2021-22 England v India Tipping Competition - The Reboot

2021 India v England Tipping Competition Rules:

1.
Pick 2 (two) batsmen and 2 (two) bowlers from both England and India whom you think will score the most runs and take the most wickets.
You get both batting and bowling points per innings so a bowler who scores runs has both batting and bowling scores added together.
e.g.
Crawley, Root, Broad, Anderson
Gill, Kohli, Jadeja, Bumrah

2.
Pick 1 (one) fielder from each team; excluding wicket keepers for most catches and run outs in the Series.
It can be a bowler (for caught & bowled or run outs from own bowling) if you want.
e.g.
Bairstow, Pujara

3.
Select which wicket keeper will take the greatest number of catches, stumpings and run outs combined for each Test.
If a wicket keeper is injured then the replacement keeper's figures shall be used.
e.g.
Billings or Pant... or "the same" amount of dismissals.

4.
Predict the Toss:
a) Who wins the toss?
e.g.
India

b) Winning captain's decision - bat or field?
e.g.
Bat

5.
a) Predict the Test match result.
e.g.
England

Selections must be posted a minimum one (1) hour before the commencement of each Test. No PM reminders shall be sent.


Scoring:

1.
1 point for every run scored by your nominated batsmen. Add together for each Test.
Bonus 25 points for 100 runs.
extra 30 points for 150 runs.
extra 45 points for 200 runs.
extra 60 points for 250 runs.
extra 125 bonus points for 300+ runs.

Note: the batting & bowling score bonuses accumulate so;

Batting: (per innings)
100 runs = 125 points. A player scores 137 runs + 25 = 162 points.
150 runs = 205 points. A player scores 177 runs + 25 + 30 = 232 points.
200 runs = 300 points. A player scores 243 runs + 25 + 30 + 45 = 343 points.
250 runs = 410 points. A player scores 282 runs + 25 + 30 + 45 + 60 = 442 points
300+ runs = 585 points. A player scores 321 runs + 25 + 30 + 45 + 60 + 125 = 606 points.

Bowling: (per innings)
25 points per wicket with a bonus 50 points for a 5-fer.
An extra 30 points for 6-fer, 45 for 7-fer, 60 for 8-fer, 75 for 9-fer.
An extra 100 bonus points for a 10-fer.

5 wickets = 125 points + 50 = 175 points
6 wickets = 150 points + 50 + 30 = 230 points.
7 wickets = 175 points + 50 + 30 + 45 = 300 points
8 wickets = 200 points + 50 + 30 + 45 + 60 = 385 points
9 wickets = 225 points + 50 + 30 + 45 + 60 + 75 = 485 points
10 wickets = 250 points + 50 + 30 + 45 + 60 + 75 + 100 = 610 points

Caught and bowled = 25 points for the wicket + 25 bonus points for the catch = 50 points.

2.
Fielder catches: Your nominated fieldsman earns you 25 points per catch and 25 points for a run out.

3.
Wicket keepers: 50 points for correct selection. e.g. - Billings or Pant.
Or if you think they will take the same number of total dismissals per innings - then nominate "the same" = 50 points.
If they take the same number of catches and stumpings (combined) and you've picked either one of the keepers - then 25 points only.

4.
a) Correctly predict who wins the toss = 15 points
b) Correctly predict what the winning Captain decides to do = 15 points - only for those with part a) above correct; no points if your a) was incorrect.

5.
a) Correctly predict the winning team for each Test match = 75 points.
b) If you guess all 5 Test match outcomes correctly then there is a further 125 point bonus = 375 + 125 = 500 points.
Note: Correctly predict a "Draw" = 75 points

If one (or more) of your selected players gets injured during a match or is dropped from the Test side after a match, then you’ll have the opportunity to select replacement players – either as it happens - for the injured player or before the next Test commences (for a player who gets dropped).
It doesn’t have to be the actual substitute player – it can be somebody else already in the team. However, you don’t receive any of their previous points up until the point of the replacement of the injured player from the field – you must start accumulating points from scratch with them.

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August 4-8: 1st Test at Trent Bridge Drawn match (0-0)

August 12-16: 2nd Test at Lord's India won by 151 runs (0-1)

August 25-29: 3rd Test at Headingley England won by an innings and 76 runs (1-1)

September 2-6: 4th Test at The Oval India won by 157 runs (1-2)

July 1-5, 2022: 5th Test at Edgbaston England won 7 wickets (2-2)


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Good Luck!

Root, Buttler & Anderson, Surran
Kohli, Pant & Bumrah, Ashwin

WK - Buttler

Fielding - Root & Rahane

Toss - England win and bat first

Result T1 - England win

I'm starting optimistically and predicting a big series for the wicketkeepers.

Thanks KC. It should be another interesting series.
Please disregard the PM I just mass-emailed out... you were very quick to respond. Good luck!

Cheers for the thread as always PJ!

Hopefully a good series with limited weather delays and some day five finishes.

Thanks as always for doing this PJ!

Root, Buttler, Anderson, Robinson
Kohli, Rahane, Ashwin, Bumrah

Buttler

Root, Rahane

India win the toss and bat

England win

I had a bit of a stroll down Memory Lane and dug out the scores going back to 2017. Over 325,000 points have been scored. Well done everyone!

2021 England v New Zealand and World Test Championship Final (in England)
Final Standings:

2488 Alfie
2397 James
2389 Guildfordbat
2375 Tino
2212 Pal Joey
2093 King Carlos
2087 Soul Requiem
2061 Olly
2054 Duty
1981 KP_Fan
1937 JDizzle

Average score: 2189
Total Points Scored: 24,074

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2021 India v England (in India)
Final Standings:

4338 KP_Fan
4307 Alfie
4118 Guildfordbat
3949 Gooseberry
3897 Olly
3860 James
3820 Afro
3721 Tino
3668 Soul Requiem
3648 Dolphin
3632 Pal Joey
3504 JDizzle
3395 King Carlos
3378 Superfly
3330 Duty

Average score: 3771
Total Points Scored: 56,565

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2020-2021 Border-Gavaskar Trophy (in Australia)
Final Standings:

3849 JDizzle
3535 Gooseberry
3488 James
3438 Tino
3421 Pal Joey
3354 KP_Fan
3271 Guildfordbat
3256 Alfie
2850 Soul Requiem
2776 Olly
2546 Duty

Average score: 3253
Total Points Scored: 35,784

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2019 Ashes Series (in England)
Final Standings

5803 Pal Joey
5723 Compelling and Rich
5723 KP_Fan
5689 Guildfordbat
5649 Dolphin
5566 S Kumar
5529 Alfie
5465 James
5417 Superfly
5355 JDizzle
5315 Soul Requiem
5161 Duty
5012 Wadey101
4930 Olly

Average score: 5453
Total Points Scored: 76,337

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2019 ICC World Cup (in England)
Final Standings:

660 : Alfie
650 : Gooseberry
600 : James
580 : Guildfordbat
550 : Robbo
530 : Dolphin
530 : Duty
505 : JuliusHMarx
500 : Pal Joey
495 : Tiger
435 : KP_Fan
405 : MfC
310 : Olly

Average score: 519
Total Points Scored: 6,750

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2018-2019 Border-Gavaskar Trophy (in Australia)
Final Standings:

4104 Dolphin
4047 James
4021 JDizzle
4012 Alfie
3981 Olly
3873 KP_Fan
3786 Guildfordbat
3779 Pal Joey
3761 Duty
3661 S Kumar

Average score: 3903
Total Points Scored: 39,025

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2017-2018 70th Ashes Series (in Australia)
Final Standings:

4856 guildfordbat
4850 Dolphin Ziggler
4814 superflyweight
4735 Caledonian Craig
4714 Compelling and Rich
4701 Lowlandbrit
4680 Alfie
4661 Duty281
4512 Pal Joey
4433 jimbohammers
4419 Mad for Chelsea
4417 James100
4339 Azzy Mahmood
4317 Gooseberry
4088 Fernando
4060 Marky
3959 JDizzle
3790 Good Golly I'm Olly
3555 wisden
3416 LionsV2

Average Score: 4366
Total Points Scored: 87,316

Here are the accumulated scores and averages [in brackets] over the last 7 tipping competitions.

Well done Alfie! Keep up the great work!


Alfie:        24,932 [3,562] (7 series)
Guildford: 24,689 [3,527] 7
James:     24,511 [3,502] 7
Pal Joey:  23,859 [3,408] 7
Duty:       22,043 [3,149] 7
Olly:        21,745 [3,106] 7
JDizzle:    22,625 [3,771] (6 series)
KP_Fan:   19,704 [3,284] 6
Dolphin:   18,781 [3,756] (5 series)
Soul R. :   13,920 [3,480] (4 series)
Goose:     12,481 [3,120] 4
Superfly:  13,609 [4,536] (3 series)
Tino:         9,534 [3,178] 3
K_Carlos:  5,488 [2,744] (2 series)

Absent but not forgotten!  

Comp. & R: 10,437 [5,218] (2 series)
S. Kumar:     9,227 [4,614] 2
Wadey101:   5,012 (1 series)
MfChelsea:   4,824
Cal. Craig:    4,735
Lowlandbrit: 4,701
Jimboham.:  4,433
Azzy:           4,339
Fernando:    4,088
Marky:         4,060
Wisden:       3,555
LionV2:        3,416

Also Robbo (550) and London Tiger (495) participated in the 2019 ICC World Cup.

Root, Bairstow, Curran, Robinson
Kohli, Pujara, Ishant, Bumrah

Buttler

Root, Kohli

England win the toss and bat

India win


Cheers PJ!

India:
Ashwin and pant
Shardul and Siraj

Eng
Root and Woakes
Anderson and Curran

Fielder
Burns
Rahane

WK
Butler

Toss
Eng win toss and bat first

result
Ind wins

Thanks for your efforts again PJ

Cheers for this PJ and the historical stats!

England - Crawley, Buttler, Sam Curran, Robinson
India - Kohli, Pant, Ashwin, Bumrah

Pant

Pujara, Root in the field

India win and bat first

India win

Cheers PJ, will get back involved in this

England - Burns, Bairstow, Broad, Robinson
India - Rahane, Pant, Bumrah, Shami

Buttler

Root, Rahane

Eng win and bat first

India win

Great to see you back Wadey!
Thanks JD, KP_F and Olly.

Cheers once more, Joey.

Here goes -

Starc, Cummins Rats, not this time!

Root & Buttler
Pujara & Kohli

Curran & Anderson
Ashwin & Bumrah

Pant

Root
Rahane

India win toss and bat

Draw

Pope & Burns
Pujara & Kohli

Curran & Anderson
Ashwin & Sharma

Buttler

Burns
Kohli

England win toss and bowl

England win

Root and Crawley, Anderson and Curran
KohlI and Pant, Sharma (Thakur if Sharma is injured, as it seems) and Bumrah

England's keeper to take most catches.

Root and Kohli in the field.

England win the toss and bowl.

Draw.

Thanks.

Good Golly I'm Olly wrote:Cheers for this PJ and the historical stats!

England - Crawley, Buttler, Sam Curran, Robinson
India - Kohli, Pant, Ashwin, Bumrah

Pant

Pujara, Root in the field

India win and bat first

India win

Ashwin not playing (!!!) so I will replace him with Jadeja please PJ

Please replace Ashwin with Jadeja in my selections as Ashwin has been left out

OK... Jadeja replaces Ashwin for Olly and KP_Fan.

I'll assume the same (Jadeja for Ashwin) unless otherwise noted for anyone else.

Yep, Jadeja for me too in place of Ashwin. Thanks.

England:
Rory Burns, Dom Sibley, Zak Crawley, Joe Root *, Jonny Bairstow, Dan Lawrence,
Jos Buttler †, Sam Curran, Ollie Robinson, Stuart Broad, James Anderson

India:
Rohit Sharma, KL Rahul, Cheteshwar Pujara, Virat Kohli *, Ajinkya Rahane, Rishabh Pant †,  
Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Shami, Mohammad Siraj

KP_fan wrote:Please replace Ashwin with Jadeja in my selections  as Ashwin has been left out

Your replacement for Woakes please KP_F? (assuming Broad if I don't hear back)

Also JD... your replacement for Ishant please.

JDizzle wrote:Root, Bairstow, Curran, Robinson
Kohli, Pujara, Ishant, Bumrah

Buttler

Root, Kohli

England win the toss and bat

India win


Cheers PJ!

I will take Shami instead of Ishant please!

Sibley, Bairstow, Robinson, Anderson
Rohit, Pant, Jadeja, Shami

Root, Rohit

Buttler

India, bat too late

India win

Soul Requiem wrote:Pope & Burns
Pujara & Kohli

Curran & Anderson
Ashwin & Sharma

Buttler

Burns
Kohli

England win toss and bowl

England win

Root for Pope
Jadeja for Ashwin
Shami for Sharma

I am in time ?

Root Crawley Curran Anderson
Kohli Pant Jadeja Shami

Root Rohit

Buttler

too late for toss.

England to win

Joey, have you got Pant as a bowler??

wadey101 wrote:Joey, have you got Pant as a bowler??

Yes, sorry. Should be Rohit, Pant, Jadeja, Shami. Pant as a batsman.

Jadeja instead of Ashwin for me too thanks

OK James.

If it's not too late to join:

1- Crawley, Buttler, Curran, Anderson
Pujara, Kohli, Shami, Jadeja

2- Crawley, Kohli

3- Buttler

4- n/a

5- draw

No worries, Lowland. You're in!

Pal Joey wrote:

KP_fan wrote:Please replace Ashwin with Jadeja in my selections  as Ashwin has been left out

Your replacement for Woakes please KP_F? (assuming Broad if I don't hear back)

Ollie Robinson please

Would love to join this but I am :

a/ Useless at tipping comps
b/ Never really find the time to follow the tipping comps.

All the best everyone else though

Fair enough eirebilly I understand. Hope all is well.

KP_F... Ollie Robinson for Woakes.

All good here PJ, got the new baby at home so get to avoid work for a few weeks

Hope all good your end.

On a side note. I think that it is quite bad from Sky to have this test on both Sky Main and Sky Hundred channels. Surely they could have shown the women's Hundred match on the Sky Hundred channel? Do not need the test on both channels.

Only just back but I am also happy with Jadeja for Ashwin as others were!

Points Table
1st Test, Trent Bridge, Day 1:

290 JDizzle [290] *#
254 Duty [254] *
203 Wadey [203] *#
202 King Carlos [202] *#
182 KP_Fan [182] *#
179 Alfie [179]
172 Guildfordbat [172]
167 Soul Requiem [167] *
145 James [145]
134 Olly [134]
117 Pal Joey [117]
115 Lowlandbrit [115]

* denotes correct pick England win toss
# denotes correct pick England elected to bat

Average score: 180 [180]

First figure - accumulative score / accumulative average score
Second figure in [brackets] - daily score / daily average

Points Table
1st Test, Trent Bridge, Day 2:

314 JDizzle [24]
301 Duty [47]
249 KP_Fan [67]
249 King Carlos [47]
235 Wadey [32]
226 Alfie [47]
216 Guildfordbat [44]
214 James [69]
211 Soul Requiem [44]
211 Pal Joey [94]
134 Olly [27]
159 Lowlandbrit [44]

Average score: 229 [49]

First figure - accumulative score / accumulative average score
Second figure in [brackets] - daily score / daily average

Disaster start for Olly

I'm back in perpetual position of lower mid table.

This is the highest I think I've ever been after more than one day of a tipping contest.

That says more about previous dismal performances than this one but still...

A tough and slow moving day for all of us.

Olly, I've corrected your daily score. I still had your Day 1 score there in square brackets.

Luckily I had Rohit, Robinson, Anderson and Pant which gave me a  slight boost up from second last to third last.
Let's hope this match keeps moving forward.

king_carlos wrote:This is the highest I think I've ever been after more than one day of a tipping contest.

That says more about previous dismal performances than this one but still...

Carlos - as we all know, Graham Gooch started his Test career with two ducks. Stick at it and the rewards will come ....

Pal Joey wrote:A tough and slow moving day for all of us.

Olly, I've corrected your daily score. I still had your Day 1 score there in square brackets.

Luckily I had Rohit, Robinson, Anderson and Pant which gave me a  slight boost up from second last to third last.
Let's hope this match keeps moving forward.

Proper cricket. Proper competition.

guildfordbat wrote:

Pal Joey wrote:A tough and slow moving day for all of us.

Olly, I've corrected your daily score. I still had your Day 1 score there in square brackets.

Luckily I had Rohit, Robinson, Anderson and Pant which gave me a  slight boost up from second last to third last.
Let's hope this match keeps moving forward.

Proper cricket. Proper competition.

It didn't look too dark when they went off, Guildford. Surely we've had worse playing conditions during several Ashes series.
Remember one time when you could barely make out the players it was that dark and drizzly. Nobody got hurt. Much...  

It certainly was a lot darker here at 1am, however I had switched the floodlights off so you couldn't see a damn thing out there.

Points Table
1st Test, Trent Bridge, Day 3:

556 KP_Fan [307]
510 JDizzle [196]
502 Pal Joey [291]
493 James [279]
460 Wadey [225]
418 Olly [257]
416 King Carlos [167]
412 Duty [111]
378 Alfie [152]
365 Guildfordbat [149]
331 Soul Requiem [120]
324 Lowlandbrit [165]

Average score: 430 [202]

First figure - accumulative score / accumulative average score
Second figure in [brackets] - daily score / daily average

Note:
JDizzle, James, KP_F, Olly, Wadey and yours truly scored the 50-point bonus for Robinson's 5-fer.

Points Table
1st Test, Trent Bridge, Day 4:

898 JDizzle [388]
841 James [348]
837 KP_Fan [281]
769 Duty [357]
769 King Carlos [353]
730 Guildfordbat [365]
727 Wadey [267]
638 Olly [220]
598 Pal Joey [96]
565 Alfie [187]
531 Soul Requiem [200]
411 Lowlandbrit [87]

Average score: 693 [262]

First figure - accumulative score / accumulative average score
Second figure in [brackets] - daily score / daily average