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It was the key to the match... it annoys me that they can do that and yet my best bowler goes for over 70 on sublime
 
Thats the end of the story,

45.4 W Love to Wright
Short ball, raps the gloves as Wright tries to get his bat out of the way, and loops up nicely for Bishop! The batsman was caught off guard by the extra pace

Tough luck, Griffo.. Bishop's work behind the stumps + unbeaten 150+ should be the MOTM though I prefer Gayle for the MOTM because his good spell turned the cards for HT..

Also it seems, Bishop like Sharks very much.. His 160+(130b) and 97(76b) tells that ;) Better luck next time :thumbs And Griffo, if I would have set the orders definitely I would have removed Gayle, Karthikeyan and Singh from my line up :p
 
BFN Bombers 228 (48.5)
Gross 5/58 (9.5)
Wharrad 3/35 (9.0)
Nicholls 118

A reasonable result, but the Mongooses' best score against the Bombers is 168. It's not going to be easy.
 
4.3 W Sotho to Crockett
A magnificent catch by Hendrie, running back with the flight. He had to throw himself at it, full length, in the end, but never took his eyes off the ball and clung to it desperately with both hands. Outstanding effort, and righteous celebrations ensue.

End of Over 5: 12-1, runrate=2.40
Sotho 3-0-10-1
Petrie* 7 (10 balls)
Hanzsen 2 (3 balls)
Last Wicket: Crockett c. Hendrie b. Sotho 3 (FOW: 10/1)

Awesome. Petrie and Hanzsen are both very good players but I can see Petrie getting a 50 easy against me. He's their best player and he's going to be very difficult to get out.
 
I'm going to lose, batsmen under performed horribly, two of them were dead to begin with anyway. To make matters worse, Mongooses are going at over 8 an over at the moment....
 
I didnt have top line up, ive learnt one or two lessons I plan to try against Syl next week
 
Dunno how I got VJK out for such a low total, but I'll take it

End of Over 7: 24-1, runrate=3.43, reqrunrate=3.77 (185-10)
Wotton 4-0-22-0
Coutts* 18 (23 balls)
Wilbrahim 4 (11 balls)

Last Wicket: Tailor c. Fadeer b. Keigher 1 (FOW: 5/1)
 
End of Over 10: 30-1, runrate=3.00
Nkoe 5-1-10-0
Hanzsen* 9 (16 balls)
Petrie 18 (27 balls)
Last Wicket: Crockett c. Hendrie b. Sotho 3 (FOW: 10/1)

My opening bowlers needed to take more wickets really. Unfortunately my best bowlers are seamers and its a spinners pitch.

10.1 . Burger to Hanzsen
There's a sound as the ball clips the bat and goes through to Hodge who goes up in tandem with the fielders. Unbelievable! The umpire hasn't given it, he needs to turn his hearing aid up if he couldn't hear that edge.

Not my day.
 
And my batsmen begin to fail......:rolleyes:

End of Over 17: 62-4, runrate=3.65, reqrunrate=3.76 (185-10)
Upton 2-0-2-1
Lester* 8 (6 balls)
McCree 0 (1 balls)

Last Wicket: Africa c & b. Upton 8 (FOW: 62/4)
 
I'm going to lose, batsmen under performed horribly, two of them were dead to begin with anyway. To make matters worse, Mongooses are going at over 8 an over at the moment....
Lies. Were never anywhere near after that. Only the wonderful batting of Sephake stood up, which stands to reason against a wonderful bowling attack.

Fighting Mongooses 185 (46.0)
Samuel 3/36 (8.0)
Ghandi 2/29 (8.0)
Bird 2/34 (10.0)
Sephake 71
 
I was kinda annoyed and went to watch Aus v NZ and had to do a few other things and to my delight, Samuel did his job and got the early wicket and then Bird and Kelly just turned it around in the middle overs going for few runs and taking crucial wickets. I still stand by me saying that I didn't post a good enough score, thank goodness for Nicholls!
 
37.2 6 Mullen to Macey
New ball please! That one has disappeared out of town.
37.1 6 Mullen to Macey
Start the car! That one's cleared the ropes for six as Macey shifted his front foot out of the way and slog swept the ball over cow corner.

I was scared Macey would get killed by their bowlers...

End of Over 38: 183-3, runrate=4.82, reqrunrate=6.00 (254-5)
Mullen 9-0-44-3
Macey* 20 (15 balls)
Pilkington 109 (125 balls)
Last Wicket: Hendrie b. Mullen 24 (FOW: 152/3)

Despite only losing a few wickets, I don't bat that deep and could struggle. I think he'll win by about 20-30 runs. Pilkington is playing wonderfully.

Jaztheman added 1 Minutes and 15 Seconds later...

38.4 W Lescott to Pilkington
Got Him! Pilkington was bamboozled by that ball, exquisite spin bowling!

Definitely lost now.

Jaztheman added 25 Minutes and 10 Seconds later...

And that's the end of the match. Wiki Wanderers won by 37 runs.
Wiki Wanderers 254-5
Shore Athletic 217-10

Simple win for Wiki Wanderers in the end thanks to a little bit of a BT collapse by my team. Lost the last 5 wickets for 17 runs. Oh well, it was a decent performance against a team that has beaten me two times out of two. Thats now three out of three of course. Prefer this kind of matches opposed to easily winning though. Good match, Wiki.
 
Won of the last ball with my youngster hitting the boundary. Nice way to win a match:

And that's the end of the match. Muireston won by 6 wickets.
Loms Bunnies 170-8
Muireston 172-4

End of Over 20: 172-4, runrate=8.60
Higgins 4-0-36-0
Tailor 94 (56 balls)
McCree* 51 (37 balls)
 

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