Week 9 - Voting

Southern:

Sussex vs Essex - Sussex win Toss

Somerset vs Hampshire - Hampshire win Toss

Surrey vs Middlesex - Middlesex win Toss

Northern:

Leics vs Durham - Durham win Toss

Notts vs Lancs - Lancs win Toss

Yorks vs Worcs - Yorks win toss

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Votes ASAP please so we can get moving, I'll do the table later.

Booya won the toss. Will do this tomorrow Gregers

despite the fact that I wanted to do the opposite to you anway

Shhhh Hodge.

Doesn't really matter in our game, by the looks of the pitch! Should be a high scorer!!

No Durham team however I go away for the weekend tomorrow
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Yorkshire Vs Worcestershire

Worcestershire - 138/7
Yorkshire - 135

Worcestershire do enough here, set the total and applied the brakes. Yorks threw the bat a bit to try and reach the total against the swing tying them down and lost wickets too frequently.
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Lancashire - 177/5
Nottinghamshire - 180/6

Lancs should have been looking for another 15/20 more which probably would have won them the game however good death bowling from Broad and Malinga restricted them. And Notts then did enough to hold their nerve.

BUMP!

Thanks for the BUMP Gregers!

Leicestershire Foxes v Durham Dynamos

Leics by default

Nottinghamshire Outlaws v Lancashire Lightning

Malinga doesn't start well and Hughes profits, but is soon undone by Pat Cummins, who is also too quick for Ryder. Mustard and Taylor score runs, but the Colonel is removed by Broad. The others don't really capitalise on pretty good batting conditions, despite 65 from Taylor. Malinga is better at the death and cleans up Taylor, and hitters like Napier and Johnson. Final scores of 164.

Lancs struggle to get in the game with the ball. Warner demolishes his Aussie team-mate Harris in a breezy 60, whilst Chapple, Napier and Johnson come on to the bat nicely. Lumb and de Villiers finish it off with 8 wickets in hand

Nottinghamshire Outlaws win by 8 wickets
Man of the Match: David Warner

Yorkshire Carnegie v Worcestershire Royals

Life is tough for Worcs early on as Bresnan exploits conditions superbly to remove KP and Amla. Bell and Solanki rebuild solidly, playing Warne well and choosing to right overs to target. They both fall in the 18th, bowled by Shahzad, leaving Shakib and Christian at the crease, who can't create a big finish. 145 only.

Sehwag loves a bit of pace and profits from Lee and Meaker's opening spells. But Junaid proves just the man for this wicket, dismissing Sehwag. Denly and Rohit have already gone too, and although Yorks are well ahead of the rate panic sets in. Shakib gets rid of Duminy and Bairstow and strangles the scoring rate, leaving Dhoni needing 13 from the last over. Two early sixes seal it.

Yorkshire Carnegie win by 5 wickets
Man of the Match: MS Dhoni

Shelsey, I don't know if it would change your vote (hopefully not!), but Cummins is playing for Notts so he might struggle to bowl at Warner!

JDizzle wrote:Shelsey, I don't know if it would change your vote (hopefully not!), but Cummins is playing for Notts so he might struggle to bowl at Warner!

Sorry. Was thinking Harris and for some reason wrote Cummins! The dangers of late night posting exposed once again!

Notts and Worcs win (reasons at some point if get time)

Could everyone please pester everyone to get their results in asap.

PLEASE READ (Will put this on the homepage as well)

Results for this week to be this weekend

Monday 9th July - Week 10 Pitches
Thursday 12 July - Week 10 Voting
Sunday 15 July - Week 10 Results

Then week 11 and 12 the following week in the same fashion. Two lots of injuries, two lots of matches that week at the same time to speed things up.

Quarter finals - Pitches 23rd July, Voting 25th July, Results 27th July
Semi Finals - Pitches 27th July, Voting 30th July, Results 1st August
Final - Pitch 1st August, Voting 3rd August

Winner announced Monday 6th August

NB All late tactics will result in a default 6-0 loss unless reason for lateness are pm'd to me in advance in which case tactics must be up within 24 hours of the deadline.

Sorry if this seems very regimented but I would love to finish the EPL soon!

Sussex
Hampshire
Middlesex

Hampshire win - Chasing is crucial, as Hamps know exactly what they are chasing. However, the game was won by two brilliant Steve Smith catches to dismiss Buttler and Gayle as they were both looking dangerous.

Sussex win

Middlesex win - Middlesex's powerful batting line up gets them well above par, with Guptill and McCullum putting on 120 in 12 overs to get them up to 205. Finn and Rankin love the hard pitch and extra bounce, whilst Vettori gets some bits and Surrey fall 20 runs short.

Leics vs Durham - Durham win Toss - Leics win by default

Notts vs Lancs - Lancs win Toss - Lancs win by 10 runs.

Yorks vs Worcs - Yorks win toss - Yorks win by 4 wickets. Dhoni leads Yorks to a comfortable win with 1.3 overs to spare

Sorry for late votes;

Sussex-Default

Hampshire-Late hitting from Dimi Mascharenas wins a high-scoring affair for Hampshire

Middlesex-Top three for Middlesex enjoy the bounce, despite valiant innings from Davies and Mahela, Finn and Vettori make good use of pitch to win game with their bowling.

Leics vs Durham - Durham win Toss - Leics win by default

Notts vs Lancs - Lancs win Toss and bat, some good bowling at the start from Cummins followed by Broad means that Taylor and Maynard have to rebuild and retain wickets, meaning there toal isn't quite as good as hoped for. Chasing for Notts, a de Villiers special sees them home with 4 balls and 4 wickets left. Win to Notts

Yorks vs Worcs - Yorks win toss - a crucial toss to win sees Worcs lose early wickets and struggle through to 135/8, which isn't quite enough as the pitch dries out, Yorks knock off the runs 5 wickets down with an over to spare. Win to Yorks

Sussex, Hampshire, Middlesex.