2021-22 England v India Tipping Competition - The Reboot

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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.

*****

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)


*****

Good Luck!

Points Table
5th Test, Edgbaston, Day 2:

4522 JDizzle [237]
4254 KP_Fan [208]
4156 Duty [288]
4110 King Carlos [295]
4038 James [308]
3954 Olly [239]
3760 Guildfordbat [283]
3753 Alfie [283]
3737 Pal Joey [114]
3579 Soul Requiem [278]
3196 Lowlandbrit [287]
3134 Tino [247]

Average score: 3803 [242]

Points Table
5th Test, Edgbaston, Day 3:

4747 JDizzle [225]
4471 KP_Fan [217]
4365 King Carlos [255]
4331 Duty [175]
4215 James [177]
4129 Olly [175]
3998 Pal Joey [261]
3936 Guildfordbat [176]
3933 Alfie [180]
3770 Soul Requiem [191]
3443 Tino [309]
3401 Lowlandbrit [205]

Average score: 4008 [205]

JD still has this in an iron grip... And the top six look pretty settled , though the order of 3-5 might yet vary.

Meanwhile I see I am locked in a three-way battle for the glory of seventh spot with PJ and guildford : just enough excitement there to keep my pulse racing

Points Table
5th Test, Edgbaston, Day 4:

5086 JDizzle [339]
4858 KP_Fan [387]*
4749 King Carlos [384]*
4604 Duty [273]
4541 Olly [412]*
4515 James [300]
4325 Pal Joey [327]*
4285 Alfie [352]
4258 Guildfordbat [322]*
4093 Soul Requiem [323]
3773 Tino [330]
3736 Lowlandbrit [335]

Average score: 4338 [330]

Note:
50 point wicket keeping bonus* added on - Pant has an unassailable 4-2 lead over Billings at present.

Points Table
5th Test, Edgbaston, Day 5:

5252 JDizzle [166] #
4982 King Carlos [233] #*
4949 KP_Fan [91] *
4695 Duty [91]
4681 James [166] #
4632 Olly [91] *
4558 Pal Joey [233] #*
4451 Alfie [166] #
4424 Guildfordbat [166] #*
4259 Soul Requiem [166] #
4006 Tino [233] #
3827 Lowlandbrit [91]

Average score: 4489 [151]

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

# England win = 75 points
* Most dismissals: Pant = 50 points (added yesterday)
(Pant: 4 caught behinds; Billings: 2 caught behinds)


Overall Team Scores after the Fifth Test at Edgbaston are as follows:
[Scores for 5th Test in brackets]

England:
5070 [1282] - average player score 460.90 [116.50]

India:
4727 [907] - average player score 429.70 [82.40]


Top 11 Individual Player Scores: First figure - accumulative score over the series.
[Scores for 5th Test in brackets]

957 Root [208]
645 Bumrah [173]
569 Pant [243]
525 Robinson [--]
505 Anderson [166]
494 Bairstow [230]
437 Jadeja [137]
423 Rohit [--]
418 Siraj [104]
394 Shami [89]
370 Rahul [--]

Followed by: Kohli 319 [41], Thakur 312 [30], Pujara 306 [79], Ali 273 [--], Overton 233 [--], Woakes 218 [--]

Notes:
Congratulations JDizzle! You managed to maintain your lead and stay on top after nearly a year's break. I hope you like cider.
A strong finish by King Carlos who had both Joe and YJB, Pant and England win and scored 233 points on the final day along with Tino and myself.
The win was only worth 75 points for this series and not the 125 points of recent times. Nobody achieved the Clean Sweep this series.
That was a thoroughly entertaining match - England played out of their skins and I was also cheering for Root and Bairstow today.
Thank you everyone for participating in this comp once again. Great blokes you all are. Apologies for my few stumbles along the way.
I'll shortly post up the overall scores for all 10 Tipping Competitions. I think we just broke 500,000 points scored. So another milestone for us.

Overall Leader Board for All 10 Competitions:

Top 17:

37,585 Alfie: [10 Series] Ave: 3758
37,334 Guildford: [10] Ave: 3733
36,949 James: [10] Ave: 3695
36,695 JDizzle [9 Series] Ave: 4077
36,423 Pal Joey [10 Series] Ave: 3642
34,886 Olly [10] Ave: 3489
34,824 Duty [10] Ave: 3482
29,568 KP_Fan [8 Series] Ave: 3696
25,493 Soul R. [7 Series] Ave: 3642
23,443 Dolphin [6 Series] Ave: 3907
20,966 Tino [6] Ave: 3494
18,132 Superfly [4 Series] Ave: 4533
17,659 King Carlos [5 Series] 3532
17,528 Comp. & Rich [4 Series] Ave: 4382
16,471 Gooseberry [5 Series] Ave: 3294
16,120 Lowlandbrit [4 Series] Ave: 4030
11,068 Afro [3 Series] Ave: 3689

Total Points Scored: 500,381
Top 17 Points Scored: 451,142
Top 17 (above) Average: 26,538

13 other members have scored 49,239 points (included in Total Points Scored) in addition to the Top 17.

JDizzle, the data leader of our hearts

Wow ... just as well for the rest of us JD has only played in 9 of the 10 contests

Nailed this one anyway - congrats , well chosen

But then I look down the list and see those astonishing averages for Superfly and Compelling & Rich from the few times they participated

Maybe they only played on very flat wickets ?

Thanks again for running , PJ

Superfly with the Graeme Pollock average there. Didn't play as much as he could but by god is it impressive!

I think that's my highest ever finish for a series with the late surge just lifting me up the table. The all-rounder gamble paying off with Jadeja getting runs and Stokes getting wickets.

No one was catching JD here though. 

king_carlos wrote:Superfly with the Graeme Pollock average there. Didn't play as much as he could but by god is it impressive!

I think that's my highest ever finish for a series with the late surge just lifting me up the table. The all-rounder gamble paying off with Jadeja getting runs and Stokes getting wickets.

No one was catching JD here though. 

For sure but it's been Alfie, James, Joey, Olly, Duty and me batting Larry Gomes like for the team regularly going in at 5 o'clock in murky light at Chester-le-Street.

Absolutely brilliant what you did here, JD.  Beating KP-f, I mean.

guildfordbat wrote:
Absolutely brilliant what you did here, JD.  Beating KP-f, I mean.

Cheers all! And thanks PJ for running it again.

I was thinking I was throwing away a second successive lead on the final day when I saw Carlos had Root and YJB…