The Night Watchman

From the Pavilion news site.

  • Friendlies

    Zimbabwe Masters vs India - Preview

    May 2nd, 2009
    Zimbabwe today will play a masters friendly involving only players above 28 years of age against India at Mwene Mutapa stadium. The game is expected to a draw large crowd as former legends such as former captain Jack Jones & 1st ever batsmen to hit a century Albert Rowlands were announced in the lineup along with other stars. Zimbabwe being a young team will also field a few debutants, C.Vi

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  • Howzzat!

    Secondaries for Dummies

    April 24th, 2009
    Right, well for this article, I thought we'd take a break from the transfer market, and take a look at another very important aspect of the game, which I feel is undervalued by too many people in FTP. So here's a dummy's guide to secondaries, including tech. Enjoy :) . In FTP, there are many things we categorise as a "secondary". They are endurance, power, fielding captaincy and experience

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  • Inside Edge

    The Homegrown Pavilion Dream

    May 17th, 2009
    On Nov 2, 2007 manger Fruitl00ps (me) was assigned a local amateur cricket club to train them and turn into professionals and achieve glory! Fruitl00ps named the team "NRI Sixters" (NRI stands for Non-Resident Indian). Having read the rules and giving a quick thought to the game system/mechanics, Fruitl00ps quickly decided to put one of the playing styles to test (i.e. to see how far his homegrown

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  • International Competitions - U19s

    INDIA U 19

    June 30th, 2009
    Hi this is lookup15. I’ve decided to write a blog on the recently concluded series between India U19 and West Indies U19. It was quite entertaining, but the winner was decided earlier than expected as India won the first two games. 1st match: 13,330 arrived at the West Indies U19 CG to cheer their team against India. The visitors won the toss, with captain Azharuddin electing to bat. The Indi

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  • International Competitions -Nats

    Most dangerous player?

    June 30th, 2009
    Well its World Cup time and this time its being hosted by Bangladesh. So I thought, as manager of the Zimbabwean national team, who would be the most dangerous player from each nation? Well I got my opinion and I also managed to get the opinion of the other NT managers as well! Deltron is running the WC Fantasy Comp again, and Ash has also volunteered to donate some prizes - but based on how ma

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  • League Reports - Australia

    Wild Tangent wins again

    April 29th, 2009
    Yes, this is another attention seeking article, but since I've bothered to write one, I deserve the attention and whether you give a crap or not, thank you =) Last week, Wild Tangent fielded their 2nd XI (117k) and defeated Jail Bred Boys (125k) with a 6 wicket win to remain undefeated in SOD 3.2 Aus. This gave Wild Tangent some sort of advantage for the PC and T20 to come, despite Round 5 oppo

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  • League Reports - England

    Oh, The Times They are a Changing

    August 11th, 2008
    An Article by The-Academy.tv Just 3 and a half weeks after The Academy bidded a fond farewell to Nicholas Carter, Ricky Town have announced that their 31 y/o all-rounder, Percy Napier, has parted company with the club following a 21k transfer to Valley Power. This is the second selling of a notable player that has passed manager mischivious' current age range. The 31 year old was still believed

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  • League Reports - South Africa

    Harold Kutcher- Farewell to a Legend

    January 7th, 2009
    Harold Kutcher will sign off his international career against Scotland on Saturday. I met up with his club manager SamuelVimes, to ask him about the spinner. 1. Kutcher has been a member of the Zimbabwe squad since day one, and has provided some memorable performances. Which performance do you think has been his best? Would have liked to have said one of his tour performances there, but he's

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  • League Reports - West Indies

    Super Sledgers end TBS unbeaten streak!

    October 18th, 2008
    Fourth places Super Sledgers have brought The Blind Society's unbeaten streak to an end with a comprehensive 5 wicket win at the TBS CG. Powered by excellent spells from Nascimento and Brew, and superb knocks from Daniel and Bennet, the Super Sledgers acheived what many teams have failed to so far in an incredible upset that left the home fans bitterly disappointed. After winning the toss and

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  • Pavilion Cup

    The Homegrown Pavilion Dream

    May 17th, 2009
    On Nov 2, 2007 manger Fruitl00ps (me) was assigned a local amateur cricket club to train them and turn into professionals and achieve glory! Fruitl00ps named the team "NRI Sixters" (NRI stands for Non-Resident Indian). Having read the rules and giving a quick thought to the game system/mechanics, Fruitl00ps quickly decided to put one of the playing styles to test (i.e. to see how far his homegrown

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  • The 12th Man

    The Longer Version Of The Game - 2nd Innings

    June 1st, 2009
    Following on from my first article on the idea of first class cricket on FTP, I suddenly gained some sort of inspiration whilst writing my Child Poverty paper. Yes, I know I seem to come up with ideas whilst strangely doing something not remotely connected with FTP in any shape or form. However, I was helped with Ash implementing version 99 and a nice little tool called the commentary filter. S

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