From The Pavillion

[Jarquis]

Wowsers.

 

[Scaly piscine]

First post-reset ratings of the season:

Colwick Clubbers Scaly Piscine CC
Batting - Top Order: 9,741 10,602
Batting - Middle Order: 8,925 9,427
Batting - Tail: 2,731 4,259
Bowling - Seam: 9,491 (2) 10,462 (6)
Bowling - Spin: 9,757 (8) 11,833 (4)
Fielding/Keeping: 10,067 9,456
Overall: 161,576 176,307

 

[Bobisback]

First full strength game tomorrow, expecting mid 160's.

 

[Scaly piscine]

ME the same ****ing pile of **** as always. Yet another complete ****ing joke game to open up OD 1.1. A team with ****ing 3 players in it, one of them does **** all yet I get ****ing trashed by 60odd runs. Absolute ****ing joke.

 

[NZTailender]

Haha.

I'd almost join you in your rant there Scaly. Yesterday I played a team ranked a good deal behind me (200 behind in country iirc, heaps more worldwide). Think we outgunned them by about 20k.

Anyway, we batted first on a flat and made a decent score (full strength XI). Come their turn to bat, we managed just 2 wickets in the first 40 overs; they were cruising and surely on their way to a win and I was ready to come on here and cuss up a storm but we then ripped through their last 8 for not many. ME is weird.

 

[Bobisback]

The ME is ****ed. Ash has ****ed up somewhere with the recent changes.

Got another month ban for speaking up (and dropping the f-bomb quite a few times)

 

[Jarquis]

Team Torpoint CC Talents Boundary Hitter
Bats Left hand batsman Bowls Left arm Finger spin
Wage $7,383 Rating 35,812
Nationality USA USA Age 22
Form reliable Fatigue weary
Experience poor Captaincy average
Endurance reasonable Training Bowling Technique
Batting ordinary Bowling outstanding
Technique outstanding Power average
Keeping dreadful Fielding dreadful

Bowling and technique both popped

 

[Raghav]

Guys, any plans for CW Cup?

 

[Bobisback]

Would just be a me and scaly final.

 

[NZTailender]

Would just be a me and scaly final.

Assuming it would be a Scaly-Otago semi.

 

[sunilreddy]

Youth pull this week

Kingfisher >> Runjeet Veena >> Details
Player Details
Team Kingfisher Talents Skilled (Bowling), Doosra
Bats Left hand batsman Bowls Right arm Finger spin
Wage $1,260 Rating 26,857
Nationality India India Age 16
Form average Fatigue revived
Experience poor Captaincy poor
Endurance ordinary Training Bowling
Batting ordinary Bowling ordinary
Technique ordinary Power ordinary
Keeping average Fielding ordinary

 

[Raghav]

Youth pull this week

Kingfisher >> Runjeet Veena >> Details
Player Details
Team Kingfisher Talents Skilled (Bowling), Doosra
Bats Left hand batsman Bowls Right arm Finger spin
Wage $1,260 Rating 26,857
Nationality India India Age 16
Form average Fatigue revived
Experience poor Captaincy poor
Endurance ordinary Training Bowling
Batting ordinary Bowling ordinary
Technique ordinary Power ordinary
Keeping average Fielding ordinary

good pull

 

[Bobisback]

Pretty ordinary.


lolz.

 

[popepouri]

Looks like another one was on the receiving end of the ****ed up ME. I was in a scrap with this team for the top spot and we have the same match rating for most the season until he bought a couple players 3 days ago that brought up his match rating way above mine.

We played each other today and he lost by 9 runs. The final match for me is a bot which inevitably gets me promoted.

 

[NZTailender]

Uh, scaly, did you forget to sign into the right account?

 

[Bobisback]

Update again, while I wait for the training updates:

[B]		Age	End	Bat	Bowl	Tech	Power	Keep	Field	Exp	Talent (Where relevant)[/B]
[B]McLeod[/B]		22	Reason	Reliabl	Poor	Capable	Average	Ord	Capable	Reason	Opener
[B]Blewett[/B]		24	Capable	Reliabl	Ord	Reason	Ord	Dread	Poor	Reliabl	Opener
[B]Kaluperuma[/B]	20	Reason	Expert	Atro	Reliabl	Poor	Dread	Ord	Ord	
[B]Baddewithana[/B]	20	Average	Expert	Poor	Reliabl	Atro	Poor	Poor	Poor	Skilled(Power), Seam Specialist
[B]Stobo[/B]		19	Average	Reason	Poor	Reason	Average	Reliabl	Poor	Average	Skilled(Keeping)
[B]Dikkumbura [/B]	20	Average	Expert	Atro	Reliabl	Poor	Poor	Poor	Ord	Finisher
[B]McNamee[/B]		25	Reason	Reason	Reliabl	Reason	Poor	Average	Average	Accomp	Finisher
[B]Harshana[/B]	20	Reason	Poor	Outst	Accomp	Dread	Atro	Dread	Ord	Safe Hands
[B]Pradip[/B]		20	Reason	Dread	Reliabl	Accomp	Poor	Dread	Ord	Reliabl
[B]Sanadeera[/B]	20	Average	Atro	Expert	Reliabl	Ord	Dread	Poor	Ord
[B]Kuruvilla[/B]	20	Reason	Atro	Outst	Accomp	Dread	Dread	Average	Ord	Safe Hands

Obvious problem is the keeper, but will be rectifying that very shortly. Also when you put in my 4 U19's who would make most peoples first XI's, i think im going in the right direction.

Just updated my BT one, so why not this one:

[B]		Age	End	Bat	Bowl	Tech	Power	Keep	Field	Exp	Talent (Bowler Type)[/B]
[B]Farook*[/B]		21	Reliabl	Outst	Poor	Outst	Reason	Ord	Average	Accomp	Opener
[B]Kaluperuma*[/B]	24	Accomp	Spect	Atro	Outst	Reliabl	Dread	Capable	Outst	
[B]Bock[/B]		24	Accomp	Outst	Dread	Outst	Reliabl	Atro	Capable	Expert	Skilled(Batting)
[B]Jindasa*[/B]	24	Expert	Accomp	Poor	Outst	Average	Excep	Capable	Excep	Skilled(Tech)
[B]Jurangpathy[/B]	21	Capabl	Spect	Poor	Spect	Poor	Dread	Average	Reason	
[B]Dikkumbura*[/B]	24	Reliabl	Spect	Atro	Oust	Reason	Poor	Average	Spect	Finisher
[B]More	[/B]	23	Reliabl	Reason	Outst	Outst	Average	Average	Average	Capable	(RFS)
[B]Duncan*[/B]		22	Outst	Ordin	Spect	Spect	Capable	Ordin	Capable	Spect	New Ball Bowler (RF)
[B]Hassett[/B]		23	Accomp	Dread	Excep	Excep	Reason	Dread	Average	Reliabl (RM)
[B]Dwyer*[/B]		24	Expert	Dread	Spect	Spect	Dread	Ordin	Capable	Accomp	Wrongun (RWS)
[B]Kuruvilla*[/B]	24	Accomp	Atro	Excep	Excep	Poor	Dread	Reason	Outst	Safe Hands (RFS)

Thats just my first XI, have a few other key fill in players. The stars are the Nats, all of which generally tour.

 

[Athlai]

Jeez it's ugly now.

 

[Jarquis]

Yeah, AWTA. Though for some reason it did make me interested again, actually set orders for my last few games. Looking forward to next season, though I have no money.

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

Worked my way up to Youth 1.1 in New Zealand. My first game today, and I overcame a ratings deficit of 12k to defeat the best team in the Land (or he will be the #1 Youth team in NZ when the rankings update anyway)

May even have a chance of staying in 1.1:

Ayatollah of Rockenrollah 103,266
The Soggybottom XI 101,775
Takutimu 98,110
Kwicket's XI 96,930
Navman Cheesecake 91,072
TTTHG 87,142
Raupo XI 86,781
CPS Vandals 82,167

 

[davidgdafter]

I would like some advice in relation to defensive orders for FTP T20 games. When I first started FTP and had some mentoring, I was told to always set my bowlers to defensive. I have always done this and never changed it.

Lately, I have been thinking if this is a good idea or not. I seem to be batting well, but the defensive setting on bowling, doesn't really seem to help.

What sort of orders do you lot use for T20....any help or advice appreciated.