Bedfordshire Join The League

[DaveyHall777]

As close as it comes

C & G Cup

Befordshire v Kent

Bedfordshire are put into bat and on a difficult pitch are bowled out for 188 in the 48th over

Holt 37
Perham 50

Kent reached 188 in the 3rd to last ball of the ininngs. With 2 dot balls to follow the teams ended all square but Kent go through on more wickets remaining

Foyle 3 - 37
Richards 3 - 47
Fry 2 - 30

It was close, but not close enough.

 

[Jamee999]

ouch hard luck mate...now if I could get Magpie to work,I think it is my fault but...

 

[DaveyHall777]

5th Game - County Championship - Somerset v Bedfordshire

We win the toss and elect to bat on a difficult pitch

Day 1​

1st session

Underwood 0 0 - 1 First ball of the match
Holt 15 24 - 2
Duncan 025 - 3
Raffety 6 39 - 4
Sherbourne 14 44 - 5
Perham 22 85 - 6
Ricketts 9 109 - 7
Foyle 8 113 - 8

Lunch 119 - 8

2nd Session

Fry 76 182 - 9
Richards 4 186 - 10

Tea Somerset 129 - 0

3rd Session 159 - 0

Day 2​

1st session Lunch 327 - 2
2nd Session 460 all out

Foyle 3 - 137
Ready 1 - 100
Fry 3 - 89
Richards 3 -131

3rd Session

Underwood 4

End of Day 74 - 1

Day 3​

1st Session

Holt 71 155 - 2 Partnership 148
Sherbourne 54 161 - 3
Duncan 6 171 - 4

Lunch 181 - 4

2nd Session

Perham 10 217 - 5
Fry 6 240 - 6 Hurt
Ricketts 2 245 - 7

Tea 245 - 7

3rd Session

Ready 16 276 - 8 Hurt
Richards 13 292 - 79
Foyle (Hurt)

Somerset need just 19 to win which they do giving them an 8 wicket victory
Fry 2 - 11

Bedfordshire get 3 points and still bottom of the County Championship.

 

[DaveyHall777]

With 5 matches now completed here is a view of the batting and bowling averages.

What do you think?

 

[marc71178]

I think well done to you for trying something different.

I'd be tempted to try something like that if I didn't find CM too enticing!

 

[Jamee999]

I think you are trying something really original and that is good.

The team though needs a bowler

 

[DaveyHall777]

The team though needs a bowler

I know! - what can I do in the short term though?

Time to try out one or two of the other players in the team - see if I can get an alrounder to play reasonably.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

With 5 matches now completed here is a view of the batting and bowling averages.

What do you think?

I think that Ready bloke has potential. Apart from that, you need some bowlers

 

[chris.hinton]

i like this story keep it up mate

 

[Neil Pickup]

Having now completed a whole season with Lincolnshire, I can confidently say that it's the toughest task I've ever tried on ICC.

My final analysis (W-L-D):
SuperCup: 0-5-0 - eliminated
C&G Trophy: 3-1-0 - semi finalists before being creamed by Warwicks
NCL: 3-13-0 - eighth place (Middlesex suck almost as badly as me)
CC: 1-5-10 - eighth (would have been seventh had I not forfeited an inns against Middlesex in an attempt to turn a draw into a win - I lost)

The key strategy in the CC was that slow runs are infinitely better than no runs - and we batted down the order with grit to eke out 300s and the like over a day-and-a-bit which saved games and allowed us more batting points than anyone else in the league (Samaraweera's 1,824 runs helped).

Another thing to note is that you should ignore the symbols a player has - they have no effect on his batting ability. I had bowlers (Christian Wall and Danny Eddery) coming in at 5 and 6 and batsman at 8 and 9 at one point. Both those bowlers averaged 30+ (Eddery averaged 70 but was loads of not outs due to 10/11 being rabbits) - their top scores were 132 and 89*.

I've had a good end of season draft and for 2003, I've bolstered the batting line-up with some youth players and signed another rookie someone else released. I still have no bowling teeth, but bat to 10 (Eddery) - so hope for a good NCL run.

 

[DaveyHall777]

The key strategy in the CC was that slow runs are infinitely better than no runs - and we batted down the order with grit to eke out 300s and the like over a day-and-a-bit which saved games and allowed us more batting points than anyone else in the league (Samaraweera's 1,824 runs helped).

Another thing to note is that you should ignore the symbols a player has - they have no effect on his batting ability. I had bowlers (Christian Wall and Danny Eddery) coming in at 5 and 6 and batsman at 8 and 9 at one point. Both those bowlers averaged 30+ (Eddery averaged 70 but was loads of not outs due to 10/11 being rabbits) - their top scores were 132 and 89*.

I had concluded the same thing about the CC. Unfortunately I dont have Samaraweera but Holt and Sherbourne have performed well so far.

What was your wickie like? Sprake was mine, he had caught 7 and stumped no-one and his last 4 innings were 0, 0, 0, 2 - I ditched him. Whether Ricketts will be any better I wait to see.

Does the same thing apply to bowling ability as batting ability?

 

[DaveyHall777]

National League Game - Lancs v Beds

Lost the toss and put into Bat

Trying to play on a hard dry pitch Beds were 26 - 4. Needing to be more defensive to try and avoid complete humiliation.

Finished 102 - 8 (2.3 an over)

Lanc got 104 - 3 in 28.3 overs

New bowler - Leaburn took 2 - 33 off 9 overs

Winning OD games is going to be tough.

 

[Neil Pickup]

I had concluded the same thing about the CC. Unfortunately I dont have Samaraweera but Holt and Sherbourne have performed well so far.

What was your wickie like? Sprake was mine, he had caught 7 and stumped no-one and his last 4 innings were 0, 0, 0, 2 - I ditched him. Whether Ricketts will be any better I wait to see.

Does the same thing apply to bowling ability as batting ability?

Most of my batsman have enough trouble batting to give them the ball - the few overs I've given them out of either desperation or bad OD maths have not been promising.

I've used 3 different wickies in 1 and a bit seasons. They're all born number elevens, but seem fairly solid behind the stumps.

So far this year, I've gone 0-1-1 in the CC, 2-3 in the SuperCup (shouldve been 3-2 but I only managed 2 off a last over..) and 0-1 in the NCL.

 

[Cloete]

I think well done to you for trying something different.

I'd be tempted to try something like that if I didn't find CM too enticing!

No... if you ever found 03/04 boring (like me) then you have to go back to 01/02 (like me)!!

 

[marc71178]

03/04 is so not boring

 

[DaveyHall777]

6th Game - County Championship - Durham v Bedfordshire

We win the toss and elect to bat

Day 1​

1st session
Holt 44 81 - 1

Lunch 105 - 1

2nd Session

Sherbourne 17 133 - 2
Underwood 59 (HURT)
Perham 14 177 - 3
Ricketts 0 178 - 4

Tea 180 - 4

3rd Session

End of Day 286 - 4

Day 2​

1st session
Raffety 84 312 - 5
Lynn 77 332 - 6
Peterson 6 336 - 7
Leaburn 2 348 - 8

Lunch 352 - 8

2nd Session

Ready 18 366 - 9

Durham 87 - 1 at tea
3rd Session 204 - 2 at the end of the day

Day 3​

1st Session 330 - 2
2nd Session
3rd Session 503 - 5 dec

Bowling figures

Peterson 3 - 83

End of the day 52 - 0

Day 4​

1st session

Holt 40 85 - 1
Raffety 13 109 - 2
Perham 3 115 - 3
Ricketts 0 120 - 4
Lynn 0 126 - 5
Peterson 1 127 - 6

Lunch 128 - 6

2nd session

Ready 14 143 - 7
Sherbourne 73 162 - 8
Leaburn 15 170 - 9

A terrible second innings means that Durham need just 34 to win.
They get there with 8 wickets to spare.

Ready 2 - 3

Beds gets 5pts bringing their total to 31 points - Nottinghamshire are eighth and have 40.

 

[DaveyHall777]

Two NCL matches to report

Leicestershire v Bedfordshire

Bedfordshire 134 all out
Leics 135 - 1

Oh dear!

Hampshire v Bedfordshire

Hampshire 211 - 9
Bedfordshire 170 -7

No progress in this league yet. Batsmen can't bat aggressively enough and the bowlers can't keep the run rate down.

 

[DaveyHall777]

We've Won!!!

7th Game - County Championship - Nottinghamshire v Bedfordshire

We win the toss and elect to bat

Day 1​

1st session
Sherbourne 36 68 - 1

Lunch 97 - 1

2nd Session

Holt 61 158 - 2
Lynn 5 169 - 3
Deakin 1 170 - 4 - why do I bother?
Ricketts 17 193 - 5

Tea 213 - 5

3rd Session

Fry 21 231 - 6
Peterson 2 237 - 7
Ready 0 239 - 8
Raffety 87 250 - 9
Richards 5 257 - 10

End of Day Nottinghamshire 15 - 2

Day 2​

1st session Lunch 172 - 7
2nd Session 204 all out

Bowling figures

Ready 4 - 47
Peterson 3 - 61
Leaburn 2 - 34
Richards 1 - 32

Beds have a lead of 53

Sherbourne 6 27 - 1

Tea 74 - 1

3rd Session 204 - 2 at the end of the day

Raffety 49 143 - 2
Holt 84 164 - 3

End of Day 174 - 3

Day 3​

1st Session

Lynn 30 216 - 4
Deakin 26 219 - 5
Ricketts 5 219 - 6
Peterson 6 232 - 7
Fry 8 237 - 8
ready 19 279 - 9

Lunch 279 - 9

2nd Session

Richards 14 305 - 10
Leaburn 28no

Nottinghamshire need 359 to win

Tea 65 - 5
3rd Session 186 - 6

Day 4​

1st session Lunch 237 - 9
2nd session 285 all out


Bowling figures

Ready 5 - 65
Peterson 2 - 64
Leaburn 1 - 69
Richards 2 - 83

Beds win by 73 runs - Yeah!!

Beds gets 17pts bringing their total to 48 points, just 1 behind Nottinghamshire.

 

[Jamee999]

Well Done,mate lets hope it continues.

 

[Neil Pickup]

Update from the end of Lincolnshire's second season...

C&G: Round 4 (having beaten Lincolnshire in round three.. oops)
NCL: 7-9 and sixth place - never quite looked like putting a promotion run together
CC: DIVISION TWO CHAMPIONS!

Samaraweera took 129 wickets and made 1,512 runs, ably supported by fellow off-spinner Danny Eddery (79w, 525r) and opener Scott Dickens (~1100r) as we won at the Riverside on the last day to pip Essex to the title. The three spinners (middle order batsman Justin Chandler took 6) picked up 214 of the 295 wickets to fall.. can you guess how I prepared my home wickets?

The turning point of the season was when reserve batsman Ian Boston (83*) and number ten Scott Buller (62) batted for five hours against Leicestershire to stave off almost certain defeat. From thereon in we won four games out of five and sealed the title.

Only one major new signing (aside from another rabbit keeper), left-arm seamer Dean Tunnicliff signing from the Lincs Academy, having impressed for Stamford in the Premier League. Let's see if we can stay up..

It's so annoying having to stick to youth players only... in the last three years, Dean, Bassano and Hoggard have all retired due to no-one wanting to sign them, and I've got £145,000 sitting unused in my account. Grr...