My first-ever season completed
It's taken me about a year, but I've finally completed a season in one of my domestic saves. The vers is ICC09 and the county is Worcestershire. We even managed to walk off with the Pro League. We came second in the County Championship, got as far as the quarters of the 50-over comp whatever it was called, and got nowhere in the T20s.
We had no outstanding players, and even though I've accepted back the England job that I resigned during the year cos my county was going to the dogs, I don't think any of my squad will play for their country any time soon.
Still, I suppose I better have a little awards ceremony for my best and brightest.
Stephen Moore was the star with the bat, with the following stats:
FC: 32 inns, 1no, 1291 at 41.64, 4 hundreds, 6 fifties, HS 139
T20: 10 inns, 2no, 306 at 38.25, 2 fifties, HS 76no.
OD: 13 inns, 351 at 27.00, 2 fifties, HS 69
Two others deserve mentions having achieved 1000 first-class runs in the season. They are:
Steve Davies: 26 inns, 1no, 1011 at 40.44, 2 hundreds, 9 fifties, HS 142
Ben Smith: 28 inns, 3no, 1001 at 40.04, 8 fifties, HS 98
Steve Davies was also the top-scorer in the one-dayers (40 and 50 over combined) with:
17 inns, 2no, 677 at 45.13, 2 hundreds, 3 fifties, HS 106no.
One last batsman who deserves an honourable mention is Daryl Mitchell, who had our season high individual score of 162 not out.
In the bowling stakes it was Kabir Ali by several lengths. His figures:
FC: 14 matches, 558 overs, 74 wickets at 28.70, 2 5fers, best bowl 6-54
This was also our season's best innings bowling performance.
OD: 17 matches, 141 ovrs, 33 wkts at 19.18, 1 5fer: b/bowl 5-24, 4.48 rpo
His 5 for 24 was also a career best for him. Nice one son!
But with only 11 wickets at 20.18 in T20 (6.97rpo, b/bl 5-13 - 1 5fer), he was pipped by Imran Arif who had:
9 matches, 31 overs, 13 at 16.31, best bowl 4-24, 6.77rpo
One last bowler to mention is Simon Jones, who took out the best match bowling figures and our only 10 wicket match of the year with his 10-152 against Notts. It is with a certain regret that we celebrate this achievement, as we have parted ways with the young man in question, and he appears to have prematurely retired at age 30.
If you've got a favourite player in the Worcestershire '09 lineup and want to know how he did, drop me a line. I'll be back soon with my silly-season England squad for the South Africa tour.
EDIT: Oops...forgot my show-and-tell (see attached)
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). In the Semis I played Bangla and the Zimbabweans in the final! Weird stuff.
