Fantasy Table

This week is back-slapping week. There are a lot of congratulations to give out this week and so here is the Reader’s Digest version.

• YMCA – winners of the RSA Senior Cup for the tenth time,
• Slieve Bloom – winners, in their first league season, of the Junior Cup,
• Lionel Jansen [Rush] – first player to pass 1,000 runs this season,
• Simon Rice [Greystones] – first player to pass 50 wickets this season.
• Fiachra Tucker [Ireland U15 & Pembroke] – was named tournament MVP at European Championships.

Pat Collins [R&SPU] has retained his lead in the fantasy table, despite his side’s heavy defeat to Pembroke at the weekend. Just one more run would have seen Pat reach the 2,000 point mark for the season. Word has it on Park Avenue that Pat will be returning to Australia after this weekend’s T20 finals day in Sydney Parade. Will he have built a sufficient cushion to keep the top spot to the season’s end? The quality of players, and in some cases the sheer number of games played, would suggest he won’t remain at number one, but his has been a fabulous season whether or not he tops the table in September.

Now with most of the back-slapping done we move on with this week’s figures. Players overall ranking is also shown in each of the categories.

Overall points table

This is led, as mentioned, by Pat Collins on 1,999 points. The best of the rest are:

• 1,874 - Eddie Richardson [North County].
• 1,796 – Simmi Singh [YMCA].
• 1,777 – Simon Rice [Greystones].
• 1,723 – Lionel Jansen [Rush].
• 1,676 – P. Arkadi [Civil Service].
• 1,657 – Diarmaid Tucker [Pembroke].
• 1,613 – R. Gallagher [Malahide].
• 1,611 – Ian Smillie [Clontarf].
• 1,557 – Fiachra Tucker [Pembroke].

Leading Runs Scorers

Lionel Jansen [Rush] is the leading run scorer and the “Neil Armstrong of the 1,000 run” mark. Here are his total and those of his chasers.

• 1,013 – L. Jansen [Rush] 5^th
• 949 – Pat Collins [R&SPU] 1^st
• 854 – Eddie Richardson [North County] 2^nd
• 804 – K. Khan [R&SPU] 43^rd
• 801 – J. Singh [Laois] 14^th 

Leading Wicket Taker

Simon Rice [Greystones] 4^th leads with 53 wickets and shows no sign of stopping. The best of the rest are:

• 45 – Adam Ellison [Rush] 12^th  
• 43 – Fiachra Tucker [Pembroke] 10^th.
• 40 – Simmi Singh [YMCA] 3^rd, Diarmaid Tucker [Pembroke] 7^th
• 38 – P. Arkadi [Civil Service] 6^th, M. Singh [Greystones] 17^th, Z. Van Der Merwe [Clontarf] 25^th.
• 37 - Ian Smillie [Clontarf] 9^th, U. Raees [Laois] 13th, Conor Gibbons [Malahide] 105th. 

Leading dismissals (catches plus stumpings)

• 27 – Nic Pretorius [The Hills] (21+6) 40^th and Robert Forrest [Clontarf] (27+0) 46^th
• 26 – M. Cotter [Terenure Titans] (18+8) 65^th
• 23 – J. Cassidy [YMCA] (16+7) 585^th
• 22 – Tom Fisher [Terenure Titans] (19+3) 34^th, J. Kerrison [Leinster] (17+5) 158^th
• 21 – Lorcan Tucker [Pembroke] (15+6) 154^th. R. Forrest [Leinster] (17+4)72^nd 

Now we move onto the other categories and their leaders. 

• Most appearances: 33 - J. Kerrison [Leinster] 158^th
• Most Innings: 29 – H. Tanveer [Civil Service] 26^th
• Most Not Outs: 9 – K. Ali [North County] 137^th
• Highest Score: 170 – Andre Botha [Clontarf] 178^th
• Most Half Centuries: 7 – S. Iqbal [Rush] 20^th, K. Khan [R&SPU] 43^rd
• Most Centuries: 5 -Pat Collins [R&SPU] 1^st
• Highest Batting average: 117.00 - Robin Chalissery [Ring Commons] 1,145^th, B. Thambi [Castleknock] 1,145^th
• Most Overs bowled: 188 – Fiachra Tucker 10^th
• Best Bowling analysis: 7/11 – Adam Ellison [Rush] 12^th
• Most Five wicket hauls: 3 – B. Adams [Phoenix] 56^th, I. Mohammad [North Kildare] 31^st, Naveed Khan [Civil Service] 164^th, A. Farooqui [The Hills] 114^th
• Best Bowling average: 0.00 – P. Donoghue [Balbriggan] 1,658^th, C. Garry [North County] 294^th
• Most catches: 27 – Robert Forrest [Clontarf] 46^th
• Most Stumpings: 8 – M. Cotter [Terenure Titans] 65^th
• Highest ranking without taking a wicket: H. Tanveer [Civil Service] 26^th
• Highest ranking without scoring a run: S. Hickson [The Hills] 924^th
• Highest ranking without holding a catch: S. Reddy [Merrion] 96^th
• Highest run total without a half century or better: 337 – Fiachra Tucker [Pembroke] 10^th 

Finally, just for this week, the top two ranked players of each Club… 

• Adamstown: 28^th - A. Yadav 1,269pts: 90^th – S. Mathew 1,056pts
• Allied Irish Banks: 1,114^th – E. Bird 222pts: 1,160^th - S. Ullah 199pts
• Bagnalstown: 98^th – Ray Stapleton 1,016pts: 356^th - D. Purcell 641pts
• Balbriggan: 35^th – N. Rooney 1,225pts: 130^th – R. Kear 943pts
• Bell’s Academy: 1,370^th - G. Conway 130pts: 1,441^st – J. Conway 106pts
• Cabinteely: 206^th – J. George 825pts: 337^th – S. Kumar 661pts
• Castleknock: 19^th – R. Abbasi 1,374pts: 79^th - F. Khalid 1,073pts
• Civil Service: 6^th – P. Arkadi 1,676pts: 26^th – H. Tanveer 1,277pts
• Clontarf: 9^th – Ian Smillie 1,611pts: 18^th – M. Collier 1,400pts
• Cork County: 172^nd – M. Bauer 868pts: 301^st – A. Saddique 690pts
• Dundalk: 400^th – A. Shah 610pts: 408^th – W. Shahid 604pts
• Dundrum: 16^th – A. Mathew 1,432pts: 32^nd – S. Sudarsanan 1,252pts
• Dublin Fire Brigade: 1,676^th – Jimmy Brennan 56pts: 1,695^th – B. Weddick 53pts
• Dublin University: 250^th – R. Gorvin 752pts: 327^th – G. Davis 668pts
• Evening Herald (should this not be The Herald now?): 1,673^rd – J. Smyth 57pts: 1,866^th – N. Namal 30pts
• Greystones: 4^th – Simon Rice 1,777pts: 17^th – M. Singh 1,430pts
• Halverstown: 67^th – S. Gallagher 1,102 pts: 222^nd – T. Waldrop 799pts
• The Hills: 40^th – Nic Pretorius 1,205pts: 42^nd - Matt Sorenson 1,197pts
• Knockharley: 39^th – Tayyab Rashid 1,214pts: 233^rd – R. Hussain 791 pts
• Laois: 13^th – U. Raees 1,494pts: 14^th – J. Singh 1,491pts
• Leinster: 29^th – G. Delany 1,267pts: 71^st – Stephen JP Moreton 1,093pts
• Longford: 160^th – D. Javed 896pts: 218^th – S. Sarfraz 805pts
• Lucan: 200^th – A. Verma 833pts: 331^st – Dalijt Singh 666pts
• Malahide: 8^th – R. Gallagher 1,613pts: 105^th - Conor Gibbons 998pts
• Merrion: 58^th – John Anderson 1,128: 64^th – D. Watkins 1,104
• Mullingar: 92^nd – P. Mount 1,053pts: 175^th – E. Feely 862pts
• North County: 2^nd – Eddie Richardson 1,874pts:  27^th – D. Bertram 1,275pts
• North Kildare: 23^rd – N. Vorster 1,315pts: 31st – I. Mohammad 1,253pts
• Pembroke: 7^th – Diarmaid Tucker 1,657: 10^th – Fiachra Tucker 1,557pts
• Phoenix: 37^th – N. Shazad 1,219pts: 38^th – M. Godwin 1,216pts
• Ring Commons: 53^rd – Anto Coates 1,149pts: 175^th – K. Healy 862pts
• Railway Union: 1^st – Pat Collins 1,999pts: 11^th – N. Muhammad 1,534pts
• Rush: 5^th – Lionel Jansen 1,723pts: 12^th – Adam Ellison 1,503pts
• Sandyford: 41^st – P. Peethambaran 1,198pts: 109^th – D. Trotsky 991pts
• Slieve Bloom: 149^th (and Junior Cup winning Captain and MotM) Paul Auret 915pts: 321^st - R. Tandon 675pts
• Swords: 21^st – M. Jacob 1,369pts: 223^rd – S. Joseph 798pts
• Terenure Titans: 34^th – Tom Fisher 1,231pts: 44^th - Daniel Hogan 1,186pts
• Tyrellstown: 1,618^th – V. Ramachandran 66pts: 1,690^th – V. Sadivalla 54pts
• Walnut Taverners: 1,136^th – I. Cox 213pts: 1,513^th – A. Ryan 88pts
• Wexford Wanderers: 96^th – Steve Wood 1,022pts: 213^th – L. Fernando 815pts
• Wicklow County: 133^rd – K. Chaudhery 935pts: 217^th – J. Joyce 812pts
• YMCA: 3^rd – Simmi Singh 1,796pts: 33^rd - Albert Van der Merwe 1,241pts

Well that’s your lot for another week. You may still request, or re-request a copy of the figures and points table for yourself, your team, your Clubs and the entire 2,187 players in Leinster (including Cork) from craig@cricket.ie. Thank you to those people who have got in touch, including the three Dublin University members who did so last week.

And a last reminder - the RSA Alan Murray T20 Finals Day takes place this Sunday in Sydney Parade. The first semi-final between North County and R&SPU starts at 11am. There is no entrance fee for the day and the bar will be open and the BBQ sizzling. There will be plenty of room for parking and even picnicking around the ground. If you are not playing on Sunday, pop in at some stage and see the spectacle that is T20 cricket.