Monde Zondeki's persistent back problems have unfortunately got the better of him as he announced his retirement from all cricket today. Hope all the info on retirements, transfers etc is useful for you?
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Proteas of the future. ICC 2013 should aim greater accuracy.
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Absolutely, Graham. Today will be spent mostly on SA,
Remember, we'll only implement retirements for players who haven't played since 1st April 2013, though that's unlikely to apply in most cases.
Is Keagan Eccles still playing? No game for 20 months.Last edited by Sureshot; 05-30-2013, 03:57 PM.
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Originally posted by Sureshot View PostIs Keagan Eccles still playing? No game for 20 months.
To be fair to Keagan he did get one game for the Dolphins 2 years ago, but looking at the team sheet there must have been many injuries.
There are lots of amateurs like Keagan (on pay as you play provincial contracts) who have decent stats at that level but make it no further... Perhaps this is why various pundits are arguing for a 7th or even an 8th franchise?
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I think that there is a case to classify Duminy as an allrounder. He is a better bowler than du Plessis who is classified as one for a start.
Duminy is more than handy bowling in T20s and 50 over games - even at international level. He has a great ecnomy rate and in 4/5 day matches he can tie down and end for a while and even pick up the odd wicket. Players like Suppiah are listed as all-rounders but I think I would rather have Duminy bowling for me. What do you all think?
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There are clearly a number of South Africans who love their cricket and love this game. Can I suggest to Sureshot that we put together a small volunteer research team to work on the SA players and teams. I can volunteer a few hours for research (at night once the wife and kids are asleep!). It would be really awesome if we could see the South African franchises coming into the next version as a first prize, but I'm sure we'd all settle for greater accuracy in the current crop of cricket professionals in the country.
Generally though, the same issue we face with player abilities being reflected incorrectly because of their first class and list A averages comes up with Sri Lankan and Bangladeshi players regularly in the game. Is there a way that the game engine can assign strengths to the leagues that players perform in? This would obviously require more in-depth statistics analysis and recording in the game (for example, when drilling down into a players stats you could see for which team they performed in). An example using Heino Kuhn's List A record for batting and fielding. http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Pl...g_by_Team.html. In this example we clearly know that the toughest team to perform in will be the Titans which play franchise cricket. Even South Africa A records can be inflated because of the number of games against weak touring teams.
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Originally posted by Graham_5000 View PostI think that there is a case to classify Duminy as an allrounder. He is a better bowler than du Plessis who is classified as one for a start.
Duminy is more than handy bowling in T20s and 50 over games - even at international level. He has a great ecnomy rate and in 4/5 day matches he can tie down and end for a while and even pick up the odd wicket. Players like Suppiah are listed as all-rounders but I think I would rather have Duminy bowling for me. What do you all think?
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Originally posted by Graham_5000 View PostHe got a semi-pro contract with KZN province and tore his quad muscle a couple of years back - haven't heard of him since. Personally I would omit all players who haven't played for a franchise, unless they are one of the top amateurs.
To be fair to Keagan he did get one game for the Dolphins 2 years ago, but looking at the team sheet there must have been many injuries.
There are lots of amateurs like Keagan (on pay as you play provincial contracts) who have decent stats at that level but make it no further... Perhaps this is why various pundits are arguing for a 7th or even an 8th franchise?
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Originally posted by badgercd View PostAgree. I think Faf is lucky to be considered an allrounder. He is a batter who can occasionally turn the arm over. Duminy, on the other hand, is asked to do a job with the ball in nearly every game he plays.
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