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Shield time again

usual rules.... pick 11 players. Substitutes are not allowed, but there are no restrictions on who can be picked

Scoring

Batting

1 point per run
+10 for a half 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.

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

No squads are available yet, but I'll post them when they are made available

first matches start on 16th October. Teams to be in before midnight on 15th Oct BST

as far as I can tell, these are the lineups

NSW squad
Mitchell Starc (CA), Pat Cummins (CA), Josh Hazlewood (CA), Nathan Lyon (CA). Ryan Gibson, Moises Henriques, Dan Hughes, Nick Larkin, Kurtis Patterson, Jason Sangha, Param Uppal, Peter Nevill, Dan Fallin, Arjun Nair, Steve O’Keefe, Nick Bertus, Sean Abbott, Harry Conway, Trent Copeland, Ben Dwarshius, Mickey Edwards, Liam Hatcher, Charlie Stobo, Henry Thornton.

Queensland squad
Usman Khawaja, Matt Renshaw, Billy Stanlake, Xavier Bartlett, Joe Burns, Brendan Doggett, Luke Feldman, Jason Floros, Cameron Gannon, Peter George, Sam Heazlett, Charlie Hemphrey, Marnus Labuschagne, Michael Neser, Lachlan Pfeffer, James Peirson, Jack Prestwidge, Mark Steketee, Mitch Swepson, Sam Truloff, Jack Wildermuth

South Australia squad
Alex Carey, Travis Head, Kane Richardson, Tom Andrews, Tom Cooper, John Dalton, Callum Ferguson, David Grant, Jake Lehmann, Conor McInerney, Joe Mennie, Harry Nielsen, Elliot Opie, Patrick Page Jnr, Luke Robins, Alex Ross, Chadd Sayers, Kelvin Smith, Cameron Valente, Jake Weatherald, Nick Winter, Daniel Worrall, Adam Zampa

Tasmania squad
Tim Paine, George Bailey, Gabe Bell, Jackson Bird, Nicholas Buchanan, Alex Doolan, Jake Doran, James Faulkner, Caleb Jewell, Hamish Kingston, Ben McDermott, Riley Meredith, Simon Milenko, Sam Rainbird, Tom Rogers, Gurinder Sandhu, Jordan Silk, Matthew Wade, Charlie Wakim, Beau Webster.

Victoria squad
Aaron Finch, Peter Handscomb, Glenn Maxwell, Scott Boland, Jackson Coleman, Xavier Crone, Travis Dean, Aaron Finch, Sebastian Gotch, Sam Grimwade, Peter Handscomb, Sam Harper, Marcus Harris, Mackenzie Harvey, Jon Holland, Glenn Maxwell, Tom O’Connell, James Pattinson, Will Pucovski, Jake Reed, Matthew Short, Peter Siddle, Will Sutherland, Chris Tremain, Eamonn Vines, Cameron White

Western Australia squad
Ashton Agar, Mitchell Marsh, Shaun Marsh, Jhye Richardson, Marcus Stoinis, Andrew Tye, Cameron Bancroft, Jason Behrendorff, William Bosisto, Jake Carder, Hilton Cartwright, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Cameron Green, Liam Guthrie, Joshua Inglis, Matthew Kelly, Simon Mackin, David Moody, Joel Paris, Josh Philippe, D'Arcy Short, Ashton Turner, Jonathan Wells, Sam Whiteman.

MY SIDE

1.D'Arcy Short (WA)
2.Alex Ross (SA)
3.Cameron White (Vic)
4.Mitch Marsh (WA)
5.Marnus Labschuange (Que)
6.Glenn Maxwell (Vic)
7.Sam Whiteman (wk) (WA)
8.Luke Feldman (Que)
9.James Pattinson (Vic)
10.Jackson Bird (Tas)
11.Nathan Lyon (NSW)


LIKELY TO CHANGE, UNSURE ON BATTING LINE UP

The kid says

Starc nsw
Cummins nsw
Lyon nsw
Henriqes nsw
Renshaw Queens
Ferguson said
Finch Vic
Maxwell vic
Agar was
Mitch marsh
Shaun marsh

lol thinking of changing mine tonight already...

Thanks Durham

Bancroft WA
Burns Q
Bailey T
Ferguson SA
Handscomb V
Maxwell V
Henriques NSW
Agar WA
O'Keefe NSW
Neser Q
Bird T

Bailey and Bird, Arthur? you couldn't stay away from the honey pot

I left them out of the fifty overs, and they seemed to do quite well...

oooh

exciting times

3 days to go for teams

don't be the dullard who misses out

Arthur was so excited by this fantasy league that he delayed his holiday until after he'd got his team in

and he pulled out the Bailey/Bird big guns, so he is clearly in no mood to mess about with spoons or sweeties.... he's aiming to go all the way

'go hard or go home' is his new motto, it would appear

I'm still finalising my team, but I won't consider it impolite if nobody waits for me

Copeland NSW
Nevill NSW
Wildermuth Q
Swepson Q
Sayers SA
Mennie SA
Ferguson SA
Bird T
Rogers T
Tremain V
Boland V

That's the winner.

Arthur Crabtree wrote:That's the winner.

unlikely... I haven't won one of these for a thousand years.

Aussie one is always hard to call because of the small player pool, which can be hugely affected by the central contract players. they dip in and out of the shield willy nilly, disrupting completely how often the non international players actually play, and because there is only a third of the number of teams to be found in the county championship, it has a much greater impact on FL team selections.

best example of that was Ed Cowan last year, who finished the previous season as easily the biggest run scorer, but then missed a third of last year's shield because Aussie had no matches and selection for NSW was based on Australia, who wanted to get some some practice for their big guns (to be expected), but who also wanted to get a look at some fringe players that they had their eye on.

The danger for me is that Trent Copeland falls into the same category, because he is in the same squad as the entire first choice Australia bowling attack. If Starc, Hazlewood and Cummins all happen to be fit...... who gets picked? The saving grace is that those 3 are rarely all fit at the same time.

The trick in the Shield FL is to find 11 players who are both unlikely to be called up by Australia, but also secure enough in their state sides not to be forced to make way to give CA contracted players some practice

and, of course, this task has become harder because Australia have so many banned players that they now have no idea who their natural replacements should be, and so shuffle the pack from one international series to the next