IHAG English 2017 County Championship

Boycs · Postby **Boycs** » Fri Mar 24, 2017 4:09 pm

Usual rules apply. Five players to score a combined total of 5000 points. Full County Championship games are the only ones that contribute to the game, defined as those included on the Cricket Archive website.

The challenge lies in picking five players good enough to dominate the county season but not good enough to be selected for England and thus not be available for the county game.

We ran this last season soon and it was a success. Raja pretty much dominated with his selection of ben Duckett and tom curran.

Note: once your five players are chosen, they cannot be changed once the season starts and you are stuck with them, even if they get injured. Those are the breaks!

Mick180461 · Postby **Mick180461** » Sat Mar 25, 2017 1:23 am

My 5 are
Ryan Doeschate(Essex)
Ed Joyce (Sussex)
Tim Bresnan (Yoks)
Jim Allenby(Somerset)
Craig Overton(Somerset)
A group of England rejects and unavaiables.

Boycs · Postby **Boycs** » Sat Mar 25, 2017 6:20 am

Ed Joyce must be 45!

Mick180461 · Postby **Mick180461** » Sat Mar 25, 2017 6:40 am

BoyCaught30 wrote:Ed Joyce must be 45!

38 actually, Jack Hobbs scored 100 centuries after turning 40, mainly in county Cricket

Boycs · Postby **Boycs** » Sat Mar 25, 2017 11:21 am

Boycs · Postby **Boycs** » Tue Mar 28, 2017 9:11 am

I'm going to pick:

Joe Michael Clarke of Worcestershire
Marcus Trescothick of Somerset
Ben Foakes of Surrey
Samit Patel of Nottinghamshire
Jack Leach of Somerset

Boycs · Postby **Boycs** » Tue Mar 28, 2017 9:14 am

Annoyingly, and perhaps unforgivably, Cricket Archive now requires a payment for use.

Going South · Postby **Going South** » Thu Mar 30, 2017 12:25 pm

Misty, you are spamming all over forum again. Whenever we see you replying to yourself on multiple topics & on new threads all would be deleted.

Leo · Postby **Leo** » Tue Apr 04, 2017 4:06 am

Don't have that much of knowledge about English County. But participating. Let's see what happen

Billy Goddleman (Derbyshire)
Ben Stokes (Durham)
James Burke (Leicestershire)
George Bailey (Hampshire)
Ryan ten Doeschate (Essex)

Boycs · Postby **Boycs** » Tue Apr 04, 2017 11:43 am

He can pick stokes if he likes but stokes is unlikely to play more than one or two county matches because of his England commitments

Leo · Postby **Leo** » Tue Apr 04, 2017 12:04 pm

^^ Okk

Updated Team

Billy Goddleman (Derbyshire)
Paul Collingwood (Durham)
James Burke (Leicestershire)
George Bailey (Hampshire)
Ryan ten Doeschate (Essex)

Boycs · Postby **Boycs** » Tue Apr 04, 2017 6:57 pm

He's over 40 definitely but still going strong.

I'll update all your teams in a few days

Boycs · Postby **Boycs** » Wed Apr 05, 2017 12:01 pm

How do you mean?

Leo · Postby **Leo** » Fri Apr 07, 2017 4:05 am

I think because of you.

Boycs · Postby **Boycs** » Mon Apr 10, 2017 1:31 pm

I've been on holiday so you'll have to wait but I'll work on it in a day or two

Boycs · Postby **Boycs** » Mon Apr 10, 2017 6:20 pm

Current points (I think) as Cricket Archive is now a money robbing website,.

Mick1804 281
misty 147
SGGH 93
leo 60

Boycs · Postby **Boycs** » Tue Apr 11, 2017 8:43 am

I've got to wait for Somerset to play to start getting some points. Banking on trescothick being as evergreen as last season and also on them making spinning pitches for leach like they did last season

raja · Postby **raja** » Wed Apr 19, 2017 2:31 am

Westley (Essex)
Trescothick (Somerset)
Gubbins (Middlesex)
Northeast (Kent)
Madsen (Derbyshire)

Boycs · Postby **Boycs** » Fri Apr 21, 2017 7:44 am

Right will try to put updated scores on

Boycs · Postby **Boycs** » Fri Apr 21, 2017 8:04 am

Right, I ***think*** I've got reasonably updated score but with Cricket Archive bloody ruining everything by become fee-only I've lost my number one source of stats.

raja 475
Mick1804 457
misty 316
leo 306
SGGH 249

Boycs · Postby **Boycs** » Fri Apr 21, 2017 11:52 am

Misty wrote:You should keep your user same as winner (you running out luck with SGGH )so you beat raja.can you explain how I get 316? If you can

So many new games under way, right now.

Westley made 86 and 10 against Somerset and Dent made 67 and 20 or something similar against someone. And your other three combined to make the other 130-odd or so I guess

Boycs · Postby **Boycs** » Tue Apr 25, 2017 1:24 pm

We're coming along a little bit so I'm going to update the scores in a moment

Boycs · Postby **Boycs** » Tue Apr 25, 2017 1:24 pm

Not too late for some more players though!

Boycs · Postby **Boycs** » Tue Apr 25, 2017 1:55 pm

raja 921
Mick1804 766
misty 658
SGGH 655
leo 562

115 ten Doeschate
0 Ed Joyce
364 Bresnan
0 Jim Allenby
287 Craig Overton
83 joe clarke
97 trescothick
104 ben foakes
183 samit patel
188 jack leach
36 chris nash
246 tom westley
0 jack brooks
266 chris dent
110 wayne madsen
213 billy godleman
234 paul collingwood
0 james burke
0 george bailey
189 Gubbins
279 northeast

All the players on 0 are certainly correct as I can check, they haven't played. Due to Cricket Archive being a f**k I'm only 90% I've updated all the players correctly. Rest assured that it will be all correct come the end.

In hindsight, my team should have had Kumar Sangakarra in!

Boycs · Postby **Boycs** » Tue Apr 25, 2017 3:31 pm

Misty wrote:Chris Nash 36 is wrong because he scored 53 in the second innings recently

good spot.

raja 921
Mick1804 766
misty 717
SGGH 655
leo 562

Boycs · Postby **Boycs** » Tue Apr 25, 2017 4:10 pm

I picked Bresnan last year and he did good, but I went for some youth in Clarke Foakes and Leach, influenced by an article in read in the Cricketer about up and coming talent. Trescothick I picked out of loyalty, and Patel was chosen as an all-rounder who might score well even if he has a moderate season with bat and ball.

Early days, but maybe I should have picked some more bankable established talent.

Boycs · Postby **Boycs** » Tue May 09, 2017 4:46 am

I'm running two already, someone else can run that one

Boycs · Postby **Boycs** » Fri May 19, 2017 4:27 pm

Updated scores as of today.

Couple of these players aren't being featured in their county's FC line-up which is unfortunate.

raja 1010
misty 806
Mick1804 804
Boycs 679
leo 562

Boycs · Postby **Boycs** » Mon May 22, 2017 2:14 pm

A century for trescothick!!

Going South · Postby **Going South** » Mon May 22, 2017 3:12 pm

Boycs wrote:A century for trescothick!!

Did he retire or still playing ?
Is he playing in champions trophy ?

Boycs · Postby **Boycs** » Mon May 22, 2017 4:37 pm

Ha no he's well retired from any semblance of international cricket he only plays the championship.

One of my earliest favourites. Met him twice.

Boycs · Postby **Boycs** » Fri May 26, 2017 9:16 am

Ed Joyce has retired. Unlucky.

Boycs · Postby **Boycs** » Fri May 26, 2017 1:38 pm

Sangha has been an absolute machine this season. Should have picked him

Boycs · Postby **Boycs** » Sat May 27, 2017 6:13 am

Leach took a six-for which is helpful.

Boycs · Postby **Boycs** » Tue May 30, 2017 5:05 pm

raja 1487
Boycs 1380
leo 1190
Mick1804 1029
misty 1011

And I leap ahead!

Boycs · Postby **Boycs** » Sun Jun 04, 2017 4:56 pm

Boycs 1594
raja 1551
leo 1314
misty 1260
Mick1804 1109

And into the lead I go! Go Go Go!

Misty · Postby **Misty** » Sun Jun 04, 2017 5:16 pm

Boycs wrote:raja 1487
Boycs 1380
leo 1190
Mick1804 1029
misty 1011

And I leap ahead!

You not adds Brook's 95

Boycs · Postby **Boycs** » Sun Jun 04, 2017 9:59 pm

I think he was still batting when I updated. It will get updated next time

Boycs · Postby **Boycs** » Sun Jun 11, 2017 2:47 pm

Hehe Samit Patel is 203 not out

Going South · Postby **Going South** » Sun Jun 11, 2017 3:22 pm

Boycs wrote:Hehe Samit Patel is 203 not out

He should be in team. Big middle finger to selectors.

Boycs · Postby **Boycs** » Mon Jun 12, 2017 8:00 am

257 not out in the end. Big boost for me.

Boycs · Postby **Boycs** » Mon Jun 19, 2017 5:15 pm

Some more updated scores.

Note not all teams have been updated, Somerset, Surrey and Gloucestershire scores not updated, not Derbyshire. And Bresnan for Yorkshire hasn't been updated.

But otherwise:

Boycs 2125
raja 1909
leo 1848
misty 1420
Mick1804 1341

Samit Patel with 870 pts and Collingwood with 806 are the best of the choices so far. WestLey, Northeast have both topped 500+ with ten Doeschate, Leach close behind.

Burke, Allenby and Ed Joyce were duds who have not been selected/retired.

Boycs · Postby **Boycs** » Tue Jun 20, 2017 12:22 pm

Another double century for Patel! I'm on fire!

Boycs · Postby **Boycs** » Tue Jun 20, 2017 8:11 pm

247 for Patel and 142 for joe Clarke

This contest is decided

raja · Postby **raja** » Wed Jun 21, 2017 8:32 am

Congrats, Boycs.
This definitely puts you out of reach of others.

Boycs · Postby **Boycs** » Wed Jun 21, 2017 6:40 pm

Foakes is playing for the lions now so might not be contributing to my score for a bit

Boycs · Postby **Boycs** » Thu Jun 22, 2017 9:21 pm

Two centuries in a match for my joe Clarke too

Boycs · Postby **Boycs** » Thu Jun 29, 2017 7:43 am

Scores correct for players playing up to 08:30 this morning.

Boycs 2851
raja 2250
leo 2226
misty 1849
Mick1804 1598

457 ten Doeschate
0 Ed Joyce
582 Bresnan
0 Jim Allenby
559 Craig Overton
535 joe clarke
348 trescothick
355 ben foakes
981 samit patel
632 jack leach
161 chris nash
573 tom westley
294 jack brooks
398 chris dent
423 wayne madsen
602 billy godleman
928 paul collingwood
0 james burke
239 george bailey
285 Gubbins
621 northeast

Boycs · Postby **Boycs** » Tue Jul 04, 2017 3:18 pm

New updates to scores. Allenby finally got a game for Somerset!

Boycs 2895
leo 2512
raja 2426
misty 2000
Mick1804 1860

Mick180461 · Postby **Mick180461** » Sun Jul 09, 2017 11:58 am

Joyce & Allenby haven't even been playing, no wonder I'm last.