Story Brendon vs Callum vs Jono - A Worcestershire Battle

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Lol, only two players in both of our most recent playing XIs are common, Mitchell and Richardson.

 

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Worcestershire vs Essex
Twenty Over Cup - quarter-final
27th 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

Essex

1. Billy Godleman
2. Ben Howgego
3. Ravi Bopara
4. S... Hurst?
5. Ramnaresh Sarwan
6. Daniel Flynn
7. R... Ellsion
8. David Masters
9. Tony Palladino
10. Timothy Phillips
11. Charlie Shreck

Toss:

Worcestershire won the toss, and chose to bowl first.

Match:

Essex - 196 for 3 (20 overs)

Ramnaresh Sarwan 74* (41)
Ravi Bopara 49* (38)
Ben Howgego 34 (21)

Worcestershire - 164 for 4 (20 overs)

Eric Matthews 92* (56)
Luke Wright 32* (26)

Tony Palladino 3-24 (4)

Result:

Essex win by 32 runs

MOTM:

Ramnaresh Sarwan (74 not out off 41 balls)

Reaction:

Meh, it just wasn't meant to be.

We gave it a good shot, but when you end up 32 runs short batting on maximum aggression for the whole innings, you realize that you don't deserve to win when your bowlers preform that badly.

Davies choose the worst match possible to tune out his worst performance of the season, going for 46 runs off his four overs.

 

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Worcestershire's Twenty Over Cup Statistics for 2011

Best Batsman - Daryl Mitchell
Best Bowler - Mark Davies​

Batting

Daryl Mitchell - 15 matches, 597 runs @ 45.9 (S/R 128)
Jeet Raval - 17 matches, 454 runs @ 30.3 (S/R 133)
Jeff Ingram - 17 matches, 362 runs @ 40.2 (S/R 128)
Vikram Solanki - 16 matches, 317 runs @ 24.4 (S/R 125)
Eric Matthews - 9 matches, 300 runs @ 50.0 (S/R 141)
Dan Christian - 17 matches, 140 runs @ 28.0 (S/R 140)
Alan Darbon - 8 matches, 119 runs @ 19.8 (S/R 101)
Luke Wright - 16 matches, 106 runs @ 15.1 (S/R 106)
David Wheeldon - 7 matches, 50 runs @ 25.0 (S/R 156)
Alex Kervezee - 2 matches, 44 runs @ 22.0 (S/R 85)
Dewald Nel - 16 matches, 17 runs @ 8.5 (S/R 113)
Mark Davies - 17 matches, 11 runs @ 3.7 (S/R 48)
Monty Panesar - 15 matches, 9 runs @ 9.0 (S/R 225)
Moeen Ali - 2 matches, 4 runs @ 4.0 (S/R 80)
Julian Flynn - 6 matches, 1 run @ 1.0 (S/R 50)
Imran Arif - 5 matches, 1 run @ 1.0 (S/R 25)
Alan Richardson - 2 matches, DNB

Bowling

Mark Davies - 65 overs, 29 wickets @ 15.3 (E/R 6.8)
Dewald Nel - 61 overs, 27 wickets @ 19.2 (E/R 8.4)
Dan Christian - 66 overs, 19 wickets @ 27.7 (E/R 8.0)
Monty Panesar - 53 overs, 12 wickets @ 32.4 (E/R 7.3)
Imran Arif - 17 overs, 10 wickets @ 16.4 (E/R 9.7)
Luke Wright - 29 overs, 8 wickets @ 32.5 (E/R 9.0)
Julian Flynn - 18 overs, 2 wickets @ 76.0 (E/R 8.4)
Daryl Mitchell - 5 overs, 1 wicket @ 48.0 (E/R 9.6)
Alan Richardson - 7 overs, 1 wicket @ 64.0 (E/R 9.1)
David Wheeldon - 13 overs, 1 wicket @ 115.0 (E/R 8.9)

DNP

Jeff Friend
Christopher Graham
Jack Shantry

 

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26th July 2011
Worcestershire vs Kent
Twenty Over Cup - Quarter-Final​

Teams:

Worcestershire

1. Jeff Norris
2. Daryl Mitchell
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


Kent

1. Robert Key
2. Joe Denly
3. Martin van Jaarsveld
4. Simon Ellsion
5. Darren Stevens
6. Geraint Jones?
7. Sam Northeast
8. James Tredwell
9. Amjad Khan
10. Dewald Nel
11. Robbie Joseph


Toss:

Kent won the toss and elected to bat first


Kent - 178/7

Geraint Jones 52 (34)
Martin van Jaarsveld 36 (15)
Robert Key 26 (16)

Imran Arif 3/31 (4)
Calvin Flowers 2/35 (4)
Christopher Pears 2/41 (4)


Worcestershire - 181/4

Daryl Mitchell 77* (57)
Jeff Norris 36 (23)
Alex Kervezee 30 (20)
Julian Stafford 25* (15)

Dewald Nel 2/34 (4)
Darren Stevens 2/34 (4)


Worcestershire won by 6 wickets with 0 balls remaining


MOTM:

Daryl Mitchell (77* off 57 balls)


Comments:

What a win! I thought we had no chance. They raced away at the start of their innings scoring 70 runs in the first 6 overs but some great middle over bowling from Arif and Flowers pegged them back. Daryl Mitchell did an outstanding job late in the game, bowling 4 overs for 24 runs as they managed 178. We also got off to a great start, scoring 29 runs off the first 2 overs and 88 runs in the first 8 overs. Only 30 runs came off the next 5 overs though as Mitchell started to slow down. It got worse though when we lost 2 wickets in the 16th over, as we needed 42 runs off the final 4 overs. Stafford came out and started firing though early and scored 29 runs off the next 2 overs as we only needed 12 runs to win. We had a poor over next though as we only scored 4, giving us 8 to win off the last over. It started off badly with Mitchell playing and missing at the first 2 balls. But then he got an inside edge for 4 and we needed 4 runs off 3 balls. We scored 2 singles off the next 2 balls to now need 2 runs to win off the last ball. Mitchell on strike. It was a good length delivery but Mitchell pulled it away hard and it bisected the gap in the outfield and went away for four, as we won a terrific match. Could this be our year?

 

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Where were Kent's overseas players?

 

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29th July 2011
Worcestershire vs Essex
County Championship - D2​

Teams:

Worcestershire

1. Stephen Moore
2. Daryl Mitchell
3. Jeff Norris
4. Julian Stafford
5. Moeen Ali
6. Alex Kervezee*
7. Stuart Adler?
8. Calvin Flowers
9. Imran Arif
10. Christopher Pears
11. Boyd Rankin


Essex

1. Billy Godleman
2. John Maunders
3. Ryan ten Doeschate
4. David Wiese
5. Mark Pettini
6. Paul Baldwin
7. James Foster?
8. Tom Westley
9. Graham Napier
10. David Masters
11. Maurice Chambers


Toss:

Essex won the toss and elected to bat first


Essex - 493 all out

Ryan ten Doeschate 256 (355)
Mark Pettini 118 (139)

Christopher Pears 5/122 (32.1)
Calvin Flowers 5/173 (38)


Worcestershire - 463 all out

Daryl Mitchell 210 (412)
Stuart Adler 104 (190)
Stephen Moore 56 (130)
Alex Kervezee 40 (93)

David Wiese 4/124 (38)
Graham Napier 3/104 (33.2)


Essex - 257/6 dec.

Mark Pettini 72 (66)
Ryan ten Doeschate 63 (100)
Paul Baldwin 56 (102)

Christopher Pears 4/73 (20)


Worcestershire - 290/7

Stuart Adler 93* (76)
Jeff Norris 59 (63)
Alex Kervezee 47 (35)
Calvin Flowers 40 (47)

David Wiese 5/79 (12)


Worcestershire won by 3 wickets


MOTM:

Ryan ten Doeschate (256, 63, 1/67 and 1/49)


Points:

Worcestershire 22
Essex 6


Comments:

What a win!!! I had a little over one and a half sessions to chase down 290, and I decided to risk it. We quickly fell to 4/36 but I decided to continue going for it as Norris and Kervezee then put on a 75 run partnership, Kervezee at one stage 36* off 18 balls. Norris then continued onwards with Adler before he went for 59 but Adler's sublime knocked continue in a 84 run partnership with Flowers who also scored a quick 40 even though I just wanted him to stay in. Arif then came in and hit 29 off 23 balls while Adler finished 93* as we won by 3 wickets, scoring those 290 runs in only 43.2 overs. Adler in his last 4 FC innings has scored 93*, 104, 0 and 168*. Is an English callup coming for him? Prior is still only 29 years old but he might be taken over Adler soon enough.

Anyway, earlier in the match, we failed in their first innings, Flowers and Pears taking all the wickets. Only Pears and Rankin went at less than 4 an over in that innings. In our first innings, Moore and Mitchell got us off to a solid start but once Moore got out, Norris, Stafford and Ali got out cheaply. Kervezee contributed well though with 40, his last 3 FC scores in the 40's. Adler and Mitchell just went on with it though, Mitchell scoring a great double century while Adler made a nice hundred as well. The bottom order failed though. In their second innings, only really Pears bowled well, taking 4/73 but other than that, noone really bowled well. Pears now has 12 FC wickets @ 22.67, 2 OD wickets @ 22.5 and 12 T20 wickets @ 14.33.

 

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How far behind am I at the moment? Going to the zoo soon lol

 

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A couple of matches or so

I mainly posted my match cause I don't get that much time during the week and a bit of a reminder for you to post your matches.

 

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Well since I didn't get through to the QFs it can't be too far. I'll try and do some tonight but I might be watching the NZ game...

 

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24th July 2011
Worcestershire vs Unicorns
Challenge Trophy - Group Match​

Playing XI?s

Worcestershire

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


Unicorns

1. Michael O'Shea
2. Duncan Snell
3. Zoheb Sharif
4. Chris Murtagh
5. Josh Knappett
6. Jackson Thompson
7. Mark Hardinges
8. Tom Mees
9. David Burton
10. Chris Peploe
11. Carl Greenidge

Worcestershire win by 8 runs
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A game that was much too close for comfort. We were playing the Unicorns, normally the easy win, but they fought right to the end. Batting first, we started slowly, with Mitchell and Aimson going pretty slowly. Ali and O'Brien played quick knocks but were out too early for us to reach any sort of decent score. In the end it proved just enough thanks to good bowling from Ireland and Komasaru. The rest of the bowlers were completely terrible and expensive. That was our first victory of the OD tournament, but we still lie in last place.

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Haha, nearly lost. Now you're only a match or 2 behind.

Let's see.

FC matches:

Brendon - 12 matches
Callum - 11 matches
Jono - 11 matches

OD matches:

Brendon - 6 matches
Callum - 6 matches
Jono - 7 matches

Ok, so you're pretty much on par with me. So really Callum is one game behind.

 

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Nah I'm one FC match behind you - I've got one on the 29th.

 

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Jono has always been one OD match behind us, because of the scheduling. So ignoring that, me and Jono are one FC match behind you.

 

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Hasn't Jono played 7 OD games though while we've played 6?

 

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Yeah, but he played an extra one before the T20's, so we decided just to not worry about that, and we'll catch it up whenever we do.