From The Pavilion

T20 tour.

Dry
Flat
Dry
Dry
Dry

Not much variation there... our poor spinners fingers will be aching by the end of the week.

Tour next week!

Couple of debutants to welcome into the fold,

Batsman Muhammad Ali hopes to float like a butterfly and sting like a bee next week. They young southpaw had a pretty decent U20s career ending up with a 50 average, so the bar is set high for him.

Keeper Bartholomew Fleming must have forged his name on the squad sheet as I have no idea who he is He gets a Friendly tomorrow behind the sticks... joking aside we are in dire straits when it comes to a second tour keeper and will be for a couple of seasons.

PItches are three crumblers a slow and a dry, so, poor old batsmen...

So....

I feel like I have just been thrown into an empty room.......


The other guy apparently broke the election rules which means.

FOUR MORE YEARS!

Or the Ftp equivalent

So Lets see if we can get this next crop of players moulded into a decent squad.

Good.

Two outstanding Fast bowlers in Newtwon and Clarke.
Some decent bats with high wage and get this a dual WC FM skilled bowler WHO NEVER GETS USED IN SENIOR 50 OVER MATCHES BY HIS MANAGER.

( when I say never that is a wee bit OTT he played 4 times last season. How odd.


Bad. We have one keeper and he is only 27 the rest are awful.

Worse, after the first tour we will have no allrounders

Fun fun fun

Carry on.....

My keeper has to be at least as good as the one you have in the squad, if you really need another keeper, so I'm not sure why you think all the rest of the keepers are bad.

Grasshopper >> Brian Bannerman >> Details
Player Info
29y11w | 76,745 rating | $19,527 wage (10% discount)

Right hand batsman | Right arm Finger spin

Talents Safe Hands
Nationality Scotland Scotland
Form capable
Fatigue rested
Experience exceptional
Captaincy capable
Skills Summary
Batsman exceptional
Bowler average
Keeper world class
Allrounder reasonable
Notes

Skills
Batting spectacular Endurance world class
Bowling poor Technique spectacular
Keeping world class Power exceptional
Fielding spectacular

ddraig wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 23, 2021 10:41 am

My keeper has to be at least as good as the one you have in the squad, if you really need another keeper, so I'm not sure why you think all the rest of the keepers are bad.

Grasshopper >> Brian Bannerman >> Details
Player Info
29y11w | 76,745 rating | $19,527 wage (10% discount)

Right hand batsman | Right arm Finger spin

Talents Safe Hands
Nationality Scotland Scotland
Form capable
Fatigue rested
Experience exceptional
Captaincy capable
Skills Summary
Batsman exceptional
Bowler average
Keeper world class
Allrounder reasonable
Notes

Skills
Batting spectacular Endurance world class
Bowling poor Technique spectacular
Keeping world class Power exceptional
Fielding spectacular

Nice player but he behind the others unfortunately

Klauts wrote: ↑

Sun Apr 25, 2021 5:47 am

ddraig wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 23, 2021 10:41 am

My keeper has to be at least as good as the one you have in the squad, if you really need another keeper, so I'm not sure why you think all the rest of the keepers are bad.

Grasshopper >> Brian Bannerman >> Details
Player Info
29y11w | 76,745 rating | $19,527 wage (10% discount)

Right hand batsman | Right arm Finger spin

Talents Safe Hands
Nationality Scotland Scotland
Form capable
Fatigue rested
Experience exceptional
Captaincy capable
Skills Summary
Batsman exceptional
Bowler average
Keeper world class
Allrounder reasonable
Notes

Skills
Batting spectacular Endurance world class
Bowling poor Technique spectacular
Keeping world class Power exceptional
Fielding spectacular

Batting and tech are disgustingly low exceptional is by standard the lowest for national

Well, that's good to know, I can see you have so much experience in these matters

By the way I can see all you've done is read the Bangladesh National Squad selection critera, i.e. :-

Keeper:
Primaries- Exceptional
Fielding- Expert
Power- Spectacular

Personally I wouldn't have a keeper that only had expert fielding, and I'd concentrate on Keeping over batting, and especially tech. That may be because I've been in the game a little longer than some others, and have had various keepers, so I've got a reasonable idea how they perform. Maybe I just have disgustingly bad players though (unlike someone who has players that are 26/27 and have a wage of ~$1k)

Just checked, he's the highest rated Scottish player too (and in the top 30 of all players), here are the top 5 :-

# Players Age Nat Wage Rating
1 Brian Bannerman 29.12 Scotland $19,527 76,820
2 Stewart Clouston 28.00 Scotland $25,501 75,352
3 Lewis Hardie 30.07 Scotland $19,491 73,431
4 Isaac Newton 30.14 Scotland $29,766 72,852
5 Douglas Hunt 29.10 Scotland $20,764 72,713

The player rating isn't everything, but it's not a bad indicator in many cases