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Zimbabwe have won their first ever series against South Africa. After a dreadful start to the series, the Zimbabweans in particular the bowlers fought back to get a 2-1 win over the Proteas. After being convincingly in the first tour against Australia, Zimbabwe were looking to improve against South Africa.
The first match of the tour [...]
Since the time talents were introduced in FTP, most managers have wondered how much importance should be given if you luckily or unluckily get some talents on your players. This article tries to use the Stats from the recently concluded U19 tour to understand the impacts.
The premier friendly league title has already been claimed by current FTP cup holders Stafford Rangers. A closely fought Competition went into week 5 with 3 unbeaten teams. The Rangers, Indian Champs Revolution, and Aussie Champs Tickets Please. However a run of bad results for the two main contenders to Stafford led to an amazing tight division [...]
Today’s round of U19 NT friendlies saw minnow nation Scotland defeat the mighty Australia.
The Scots won the toss and decided to send the Aussies in and see what sort of target they could restrict them too, young star Robert Duncan (2/34) from Scaly Piscine CC broke through twice early and was well supported by all [...]
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 [...]
4 teams, 2 matches; bragging rights for an entire season on offer not to mention a cool million dollars of FTP money - it is the time for Pavilion Cup Semi Finals! The competition has been dominated by Australian and Indian teams, which can be considered a pretty fair reflection of current state of real life cricket. The semis, appropriately, are between 2 Indian and 2 Australian teams; with India hosting!
As a new user to the game or even an old one, one of the most valued and vital skills to have will be to ‘read’ a player. In other words assess your options with them, what you should train them in, where they should be placed in the XI or whether your buying a [...]
Your starting stadium has a capacity of 5,000, which should be easily enough to cover your needs for your first season. Try to resist increasing your stadium capacity early on. Your money is better spent buying players and/or investing in your academies.
Introduction
Are openers important in From The Pavilion? Do managers set their best batsman as openers? How have openers performed in comparison to the team as a whole? Does a good opening partnership lead to victory? Those are some of the questions that maybe answered by the following analysis. Data consists of only the 1st major [...]
Amidst the celebration over The Blind Society’s 7th consecutive Senior One Day League win -a 10 wicket thrashing of second placed Bubbarians- Zorax held the team’s Mid-Season Press Release just as he had promised. It was held right there on the TBS CG outfield, where moments ago John Sandri had cracked the winning runs.
Zorax talked about several issues, including the team’s performance to date, their expectations for the rest of the season, and even some transfer rumours. There was also the Questions and Answers segment, meaning much to look forward to for all the media personalities present…