Cricket-Match-Special ... A forum for discussion

1. Devon Conway (Southern Brave)
2. Will Jacks (Oval Invincibles)
3. Daryl Mitchell (London Spirit)
4. Liam Dawson (London Spirit)
5. Jos Buttler (Manchester Originals)
6. Nat Sciver-Brunt (Trent Rockets)
7. Hayley Matthews (Welsh Fire)
8. Sophie Ecclestone (Manchester Originals)
9. Alice Capsey (Oval Invincibles)
10. Georgia Adams (Southern Brave)
11. Michael Pepper (London Spirit)

Josh Buttler
Alex Hales
Will Jacks
Sam Curran
Amanda Jade Wellington
Natalie Sciver Brunt
Laura Woolvardt
Sophie Ecclestone
Shabnim Ismael
Hayley Matthews
Kate Cross

My side is ...

Nat SB - TR
Matthews - WF
Kerr - LS
Kapp - OI
Moeen - BP
Livingstone - BP
Devine - BP
Buttler - MO
S Curran - OI
Narine - OI
Ecclestone - MO

Not quite the 8 teams I wanted, but 6 is close enough, I think

we have a game. I confess to being curious as to how mixed gender teams will work

Durhamfootman wrote:we have a game. I confess to being curious as to how mixed gender teams will work

Women batters will have a natural advantage, and woman bowlers much more of an advantage....

Last years top scorer in both competitions in the group stage.

Men - 158 runs scored on average
Women - 139 runs

Men score quicker, so there is an inbalance. Might see some crazy female bowling points, and some lower benchmarks for the women batters. I havent really picked my team based on that though, just a bit of fun.

If you really wanted to, you could work out benchmark scores and attribute different bonus points for each gender based on scoring rates relative to the average, but as I said... bit of fun.

well, as I said earlier, womens scoring rates in recent fantasy leagues have gone right up compared to a handful of years ago. When scoring for the womens world cup and the WPL it became very apparent to me that there was no longer any need to differentiate between them and the men in terms of bonus points. Under the old scoring system, I was handing out maximum SR batting bonuses willy nilly, while the bowlers were barely scraping the economy bowling points because of the lower thresholds.

It will be interesting to find out how they compare side by side

I've noticed that everyone has between 4 and 7 women in their side, so it's hard to tell.

just for fun, SP, why don't you pick an all male XI and an all female XI as well to see how that compares. Ignore that some women have already played and just pick your strongest two XI's

Player scores matchday 1



Southern Brave

77 Adams
16 Conway
85 Mandhana

Trent Rockets

79 Nat S-Brunt
29 Hales
32 Kaur
11 Malan
dnp Root

easy start for me, because there was only one bowler. It's the runs per ball and dot ball things that I have to take great care over

I did try to watch some of this, but my mind kept wandering away from the screen, if I'm honest, so I watched the footie highlights in the end

Player scores matchday 2


London Spirit

0 Kerr
8 Mitchell
9 Dawson
14 Pepper
dnp Crawley
47 Critchley

Manchester Originals

0 Ecclestone
0 Mir
67 Buttler
0 Wolvaardt
0 Wellington

Oval Invincibles

11 Jacks
0 Kapp
8 Roy
0 Capsey
97 Curran S
132 Narine

Welsh Fire

0 Mathews
0 Beaumont
0 Ismail

nothing says women and children like a 10pm finish

no Livingstone today, which will surprise a few people including me

rain interfering again and telling the ECB the time that women and children should be going home, won't surprise anyone

Player scores matchday 3


Birmingham Phoenix

dnp Livingstone
dnp Moeen
83 Devine

Northern Superchargers

106 Short
44 Cross

Leaderboard after matchday 3

Red leads us out

337 Red Devil
327 sussexpob
324 Red Junior
281 gingerpele
251 Durhamfootman
133 Red Twins

hopefully by the next update, some of my players might have actually played in a match that wasn't rained off