International Cricket Captain Competition

[HopaWhitey]

Essex (me) v Glamorgan
National League

My inform player Tudor has come down with a virus days before our One Day match against Glamorgan and will be sorely missed.
I replace Tudor with Palladino.

I win the toss and elect to bat.
I get off to a cautious start before Cook is dismissed by Thomas.
Jefferson at the other end is in fine touch and his keeping up a solid run rate.
Saunders and A.Flower fall in quick succession and I am in trouble at 3-71 after 20.
G.Flower and J.Foster then play great support for Jefferson as he is smacking the ball to all parts.
Once they have been dismissed Irani comes in for a bit of fun in the last 10 scoring a better than a run a ball 29.
Jefferson scores 120* with a strike rate over 100


Glamorgan get off to an extremely slow start and never recover.
Tight bowling from Gough prevented them from scoring freely.
Aparet from Ganguly and Maynard they dont put up much of a fight and I win this one by 33 runs.
Thats 2 one day wins in a row and the team is finding a bit of form early on in the season.

 

[treva]

Somerset(me) vs Yorkshire

My youngster Whitworth played in his 1st match replacing hancock.
i lost the toss and batted first on a evenly looking pitch.
my team batted poorly and my top scorer was johnson at nember

Somerset 198 all out
Johnson 55
Smith 43
Hoggard 4-44
Silverwood 2-38

Yorkshire made a very good 402 all out with my bowlers unable to get the tail out or vaughan who made a massive 100.

Yorkshire 402 all out
Vaughan 191
Wood 41
Mclean 3-52
Blackwell 2-50

Somerset batted better with Johnson being moved up the order to 4.Somerset made 315 all out with Turner holding the ttail together with a great partnership with Caddick.

Somerset 315 all out
Turner 61*
Smith 55
Hoggard 5-86
Harvey 3-51

Yorkshire needed 112 to win in a day.
Yorkshire asily got home with 7 wickets to spare.

Yorkshire 113 for 3
Vaughan 67*
Sayers 30
Mclean 1-23
Whitworth 1-38

Yorkshire win by 7 wickets
MOM:Vaughan
Somerset 3 points

 

[pinchinator]

well hoopa looks like your team is going well

 

[treva]

Derbyshire(me) vs Sussex
1 DAY

With Dean out it was always going to be a big ask but Derbyshire put up a great fight.
Derby were sent into bat on a very good bowlers wicket but it took them no time at all to get in and Di Venuto and Bryant batted superbly to get them off to a flyier.

Derbyshire 217 for 7
Bryant 78
Bassano 45*
kirtley 3-49
Ahmed 2-32

Derby bowled well throughout the Sussex innings and got wickets at regular intervals.
but Sussex proved to much and got home with 1 wicket and 4 overs to spare.

Sussex 221 for 9
Adams 79
Van Der Wath 52*
Botha 3-26
Welch 3-52

Sussex win by 1 wicket
MOM:Adams

I can't believe it!!

SO CLOSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[pinchinator]

hmm the opposite of my result trade?

and i never knew there was a team called Serby!?

 

[HopaWhitey]

It seems as though not many of the players competing have posted any results yet. Its the same few people contributing.

 

[pinchinator]

yeah so whats going to be done?

 

[HopaWhitey]

Not sure anyways heres my next match.
Essex (me) v Somerset
Championship

I batted first on a batting track and post an amazing 701 spearheaded by skipper Andy Flower scoring 262* and Great support from another one of my bowlers and kiwi Andre Adams who scored a breathtaking 156.
The two combined for a club record 8th wicket partnership of 303.
Jefferson continued his run of form with another ton and Gough contributed a quick 46*.

It all turned pear shaped for us as Marcus Trescothick single handedly took the game away from us equalling Flowers score. They made 575 and just got over the follow on score.

 

[pinchinator]

2 May Hampshire v Gloustershire (me) one day game
Toss=Hampshire and they choose to bat which is good cause i wanted to bowl

Hampshire 237 for 4
K.Pietersen 73 S.Ahmed 2-45
S.Katich 43 M.Ball 1-36

Gloustershire 238 for 7
J.Pearson 128 (123) A.Mascarenhas
C.Spearman 28 A.Mullally 2-66

MOM J.Pearson 128 runs off 123 balls

Gloustershire win by 3 wickets and pick up 4 points

27 April (4 day game) Nottinghamshire v Sussex (me)
Toss=Sussex and we choose to bat

end of day one

Sussex 337 for 6
R.Montgomerie123 P.Franks 2-61
C.Adams 57 G.Swann 2-87

Sussex 433 for 9 declared
R.Montgomerie 123 P.Franks 3-81
M.Yardy 75* G.Swann 3-115

Nottinghamshire 226 for 8
D.Hussey 76 M.Davies 4-83
P.Franks 35 M.Ahmed 3-84

Nottinghamshire need 57 to avoid the follow on

End of day 3
Nottinghamshire 250 all out
D.Hussey 76 M.Davies 5-90
G.Swann 55* M.Ahmed 4-101

2nd Innings 244 for 4
D.Hussey 87* M.Ahmed 3-83
M.Ealham 39* R.Kirtley 1-50

Nottinghamshire 368 all out
D.Hussey 100 M.Davies 3-87
M.Ealham 100 M.Ahmed 3-123

Sussex 159 for 6
M.Prior 65* M.Ealham 2-35
I.Ward 17 R.Sidebottom 2-36

MOM D.Hussey 176 runs all up
Points 12
Result= Match Drawn

 

[treva]

we will just do it between us who actually posts results.

we have a few

 

[Jamee999]

I'd love to contribute more but for me atm, 1 a day is too much.

I reckon something like 3 a week (Monday-Sunday), or one every other day would be better.

 

[treva]

well it doesn't matter when you do them just as long as we finish our seasons close together!!

Somerset(me) vs Yorkshire

Yorkshire won the toss and decided to bat on a very good batting surface.
Yorkshire played well with starts from most.

Yorkshire 255 for 6
Lumb 113
Blakey 36*
Blackwell 2-46
Caddick 2-50

Somerset played superbly though and made it with 7 wickets and 1.4 overs to spare.

Somerset 258 for 3
Jayasuriya 107*
Smith 62
Hoggard 1-37
White 1-53

Somerset win by 7 wickets
MOM:Jayasuriya

 

[Jamee999]

The Leicestershire Foxes have slumped to defeat, making just 140 in chase of 262/4.
Note Dinesh Mongia's 4 wickets.

 

[warrior123]

kent(me) v warwicshire

Toss warwicshire

waricshire (572 allout j,troughten 156 A.giles 111 A sherlyar 3-101
bad bowling effort from the boys here hopefully our batters can save us)

kent (430allout M.carberry 71 G.jones 71* D.pretorious 3-93)
good batting effort under this type af pressure, and it also looks like its going to be a draw.

waricshire (157-5 DEC I.bell 38* A sheriyar 2-62)

kent 168-1 M van Jaarsveld 67* S.bond 63* N.Tahir 1-32)
Draw
M.O.M J.Troughten


bit of a dissiponing game here i think we should have done better hopefully we can improove for the next game.

 

[Qadir236]

can i be northants plz
im a fan