Spy Talk: Trade plans and tactics, Round 6/7

G’day Legends!

Before I get straight into things today, a quick update.

I dropped from 200^th – 950^th after a tough, tough round 3 but I’m now back into 650^th the round after and am hoping to finish tonight with a bang to keep soaring back up the leaderboard!

Today, I am going to follow a similar theme to previous articles where I run through my current side and thought process moving forward.

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This time we have two rounds where no one is on a bye or has a double. You beauty I say, as this should add variety!

Though prepare for a couple of low scores as this is far more likely given the circumstances and any big scores are of even more value.

Looking ahead briefly, after Rounds 6 and 7 there are two sides on the double (Sydney Sixers and Hobert Hurricanes) so it makes it easy as we will simply hold the Sixers we own on the current double round and then add our Hobart players either in the lead up or immediately prior to that round.

With that said I will assess below my approach to the next two rounds.

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Who I currently own

Keepers

Josh Philippe

Baxter Holt

Batsmen

Hayden Kerr

Shadab Khan

Josh Inglis

James Vince

Marcus Stoinis

Alex Hales

Josh Brown

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Bowlers

Jhye Richardson

Akeal Hosein

Tom Rogers

Dan Sams

Sean Abbott

Matt Short

Matt Kuhnemann

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From here it will be Tom Rogers out after his double, straight back to my man Henry Thornton who I hope will be under owned given his price and breakeven. He is a huge wicket taker and could be due for another bag!

I will then likely move Hosein to McDermott at bottom dollar in preparation for the ‘Canes double. Ideally this will get me ahead of the game if he can explode as a POD prior to mass trade ins. This will have to wait until the following round with McDermott not names in the ‘Canes squad, so hopefully he’s good to go for Round 7.

Trade three will then be pretty open but I am thinking maybe Inglis to Wade ahead of his double and then likely back to Inglis after this.

A little bit to play out as I have a little list of guys I am interested in and don’t necessarily need Wade until Round 8 and I may even go to Faf du Plessis as a short-term flyer with a great loop opportunity.

If my auto-emergency on the bench goes off early I won’t need Faf, so I can undo the trade for someone else. Options!!

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The Want List

Henry Thornton

Nathan Ellis – Value play!

AJ Tye

Faf du Plessis

Joe Clarke

Rilee Rossouw – Though he is leaving soon and therefore may be a miss.

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Additional tactics

I want to ensure I have a looping opportunity in each position so it may be that I downgrade Kuhnemann to a non-player.

I’ll assess this after the completion of the current round but in essence I am looking to get in the guns I really want and then continue to trade in and out for double game rounds as required.

My next article will be huge for this as Rounds 8 and 9 are stacked with opportunity with a heap of doubles and byes.

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The Sum Up

Across the single games weeks I will be looping as much as possible across my bench and skippers.

It’s hard to go past the combinations of Matt Short and Jhye Richardson. As always though I will remain flexible and if I need to chase some points maybe a sneaky flyer as vice-captain could be on (surely Stoin is due!).

Have a cracking one troops and chat soon!