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The Reds must be away.

Player scores for the first test. A mostly low-scoring affair with two standouts.

Bumrah 250
Root 213
Robinson 157
Pant 115
Shami 109
Anderson 97
Jadeja 82
Buttler 67
Rohit Sharma 48
Sibley 46
Crawley 33
Pujara 16
Kohli 0
Hameed dnp
Wood dnp
Ishant Sharma dnp
Ashwin dnp

Sussex leads us out.

Player Total
sussexpob 576
Arthur Crabtree 533
bigfluffylemon 451
andy 324
mikesiva 287

Cheers. I wondered if Bumrah might get rotated out during the series as he has in the past. That's my excuse.

Mine is that whenever I pick him he underperforms, when I don't he excels...

Player scores match 2. One standout again.

Root 303
Anderson 166
Ishant Sharma 148
Buttler 128
Robinson 127
Wood 127
Rohit Sharma 124
Kohli 112
Bumrah 112
Pant 109
Shami 106
Jadeja 61
Pujara 54
Sibley 21
Hameed 9
Crawley dnp
Ashwin dnp

As you were for the leaderboard. Nothing in it between our top 2 though.

sussexpob 1323
Arthur Crabtree 1308
bigfluffylemon 1026
andy 896
mikesiva 828

Oops, I missed Shami's first innings bowling analysis. That bumps him up to a fine 152.

Only mike has Shami, so leaderboard is unchanged:
sussexpob 1323
Arthur Crabtree 1308
bigfluffylemon 1026
andy 896
mikesiva 874

Cheers BFL.

All I need is the Red family to go on holiday more, and I have a slight chance.

My fantasy line ups tend to burn up like an England 4th innings though

Player scores match 3

Robinson 198
Root 163
Anderson 112
Buttler 107
Pujara 102
Shami 102
Jadeja 90
Rohit Sharma 88
Kohli 82
Hameed 78
Bumrah 61
Ishant Sharma 20
Pant 13
Crawley dnp
Wood dnp
Sibley dnp
Ashwin dnp

Changes in the leaderboard, as AC squeaks ahead of sussex. It remains on a knife-edge, with the two players who have Root, unsurprisingly, well out in front.

Further down, mike inches ahead of andy, thanks to Hameed making runs, and Sibley and Wood's dnps robbing andy of a full squad of players.

Arthur Crabtree 1852
sussexpob 1843
bigfluffylemon 1521
mikesiva 1268
andy 1147

Feels like I'm doing ok. Just need Pant to pick up some slack.

Player scores match 4. A crazy number of dnps, but those who did play mostly scored ok. Anderson's poorest game for a good while.

Rohit Sharma 178
Robinson 157
Bumrah 144
Jadeja 131
Pant 129
Kohli 124
Root 89
Pujara 75
Hameed 73
Anderson 69
Crawley dnp
Buttler dnp
Wood dnp
Sibley dnp
Shami dnp
Ishant Sharma dnp
Ashwin dnp

No change to the positions on the leaderboard, but the spread gets wider as AC pulls away on the back of Rohit's ton, I make up a small amount of ground on sussex, and mike pulls away from andy, who could unfortunately only muster 2 out of 7 picks playing.

AC's to lose from here.

Arthur Crabtree 2529
sussexpob 2344
bigfluffylemon 2131
mikesiva 1666
andy 1347

In an interesting aside, Root and Robinson have more points than anyone in the Indian side, and Anderson is in fourth place in our player leaderboard. It's been far more of a team performance from India, while England rely on a couple of standouts. Root and Anderson didn't perform in this game, and England lost.

Robinson has scored over 120 every match this series, quite amazing consistency from a player who has only played five tests.

EDIT: Apparently my spreadsheet has a bug wherein if a contestant have more than 2 players absent from their 5+2, it doesn't like it. I'd robbed andy and mike of a couple of points. I've added them now. Doesn't make much difference...

Thanks bfl. Seem to be getting my players on the pitch, except for Ashwin.