2023 Ashes Series Tipping Competition

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The 2023 Ashes Tipping Competition

The Rules:

1.
Pick 2 (two) batsmen and 2 (two) bowlers from both England and Australia who 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.
Root, Bairstow, Robinson, Anderson
Labuschagne, Head, Cummins, Boland

2.
Pick 1 (one) fielder from each team; excluding wicket keepers, for the most catches in the Series.
It can be a bowler (for c&b) if you want.
e.g.
Pope, Green

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.
England (Bairstow) or Australia (Carey) or the same number of dismissals.

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

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

5.
a) Predict the Ashes Test result.
e.g.
England or Australia or Draw

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 the correct selection for the most dismissals across both innings.
Or if you think the wicket keepers 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 you earn 25 points only.

4.
a) Correctly predict who wins the toss = 25 points
b) Correctly predict what the winning Captain decides to do = 25 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 = 125 points.
b) If you guess all 5 Test match outcomes correctly then there is a further 125 point bonus = 625 + 125 = 750 points.
c) Correctly predict a "Draw" = 125 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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June 16 - 20, 2023: 1st Test at Edgbaston. Australia won by 2 wickets [0-1]

June 28 - July 2, 2023: 2nd Test at Lord's. Australia won by 43 runs [0-2]

July 6 - 10, 2023: 3rd Test at Headingley. England won by 3 wickets [1-2]

July 19 -23, 2023: 4th Test at Old Trafford. Match Drawn [1-2]

July 27 - 31, 2023: 5th Test at The Oval. England won by 49 runs [2-2]


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Good luck with your selections!

Good Golly I'm Olly wrote:C&R bringing that new found baby #perspective and leading us all - good work PJ as ever my man

or bleary eyed sleep deprived guessing luckily hitting

I was preparing my list but only juts realized the game starts NEXT Wednesday
that's a pretty long break between T3 & T4

KP_fan wrote:I was preparing my list but only juts realized the game starts NEXT Wednesday
that's a pretty long break between T3 & T4

So that gives you two weeks to finalise what will happen.

Root, Stokes, Woakes, Anderson
Smudge, Khawaja, Cummins, Starc

Root and Warner

Carey

England win toss and bowl

England win

Getting selection in early like England to psyche you all out. This tipping comp isn't going to get much worse for me than picking Murphy so might as well.

Hi PJ - away for a week from tomorrow, so confirming now for T4 -

1) Australia: Warner, Smith (sub Labuschange); Cummins, Starc (subs in order: Neser, Hazlewood)
England: Root, Crawley (sub Brook); Wood, Broad (subs in order: Moeen, Woakes)

2) Fielders: Smith and Crawley

3) Carey

4) Australia to win the toss and bowl

5) Australia to win the Test.

Thanks as ever.

1) Australia: Warner, Smith; Cummins, Starc
England: Root, Brook; Woakes, Broad

2) Fielders: Green and Root

3) Carey

4) Australia to win the toss and bat first

5) Australia to win the test

1.
Root, Stokes, Anderson, Woakes
Smith, Khawaja, Cummins, Starc

2.
Root, Smith

3.
Bairstow

4.
England, bowl

5.
Draw

Cheers!

Thanks guys.

England: Root, Brook, Woakes, Broad
Australia: Khawaja, Smith, Cummins, Starc

Root, Smith

Carey

Australia, bat

Australia

There... I've jinxed them!

Australia: Khawaja, Head, Starc, Cummins
England: Root, Brook, Broad, Woakes

Crawley, Smith

Carey

Australia and bat

England

Crawley, Brook, Wood, Anderson
Smith, Carey, Cummins, Boland (Green)

Crawley
Green

Bairstow

Aus
Bat

Draw

Eng
Ali & Root
Woakes & Broad

Aus
Manus & Green
Cummins & Starc

Catchers
Smith & Root

WK
Carrey

Toss
Aus win and bat  first

Aus win

England - Root & Brook. Woakes & Broad.
Australia - Smith and Khawaja. Cummins & Starc.

Crawley & Smith

Carey

Australia win toss and bat

Draw

Thanks, Pee Jay.

Australia: Khawaja, Warner, Starc, Cummins
England: Root, Crawley, Broad, Wood

Crawley, Smith

Bairstow

Australia and bat

England

Good Golly I'm Olly wrote:

Good Golly I'm Olly wrote:1) Australia: Smith, Head, Green, Cummins
England: Brook, Bairstow, Moeen, Woakes

2) Fielders: Warner and Root

3) Carey

4) Australia to win the toss and bowl

5) Australia to win

If Green doesn't play I'll take Marsh as his direct replacement please PJ

1) Australia: Smith, Head, Green, Cummins
England: Brook, Bairstow, Moeen, Woakes

2) Fielders: Warner and Root

3) Carey

4) Australia to win the toss and bat

5) Australia to win

If Green doesn't play, will take Marsh as his replacement again please PJ

England - Root & Brook. Woakes & Broad.
Australia - Smith & Head. Cummins & Starc.

Root & Smith

Carey

England win toss and bowl

Draw

England: Duckett and Root. Woakes and Broad.
Australia: Smith and Head. Cummins and Starc.

Stokes and Root.

Bairstow.

Australia win toss and bat.

England win.

88Chris05 wrote:England: Duckett and Root. Woakes and Broad.
Australia: Smith and Head. Cummins and Starc.

Stokes and Root.

Bairstow.

Australia win toss and bat.

England win.

Do you mean Smith and Root, Chris?

KP_fan wrote:Eng
Ali & Root
Woakes & Broad

Aus
Manus Head & Green
Cummins & Starc

Catchers
Smith & Root

WK
Carrey

Toss
Aus win and bat  first

Aus win

Hi PJ
I have replaced Manus with Head
Thx

Smith, Marsh, Cummins, Starc
Duckett, Root, Woakes, Anderson

Smith, Root

Carey

Australia, bat

Australia win

Cheers!

Smith Khawaja Cummins Starc
Root Stokes Wood Woakes

Green Crawley

Bairstow

Australia Bat

England win.

Crawley, Root. Head, Marsh
Wood, Moeen, Cummins, Starc

Warner and Root. (Smith if Warner gets dropped!!)

Carey.

Australia win toss and bat.

England win.

Root, brook, wood, broad
Smith, khawaja, Cummins starc

Smith and root fielders

Carey

England win toss and bat first

Draw

Soul Requiem wrote:Smith Head Cummins Lyon
Root Brook Anderson Robinson

Warner Root

Bairstow

Australia win toss and bowl

Australia win

This was my selection from the second test; will change Lyon for Starc and Robinson for Wood.

Soul Requiem wrote:

Soul Requiem wrote:Smith Head Cummins Lyon
Root Brook Anderson Robinson

Warner Root

Bairstow

Australia win toss and bowl

Australia win

This was my selection from the second test; will change Lyon for Starc and Robinson for Wood.

Thanks Soul.

Pal Joey wrote:

88Chris05 wrote:England: Duckett and Root. Woakes and Broad.
Australia: Smith and Head. Cummins and Starc.

Stokes and Root.

Bairstow.

Australia win toss and bat.

England win.

Do you mean Smith and Root, Chris?

Hi Joey, yeah I did pal - sorry, again proving my uselessness at this.

Points Table
4th Test, Old Trafford, Day 1:

3980 Duty [272]
3964 Compelling and Rich [193] *
3818 Pal Joey [243]
3799 Tino [218]
3682 KP_Fan [288]
3651 Afro [198]
3611 Olly [256]
3574 Superflyweight [338] *#
3568 Guildfordbat [172]
3547 Chris [288]
3536 JDizzle [241]
3475 Alfie [193]
3475 Eirebilly [134]
3444 James [243] *#
3389 Soul Requiem [163]
3284 King Carlos [243] *#
3143 Marky [225]
2644 Lowlandbrit [103]

* denotes correct pick England win toss
# denotes correct pick England elected to bowl/field

Average score: 3532 [223]

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

Notes:
Duty is now the new leader with a 16-point advantage over Compelling and Rich.
Superflyweight top scored on Day 1 with 338 points. Chris and KP_Fan did well too scoring 288 points.
Superfly, James and King Carlos got the 50 points for England winning the toss and deciding to bowl.
Compelling and Rich got the toss correct so also scored 25 bonus points.

After a strong start, I am drifting away badly. Bleedin Aussies.

eirebilly_01 wrote:After a strong start, I am drifting away badly. Bleedin Aussies.

That's right, blame us for all your woes.

Big football game on down the road, A. Your gals v our sheilas. Starts in about 2 hours 40 minutes. Irish green and Australian gold everywhere!

Ah sure, the Irish girls will get stomped

eirebilly_01 wrote:Ah sure, the Irish girls will get stomped

You never know... Sam Kerr is out with a calf injury. Think it will be close. I see the Kwis beat Norway 1-0

If starc is crocked I’ll have hazelwood

compelling and rich wrote:If starc is crocked I’ll have hazelwood

Never mind he’s still bowling

Can we change selections if someone is injured?

Seems generous!! Assumed if they get an injury, thats luck of the draw.

Out of interest, if you can change, would you lose the points for Starcs two wickets?

If Starc is indeed unable to bowl & a replacement allowed........ I would like to take Manus Labuschagne

KP_fan wrote:If Starc is indeed unable to bowl & a replacement allowed........ I would like to take Manus Labuschagne

 

I'll take Zak Crawley for Starc if allowed please PJ.

Afro wrote:Can we change selections if someone is injured?

Seems generous!! Assumed if they get an injury, thats luck of the draw.

Out of interest, if you can change, would you lose the points for Starcs two wickets?

Of course you can replace an inured player, Afro. See the rules above.

You won't lose any of Starc's points up until he leaves the field. Then nominate a replacement for Starc and start receiving your replacement's points from that time on. For example, just say you choose Hazlewood to replace Starc - you don't get any points Josh made before Starc went off the field but you then start accruing Josh's points from that point onwards..

KP_fan wrote:If Starc is indeed unable to bowl & a replacement allowed........ I would like to take Manus Labuschagne

Nice try! Are you serious?

It has to be a bowler or all rounder, KP_Fan. So it cannot be Marnus as he is a batsman... who bowls very occasionally.
So you basically have a choice between Hazlewood and Marsh, since you already have Head, Cummins and Green.

On that note, I'll nominate Mitch Marsh as my replacement for Starc, should he not take the field again.

Points Table
4th Test, Old Trafford, Day 2:

4216 Duty [236]
4125 Compelling and Rich [161]
4096 Afro [445]
4054 Pal Joey [236]
4035 Tino [236]
3983 KP_Fan [301]
3959 Guildfordbat [391]
3866 Eirebilly [391]
3810 Superflyweight [236]
3784 JDizzle [248]
3779 Olly [168]
3770 Chris [223]
3721 Alfie [246]
3715 James [271]
3575 Soul Requiem [186]
3555 King Carlos [271]
3379 Marky [236]
2952 Lowlandbrit [308]

Average score: 3799 [266]

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

Notes:
Afro, Eirebilly, Guildfordbat and Lowlandbrit have Crawley - so scored an extra 55 bonus points on top of his 189 runs.
Nice work from Afro who's shooting up the table after scoring 445 points on Day 2.
Alfie, Afro, Chris, Eirebilly, King Carlos and Marky have tipped England to win.
Compelling, James, Lowlandbrit, Superfly and Tino are going for the draw.
I hope you enjoyed your day at the ground, JD... you certainly picked a very good day to be there!

king_carlos wrote:

KP_fan wrote:If Starc is indeed unable to bowl & a replacement allowed........ I would like to take Manus Labuschagne

 

I'll take Zak Crawley for Starc if allowed please PJ.

I'll have Alastair Cook, the 2010/11 vintage, for Starc.

Pal Joey wrote:

Afro wrote:Can we change selections if someone is injured?

Seems generous!! Assumed if they get an injury, thats luck of the draw.

Out of interest, if you can change, would you lose the points for Starcs two wickets?

Of course you can replace an inured player, Afro. See the rules above.

You won't lose any of Starc's points up until he leaves the field. Then nominate a replacement for Starc and start receiving your replacement's points from that time on. For example, just say you choose Hazlewood to replace Starc - you don't get any points Josh made before Starc went off the field but you then start accruing Josh's points from that point onwards..

KP_fan wrote:If Starc is indeed unable to bowl & a replacement allowed........ I would like to take Manus Labuschagne

Nice try! Are you serious?

It has to be a bowler or all rounder, KP_Fan. So it cannot be Marnus as he is a batsman... who bowls very occasionally.
So you basically have a choice between Hazlewood and Marsh, since you already have Head, Cummins and Green.

On that note, I'll nominate Mitch Marsh as my replacement for Starc, should he not take the field again.

Read the rules is the lesson there

Pal Joey wrote:

KP_fan wrote:If Starc is indeed unable to bowl & a replacement allowed........ I would like to take Manus Labuschagne

Nice try! Are you serious?

It has to be a bowler or all rounder, KP_Fan. So it cannot be Marnus as he is a batsman... who bowls very occasionally.
So you basically have a choice between Hazlewood and Marsh, since you already have Head, Cummins and Green.
.

Well Manus started his career as a bowling allrounder in UAE vs Pak and should be an allowable choice
BUT
Starc bowled today so it's a moot discussion now.
And pretty much every one has Starc...so his no performance cancels / evens out

KP_fan wrote:

Pal Joey wrote:  

KP_fan wrote:If Starc is indeed unable to bowl & a replacement allowed........ I would like to take Manus Labuschagne

Nice try! Are you serious?

It has to be a bowler or all rounder, KP_Fan. So it cannot be Marnus as he is a batsman... who bowls very occasionally.
So you basically have a choice between Hazlewood and Marsh, since you already have Head, Cummins and Green.
.

Well Manus started his career as a bowling allrounder in UAE vs Pak and should be an allowable choice
BUT
Starc bowled today so it's a moot discussion now.
And pretty much every one has Starc...so his no performance cancels / evens out

He's not an all-rounder and never was. He's just a part time bowler as everyone understands. Hence, he wouldn't be an allowable choice.

Points Table
4th Test, Old Trafford, Day 3:

4365 Duty [149]
4320 Compelling and Rich [195]
4204 Afro [108]
4193 Pal Joey [139]
4174 Tino [139]
4117 Guildfordbat [158]
4066 KP_Fan [83]
4025 Eirebilly [159]
4018 Olly [239]
3932 Superflyweight [122]
3914 Alfie [193]
3857 JDizzle [73]
3845 Chris [75]
3832 James [117]
3751 Soul Requiem [176]
3672 King Carlos [117]
3502 Marky [123]
3152 Lowlandbrit [200]

Average score: 3941 [143]

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

Points Table
4th Test, Old Trafford, Day 4:

4390 Duty [25]
4345 Compelling and Rich [25]
4259 Afro [55]
4218 Pal Joey [25]
4199 Tino [25]
4142 Guildfordbat [25]
4094 KP_Fan [28]
4050 Eirebilly [25]
4021 Olly [3]
3957 Superflyweight [25]
3939 Alfie [25]
3912 JDizzle [55]
3870 Chris [25]
3857 James [25]
3776 Soul Requiem [25]
3697 King Carlos [25]
3527 Marky [25]
3155 Lowlandbrit [3]

Average score: 3967 [26]

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

KP_fan wrote:If Starc is indeed unable to bowl & a replacement allowed........ I would like to take Manus Labuschagne

Catching up after holiday. I guess entries for 606v2's most disgraceful post of the year will continue to be accepted until late December although there seems little point as no one can surely top KP_fan's effort above.

guildfordbat wrote:

KP_fan wrote:If Starc is indeed unable to bowl & a replacement allowed........ I would like to take Manus Labuschagne

Catching up after holiday. I guess entries for 606v2's most disgraceful post of the year will continue to be accepted until late December although there seems little point as no one can surely top KP_fan's effort above.

People normally come back happy from holiday...this guy is sounding cantankerous
what happened ? pick-pocketed, picked a diarrhea

This guy had a perfect holiday but it still doesn't mask the disgrace of your post.

[Not wanting anothe Moeen anthology, that's it on that.]

guildfordbat wrote:This guy had a perfect holiday but it still doesn't mask the disgrace of your post.

[Not wanting anothe Moeen anthology, that's it on that.]

The guy had a perfect holiday....his team having played the most astounding Ashes  cricket in last quarter century
comes back and posts nothing else but this as his first post on the cricket forum
Picking up on trivial stuff in context of an anonymous person's id in the forum first thing.
Look like this anonymous person was living under the guy's skin all thru his holidays

Points Table
4th Test, Old Trafford, Day 5:

4470 Compelling and Rich [125] #
4390 Duty [0]
4324 Tino [125] #
4259 Afro [0]
4218 Pal Joey [0]
4142 Guildfordbat [0]
4100 Eirebilly [50]
4094 KP_Fan [0]
4082 Superflyweight [125] #
4032 James [175] # *
4021 Olly [0]
3989 Alfie [50] *
3920 Chris [50] *
3912 JDizzle [0]
3826 Soul Requiem [50] *
3697 King Carlos [0]
3527 Marky [0]
3330 Lowlandbrit [175] # *

Average score: 4019 [51]

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

# Draw = 125 points
* Bairstow most dismissals = 50 points
(Bairstow: 6 caught behinds; Carey: 2 caught behinds)


Overall Team and Player Scores after the Fourth Test at Old Trafford [in brackets] are as follows:

England:
4872 [1072] - average player score 1140.80 [442.90]

Australia:
4584 [822] - average player score 1110.90 [416.70]


Top 11 Individual Player Scores: (using the special formula for catches, run outs, w/k dismissals)

596 Root [129]
557 Cummins [26]
513 Broad [57]
495 Stokes [71]
490 Starc [106]
485 Crawley [189]
420 Bairstow [159]
408 Smith [58]
398 Duckett [41]
397 Khawaja [41]
382 Carey [40]

Followed by: Head (365), Woakes (362), Hazlewood (335), Brook (331), Labuschagne (326), Wood (321), Green (308), Marsh (298)

Notes:
Congratulations to Compelling and Rich, our new leader, who has a 80-point lead over Duty.
Compelling, Tino, Superflyweight, James and Lowlandbrit all correctly picked the draw.
James and Lowlandbrit also correctly picked Bairstow for most wicket keeper dismissals.
Australia dodged several bullets and were saved by the weather to retain the urn. England dominated this one and deserved the win.
Thanks again everyone for your participation. A very short turnaround for the 5th Test at the Oval.

Aus
Smith, Marsh
Cummins, Murphy

Eng
Root, Stokes
Ali, Tongue ( Woakes, Borad in that order if no Tongue)

Catcher
Root, Smith

WK
Carrey

Aus win the toss and bat first
Aus win

England: Root & Brook. Woakes & Broad
Australia: Smith & Labushagne. Cummins & Starc*

Crawley & Warner

Carey

Australia win toss and bat

England win.

*if Starc breaks down on the 5th day, I'd like David Warner as my bowler but only if he's scored a double century. If not whichever Aussie has scored the most runs. They all bowl a bit in the nets so you should be allowing it.