NT Tours and Friendly Match Thread

[Cookie311993]

3 bloody run outs and once again the useless flowering batters failed.

Thanks for the game CF. better team won

[CrowsFan]

Yeah thanks for the game cookie. But to be fair all the batters failed, no one even managed to get to 40!! :o

[Cookie311993]

The game hates me this week I swear

[Torpedo10]

The game hates me this week I swear

Try again next week.  :P Scotland getting ready for a big SOD tour coming up. We are keen(and probably close to favorites) to promotion. what has happened to cookie very similar to last T20 tour where India were demoted(finished 5th) and they were on the same wins as 4th and 3rd but their crap NRR cost them.

[chrisuzz]

Match Ratings
England U19 Sri Lanka U19
Batting - Top Order: 7,879 8,141
Batting - Middle Order: 7,538 8,049
Batting - Tail: 4,593 5,447
Bowling - Seam: 7,756 (30) 8,422 (20)
Bowling - Spin: 8,142 (20) 8,285 (30)
Fielding/Keeping: 7,726 9,071
Overall: 138,177 150,018


I set the orders played Manohara (AR) and Vadivel (AR) both as agressive batsman batting at 2 and 5, wanted to see if this would help us score more and be more aggressive to me seemed like a failure.
3 ARs inflated our ratings. Though you could say Azam is a bowler who can bat if you like,...

We outrated them everywhere including 1.3k fielding... maybe crappy orders or lack of strike bowler is what cost us

[CrowsFan]

After being dropped from the last one day tour Wilkinson has fought his way back in to the squad and has been selected for the World Cup ;D

[Cookie311993]

Probably didn't need the matches for the tour or were trying some others.

[valkorum]

My 18yo keeper/batsman Alpin Hill has been selected for the WC.

[JBs-Hawks]

How much cash am i going to need to purchase a NAT quality 16yo player next season?

[Fletch74]

Depends on the level of your YA, JB, but in the first few weeks of the season you would need > 300k

I have Seinfeld in the WC as CF and Valk both already know.

[JBs-Hawks]

Superior atm and will take it to lavish after i make my purchase early next season

[valkorum]

How much cash am i going to need to purchase a NAT quality 16yo player next season?

Considering that next batch of 16yo (next seasons) will be 19 in a WC year, I think the prices will be slightly more.  I tend to  agree with Fletch (in partial) that a decent player will cost >$300 but I reckon its closer to >$500k

[chrisuzz]

http://fromthepavilion.org/player.htm?playerId=938849 - 84k
http://fromthepavilion.org/player.htm?playerId=928721 - 40k

Both these guys were purchase last season JB (WC year) and were both relativly cheap, both are proably borderline making a WC but should be NAT quality i would say, Cassie Chetty will be but unsure on Jemmot. Both had tech gaps though which is qould i usually look for when purchasing players at youth level.

[Boomz]

Good luck to all the other FF U19 managers/assistants for the WC ;)

[Cookie311993]

Good luck to you also boomz. I'm gonns need it. Got a tough group and not the greatest player pool