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September 10, 2009
Diary of a TFC Century League Challenge 18
Week 19 Day 2
At last, a pretty much perfect day. All the kids are now back at school, normality has returned and things are falling into place nicely. Of course it could have been better, but then I've given up hoping that England's cricketers might actually win a one-day international. The footballers however are a different matter. Capello seems to have instilled all the right ingredients into a pretty much invincible team. Not only has the team qualified for South Africa but they've done it with TWO games to spare and not dropped a single point in the process. Of course it's going to be harder at the finals, but with two extra 'friendlies' to help prepare there has to be a reasonable expectation that England can do well.
Returning to the cricket, the England team may have struggled but my fantasy team jumped up from 121st to 64th. Cameron White as captain finally paid off while all my bowlers took at least one wicket. The only blot on the performance yesterday was Prior's duck, but it was only a minor blip. I must be too far behind the podium positions, but it's great to be right up there in the top 1% of teams. Just like the Aussies, I'll have some thinking to do before the next match on Saturday. They say Ponting will definitely take back the No 3 spot so I'll be looking carefully to see where White ends up. Speculation last night suggested he'd drop down to No 6 replacing Hussey. If true then he won't be nearly so attractive.
And while all the fun (for me) was happening at the Rose Bowl, some of my other players were starting their championship matches. I made no further changes as the whole team is playing a 4-day match apart from New. Stevens was the star, ably assisted by Key and Murtagh meaning that the memories of last week are fading fast. Here's the top 3:
At last, a pretty much perfect day. All the kids are now back at school, normality has returned and things are falling into place nicely. Of course it could have been better, but then I've given up hoping that England's cricketers might actually win a one-day international. The footballers however are a different matter. Capello seems to have instilled all the right ingredients into a pretty much invincible team. Not only has the team qualified for South Africa but they've done it with TWO games to spare and not dropped a single point in the process. Of course it's going to be harder at the finals, but with two extra 'friendlies' to help prepare there has to be a reasonable expectation that England can do well.
Returning to the cricket, the England team may have struggled but my fantasy team jumped up from 121st to 64th. Cameron White as captain finally paid off while all my bowlers took at least one wicket. The only blot on the performance yesterday was Prior's duck, but it was only a minor blip. I must be too far behind the podium positions, but it's great to be right up there in the top 1% of teams. Just like the Aussies, I'll have some thinking to do before the next match on Saturday. They say Ponting will definitely take back the No 3 spot so I'll be looking carefully to see where White ends up. Speculation last night suggested he'd drop down to No 6 replacing Hussey. If true then he won't be nearly so attractive.
And while all the fun (for me) was happening at the Rose Bowl, some of my other players were starting their championship matches. I made no further changes as the whole team is playing a 4-day match apart from New. Stevens was the star, ably assisted by Key and Murtagh meaning that the memories of last week are fading fast. Here's the top 3:
| Team | Start | Wed | Total |
| Bramernic Spitfires | 16 | 231 | 19419 |
| Outside Edge | 1 | 172 | 18934 |
| GOLD 1 | 3 | 98 | 18488 |
