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Hard to believe that the new county season is nearly upon us. Time to start thinking about our fantasy league teams

As usual, pick 11 players, no substitutes are permitted, and there are no restrictions on who you can pick

Scoring

Batting

1 point per run
+10 for a half century
+20 for a century (+10 for any additional half century)
If a batsman is not out after 50 = +10, after 100 = +15, after 200 = +25 etc....

Bowling

20 points per wicket
2 points per maiden over
+10 for 5 wickets in the match
+20 for 5 wickets in an innings
+30 for 10 wickets in the match
+50 for 10 wickets in an innings
+30 for a hat trick, + 10 for two in a row.

Fielding

10 points per catch or stumping
20 points per run out, or 10 points each if two players share the responsibility
10 bonus points for 3 contributions with catches, stumpings or run outs


Squads

http://www.espncricinfo.com/county-cric ... ect=786877
be careful with crapinfo squad lists, they are not necessarily up to date
check ins and outs here http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cricket/29110601

Can anybody beat the Red Devil who has dominated this FL in recent years?

entries must be in before the toss on Sunday 12th April, and may the best footman win!

It would be much appreciated if players are entered with their counties, to prevent confusion and to save me from having to trawl through the squads to find them.

thanks

My team provisionally

Rushworth (Dur)
Hastings (Dur)
Voges (Midd)
Patel S (Notts)
Gidman W (Notts)
Allenby (Som)
Trego (Som)
Magoffin (Suss)
Patel J (Warks)
Barker (Warks)
Brooks (Yorks)

I desperately wanted to pick Rashid..... his omission from my team last year contributed significantly to me missing out to Red (again).... but I feel he will be in and out of the side either bench warming for England or playing for the lions. Wouldn't it be typical if he had a terrible WI tour, spent the rest of the season with Yorks, and racked up 1800 points

1) Recordo Gordon (Warks)
2) Keith Barker (Warks)
3) Jimmy Adams (Hants)
4) Michael Carberry (Hants)
5) James Hildreth (Somerset)
6) Alfonso Thomas (Somerset)
7) Samit Patel (Notts)
8) Ajmal Shahzad (Sussex)
9) Tymal Mills (Sussex)
10) Michael Yardy (Sussex)
11) Chris Jordan (Sussex)

MY SIDE (MOST LIKELY WILL CHANGE)

1.Sam Robson (Middlesex)
2.Mark Stoneman (Durham)
3.Alex Lees (Yorkshire)
4.James Hildreth (Somerset)
5.Matt Machan (Sussex)
6.Tim Ambrose (Warks)
7.Michael Yardy (Sussex)
8.Keith Barker (Warks)
9.Toby Roland-Jones (Middlesex)
10.Steve Finn (Middlesex)
11.George Dockrell (Somserset)

I'd be surprised if there was a single player left on that list by the time the comp starts, cf.

Hain (Warks)
Clarke (Warks)
J.Patel (Warks)
Rushworth (Dur)
Rashid (Yorks)
S.Patel (Notts)
Read (Notts)
Wessels (Notts)
Magoffin (Sussex)
Trego (Som)
Voges (Midd)

Very much subject to change:

1.B Taylor - Nottinghamshire
2.Vince - Hampshire
3.Borthwick - Durham
4.Cooper - Somerset
5.Allenby - Somerset
6.S Patel - Nottinghamshire
7.Rashid - Yorkshire
8.J Patel - Warwickshire
9.Sidebottom - Yorkshire
10.Magoffin - Sussex
11.Onions - Durham

Durham as you said on some other thread competition is better in FL's. So i guess you won't participate to allow competition. Can you also delete Red's team in County FL because he also has lot of County wins in signatures already. We want competition

Never done well in COunty due to lack of enough county cricket knowledge. I hope i somehow make top 10

1st change

Durhamfootman wrote:Rushworth (Dur)
Hastings (Dur)
Voges (Midd) Murtagh (Midd)
Patel S (Notts)
Gidman W (Notts)
Allenby (Som)
Trego (Som)
Magoffin (Suss)
Patel J (Warks)
Barker (Warks)
Brooks (Yorks)

hopeforthebest wrote:Hain (Warks)
Clarke (Warks)
J.Patel (Warks)
Rushworth (Dur)
Rashid (Yorks)
S.Patel (Notts)
Read (Notts)
Wessels (Notts)
Magoffin (Sussex)
Trego (Som)
Vincent (Hants)

What's good for the goose is good for the gander. Voges out Vincent (Hants) in.

S Robson (Middlesex)
J Allenby (Somerset)
E Joyce (Sussex)
J Vince (Hants)
S Patel (Notts)
J Bairstow (Warks)
W Gidman (Notts)
T Bresnan (Yorks)
S Borthwick (Durham)
C Rusthworth (Durham)
S Magoffin (Sussex)

Gidman - Notts
Sidebottom -Yorks
W.Smith - Hants
Carberry - Hants
Onions - Durham
Borthwick - Durham
Samit Patel - Notts
Joyce - Sussex
Allenby - Somerset
Magoffin - Sussex
Lees - Yorks