BackOfTheWrist wrote:

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cheers. I have a bit of time to help if anything needs to be done, even just websites or whatnot

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 Thanks. We might take you up on that offer. However, all of the above information is about the Austrian League , of which we are a guest member. We don't vote or make any decisions. We apply to play each year and are accepted as a "guest" team. They seem to tolerate us as we never threaten to be in the finals. It is a big pity though that all this stuff has hit the Austrian League right now as we had wanted to ask teams to come and play in Ljubljana, (now we are part of the Schengen agreement) but I wouldn't have too much optimism for that occuring this year, now that all the organisation has fallen apart so late in the season (we would normally have played a match or 2 by now)

Weh hey, we're in the Austrian southern league. We could win that ... or maybe come fourth.
I'll be there for at least 3 of the games in July - maybe all 4. Ryan - are you going to resurrect your Ljubljana career?

Know what you mean. Apart from the international tournaments, that weekend in Vienna has been the best cricket we get. Have we been kicked out of the Open League for being too krap or what? Budapest would be a laugh but the cricket would be rubbish.

What happened to the idea of playing the Luxembourg national team up here?

We can take Graz. And Salzburg at full strength.

I would love to make up that full strength in July, but I think August is more likely for me. Nevertheless, I shall do me best...

OK so it's like this.

The Austrian League is now in 2 divisions. 9 teams in Vienna - Austria CC, Lords CC, United Nations CC, Pakistan CC, Pak Falken CC, Five Continents CC, Sri Lanka CC, Vienna CC and Vienna Lions CC. The top 6 from that group go into a knowckout quarter finals with the top two from the Southern (ie Non-Vienna) league. Ljubljana CC, Graz CC, CC Velden 91 and Salzburg CC

We play each team twice - once home (Valburga) and once away (Velden) - we also have to umpire 3 neutral games. We have already umpired one of these. Tom and I did it. You both get paid for it and we will probably be looking for volunteers for the other 2 occasions.

The League is now (wisely) 40 over matches.

From our side of the draw - Velden have some strong hitters all through their line up and a couple of useful swing bowlers. Mark Thomas (an Aussie) was bowling fairly quickly on Velden's re-laid and consequently faster & bouncier pitch. We shouldn't expect an easy match against them as they always lift against us. Still they struggle for depth and stamina.

Graz is now 2 clubs merged into one. We have never played them, but they are heavily Indian based. Apparently their best 2 players are gone?

Salzburg have 2 excellent bowlers who get ludicrous swing and cut from the new ball. However they do spray it around a bit and our left handers will annoy them as they feed the dairy with every 3rd ball. They are fairly slow in the field but there are one or 2 simply amazing arms. They have 2 front foot batsmen who drive straight and hard. Leave them to me :) Oh and one of their bowlers seems to "chuck" it. In short though Velden probably scored 50 extra runs against these guys by taking lots of singles that their fielders should have stopped. Salzburg's keeper though is a quality player.

I think we need to win 4 games to guarantee us a "Vienna trip" and believe we can  if we play to our ability. We beat Salzburg last year fairly comforatbly and we have the bowling to catch their best batsmen early.

For any more League related questions. Post them here and I'll do my best to answer them.

2nd of August (we have a friendly vs Limerick CC the same day) and the 16th of August - we currently have nothing on that day.

I just had a look at the Austrian League website and it says that we have lost a match.
Might wanna check that out.

Ziggurath wrote:

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I just had a look at the Austrian League website and it says that we have lost a match.
Might wanna check that out.

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 OK the story is this. For whatever reason, Graz didn't know the game had been cancelled. Therefore when they turned up to play they were obviously less than impressed by our non-appearance. They claimed all 14 points. Vienna and the ACA have been informed and realised that a genuine "****-up" has been made and are currently deciding (as there is no precident for this occurance) whether the game should be A) rescheduled to another date or B) called a draw and the points split. I have offered the only date that is OK for us 26th July and we await. I will of course keep everybody informed.

Graz would do better to accept the draw. We were gonna go up and beat them. I think the best would be to replay the game at a different time. Only fair. and this all goes to show that people dont read emails.

Shocked at the brassneck of Graz claiming 14 points for "driving all the way to Velden". How many retrospective points could Ljubljana claim for trips to Vienna? As if the fact you turned up after not checking your email entitles you to points.

When is the next time we have to umpire? I know Brad told me it had been pushed back. im willing to do it. I just need to know what date to keep my calander free.