Story Brendon vs Callum vs Jono - A Worcestershire Battle

[Chewie]

10th July 2011
Worcestershire vs Leicestershire
Twenty Over Cup - Group Match​

Playing XI’s

Worcestershire

1. Virender Sehwag
2. Niall O'Brien
3. Daryl Mitchell
4. Anthony Aimson
5. Vic Rush
6. Moeen Ali
7. Paul Shelley
8. Alan Richardson
9. Chanaka Komasaru
10. Anthony Ireland
11. Boyd Rankin


Leicestershire

1. Marcus Trescothick
2. Kumar Sangakkara
3. James Taylor
4. Brad Hodge
5. James Benning
6. Peter Trego
7. Larry Freshwater
8. Jacques du Toit
9. Wayne White
10. Jigar Naik
11. Daniel Masters

Leicestershire win by 109 runs
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Yea we suck.




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[CG123]

Do you want to post your second match again after this post (just so they can have separate links), then edit your second match out of the post above?

 

[Chewie]

11th July 2011
Worcestershire vs Leicestershire
Twenty Over Cup - Group Match​

Playing XI’s

Worcestershire

1. Daryl Mitchell
2. Niall O'Brien
3. Virender Sehwag
4. Anthony Aimson
5. Vic Rush
6. Moeen Ali
7. Imran Arif
8. Alan Richardson
9. Chanaka Komasaru
10. Anthony Ireland
11. Boyd Rankin


Leicestershire

1. Marcus Trescothick
2. Kumar Sangakkara
3. James Taylor
4. Brad Hodge
5. James Benning
6. Peter Trego
7. Larry Freshwater
8. Jacques du Toit
9. Wayne White
10. Jigar Naik
11. Daniel Masters

Worcestershire win by 7 wickets
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For some reason we played them again. Result was much different though. Bowling first, Richardson, Arif, Komasaru and Sehwag were getting smacked around, so Mitchell came on to bowl, and took 2-13 from 4 overs, including the wickets of Trescothick and Taylor. His spell turned the match around. Mitchell and O'Brien started out looking like they were going to play one of their classic opening partnerships, but they both fell, with Sehwag not lasting too much longer. Aimson and Rush brought us home though, with 11 balls remaining. We have no chance of getting through to the next round however.


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[CG123]

I might play my next match now, it's a must win, so it should be pretty interesting.

 

[Varun]

That's the spirit, majority of the posts in the last pages of this story are from you three.
Feels great that you don't care.

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And just look at the number of posts for every member in this story, I am at the fourth with just 22 posts.

But nevertheless, you guys have been doing a great job. I've missed a few pages I wanted to follow but owing to my busy schedule the last few days.

 

[CG123]

Worcestershire vs Warwickshire
Twenty Over Cup - group match
16th July 2011​

Teams:

Worcestershire

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

Warwickshire

1. Darren Maddy
2. Ian Westwood*
3. Jonathan Trott
4. Ross Taylor
5. N... Skillbeck?
6. M... Miller
7. Rikki Clarke
8. Chris Woakes
9. Ant Botha
10. Billy Taylor
11. Boyd Rankin

Toss:

Worcestershire won the toss, and chose to bat first.

Match:

Worcestershire - 173 for 5 (20 overs)

Daryl Mitchell 78* (51)

Ant Botha 2-37 (4)

Warwickshire - 118 all out (16.4 overs)

M... Miller 44* (27)

Dan Christian 4-31 (4)
Dewald Nel 3-12 (2.4)

Result:

Worcestershire win by 55 runs

Points:

Worcestershire 2
Warwickshire 0

MOTM:

Dan Christian (27* off 19 and 4 for 31 off 4 overs)

Reaction:

Our incredible run continues, with our fifth T20 win in a row!

Heading into the final round we sit in 5th place, so we need to win, and hope that one of 3rd place or 4th place loses.

Dan Christian took his four wickets in one over, and he had a catch dropped on one of his two hat-trick opportunities.

 

[Varun]

Daryl Mitchell seems to be doing a great job for you, Callum.

 

[hedger_14]

16th July 2011
Worcestershire vs Warwickshire
Twenty Over Cup - Group Match​

Teams:

Worcestershire

1. Jeff Norris
2. Vikram Solanki
3. AB de Villiers*
4. Alex Kervezee
5. Moeen Ali
6. Julian Stafford
7. Stuart Adler?
8. Calvin Flowers
9. Imran Arif
10. Christopher Pears
11. Boyd Rankin


Warwickshire

1. Darren Maddy
2. Ian Westwood
3. Jonathan Trott
4. Robert Barrie
5. Rikki Clarke
6. Tim Ambrose?
7. Jim Troughton
8. Chris Woakes
9. Andre Botha
10. Naqaash Tahir
11. Dale Steyn


Toss:

Worcestershire won the toss and elected to bat first


Worcestershire - 154/6

AB de Villiers 87* (52)
Alex Kervezee 27 (21)

Chris Woakes 2/30 (4)
Dale Steyn 2/36 (4)


Warwickshire - 153/6

Rikki Clarke 40* (33)
Robert Barrie 35 (30)

Boyd Rankin 3/32 (4)
AB de Villiers 1/21 (3)


Worcestershire won by 1 run


MOTM:

AB de Villiers (87* off 52 balls and 1/21 off 3 overs)


Points:

Worcestershire 2
Warwickshire 0


Comments:

Well a very close match with a stunning last over from AB de Villiers winning us the game. But Norris failed again with the bat again but showed he is one wonderful slip fielder, as he pulled off a blinder at first slip down to his right. Pears showed he was a reasonable slip fielder as well, taking the catch to remove Jim Troughton in the last over, taking a good catch at second slip off AB de Villiers. Speaking of the last over, we really had no chance, they needed 6 to win with Clarke and Troughton at the crease. I had to bring the field up and AB had to bowl the over after the main bowlers had bowled out their over. Arif had given us a chance though after only going for 1 run in the second last over. The first ball was straight and Clarke worked it fine for 1. The second was pretty straight and Troughton placed it well to get 2 runs. The next ball was the big one though as Troughton edged it through to Pears at second slip. Woakes came to the crease and didn't score a run in his first 2 balls, not being able to get it past the short leg. They needed 3 off the last ball to win and Woakes hammered it away through point but the fielder made an excellent save on the boundary to restrict them to one and we won a nail biting match. Somehow after that win, we went top of the table, only due to our superior NRR, as 2nd and 3rd are on the same amount of points. We have secured a top 3 finish, with 4th place 3 points behind with 1 match to play.

 

[CG123]

Daryl Mitchell seems to be doing a great job for you, Callum.

His last ten scores have been:
(Most recent first)

78* (51)
66 (45)
47 (27)
63* (47)
Fail
47 (39)
31 (30)
46 (44)
52 (46)
53 (42)

 

[CG123]

Worcestershire vs Lancashire
Twenty Over Cup - group match
18th July 2011​

Teams:

Worcestershire

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

Lancashire

1. Simon Katich
2. A... Drinkell?
3. A... Rush
4. Paul Horton
5. Stephen Moore
6. Andrew Flintoff
7. Steven Croft
8. Tom Smith
9. Kyle Hogg
10. Jerome Taylor
11. Sajid Mahmood

Toss:

Worcestershire won the toss, and chose to bat first.

Match:

Worcestershire - 165 for 6 (20 overs)

Jeet Raval 87 (63)

Kyle Hogg 2-27 (4)

Lancashire - 163 for 2 (20 overs)

Simon Katich 83* (66)
A... Rush 39 (35)

Result:

Worcestershire win by 2 runs

Points:

Worcestershire 2
Lancashire 0

MOTM:

Jeet Raval (87 runs off 63 balls)

Reaction:

We're going to the play-offs!

Our skipper Mitchell finally failed with the bat, but like usual when he does Raval stands up. Wright continues to be a massive fail, his last four T20 scores have been 0, 0, 0, 1. I felt 165 was slightly under par, considering the perfect batting conditions.

They got off to a flyer, but some great bowling from Christian (1-25 off 4) and Panesar (1-28 off 4) pegged them back. Heading into the last four overs they needed 40 runs to win with eight wickets in hand, but I had two overs left from my each of my two best bowlers. Off both of their third overs they got dispatched, so all of a sudden they needed just 15 runs off 12 balls with eight wickets in hand. Nel then only conceded six runs off the 19th over, so Davies had nine runs up his sleeve for the final over, they could only manage six singles giving us our sixth T20 win in a row.

We finished up in 3rd place on 17 points, meaning Essex will host us in the quarter-finals. Incredibly the other group has five teams tied for first on 18 points, so if I was in that group I would have finished in 6th place.

 

[Chewie]

16th July 2011
Worcestershire vs Warwickshire
Twenty Over Cup - Group Match​

Playing XI’s

Worcestershire

1. Daryl Mitchell
2. Niall O'Brien
3. Virender Sehwag
4. Anthony Aimson
5. Vic Rush
6. Moeen Ali
7. David Wheeldon
8. Alan Richardson
9. Chanaka Komasaru
10. Anthony Ireland
11. Boyd Rankin


Warwickshire

1. Darren Maddy
2. Ian Westwood
3. Jonathan Trott
4. Naved Yasin
5. Marcus Garforth
6. Rikki Clarke
7. Hugh Franks
8. Chris Woakes
9. Naqaash Tahir
10. Corey Collymore
11. Steffan Piolet

Worcestershire win by 7 wickets
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We steamrolled them! Ireland was the only poor bowler, as the rest of the attack struck often to remove Warwickshire for only 62. Rankin was the pick of the bowlers, while Richardson took two crucial wickets, and Wheeldon had the pretty good figures of 1 wicket for no runs off 1 over. I wanted to chase the total down as quick as possible, but this resulted in low scores for the top 3. To preserve wickets Aimson and Rush hung around for a while before letting loose, but we still won in 8.1 overs. We are now in sixth place, and the only way to get into the top 4 is to win and hope that either Warwickshire or Durham lose their next match.

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[hedger_14]

18th July 2011
Worcestershire vs Lancashire
Twenty Over Cup - Group Match​

Teams:

Worcestershire

1. Jeff Norris
2. Vikram Solanki
3. AB de Villiers*
4. Alex Kervezee
5. Moeen Ali
6. Julian Stafford
7. Stuart Adler?
8. Calvin Flowers
9. Imran Arif
10. Christopher Pears
11. Boyd Rankin


Lancashire

1. Simon Katich
2. Dan Froggett
3. Paul Horton
4. Mark Chilton
5. Hamish Marshall
6. Andrew Flintoff
7. Tom Smith
8. Gareth Cross?
9. Kyle Hogg
10. Glen Chapple
11. Sajid Mahmood


Toss:

Worcestershire won the toss and elected to bat first


Worcestershire - 133/9

Moeen Ali 54 (39)
Alex Kervezee 28 (34)

Sajid Mahmood 4/27 (4)
Glen Chapple 4/31 (4)


Lancashire - 135/0

Simon Katich 82* (56)
Dan Froggett 51* (40)


Lancashire won by 10 wickets with 22 balls remaining


MOTM:

Glen Chapple (4/31 off 4 overs and 1 catch)


Points:

Lancashire 2
Worcestershire 0


Comments:

What an abysmal performance to finish our T20 group stage. We still finished in second position though and will play Kent in the quarter finals.

 

[CG123]

Lol, it's about time you got wasted Brendon.

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We are now in sixth place, and the only way to get into the top 4 is to win and hope that either Warwickshire or Durham lose their next match.

You said in your last update that there was no way you could advance?
That's the exact same equation I had, having to win, and hope that one of two teams above me lose.
In my case both of them lost, so I finished up in third place.

 

[Chewie]

Well because we got whipped so bad, our NRR was terrible. But now it's not too bad. Can someone post after me so I can post my next match?

 

[CG123]

Well because we got whipped so bad, our NRR was terrible. But now it's not too bad. Can someone post after me so I can post my next match?

Well your scenario was exactly the same as mine. I assume you've already played your match, so there's not much point on saying good luck.