(Logan Cup) Rhinos v Eagles & Mountaineers v Tuskers

[CrimsonAvenger]

Thank you! Yes, I almost forgot Munyede. Lots of decent spinners stuck at Rhinos with lack off game time...

[CrimsonAvenger]

MWR,

What happened with James Bruce? Is he still around?

Thanks

Happy to see you back ZIMFAN!

[cricket_22001]

The following is a cut & paste of Cremer's career by season courtesy of Cricketarchive. I bow to their whims & pay for my cricket stats porn. All up it should add up to 321 wickets as the current match is not updated live. According to my humble, unaudited stats, before this season began he had 198 wickets at 24.67 in Logan Cup. He sits 4th behind S.Masakadza(238), Mupariwa(222) & Price(217) in the wicket takers list. He obviously now has over 200 Logan Cup wickets after the 1st round performance but still sits 4th. Hope this helps. And thank you for mentioning my name with such reverence. And sorry I couldn't format it better.
First-class Bowling in Each Season by Graeme Cremer
Season Balls Mdns Runs Wkts BB Ave 5wI 10wM
2004 (Zimbabwe) 84 0 85 1 1-32 85.00 0 0
2004-05 (South Africa) 215 4 192 6 3-86 32.00 0 0
2004-05 (Pakistan) 102 2 104 1 1-104 104.00 0 0
2004-05 (Bangladesh) 379 11 179 6 2-32 29.83 0 0
2004-05 (Zimbabwe) 1904 52 1161 42 6-147 27.64 2 0
2005-06 (Zimbabwe) 276 1 224 1 1-113 224.00 0 0
2005-06 (India) 323 5 196 9 7-114 21.77 1 0
2006-07 (Zimbabwe) 757 24 328 16 4-34 20.50 0 0
2006-07 (Bangladesh) 188 5 95 5 3-25 19.00 0 0
2007-08 (South Africa) 402 12 205 10 4-71 20.50 0 0
2007-08 (Zimbabwe) 2045 47 1035 38 6-69 27.23 2 1
2007-08 (Namibia) 270 13 97 4 3-96 24.25 0 0
2008-09 (Zimbabwe) 1435 52 674 27 5-53 24.96 1 0
2008-09 (Bangladesh) 12 0 6 0
2009-10 (Zimbabwe) 3286 115 1668 59 8-92 28.27 5 1
2010 (West Indies) 306 10 132 2 1-59 66.00 0 0
2010-11 (Zimbabwe) 1162 41 615 20 5-101 30.75 1 0
2011-12 (Zimbabwe) 679 21 359 14 5-107 25.64 1 0
2011-12 (New Zealand) 132 2 112 2 2-112 56.00 0 0
2012-13 (West Indies) 324 6 205 2 2-102 102.50 0 0
2012-13 (Zimbabwe) 1073 36 538 28 8-61 19.21 3 1
2013 (Zimbabwe) 290 6 183 7 4-4 26.14 0 0
2016 (Zimbabwe) 600 6 393 2 1-147 196.50 0 0
2016-17 (Zimbabwe) 1026 21 555 19 4-16 29.21 0 0

[MidWest Rhinos]

Carl persisting with the short ball. He's been hit a bit thanks to the middle and edge of Chirimuuta's bat but Gary has also worn a couple. This is a really engaging period of cricket.

Mike seems to be lacking something on his return though.

LUNCH:

Seriously entertaining session. I feel sorry for you guys who can't be watching this. For once Rhinos are playing an aggressive game and nothing says it more than 3 balls ago when Raza fell to his butt. Carl has worked out a good length for the bouncer. When Gary was scoring off him the ball was almost on its way down when it reached the batsman. Now he's not quite as short and it's making the batsmen play and miss, duck without conviction and play poorly off the front foot. The best ball was the bouncer that saw Raza jump in the air to defend and land quite jarringly on his bad leg.

Raza has looked uncomfortable and is hesitant to get on the front foot and when he does it's a weak movement. He's done well and shown some grit though. Gary is going to have a couple of bruises to tend to later.

Cremer's one over probably came a bit late, the turn was good but not violent. I think the afternoon session should be his.

We might not play the best standard of cricket in Zimbabwe but if this how it's going to be played then it's going to be bloody entertaining.

[CrimsonAvenger]

And thank you for mentioning my name with such reverence. And sorry I couldn't format it better.

Thanks a lot mate, our in-house statsman . Amazing that you have actually gone ahead and bought the CricketArchive subscription already. Hope there aren't many like you so that they revert to the free access soon

So, grouping this together, Cremer has taken 50+ wickets in 3 seasons:

1. Unsurprisingly his breakthrough season of 2004-05 which made people start believing that he was the next big thing in Zim as far as spin was concerned.
2. 2007-08, part of the dark era
3. 2009-10: If I'm not mistaken, this was when the Franchise cricket was introduced and it was run well. May be that was the added motivation for Cremer to do well.

So, across these 3 seasons, he has 167 wickets, and he has taken 154 more wickets across 8 other seasons he has played in! Goes to show the precise inconsistency that has been his bane. The last time he had a good (50+ wickets) FC season was way back in 2009-10! Time to make amends, starting now, which is what he seems to be doing anyway.

EDIT: aggregated season-wise stats from the raw stats above:
Season: Wickets
2004-05: 56
2005-06: 10
2006-07: 21
2007-08: 52
2008-09: 27
2009-10: 59
2010-11: 22
2011-12: 16
2012-13: 30
2013-14: 7
2016-17: 21

[MidWest Rhinos]

Cremer turning the tide. A beautiful leg break that found the edge of Chirimuuta's bat to Musakanda at slip and then an almighty hack that sends the ball high to Nyathi at cover and Raza is off.

[tawac]

Carl persisting with the short ball. He's been hit a bit thanks to the middle and edge of Chirimuuta's bat but Gary has also worn a couple. This is a really engaging period of cricket.

Mike seems to be lacking something on his return though.

LUNCH:

Seriously entertaining session. I feel sorry for you guys who can't be watching this. For once Rhinos are playing an aggressive game and nothing says it more than 3 balls ago when Raza fell to his butt. Carl has worked out a good length for the bouncer. When Gary was scoring off him the ball was almost on its way down when it reached the batsman. Now he's not quite as short and it's making the batsmen play and miss, duck without conviction and play poorly off the front foot. The best ball was the bouncer that saw Raza jump in the air to defend and land quite jarringly on his bad leg.

Raza has looked uncomfortable and is hesitant to get on the front foot and when he does it's a weak movement. He's done well and shown some grit though. Gary is going to have a couple of bruises to tend to later.

Cremer's one over probably came a bit late, the turn was good but not violent. I think the afternoon session should be his.

We might not play the best standard of cricket in Zimbabwe but if this how it's going to be played then it's going to be bloody entertaining.

Great insight, seems the Rhinos bowlers are really putting a shift in. That short ball stuff is really necessary because our batsman need to get accustomed to it. Better it be dished out in the domestic games than get it at international level. So do you reckon Mumba and Chinouya can kept at it week in week out? Cremer should really be enjoying his game taking wickets a will.

[MidWest Rhinos]

Great insight, seems the Rhinos bowlers are really putting a shift in. That short ball stuff is really necessary because our batsman need to get accustomed to it. Better it be dished out in the domestic games than get it at international level. So do you reckon Mumba and Chinouya can kept at it week in week out? Cremer should really be enjoying his game taking wickets a will.

I don't think they are bowling-fit enough to keep at it. Mike has already reverted back. He put one down short and it was smashed through mid wicket well in front of square. He seems to have lost the edge that he had only a couple of hours ago.

I spoke too soon earlier, suddenly with the loss of those two quick wickets the game got easier for the Eagles.

[cricket_22001]

This thread has made me research more in depth.
Cremer has 125 wickets for MWR, 50 for Northerns & 27 for Mashonaland. That's 202 wickets in Logan Cup after round 1 this season.
Franchise cricket did indeed begin in 2009/10. Those 59 wickets were all Logan Cup.
The reward of contributing to this outweighs the cost of Cricketarchive. Besides, I took the monthly option so it's not that much of a hit.

[Ming]

Kunje gets a century...good for him.