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

[PowerBug]

Intro
Nails and I, both started FTP at the same time, and have had many great matches over the past. We've both taken different strategies with our squads, however we now have similar rating senior sides, Nails decided to have a full 8 match series, one on each pitch. So i happily agreed, and now we are setting up matches on all 8 pitches, and we are agreeing on the weather. :) As we want a winner, defending champ, we needed some sort of tiebreaker does this series end 4-4, so i decided since Nails leads our H2H, he can be the defending champ, because i'm that confident.

Windy/Crumbling PowerBugCC won by 77 runs
Windy/Dry PowerBugCC won by 6 wickets
Cloudy/Slow The Nailers won by 5 wickets
Sunny/Flat PowerBugCC won by 3 wickets
Overcast/Green PowerBugCC won by 54 runs
Hot/Hard PowerBugCC won by 4 wickets
Overcast/Sticky PowerBugCC won by 9 runs
Humid/Uneven PowerBugCC won by 8 wickets

Batting
1. Paul Aronstam (PowerBugCC) 375

Bowling
1. Douglas Oldfield (PowerBugCC),Vinay Shah, Michael Bryce (The Nailers) 12

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

Cloudy/Slow The Nailers won by 5 wickets
Windy/Crumbling The Nailers won by 5 wickets
Windy/Dry PowerBugCC won by 3 wickets
Sunny/Flat The Nailers won by 3 runs
Hot/Hard PowerBugCC won by 7 wickets
Overcast/Green The Nailers won by 6 wickets
Overcast/Uneven PowerBugCC won by 138 runs
Humid/Sticky The Nailers won by 5 wickets

Batting
1. Albert Gogler (The Nailers) 340

Bowling
=1 Vinay Shah and Desmond Lynch (The Nailers) 14

Man of the series
1. Albert Gogler (The Nailers) 7 votes

Season 23
Sunny/Crumbling PowerBugCC won by 18 runs
Hot/Slow The Nailers won by 7 wickets
Cloudy/Dry The Nailers won by 5 wickets.
Humid/Flat PowerBugCC won by 4 wickets
Cloudy/Hard PowerBugCC won by 4 wickets.
Hot/Uneven PowerBugCC won by 50 runs
Humid/Green PowerBugCC won by 96 runs
Humid/Sticky The Nailers won by 3 wickets

[Nails]

V. Shah 10-1-32-1, S. Craig 9 (19b), S. Mukund 18 (20b)
End of over 31 (2 runs) - PowerBugCC(98-4) RR 3.16

8-0 Series victory to Nails imo.

[AFEV]

I look forward to this.
I would start something similar, sounds like fun - But my team wouldn't be competitive against many of you guys. :-\

[Nails]

End of over 1 (4 runs) - The Nailers(4-0). 181 runs required from 49 overs. RR 4.00 RRR 3.69

PB is in trouble. We're doing it easy right now.

[Cyrus]

S. Mukund 6-0-27-0, A. Gogler 17 (39b), R. Fellows 2 (6b)
End of over 27 (2 runs) - The Nailers(87-4). 98 runs required from 23 overs. RR 3.22 RRR 4.26

not going to be as easy as you thought  ;)

[Nails]

flower this match.

PB got lucky

[AFEV]

P. John 6-1-15-3, K. Bulinya 0 (5b), M. Bryce 0 (3b)
End of over 31 (maiden) - The Nailers(92-7). 93 runs required from 19 overs. RR 2.97 RRR 4.89

Sucks to be nails. :P

[PowerBug]

Match Ratings
  The Nailers PowerBugCC
Batting - Top Order 11,753 10,092
Batting - Middle Order 8,986 11,195
Batting - Tail 3,888 5,488
Bowling - Seam 10,865 (30) 11,748 (20)
Bowling - Spin 12,492 (20) 10,657 (30)
Fielding/Keeping 13,666 13,131
Overall 193,201 196,472

Well there you go, how easy was that. :P After my start, was slow, however i felt as if my bowlers could defend 150, so when i passed that and got to 184 i was stoked. Fayyaz Butt has just cemented his spot as number 8 for the rest of the series, very nice knock from him. Solid bowling by William Campbell, the guy that i've been trying to find a replacement for for the last 4 seasons. Look how crap his skills are, wouldn't blame you for saying he's crap. ;D

Will get some stats going in the OP now :)

[Master Q]

I look forward to this.
I would start something similar, sounds like fun - But my team wouldn't be competitive against many of you guys. :-\

What do you rate?

[Nails]

To be honest I expect PB to take the spinner pitches as he has 3 spinners vs. my 2. It seems to make a huge difference. We had like 3 or 4 matches on a dry his team vs. my affiliate (not part of the 8shes) and he won the matches he played 3 spinners but lost the match where he played 2.

But when it comes to seam friendly matches PB better watch out :o

[AFEV]

I look forward to this.
I would start something similar, sounds like fun - But my team wouldn't be competitive against many of you guys. :-\

What do you rate?

Haven't played a friendly in a while, but 175-180 I'd think.

[PowerBug]

To be honest I expect PB to take the spinner pitches as he has 3 spinners vs. my 2. It seems to make a huge difference. We had like 3 or 4 matches on a dry his team vs. my affiliate (not part of the 8shes) and he won the matches he played 3 spinners but lost the match where he played 2.

But when it comes to seam friendly matches PB better watch out :o

However i also have 5 seamers on a seamers pitch. ;) And i much prefer the seaming decks. :P I don't even unleash the big fella until the 4th game :D

[Torpedo10]

I look forward to this.
I would start something similar, sounds like fun - But my team wouldn't be competitive against many of you guys. :-\

What do you rate?

Haven't played a friendly in a while, but 175-180 I'd think.

I rate 165-175 but I have beaten you the last 2 time while you have rated higher. Any interest in us going H2H Ax?

[Master Q]

Anybody rate 200-210k?  :-X

[PowerBug]

Cyrus would i imagine. :)



Next match tomorrow, won't be around coz of school, should be good to go 2-0 up. :D