[JonB]

Tie for us at well at quarndon...and managed to escape frostbite...just!

We bowled well first up without much luck so they had wickets in hand to get up to 186-7. We started slowly but keep going and assisted by 7 off one ball, I'm not sure the umpires got that right either, we probably should have won but couldn't quite manage it.

As with these sorts of results you look for where it could have been different and for us one umpire twice giving leg side wides where it hit the pads of the batsman won't have helped. Two runs there plus anything they got from the extra balls.

[Westbars Spireite]

JonB, on 24 April 2016 - 04:40 PM, said:

Tie for us at well at quarndon...and managed to escape frostbite...just!

We bowled well first up without much luck so they had wickets in hand to get up to 186-7. We started slowly but keep going and assisted by 7 off one ball, I'm not sure the umpires got that right either, we probably should have won but couldn't quite manage it.

As with these sorts of results you look for where it could have been different and for us one umpire twice giving leg side wides where it hit the pads of the batsman won't have helped. Two runs there plus anything they got from the extra balls.

Two ties in the same division, on the same day, won't have happened very often. Although ours was a proper tie, with being bowled out with the scores level.

[Benno Spire]

clarevoyant., on 24 April 2016 - 01:19 PM, said:

Sounds like our game went the same way has your 2nds without the dropped catches bit. The opposition won the toss and elected to umpire 2nd after 15 overs they were 7(seven)for3 it went downhill from there.
My contribution was navigating the 30ish yards from 1st slip to 1st slip every 6 balls (well 7 balls 3 times in the 1st 10 overs) with aplomb and paying my subs without a whimper. Hopefully my last game of the season with younger players returning

I will have to get my whites out if your still playing and hit you for six again

[JonB]

Westbars Spireite, on 24 April 2016 - 07:00 PM, said:

Two ties in the same division, on the same day, won't have happened very often. Although ours was a proper tie, with being bowled out with the scores level.

Scores matched in ours...186-7 played 186-7....
http://ashovercc.pla...results/2765954

[clarevoyant.]

Benno Spire, on 24 April 2016 - 07:59 PM, said:

I will have to get my whites out if your still playing and hit you for six again

I would suggest if your "whites" are still white a little time should be spent in front of the mirror just for embarrassment avoidance.
I'm absolutely certain I'll never be hit for 6 again!! even allowing for top edges over 3rd man on weird shaped grounds
Hoping to have located a score book to confirm the stats I mentioned going to PV.
We didn't realise how much the season would go down hill that day did we

[Stents]

Good weekend for us, bowled Parkhead out for 54 on Saturday, knocked it of without loss & in the pub by 4.

Batted first on Sunday (poorly) got 121 and managed to bowl Grassmoor out for 100.

We are a much better bowling/fielding unit than we are batting wise this year, so there could be some low scoring games.

[Westbars Spireite]

Presumably we've pulled out of the Sunday league. With no one wanting to run it and not many players interested in playing it was inevitable.

[Stents]

We could of had your place in 4.

Because we were new to the league last year we started off in the very bottom division. Won the league without losing a game. They restructured the leagues this year and we are still in the bottom league (albeit 6 rather than 7) so can't see us losing many this year either to be honest.

[JonB]

Presume the reorg is why our Sunday 2nds have gone from 5 to 4 i think it was....off and running with 2 cancelled games! Sunday firsts have 2 losing draws so far playing in the Prem division for the first time. Only way the Sunday League affects me mind you is something to pop up to watch on a Sunday afternoon if i fancy wandering out with the dog for an hour when the weather is nice!

That said we do have a double weekend coming up in the County League....the DCCLs change to extend the season to remove the final double header weekend actually means as a club we have more double weekends that we would have done before. We share a portion of the outfield with a footy pitch so first weekend we always have to rearrange whichever team is at home plus we cant play at home past first weekend in September. This means the firsts still have to have a double weekend which is in a few weeks whilsts the 2nds have 2 double weekends having to rearrange both their first game of the season and their last home game in September to Sundays. Thankfully we've managed to sort the Mansfield league games so we never have to field three teams on a Sunday only having one of the Sunday sides playing when we have rearranged DCCL games.

[JonB]

First win yesterday despite fielding 30 overs with 10 men and having to use a part time bowler. Young lad had one spit off the floor and smash him in the mouth making such as mess of his mouth chesterfield Royal sent him to te hallamshire to see a facial specialist. We made 270 odd for 5 then bowled then out for just over 200 with the penultimate ball.

For what it's worth for a premier league club the outfield in places at eckington was a disgrace.

This post has been edited by JonB: 08 May 2016 - 11:23 AM

[Westbars Spireite]

JonB, on 08 May 2016 - 11:22 AM, said:

First win yesterday despite fielding 30 overs with 10 men and having to use a part time bowler. Young lad had one spit off the floor and smash him in the mouth making such as mess of his mouth chesterfield Royal sent him to te hallamshire to see a facial specialist. We made 270 odd for 5 then bowled then out for just over 200 with the penultimate ball.

For what it's worth for a premier league club the outfield in places at eckington was a disgrace.

I've never been impressed with anything other than the price of the lager and the teas at Eckington. It doesn't help that it seems to have its own micro-climate that is set ten degrees below anywhere else.

[JonB]

Was warm enough yesterday but the outfield especially pavilion side had numerous large bare basically soil patches. The surprising bit was the lad got injured fielding on the one part of the outfield that looked decent enough.

[Westbars Spireite]

JonB, on 08 May 2016 - 11:45 AM, said:

Was warm enough yesterday but the outfield especially pavilion side had numerous large bare basically soil patches. The surprising bit was the lad got injured fielding on the one part of the outfield that looked decent enough.

It's an odd ground. It can be extremely short square to the pavilion but the straight hits need to be huge to get six.

This post has been edited by Westbars Spireite: 08 May 2016 - 11:48 AM

[JonB]

Westbars Spireite, on 08 May 2016 - 11:47 AM, said:

It's an odd ground. It can be extremely short square to the pavilion but the straight hits need to be huge to get six.

It's basically a rectangle. As you say hitting square doesn't take a lot but I felt more than comfortable parking the car near the screens as it would take a huge hit to get anywhere near it. That said...didn't stop one of our lads hitting one onto the nets in the bottom corner.

[Cartman]

DCCL points system shown up in our game last week

we got 120 all out and gave oppo 4 overs

they batted 50 overs and ended up 97-9

We get 13 points for this, one more wicket gets us 27

1 wicket should never be worth 14 points

If there are more points on offer for the batting team getting closer to a target in a losing draw then there should be more for getting more wickets!

Or instead of within 25 etc etc it should be done on percentages

[JonB]

You should have got more runs....

[Cartman]

JonB, on 12 May 2016 - 03:43 PM, said:

You should have got more runs....

at 87-9 was happy with 120

point is, they got reward for being within 25, when in fact they never looked like winning and in the context of the game were miles from winning, similar to a team getting 200 when chasing 300!

[JonB]

No points system in local cricket is perfect but the dccl one is as good as I've come across...better than the sncl average points thing! Was improved as well with the change to stop the loss of getting 27 just by losing the toss.

In the context of the scores in your game having limited you from a big score they earnt the chance to not have to get many to be close.

[Cartman]

JonB, on 12 May 2016 - 04:05 PM, said:

No points system in local cricket is perfect but the dccl one is as good as I've come across...better than the sncl average points thing! Was improved as well with the change to stop the loss of getting 27 just by losing the toss.

In the context of the scores in your game having limited you from a big score they earnt the chance to not have to get many to be close.

I'd say 120 in 42 overs is quite a decent score when opposition takes 50 to get 97-9

A big score is in context of the pitch and conditions and despite being only 23 runs behind they were in fact miles away

Bassetlaw system is better, max 20 points, our game would have seen us with 16 and them with 6 which is a much fairer reflection both in the game and how close to maximum points we would have been

To restrict a side to 97-9 in 50 overs and only come away with less than half of the maximum points is ridiculous

This post has been edited by Cartman: 12 May 2016 - 04:27 PM

[Stoptalkingbol]

Cartman, on 12 May 2016 - 04:27 PM, said:

I'd say 120 in 42 overs is quite a decent score when opposition takes 50 to get 97-9

A big score is in context of the pitch and conditions and despite being only 23 runs behind they were in fact miles away

Bassetlaw system is better, max 20 points, our game would have seen us with 16 and them with 6 which is a much fairer reflection both in the game and how close to maximum points we would have been

To restrict a side to 97-9 in 50 overs and only come away with less than half of the maximum points is ridiculous

The losing draw wants binning off anyway. It's a limited overs game, if you don't reach their total, you shouldn't get anything. Would stop these cack teams dropping anchor from ball one boring the bottom off everyone.