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Game played 8/8/20 will be uploading wagon-wheels and videos to Youtube over the coming week. Check back over the week to see the progress.
No.1 Charlie Vickers___________________
So with Vickers, as with so many players at this level, try and bowl an off-stump line or slightly wider, keeping it away from the leg-stump.
Notes 8/8/20 Looking at the video footage I've got as I've got 95% of the deliveries, the 2 blokes that scored all the runs are predominantly hitting the ball leg-side and I'm sure that'll be apparent in the wagon wheels. The high-lights so far of the bowling seem to be from balls outside of off, where there are plays and misses, especially off of Regionne. They leg-side play is so dominant even balls on or around the off-stump are fetched and hit leg-side.
Game 2019 season.
No pictures for this game - loads of kids in the game and it was 2 kids that are the main focus of the analysis. Unfortunately I've left this almost 6 months before I've got round to writing this up and I can't remember what these kids looked like. As I recall they're about 14-17? The better of the two kids was the younger one and allegedly there was another kid that was out cheaply in this game who in his age group games always has to retire.
Bobby Little (Youth Player)
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| Bobby Little Wagon Wheel - Rainham cc 3rd XI |
We can see from Bobby's wagon-wheel he has a strong shot on the leg-side, so as a Wrist-Spinner we just need to keep the ball off the leg-side. We could put a bloke out at Cow corner - one of our more athletic and likely to dive types and he can patrol that area ready for any loose balls.
The main focus though should be to try and get him to play the cover drive which it looks as though he's looking to play but from the wagon wheel at the moment isn't quite getting it right. Try and exploit this by landing the ball on or around the off-stump, looking to get him driving. The intention would be to get him caught off an edge to any one of the players on the off-side.
If you have a straighter delivery - mix that in with your leg-breaks and that might bring the wicket too.
Lee Sutton LHB___________________________________________________________________
There's not a lot for Lee Sutton as he came in at the very end, but it's the nature of his approach that makes him worth a mention and the fact that he's a Left-Hander. As you can see from the batting scorecard below no-one other than Bobby Little really made a significant contribution. Throughout the game I was expecting one of the adults to play a significant knock, but they all fell cheaply.
Sutton came in with about 15 runs needed, 2 wickets in hand with about 7-8 overs yet to play. All the players on the side-line sensing the chance of a win were shouting things like "Take it easy" and "There's no rush take your time". We'd run out of bowling and they now turned to me. I wasn't feeling it at all, it was a case of who was going to turn up Shane Warne or Shane Ward. It was mostly Shane Ward. Having said that I had Sutton dropped twice at long on and Mid-on
The other person worth a mention was the left-hander at the end who was looking to hit the ball out of the park. I bowled wide to him on his off-side and he managed to get the ball almost caught at mid-on by Steve and straight mid-on - Tim Edmond - he ran in and the ball went through him between the top of his thighs and went on to cross the boundary. I think Steve's went through his hands above his head for four as well. MK Patel edged off a nice leg break playing a straight defense to be dropped by Al McIver in slips, he nearly parried it on to Tim Brown in Gully.
I was bowling so badly the only one that I felt was executed well was the one dropped off of Patel in the slips. The others I didn't even consider because they were wides that the bloke could have left. The intention had been to bowl wide to the Left-hander, but not that wide, but it was interesting that he still went after them and that he managed to hit them straight and one on his on-side. It was only afterwards that it dawned on me having spoken to one of our blokes, that if any of those balls had been taken the game would have been ours.
As I'm writing this up 6+ months later, I can't go into too much detail. As I recall they put their lower order batters in first to give them a chance to have a bat and they were mainly youth players hence the lack of images. Anyway here's the rest of the wagon-wheels...
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