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bigfluffylemon wrote:Yikes.

Dfm you're still in this too with that player count...

I'm in the mix, certainly.
at the start of this comp I thought I'd made a strategic error going for (what I thought were going to be) top order batsmen. The bowler friendly nature of the pitches at the start and then the captains mixing their teams around to shove my unique players down the order made me feel that I'd be lucky to finish outside the bottom 3, but actually it has worked out about as well as I could have hoped for under the circumstances.

It's up to those unique players to do the business now, but I'm 100 points behind and there's only 2 matches left. Usually by now, it's fairly clear who is going to triumph, but this one will go all the way to the wire, I reckon, and it'll be a very close final table.

Player Scores 11 November


Australia

48 Marsh
27 Maxwell
55 Zampa
60 Stoinis
60 Starc

Pakistan

49 Babar
107 Rizwan
140 Shadab

Leaderboard 11 November
(players remaining)

Goodness.... we might need a super over

3296 bigfluffylemon (2)
3296 Durhamfootman (3)
3241 Red Devil (1)
3087 Red Junior (0)
2910 alfie (2)
2871 mikesiva (1)
2771 socalioness (1)
2625 Arthur Crabtree (3)
2421 Red Twins (3)
2413 Saint Powelly (4)
2152 andy (1)

the leaders both have Maxwell, so it comes down to Southee -v- Marsh and Conway

I have no idea how this will pan out, but after these semi finals, that's probably quite fitting

I hate to say this, but I think you've made a mistake somewhere. Red and I had the same players active in yesterday's game, didn't we?

depends what you mean by yesterday... if you mean Aus/Pak then you both had Maxwell, but Red had Babar and you had Rizwan.

although I've just checked and you didn't pick Rizwan, you picked Babar, so I have got it wrong and I've had it wrong all the way through.... they are next to each other on my spreadsheet......... that's embarrassing

Although Rizwan outscored Babar by 58 points in the semi, Babar outscored Rizwan over the whole comp by 32 points, so you have a 32 point lead going into the final

Leaderboard 11 November
(players remaining)

the revised version

3328 bigfluffylemon (2)
3296 Durhamfootman (3)
3241 Red Devil (1)
3087 Red Junior (0)
2910 alfie (2)
2871 mikesiva (1)
2771 socalioness (1)
2625 Arthur Crabtree (3)
2421 Red Twins (3)
2413 Saint Powelly (4)
2152 andy (1)

that makes Southee's job quite a bit easier

sorry about that, Fluffy

Durhamfootman wrote:depends what you mean by yesterday... if you mean Aus/Pak then you both had Maxwell, but Red had Babar and you had Rizwan.

although I've just checked and you didn't pick Rizwan, you picked Babar, so I have got it wrong and I've had it wrong all the way through.... they are next to each other on my spreadsheet......... that's embarrassing

Although Rizwan outscored Babar by 58 points in the semi, Babar outscored Rizwan over the whole comp by 32 points, so you have a 32 point lead going into the final

I wasn't expecting that, thought I'd end up about 50 points behind you - thought you'd mistakenly assigned someone to me just for Australia/Pakistan

Game on for the final, I guess.

certainly it is

(I had Southee as favourite even before he gained a 32 point cushion)

after the first round of matches, this was not a FL that expected to win, so I won't be disappointed if I finish second

Surprised I was the only one to pick Southee, but win or lose in the final, he's been a great pick - his form in T20s over the last year or so has been superb (hence my selection).

I think we all missed a trick in that no-one selected Boult. Or Warner, for that matter, but the latter was understandable given his woeful IPL.

Zampa has been consistently good and not picked enough either. I made that mistake in the Big Bash comp last year too. I won't repeat it.

Durhamfootman wrote:the leaders both have Maxwell, so it comes down to Southee -v- Marsh and Conway

I have no idea how this will pan out, but after these semi finals, that's probably quite fitting

make that Southee -v- Marsh

Bloody Conway is out of the final after busting his hand punching his bat when he got out in the SF..... the big daft to$$er

Durhamfootman wrote:

Durhamfootman wrote:the leaders both have Maxwell, so it comes down to Southee -v- Marsh and Conway

I have no idea how this will pan out, but after these semi finals, that's probably quite fitting

make that Southee -v- Marsh

Bloody Conway is out of the final after busting his hand punching his bat when he got out in the SF..... the big daft to$$er

Thinks he's Ben Stokes!

Jesse Ryder!

From the 'Today's Hot Topic' thread

Durhamfootman wrote:today's hot topic?

what is the point of MItchell Marsh? Australia seem to think they should play him, but not let him bat and not let him bowl

bigfluffylemon wrote:

Durhamfootman wrote:today's hot topic?

what is the point of MItchell Marsh?

Those of us in Australia have been asking that question for years