

Nottinghamshire - 134 for 3 (18.4 overs)

Samit Patel 48* (32)
N... Swanton 34* (20)

Result:

Nottinghamshire win by 7 wickets, with 8 balls remaining

Points:

Nottinghamshire 2
Worcestershire 0

MOTM:

Samit Patel (48 not out off 32 balls)

Reaction:

If that's not BS, then I don't know what is.

They needed 48 runs off the last four overs, I had two overs left from Richardson, and one over left from both Nel and Davies. They got it off just 16 balls:

1, 4, 4, 0, 4, 4, 4, 6, 1, 4, 4, 4, 0, 4, 1, 4

I'm just going to farm through these T20 matches, and not post any reaction, as what's the point when BS like that happens.

 

[hedger_14]

haha, that was the same with me last season. I could never be bothered commenting on those stupid T20s. But yeah, I don't plan on writing much.

 

[hedger_14]

10th June 2011
Worcestershire vs Nottinghamshire
Twenty Over Cup - Group Match​

Teams:

Worcestershire

1. Stephen Moore
2. Daryl Mitchell
3. AB de Villiers?
4. Vikram Solanki
5. Moeen Ali
6. Julian Stafford
7. Daniel Vettori*
8. David Wheeldon
9. Imran Arif
10. Jack Shantry
11. Boyd Rankin


Nottinghamshire

1. Alex Hales
2. Neil Edwards
3. Samit Patel
4. Mark Wagh
5. M Wood
6. Bilal Shafayat?
7. Graeme Swann
8. Stuart Broad
9. Paul Franks
10. Andre Adams
11. Ryan Sidebottom


Toss:

Nottinghamshire won the toss and elected to bowl first


Worcestershire - 172/2

AB de Villiers 66* (44)
Stephen Moore 58 (36)
Vikram Solanki 31* (25)


Nottinghamshire - 174/8

Paul Franks 48 (28)
Alex Hales 47 (29)

Imran Arif 5/27 (4)


Nottinghamshire won by 2 wickets with 0 balls remaining


MOTM:

Imran Arif (5/27 off 4)


Points:

Nottinghamshire 2
Worcestershire 0


Comments:

Un****ing believable. They started off strongly with 43 runs off the first 3 overs but a wicket slowed them down slightly but not much. 82/1 after 8 overs so I decide to bring Arif on. 4 wickets in 5 balls, on a hattrick on 2 occassions and they fall to 5-82. Vettori then takes a wicket in the next over and Imran Arif completes his 5fer 2 balls into his second over so he has 5/4 after 1.2 overs and they are 7/93. A tweaking huge partnership between Broad and Franks though was totally unrealistic and gave them a chance to win. They needed 22 runs off 2 overs and Boyd Rankin comes on, traps Franks in front for 48 and then concedes 6 runs off the over so they need 16 off the last over. Since I had stuffed up the overs since I thought it would be over within 15 overs, I had to bowl Mitchell 2 overs and gets hit for 3 fours in a row. Then he bowls a dot, wide and dot. fearsome tweak that wide otherwise we would have won. 3 off 1 ball needed, Broad tweaking pulls through mid on for 4, fearsome tweak this ████.

 

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Worcestershire vs Northamptonshire
Twenty Over Cup - group match
11th June 2010​

Teams:

Worcestershire

1. Jeet Raval
2. Daryl Mitchell*
3. Vikram Solanki
4. Alan Darbon
5. Jeff Ingram?
6. Luke Wright
7. Dan Christian
8. David Wheeldon
9. Mark Davies
10. Dewald Nel
11. Monty Panesar

Northamptonshire

1. Mal Loye
2. Niall O'Brien?
3. Ashwell Prince
4. David Sales
5. Andrew Hall*
6. Elton Chigumbura
7. Vishal Tripathi
8. David Lucas
9. Lee Daggett
10. David Stiff
11. Jack Brooks

Toss:

Worcestershire won the toss, and chose to bowl first.

Match:

Northamptonshire - 150 for 7 (20 overs)

David Sales 74 (55)
Andrew Hall 38 (31)

Mark Davies 3-23
Dewald Nel 2-34

Worcestershire - 148 for 6 (20 overs)

David Wheeldon 46* (24)
Vikram Solanki 36* (32)
Jeet Raval 31 (22)

David Lucas 3-16
Lee Daggett 2-29

Result:

Northamptonshire win by 2 runs

Points:

Northamptonshire 2
Worcestershire 0

MOTM:

David Sales (74 runs off 55 balls)

Reaction:

Gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay, gay.

More BS. We needed 10 runs off the last over, we hit a four off the first ball, so we then needed six runs off five balls, and we went 0, 1, 1, 1, 0.

 

[Aditya]

I am sure that you guys like playing t20's.

 

[Chewie]

hahahahaha this is amusing when it's not happening to me

 

[Brook]

The competition's not to see who can lose most unbelievably!

 

[Chewie]

10th June 2011
Worcestershire vs Nottinghamshire
Twenty Over Cup - Group Match​

Playing XI’s

Worcestershire

1. Vikram Solanki
2. Niall O'Brien
3. Anthony Aimson
4. Daryl Mitchell
5. Moeen Ali
6. Alex Kervezee
7. Tony Stack
8. Alan Richardson
9. Chanaka Komasaru
10. Steven Finn
11. Anthony Ireland


Nottinghamshire

1. Alex Hales
2. Matthew Wood
3. David Hussey
4. Luke Pomersbach
5. Samit Patel
6. Chris Read
7. Graeme Swann
8. Stuart Broad
9. Paul Franks
10. Ryan Sidebottom
11. Darren Pattinson

Nottinghamshire win by 5 wickets
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Top order was terrible as usual, but Mitchell and Ali sparked some life into the innings with their knocks, which took us up to a reasonable total of 147. Our bowling failed us however, with Komasaru being the only decent bowler (though Ireland was pretty economical), as they cruised home. The scorecard may look like they were under some pressure, but in reality they had control of the chase from start to finish.
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[CG123]

You guys are both one match behind me now.

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Am I right to assume that that date is a type, and you mean the 10th?

 

[Chewie]

Yea I fixed it already

 

[hedger_14]

11th June 2011
Worcestershire vs Northamptonshire
Twenty Over Cup - Group Match​

Teams:

Worcestershire

1. Stephen Moore
2. Daryl Mitchell
3. AB de Villiers?
4. Vikram Solanki
5. Moeen Ali
6. Julian Stafford
7. Daniel Vettori*
8. David Wheeldon
9. Imran Arif
10. Chris Russell
11. Boyd Rankin


Northamptonshire

1. Mal Loye
2. Niall O'Brien?
3. David Sales
4. Neil Robin
5. Lou Vincent
6. Andrew Hall
7. Stephen Peters
8. Chaminda Vaas
9. David Lucas
10. Lee Daggett
11. Jack Brooks


Toss:

Worcestershire won the toss and elected to bowl first


Northamptonshire - 193/6

Andrew Hall 53 (30)
Niall O'Brien 45 (29)

Julian Stafford 2/21 (2)
Imran Arif 2/30 (4)
Daniel Vettori 1/20 (4)


Worcestershire - 194/3

AB de Villiers 101* (42)
Daryl Mitchell 46 (26)
Moeen Ali 42* (24)


Worcestershire won by 7 wickets with 25 balls remaining


MOTM:

AB de Villiers (101* off 42 balls)


Points:

Worcestershire 2
Northamptonshire 0


Comments:

AB de Villiers, what a legend. I thought we had absolutely no chance chasing over 190, Moore got out for 2 and we were 1/7. Mitchell played a good knock with 46 off 26 balls with 7 fours and Ali was superb at the end getting us over the line very quickly to boost our NRR with 42* off 24 with 8 fours but it was AB who stole the show scoring an absolutely magnificent 101* off only 42 balls with 17 fours and 2 sixes, a total of 80 runs in boundaries. He played so well that it only took us 15.5 overs to chase it down. Hall copped a lot going for 53 from his 4 overs as well as Daggett who conceded 42 runs in his 2.5 overs. Only Vaas went at less than 10 an over but he still had figures of 0/39 from 4 overs. That win moves us up to 6th.