Fantasy league round up - Part II

The analysis of the figures provided by your result cards and the OCC continues apace. The first article in this series dealt with some statistics which do not garner points towards the overall fantasy league table, as well as the overall table which is currently headed by Jono Cook.

This series of articles will attempt to include as many players out there as possible. You may have to trawl through a lot of tables, but it is hoped that a large number of players will have been included by the time you get to the end of the end.

Today, this column will provide some more category leaders, mainly those which do count as fantasy points. Just as a reminder, here are the relevant points earning categories:

Each game played – 10 points.

Runs – 1 point each run

Wickets for bowlers – 20 points each wicket

Catches – 10 points per catch

Stumpings – 15 points per stumping

There are also bonus points available as follows:

Each score by a batsman between 50 and 99 – 10 point bonus in addition to points scored per run.

Each score greater than 100 – 20 point bonus in addition to the points earned per run

Each five wicket haul in an inning – 10 points bonus in addition to the points earned per wicket (i.e. a five wicket hauls is worth, in total, (5x20) + (bonus 10) = 110 points).

Each ten wicket haul in an innings – bonus of a lifetime’s satisfaction that you’ve achieved a very rare fact and will be smiling about it for many years to come, plus 20 fantasy point bonus (i.e. 10 wickets is worth (10x20) + 20 = 220 points).

Now onto each of these point scoring categories and the leaders in each. First up would normally be games played but that was covered in the previous column, so we progress with runs scored. Runs scored is a major category and one that many would like to lead.

Here is everyone who has scored more than 400 runs, which must be considered a successful season for anyone. Only one player has topped 1,000 runs this season, Nathan Johns [YMCA], although two others passed 900 runs and 124 players passed 400. This list of 124 batsmen represents the top 6% of all players and of the 2,147 to have appeared in a game, 2,093 had the chance at least once to score runs.

The top 10 is made up of just 4 clubs with Merrion and Clontarf providing three apiece, with YMCA and Phoenix splitting the other four places.

Runs Scored

• 1016 Nathan Johns [YMCA]
• 966 R Smith [Merrion]
• 953 R Tariq [Clontarf]
• 827 Andrew Poynter [Clontarf]
• 825 V Dhiman [Merrion]
• 821 S Anderson [Phoenix]
• 803 S Mehdi Shah [Phoenix]
• 796 Tom Fisher [YMCA]
• 789 A D'Arcy [Clontarf]
• 780 A Parkinson [Merrion]
• 775 Simranjit Singh [YMCA]
• 745 D Rhoda [Merrion]
• 742 Brian Parchment [NCCC]
• 735 H Archer [THCC]
• 729 B Speake [Terenure]
• 721 Lorcan Tucker [Pembroke]
• 702 S Kant Trikha [Carlow]
• 698 Nic Pretorius [THCC]
• 697
  1. Eoin Lenehan [Greystones]
  2. Fintan McAllister [Malahide]
• 680 Robert Forrest [Clontarf]
• 678 A Malhan [NKCC]
• 653 Niall McGovern [NCCC]
• 646 Richard Wing [Malahide]
• 638 B Singh Bhatha [Merrion]
• 634
  1. M Collier [Clontarf]
  2. Paul Ryan [NKCC]
• 630 H Manks [Malahide]
• 626 N Shahzad [Phoenix]
• 618
  1. G Stewart [Malahide]
  2. David Carthy [Rush]
• 617 Jono Cook [Pembroke]
• 615 Declan Moore [RCCC]
• 614 R Butt [Carlow]
• 600 M Lewis [Merrion]
• 596 H Ramasetty [Merrion]
• 593 Sam Murphy [YMCA]
• 592 J Tector [YMCA]
• 591 S Katta [Laois]
• 587 A Van der Merwe [YMCA]
• 581 Stephan Grobler [CCCC]
• 571
  1. E Delany [Clontarf]
  2. Kenny Carroll [R&SPU]
• 570 Lynal Jansen [Rush]
• 568 A Blair-White [YMCA]
• 565 Sean Rooney [NCCC]
• 562 J Fitzsimons [Greystones]
• 558
  1. J Carroll [Leinster CC]
  2. Theo Lawson [Pembroke]
• 554 S Boddu [Dundrum]
• 547 S Mehdi [Balbriggan]
• 541 Q Chohan [Sandyford]
• 539 Achmet Carr [Pembroke]
• 535 A Raffique [Phoenix]
• 533 S Iqbal [Rush]
• 532
  1. Munir Khan [CSCC]
  2. Tomas Rooney Murphy [THCC]
• 528 C Oosthuizen [Leinster CC]
• 525 F Page [Malahide]
• 519 A Taylor [Phoenix]
• 518 V Jacob [Leinster CC]
• 516 Neil Rock [Rush]
• 515 M Farooq [R&SPU]
• 513 N Thambi [Dundrum]
• 508 Masud Ahmed [Phoenix]
• 503
  1. B Fernandes [ACC]
  2. P Bhardwaj [Dundrum]
• 498 A Mathews [Dundrum]
• 496 Adam Chester [Phoenix]
• 490 T Halliday [Leinster CC]
• 489 M Farrukh [Balbriggan]
• 486 K Khan [R&SPU]
• 485 Gordon Clarke [Pembroke]
• 483 M Donegan [THCC]
• 480 D Brogan [Rush]
• 478 E Craik [Knockharley]
• 472 I Rafique [Leinster CC]
• 471 N Rooney [NCCC]
• 469 T Anders [Phoenix]
• 467 Max Sorensen [THCC]
• 464 M Condell [Mullingar]
• 463 L Maimba [Mullingar]
• 460
  1. T Hassan [Balbriggan]
  2. W Kindley [Malahide]
  3. G Patwal [Wicklow County]
• 457 Peter Auret [SBCC]
• 455 Ryan Hopkins [Pembroke]
• 450 Manjeet Singh [NKCC]
• 447
  1. Rozeen Ahmad [ACC]
  2. M Syfuzzaman Khan [CSCC]
• 445
  1. P Siddireddy & L Bester [both Merrion]
• 444 S Dalton [NKCC]
• 439 J Moffatt [Greystones]
• 438 S Kochappu [Dundrum]
• 436 S Reddy Yelmati [Merrion]
• 435 Z Mohyuddin [NCCC]
• 433
  1. Andrew Delany & Bill Coghlan [both Clontarf]
  2. H Mac Donnell [Leinster CC]
  3. E Sheehan [Rush]
• 431 Graham McDonnell [Pembroke]
• 429
  1. S Sarfraz [Longford]
  2. Terry Richardson [NCCC]
  3. Jeremy Dunleavy [Pembroke]
• 427 Richard Forrest [Leinster CC]
• 426 J Blakeney [Merrion]
• 425
  1. Craig Senior [Pembroke]
  2. Sid Nair [Terenure]
• 423
  1. Danny Hogan [Pembroke]
  2. Umar Siraj [R&SPU]
• 421 M Nurulain Boda [Castleknock]
• 419 Harry Tector [YMCA]
• 416 T Bruton [Ashbourne]
• 415 R Clinton [THCC]
• 414
  1. M Murphy [NCCC]
  2. R Neavyn [NKCC]
• 413 A Abdullah [Cabinteely]
• 407 Conor Prendergast [Pembroke]
• 406 A Hashmi [Lucan]
• 405
  1. Haseeb Khan [ACC]
  2. D Coad [Leinster CC]
  3. F Mehta [NCCC]

Next up are the bowlers with their wickets. Only two bowlers breached the 50 wickets mark and both play for Merrion. A Varna, with 56 victims, is the top dog, but was pushed all the way by N Sharma who was just 4 wickets behind.

The top 100 wicket takers all managed to snare at least 25 victims and they are:

Wickets taken

• 56 A Varma [Merrion]
• 52 N Sharma [Merrion]
• 45 Jono Cook [Pembroke]
• 43
  1. Eddie Richardson [NCCC]
  2. M Granger [Clontarf]
• 42 R Kear [Balbriggan]
• 41 Paul Lawson [Pembroke]
• 40
  1. A Kavanagh [THCC]
  2. S Daniel [Dundrum]
• 39
  1. M Nurulain Boda [Castleknock]
  2. Joe Prendergast [Pembroke]
• 38 D Rhoda [Merrion]
• 37
  1. M Collier [Clontarf]
  2. Bash Vulker [Pembroke]
• 36 J Carroll [Leinster CC]
• 35
  1. Munir Khan [CSCC]
  2. James Smith [Terenure]
• 34
  1. Daniel Coffey [Rush]
  2. N Rajwar [DUCC]
  3. Max Sorensen [THCC]
• 33
  1. D Singh [R&SPU]
  2. Susheel Kumar [R&SPU]
  3. A Cusack [Clontarf]
• 32
  1. Manpreet Singh [Greystones]
  2. S Dutt [Clontarf]
  3. Y Ali [YMCA]
  4. Conor Gibbons [Malahide]
• 31
  1. Brian Parchment [NCCC]
  2. J Anderson [Merrion]
  3. T Koen [Wicklow County]
  4. Jinto Mathew [Dundrum]
  5. Sinto John [Greystones]
  6. Jerson Santhosh [Swords]
  7. Harry Balbirnie [Pembroke]
• 30
  1. Conor O'Gorman [Leinster CC]
  2. V Krishna [Merrion]
  3. A Malhan [NKCC]
  4. Simranjit Singh [YMCA] & S Streek & Padraic Flanagan [both YMCA]
  5. H Askew [Malahide]
  6. T Mount [Mullingar]
  7. G Morris [Phoenix]
  8. J Morrissey [Clontarf]
  9. D Carolus [THCC]
• 29
  1. Harry Tector [YMCA]
  2. A Mathews [Dundrum]
  3. Manjeet Singh [NKCC]
  4. H Walser [THCC]
  5. Adam Ellison [Rush]
  6. Craig Senior [Pembroke]
  7. M Jacob [Swords]
  8. D Vickers [Clontarf]
  9. Z Shauket [Laois]
  10. N Case [Halverstown]
  11. A Abbasi [NCCC]
• 28
  1. Gurmeet Singh [Sandyford]
  2. T Anders [Phoenix]
  3. B Thambi [Dundrum]
  4. SJP Moreton [Clontarf]
  5. Bill Whaley & Richard “Wiz” Hastie [both Pembroke]
  6. K Neela [Merrion]
  7. A Abdullah [Cabinteely]
  8. Nicholas Donnelly [Rush]
  9. J Cramp [Leinster CC]
  10. N Yadav [R&SPU]
• 27
  1. Tahir Rasheed [Knockharley]
  2. E Grehan [R&SPU]
  3. P Rout [Terenure]
  4. M Kumar [THCC]
  5. S Ullah [AIB]
  6. M Gopal [Clontarf]
  7. A Smit [Laois]
• 26
  1. L Prior [Clontarf]
  2. JJ Garth & David Murphy [both Pembroke]
  3. A Davies [Malahide]
  4. A Kumar [Sandyford]
  5. E Ali [Clontarf]
  6. A Verma [ACC]
  7. D Iqbal [AIB]
  8. Wille Clarke [Phoenix]
• 25
  1. W Kindley & Steve Smith [both Malahide]
  2. Z Mohyuddin [NCCC]
  3. Jeremy Dunleavy & Justin Doherty [both Pembroke]
  4. A McGuire & Lynal Jansen [Rush]
  5. Z Rasheed & Sohail Qaisar [both Knockharley]
  6. V Iqbal [Sandyford]
  7. R Nair [Dundrum]
  8. V Jain [Cabinteely]
  9. W O'Neill [Mullingar]
  10. A Joseph & M Younas [both Phoenix]
  11. Anthony Mooney [NCCC]
  12. K Phillips [THCC]

Catches is a category in which wicket-keepers have a huge advantage. Those great big gloves and the full protection armour, the lightening reflexes and the assistance of bowlers and even in some cases, batsmen. However Terenure’s Diarmaid Lynch is the top catcher who has not also got stumpings this season. He has taken 15 wickets bowling, so he is either a very safe pair of hands in the outfield or perhaps his keeping does not run to stumpings.

111 players have taken at least 10 catches and not every one can be a wicket-keeper, can they?

Catches taken

• 35 Robert Forrest [Clontarf]
• 30 Sam Murphy [YMCA]
• 27
  1. J Grassi [NCCC]
  2. Mick Cotter [Terenure]
• 25 Neil Rock [Rush]
• 24
  1. S Katta [Laois]
  2. Richard Forrest [Leinster CC]
• 23 R Smith [Merrion]
• 22 Diarmuid Lynch [Terenure]
• 20
  1. P Bhardwaj [Dundrum]
  2. Nic Pretorius [THCC]
• 19 Lorcan Tucker [Pembroke]
• 18
  1. M Lewis [Merrion]
  2. A Taylor [Phoenix]
  3. M Donegan [THCC]
• 17 S Kurian [Dundrum]
• 16
  1. M Collier & B McDermott [both Clontarf]
  2. N Thambi [Dundrum]
  3. S Sarfraz [Longford]
  4. F Mehta [NCCC]
• 15
  1. H Habib [ACC]
  2. M Farrukh [Balbriggan]
  3. Charlie Kavanagh [Pembroke]
  4. R Iype [Swords]
• 14
  1. Z Uddin [Bagenalstown]
  2. D Casey [NCCC]
  3. M McDonough [Phoenix]
  4. P Byrne & K Khan [both R&SPU]
  5. David Carthy [Rush]
  6. I Byrne [THCC]
  7. R Maltby [YMCA]
• 13
  1. T Bruton [Ashbourne]
  2. Ross Shivmangal [Knockharley]
  3. H Ramasetty [Merrion]
  4. M Condell [Mullingar]
  5. I Arshad [NCCC]
  6. Sunil Thomas [Swords]
  7. A Kavanagh [THCC]
  8. A Van der Merwe [YMCA]
• 12
  1. A Tantas [Balbriggan]
  2. Munir Khan [CSCC]
  3. F Page & Alan Reynolds [both Malahide]
  4. S Nandakumar & A Varma & L Bester & A Parkinson [all Merrion]
  5. Sean Rooney [NCCC]
  6. G O'Brien [R&SPU]
  7. E Sheehan [Rush]
  8. D Rice [Wicklow County]
• 11
  1. K Narang [Castleknock]
  2. L Prior & E Delany & A D'Arcy [all Clontarf]
  3. H Beaumont [Halverstown]
  4. N Griffin & M Pandya & Mohammad Shahzad [all Leinster CC]
  5. D Ashley [Mullingar]
  6. M Sludds [NCCC]
  7. Amardeep Singh & Loui Hofmeyr & I ul Haq [all NKCC]
  8. Danny Hogan & Robin Kelly & Jono Cook & Craig Senior & Jack Balbirnie [all Pembroke]
  9. Adam Chester [Phoenix]
  10. Kenny Carroll [R&SPU]
  11. A McGuire [Rush]
  12. S Kumar Indraganti [Sandyford]
  13. Mick Schnackenberg [SBCC]
  14. G Lynch & B Speake [both Terenure]
  15. C Cunneen & W Archer [both THCC]
  16. T Koen & N Clifton [both Wicklow County]
• 10
  1. Rajan Singh [ACC]
  2. E Ahmed [Balbriggan]
  3. T Manzoor Khan [Cabinteely]
  4. A Gilbride & Andrew Poynter [both Clontarf]
  5. Dave Nugent [CSCC]
  6. Tahir Rasheed [Knockharley]
  7. N Anwar [Laois]
  8. T Ritchie & T Dunne [both Leinster CC]
  9. W Kindley [Malahide]
  10. V Krishna & C Allwright [both Merrion]
  11. F Hand & Safdar Ali [both NCCC]
  12. Paul Ryan & M O'Meara [both NKCC]
  13. A Zibran Shovon & G Clarke & T Lawson [all Pembroke]
  14. I Anders & S Mehdi Shah [both Phoenix]
  15. Jitendra Singh [R&SPU]
  16. A Butterly [Rush]
  17. Darren O'Brien [Sandyford]
  18. B Kuruvilla [Swords]
  19. T Mullen [Terenure]
  20. C McLoughlin-Gavin [THCC]
  21. Simranjit Singh [YMCA]

That’s the main point scoring categories covered and in the next column we shall cover stumpings, and the other categories, that is 50’s and centuries, and five wicket hauls. There have not been a ten wicket haul for some years that I have heard of. Perhaps someone would see when it was last accomplished.