Season 12 Preview
For Season 12, NYC finally gets his shot at West Indies OD League I.1. He won an OD Div. II league against the likes of Philly_Bluenose, The Death Knights, and Batletico, and thus will face all the big boys, such as Borderliners, Asterix XI, Badlands, and Season 11 champs NorCricket United. Mud Poodles, Peters Utd, The Flintstones, and Twelfth Men round out the league.
The restructured six-team FC Championship is headed by last season’s victor, Asterix XI, who seem to have taken a liking to first-class cricket. CC of Termination and Cook County Cricket Club earned promotion, and join Twelfth Men, Borderliners, and Rovers Town.
The West Indies Cup was won by NorCricket United, for the fourth time in that team’s great history. Tythe Barn CC, stuck in OD League III, went a giant-killing streak and reached the final, but could not overcome the north wind of NorCricket.
The BT20 competition has been revamped, and has again become an international enterprise, albeit with a new league structure. The top flight consists of 12 teams from all over the Battrick globe. Only The Death Knights have found their way into the top flight from the Caribbean after their BT20-winning run in Season 11, which saw them knock off The Resurrectionists, NorCricket United, Saint Barth Blondes, Rovers Town, and Borderliners in succession — a mind-boggling run of results. In Season 12, they will have to contend with strong international teams like South Africa’s Evil Empire and, perhaps the favorites to take the title, England’s Ladbroke Rovers.
And finally, The Locals Only Cup. For Season 12, the LOC will commence as usual the Sunday after the West Indies Cup Final. It will begin with a Group Phase, followed by quarter-finals, semis, and the ever-prestigious LOC Final. Favorites will include Season 11 runner-up Carib Beer XI, and Season 11 LOC Champion Doctors, whose logo below is sure to strike a darkly ironic chord with their opponents.
