The Original 8shes, Nails vs PB. Series 3 over.

[PowerBug]

He's over it, hasn't been following the match until i told him it was close. Can't see there being a 2nd series, mainly because he's a sore loser.

[Nails]

Not being a sore loser, it's a dead rubber and you won by 9 runs.

Dead rubbers don't matter for shower.

[PowerBug]

winner by 9 runs. :D

Match Ratings
The Nailers PowerBugCC
Batting - Top Order 11,764 11,586
Batting - Middle Order 9,456 9,917
Batting - Tail 4,026 4,219
Bowling - Seam 10,855 (40) 11,706 (40)
Bowling - Spin 12,686 (10) 11,131 (10)
Fielding/Keeping 13,950 13,478
Overall 194,916 197,060

[PowerBug]

So in two days I've chased down 358, and then defended 158. :) Pretty good i must say, or very poor by Nails.

[PowerBug]

Humid/Uneven 31st August @ 08:00

Batting
1. Paul Aronstam, PowerBugCC, 375
2. Sadique Watson, PowerBugCC, 277
3. Martin Young, The Nailers, 270
4. Albert Gogler, The Nailers, 262
5. Stuart Craig, PowerBugCC, 223

Bowling
=1 Douglas Oldfield, PowerBugCC, 12
=1 Vinay Shah, The Nailers, 12
=1 Michael Bryce, The Nailers, 12
=1 Adrian Zahra, PowerBugCC
5. Shukla Mukund, PowerBugCC, 11

Man of the series
=1 Sadique Watson, PowerBugCC, 5
=1 Paul Aronstam, PowerBugCC, 5
=1 Albert Gogler, The Nailers, 5

It's been a bit of a blowover this series, however there are still some thing to be decided in this final match.
- The batting looks to be won by Paul Aronstam (the youngest player (22, equal with William Healy) and also the cheapest player acquired from all involved) as I can't see a big enough score being made on the Uneven deck for anyone to overtake him.
- The bowling is going right down to the wire! Four players tied on 12, and another on 11, best performer on the day will get it. Oldfield (rm), Shah (rf) and Bryce (lm) have played all 7 matches so far, Shukla Mukund (lf) has played the 6, not playing on the Slow deck, whilst Adrian Zahra (rf) has made it to 12 wickets off 4 matches, in which he went wicketless in one of them.
- And the Player of the Series Award. Quite interesting as this is decided on MOTM points, not fantasy points. Therefore should Gogler pick up one point, whilst Aronstam and Watson get none, yet PowerBugCC wins, the POTS goes to a player that lost 7-1. :O


Hopefully there is another one of these next season, as Nails' players will have had another season in which they'll catch up to me (I assume your SA is better than Superior, otherwise you won't catch up much) and there'll be a much closer contest. :) There really hasn't been much in it all series, i just got lucky in parts that let me get over the line all these times (Like chasing 358 and defending 158 two days in a row) :P

[PowerBug]

Nails "forgot" to set orders, which imo, is not a good enough excuse, as we arranged this match over a week ago, and there was absolutely no reason why he couldn't set orders then, and check them today, or as happened with him not being able to get on today, actually having some orders ready. So no excuse, and as expected, i completely wiped him to win the series 7-1.

Oldfield took 5, sealing up the bowling award, Renee Fellows was the best of the batters making 55. The Nailers finishing on 171/10

In reply, there was never really a contest, Aronstam and Craig scored 60 and 73 (both not out) as the 171 was chsed down after 38 overs, only two wickets down. 22yo Aronstam scoring 435 runs, 139 better than Craig who came 2nd with 296.

Match Ratings
The Nailers PowerBugCC
Batting - Top Order 11,687 9,668
Batting - Middle Order 9,074 11,356
Batting - Tail 4,077 4,458
Bowling - Seam 10,855 (30) 11,549 (50)
Bowling - Spin 12,765 (20) 0 (0)
Fielding/Keeping 13,924 13,710
Overall 195,146 196,351



Thanks to everyone who decided to follow the matches, I'm sorry that it wasn't close, I'm also sorry that Nails will probably not want to do this again next season, as he is a sore loser.

[Nails]

Why wouldn't I want to do it next season?

We'll smash you, we'll have higher than average for the 2nd best level of power at the club.

[PowerBug]

Well i expect to see the same enthusiasm come next season. :)

[PowerBug]

Alrighty, let's do this thing! The 8ashes for season 22 is close to getting underway, and this should be a very interesting series, and I can see it being alot closer than the first one. The first match this season is on Saturday the 16th November at 5:30 FTP time. Put that in your diary folks, it will be a ripper! Cloudy/Slow will be the home of the first match, played at the Equilibruim (My home). In a very short turnaround the teams will travel across the sea to Bangladesh to play on a Windy/Crumbling at the Hardware Store on the 18th of November (Monday)

Good luck Nails, I hope you can get more than 1 win this time. :P

Reminder that a 4-4 tie will mean I remain champion >:D

[Nails]

D. Lynch 4-0-12-1, F. Butt 10 (10b), S. Watson 15 (29b)
End of over 18 (3 runs) - PowerBugCC(71-4) RR 3.94

PB in a spot of trouble.

[Torpedo10]

D. O'Sullivan 8-0-25-1, W. Campbell 7 (18b), D. Oldfield 16 (22b)
End of over 45 (6 runs) - PowerBugCC(166-8) RR 3.69

TBH PB needs AT LEAST 180+ to put some pressure on Nails.

[Nails]

M. Bryce 10-0-42-1, W. Campbell 21 (32b), D. Oldfield 33 (38b)
End of over 50 (6 runs) - PowerBugCC(198-8) RR 3.96
That is the 50 partnership (53 runs, 61b, 5x4, 0x6) SR:86.89

What a bullshower 9th wicket partnership

are you serious? ::)

[PowerBug]

As I fast forwarded through the game, I lost it when I saw that 9th wicket partnership. ;D At least I didn't win, otherwise that would've been mean. :P Was waiting for the collapse, but it never came.

Match Ratings
  PowerBugCC The Nailers
Batting - Top Order 10,536 12,391
Batting - Middle Order 10,138 10,061
Batting - Tail 5,026 4,141
Bowling - Seam 10,182 (22) 11,706 (30)
Bowling - Spin 11,315 (28) 12,812 (20)
Fielding/Keeping 13,640 14,414
Overall 192,780 206,220

The Nailers won by 5 wickets.

Awesome, I wanted to start on a Slow, because I knew I was no chance anyway so Nails has some false confidence now >:D

[Nails]

You're no hope PB, look at them ratings! This will be the 0shes for you this season.

[PowerBug]

You did see that Paul Aronstam bowled two overs right? That brought the ratings down a bit. :P (Yes, it was my decision to give him 2 overs)

I think I can win 4 games Nails, long way to go yet, remember you were calling 8-0 only 25 overs into my innings of the first match last season. :P


I'm keeping a record of the stats again aswell. Will be interesting to see the improvers and faliures. Lalla scored 155 off 8 innings last time, already on 97 now!