Howzat? Farcical fantasy cricket...

Earlier this year I rather foolishly agreed to take part in our office fantasy cricket league.

Foolish in that as much as I like Test cricket, and follow Kent at a county level, my knowledge of the county game outside that is pretty rubbish.

And so it proved.

The league concluded at the weekend and I was informed that just in the inter-office league we had set up I had finished a staggering 3,000 points behind the next best team. Embarassing in itself, no doubt about it.

But more embarassing in that the office league was the 32nd most successful in the entire competition of how many hundreds of thousands of people playing. Which means had I spent more than five minutes selecting my team (I thought it amusing to have a fellow called Robbie Williams playing, for example), or taken at least a little care of it during the course of the season, I might have helped by colleagues actually be among the best in the entire competition.

Oops. I actually felt just a little ashamed of that. They might have even won some sort of award.

Fantasy football, on the other hand, has become something of an obsession. The inter-office league has started in a somewhat predictable way - with me setting the standard for piss-poor scores and assuming last place.

However, in recent weeks my game scores are showing encouraging signs...and I'm now *clears breath* in second....to last place...which is at least a bit of an improvement, eh?