Code: Hurricanes 2nd Innings HH Gibbs ct Ryder b Morkel 38 86 3 0 TD Paine lbw b Siddle 12 34 0 0 OA Shah ct Wasim b Pathan 103 199 13 1 SR Tendulkar not out 103 146 13 2 AG Prince ct Ryder b Pathan 12 43 0 0 PD Collingwood not out 5 2 1 0 S Hasan SMKS Afridi SCJ Broad S Sreesanth IE O'Brien Extras (byes 2 leg byes 11 no balls 6 wides 1) 20 Total (4 Wkts Declared 84.0 Overs) 293 Fall of Wkts 24 113 256 285 de Wet 15 2 63 0 0 1 Siddle 21 3 55 1 3 0 Pathan 18 2 56 2 1 0 Joshi 15 3 52 0 0 0 Morkel 15 1 54 1 2 0
Code: BLERTA 2nd Innings HG Kuhn b Sreesanth 24 35 3 0 F Alam ct Collingwood b Broad 25 43 4 0 M Wasim ct Tendulkar b Hasan 39 53 3 1 V Kohli run out 62 129 6 1 JD Ryder st Paine b Afridi 22 52 2 0 DM Benkenstein not out 46 82 5 0 JA Morkel not out 17 36 2 0 IK Pathan SB Joshi F de Wet PM Siddle Extras (byes 0 leg byes 20 no balls 4 wides 1) 25 Total (5 Wkts 71.0 Overs) 260 Fall of Wkts 39 72 118 167 218 O'Brien 11 1 49 0 1 0 Sreesanth 11 1 55 1 1 0 Broad 12 1 44 1 1 1 Hasan 16 4 44 1 0 0 Afridi 15 3 36 1 0 0 Collingwood 3 2 4 0 1 0 Tendulkar 3 0 8 0 0 0 Test Match Drawn. That match definitely deserved to be a draw. Learn how to bowl guys.
http://www.cricsim.com/cplsite/match.php?id=111 Deane Medal Points 3 - Owais Shah (Hurricanes) 2 - Sachin Tendulkar (Hurricanes) 1 - Albie Morkel (BLERTA)
Boring. What a rubbish display of bowling. What happened to de Wet & Pathan's bowling form? At least Albie's turned things around somewhat.
Any reason why Eds' part timers (Colly/Tendy) got bowled in the first dig whilst mine (Alam/Benkenstein) didn't? Eds didn't put any bowling orders down for Collingwood and Tendulkar, yet they took 3 of the wickets. Alam/Benkie could easily have taken one and reduced Eds' first innings score. EDIT: Same thing in the 2nd innings! Eds didn't even put orders for Collingwood & Tendulkar. At least I had Alam down to bowl in the 2nd innings. What gives?!?
Well Collingwood and Tendulkar were, in effect, his sixth bowler combination. Your sixth bowler bowled 29 overs in the first innings; his bowled just 16. In the second innings, things were getting desperate/irrelevant with just a few overs left on the 15th day, and given Collingwood and Tendulkar had hilariously broken key partnerships in the first dig, I gave them another bowl for potential luls. If you'd like me to resort to as many bowlers as possible when its clear the opposition are racking up a huge score though then I can do that.
I clearly remember someone telling me (someone = Cribbage) that (and I'll paraphrase) that sometimes random bowlers have a good day and that ITC really resembles real cricket in this way at times in that sometimes a fill in bowler can take a handful of wickets in one innings. Yes, I had six bowlers - but they were bowlers and I'd selected them as such. Eds hadn't selected Colly or Tendy to bowl, and whilst I don't have any issue with you selecting them, I don't understand why in very similar circumstances, a couple of overs of Alam might have done a similar job... Or are Colly & Tendy more analogous to Ryder than to Alam/Benkenstein?
An over-riding theme of Round 1 appeared to be the trials trolling everyone. Trial form seemed to count for nothing - most of the players who forced their way into team on trial form flopped (Luke Wright - 1 run and 0 wickets - being the best example) and spectacular trial failures like Albie Morkel managed to turn it around.
Fawad Alam Playing Role: Batsman Paul Collingwood Playing Role: Batting Allrounder Make of it what you will. Seriously though I'll bowl your batsmen more often if you'd like.
