The Night Watchman

he Senior World Cup groups have been announced a few days a go and I thought I would share my thoughts on it. These groups have been copied from the Forums (credit to Sully89).
Group 1
England 1 131.35
Zimbabwe 6 112.18
Sri Lanka 7 110.45
Bermuda 12 88.27
UAE 13 88.14
USA 18 70.79
England, Zimbabwe & Bermuda , so half the group has remained the same from the last World Cup. The three [...]

The first tour of Season 8 will be under way in a few days.  Two seasons ago, this was my first tour as National manager of Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe had been knocked in the quarter finals in the World Cup, where as West Indies had made the Final and lost to New Zealand. Zimbabwe & West [...]

I was just thinking, we have 18 nations in FTP and they can be split into continental/regional level teams. What if we had a Asia XI vs Africa XI, or American XI vs Oceania XI etc, and which region would be the strongest? Which one would win the most matches?
Oceania XI
Oceania will be represented by two [...]

Well, if you wanted to know more about the FTP Bermudan National team, here’s some of the stories by the Bermudan NAT manager himself - who’s been manager forever since.
Bermuda was a piece of crap from the start. The database was 2nd lowest of all nations behind Kenya. We were probs seen as at most [...]

Another article written by the talented Indian Reporter, coolfool. Enjoy .
Amidst these times of recession, the Indian National team still managed to afford plane tickets for their West Indies tour. However, since the prices of the First Class tickets were a bit high, the Indian players only managed to get Economy Class tickets. Upon [...]

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 [...]

Article by coolfool - Indian National Reporter
A few days after the Indian and South African U19 teams had faced off against each other, it was time for the seniors to show their mettle. An important series for the Indians if they wanted to close in on the 2nd spot which is currently held by New [...]

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 [...]

It’s the week after Easter but there’s nothing sweet about this matchup. Netherlands and Scotland meet in what will be a week of tough, hard fought matches. Hampden Park is the venue where new Scottish manager serge and his assistants, oliverhunters, rmcmahon and MOD-RightArmOver will welcome old head mischivious and his assistants, Brandt, TUnit and [...]

Going into the series, India were billed favourites having the home advantage as well as being ranked third in the world.
Zimbabwe won the first toss of the series and elected to bowl. The early wickets of Dhupam and Selvi was a great start, although Gurbil Deol steadied the ship with a brilliant hundred that helped [...]