[R3] Southern Hemispherical and Subcontinent running out of room vs. Furball's Fenoms

[Spark]

Squirts
Win toss - Bat

1) S Sriram
2) Murray Goodwin
3) Dravid
4) Lara
5) Ryder [6]
6) McCullum [+]
7) Franklin [5]
8) Yasir Arafat [3]
9) Asif [1]
10) I O'Brien [4]
11) Jerome Taylor [2]

Arafat comes in for Harbhajan because **** spinners. He's also got an FC SR of 41 and an average of 24 with the ball while playing in both Pakistan and England. Another reason is that we're up against a good bowling attack and need that extra bit of lower order resistance.

Bat defensively immediately after a wicket falls for about 10 overs.

No declaration unless setting a target for a 4th innings chase.

Ryder bowls to break partnerships, keep him going if he gets the breakthrough

FF
Rogers
Rudolph
Shah
Hussey
Yuvraj (6)
McDonald (4, 5)
Foster +
Steyn (1)
Kabir (3)
Murali (5, 4)
Shoaib (2)

Win toss and bat

Same instructions as last time.

 

[Spark]

                         Squirts vs Furball's Fenoms

                         Played at Squirting Stadium


                         Furball's Fenoms 1st Innings

CJL Rogers                             ct & b Asif                45   63  4 0
JA Rudolph                        lbw       b Arafat              29   82  3 0
OA Shah                ct Lara              b O'Brien             15   30  1 1
MEK Hussey             ct Dravid            b Arafat              44   93  6 0
Y Singh                ct Dravid            b Franklin            20   54  1 0
AB McDonald            ct Taylor            b Franklin             2    9  0 0
JS Foster                            not out                      33   61  3 0
DW Steyn                          lbw       b Arafat               0    3  0 0
K Ali                  ct Ryder             b Franklin            13   23  1 0
M Muralitharan                              b Asif                 2   10  0 0
S Akhtar               ct McCullum          b Taylor               6   11  1 0
Extras           (byes 4   leg byes 3   no balls 5   wides 2)     14
Total                       (10 Wkts  72.2 Overs)                223
Fall of Wkts    81   85   117  161  165  183  183  200  208  223

Asif                    14     1   73   2    2  1
Taylor                  12.2   2   25   1    1  1
Arafat                  13     3   28   3    0  0
O'Brien                 12     1   46   1    0  0
Franklin                21     3   44   3    2  0

So Furball's batting still isn't firing properly. Arafat and Franklin taking 6...

 

[Athlai]

Franklin should really bowl higher than that. Too many quality seamers in one team kind of negates his usefulness.

 

[Spark]

                             Squirts 1st Innings

S Sriram                                    b Ali                 29   42  3 1
MW Goodwin             ct Muralitharan      b Steyn               56  132  6 0
RS Dravid                         lbw       b Ali                  4   17  0 0
BC Lara                           lbw       b Ali                 12   32  1 0
JD Ryder               ct Shah              b Muralitharan        10   24  2 0
BB McCullum                                 b Steyn                0    8  0 0
JEC Franklin           ct McDonald          b Steyn                7   20  1 0
Y Arafat               ct Foster            b Steyn                0    1  0 0
M Asif                 ct Hussey            b Steyn                0    2  0 0
IE O'Brien             ct Rudolph           b Steyn                3    5  0 0
JE Taylor                            not out                       1    1  0 0
Extras           (byes 0   leg byes 8   no balls 2   wides 0)     10
Total                       (10 Wkts  47.0 Overs)                132
Fall of Wkts    63   68   90   117  118  125  125  125  131  132

Steyn                   11     1   37   6    0  0
Akhtar                   6     1   22   0    1  0
Ali                     13     1   34   3    0  0
McDonald                 5     2    9   0    1  0
Muralitharan            12     3   22   1    0  0

Funny thing is, Steyn for the second time got 3 wickets in 4 balls. Unfortunately, the hattrick ball was a dropped catch...

 

[Spark]

                         Furball's Fenoms 2nd Innings

CJL Rogers             ct McCullum          b Asif                 6   17  0 0
JA Rudolph             ct Franklin          b O'Brien             29   53  4 0
OA Shah                           lbw       b Arafat              28   48  4 0
MEK Hussey                           not out                      68  145  4 2
Y Singh                ct Goodwin           b O'Brien             10   31  0 0
AB McDonald                                 b Taylor              13   29  1 0
JS Foster              ct Franklin          b O'Brien             12   16  0 1
DW Steyn               ct McCullum          b Taylor               4   13  0 0
K Ali                             lbw       b Asif                24   37  4 0
M Muralitharan                              b Franklin            18   43  1 0
S Akhtar               ct Sriram            b O'Brien              0    4  0 0
Extras          (byes 0   leg byes 15   no balls 6   wides 2)     23
Total                       (10 Wkts  71.4 Overs)                235
Fall of Wkts    21   72   80   94   116  134  141  186  234  235

Asif                    15     1   43   2    3  0
Taylor                  14     0   47   2    1  0
Arafat                  20     1   66   1    1  1
O'Brien                 16.4   3   50   4    1  1
Franklin                 6     2   14   1    0  0

Still not firing. Should be enough, though.

 

[Flem274*]

This is getting ridiculous.

 

[Spark]

                             Squirts 2nd Innings

S Sriram                                    b Ali                 73  161  5 1
MW Goodwin                                  b Akhtar               8   40  0 0
RS Dravid                         lbw       b Muralitharan         9   40  0 0
BC Lara                ct McDonald          b Muralitharan         1   18  0 0
JD Ryder                               ct & b Akhtar              52   80  8 0
BB McCullum                                 b Ali                 17   38  2 0
JEC Franklin           ct Rogers            b Akhtar              49   89  5 0
Y Arafat               ct Rogers            b McDonald            27  117  1 0
M Asif                                      b Muralitharan         1    6  0 0
IE O'Brien                        lbw       b Muralitharan         1    9  0 0
JE Taylor                            not out                       1    7  0 0
Extras          (byes 1   leg byes 16   no balls 9   wides 1)     27
Total                       (10 Wkts  99.2 Overs)                266
Fall of Wkts    25   57   61   140  173  178  254  264  265  266

Steyn                   20     2   63   0    6  0
Akhtar                  22     1   59   3    2  1
Ali                     16     3   40   2    1  0
Muralitharan            27.2   5   67   4    0  0
McDonald                14     5   20   1    0  0


                       Furball's Fenoms won by 60 runs.

I wonder how ****ed Furball's team would be if someone had just bloody picked Murali earlier!

 

[Noble One]

McDonald keeping it tight as per the norm. Decent match overall, Murali has proven again to be a key in bowling teams over in the last innings.

 

[Cevno]

Furball's batting is weak but Steyn and Murali keep winning matches.

One to get injured and that team could be ****ed.

 

[Daemon]

Ughhhh wtf. Flem you should set the orders now, I'm probably doing things wrong.

Bowling was good but our middle order once again failed to do much.

 

[Himannv]

Its a case of "if Steyn doesn't get you Murali will".

 

[Daemon]

Doesnt help that our homeground is meant for our seamers and were up against the best of them. Day 4/5 would probably be decent for spinners as well.

 

[Flem274*]

Rumour has it the Fenoms were most pleased to play on the turf at Squirting Stadium.

 

[Daemon]

McCullum needs to start scoring. Only batsmen to not have performed after 3 games.

 

[Furball]

My batting would've been better, wouldn't have picked bowlers in the first 2 rounds if Murali hadn't gone.

 

[Prince EWS]

My batting would've been better, wouldn't have picked bowlers in the first 2 rounds if Murali hadn't gone.

Your batting's pretty good anyway, in theory. They're just playing like toilet at the moment.

 

[Spark]

Yeah they should be at least decent at a minimum. Not borderline rubbish.

Still, 3 from 3.

 

[Furball]

So basically, watch out everyone once my batting sorts its **** out?

Nice.

 

[Spark]

Basically. Still fuming that we couldn't get those 5 ****ing runs last round.

 

[Furball]

Basically. Still fuming that we couldn't get those 5 ****ing runs last round.

Still fuming that Steyn, Murali and Warne let you get so close.