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dogwatch said:
Ouch. Make that 1-222 at lunch.
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Spent most of that first session with one eye on the cricket and the other on the PC, knocking up a spreadsheet. It's one thing devising the rules but it's gotta be programmable.

So here's the provisional progress score at the lunch break. Definitely hasn't been QA'd yet so there could be errors. Let me know if you think there are.

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Notes:
1. The yellow highlighting indicates a Power Play session. grassman75 got double points that session
2. The grey highlighting indicates a null score because it came in late over half way through that session (flamethrower would have had 582 points but hey there are up to 14 sessions remaining ... and 4 tests after this one!)

And here's how those scores came about:

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Anyone want to call their power play for the second session? 10 minutes before it starts.
 
What's with that umpire? Refuses to give a wicket to Australia. Both of them clearly out to everyone but him. The maggots have it in for us all over the world. :mad: :mad:

Good thing we had the video reviews to fall back on.

And Boland had Cawley out caught behind TWICE!
 
dogwatch said:
What's with that umpire? Refuses to give a wicket to Australia. Both of them clearly out to everyone but him. The maggots have it in for us all over the world. :mad: :mad:

Good thing we had the video reviews to fall back on.

And Boland had Cawley out caught behind TWICE!
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The umpire had it right. I suspect an Aussie video umpire doctored the footage. England doing well to keep their composure in such egregious circumstances. Admirable as always.
 
Update at the tea interval.

Players' session scores:

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Progressive Scores:

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Don't get too excited yet. Wocka is biding his time until we bat!

I'll hang around until the start of session 3 in case anyone wants to nominate a power play, but the session 3/EOD scores will be posted some time Saturday.
 
Player scores at end of Day 1:

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Comp Scores. Joint leaders (ahem):

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Let me know if you want to nominate any particular session on Day 2 as your power play.
 
Power play - Day 2 Session 2
 
Today is Blue Day apparently, for Bob Willis who died of prostate cancer in 2019. A bit like Jane McGrath Day I guess.

I remember Bob as a Touring English captain in Aotearoa in the 80s. I managed to get very close to him during a pitch inspection at Eden Park. A very big man with a large head and a sort of blunt concave face. Being a bit of a larrikin at the time (I've matured somewhat since then) I was mimicking Geoff Boycott's "Arr, the big maannn steams in.." within his earshot. He gave me the most withering look...can still picture it:grimacing:
 

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Next Waiting said:
Today is Blue Day apparently, for Bob Willis who died of prostate cancer in 2019. A bit like Jane McGrath Day I guess.

I remember Bob as a Touring English captain in Aotearoa in the 80s. I managed to get very close to him during a pitch inspection at Eden Park. A very big man with a large head and a sort of blunt concave face. Being a bit of a larrikin at the time (I've matured somewhat since then) I was mimicking Geoff Boycott's "Arr, the big maannn steams in.." within his earshot. He gave me the most withering look...can still picture it:grimacing:
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Actually I think it was a Freddy Truman impersonation not Geoff Boycott now that I think about it. Both Yorkshiremen if I'm not mistaken. Mantis Toboggan will correct me if I'm wrong .....
 
Actually Mantis Toboggan I do have Geoff Boycott story that might amuse you.

On a later tour, he (Geoffrey) was part of the English commentary team for that tour and happened to be staying at the hotel I was working at whilst at Uni in that town. Anyways, he had a bit of a reputation as being a hard to please guest. The rice pudding we served was not to his satisfaction and how he let everyone know about it. We laughed and laughed as the matre'd recounted in a perfect Yorkshire accent, his absolute displeasure at what he'd been served the night before.

Some time later the same matre'd called me up and asked me to come in for a chat. "You play golf, don't you NW?" she enquired. Every chance I get I responded. "Well, one of our guests has a bit of a problem and you might be able to help." Oh. "If I said rice pudding, would you know who I was talking about?". Yes. "Well, Geoffrey has a problem and he needs to disappear for a few days, he likes golf and a golf course seems like a good place to hide him and you might have the patience to put up with him." Oh. What's he done? "Here's today's paper".

Geoffrey had been a very naughty boy and patted someone who didn't want to be patted in a place they objected to and a bit of a storm was brewing.

In the end, I spent an all expenses paid 3 days on the golf course with Geoffrey. Taxis, beer (for me - he was teetotaller:rolleyes:), green fees and boxes of golf balls plus pay. As close to a professional golfer as I'll ever be.

He wasn't great company though. A teetotaller who was still living with his mother had warning sign written all over it. But I did glean a grim and dour determination in his character on the golf course, something opening bowlers around the world were also familiar with no doubt... and a predisposition to complain about anything and everything. I asked him about that very famous over that Michael Holding bowled to him. If you read about it is widely regarded as the most hostile first over ever bowled in test cricket. Basically Holding bowled 6 bouncers at him trying to take his head off .... might have saved us all a lot of trouble🤣. All he would say about is "Aye, eee were quick".

He did teach me the correct stance for an opening bat in Test cricket though. That seemed to be the only time he actually got animated. In his demonstration of the technique and his disapproval of my attempts to replicate it🤣. Patience wasn't really his thing.....unless he was batting.
 
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Next Waiting said:
Actually Mantis Toboggan I do have Geoff Boycott story that might amuse you.

On a later tour, he (Geoffrey) was part of the English commentary team for that tour and happened to be staying at the hotel I was working at whilst at Uni in that town. Anyways, he had a bit of a reputation as being a hard to please guest. The rice pudding we served was not to his satisfaction and how he let everyone know about it. We laughed and laughed as the matre'd recounted in a perfect Yorkshire accent, his absolute displeasure at what he'd been served the night before.

Some time later the same matre'd called me up and asked me to come in for a chat. "You play golf, don't you NW?" she enquired. Every chance I get I responded. "Well, one of our guests has a bit of a problem and you might be able to help." Oh. "If I said rice pudding, would you know who I was talking about?". Yes. "Well, Geoffrey has a problem and he needs to disappear for a few days, he likes golf and a golf course seems like a good place to hide him and you might have the patience to put up with him." Oh. What's he done? "Here's today's paper".

Geoffrey had been a very naughty boy and patted someone who didn't want to be patted in a place they objected to and a bit of a storm was brewing.

In the end, I spent an all expenses paid 3 days on the golf course with Geoffrey. Taxis, beer (for me - he was teetotaller:rolleyes:), green fees and boxes of golf balls plus pay. As close to a professional golfer as I'll ever be.

He wasn't great company though. A teetotaller who was still living with his mother had warning sign written all over it. But I did glean a grim and dour determination in his character on the golf course, something opening bowlers around the world were also familiar with no doubt... and a predisposition to complain about anything and everything. I asked him about that very famous over that Michael Holding bowled to him. If you read about it is widely regarded as the most hostile first over ever bowled in test cricket. Basically Holding bowled 6 bouncers at him trying to take his head off .... might have saved us all a lot of trouble🤣. All he would say about is "Aye, eee were quick".

He did teach me the correct stance for an opening bat in Test cricket though. That seemed to be the only time he actually got animated. In his demonstration of the technique and his disapproval of my attempts to replicate it🤣. Patience wasn't really his thing.
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Haha. What a great story! Being 38 I know Boycott more for his commentary than his playing days to be honest. Complaining about everything is what it is to be a Yorkshireman.

I have had a few rude awakenings in my (almost) nine years in Australia where people have thought I’m a deeply miserable and negative individual. I grew up with sarcasm and overt negativity being ironic and hilarious. Boycott is almost a caricature of that. I would imagine his demeanour would probably get a decent reaction back home even if people were laughing AT him. But when you’re one-on-one with a bloke like that I suppose there’s nobody to laugh with and you’ve got to just enjoy the free golf and the fact you’re getting paid.

Here’s my favourite bit of boycott from Brasseye. Absolutely baffling things coming out of the blokes mouth on one of my favourite tv programs of all time

 

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Wocka said:
Can I cancel it?
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Yeah, I guess so. As long as you cancel it before the start of the session.

So I'll take that as a cancellation.
 
RandomDog is going for the Power Play this second session too.
 
Cancel that cancellation.

Powerplay D2 S2

Come on Usi
 
Lunchtime update:

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Players that session:

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Day 2 Tea Break update - the Power Play certainly paid off for the top three:

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Player scores that session:

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Progressive scores after Day 2. RandomDog blitzing it ... but watch out for Mofra who still has a Power Play up his sleeve.

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Player scores for session three of day 2:

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And here's the player scores for the whole test so far (top 4 highlighted):

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