Carrying on from three posts aboveā¦
I finished with a clean sweep in the latest season, Winning CC Division One, Pro40 Division One, Challenge Trophy and Twenty20 Cup! First time I've managed to get all four, since 2011! However I was extremely lucky in two of them. Firstly the Twenty20 Cup Final was Middlesex/Surrey for a start. They needed just a few off the last over and one of the last couple of balls to win. However the scores ended up tied with me winning the cup by losing fewer wickets!! Pro40 looked probably lost as well with me 2 points behind Glamorgan (who had only lost once) going in to the final game, although my NRR was a lot higher. I won and they were somehow slaughtered, therefore sealing all four titles.
I've started the next season and the World Cup is on, hence about half my starting team are away, including my three frontline bowlers. On top of this, my first choice replacement bowler is injured as well as one of my remaining top batsman. However I've still managed to win all of my games so far in all comps, quite largely due to a Mr. A Rashid. So far that is just three CC games and maybe four or five CT matches, but things are going well. England find themselves third in the Super 8s after 5 games, hope they can go all the way as the current opening partnership is 100% Middlesex!
With all of my tournament wins, my budget is always ensured to be extremely high and I decided to invest in all of the promising youth players this year. Within my seconds, three of the new batsmen (all aged between 20-22 and playing their first games for the club) are averaging over 55, scoring at least one 100 and two 50s in just a small handful of games.
2019 is a sad time in a way, as KP no longer makes it in to the England team! Neither does Alistair Cook in fact and those two are the only remaining current real England players that are left playing first team cricket domestically. All of the other players have either not been offered contracts and are therefore gone from the game entirely (which is the case for nearly all of them!) or for a luckily few, they have of course retired by now. For those interested, KP is still at Hants and Cook is still at Essex.
I finished with a clean sweep in the latest season, Winning CC Division One, Pro40 Division One, Challenge Trophy and Twenty20 Cup! First time I've managed to get all four, since 2011! However I was extremely lucky in two of them. Firstly the Twenty20 Cup Final was Middlesex/Surrey for a start. They needed just a few off the last over and one of the last couple of balls to win. However the scores ended up tied with me winning the cup by losing fewer wickets!! Pro40 looked probably lost as well with me 2 points behind Glamorgan (who had only lost once) going in to the final game, although my NRR was a lot higher. I won and they were somehow slaughtered, therefore sealing all four titles.
I've started the next season and the World Cup is on, hence about half my starting team are away, including my three frontline bowlers. On top of this, my first choice replacement bowler is injured as well as one of my remaining top batsman. However I've still managed to win all of my games so far in all comps, quite largely due to a Mr. A Rashid. So far that is just three CC games and maybe four or five CT matches, but things are going well. England find themselves third in the Super 8s after 5 games, hope they can go all the way as the current opening partnership is 100% Middlesex!
With all of my tournament wins, my budget is always ensured to be extremely high and I decided to invest in all of the promising youth players this year. Within my seconds, three of the new batsmen (all aged between 20-22 and playing their first games for the club) are averaging over 55, scoring at least one 100 and two 50s in just a small handful of games.
2019 is a sad time in a way, as KP no longer makes it in to the England team! Neither does Alistair Cook in fact and those two are the only remaining current real England players that are left playing first team cricket domestically. All of the other players have either not been offered contracts and are therefore gone from the game entirely (which is the case for nearly all of them!) or for a luckily few, they have of course retired by now. For those interested, KP is still at Hants and Cook is still at Essex.
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