Story Brendon vs Callum vs Jono - A Worcestershire Battle
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Worcestershire vs Gloucestershire
County Championship - D2
7th September 2011
County Championship - D2
7th September 2011
Teams:
Worcestershire
1. Jeet Raval
2. Daryl Mitchell*
3. Eric Matthews
4. Alan Darbon
5. Alex Kervezee
6. Luke Wright
7. Jeff Ingram?
8. Mark Davies
9. Dewald Nel
10. Monty Panesar
11. Julian Flynn
Gloucestershire
1. William Porterfield
2. Kadeer Ali
3. James Franklin
4. Alex Gidman*
5. Steve Snell?
6. Hamish Marshall
7. K... Ballard
8. A... Vowden
9. Jon Lewis
10. Steve Kirby
11. Anthony Ireland
Toss:
Gloucestershire won the toss, and chose to bat first.
Match:
Gloucestershire - 207 all out
Hamish Marshall 67
James Franklin 42
Julian Flynn 4-36
Mark Davies 2-47
Monty Panesar 2-51
Worcestershire - 282 all out
Jeet Raval 56
Alex Kervezee 50
Luke Wright 46
Jon Lewis 5-53
James Franklin 3-77
A... Vowden 2-68
Gloucestershire - 191 all out
James Franklin 74
Steve Snell 43
Monty Panesar 4-53
Luke Wright 3-26
Mark Davies 3-29
Worcestershire - 117 for 1
Daryl Mitchell 49*
Eric Matthews 43*
Result:
Worcestershire win by 9 wickets
Points:
Worcestershire 21
Gloucestershire 3
MOTM:
James Franklin (42, 3/77, 74 and 0/24)
Reaction:
Finally we live up to our pre-season expectations.
Sadly it's a bit too late to make a late season revival, with only one more game remaining.
Worcestershire vs Northamptonshire
County Championship - D2
13th September 2011
County Championship - D2
13th September 2011
Teams:
Worcestershire
1. Jeet Raval
2. Daryl Mitchell*
3. Eric Matthews
4. Alan Darbon
5. Alex Kervezee
6. Luke Wright
7. Jeff Ingram?
8. Mark Davies
9. Dewald Nel
10. Monty Panesar
11. Julian Flynn
Northamptonshire
1. Niall O'Brien?
2. Stephen Peters
3. David Sales
4. Rob White
5. Elton Chigumbura
6. Vishal Tripathi
7. Andrew Hall*
8. J... Aram
9. David Lucas
10. David Wigley
11. Jack Brooks
Toss:
Worcestershire won the toss, and chose to bowl first.
Match:
Northamptonshire - 159 all out
Rob White 47
Mark Davies 5-37
Dewald Nel 3-25
Worcestershire - 254 all out
Eric Matthews 85
Jeet Raval 57
David Lucas 2-32
Jack Brooks 2-53
Elton Chigumbura 2-65
David Wigley 2-75
Northamptonshire - 294 all out
Niall O'Brien 86
David Lucas 45*
Monty Panesar 4-69
Mark Davies 4-76
Worcestershire - 201 for 8
Alex Kervezee 63*
Mark Davies 48
Jack Brooks 4-72
David Wigley 2-38
Result:
Worcestershire win by 2 wickets
Points:
Worcestershire 21
Northamptonshire 3
MOTM:
Mark Davies (5/37, 20, 4/76 and 48)
Reaction:
What a great finish to the season, which means we end up finishing a respectable fifth in division two.
Mark Davies innings in our second innings was just one of those freak things. I played him as a nightwatchmen in the first innings at number three, and I forgot to move him back down in the second innings, so sure enough he held our chase together, before Kervezee played a vital knock to get us home in the last over of day four.
hedger_14
ICC Chairman
Well I've already finished my contracts for the new season and my squad looks slightly stronger than before with the exception of Calvin Flowers who was too expensive to retain.
It'll be pretty hard for me to increase the strength of my number one XI.
These are their FC averages:
Raval - 44 (There's a good chance I'll have to release him)
Mitchell - 39 and 36
Matthews - 44
Darbon - 53
Kervezee - 38
Wright - 35 and 43
Ingram - 32
Davies - 13 and 23
Nel - 10 and 30
Panesar - 9 and 32
Flynn - 6 and 27 (He's only played three FC matches)
I can't really strengthen my batting at all, with the total of their averages being 323.
I probably missed a real top notch keeper, and a third quality pace bowler to go with Davies and Nel.
Arif was a massive disappointment after being my best FC player last season, and as expected Solanki and Richardson have faded with age.
These are their FC averages:
Raval - 44 (There's a good chance I'll have to release him)
Mitchell - 39 and 36
Matthews - 44
Darbon - 53
Kervezee - 38
Wright - 35 and 43
Ingram - 32
Davies - 13 and 23
Nel - 10 and 30
Panesar - 9 and 32
Flynn - 6 and 27 (He's only played three FC matches)
I can't really strengthen my batting at all, with the total of their averages being 323.
I probably missed a real top notch keeper, and a third quality pace bowler to go with Davies and Nel.
Arif was a massive disappointment after being my best FC player last season, and as expected Solanki and Richardson have faded with age.
hedger_14
ICC Chairman
Did we want to post our off-season's or not?
Callum's Off-Season Update
Like I thought I haven't really been able to strengthen my squad, and if anything I've weakened it, as it said Sam Wells would be available for the whole season, but he's already gone away on international duty. I managed to put 30k on coaching, 20k on physio, as well as 10k on youth team, and Daryl Mitchell will keep the captaincy for 2012.
Squad
Batsmen:-
Moeen Ali - 24
Marcus Biley - 22
* Alan Darbon - 22
* Alex Kervezee - 22
Eric Matthews - 21
Daryl Mitchell - 28 (Captain)
* Jacques Rudolph - 30
Wicket-keepers:-
Kevin Ballard - 20 (Full-time)
Jeff Ingram - 23 (Full-time)
All-rounders:-
* Sam Wells - 27 (Pace) (Overseas player)
David Wheeldon - 22 (Spin)
* Luke Wright - 27 (Pace)
Bowlers:-
Imran Arif - 28 (Pace)
* Mark Davies - 31 (Pace)
Julian Flynn - 19 (Pace)
* Dewald Nel - 31 (Pace)
* Monty Panesar - 29 (Spin) (England contracted)
Jack Shantry - 24 (Pace)
* = Internationally capped
- # = Age
New recruits:-
Kevin Ballard
A promising young keeper, with a FC average of 35 after 21 matches. He was asking for a salary of over 40k at just 20 years of age, so I assume he's very highly rated.
Marcus Biley
A promising young batsman. He's only played a handful of matches, but has shown a lot of promise averaging 40, 67 and 21 in the three respective formats.
Jacques Rudolph
I needed another opener after the departure of Solanki and Raval, and Rudolph was on the market. He averages 45, 44 and 28 in the three respective formats, and brings some international expereince to our top order having played 81 matches for South Africa.
Sam Wells
A very promising New Zealander, with a salary of over 100k. As I said above I stuffed up big time, as he'll miss the first two months with New Zealand touring the West Indies. He's currently played 24 international matches, with limited success. He'll more than likely play as our third pace bowler, as well as proved a very useless middle to lower order batting option.
Likely playing XI:-
Note: I haven't looked at ICC's recommended playing XI via the ratings.
1. Jacques Rudolph
2. Daryl Mitchell (Captain)
3. Eric Matthews
4. Alan Darbon - Pending on international commitments
5. Marcus Biley/Alex Kervezee
6. Luke Wright
7. Sam Wells (Overseas player) - Pending on international commitments
8. Kevin Ballard/Jeff Ingram (Keeper)
9. Mark Davies
10. Monty Panesar
11. Dewald Nel
Bench:
Moeen Ali - Bench warmer
Imran Arif - Will probably get some game time
One of Kevin Ballard/Jeff Ingram
One of Marcus Biley/Alex Kervezee
Julian Flynn - Will probably get some game time
Jack Shantry - Bench warmer
David Wheeldon - Will probably get some game time
Like I thought I haven't really been able to strengthen my squad, and if anything I've weakened it, as it said Sam Wells would be available for the whole season, but he's already gone away on international duty. I managed to put 30k on coaching, 20k on physio, as well as 10k on youth team, and Daryl Mitchell will keep the captaincy for 2012.
Squad
Batsmen:-
Moeen Ali - 24
Marcus Biley - 22
* Alan Darbon - 22
* Alex Kervezee - 22
Eric Matthews - 21
Daryl Mitchell - 28 (Captain)
* Jacques Rudolph - 30
Wicket-keepers:-
Kevin Ballard - 20 (Full-time)
Jeff Ingram - 23 (Full-time)
All-rounders:-
* Sam Wells - 27 (Pace) (Overseas player)
David Wheeldon - 22 (Spin)
* Luke Wright - 27 (Pace)
Bowlers:-
Imran Arif - 28 (Pace)
* Mark Davies - 31 (Pace)
Julian Flynn - 19 (Pace)
* Dewald Nel - 31 (Pace)
* Monty Panesar - 29 (Spin) (England contracted)
Jack Shantry - 24 (Pace)
* = Internationally capped
- # = Age
New recruits:-
Kevin Ballard
A promising young keeper, with a FC average of 35 after 21 matches. He was asking for a salary of over 40k at just 20 years of age, so I assume he's very highly rated.
Marcus Biley
A promising young batsman. He's only played a handful of matches, but has shown a lot of promise averaging 40, 67 and 21 in the three respective formats.
Jacques Rudolph
I needed another opener after the departure of Solanki and Raval, and Rudolph was on the market. He averages 45, 44 and 28 in the three respective formats, and brings some international expereince to our top order having played 81 matches for South Africa.
Sam Wells
A very promising New Zealander, with a salary of over 100k. As I said above I stuffed up big time, as he'll miss the first two months with New Zealand touring the West Indies. He's currently played 24 international matches, with limited success. He'll more than likely play as our third pace bowler, as well as proved a very useless middle to lower order batting option.
Likely playing XI:-
Note: I haven't looked at ICC's recommended playing XI via the ratings.
1. Jacques Rudolph
2. Daryl Mitchell (Captain)
3. Eric Matthews
4. Alan Darbon - Pending on international commitments
5. Marcus Biley/Alex Kervezee
6. Luke Wright
7. Sam Wells (Overseas player) - Pending on international commitments
8. Kevin Ballard/Jeff Ingram (Keeper)
9. Mark Davies
10. Monty Panesar
11. Dewald Nel
Bench:
Moeen Ali - Bench warmer
Imran Arif - Will probably get some game time
One of Kevin Ballard/Jeff Ingram
One of Marcus Biley/Alex Kervezee
Julian Flynn - Will probably get some game time
Jack Shantry - Bench warmer
David Wheeldon - Will probably get some game time
Chewie
BCCI President
Off-Season Update
No one retired happily, so I offered new contracts to Mitchell, Solanki, Wheeldon, Richardson and Rush, while terminating the contract of Sutton.
After the first round of contracts, Solanki and Wheeldon wanted more, so I offered them a little extra, and offered contracts to a youth bowler Lynch, as well as contracts to Trego and Batty. Solanki accepted his new offer, while Wheeldon still wanted more. Lynch accepted the offer, but the two all-rounders wanted more as well.
Next round Wheeldon accepted, while Trego and Batty both declined annoyingly. by this time there were no decent domestic bowlers available. I offered Thorp, Keegan and Maynard offers. For my overseas player I went for a spinner again, putting an offer on Afridi. He accepted my offer, and I got Vettori as my reserve again. There wasn't enough left over for a T20 player however.
My squad for this season is therefore
Batsmen:
Moeen Ali
Daryl Mitchell
Vikram Solanki
Anthony Aimson
Vic Kelly
Alexei Kervezee
Vic Rush
Tom Maynard
Wicket-Keepers:
Tony Stack
Niall O'Brien
All-Rounders:
David Wheeldon
Shahid Afridi
Daniel Vettori (reserve)
Bowlers:
Alan Richardson
Steven Finn
Anthony Ireland
Boyd Rankin
Marcus Lynch
Callum Thorp
Chad Keegan
Likely First XI:
Vic Rush
Daryl Mitchell
Anthony Aimson
Moeen Ali
Niall O'Brien
Alexei Kervezee/Tom Maynard
Vikram Solanki/David Wheeldon
Shahid Afridi
Steven Finn
Anthony Ireland
Callum Thorp/Boyd Rankin/Marcus Lynch
No one retired happily, so I offered new contracts to Mitchell, Solanki, Wheeldon, Richardson and Rush, while terminating the contract of Sutton.
After the first round of contracts, Solanki and Wheeldon wanted more, so I offered them a little extra, and offered contracts to a youth bowler Lynch, as well as contracts to Trego and Batty. Solanki accepted his new offer, while Wheeldon still wanted more. Lynch accepted the offer, but the two all-rounders wanted more as well.
Next round Wheeldon accepted, while Trego and Batty both declined annoyingly. by this time there were no decent domestic bowlers available. I offered Thorp, Keegan and Maynard offers. For my overseas player I went for a spinner again, putting an offer on Afridi. He accepted my offer, and I got Vettori as my reserve again. There wasn't enough left over for a T20 player however.
My squad for this season is therefore
Batsmen:
Moeen Ali
Daryl Mitchell
Vikram Solanki
Anthony Aimson
Vic Kelly
Alexei Kervezee
Vic Rush
Tom Maynard
Wicket-Keepers:
Tony Stack
Niall O'Brien
All-Rounders:
David Wheeldon
Shahid Afridi
Daniel Vettori (reserve)
Bowlers:
Alan Richardson
Steven Finn
Anthony Ireland
Boyd Rankin
Marcus Lynch
Callum Thorp
Chad Keegan
Likely First XI:
Vic Rush
Daryl Mitchell
Anthony Aimson
Moeen Ali
Niall O'Brien
Alexei Kervezee/Tom Maynard
Vikram Solanki/David Wheeldon
Shahid Afridi
Steven Finn
Anthony Ireland
Callum Thorp/Boyd Rankin/Marcus Lynch
Out of interest why do you go for a 20 man squad?
I never see the point on going for more than 18 players, because that just spreads your money around too much so you can't get some real quality players. Most of the time I only go for 16/17 players, and just get a couple of those randoms to make up the numbers.
I never see the point on going for more than 18 players, because that just spreads your money around too much so you can't get some real quality players. Most of the time I only go for 16/17 players, and just get a couple of those randoms to make up the numbers.
Chewie
BCCI President
I don't normally aim for a particular squad size, it just ends up being around that number. Should probably have pushed harder for Trego though
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So what state are we gonna do? The problem with Australian games is that players don't get rotated between states very much which is rather boring at the end of a season.
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So what state are we gonna do? The problem with Australian games is that players don't get rotated between states very much which is rather boring at the end of a season.
I guess the big question now arises, what are we going to do next?
Options:
1. We continue on doing what we're doing.
2. We continue on doing what we're doing, but instead of doing an update every match, we do an update every two weeks or a month.
3. We play some matches online between us. (I've never done this before, so I'm assuming online play works for me)
4. We start another game with another English county.
5. We start another game with an Australian state.
6. We start another game with an international team.
7. We wrap things up now altogether.
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2/3/5 are probably my three favoured options.
Options:
1. We continue on doing what we're doing.
2. We continue on doing what we're doing, but instead of doing an update every match, we do an update every two weeks or a month.
3. We play some matches online between us. (I've never done this before, so I'm assuming online play works for me)
4. We start another game with another English county.
5. We start another game with an Australian state.
6. We start another game with an international team.
7. We wrap things up now altogether.
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2/3/5 are probably my three favoured options.
Chewie
BCCI President
I'd prefer if we started another game. Probably not international though. Online play would be interesting. I'd probably update in this thread anyway (with my original save) just to see how things go.
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