Commentary Thread

[Gilly Fan]

fearsome tweak fearsome tweak fearsome tweak. I forgot to change my team and all my players are on moderate. :

I'll have to throw the game tomorrow.

 

[angryangy]

This is stupid, 3 games and 3 first innings totals below 300. Where am I meant to get my morale back from here? I could lose to a pancake with this form.

 

[aussie1st]

Are you playing your best team?

Might have stuffed up by batting first, in terms of getting a result. But at worst should get the extra gate receipts. I have to hope I can bowl him out cheaply and enforce the follow on.

End of Over 110 (5 runs). Baggy Blues: 448-5, runrate=4.07
Geldenhuys 24-2-131-0
Sawyer* 40 (59 balls)
Chavhanga 185 (291 balls)
Last Wicket: Masibulele lbw b. Savage 64 (FOW: 377/5)

 

[angryangy]

Yeah, best XI, at least I think so. Fortunately the bowlers had my back and now we're batting again. Hopefully this innings holds together for a while.

 

[aussie1st]

Sounds like one of those bowlers pitch.

I was scared to look back at my game with my opponent at 83/1 but a few overs later I see

End of Over 22 (Maiden). The People's Army: 85-5, runrate=3.86
Trail by 363 runs. (Baggy Blues 448-5 dec)
Sawyer 2-1-1-2
Brennan* 0 (3 balls)
Savage 0 (0 balls)
Last Wicket: Mcleod st. Masibulele b. Sawyer 0 (FOW: 85/5)

 

[aussie1st]

Good end to the day, bowled him out for 183 with Woods continuing his FC hot streak with 4 more wickets. Got him 5/229 at stumps. Hopefully I can clean him up quickly tomorrow and bar some crazy collapse I should have my 2nd FC win in my new comp.

 

[angryangy]

Finally turned a corner with the batting, well kinda. Holloway made 172 out of a score of 314. The somewhat sketchy target of 291 looks like enough, being through to the tail with almost 100 runs left.

 

[Gilly Fan]

Declared at 200 trying to throw the game but I ended up skittling him for about 180 and now I'm only 20 away from a win.

 

[aussie1st]

Lol a team playing all spinners against me in FC and looking at the report summary it probably cost him seeing how my pitch was uneven.

Baggy Blues The People's Army
Top Order: proficient superb
Middle Order: remarkable remarkable
Lower Order: worthless abysmal
Seam Bowling: superb useless
Spin Bowling: phenomenal superb
Fielding: feeble feeble

 

[mattfb]

***** it agaisnt a bot in the fc. Got them for 237 then went 6/608 declared after 118 overs. Fox 204 odd 238, Plummer 106 off 141 and Van-geersdaele 116 off 133. Phindile took 4 and I finished them off for 192 in the second innings.

Out of the cup though

 

[aussie1st]

Nervous times ahead for me

End of Over 22: 86-3, runrate=3.91
Vine 1-0-4-0
Backley* 43 (64 balls)
Dirkin 20 (34 balls)
Last Wicket: Mcdonagh lbw b. Woods 13 (FOW: 42/3)

Lucky I played Sawyer and Woods, and hopefully my batters can chase down the total he sets.

This isn't looking good right now, I'm praying my batters don't collapse.

End of Over 3: 16-1, runrate=5.33, reqrunrate=5.17 (258-6)
Abdul kadir 2-0-4-1
Fincher* 10 (9 balls)
Masibulele 0 (2 balls)
Last Wicket: Moodley b. Abdul kadir 5 (FOW: 16/1)

 

[Maxkarter]

And that's the end of the match. BFN Bombers won by 10 wickets.
Smoking 11 10-10
BFN Bombers 11-0

Damn, to think I went with a fully attacking batting line-up and even opened with Samuel hoping he'd get a 50 and we end up bowling first. At least it was a proper hammering though!

 

[mattfb]

Easy win in the end. Bit of a sacre when they made 240 but my boys chased it down just losing 2 wickets in 44.5 overs. Gave some players a rest because it was against a bot so they will be refreshed for my match against you Syl Oakley, Morrison, Phindile and Spillane are all raring to go. Beware boy!

I'm in top form and I'm not prepared to let that go anytime soon haha Of course your 2nd XI will probably whoop me lol.

 

[mattfb]

Not a bad start to my match against Syl:

End of Over 5: 32-0, runrate=6.40
Hitish 3-0-15-0
Oakley* 14 (14 balls)
Fox 13 (16 balls)

 

[aussie1st]

Hehe seems like you cursed your team. Straight after that comment 3 wickets have fallen.

End of Over 9: 53-3, runrate=5.89
Hitish 5-0-29-2
Maguire* 9 (8 balls)
Plummer 7 (2 balls)
Last Wicket: Morrison c. Moodley b. Hitish 1 (FOW: 45/3)

Hitish is proving expensive lately though, might be time to find a new backup bowler.