Melbourne Bitters 06/07 Team Thread

[rickyp]

Na it was yesterday, the 3rd place play off is Wednesday. Carn guys, bad start but we can recover!

 

[aussie_ben91]

I think it's convienent that whenever we don't bat first in a first-class match that we don't always get off to a relatively good start.

 

[aussie_ben91]

It's not looking good guys.

 

[duffarama]

It's not looking good guys.

Cheer up. At least we've won the Ashes now.

 

[smssia0112]

Cheer up. At least we've won the Ashes now.

Yeah, and Boxing Day is now a dead rubber! Not a good week!

 

[Left_Hander]

And to add to that Warnie is mostly likely to retire now

 

[smssia0112]

We are the second best team on the web now then. Shame, I think it was rigged though

 

[aussie_ben91]

We are the best team, well atleast equal to it. They haven't beaten us more times then they've beaten us. We also beat them first up & were undefeated throughout the season.

I'll be back in acouple of days boys.

 

[rickyp]

time to rethink our game boys, losing to two hack teams within a few days isnt good karma

 

[Left_Hander]

Well you bowlers only bowl well on pitches that suit you. Us batsmen bat well on poor pitches and still get results - we get a good pitch and we can't take wickets. Seems to me that the bowlers aren't pulling there weight.

 

[brad352]

Well you bowlers only bowl well on pitches that suit you. Us batsmen bat well on poor pitches and still get results - we get a good pitch and we can't take wickets. Seems to me that the bowlers aren't pulling there weight.

I concur

 

[smssia0112]

I concur

If you could folow up 197 with a double figure score then we could've won, we bowl just fine, Duff lost us that game, in fact YOU lost us that game, "Oooh you always use poor pitches and we win, but that isn't good, we want to score more runs and lose because we're batsmen, make it excellent so brad can score runs," and then we lose

 

[rickyp]

you guys have 1 more excellent pitch to prove that its worth it (one OD and one FC that is) if we lose those then back to our poor

 

[brad352]

If you could folow up 197 with a double figure score then we could've won

We declared both innings

, we bowl just fine,

Downright Donkeys 474 & 356/7
nup

Duff lost us that game,

Well I'm always willing to put some blame on Duff

in fact YOU lost us that game,

Player     Mch  In  Runs    Avge   S/R   HS  50  100
B Brad352   1   2    201    100.5  65.47  197   0   1

"Oooh you always use poor pitches and we win,

Because the pitch is sufficiently bad that you don't actually have to bowl well, but we're all guns and can still score a few runs before we get hit in the head by half volleys and then bowled by bouncers

but that isn't good,

That's good, but so is a fair contest between bat and ball- and after all, you blokes like to tell us how good you are so you won't have a problem taking 20 wickets

we want to score more runs

Of course

and lose because we're batsmen,

We lost because you blokes couldn't bowl the Donkeys out twice, we only lost 12 wickets

make it excellent so brad can score runs,"

Brad scores runs in any conditions, shame it doesn't work the other way around

and then we lose

On the bright side there's no shortage of scapegoats:

Our beloved captain, 2 declarations and 2/182
Duff, 1/172 and 4*(11) when batting for a declaration
Embi, 0/46 and 1(37), 4*(25) when batting for a declaration


To be fair you bowled rather well

you guys have 1 more excellent pitch to prove that its worth it (one OD and one FC that is) if we lose those then back to our poor

Why don't we just use normal/excellent for one dayers when we won't have to make dodgy declarations and get draws and normal/poor for 4 dayers? I'm not a big fan of losing

To answer the obvious question, I do have a lot of time on my hands at this point

 

[rickyp]

oh brad, you are forgetting who has control of the averages in the sim......