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Leaderboard 8 November
(players remaining)

Reds rise to the top

3015 Red Devil (4)
2989 Red Junior (2)
2962 bigfluffylemon (6)
2833 Durhamfootman (7)
2683 alfie (5)
2667 socalioness (2)
2620 mikesiva (4)
2407 Arthur Crabtree (6)
2320 Red Twins (4)
2260 Saint Powelly (6)
1901 andy (6)

India going home doesn't help the Red cause

Arthur continues to slide

Soca rises, but is now completely dependent on Zampa for free points

Had a feeling Rahul would mean Red would squeak past me. Again.

Good grief. Kohli's scores: 77, 9, 0, 2, 0.

Captain of the mug's XI, one assumes?

I think Pant had a stumping and a catch but that won't make any difference, I think my chances have left with India so fluffy is in the driving seat

Red Devil wrote:I think Pant had a stumping and a catch but that won't make any difference, I think my chances have left with India so fluffy is in the driving seat

yes he did, not sure how I missed that. I've corrected it.... every point counts

bigfluffylemon wrote:Good grief. Kohli's scores: 77, 9, 0, 2, 0.

Captain of the mug's XI, one assumes?

A victim of his top order firing. in the last 3 routs he didn't really have to dust his bat off, while his lieutenants filled their boots

I'm not sure I'd allow him to be captain, if I'm honest

Any thoughts on, in the future, picking a captain out of the 11 which doubles his points?

I have wondered about that at times

I have also wondered about a win bonus, but that might be stretching things a bit far.... maybe a POM bonus, but that would hinder me because I mostly pick bowlers and they hardly ever get POM. If they did these things back then, I could easily see Laker taking 19 wickets in the match and POM going to David Shepherd for scoring 113

Durhamfootman wrote:I have wondered about that at times

I have also wondered about a win bonus, but that might be stretching things a bit far.... maybe a POM bonus, but that would hinder me because I mostly pick bowlers and they hardly ever get POM. If they did these things back then, I could easily see Laker taking 19 wickets in the match and POM going to David Shepherd for scoring 113

PoTM is often a bit of a nonsense anyway . Sometimes one player is a standout ; sometimes they have to scrape one up out of a number of nondescript performances ; sometimes more than one deserve the "honour".

A certain Test Match in 1981 : without Botham's wonderful innings , Bob Willis wouldn't have even had an opportunity to bowl in the second innings...but if Bob hadn't nearly singlehandedly demolished the Australian line-up , his innings would have gone down in history as a gallant but fruitless effort against an overwhelming tide...

It really is a team game.

Player Scores 10 November


England

49 Buttler
13 Bairstow
117 Livingstone
91 Moeen
0 Jordan
0 Wood
61 Malan
14 Morgan
35 Rashid

New Zealand

4 Guptill
dnp Jamieson
15 Williamson
dnp Ferguson
55 Southeee
66 Conway

Leaderboard 10 November
(players remaining)

Fingernails for Red

3165 Red Devil (2)
3162 bigfluffylemon (3)
3065 Durhamfootman (5)
3038 Red Junior (1)
2801 alfie (3)
2716 mikesiva (2)
2667 socalioness (2)
2491 Arthur Crabtree (4)
2394 Red Twins (3)
2277 Saint Powelly (5)
1915 andy (3)

Yikes.

Dfm you're still in this too with that player count...

One of my four is back in NZ and another forgot to bring his kit.