Top 10 (or so..) players so far in Telegraph Fantasy Cricket
We’re a month or two in to this season’s fantasy cricket season, and it’s time to take a look and see how I’m doing, and which players we should have chosen!
I started off the season like a rocket, miles ahead for a good few weeks, but then I stopped paying attention and things quickly went downhill. I think 3 of my 4 bowlers were out injured, and coupled with other team’s players coming into form I’ve hit mid table mediocrity very quickly! So time for a bit of surgery, although not as much as one of my mates who’s used more than half of his transfers in the first month!
Top Batsmen (at time of writing)
U Afzaal - a player I have! woohoo!
HD Ackerman - always seems to do well, no different this year but wasn’t on my list for this season, maybe i need to re-think.
M Di Venuto - ditto.
M Butcher - a bit of a surprise to me, but a double ton helped! Not playing for Surrey today so maybe pacing himself for the season?
J Gallian - a special mention seeing as he was only rated a 2, he’s had a storming season so far.
Keepers
hmmm.. Luke Sutton has done nothing so far for my team, so looks pretty close to the chop, but for who?
P Nixon - the old man continues to score well (but he’s expensive!)
C Read - the young man continues to score well (but he’s expensive!)
N O’Brien - A surprise from Northants where he wasn’t even first choice but seems to be doing well
M Prior - Scoring a lot in the Championship but just called into the one day squad will hurt his points here.
All Rounders
Sickeningly, the top two so far are two players I talked about before the season but didn’t choose, how stupid am I?!
P Trego - taking good wickets so far this season
R McLaren - I really should have picked him
N Boje - Finally, another player in my team (time to make him captain I think)
R Ten Doeschate - another player I talked about pre-season, I hope somebody took my tips as I didn’t!
Bowlers
T Bresnan - has found wickets and runs a plenty so far in the season, will it continue?
J Allenby - Who?! Seriously, I have no idea who this is…
Y Arafat - Woohoo, another player of mine from the start, class!
D Pattinson - making the most of a starting spot at Notts with Broad and Sidebottom out of the equation
C Langeveldt - I brought him in for Mahmood a week or two back as his stats were looking pretty good.
So how am I going to get out of my mid table position having looked at the stats above? I think I need to cut some dead wood in M North (Batsman, Skipper), L Sutton (mentioned above), A Mahmood (seems to take wickets but the points aren’t enough), S Mushtaq (maybe I’ll hold on to him), and look at bringing possibly a name or two from above. Then hopefully see myself return back to the position I deserve at the top of the tree!!
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