WI-England combined fantasy league

[Durhamfootman]

nice surprise to come back home to

I see the 2nd game is about to start, so I might not have long to savour being at the top of the leaderboard

[Arthur Crabtree]

William Hill have stopped taking money on Durham winning this. So to lose from here would be a disaster...

[Durhamfootman]

I rarely win from this position

Red usually nicks it off me in the last match

besides I had a few players who dabbled with points today. I didn't have the big points makers............... except Ravi's econ bonus points, of course

[Arthur Crabtree]

Samuels will turn out a few points for you.

[Durhamfootman]

Nah.......

it's all about the bonus points in this game. Samuels took no wickets and picked up no bowling bonus points, scored 28 runs, which might have got him 10 bonus points, but then wasted more bonus points by scoring them too slowly

Sir Ravinda on the other hand, took a wicket, maxed out on bowling bonus points (50 of them) and then added a few runs at the end

Even Brezza, who took an caning at the death, will have scored about 30 points more than Samuels

[Durhamfootman]

actually the man coming up on the rails is powelly, on this occasion. He has a 200 point deficit, which is pretty much the total he'll pick up from selecting both Sammy and Buttler. Sammy's SR of 333 is pretty much akin to Ravi's econ of 2.5, and he had Ravi as well. I think it'll be neck and neck at the top with only a handful of points separating us going into the final T20, and he'll have all the momentum.

[Durhamfootman]

I almost always lose it on the last one.

[Arthur Crabtree]

If I remember our differences are my Buttler and Morgan and your Samuels and Moeen. So that works about level, maybe a point or two extra to me. Plenty of posters queueing up behind though.

[Arthur Crabtree]

I haven't got any momentum. I didn't think about that.

[Durhamfootman]

actually, Bravo helps me out with powelly, because Lumb only scored 4 and Bravo netted about 68 (I forgot about the 2fer b pts), so I might have a 50-60 point lead over him after all.

good contest, though!

[Arthur Crabtree]

It's north v south. If I was making a film out of it, It'd be Sean Bean as Arthur, Christopher Ecclestone as Durham, Hugh Grant as Powelly, and um, Rhys Ifans as GG.

[Durhamfootman]

If I remember our differences are my Buttler and Morgan and your Samuels and Moeen. So that works about level, maybe a point or two extra to me. Plenty of posters queueing up behind though.

Buttler picks up over 100 points, so that negates my lead, but Samuels inches me ahead

I hadn't realised that you'd got Buttler.

Of course if Narine is back for the last, then I'll lose Gayle and you'll lose Morgan (looking good for you). Powelly would lose Gayle for Narine, but would have to see Charles play to lose Bops.

All to play for, with enough differences between the teams to take it down to the wire

[Durhamfootman]

Christopher ecclestone?

Jimmy Nail (the Oz version)

[Arthur Crabtree]

Is Chris too metrosexual?

[Arthur Crabtree]

Jimmy Nail is quite metrosexual. Maybe not so much in the Oz days. i think we'll still look pretty rough alongside Hugh Grant though.