Askham Bryan Cricket Club

The fantasy league 2010 competition is hotting up, with an early lead being taken by first team skipper Rob Dale, with Mike Hodgkinson hot on his heels.

The highly anticipated transfer window is now open – at only £1 per transfer, can you afford not to transfer the in form players into your side?

Download the full tables here. If you’d like to make a transfer, download the transfer forms here.

It is with great pleasure that we bring to you Askham Bryan CC Fantasy League 2010!

The rules and rankings for 2010 have been amended slightly by our first team skipper, Rob Dale, and his team of statisticians.

To find out more about the Fantasy League and how you can enter the team, download the Fantasy League 2010 Guide now!

The moment we’ve all been waiting for! Though the winner was unveiled at the end of season do, do you know how your team got on?

There were some excellent new individual performers in the top twenty, with Prateek, Steve, Mike, Jim, Mark and Alex all opening their fantasy league accounts with great scores.

Download the final fantasy league table here.

The fantasy league table for Week 7 is now available.

Download it here.

Remember that all transfers must be completed by 1st July and cost £1 each. Contact David Knight to change your team…

The fantasy league tables have been updated following the 7th June fixtures.

Download the fantasy table in Excel format to see the movers and shakers!

Due to “industrial action” at Fantasy League HQ, we don’t have a report for Week 3 as yet. However, we do have the updated tables – download them here.

On a record-breaking day in Askham Bryan’s Fantasy League, Mike Bains, the Magnus Magnussen (however spelt) of Askham Bryan Cricket Club helped himself to his first 100 point haul in the competition (117), becoming the seventh player to do so. David Knight bettered his own 175 points total to score a new FL record of 190 points, just 10 points short of that magical, and some say ‘mythical’, total of 200.

The first Fantasy League Table of the year is also now published and D. Knight also tops that! Makes you sick! But, as we saw last year, there is a long way to go. It is nice to see ex-player, and club member Steve Holman in second place, his team picked largely by pointing a finger at the player of his choice (and then amended by me, pointing him in an entirely different and more appropriate direction). Chris Pamplin, who almost got it right this year except for not giving his team a team name, erred on the side of abidance with the general rules of the competition in selecting his eleven players, and has been rewarded thus far with a position of third place. My own ‘The Old ‘uns are best XI’ would be doing far better had it not been for crippling back injuries to myself and Colin Garnett that may well be a feature amongst my players, and could ruin this team’s bid for glory. Pete Wood’s ‘Woody Likes a Cheaper One’ made up of the cheapest buys on offer (the team costing marginally less than last year’s ‘Woody likes a cheap one’) brings up the rear. And yes, Mark Grewer has yet again got Terry in his team!

One point of note from the two weeks so far is that of the top eleven players in the Fantasy League Players List six are from the first team and five are from the second, which is just about as even a spread as you can get from eleven. The top eleven doesn’t include a wicket keeper as yet, but Chris Pamplin is the early pacesetter amongst that particular breed.

Pete Wood returned to form with the ball this week securing a total of 88 points in all, and after finishing second in last year’s competition is looking a strong candidate in this year’s competition as well.

Spare a thought for £5m. rated batsmen Gus McKenzie though, who, in two games so far, is yet to trouble the scorers. Gus is one of the Fantasy League’s centurions and I am sure these first two games are just a blip and he will soon be recording his second three figure haul.

Finally, just to mention that five players have made it to the 100 points mark for this season, Ian ‘Burton Agnes’Hall just making it to that landmark thanks to his wicket and catch on Saturday.

Good luck everyone for next week, and let’s have more teams coming – from relatives and friends as well if possible! Thank you for your support!

Download the excel spreadsheet for full details.

NOTE: Xcel sheet contains cumulative players totals on first sheet, and Fantasy League Table on Second sheet.

David Knight Opens 68 Point Gap In Fantasy League!

So, with the first round of matches played, David Knight has opened up a 68 point gap at the top of the Askham Bryan CC Fantasy League. His 163 points, including a bonus of 40 for scoring a century, is the fifth highest return ever, and David’s fourth 100 point haul.

Evergreen, veteran, old warhorse, decrepit Will Knight and Terry Kiernan both managed to better their last season’s total in just the first game! In Terry’s case, it took him just three consecutive balls – yes, a hat-trick – to better his 2008 return. And Mark – that’s why you had Terry in your team!

Other good performances included a 95 point haul from Mike Clark on debut (the highest ever points tally on debut), an 85 point haul from Paul Thornton, and 80 points from Ian Hall (‘Albert’ I see he refers to himself as). Last season’s table topper Mark Grewer got off to a slow start netting just 7 points from his first game. Another of the pace setters in the previous two years, Pete Wood, also got off to a sluggish start, despite bowling well, with a return of just 27 points.

I know a number of you are still deliberating on your teams, please let me have these a.s.a.p, preferably E-Mailed to David Knight. Anyone who thinks they have an advantage by waiting to submit their team may be sadly mistaken. Last year, Sideshow submitted what was the best team on known results after two weeks, and finished up in the bottom half of the league table!

For the record, the list of centurions in Fantasy League is as follows: