Just beat
Vimal205050 in a 10 over ranked match. At first I wasn't overly impressed by him choosing the Transmissions Games XI rather than a normal team. I haven't chosen one of the special XI's against a normal team since my very first online match. I was England btw.
He batted first and looked set for a massive total after Gayle took 20 from one Broad. But once I brought Luke Wright on he became rather clueless and collapsed from 40 odd for 2 to 63 all out - which included 6/7 run outs! Fair play to him sticking with the game especially as I raced to 34-1 from the first 3 overs, but I wasn't impressed by his bowling/ field tactics once the powerplays were over.
On came Yuvraj Singh (iirc) who bowled wide outside off stump to this field:
How sporting!! He had bowled the first couple short, but must have got a shock when I slogged them through midwicket for 4. So he refined his bowling to make it impossible for me to hit it through the leg side. And just to show it wasn't just for that over, he then bowled to a slightly refined (and imo even harder) field with Ntini a couple of overs late, the over inbetween having seen me use a powerplay:
Luckily for me, the idiot left a nice big gap at extra cover so I just kept hitting singles through there, which twice turned into fours due to overthrows allowing me to run another 3. :laugh
This was the final scorecard:
Annoyingly I stupidly got KP run out when the scores were tied, which won't have done much for my averageBut before I sign off, if he is reading this I want him to see this so I can get some sort of revenge:
Oh yes!!