Not that I 'm really looking forward to it. I had Yasir Hameed in my team and he hasn’t played yet. I didn’t think Youhana would do much and he scored a fifty and a hundred. I thought Razzaq is useless for Tests and he ends up taking a few wickets as well as scoring a match saving 71. I thought Rana would be good with his control and swing and he’s out injured. I thought Sami would be worthless on these pitches, and even he has taken 3 wickets in this innings now. And who would’ve thought Balaji would be such a hit and Irfan would fail? In short, everyone I thought worthless and kept out of my fantasy team has performed one way or another.
The fantasy league ratings at the end of the day play yesterday are as follows:
I have added two more columns which tell you points diff over yday and your ranking shift.
We have a new leader now and it is ProudPakistani..basically their teams pp and pp007) are more or less similar but PP scored on the basis of Abdul Razzaq who is his trump and he surges ahead of PP007 ( albeit a slender lead of three points)
Biggest mover was yours truly bitter 9 places and highest scorer yday was Peoples Champ with 470 points. Biggest drop was Saby who plunged 9 places.
Fantasy league update - due to Kumble being his trump Peoples Champ vaults to league topper - well done. Another noticeable movement is Faisal who now is into top five ( that too courtesy Kumble-Tumble)
Individual players scores at the end of second test are as follows:
A Kumble 521
L Balaji 399
D Kaneria 383
A Razzaq 330
V Sehwag 315
R Dravid 310
A Kamal 210
I Pathan 209
S Tend. 208
YoYo 205
M Sami 201
Y Khan 192
Inzy 191
K Akmal 191
S Afridi 178
H Singh 157
D Karthik 152
Gambhir 108
T Umar 101
Rana 89
Laxman 87
Ganguly 55
Zaheer 30
Butt 15
Khalil 4
YHameed 0
S Malik 0
Y Singh 0
A Nehra 0
A Khan 0
based on the above scores the optimum team would have been
A Kumble 521
L Balaji 399
D Kaneria 383
A Razzaq 330
V Sehwag 315
R Dravid 310
A Kamal 210
I Pathan 209
S Tend. 208
YoYo 205
K Akmal 191 with Kumble as trump.
^ Thats because a bowler who gets 4 wickets, is equal to scoring 120 runs.
Alright… so, I am now so far ahead of the remaining usual suspects (ehsan, Saby, f&b, Captain1 etc), thats its not even funny anymore. And that too playing with just 10 people. Oh well… the trump choice really paid handsome dividends.