No, you cannot change your team just because the start of this Test match has been delayed by rain and a wet outfield. There are better things to do with your time when such natural disasters strike and lay waste to your carefully planned day. Like watching more cricket.
Yes, you have time on your hands. Yes, a day's play lost to rain is a massive hole in what otherwise seemed like a mighty promising day ahead. And yes there are always other games of cricket being shown on at least two or three other channels on the television. After all, in India the cricket never stops.
So please, for the sake of your wellness, happiness quotient and future of your fantasy team, don't make any hasty changes, no matter what you do - from now till the end of this Test match - it'll will not make any difference to the fortunes of your team.
Regular readers of this blog will have by now realised I am dishing out these pearls of wisdom on fantasy team management only after having learnt them the hard way during the ongoing 'Eng v South Africa' fantasy edition of the series; in which I made a horrible mess of a 'settled' and winning combination.
Then it's decided, when in doubt, when you have free time on your hands, when you're having a harebrained thought, don't make any team changes. Just change the channel.
I did say this elsewhere but thanks for the blog.
I've only started playing fantasy cricket recently but it certainly makes each series more interesting, especially those not involving your home side (in my case, England).
I've had some good series (WI vs Aus) and some bad ones (Asia Cup!). But I'm off to a reasonable start in Sri Lanka vs India which is more than can be said for the Indian team - another 200 odd to avoid the follow on. Oh dear.
I have Harbhajan Singh in my side though, so hopefully he can knock the runs off.......
Keep up the good work.
Oh and one suggestion - can it be clearly stated somewhere exactly how many players in each fanatsy competition?
Would give us a better idea on how well (or how bad!) we are doing in each comp.
Thanks!
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