2024 Border Gavaskar Trophy Tipping Competition

The 2024 Border Gavaskar Tipping Competition

The Rules:

1.
Pick 2 (two) batsmen and 2 (two) bowlers from both Australia 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.
Khawaja, Head, Cummins, Starc
Jaiswal, Padikkal, Sundar, Bumrah

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.
Smith, Kohli

3.
a) Predict the Result.
e.g.
Australia or India or a 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.
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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November 22 - 26, 2024: 1st Test at Optus Stadium, Perth.

December 6 - 10, 2024: 2nd Test [D/N] at Adelaide Oval.

December 14 - 18, 2024: 3rd Test at The 'Gabba.

December 26 -30, 2024: 4th Test at Melbourne Cricket Ground.

January 3 - 7, 2025: 5th Test at Sydney Cricket Ground.

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Good luck with your selections!

Overall Leader Board for All 12 Tipping Competitions, thus far:

Top 18:

44,129 Guildfordbat: [12 Series] Ave: 3677
44,105 Alfie: [12] Ave: 3675
43,660 James: [11 Series] Ave: 3969
43,285 JDizzle [11] Ave: 3935
42,944 Pal Joey [12 Series] Ave: 3579
41,278 Duty [12] Ave: 3440
41,170 Olly [12] Ave: 3431
36,053 KP_Fan [10 Series] Ave: 3605
30,276 Soul R. [8 Series] Ave: 3785
26,429 Tino [7 Series] Ave: 3776
24,673 Comp. & Rich [6 Series] Ave: 4112
24,063 King Carlos [7 Series] Ave: 3438
23,453 Superfly [5 Series] Ave: 4691
23,443 Dolphin [6 Series] Ave: 3907
21,572 Lowlandbrit [6] Ave: 3595
17,864 Afro [5 Series] Ave: 3573
16,471 Gooseberry [5 Series] Ave: 3294
10,180 Marky [3 Series] Ave: 3393


Total Points Scored: 611,640
Top 18 Points Scored: 555,048
Top 18 (above) Average: 30,836

Total Points Scored Last Comp (2023 ICC CWC): 18,477
Average Points Scored (2023 ICC CWC): 1320

Labuschagne, Head, Cummins, Hazlewood
KL Rahul, Pant, Jadeja (Ashwin), Bumrah

Smith, Kohli

Australia win

Sorry for the minor panic guys.
(save your paper and pencils, alfie... I got on a roll updating the Overall Leader Board, then thought... keep going)

btw, I can't believe after all those series... there's only 24 points between you and guildfordbat. Amazing!

Cheers. Will go for:

Australia - Head, Labuschagne, Hazlewood, Lyon (reserve Cummins).
India - Pant, Sarfaraz, Bumrah, Siraj (reserve Ashwin).

Fielders McSweeney and Jaiswal.

Australia win.

Duty281 wrote:Cheers. Will go for:

Australia - Head, Labuschagne, Hazlewood, Lyon (reserve Cummins).
India - Pant, Sarfaraz, Bumrah, Siraj (reserve Ashwin).

Fielders McSweeney and Jaiswal.

Australia win.

Thanks Duty.

Just sent you a PM (with this link) but it bounced back.

Thanks for the prompt PJ

I’ll go

Labuschagne, Smith, Cummins, Hazlewood
Pant, Kohli, Jadeja (reserve Ashwin), Bumrah

Fielders - Lyon and Jadeja

Aussie win

Well that is all good news , PJ.... I am sure you will be able to get the ongoing scores up much quicker than my loosely planned last century manual system could have managed

As long as you are happy to go with it I will gladly leave it in your hands... and concentrate on trying to catch guildford !

alfie wrote:Well that is all good news  , PJ....   I am sure you will be able to get the ongoing scores up much quicker than my loosely planned last century manual system could have managed

As long as you are happy to go with it I will gladly leave it in your hands... and concentrate on trying to catch guildford !

ha ha... I've set it up and plugged in all of our picks so far.

Bloody Indian team selectors are a headache though. They are a complicated bunch all right. Have to colour-code the 'maybes'... and then wait for the toss.

Indeed there might have to be some "subs" brought in once the Indians sort out their XI - though a few thoughtful posters have included reserve options. Probably just as well the toss will be made well inside our comfortable time zone !

So India won the toss and will bat first.

Australia:
1 Nathan McSweeney, 2 Usman Khawaja, 3 Marnus Labuschagne, 4 Steven Smith, 5 Travis Head, 6 Mitchell Marsh, 7 Alex Carey (wk), 8 Pat Cummins (capt), 9 Mitchell Starc, 10 Nathan Lyon, 11 Josh Hazlewood

India:
1 Yashasvi Jaiswal, 2 KL Rahul, 3 Devdutt Padikkal, 4 Virat Kohli, 5 Rishabh Pant, 6 Dhruv Jurel, 7 Washington Sundar, 8 Nitish Kumar Reddy, 9 Harshit Rana, 10 Jasprit Bumrah, 11 Mohammed Siraj

KP_Fan - your Aussie picks please... replacement for Krishna... and your two catchers
Guildford: replacement for Jadeja (no Ashwin either)
KC: replacement for Jadeja
Lowland: confirmed Rana
Duty: replacement for Sarfaraz; also confirmed Siraj
Ollie: replacement for Jadeja (no Ashwin either) and Jadeja (fielder)

Hmm. A few posters going to need to replace Ashwin/Jadeja ... which is a bit tricky as they are probably mostly asleep.

Interesting selections by India in the bowling , eh ?

Yes, interesting selections.

Hopefully for those asleep the openers can hang in there for a while.

KP_fan wrote:

Batters: Reddy &Washington
Bowlers: Rana and Krishna
* Krishna replaced with Bumrah

India Win

Catcher: jaiswal

Aus
Marsh and Head
Hazelwood and Cummin
Khwaja catcher.

ThanksPJ

Come on... don't be shy. Just whack some names in... then flip a coin for the winner.

It's ok if you just copy & paste KP_Fan's picks and tweak them to suit.

PJ - in the spirit of things, I will take Sundar as my Jadeja replacement for both bowler and fielder...he's the seeming direct replacement in the XI

Good Golly I'm Olly wrote:PJ - in the spirit of things, I will take Sundar as my Jadeja replacement for both bowler and fielder...he's the seeming direct replacement in the XI

And catcher as well or do you want someone else?

Pal Joey wrote:KP_Fan - your Aussie picks please... replacement for Krishna... and your two catchers
Guildford: replacement for Jadeja (no Ashwin either)
KC: replacement for Jadeja
Lowland: confirmed Rana
Duty: replacement for Sarfaraz; also confirmed Siraj
Ollie: replacement for Jadeja (no Ashwin either) and Jadeja (fielder)

Will go for Jaiswal over Sarfaraz, thanks.

Rats! Even with a reserve nominated, I ended up an Indian bowler short. I’m sure someone else might suggest you just give double points for the choice of Bumrah! However, given he’s played little part so far, I’ll kindly ask if I can have Sundar.

There's only 8 of us so far...

JD, Compelling, James, Soul - would be great to see you as well. I can start you all on around 330 points which is only 120 or so points behind the current leader. Plenty of time to catch up and overtake.

Ollly - sorry, I saw above. Almost put you down for Kohli as your catcher. You can change to him if you want.
KC - have you down for Sundar as your replacement for Jadeja - let me know if you want someone else.

Points Table
1st Test, Perth, Day 1:

455 KP_Fan [455]
391 Pal Joey [391]
384 Lowlandbrit [384]
375 King Carlos [375]
348 Alfie [348]
334 Olly [334]
333 Duty [333]
332 Guildfordbat [332]

Average score: 369 [369]

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

Note:
JD, James, Compelling & Rich, Soul, Afro, Super (the Greater Fly), Tino (The Assistant to the Seamstress), Chris, GSC... or anyone else game enough to follow this series - I can start you all on 330 points (I'm quite sure Guildford won't mind... neither Duty... but Ollie??)  and together we can rattle the Table... you know, shake things up.

PJ - not at all. Round ‘em up and bring ‘em in.