Commentary Thread

[angryangy]

Battrick - Fighting Mongooses v Mungi's First XI
Now that's a day's play.

 

[ZoraxDoom]

Not much fight put up there by the Mongooses eh?

 

[ZoraxDoom]

Welcome to Quackwood Pond for the match between Eleven Ducks and TaxXI.

We can tell you that Eleven Ducks won the toss and elected to field. The pitch is looking a bit on the dry side. A fair bit of help for the spinners I think on this partially cloudy day.


Time for my poor duckies to get murdered. Hoping to keep him below 350.

ZoraxDoom added 9 Minutes and 51 Seconds later...

2.5 W Denham to Hook
Fast and straight. Stumps out of the ground. Hook begins the slow walk back to the dressing room.

Well that was unexpected

 

[aussie1st]

Battle of the champions has seen the Baggy Blues fly away to a big total on this uneven track.

End of Over 50: 285-4, runrate=5.70
Hunt 10-1-53-1
Naqqash* 47 (37 balls)
Crouch 52 (55 balls)
Last Wicket: Rogers c. Cox b. Royle 64 (FOW: 200/4)

TJE strength is in the batting so lets so how they go in this chase.

This matchup certainly hasn't disappointed.

End of Over 40: 219-1, runrate=5.48, reqrunrate=6.70 (285-4)
Rogers 10-0-69-0
Ferdinand* 72 (60 balls)
Pollock 104 (127 balls)
Last Wicket: Harbin c. Branch b. Mampe 41 (FOW: 87/1)

TJE still the boss of PC.
And that's the end of the match. Tom Jones Enthusiasts won by 7 wickets.
Baggy Blues 285-4
Tom Jones Enthusiasts 288-3

Good thing Suren knocked him out

 

[Funknath]

lol@ Syl loosing to TJE with a 800k waged team

 

[angryangy]

 		Casteller  	Fighting Mongooses
Top Order: 	quality 	sensational
Middle Order: 	respectable 	remarkable
Lower Order: 	woeful 		abysmal
Seam Bowling: 	wonderful 	exquisite
Spin Bowling: 	remarkable 	exceptional
Fielding: 	feeble 		respectable

Castellar 4/185 	(50.0)
Copeland 86
Madden 54
Gross 3/26

Fighting Mongooses 184 	(49.1)
Sephake 95
Buffong 4/26

Wages indeed. Here, we've lost to a team paying two thirds less.

There's been a lot of talk on the boards that attacking no longer works and defensiveness is now key. Scoring has certainly dropped a bit.

It's hard to say as yet with so little data, but I don't think fielding changes have brought any benefit to high fielding skill; although you can see more chances for decent fielders, the drop rate is so high that it might as well not happen.

I'm not feeling the new ME at all.

 

[navin-boss]

Easy win against a BOT.

The match is over. Schoolyard Bully Beaters won by 9 wickets.

Hula Vixens 256-4 (50.0 overs)
Schoolyard Bully Beaters 257-1 (38.0 overs)

 

[aussie1st]

 		Casteller  	Fighting Mongooses
Top Order: 	quality 	sensational
Middle Order: 	respectable 	remarkable
Lower Order: 	woeful 		abysmal
Seam Bowling: 	wonderful 	exquisite
Spin Bowling: 	remarkable 	exceptional
Fielding: 	feeble 		respectable

Castellar 4/185 	(50.0)
Copeland 86
Madden 54
Gross 3/26

Fighting Mongooses 184 	(49.1)
Sephake 95
Buffong 4/26

Wages indeed. Here, we've lost to a team paying two thirds less.

Ouch! Looks like you got screwed over by the BT collapse.

 

[angryangy]

7 8 3 9 10 isn't really a shocking collapse in a low scoring game, although the 3 getting out just 3 runs from the end is pretty stupid. It's more the fact of everything else; why was it so close? 142 for the first wicket makes no sense unless it's now that much more useful to bat first in certain conditions.

 

[angryangy]

History tells us that when you're 3 down after 20 overs, you're probably screwed in a big chase. Dare we believe for a second the graph suggesting that the chase is going well?

A world of no.

 

[aussie1st]

Not cool, this guy Battrick - Fred Hanna » Details has 51 off 32 balls against my exceptional + bowling attack.

 

[Funknath]

End of Over 13: 28-6, runrate=2.15
Patanjali 2-0-13-1
Bittner* 7 (19 balls)
Warner 0 (0 balls)
Last Wicket: Tau c. Mills b. Patanjali 0 (FOW: 28/6)

Pffffffft such an easy game

 

[angryangy]

i dreamt today's friendly. it had lots of dropped catches.

 

[Ollie_H]

I thought I had thrown the game, but apparently he may have done so as well, which has seen a fairly close encounter at the moment. Especially as I picked a player who I thought was a run of the mill player, but turns out he is actually a very good player.

End of Over 22: 68-1, runrate=3.09
Tau 3-0-16-0
Rix* 1 (1 balls)
Croft 50 (50 balls)
Last Wicket: Austin b. Pringle 14 (FOW: 60/1)

Still a fairly long way to go though in the game, my bowling line up is pretty shite for this game but I could actually win it with the strength of my batsman I am playing.

Battrick - Off Drive v 1011 Noobs

 

[Funknath]

Won the game by 9 wickets.


Reporter's Summary
Bengal United
Top Order: remarkable
Middle Order: mediocre
Lower Order: worthless
Seam Bowling: strong
Spin Bowling: exceptional
Fielding: woeful
MOTM: Granville

Got a pretty good RS on PAN. As you can see my seam bowling and middle order is pretty weak which will be improved soon with an AR