Subject: Battrick

they scored 252 in the 1st and I had serious hopes of winning this one as I need it to stay up and won the 1st fixture.

I turn on at 1pm and I'm already following on!!

102 and 235-5 gives me hope though. My 1st and 3rd best guy are in and 2 bat-a-bit bowlers to follow so I've set a declaration to win!

Chances are I'll be all out for 278 and they win in 40 overs

Pboranjing CC won by an innings and 113 runs.

I was expecting a tough match. Extra day's rest for my trainees, though, which is nice.

Except it doesn't, because it's Thursday today, not wednesday. Monkey balls.

I lost

underestimated the number of runs I needed to be safe [:|]

the important thing was to get a result - I can now plan on relegating

Made it to the semi-finals of the English cup this season... :-D

End of Over 1 (Maiden). Pboranjing CC: 0-0, runrate=0.00 (1st Inn: 167-10)
Trail by 364 runs. (Drop Catch 386-10 & 145-2 dec)

I think my oppo have underestimated my batting. They've left me 364 to win which will probably be about 3.64 an over, to be honest. Very doable with my batting line up and unlikely for my two biggest names to fail two innings in a row. It's damn unusual for them both to fail in the same innings, to be honest, so to hope for it happening again is a bit much. Unless he knows something I don't, which most people do, that is. Dammit, maybe he as precisely estimated my batting. Time will tell.

End of Over 23 (1 runs). Pboranjing CC: 80-3, runrate=3.48 (1st Inn: 167-10)
Trail by 284 runs. (Drop Catch 386-10 & 145-2 dec)

Turns out he does know something I don't; his team's better than mine. Why did nobody tell me, dammit?!

I would have thought that was obvious :)

Looks like I have pretty much wrapped up the title in division 1, I'm pretty chuffed with that!

well done mate (:
cant do much better than that
are some experiments coming out of the bag :P

Well, I have been pissing around with my match-orders just lately.

Play nearly all my bats at V.Attacking or Attacking in all games, seems to be working unexpectedly well so far!

nice start too the day.


End of Over 3 (Maiden). Cohn United: 1-1, runrate=0.33
Frank 2-2-0-1
Kutloano* 0 (11 balls)
Tsimba 0 (4 balls)

no runs off the bat yet.

yay!

My team are getting good again!

"47.1 6 Hagan to Xavier
Xavier's hit that one so hard he's broken his bat! Wooden shards everywhere!
Thats his 150. A fine knock."

I've contrived to be all out for 8.
If I'm lucky they unwisely set their declaration for 360 and it'll all be over by tea time.

Why would that be unwise?

because it's at their ground and my benefit in PFL would probably not make them feel better about the loss of cold, hard cash
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