From The Pavilion II

[PowerBug]

Just retired Paul Aronstam :'(

[BratPack]

Just retired Paul Aronstam :'(

I know how you feel. Bruin is still with me for now, but after the Pav Cup I don't see him staying. I have a new young spinner coming up this season in Adrian Neville

[fanTCfool]

Guess who finished last season with a SOD of exactly #1024  8)

[PowerBug]

Just retired Paul Aronstam :'(

I know how you feel. Bruin is still with me for now, but after the Pav Cup I don't see him staying. I have a new young spinner coming up this season in Adrian Neville

Mmmm it's really quite sad :(


For each season I've played the game I have recorded the 3,2,1 in each format for runs and wickets (So 3 votes for most runs/wickets, 2 votes for 2nd etc). Paul Aronstam totalled 48 votes, including 3 in T20 last season at 34yo!!

After that the leaderboard is: 43, 34, 29, 26, 25, 24, 23. He's completely destroyed everyone else! It was quite a career.

[PowerBug]

Paul Aronstam
Recruited: 18th October 2011. Season 15 Week 0 (PowerBugCC had been around one full season at this stage)
Retired: 8th May 2017. Season 34 Week 0 (Age 35)
Skills at recruitment: Avg bat, dread tech, atroc XP, poor or ord fielding.

YOD Achievements:
- Played all 56 YOD matches (most possible for any player)
- 2 time top club run scorer in a season (S15, 17)
- 2 time second top club runs scorer in a season (S16, 18)
- S17 top run scorer in SL 4.2
- 3061 runs @ 68.02, most of all time. Second place (Who's nearing the end of his career at 32yo now too) 868 runs behind.
- Scores of 198, 191, 163. Ranked 1st, 3rd and 10th in club history.
- 10 tons, 11 fifties total.

T20 Achievements:
- 163 T20 matches (Most in club history)
- 5 time top club run scorer in a season (S25, 26, 29, 30, 33)
- 4 time second top club run scorer in a season (S23, 24, 27, 32)
- S26 top run scorer in SL 1.1
- S29 second top run scorer in SL 2.1
- 4385 runs @ 33.99, most in club history. 319 runs ahead of second place.
- Scores of 143 (This was in his last ever T20 innings as well may I add) and 126. Ranked 2nd and 7th in club history.
- 5 tons, 29 fifties total

SOD/PC Achievements:
- 223 SOD/PC matches (Most in club history)
- 3 time top club run scorer in a season (S21, 30, 31)
- 2 time second top club run scorer in a season (S26, 29)
- 2 time third top club run scorer in a season (S22, 27)
- 6676 runs @ 32.73, second most in club history. 238 runs off first, but a whopping 1998 runs ahead of third (The same 32yo who'll close that gap a little more this season)
- Top score 235, 4th most in club history.
- 11 tons, 33 fifties.

Overall:
- 14122 runs @ 37.36
- 26 tons, 73 fifties (99 scores off 50+!)
- 8 time top club run scorer in a season
- 8 time second top club run scorer in a season
- First player to come from the PowerBugCC youth academy and be trained right through seniors.
- 2030 Days as a member of PowerBugCC (I don't have stats on other players but safe to say this is a record by a long way! I've only been playing the game for 2157 days!)


I have no other words to say about this man, who as weird as it may sound has been a part of my life for the last 6 years. No one will come close to the number of matches he has played for my club. No one will match the number of top club run scorer awards he has (Although without YOD Wardlaw who was bought at the start of S14 would beat him). It's just a monumental effort to play for 20 seasons. The main highlights have to be at the start, when I thought he was cursed as he got that 198 and 193 in such quick succession when I was pushing so hard for the YOD double ton. Then the other one has to be last seaosn when at 34yo he pulls out a 143* in his last T20 match, then in his second last SOD match (against opposition that heavily out-rated us!) he bats for 136 balls scoring 87 runs.

Have a good retirement fella, you've earned it :'( :'(

[WhatMate]

End of an era!!

What were his skills at his peak and retirement?

[PowerBug]

End of an era!!

What were his skills at his peak and retirement?

Should be viewable right now. Accom/reli with reas power and cap endo or something (I'm not logged in)

His peak was spec/excep, spec fielding and spec power I think. Nothing special, but had a great career! I was hoping that by now there'd have been a way to get former players still involved in the game somehow (in some kind of coaching or supporting capacity) but it hasn't eventuated :(

[WhatMate]

16 years | 17,987 rating | $776 wage (5% discount)
Right hand batsman | Right arm Medium
Talents   Safe Hands
Nationality   Sri Lanka Sri Lanka
Form   reasonable
Fatigue   rested
Experience   atrocious
Captaincy   reliable
Skills Summary
Batsman   dreadful
Bowler   ordinary
Keeper   dreadful
Allrounder   dreadful
Skills
Batting   atrocious   Endurance   ordinary
Bowling   reasonable   Technique   poor
Keeping   dreadful   Power   ordinary
Fielding   poor


Not too bad for week one, I will struggle to get that exp up though. Always manage to pull guys with a huge tech gap like that  ::)

[DazBurg]

Just retired Paul Aronstam :'(

I know how you feel. Bruin is still with me for now, but after the Pav Cup I don't see him staying. I have a new young spinner coming up this season in Adrian Neville

yup i retired Yaseen and Mustafa  :(

[JBs-Hawks]

I just got my first senior nat debut, trained him up from a YP too.

[Torpedo10]

I just got my first senior nat debut, trained him up from a YP too.

Unfortunate first ball duck.  :(

You've got two great squads though!

[WhatMate]

 Hunais Kuruppu >> Details
Player Info
16 years | 19,492 rating | $775 wage (5% discount)
Right hand batsman | Right arm Fast
Talents   Old Ball Bowler
Nationality   Sri Lanka Sri Lanka
Form   reasonable
Fatigue   rested
Experience   poor
Captaincy   accomplished
Skills Summary
Batsman   poor
Bowler   ordinary
Keeper   dreadful
Allrounder   ordinary
Skills
Batting   poor   Endurance   poor
Bowling   average   Technique   average
Keeping   dreadful   Power   dreadful
Fielding   poor

Went for an AR, guess this will do

[nrich102]

a ripper pull this week

Ninjas >> Wasantha Mapatuna >> Details
Player Info
16 years | 8,348 rating | $400 wage (3.5% discount)
Left hand batsman | Left arm Fast medium
Talents Bouncer
Nationality Sri Lanka
Form reasonable
Fatigue rested
Experience atrocious
Captaincy capable
Skills Summary
Batsman atrocious
Bowler atrocious
Keeper atrocious
Allrounder atrocious

Skills
Batting atrocious Endurance dreadful
Bowling atrocious Technique atrocious
Keeping dreadful Power poor
Fielding atrocious
 
 

[WhatMate]

Match Ratings
   chrisuzz   Billy Goats CC
Batting - Top Order   6,380   6,454
Batting - Middle Order   4,607   4,870
Batting - Tail   3,088   3,389
Bowling - Seam   5,544 (32)   4,556 (24)
Bowling - Spin   7,057 (8)   6,410 (16)
Fielding/Keeping   7,390   5,535
Overall   104,620   98,556

Would be the first time in a while ive won against CF.

Happy with the ratings for the first hit out of the season. Two other guys in the league sitting on 112k (5 nats) and 113k (0 Nats but lots of scots who havent been updated yet) ratings for the first game so if things go right on tour weeks or i can cause upsets I am in with a decent chance at getting my 5th YOD1.1 title

[PowerBug]

http://www.fromthepavilion.org/commentary.htm?gameId=3990003
I can't even process how that just happened. Scroll to the end of the first innings, then to 20 overs into my chase. Then tell me I have even a 0.1% chance of winning the game.