Story Brendon vs Callum vs Jono - A Worcestershire Battle

[Chewie]

I think Callum's two matches behind at the moment.

 

[Gaurav_7]

I just love the reactions of Callum when he loses a match.

 

[CG123]

I think Callum's two matches behind at the moment.

I'll probably have caught up by this time tomorrow, or maybe even gone ahead.

I've been into uni the last two days, so yeah.

 

[Chewie]

Business school orientation? Biggest waste of time ever.

 

[CG123]

Yesterday general orientation, and today Business school orientation.

I was pretty happy to get that Delna test out of the way though, and I sorted a few other thing out.

The tours, and most of the Business school orientation are a waste of time like you said.

 

[CG123]

Worcestershire vs Surrey
County Championship - D2
3rd August 2011​

Teams:

Worcestershire

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

Surrey

1. Steve Davies†
2. Michael Brown
3. Usman Afzaal
4. Rory Hamilton-Brown*
5. Laurie Evans
6. R... Hyde
7. Chris Schofield
8. Tim Linley
9. Chris Tremlett
10. Andre Nel
11. Matthew Mason

Toss:

Worcestershire won the toss, and chose to bat first.

Match:

Worcestershire - 409 for 9 declared

Daryl Mitchell 74
Alan Darbon 67
Jeff Friend 57
David Wheeldon 43

Chris Tremlett 3-98
Chris Schofield 2-59
Andre Nel 2-114

Surrey - 378 all out

Rory Hamilton-Brown 103
Usman Afzaal 74
Chris Tremlett 41*

Monty Panesar 4-75
Mark Davies 3-73

Worcestershire - 216 for 8 declared

Jeet Raval 83
Alan Darbon 44*

Chris Tremlett 4-92
Andre Nel 3-56

Surrey - 132 for 2

Rory Hamilton-Brown 64*

Result:

Match Drawn

Points:

Surrey 9
Worcestershire 9

MOTM:

Rory Hamilton-Brown (103, 64* and 2 catches)

Reaction:

Wow, Surrey have now played 11 matches, and they've drawn nine...

I'm not sure what happened in their first innings, their bottom three read:

9. Chris Tremlett 41* (76)
10. Andre Nel 27 (41)
11. Matthew Mason 25 (47)

In the end we were probably a pace bowler short, hence why their tail managed to wag so much. Once Dewald Nel got taken to (innings E/R of 4.5), Mark Davies was our only genuine pace bowler.

BTW in their second innings once I realised they were playing for the draw, I just bowled part-timers/batsmen, hence how they managed to get up to 132 for 2 on a day four pitch.

We're still sitting in 4th place, but 5th place, 6th place and 7th place are only 4, 10 and 11 points behind us respectively, and all three of them have a game in hand.

Also Jeff Friend had a pretty solid debut, scoring 57 (94), 16 (25) and took two catches.

 

[CG123]

Worcestershire vs Sussex
Challenge Trophy - group match
8th August 2011​

Teams:

Worcestershire

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

Sussex

1. Chris Nash
2. Joe Gatting
3. Ed Joyce
4. Dominic Telo
5. Murray Goodwin
6. C... Hannon?
7. Robin Martin-Jenkins
8. Ragheb Aga
9. Chad Keegan
10. James Kirtley
11. Corey Collymore

Toss:

Worcestershire won the toss, and chose to bat first.

Match:

Worcestershire - 278 for 2 (40 overs)

Jeet Raval 144* (116)
Alan Darbon 80* (60)
Daryl Mitchell 40 (55)

Sussex - 118 all out (19.2 overs)

Dominic Telo 52 (39)

Imran Arif 3-33 (5)
Mark Davies 3-34 (6)
Luke Wright 2-5 (1)
Dewald Nel 2-25 (4.2)

Result:

Worcestershire win by 160 runs

Points:

Worcestershire 2
Sussex 0

MOTM:

Jeet Raval (144* off 116 balls and 2 catches)

Reaction:

cricket yes, that's the result we were looking for!

In our two 40 over matches against Sussex, Jeet Raval has scored 124* (110) and 144* (116), as well as taking three catches.

Alan Darbon's starting to return to his early season form as well, with a brutal 80* (60), with a catch on top of that.

We played more or less the perfect 40 over innings. They bowled their two opening bowlers out at the top, both finishing with economy rates of 4.75. That allowed us to get stuck into their other three lesser bowlers for the last half of our innings, which we did.

 

[hedger_14]

9th August 2011
Worcestershire vs Leicestershire
County Championship - D2​

Teams:

Worcestershire

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


Leicestershire

1. Alec Cullin
2. James Benning
3. James Taylor
4. Andrew McDonald
5. Tom New
6. Paul Nixon?
7. Jacques Du Toit
8. Wayne Hardwick
9. Jigar Naik
10. Nadeem Malik
11. Chris Whelan


Toss:

Worcestershire won the toss and elected to bat first


Worcestershire - 405 all out

Shaaiq Choudhry 104 (97)
Daryl Mitchell 60 (137)
Alex Kervezee 56 (144)
Stephen Moore 51 (96)
Jeff Norris 45 (60)
Stuart Adler 40 (58)

Nadeem Malik 4/77 (24)
Chris Whelan 2/71 (17)


Leicestershire - 439 all out

Wayne Hardwick 106 (167)
Jacques Du Toit 99 (129)
James Taylor 50 (67)
Alec Cullin 46 (69)

David Wheeldon 5/106 (23.3)
Boyd Rankin 4/90 (24)


Worcestershire - 322 all out

Daryl Mitchell 81 (95)
Stuart Adler 74 (49)
Jeff Norris 72 (102)
Stephen Moore 47 (35)

Nadeem Malik 4/92 (13.3)
Jagir Naik 3/93 (17)
Andrew McDonald 2/83 (18)


Leicestershire - 211 all out

Jacques Du Toit 57 (143)
Alec Cullin 56 (79)

Calvin Flowers 6/68 (23)
Christopher Pears 2/88 (25)
Imran Arif 1/8 (6)


Worcestershire won by 77 runs


MOTM:

Daryl Mitchell (60, 81 and 0/13)


Points:

Worcestershire 24
Leicestershire 8


Comments:

Well one exciting match. Both teams managed to score 400 runs in their first innings and their was still a result and there was still nearly 2 sessions remaining as well. We batted first and everyone contributed with some good scores including Kervezee's first half century in a while after a series of scores in the 40's, but it was Choudhry who was the stand out, hitting a run a ball 104 to get us full batting points, as we were bowled out for 405 in 109.2 overs. They had a series of starts in their innings but Wheeldon took regular wickets although being expensive, as he went at about 6 an over for most of the innings although bowled a lot more economically towards the end of his spell. A 167 run 7th wicket partnership hurt us though as they went from 6/209 to 439 all out, Wheeldon finishing with 5 wickets while Rankin also bowled really well with 4 wickets.

Deciding to go for it, we scored 322 in about 60 overs before we were bowled out, Adler starring with a 49 ball knock of 74 although Mitchell scored 81. Norris seems to be a handy bat although is yet to convert any of his starts, with scores of 47, 1, 59, 60, 18, 45 and 72. That's a total of 302 runs @ 43.14 in 7 innings with 3 50's.

And Flowers was dominant in their second innings taking 6 wickets as we managed to bowl them out for 211, only Cullin and Du Toit frustrating our bowlers with 50's.

 

[hedger_14]

fearsome tweak. I posted the T20 semi final but it didn't post.

And I'm not in the mood to write any of it up again.

Anyway, they scored 210, we bowled like ████, only AB bowled well with 1/24 off 4 overs and we scored 190/7, not much more we could have done with everyone on full aggression. Ali starred though with 75* off 45 odd deliveries (can't remember for sure as I quit out of it once I thought I had posted it).

 

[CG123]

What was the date of the match, and who was it against?

(Just for the first post)

 

[hedger_14]

14th August, against Somerset.

 

[CG123]

@ Brendon - Can you check your Challenge Trophy matches that I have on the first post, as I think I've missed one of yours, but I can't find it in the thread...

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Did you play one on the 2nd of August?

 

[hedger_14]

No, I must have been a match behind then. Oh well, we are all on the same page now.

And btw, I noticed that I made a mistake on one of my matches. I forgot to correct the date from the copy and paste. My second last CT game against Glamorgan was on the 25th July. I've edited that match to the correct date so you just have to correct the date on the first post.

 

[CG123]

Ok, because we don't have many matches left this season, we might as well just play/post them when we want, as the scheduling is different for all of our saves. That will just be easier than worrying about who needs to post what match when.

 

[hedger_14]

Worcestershire's Twenty Over Cup Statistics for 2011​

MVP - AB de Villiers​

Batting

AB de Villiers (Including OS matches) - 24 matches, 1214 runs @ 63.89 (S/R 165.38) - 1067 runs @ 82 in the actual competition with 4 centuries and 7 fifties
Moeen Ali - 18 matches, 550 runs @ 42.31 (S/R 138.87)
Julian Stafford - 18 matches, 337 runs @ 42.12 (S/R 153.86)
Daryl Mitchell - 12 matches, 328 runs @ 29.82 (S/R 130.15)
Vikram Solanki - 14 matches, 174 runs @ 15.82 (S/R 132.82)
Jeff Norris - 7 matches, 140 runs @ 23.33 (S/R 105.25)
Stephen Moore - 7 matches, 110 runs @ 18.33 (S/R 154.91)
Stuart Adler - 11 matches, 92 runs @ 23.0 (S/R 116.45)
Alex Kervezee - 3 matches, 85 runs @ 28.33 (S/R 114.84)
Shaaiq Choudhry - 4 matches, 40 runs @ 20.5 (S/R 107.89)
Calvin Flowers - 15 matches, 28 runs @ 14 (S/R 93.31)
David Wheeldon - 12 matches, 5 runs @ 2.5 (S/R 55.54)
Boyd Rankin - 18 matches, 5 runs @ 5 (S/R 250.0)
Imran Arif - 18 matches, 2 runs @ 2 (S/R 66.65)
Christopher Pears - 7 matches, 2 runs @ 2 (S/R 100)
Vic Clarkson - 2 matches, 0 runs @ 0
Chris Russell - 5 matches, DNB
Daniel Vettori - 3 matches, DNB
Alan Richardson - 3 matches, DNB
Jack Shantry - 2 matches, DNB
Joe Leach - 1 match, DNB


Bowling

Calvin Flowers - 58 overs, 27 wickets @ 16.48 (E/R 7.56)
Imran Arif - 53 overs, 25 wickets @ 17.44 (E/R 8.15)
Boyd Rankin - 54 overs, 22 wickets @ 24.05 (E/R 9.8)
AB de Villiers - 35 overs, 16 wickets @ 18.37 (E/R 8.4)
Christopher Pears - 28 overs, 12 wickets @ 18.33 (E/R 7.86)
Chris Russell - 14 overs, 7 wickets @ 16.71 (E/R 8.36)\
David Wheeldon - 26 overs, 6 wickets @ 40.5 (E/R 9.35)
Daryl Mitchell - 15 overs, 4 wickets @ 32.0 (E/R 8.53)
Alan Richardson - 7 overs, 2 wickets @ 36.5 (E/R 10.43)
Daniel Vettori - 12 overs, 2 wickets @ 44.5 (E/R 7.42)
Julian Stafford - 9 overs, 2 wickets @ 41.5 (E/R 8.89)
Moeen Ali - 2 overs, 1 wicket @ 16.0 (E/R 8.0)
Joe Leach - 4 overs, 1 wicket @ 37.0 (E/R 9.25)
Jack Shantry - 5 overs, 1 wicket @ 57.0 (E/R 11.4)
Alex Kervezee - 2 overs, 0 wickets (E/R 10.0)
Vic Clarkson - 2 overs, 0 wickets (E/R 10.5)
Vikram Solanki - 1 over, 0 wickets (E/R 10)


DNP

Ben Cox