Cricket Leinster

Fantasy updated (and formatted) 6 June

First up, my apologies for the posting and removal of this article yesterday. More haste, less speed. I hope that it appears in a more reader-friendly manner today.

The weekend brought, finally, some weather that suits the game we have chosen to play and follow. Added to that the extra day on Monday, some souls had the chance to play three games in three days. It seemed like a good idea at selection, but by the time Monday came around there were some sore bodies and sore heads, but for the fortunate few there were runs, wickets, catches and fantasy points to amass.

You can discover your own breakdown of your points or your Club’s point scorers by contacting the author at craig@cricket.ie or by twitter @craigpcc.

Last week’s leader Jeremy Dunleavy [Pembroke] remains top of the 1,717 names on our list, having played in every game open to him over the weekend. His 138 points this week enabled him to keep A. Yadav [Adamstown] at bay by just 25 points.

A. Yadav’s return to the playing fields yielded an impressive 182 points and saw him climb three places from 5^th to 2^nd. Whilst P. Collins’ [R&SPU] Man-of-the-Match performance and 135 points on Monday versus Pembroke in a Division One clash sees him take third.

As the growth of cricket in Ireland continues apace we had a further 113 players make their first appearance including the nine of Allied Irish Banks C.C... Staff cutbacks must have taken their toll, even on the cricket team.

Over 254,000 points have been scored this season, fifty seven thousand of those in the past week. 334 players (out of 1,717) have played just once and it is hoped that they will once more grace the playing fields of Leinster.

The total of 1,717 players is, enough to fill 156 teams, with one left over to cover the 12^th man duties for all 78 matches. Whoever that person is would be very busy, plus we would have to find 78 pitches to play on, 156 umpires, 78 scorers and most importantly, someone to butter 284 sliced pans and bake 215 cakes.

Without further ado there follow a number of statistical tables. They do not measure actual talent or ability, nor do they pretend to provide guidance to future starring lists, or possible selection to representative teams. Players can not be measured across the leagues. There are players who play more games, gain more places over players who may have great figures, but over fewer games. P. O’Boyle [Adamstown] slipped a further 76 places this week, having not played, even though he has a batting average of 41.40. Z. Sandhu [Slieve Bloom] has a points per game average (only topped by P. Collins with 152.8) of 147 but as he has played but one game he resides in 676^th place on our table. Ronan Kane [Dublin University] had the best weekend with 274 points which saw him jump 482 places, whilst his colleague, S. Banjeree [Dublin University] jumped 968 places.

There is a reason it is called a fantasy table. So do not take it too seriously, apply a pinch of salt and continue to enjoy partaking of this wonderful game. Games where you get tea, drinks and stop at the slightest drop of rain. As the Urban Dictionary would have it, “cricket is a game of skill and gentlemanly conduct where everyone hates the Australians equally”.

The top ten (and ties) in the various categories after the weekend are as follows. The numbers after a name represents their position on the overall table – except on the overall table.

Overall Fantasy Points top ten (top 500 are at the end of this article)
Position	Name	Club	Points
1.	Jeremy Dunleavy	Pembroke	832
2.	A. Yadav	Adamstown	807
3.	P. Collins	R&SPU	764
4.	S. Rice	Greystones	749
5.	R. Gallagher	Malahide	745
6.	V. Patel	Merrion	725
7.	Diarmaid Tucker	Pembroke	719
8.	M. Jacob	Swords	696
9.	C. McLoughlin	The Hills	680
10.	J. Tasman-Jones	Dublin University	663

Points per game
Position	Name	Club	Points per game
1.	P. Collins [3]	R&SPU	152.80
2.	Z. Sandhu [676]	Slieve Bloom	147.00
3.	W. O’Neill [294]	Mullingar	132.50
4.	Danny Barclay [103]	Pembroke	131.00
5.	R. Gallagher [5]	Malahide	124.20
6.	Achmet Carr [126]	Pembroke	122.30
7.	H. Cashell [811]	Balbriggan	121.00
8.	E. Lenehan [45]	Greystones	118.50
9.	J. Schwager [376]	North Kildare	114.00
10.	A. Khan [865]	Laois	110.00

Appearances
Position	Name	Club	games
1.	Diarmaid Tucker [7] M. Jacob [8] H. Tanveer [11] R. Nair [12] U. Raees [23] J. Grassi [95] A. Khaliq [101] J. Kerrison [121] B. Smyth [261]	Pembroke Swords Civil Service Dundrum Laois North County R&SPU Leinster North County	12
2.	Ten players		11

Runs
Position	Name	Club	Runs
1.	C. McLoughlin [9]	The Hills	470
2.	H. Tanveer [11]	Civil Service	435
3.	Richard Forrest [16]	Dublin University	396
4.	Jeremy Dunleavy [1]	Pembroke	382
5.	A. Yadav [2]	Adamstown	377
6.	P. Collins [3]	R&SPU	364
7.	P. Byrne [19]	R&SPU	358
8.	J. Tasman-Jones	Dublin University	353
9.	T. Rasheed [21]	Knockharley	347
10.	MS Tariq [84]	Castleknock	309

Batting average
Position	Name	Club	Ave
1.	K. Merchant [113]	YMCA	132.00
2.	J. Fitzsimons [494]	Greystones	131.00
3.	M. Collier [292]	Clontarf	126.00
4.	P. Collins [3]	R&SPU	121.33
5.	C. McLoughlin [9]	The Hills	117.50
6.	Danny Barclay [103]	Pembroke	106.50
7.	R. Kane [87]	Dublin University	98.67
8.	Matt Sorenson [210]	The Hills	96.00
9.	John Mooney [143]	North County	95.50
10.	H. Cashell [811]	Balbriggan	91.00

Highest Scores
Position	Name	Club	Score
1.	Andre Botha [113]	Clontarf	170
2.	H. Pike [89]	Dublin University	168*
3.	T. Rasheed [21]	Knockharley	160
4.	Danny Barclay [103]	Pembroke	150*
5.	Richard Forrest [16]	Dublin University	148*
6.	C. McLoughlin [9]	The Hills	145*
7.	M. Bauer [13]	Cork County	142*
8.	J. Tasman-Jones [8]	Dublin University	140
9.	A. Butterly [223]	Rush	136*
10.	C. Riches [338]	Malahide	133

Centuries
Position	Name	Club	No. of 100’s
1.	P. Collins [3] C. McLoughlin [9] Richard Forrest [16]	R&SPU The Hills Dublin University	2
2.	45 players		1

Half Centuries
Position	Name	Club	No. of 50’s
1.	H. Tanveer [11]	Civil Service	4
2.	C. McLoughlin [9] P. Byrne [19] S. Doheny [33] J. Magee [44] Joji Mathew [77] E. Richardson [82] MS Tariq [84] S Iqbal [117] Sunil Thomas [187]	The Hills R&SPU Rush The Hills Dundrum North County Castleknock Rush Swords	3

Wickets
Position	Name	Club	wickets
1.	S. Rice [4]	Greystones	23
2.	Diarmaid Tucker [7]	Pembroke	22
3.	T. Stanton [20]	Merrion	20
4.	R. Nair [12]	Dundrum	19
5.	R. Govin [45]	Dublin University	18
6.	R. Gallagher [5] V. Patel [6] Z. Van Der Merwe [58]	Malahide Merrion Clontarf	17
7.	S. Kumar [47] Adam Ellison [51] R. Varghese [65]	R&SPU Rush Swords	16

Overs Bowled
Position	Name	Club
1.	R. Nair [12]	Dundrum	92.5
2.	Jeremy Dunleavy [1]	Pembroke	70.1
3.	M. Jacob [8]	Swords	68
4.	Jinto Mathew [15]	Dundrum	67
5.	D. Bertram [29]	North County	66
6.	S. Rice [4]	Greystones	64
7.	T. Stanton [20]	Merrion	63
8.	C. Burke [107]	Rush	62.4
9.	D. Trotsky [54]	Sandyford	62
10.	P. Flanagan [473]	YMCA	61

Bowling average
Position	Name	Club	Average / wickets
1.	N. Johnson [98] T. Ryan [1,261] T. Monahan [1,329]	Adamstown Civil Service Wexford Wanderers	0.00 / 1
4.	S. Munawar [1,090]	Slieve Bloom	1.33 / 3
5.	J. Gray [1,248]	Dublin University	1.50 / 2
6.	R. McGovern [975]	YMCA	2.00 / 1
7.	C. Linke [1,178]	Knockharley	2.50 / 2
8.	A. Davis [876]	Castleknock	2.67 / 3
9.	D. da Silva [1,194]	Slieve Bloom	3.00 /2
10.	M. Kavanagh [1,178] L. Smyth [1,248]	Merrion Clontarf	3.50 / 2

Five wickets in an innings
Position	Name	Club	Times
1.	S. Rice [4]	Greystones	2
2.	59 players		1

Catches
Position	Name	Club	Catches
1.	J. Kerrison [121]*	Leinster	12
2.	Robert Forrest [83] J. Grassi [95]*	Clontarf North County	10
4.	N. Ferreira [57]* A. Nazir [89]	The Hills Clontarf	8
6.	Craig Senior [31] D. Singh [60] M. Baumgart [324] C. Diviney [757]*	Pembroke R&SPU The Hills R&SPU	7
10.	12 players		6

* also has stumpings leading us to believe they are keepers….

Stumpings
Position	Name	Club	victims
1.	R. Watkins [164]	Merrion	4
2.	P. Byrne [19] J. Santosh [151] M. Cotter [162] J. Cassidy [614]	R&SPU Swords Titans YMCA	3
6.	12 players		2

And to finish up this weeks round up two things. One, next weeks listing is likely to be a simpler overall points and breakdown for the top 200, or however many it needs to be to include the author and / or P. O’Boyle [Adamstown] and two, here are a few less known statistics that can be gleaned from all that our scorers and captains enter in their result cards each week.

Most innings without scoring a run….. R. Weir [Malahide] = 4, keep going, it will come.
Highest percentage of not outs to innings… Anto Burke [Sandyford], R, Evans [The Hills], Barry Tucker [Pembroke] = 100%: 3 innings, 3 not out, way to look after that non-existent average boys…
Most matches without batting… R. Walsh and Adnan Khan [both Dublin University], 7 matches.
Longest name in Leinster cricket… G Purappanathaanam [Swords]
P. Unregistered has now played for Leinster (twice), Sandyford and Lucan and has 46 runs, 3 wickets, 1 catch and 166 points.

Top 500 Fantasy point scorers

rank	Name	Club	points
1	J Dunleavy	Pembroke	832
2	A Yadav	Adamstown	807
3	P Collins	R&SPU	764
4	S Rice	Greystones	749
5	R Gallagher	Malahide	745
6	V Patel	Merrion	725
7	D Tucker	Pembroke	719
8	M Jacob	Swords	696
9	C Mc Loughlin	The Hills	680
10	J Tasman-Jones	Dublin University	663
11	H Tanveer	Civil Service	660
12	R Nair	Dundrum	646
13	M Bauer	Cork	636
14	I Smillie	Clontarf	630
15	Jinto Mathew	Dundrum	617
16	A Mathew	Dundrum	606
16	Richard Forrest	Dublin University	606
18	A Basit	Rush	586
19	P Byrne	R&SPU	583
20	T Stanton	Merrion	581
21	T Rasheed	Knockharley	567
22	N Vorster	North Kildare	566
23	U Raees	Laois	550
24	M Rule	Leinster	545
24	MT Raza	R&SPU	545
26	T Lynch	Terenure Titans	535
27	D Foley	Clontarf	534
28	P Arkadi	Civil Service	531
29	D Bertram	North County	521
29	J Singh	Laois	521
31	C Senior	Pembroke	520
32	B Makwana	R&SPU	519
33	Imran Mohammad	North Kildare	515
33	L Jansen	Rush	515
33	N Shazad	Phoenix	515
33	S Doheny	Rush	515
37	N Rooney	Balbriggan	506
38	G Kirwan	Malahide	496
38	R Singh	Sandyford	496
40	A Farooqui	The Hills	490
40	M Godwin	Phoenix	490
42	S Mathew	Adamstown	487
43	G Mooney	Phoenix	481
44	J Magee	The Hills	479
45	E Lenehan	Greystones	474
45	R Gorvin	Dublin University	474
47	F Hand	North County	472
47	S Kumar	R&SPU	472
49	S McDonald	Merrion	469
50	R Meraj	Laois	468
51	A Ellison	Rush	462
51	J Murphy	Rush	462
51	N Kenny	Merrion	462
54	D Trotsky	Sandyford	461
55	N McGovern (Jnr)	North County	459
56	M Singh	North County	458
57	N Ferreira	The Hills	456
58	A Joseph	Phoenix	453
58	Z Van Der Merwe	Clontarf	453
60	A Coughlan	North County	452
60	D Singh	R&SPU	452
60	F Tucker	Pembroke	452
63	Gulab Singh	North Kildare	448
64	BA Thomas	Balbriggan	445
65	N Muhammad	R&SPU	443
65	R Varghese	Swords	443
67	D Carthy	Rush	441
68	E Feely	Mullingar	429
69	F Ul0haq	R&SPU	427
70	R Mehta	Civil Service	424
71	K Ali	North County	423
72	N Hotac	Leinster	422
73	D Van Zyl	Terenure Titans	421
74	J Anderson	Merrion	420
75	K O'Connor	Dublin University	417
76	D Javed	Longford	416
77	Joji Mathew	Dundrum	415
77	R Abbasi	Castleknock	415
77	V Dhiman	Merrion	415
80	F Connaty	Leinster	414
80	H Tector	YMCA	414
82	E Richardson	North County	413
83	Robert Forrest	Clontarf	410
84	MS Tariq	Castleknock	409
84	R O'Connor	Leinster	409
86	R Rahman	Terenure Titans	408
87	N Boyne	Malahide	406
87	R Kane	Dublin University	406
89	A Nazir	Clontarf	404
89	H Pike	Dublin University	404
89	S Sarfraz	Longford	404
92	C Mackey	North County	403
92	T Fisher	Terenure Titans	403
94	S Narayanan	Dundrum	402
95	J Anders	Phoenix	401
95	J Grassi	North County	401
95	T Arnold	The Hills	401
98	D Lappin	Leinster	398
98	N Johnson	Adamstown	398
98	N Noonan	YMCA	398
101	A Khaliq	R&SPU	396
102	R Murali	Merrion	394
103	D Barclay	Pembroke	393
103	R Stapleton	Bagnalstown	393
105	R Kear	Balbriggan	391
106	J Hammon	Greystones	389
107	C Burke	Rush	388
108	N Shoukat	The Hills	384
108	R Strydom	YMCA	384
110	D Monk	Laois	383
110	MA Anwar	Dublin University	383
110	T Wardrop	Halverstown	383
113	A Botha	Clontarf	382
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