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!

Pal Joey wrote:OK, alfie. Yeah, not looking promising for Lyon.
Starc it is then... you'll start collecting his points from now on (Day 3) onwards.
And Guildford will be even more proud of you... all competition aside.  

(note: if there is some miracle and Lyon returns... we can sort that out later. Same for everyone else who has him)

But I'm the only one allowed to play his Joker card on Starc, yes?

Points Table
2nd Test, Lord's, Day 3:

2046 Chris [165]
1893 Duty [188]
1877 Soul Requiem [120]
1857 Eirebilly [174]
1826 Compelling and Rich [206]
1761 KP_Fan [125]
1726 Guildfordbat [137]
1725 Superflyweight [150]
1685 Pal Joey [143]
1641 Tino [157]
1613 Olly [82]
1582 James [120]
1574 JDizzle [95]
1565 Marky [211]
1506 King Carlos [136]
1498 Alfie [121]
1436 Afro [212]
1387 Lowlandbrit [145]

Average score: 1678 [149]

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

Notes:
Chris has broken the 2000-point barrier and has a 153 point lead over Duty, who has now risen to second place.
Some good scoring from Afro, Marky and Compelling and Rich. They all scored over 200 points on Day 3.
Those who have selected Travis Head scored a tidy 50 points for his 2 unexpected wickets.
Marky, Olly and Soul - still awaiting your replacement for Lyon. Would like to lock in either Hazlewood or Starc for you.

I'll go for Starc.

slow and steady wins the race, chris(bazball)05 will get caught on the boundary playing reckless soon enough

Sorry PJ I've been away this week

Keep Pope in - I'll have Starc for Lyon please

Lyon still playing, few on here got an extra player!!

compelling and rich wrote:Lyon still playing, few on here got an extra player!!

Yeah... let's hope he stays on 0.

Stokes cramping up now.... it just gets worse doesn't it!

Points Table
2nd Test, Lord's, Day 4:

2365 Chris [319]
2329 Duty [436]
2235 Soul Requiem [358]
2233 Eirebilly [376]
2224 Compelling and Rich [398]
2077 Guildfordbat [351]
2051 Superflyweight [326]
2042 Pal Joey [357]
2030 KP_Fan [269]
1988 Olly [365]
1906 Tino [265]
1894 James [312]
1870 Alfie [372]
1824 Marky [259]
1871 Afro [381]
1804 JDizzle [230]
1781 King Carlos [275]
1669 Lowlandbrit [282]

Average score: 2008 [330]

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

Notes:
The top scorer on Day 4 was Duty with 436 points who is now only 36 points behind Chris.
A real bunch up occurring between 3rd, 4th and 5th places... there's only 11 points between Soul Requiem, Eirebilly and Compelling & Rich.
4 points awarded to Marky for Lyon's painful stay at the crease. Can still swap him and accrue points from a replacement for the final day... but we can't carry over the replacement's Day 4 points.

Points Table
2st Test, Lord's, Day 5:

2675 Chris [310]
2591 Duty [262] # *
2488 Compelling and Rich [264] # *
2414 Soul Requiem [179] #
2369 KP_Fan [339] # *
2339 Guildfordbat [262] # *
2338 Eirebilly [105]
2314 Pal Joey [272] # *
2305 Superflyweight [254] # *
2236 Tino [330] # *
2225 Olly [237] # *
2204 James [310]
2155 Alfie [285]
2133 JDizzle [329] # *
2007 Afro [190] *
1948 Marky [124] *
1870 King Carlos [89]
1748 Lowlandbrit [79]

Average score: 2242 [234]

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

# Australia win = 125 points
* Carey most dismissals = 50 points
(Carey: 4 caught behinds, 2 stumpings; Bairstow: 3 caught behinds)


Special Team Scores for the Second Test at Lord's are as follows:

England:
2610 [1343] - average player score 352.50 [237.30]

Australia:
2650 [1426] - average player score 352.20 [240.90]


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

387 Root [158]
355 Cummins [173]
331 Stokes [217]
324 Broad [148]
304 Robinson [135]
300 Khawaja [94]
292 Duckett [241]
279 Carey [103]
253 Lyon [36]
239 Green [108]
226 Smith [204]

Followed by: Hazlewood (206), Bairstow (204), Warner (176), Starc (171), Tongue (165), Crawley (159), Brook (152)

Notes:
Congratulations to Chris for maintaining his lead at the top of the table. He leads Duty by 84 points.
Alfie, Chris and James scored a bonus 55 points (25+30) on top of Stokes' magnificent 155 runs.
I have aches and pains after watching all of that. Only a 3-day turnaround until Headingley on Thursday.
Thanks for your participation, everyone.

I'm pretty sure I went for Bairstow for dismissals and an Oz win, not sure if you just put the wrong symbol PJ?

Soul Requiem wrote:I'm pretty sure I went for Bairstow for dismissals and an Oz win, not sure if you just put the wrong symbol PJ?

Sorry Soul. Corrected above.
Yes, you had Bairstow for keeper dismissals and an Australia win. You got the 125 points for the win. I typed the wrong symbol. See the table below.

Table:

Eng
Root, Bairstow
Ali, Woakes ( Robinson, Wood in that order if no Woakes)

Aus
Head, Labuschagne
Cummins, Todd Murphy

Catchers
Smith & Root

WK
Carrey

Toss
Aus win the Toss
Auis Bat first

Result
Aus win

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

2) Fielders: Green and Root

3) Carey

4) Australia to win the toss and bat first

5) Australia to win the test

Thanks.

1 - Australia: Warner, Marnus - Hazelwood (Murphy if Hazelwood is not selected), Starc
England: Crawley, Brooks - Wood, Broad

2 - Fielders: Warner and Crawley

3 - Bairstow

4 - Australia to win the toss and bat first

5 - Draw due to weather forecasts

Root, Stokes, Smith, Head
Woakes, Broad, Starc, Cummins

Root, Smith

Carey

England win the toss and bat first

England win

Brave calls from Afro

Me , I am so far down the table I no longer trust my judgement. Will have a go with a dartboard tomorrow...

alfie wrote:Brave calls from Afro

Me , I am so far down the table I no longer trust my judgement.  Will have a go with a dartboard tomorrow...

I'm a long way behind too, so need to dare to be different and hope it pays off

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

Australia: Labuschagne, Warner, Starc, Head (as a bowler )
England: Crawley, Root, Woakes, Stokes

Cummins and Duckett

Bairstow

Australia win and bat

England win

England: Root & Bairstow. Woakes & Broad.
Australia: Smith & Head. Cummins & Starc

Root and Smith

Carey

Australia win toss and bowl

England win.

Thanks, Pee Jay.

Hi Joey - Content to keep in sight of the leading pack for T3 and so pretty much business as usual. Anyway, enough of the BS.   To confirm-

1) Australia: Labuschange, Smith; Cummins, Starc (sub Boland)
England: Root, Brook; Robinson, Broad

2) Fielders: Smith and Crawley

3) Carey

4) Australia to win the toss and bat

5) Australia to win the Test.

Thanks for your tips everyone.

England: Root, Stokes, Woakes, Broad (Duckett/batting, Robinson/bowling subs)
Australia: Khawaja, Smith, Cummins, Starc

Root and Green

Carey

England win toss and bat

Australia

England: Root, Brook, Woakes, Wood
Australia: Warner, Smith, Starc, Murphy

Root and Green

Bairstow

Australia win toss and bat

England

It's going dismally so far for me so intentionally gone left field with some. Warner and Brooks with the bat, Murphy and Wood with the ball will drag me back into this. Just you wait and see.

Moving day for Carlos.

Australia: Smith, Labuschagne, Starc, Cummins
England: Root, Bairstow, Robinson, Woakes

Green and Root

Carey

England win toss and bat

Australia win

Root Bairstow Moeen Woakes
Smith Labuschagne Starc Cummins

Crawley Warner

Bairstow

Australia win toss and bat

England win.

No great expectations.

Smith, Green, Cummins, Murphy
Duckett, Root, Woakes, Robinson

Smith, Root

Carey

Australia, bat

England


Cheers!

JDizzle wrote:Smith, Green, Cummins, Murphy
Duckett, Root, Woakes, Robinson

Smith, Root

Carey

Australia, bat

England


Cheers!

Mitch Marsh for Green if Green doesn’t play…

Smith, Khawaja, Cummins, starc
Bairstow, Root, Broad, Wood

Green, Root

Carey

England, bowl

Australia

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

Crawley, Brook, Wood, Robinson
Smith, Carey, Cummins, Boland

Crawley
Green

Bairstow

Aus
Field

Draw

OK Olly and JD

So Marsh in for Green
Boland in for Hazlewood
Murphy in for Lyon

Murphy for Green as fielder, please.

can i have smith as replacement catcher please PJ

Almost forgot about the fielder! I'll take Smith over Green for that, ta.

I'll go Smith for my replacement catcher to Green

Don't know what I'm allowed as late for this one, so if I can I'll just have the same as last time but replace Anderson with Broad and replace Hazelwood with Starc. Cheers!

James100 wrote:Don't know what I'm allowed as late for this one, so if I can I'll just have the same as last time but replace Anderson with Broad and replace Hazelwood with Starc. Cheers!

OK James. Thanks.

Smudge for Green for Aussie catches please PJ.

No worries, KC.

Points Table
3rd Test, Headingley, Day 1:

2895 Compelling and Rich [407] *#
2840 Duty [249]
2830 Chris [155]
2714 Eirebilly [376]
2633 Olly [408]
2612 KP_Fan [243]
2599 Soul Requiem [185]
2595 Pal Joey [281] *
2545 Superflyweight [240] *
2531 Guildfordbat [192]
2519 Tino [283]
2507 JDizzle [374]
2395 Alfie [240]
2393 James [189]
2314 Afro [307] *
2233 King Carlos [363]
2141 Marky [193]
2039 Lowlandbrit [291]

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

Average score: 2519 [276]

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

Notes:
Compelling was the only one who got both the toss and decision correct. He scored 407 points on Day 1.
A big day for Olly too scoring 408 points and bolting up the table like a young recalled Marsh brother.
Eirebilly, JDizzle and King Carlos also had a fruitful day. Congrats on the Neds, Billy!
A special congratulations for Tino who is bang on average. The place to be approaching the halfway mark of the series.
I'm using Chris and Soul's picks for Lord's... please let me know your replacements, w/k, match winner.

Edit:
Just realised I missed one of Cummins' wickets yesterday, so I'll add the extra 25 points on for those who have him at the end of Day 2.

surprising i was the only one who thought we'd have a bowl first. green pitch, overcast at Headingly. or was it i was the only one who thought England would win the toss

compelling and rich wrote:surprising i was the only one who thought we'd have a bowl first. green pitch, overcast at Headingly. or was it i was the only one who thought England would win the toss  

You were the only one who thought they'd send Australia into bat. So you got 50 points.
Afro, Super and myself picked England to win the toss and have a bat. We got 25 points only.

Pal Joey wrote: Tino who is bang on average.

Charming.

Points Table
3rd Test, Headingley, Day 2:

3387 Compelling and Rich [492]
3265 Duty [425]
3142 Pal Joey [547]
3140 Chris [310]
3110 KP_Fan [498]
3008 Guildfordbat [477]
2992 Olly [359]
2972 Tino [453]
2929 Eirebilly [315]
2925 James [532]
2904 Soul Requiem [305]
2896 JDizzle [389]
2861 Superflyweight [316]
2836 Afro [522]
2827 Alfie [432]
2470 King Carlos [237]
2358 Marky [217]
2325 Lowlandbrit [286]

Average score: 2908 [390]

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

Notes:
Those who have Cummins had the extra 25 points added on today - I missed one of his wickets yesterday.
Also a bonus of 80 points (50+30) for Cummins' 6-fer (all up) for England's first innings.

Points Table
3rd Test, Headingley, Day 3:

3504 Compelling and Rich [117]
3425 Duty [160]
3284 Pal Joey [142]
3256 KP_Fan [146]
3200 Chris [60]
3173 Tino [201]
3138 Olly [146]
3075 Guildfordbat [67]
3065 Eirebilly [136]
3037 Afro [201]
3012 JDizzle [116]
2992 James [67]
2980 Soul Requiem [76]
2953 Superflyweight [92]
2919 Alfie [92]
2622 King Carlos [152]
2542 Marky [184]
2390 Lowlandbrit [65]

Average score: 3032 [123]

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

Notes:
Despite the long rain delay there was still some movement on the table on Day 3.

England win: Alfie, Afro, James, JDizzle, King Carlos, Marky and Tino.
Australia win: Compelling, Duty, Guildfordbat, KP_Fan, Olly, Pal Joey and Superfly.
Draw: Eirebilly and Lowlandbrit

Bairstow most dismissals: (currently has 4) Alfie, Eirebilly, James, King Carlos, Lowlandbrit and Marky.
Carey most dismissals: (currently has 2) Afro, Compelling, Duty, Guildfordbat, JDizzle, KP_Fan, Olly, Pal Joey, Superfly and Tino.

Points Table
3rd Test, Headingley, Day 4:

3771 Compelling and Rich [267] *
3708 Duty [283] *
3581 Tino [408] # *
3575 Pal Joey [291] *
3453 Afro [416] # *
3396 Guildfordbat [321] *
3394 KP_Fan [138] *
3355 Olly [217] *
3341 Eirebilly [276]
3295 JDizzle [283] # *
3282 Alfie [363] #
3259 Chris [59]
3236 Superflyweight [283] *
3226 Soul Requiem [246]
3201 James [209] #
3041 King Carlos [419] #
2918 Marky [376] #
2541 Lowlandbrit [151]

Average score: 3310 [278]

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

# England win = 125 points
* Carey most dismissals = 50 points
(Carey: 5 caught behinds; Bairstow: 4 caught behinds)


Special Team Scores for the Third Test at Headingley are as follows:

England:
3800 [2457] - average player score 698.00 [345.50]

Australia:
3762 [2336] - average player score 694.20 [342.00]


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

531 Cummins [176]
467 Root [80]
456 Broad [132]
424 Stokes [93]
384 Starc [213]
357 Duckett [65]
356 Khawaja [56]
350 Smith [124]
342 Carey [63]
316 Head [116]
309 Robinson [5]

Followed by: Crawley (296), Brook (270), Bairstow (261), Warner (221), Marsh (216), Wood (215), Woakes (212)

Notes:
A great result for England in the 3rd Test keeping the series alive.  
Compelling and Rich has a 63-point lead over Duty at the top of the table.
King Carlos, Afro and Tino were the big movers on Day 4 with 419, 416 and 408 points respectively.  
A nine day break before Old Trafford which will give us all some recovery time.
Thanks for participating everyone - it was good fun as usual.

Pal Joey wrote:Points Table
2st Test, Lord's, Day 5:

2675 Chris [310]
2591 Duty [262] # *
2488 Compelling and Rich [264] # *
2414 Soul Requiem [179] #
2369 KP_Fan [339] # *
2339 Guildfordbat [262] # *
2338 Eirebilly [105]
2314 Pal Joey [272] # *
2305 Superflyweight [254] # *
2236 Tino [330] # *
2225 Olly [237] # *
2204 James [310]
2155 Alfie [285]
2133 JDizzle [329] # *
2007 Afro [190] *
1948 Marky [124] *
1870 King Carlos [89]
1748 Lowlandbrit [79]

Points Table
3rd Test, Headingley, Day 4:

3771 Compelling and Rich [267] *
3708 Duty [283] *
3581 Tino [408] # *
3575 Pal Joey [291] *
3453 Afro [416] # *
3396 Guildfordbat [321] *
3394 KP_Fan [138] *
3355 Olly [217] *
3341 Eirebilly [276]
3295 JDizzle [283] # *
3282 Alfie [363] #
3259 Chris [59]
3236 Superflyweight [283] *
3226 Soul Requiem [246]
3201 James [209] #
3041 King Carlos [419] #
2918 Marky [376] #
2541 Lowlandbrit [151]

Average score: 3310 [278]

Not a bad week. Made up a lot of ground by being slightly different.

Thanks PJ

C&R bringing that new found baby #perspective and leading us all - good work PJ as ever my man