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[curtistheboss]

<sub>Couple of Victorian Players:
Campbell Kellaway - firstly his name is misspelt (noted on a previous post), he bowls SLA in real life and I would argue isn't an opener in FC, but admittedly hasn't had the chance to play club red ball cricket yet, think he'd bat middle order for Vic if he got the chance.

Fergus O'Neill - probably shouldn't be an all-rounder in game but is no mug with the bat, bats 6 or 7 for Melbourne in club cricket and I think batted 7 or 8 when he played for Victoria, whereas in game he bats 11 and averages about 6.

James Seymour - don't think he should be considered an all-rounder, more just an occasional bowler (somewhat similar to Marnus, who btw should be better in tests and not as good in white ball)

Peter Hatzoglou - probably should be a little bit better with the bat, plays as an all-rounder with Melbourne Uni in club cricket

Tom Rogers (vic batsman) - seems a bit overpowered in game, especially in FC, don't think he's someone who'll average 40+, more likely around 30, but admittedly has been unreal in club cricket

Jake Fraser McGurk - hasn't done much since his debut, especially in club cricket, don't think he should be rated that highly in game</sub>

[r_j]

Missing Players:
Nick Selman should be an Australian free agent as he still plays cricket in Australia
Brad Currie - should be in the English free agent (regular in 2nd XIs) and also the Scotland side (sole travelling reserve in most recent squad)
Stanley McAlindon - Durham - a regular in 1st XI squads this season, especially T20s
Tom Bevan - Glamorgan - an attacking batsman who's been in the past few T20 squads after being in brilliant form in the 2nd XI T20s. He opens in limited overs cricket, and in red ball cricket opens in Minor Counties, but seems to bat in the middle order in 2nd XI cricket for Glamorgan.
George Bell - Lancashire - RHB WK LB - a wicketkeeper for Lancashire, and also a occasional bowler as well, such as for England in the U19 World Cup. Has a rookie contract
He's been added in 22.05 update.

Josh Boyden - Lancashire - was named in the T20 squad for the game vs Northants. Very impressive for England U19s as his stats show, with an average of 13.86 after taking 23 wickets in 12 U19 ODIs, which points to a very promising future.
Vikai Kelley - moved to Leicestershire from Warwickshire last year and is currently in their Academy
Ishaan Kaushal - Middx - has signed a rookie contract until the end of 2024 - had signed a contract for the RLODC last year but ended up getting injured
Daniel O'Driscoll (wk), Max Harris - Middx
James Hayes - Notts
Gus Miller - Northants - attacking allrounder, I would say he's stronger as a batter - RHB RM - has a rookie contract
Jack Harding - Somerset - Academy player who has been in a few T20 squads this season, including the T20 game vs the Sri Lankan Development XI, and so seems a safe bet to be in the squads for the RLODC when the 100 is on. Decent pace for his age as well so I would say is possibly a LMF
Mitchell Stanley - Worcs - Signed a 2 yr professional contract running to the end of 2023 last September. Has also played a T20 this season and has impressed at 2nd XI level this season

He's been added in 22.05 update.
Che Simmons - RHB RMF - looks very quick already

Tom Aspinwall - Lancashire - RMF - not sure if he's contracted with the 1st team but definitely still with the club. Was in quite a few RLODC squads & also the County Select XI but didn't get to play in either. Definitely seems likely to play in the RLODC this season after his impressive performances in the U19 World Cup
Harry Seagrave - Middx - academy player who got injured after signing for the RLODC and being in a few squads for that & some T20s last season

Cade Carmichael - Ireland - a RHB top order bat. According to his profile on futurea cricket his DOB is 8/3/02 and also bowls RM. From the scorecards I've seen I would say he's a defensive bat in both red & white ball cricket. Added in 22.05
Jamie Grassi - played in the Irish interpros last year Added in 22.05
Aditya Adey - All rounder RHB RFM - born in either 1998 or late 1997, was named in a squad or 2 this season and has played in the warmups
Gavin Roulston - has been in many squads this season, including squads of 13. Is 15 years old (I believe he turned 16 last week going by a cricketeurope article from this time last year) and is a LHB OB allrounder who impressed in the warmups including opening the batting and top scoring with 45

Nick Greenwood - Jersey international who plays for Wellington
Ben Ward - played for Boland & still plays for Jersey

Brian Bennett - RHB OB - very promising allrounder who played for Zimbabwe Emerging Players in some T20s last year vs Namibia. Economical bowling that can take wickets and some attacking batting where he's quite good on the offside and is slightly stronger vs pace
Tendekai Mataranyika - Right arm offspinning bowler who is a decent bat - played for Zimbabwe Emerging Players in some T20s last year vs Namibia. Good wickettaking threat who also keeps the economy down a lot.
Karabo Motlhanka - Botswana captain who made his First Class debut in the Logan Cup and did quite well, including top scoring with 41 when the rest of his team collapsed. Also played for some T20s as well though didn't do as well in those games.

Stefon King - 27 year old RMF/RFM who plays aggressively with the bat. A bowler but is also a handy bat. Played for Barbados vs England

Nationality Changes
Cameron Gannon should be Australian in-game, at least until he's not playing domestic cricket or we can play as the USA in-game & they're playing in World Cups
Cormac Hassett should be Irish rather than Australian in-game as he plays domestic cricket as an Irish passport holder. Irish in 22.05.
Michael Rippon NET->NZ
Ruhan Pretorius SA->IRE Irish in 22.05.
PJ Moor ZIM->IRE - qualifies in October - rejected a contract from Zimbabwe last year to qualify for Ireland, and has played for an unofficial Ireland Development XI in a red ball game the other week Irish in 22.05

Retirements
P Seelaar, S Myburgh, Rory Anders, P Chase, W Porterfield, Mitch Renwick has seemingly retired from professional cricket.

Injuries that should be added to the game
B Charlesworth was injured after the first 2 games with a stress fracture to the foot and is not expected to return until the middle of summer
Ruaidhri Smith hasn't played a game so far this season due to a side strain, which has also stopped him from bowling when he returned to the 2nd XI the other week. If he was fit, he would've been a regular in the T20 side
S Mahmood should be injured for the whole season but still ends up playing a test or 2
F Hudson-Prentice was injured in pre-season and didn't play until late May/early June
T Curran has been out with a stress fracture but still hasn't returned, not even in 2nd XI cricket
J Archer should be down as injured until after the T20 WC as almost certainly not going to play that
J Carson - still no games so far this season in the 1st or 2nd XI due to a stress fracture
Ollie Robinson - has had a very injury plagued season and has only played 2 games
L Norwell was out until the game last week with (I believe) concussion
Chris Woakes should be out for about 3 weeks longer in-game as he still hasn't returned to action yet, but plans to return to 2nd XI cricket soon.
J Dell suffered a broken finger in pre-season and has only just started to come back, with him making his return to club cricket last week
G Ballance hasn't played a game all season so should be ruled out until at least next month, as at the moment in my saves he's a regular for Yorkshire.
TKC was out till the start of the T20 Blast due to concussion suffered earlier in the year
B Coad hasn't played so far this season due to a groin injury
David O'Halloran has been injured with shoulder injury and hasn't returned yet
Ben Wheeler has been ruled out of the whole of the 2022/23 season due to a severe knee injury
Jason Holder is not injured but decided to sit out the Bangladesh test series for rest.

[Don73]

Alex Russell appears in Northants squad twice!

This has been fixed in the latest update (22.05).

[Hampshire]

Lewis McManus has extended his loan at Northants for the rest of the season. May be worth starting him in the Northants squad with a 1 year contract, can't see him returning to Hampshire now.

[Lynx54321]

I do think Rishi Patel needs a small boost to his batting, this is his first season for me in the current save (AI won't give him a game in other saves) and is representative of how he performs:

He's performed worse than many bowlers do with the bat. Current ability seems a bit unfair for a guy averaging just over 37 with 3 50s including a 99 this season in reality despite playing in a poor team and being shunted up to open half the time.

I also think Nick Welch is a better player than this:
He's a good batter who has been limited by injury up until very recently. Should at least be as good as what Kimber was or where Scott Steel is. It's early days post injury but in 4 out of 5 t20 games played this season he's batted powerfully in the powerplay scoring 41*, 37, 38 and 46 at a s/r of 158+ as well as a 118* against a decent Notts 2nd XI. I'm not saying make him a world beater but please at least make him useful and I think he should definitely be aggressive in white ball too, 158 s/r and he hit 12 sixes in 5 games, more than any other Leics player hit in all 14.

We don't want Leics overpowered but these two coming up into the useful category coupled with Ahmed upgraded and then the heavy nobblings of Rhodes, Griffiths, Swindells, A.Evans and Bowley should see them right. A good t20 side lacking quality in the four day format.

Also think Derbyshire are woeful in game, finishing last in all competitions usually. This is an especially stark contrast with with the resurgent side under Mickey Arthur in real life that is challenging in all competitions. I think boosts to these three would help improve that:

Brook Guest is sometimes being usurped by the academy keeper from day 1 despite having been very impressive this season, even scoring a ton in each innings of the Glamorgan match from number 3 with 3 tons and 2 fifties so far. McKiernan has been useful with bat and ball especially with the latter in t20s where he has 17 wickets at 20 and an economy under 8 (sadly Somerset put paid to that takijg him for 82 though!). And Dal has been both a reliable contributor with bat ( 2 tons and 2 50s) and also stepped up as first change bowler this season. Big second ton of the season against Sussex.

[Lynx54321]

Freddie Heldreich's first class bowling is very overrated. He's taking 60-80 wickets every season. He should really be a white ball specialist.

Aldridge, Rew, Baker and Leonard seem rubbish and remain rubbish in every save, is their ability being generated randomly or set like this?

Ryan Patel should be opening in first class for Surrey ahead of Cam Steel.

Jamie Overton seems underrated, not getting a game in any format for Surrey in game.

Michael Jones at Durham doesn't get a game but has played every game this season and done well.

[Woof7747]

Just a few for Australia as well. Should note that I massively appreciate that fans can give direct feedback on these matters and that it’s actually listened to.

Todd Murphy: Set for a massive domestic career for Victoria over the next couple decades. A few years in and he’s never even played another FC match, despite IRL being involved in Australia A. His main skill is accuracy fwiw.

Travis Head: Should have a strong Pace preference.

Sam Whiteman: Should probably be an occasional keeper or just a batsman – hasn’t kept for quite a long time due to injuries.

Jimmy Peirson: Barely plays FC Cricket aftet the game start. IRL he’s had a few very good seasons for QLD/Aus A batting-wise and is a very good keeper.

Teague Wyllie: Australia’s strongest prospect under 20. Probably shouldn’t be V.Def, his slowish sr in the u19 World Cup was largely resultant of chasing low totals and a toughish pitch against Pakistan. He’s a great strokemaker.

Marcus Harris: Should have an off-side preference

Pete Handscomb: Should probably have a spin preference

Aaron Hardie: Probably needs a slight batting boost.

Tim Ward: Slight batting boost

Lawrence Neil-Smith: Probably a bowling allrounder.

Alex Carey: Should be a OD number 5 probably, that’s where he always bats for Aus. Doesn’t get selected in the ODI team ever, Matthew Wade plays ahead of him in-game

Joel Paris: Never even plays domestic Cricket, even though IRL he’s consistently very good for WA.

Chris Tremain: Has a pretty terrible record since the start of the game, despite being a top domestic bowler.

Mark Steketee: Slightly overrated by the game

Nathan Ellis: Putting out ridiculous FC numbers when he’s fairly average at best

Mitch Marsh: Plays every Test for Australia from basically the start of the game, which I find very unlikely.

Cameron Green: Should probably be a one-day number 4, where he bats for WA. Wouldn't call him a spin specialist either.

Tim David: Has very good domestic stats in every format but doesn’t receive a call up for some reason, despite being expected to play for Aus come the world cup. Also probably needs a bowling boost because he never gets bowled by the AI.

Josh Phillippe: Almost immediately becomes Australia’s Test keeper. Would say he’s 5^th in line IRL at absolute best behind Carey, Inglis, Peirson and Wade.

Renshaw: Playing top/middle order in White ball cricket, rather than opening. Has done so in FC cricket for quite a while but seems to have returned to opening for Somerset and Aus A IRL.

Adam Zampa: Playing very well in FC Cricket in game, which I find quite unlikely. The AI suggests him for the squad for the tour of Sri Lanka which is quite odd. Also seems to not get selected for ODIs.

Wes Agar: Has been pretty dismal IRL over the last couple seasons, immediately good in-game.

Jason Behrendorff: Dreadful in-game.

Lloyd Pope: Has somehow kept his Sheffield Shield economy below 3 in the 2^nd season in-game. This is impossible.

Cooper Connolly: Despite his u19 WC performances, he’s really a batsman who can bowl a bit. Needs a batting boost and a bowling decrease.

Jayden Goodwin: Don’t think he bowls IRL, needs a slight batting boost. Considered a very very good prospect.

Bryce Street and Tim Ward are immediately superceded by random players even though they’re quite integral to their state teams atm.

Marnus Labuschagne: Somehow a much better One Day player than Test player. Consistently averaging under 40 in Test seasons, over 40 in ODIs. Also never bowls.

Glenn Maxwell: Never selected in the ODI team

Mitch Marsh: Seems to be bowling 7-10 overs in every ODI he plays

Pat Cummins: Consistent with other editions of CC, his stats seem to blowout almost immediately. His ODI stats in-particular become abysmal this year.

Campbell Kellaway's name is misspelled

[mocja548]

Dean Foxcroft is now contracted by Otago

[Tibbsrock]

Tom Kohler Cadmore as a part time wicket keeper, keeps a fair bit for Yorkshire in T20

[muzzy]

Can Sunil Narine’s batting be improved please?

[Ahson8]

Haris Rauf needs improvement, he's not even being selected in the limited overs XI by the AI, although irl, he's easily Pakistan's best limited overs pacer after Afridi.

Also, made a separate thread on this, but Pakistan itinerary is lacking WI and Netherlands ODI series, both of which are part of the Super League. Ive only played the demo, but we are also scheduled to play Afghanistan in an ODI series, idk if that's been included in the game

[Lynx54321]

Adam Hose a but underrated in t20.

Alex Horton missing from Glamorgan.
Added in 22.05 update.

[Lynx54321]

I could counter that by saying he only scored at 68 in a weak OD comp last summer. Tricky one, I'm going to leave as is for now.

36 off 25 at 144 tonight... he hits a long ball!

He's currently got 5 LA matches at 66 and 6 t20s at 158. Average feels about fair I think. I watched the innings against Essex and was very impressed if I'm honest. Powerful batter, suspect he's been working on his white ball batting over the winter.

[Lynx54321]

I think uncontracted Grant Hankins and Liam Banks seem a bit overrated.

Josh Cobb's t20 bowling definitely underrated and maybe his batting too. Fair call, have improved.

I hear you on Ali Orr, it's early doors - perhaps move him to average aggression in white ball as a compromise for now? He's certainly been blasting it in both those 5 games and a few 2nd XI games this season where he's going at 200+. I could counter that by saying he only scored at 68 in a weak OD comp last summer. Tricky one, I'm going to leave as is for now.

Similarily Ollie and Tom Price could both move to average in white ball. Tom Price could be improved, been an effective new ball bowler this season.

Also hear you on Patel, though I do think he's better than Kimber and should be similar to Welch and Steel with the latter two better t20 batters.

I feel Ian Cockbain and Miles Hammond should be aggressive in white ball.

Anuj Dal (red ball) underrated with bat and ball his ability is fair

Mattie McKiernan (white ball) underrated with ball.

Godleman is currently opening in t20s instead of Reece. He should be very def in white ball also.

Will Naish should be middle order bat rather than opener. He is middle order.

Ben Wells should be very aggressive in white ball and average in red ball.

Ryan Patel aggressive in first class.

Tom Clark average in both formats.

Ben Compton very defensive in both formats.

Sam Northeast t20 opener.

Eddie Byrom very aggressive in white ball.

Brook Guest average in red ball, aggressive in white ball.

Tom Wood def in red ball, aggressive in white ball.

James Rew average in red ball, aggressive in white ball.

Tom Lammonby def in red ball, very aggressive in white ball.

Ben Charlesworth def in white ball.

Ben Mike average in red ball.

Matthew Revis 8 rather than 3 in first class. Def in red ball, average in white ball.

Brydon Carse aggressive in white ball.

Michael Jones def in red ball, aggressive in white ball.

Max Holden and Joe Cracknell slightly underrated with bat. Their ability is fair.

[Hampshire]

I don't think Hampshire's Toby Albert has ever been a wicketkeeper? If an extra keeper is needed in the squad then Aneurin Donald has quite regularly been sharing the gloves with Charlie Mumford in the 2nd XI this season and could potentially be made to be a keeper-batsman?

Removed Albert's keeper status