I'm so glad I picked him over Maxwell!

There's a chance

Khawaja imo

Zappa.

Zampa, damn it!

🙁

needs some kohli and roy

No Pakistan?

Dunno. Hammy. I am having a little look at Lallana.

455 🙁 no shakib

448 and happy with that considering Smith and Coulter - Nile were useless for me

Me too. We had the same players undoubtedly.

490 off 3. Meh, Maxwell not bowling out hurt a bit but Shakib/Watson did well enough.

Still a good score. 🙂

7

Im getting 6 or 7. 4 pakistan looks good for the future. But not good options out there

Probably 7 although it looks slim pickings from Pakistan after Amir and Afridi

6 or 7. Probably Guptill/Sodhi, Anderson and Santner. Amir, Afridi, Wasim, Malik. All dependent on lineups though

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1UHeRZlYNamc32QfvECwTtxnKCoNWH_WeitOkLFNOHh4/edit#gid=0

Wow well done everybody!

Whoop come on the FFSers !!

Santner for now. Its a choice between Mcc and Guptill for me

Amazing Rasib 🙂

I was 34 after phase 1..33rd after phase 2

rank dropped from 2nd to 4th

the competition is intense 😛

I am 21702 overall and 33rd in the ffs league

Wow good luck! How many you going with for tomorrow's game?

You will get one eventually after finishing in the top 3 overall 😉

Fais you need to join the other ffscout league provided there's space still. It's the number one private league at the moment. Info below:

Name: Fantasy Sports Nuts
Password: KP4England

I finished 7th in Phase 2 and feel the same. Less than 100 points between me and first. If I had gotten Gayle for his century, that alone would have made up the difference

Stop lurking Killian Long 😉

Shehzad, Shakib, Sodhi for Williamson,Bumrah and Rashid. And its the same

Yep all set for the first 3 games.I will be having Ashwin as well from India

In terms of players per team etc it looks right though no?

Hold the Pakistan players until after their 2nd game

Williamson looks to be not in touch due to the captaincy pressure on him. Prefer Guptill

Capping Amir. I'd prefer having Shakib and Kohli from the start as it gets difficult to get them later.

M. Ali no way. Get afridi in.

What's the criteria with regard to top leagues? How many player scores are counted?

Totally forgot about this. MY failure at phase 2 is just to fool people so they think I have on knowledge.

I'm going back to nice sounding names. I did ok in the first phase just picking players whose names I thought were cool.

Ross Taylor has been crap this tournament , not sure I would want him...Amir is good but the pitch is a belter(presumably)...get one of Williamson/Guptill imo

Guptill, more explosive.

Sharma and Jadeja are horrible picks

Corey is a must I think. Afridi just maybe.

No Dravid or Tendulkar, poor

Can't say I fancy the openers, even as an Englishman. Bradman has to be in there. Jack Hobbs for the other spot perhaps.

Would rather have Viv Richards than Steve Waugh. Or Sobers for that matter. I'd probably have to find room for both.

Tendulkar ahead of Ponting, although I love Punter. This is hard to impossible in fairness...

From those that have played since I've been watching:

Gavaskar
Greenidge
Richards
Lara
Tendulkar
Kallis
Gilchrist
Wasim Akam
Warne
Steyn/Murali (depending on surface)
McGrath

This first point probably isn't helpful, but I prefer Shahzad to Akmal and Hales to Hafeez.

I'm waiting to see where Hafeez is scheduled to bat, as he didn't come in until very late on the last game - but batted at 4 the time before.

I had Johnson Charles as my wicketkeeper in the last phase and will be going with him again from the off... he doesn't actually keep wicket, but he opens for the West Indies and is only 70k - I think he's golden at that price, and it means I can spend the extra funds on the better players in the +100k bracket, without having to contuously rotate a wicket keeper or try and find the extra 20K for players I want.

Hafeez is injured and might not play tonight

Reply fail

You know what, I hadn't even realised Fletcher was listed as a wicketkeeper as well... just automatically assumed it was Johnson and Ramdin only.

Gonna have to check out some stats then, Fletcher's probably the bigger 6 hitter between the 2, I would imagine - both boundary hitting top order batsmen at 70k, what's not to like?

With this tactic you lose stumping, and surely take less catches but the extra 20k can be the difference between getting someone for 110k and only being able to afford someone for 90k - In most circumstances, I'd fancy the extra 20k player to have a far higher ceiling score potential that the difference between a couple of stumpings and catches - and a wicketkeeper who doesn't bat inside the top 4 tend to not be great scorers in general (or expensive like Dhoni for example).

Pakistan (in theory) are the better team to buy extra players from, as they play again in game 4 - but I'm in a similar camp to you, they're just not that appealing!

I'm looking at Amir, Afridi, Malik (waiting to make sure he's batting top 4) and Hafeez (will probably go without now, as I've been told he's injured)

Where as, with NZ, I want Guptil, Williamson, Munro (70k for an aggressive top order batsman) and Anderson... that's without looking at the main bowling options.

It was much easier in the last phase when SA played 2 in 3 matches, as you always fancied their games to be high scoring - with Pakistan's super-economical bowling, I'm just not as confident in big scores.

There's much to deliberate between now and start time, that's for sure!

Shehzad + Shahzad for me 😉

Hadn't considered him, due to him not batting in the top 4 (one of my unbroken rules regarding buying wicketkeepers) but if he moves up a slot without Hafeez, he could come into consideration.

Eden makes a strong case for Shahzad against England above... I'm probably going to go down that route for now.