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Look, up in the sky!
Is it a bird?
Is it a plane?

No...... It's the Vitality Blast

Faster than a streak of ssip,
More powerful than a dribbling tap,
Mightier than a roaring candle

Fantasy league coming soon to a message board near you

if you only enter one fantasy league this year, then make it this one

ask yourself....... is it better than This is spinal tap? the answer is no!

but don't let that put you off

Rules to come soon

don't jump the gun, even though you are champing at the bit to get your teams in

Putin may tell us that his western partners admit that liberal values such as this have become untenable

but I'm old school......... patience is still a virtue

Early team.

Joe Denly Kent
Laurie Evans Sussex
Paul Stirling Middlesex
Lewis Gregory Somerset
Alex Davies Lancashire
David Willey Yorkshire
patrick brown Worcestershire
Luke Wright Sussex
Matthew Parkinson Lancashire
Jamie Overton Somerset
Liam Livingstone Lancashire

I wondered who would crack first

Ok then

Rules

11 players, no substitutions

Scoring

Batting
1pt for every run scored
Players scoring at least 25 runs will receive a 10pt bonus for every 25 runs scored
Players scoring at least 15 runs will receive a 10pt bonus for a s/r 125-174
Players scoring at least 15 runs will receive a 20pt bonus for a s/r 175-224
Players scoring at least 15 runs will receive a 30pt bonus for a s/r 225+

Bowling
25 pts per wicket plus
5 points bonus for maiden over
10 pt bonus for a 2fer
20 pt bonus for a 4fer
Bowler with an economy rate of <=4.0 (min 2 overs) will receive a 50 point bonus
Bowler with an economy rate of <=5.0 (min 2 overs) will receive a 40 point bonus
Bowler with an economy rate of <=6.0 (min 2 overs) will receive a 30 point bonus
Bowler with an economy rate of <=7.0 (min 2 overs) will receive a 20 point bonus
Bowler with an economy rate of <=8.0 (min 2 overs) will receive a 10 point bonus

Fielding
10 points for each catch taken and stumping.
20 points for sole run out (10 each if shared)
10 pt bonus for being involved in 3 catches / run-outs / stumpings


Squads

click on the county and then click on squad
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/teams

First match starts 1815 on 18th July. All entries must be in before the toss

MY SIDE

1.Aaron Finch (Sur)
2.Alex Hales (Notts)
3.Cameron Delport (Ess)
4.Heino Kuhn (Kent)
5.Callum Ferguson (Wor)
6.Ryan Ten Doeschate (Ess)
7.Ben Foakes (sur) (wk)
8.Faheem Ashraf (Nor)
9.Callum Parkinson (Lei)
10.Adam Zampa (Ess)
11.Tony Palladino (Der)

Denly (Kent)
Nabi (Kent)
Livingstone (Lancs)
Gregory (Somerset)
Willey (Yorks)
De Villiers (Middlesex)
Finch (Surrey)
Tahir (Surrey)
Christian (Notts)
Patel (Notts)
Bopara (Essex)

blimey!

it's nearly upon us

the CWC is history, now. The Dribble is the future

deadline 1745 Thursday

don't be the dummy who misses out

GG - Amir Sohail wrote:Denly (Kent)
Nabi (Kent)
Livingstone (Lancs)
Gregory (Somerset)
Willey (Yorks)
De Villiers (Middlesex)
Finch (Surrey)
Tahir (Surrey)
Christian (Notts)
Patel (Notts) Mullaney (Notts)
Bopara (Essex)

A Notts for Notts switch.

Early draft done - are England selecting their test squad before Thursday?

I doubt it, sadly. Still over 2 weeks to go to the first test. It would be most helpful if they did, though

Vince
Finch
Chopra
Wright
Hales
Azam
Maxwell
Dawson
Willey
T Curran
Gregory

It feels very wrong not to pick any of Mullaney, Samit and Ravinder. Might be a first for me.

Taking a gamble on Roy getting a Test call-up at some point.

GG - Amir Sohail wrote:

GG - Amir Sohail wrote:Denly (Kent) Madsen (Derbs)
Nabi (Kent)
Livingstone (Lancs)
Gregory (Somerset)
Willey (Yorks)
De Villiers (Middlesex)
Finch (Surrey)
Tahir (Surrey)
Christian (Notts)
Patel (Notts) Mullaney (Notts)
Bopara (Essex)

A Notts for Notts switch.

Denly is in the test team, isn't he. I'm not doing very well here.

Tymal Mills
Joe Clarke
Nicholas Pooran
Matt Parkinson
Pat Brown
Henry Brookes
Tom Banton
Delray Rawlins
Phil Salt
Alex Hales
Lewis Gregory

Durhamfootman wrote:I doubt it, sadly. Still over 2 weeks to go to the first test. It would be most helpful if they did, though

forgot about the Ireland test

who wouldn't, after all?

Gregory called up
Stone called up

Wood has a side strain, picked up from the CWC final, and is likely to be out for 4-6 weeks, so I guess one of those two might be in a shoot out for his ashes squad place

Roy set to open with Burns, unsurprisingly