Cricketing Timewaster

[Sits]

One or two more I would like, but they finish tomorrow for me.

[Antepli Ejderha]

The transfer market is very inflated at the moment, I'm glad I picked up a few bargains before the end of the season. Sadly nobody is bidding on my players.

I've got a bit of money in the bank and will try to develop my squad some more. I've also noticed that a few of my players have awarded themselves some very healthy pay rises, 25% isn't uncommon. I'll see how my finances look but I might have to ship a few players out if I'm running a loss consistently.

[Levin]

The market is inflated but it's also the time of the year where most players get sold, in part because in the past people dumped 20yo, and also because people sell when money gets spent. It's self fulfilling.

[Levin]

Well as there are only OTF matches this week. Who do we think will be the first to 1000 OTF runs (one day)?

Name	Team	Mat	Inns	No	Runs	HS	Ave
Philip Esmond	Croesoswallt Dragons	13	13	3	742	138	74.20
Rhys Nobes	Village Flowers	13	12	4	691	139	86.38
Miles George	Croesoswallt Dragons	13	13	3	662	130	66.20
Jabril Zuhair	Village Flowers	12	11	1	612	153	61.20
Claye Squires	Village Flowers	13	13	2	579	148	52.64
Vinayagamoorthi Prabath	Wellworth	13	13	1	534	117	44.50
Jitrendra Dungrani	The Zeugma Ferrets	13	13	0	521	122	40.08
Herman Bascombe	Wellworth	13	13	2	509	124	46.27
Garth Hendry	The Csiki Nurdles	13	13	0	444	97	34.15
Shahnawaz Mevawala	Nuhiu Rules	9	9	2	443	116	63.29

[Levin]

And who will be first to 50 wickets?

Name	BT	Team	Mat	Balls	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	Ave	ER
Bayden Boome	rf	Croesoswallt Dragons	13	724	6	482	38	12.68	3.99
Nathan Cleeve	lfm	Village Flowers	13	736	10	365	35	10.43	2.98
Tanver Kumble	rm	Croesoswallt Dragons	13	690	12	401	32	12.53	3.49
Dylan Ruse	rf	Wellworth	13	587	7	318	30	10.60	3.25
Rhys Ratcliffe	rfm	Village Flowers	13	730	11	425	28	15.18	3.49
Abhijeet Thakar	lfm	Kakanui Casuals	13	695	3	601	24	25.04	5.19
Roopnarine Neblett	lf	Bagillt Baptists	11	630	7	338	24	14.08	3.22
Will Faunce	lfs	Bagillt Baptists	12	599	6	374	24	15.58	3.75
Pratham Kale	rws	Croesoswallt Dragons	10	521	5	310	22	14.09	3.57
Jezza Callery	lf	Wellworth	12	497	2	442	21	21.05	5.34

[Antepli Ejderha]

1 out of 20 in those lists, we've done well to win any games. Great stats Levin

[Sits]

What AE said.

[jdsx]

I can only dream about getting 1 out of 20....

[Sits]

Having bought Vaughan Horn, I’m now bidding on Dillon Deane. It’s all about the names.

[Sits]

OK a bit of advice sought, most likely from OTF’s eminence grise of FTP, Pebble:

Archibald Hanna is the Casuals’ sole 30-something. He does very well for us and his overall stats are great, but despite my best efforts his bowling rating is continually dropping. This is despite me training him in bowling all the time. When he joined he was either Expert or Accomplished. I don’t mind sharing his stats. Is there anything I can do, even if it’s to upgrade the Senior academy? With that bowling rating I’m not even going to make much in a sale:

[ad hoc]

I am far from an eminence of any colour, but I think I'd treat him like I would do a highish skill 34 year old in X11. That is to say get the maximum use out of him until he retires, but don't worry about giving him game time if you have other options

[pebblethefish]

He's practically 34 - he's toast. I've never kept anyone past age 31, so I don't know how quickly he'll be going down, but all the academies in the world aren't going to halt the slide.

[Sits]

Fair enough, thanks.

[Levin]

Oh one thing I did mean to do when OTF I ended. Award a player of the tournament. I'm going by number of MotM awards, ties broken by 3-2-1 points.

So out player of OTF I was Nuhiu Rules, Shahnawaz Mevawala (averaging 55 with the bat and 13 with the ball). Bayden Boome of Croesowallt Dragons was a very close runner up claiming 28 wickets at 11.36.

[Sits]

Clash of the Titans in OTF T20 S2 (?), Csiki Nurdles have just kicked things off, facing the firestorm of Kakanui Casuals’ attack.

[Sits]

We’re getting flayed.

[Levin]

Ooh. And not a good start to the reply.

[Levin]

But you're making up ground.

[Sits]

Fair result, lost by 32 runs. Well done ad hoc, the Nurdles have improved a lot more than the Casuals since June 30th when we won. Anyway I can’t keep chopping and changing, buying and selling. Useless opener Ngwale, and useless keeper Shepherdson are on the market with no reserve, and will be followed by poor old Archibald “Toast” Hanna. There’s one bid left unsettled but it’s low and I don’t care whether I get him or not. He was backup in case I missed out on Dillon Deane. I didn’t, and he batted well last night.

This will leave a core squad of young players who will just have to gain experience over time.

[longeared]

Mevawala follows up his OTF award with 89 runs, a wicket and a pair of catches to cap a comprehensive victory over Cota to win us the Shield. Now I'm going to let off a million quid of fireworks, furlough all the staff and stand on my staircase to have the trophy presented by a hologrammatic Cilla amidst an atmosphere of general mawkishness. #ThisMeansJustAsMuch

[pebblethefish]

I'd have thought you'd of got the real Nuhiu to present the trophy, as his farewell gesture to you.

[Sits]

Well played longeared.

[Levin]

And we're back after a few matchless days

At 2300 BST
Danefieldshire v Ferrets
Dragons v Flowers
Casuals v Rules

1600 BST
Wellworth v Nurdles

and finally at 1700
Ducks v Baptists

Either the Dragons or the Flowers will be top come this time tomorrow but we could end up with 4 teams just one game behind the eventual leader.

[pebblethefish]

We've got a slow pitch for tonight. I hate slow pitches. Particularly in conjunction with humid. On the bright side, at least I remembered to save my tactics, but I have little confidence, given that I'm playing a man who has clearly made a deal with the devil of online gaming.

[Etienne]

The devil has reneged.