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Surprised to be that high!

hopefully I do well here, the first competition that the bookies didn't pick the team for me.

never trust the bookies, my friend, they only have their own interests at heart... not yours

Durhamfootman wrote:never trust the bookies, my friend, they only have their own interests at heart... not yours

From experience, the bookies can be bashed when it comes to cricket betting.

Back in the day when Durham were really good, Blue Square offered something like 18/1 for Durham to win the Pro40 Division 2 title and that was on the back of reaching the Friends Provident Trophy Final. I placed an each way bet and came out £240 richer.

This year a bookie attempted an outright market on the Womens World T20 tournament leading wicket taker. I stuck a fiver on Leigh Kasperek at around 17.75/1, also backed about £6 for her to be New Zealand's leading bowler at something like 3.75/1. She did it by virtue of least runs conceded on both bets, nice return of about £100.

Yeah surprised how much they didn't actually research in the markets.
the only one they did good at was in the mens T20 competition.
Although doubt people would complain means their a window to make some money.

that's a bit of a bugger

Bresnan was top of my wish list for the T20 FL, but I left him out because he was injured

only he bloody isn't...... and he started his tourno with 105 points

Player scores 21st to 27th May


Derbyshire

80/21 Neesham
70/102 Durston
10/66 Hughes

Durham

23 Stoneman

Lancashire

dnp/10 Buttler
61/21 Croft
dnp/dnp Kerrigan
35/dnp Livingstone
0/6 Parry
10/2 Lilley

Leicestershire

30 McKay

Northamptonshire

115 Cobb
98 Levi
37 Kleinveldt
59 Duckett

Warwickshire

dnp Trott
96 Bell
dnp Woakes
dnp Clarke
0 Patel J
80 Gordon
41 Ronchi
0 Hannon-Dalby

Worcestershire

33 Whiteley
25 Mitchell
167 D’Oliveira
dnp Santner

Yorkshire

dnp Willey
12 Rashid
105 Bresnan

Glamorgan

0 Wagg

Hampshire

0 Ervine
80 Wheater
25 Carberry
98 Afridi
dnpWeatherley
10 Smith W
18 Best
dnp Sammy

Middlesex

143Malan
dnp McCullum
dnp McClenaghan

Surrey

11 Davies
50 Curran T
dnp Bravo
dnp Rampaul

Leaderboard at 27th May

Ian setting the pace

873 ianp1970
719 Red Devil
671 hopeforthebest
660 bhaveshgor
625 365notout
606 braveneutral
592 Alviro Patterson
583 dan08
527 DiligentDefence
522 Durhamfootman
494 SaintPowelly
457 Aidan11
419 Arthur Crabtree
245 mikesiva

the footman challenge for glory starts from a very low base

RL one day cup FL starts on Sunday... be there or be square

Pleased with that

Player scores 28th May to 3rd June


Derbyshire

164 Neesham
dnp Durston
39 Hughes

Durham

15/10 Stoneman

Lancashire

53 Buttler
29 Croft
dnp Kerrigan
105 Livingstone
45 Parry
80 Lilley

Leicestershire

115 McKay

Northamptonshire

96 Cobb
74 Levi
70 Kleinveldt
34 Duckett

Nottinghamshire

19 Christian
8 Lumb
160 Patel S

Warwickshire

dnp Trott
55 Bell
105 Woakes
105 Clarke
45 Patel J
dnp Gordon
10 Ronchi
35 Hannon-Dalby

Worcestershire

0/33 Whiteley
114/54 Mitchell
54/53 D’Oliveira
dnp/dnp Santner

Yorkshire

6/10 Willey
26/1 Rashid
69/128 Bresnan

Essex

114/38 Bopara
61/60 Westley
72/7 Ryder
0/34 Wahab
dnp/dnpPorter

Glamorgan

7/12 Wagg

Gloucestershire

60/125 Tye
137/84 Howell
10/37 Klinger
30/86 Marshall
35/20 Smith T

Kent

23/45 Tredwell
13/17 Billings
48/36 Stevens
94/35 Bell-Drummond
2/45 Northeast
150/38 Coles
dnp/dnp Claydon

Hampshire

0/1 Ervine
16/59 Wheater
74/10 Carberry
116/107 Afridi
dnp/dnpWeatherley
dnp/dnp Smith W
45/0 Best
dnp/dnp Topley
147/2 Sammy

Middlesex

2 Malan
6 McCullum
dnp McClenaghan

Somerset

99/0 vd Merwe
5/79 Gayle
81/16 Jayawardene

Surrey

3 Davies
59 Curran T
60 Bravo
dnp Rampaul

Sussex

60/0 Briggs
34/110 Jordan
dnp/dnp Robinson
143/44 Wright L
172/4 Nash
11/81 Taylor
dnp/dnp Joyce
dnp/dnp Rahman

Leaderboard at 3rd June

Red goes off the 10M board

1949 Red Devil
1874 ianp1970
1770 Alviro Patterson
1542 braveneutral
1394 Arthur Crabtree
1379 Durhamfootman
1348 bhaveshgor
1303 dan08
1189 DiligentDefence
1189 SaintPowelly
1115 hopeforthebest
1099 mikesiva
1063 365notout
1029 Aidan11

I've begun the climb up the leaderboard, but with so many of my substitutes scoring poorly after coming in for injured players, who suddenly made miraculous recoveries and have been scoring heavily, it feels like I have no chance of winning this FL

Durhamfootman wrote:that's a bit of a bugger

Bresnan was top of my wish list for the T20 FL, but I left him out because he was injured

only he bloody isn't...... and he started his tourno with 105 points

Technically Bresnan was recovering from injury at the start of the T20 Blast, but Yorkshire had a bye week and he was scheduled to be back for the following week.

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