Scorecard!

For every day of the final test, you can enjoy not just the cricket but also the challenge of pitting your wits against Angus Fraser and your fellow Independent readers.

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About the Game

Each day Angus Fraser will, in The Independent, make six predictions concerning that day's play. Three of the predictions will involve names; three will involve numbers. Your challenge is to make more accurate predictions than his. Depending on how well you do, you can score runs or lose wickets. The Independent has teamed up with Sure Men to offer a range of fantastic prizes for those who do best.

Game 5: The Fifth Test (Oval, 20th - 24th August)

Each player has a total of 10 wickets to lose – after which you are “out” and can score no more runs in the match. Until then, your score accumulates from day to day, as in a real Test match. The player with the most runs at the end of the match wins a pair of tickets to the England v Australia One Day International.

The winners of all the games will not only win match tickets but will also go into a draw, together with the runner-up and third-placed player in each game, for the overall prize: a trip to South Africa for two people to watch England play in a Test match there. The overall winner will be drawn at random from this shortlist.

To enter, register to create your player identity and make your set of predictions, which must be received before play starts at 11am each day. Angus’s predictions will appear in the printed edition of The Independent daily.

At the end of each day’s play, your predictions will be scored (see scoring system below) and the players will be ranked in a league table.

The Rest of the Series

This process continues until the end of this Test match, with scores accumulating day by day – unless, of course, you find that you have lost all 10 of your wickets, in which case you will remain on the score you had when you were “all out”. Even then, however, if your score is high enough you may still be in with a chance of winning (or finishing in the first three). The number of wickets you have lost is irrelevant to your ranking, except when you are tied with one or more other players on your runs total, in which case the player who has lost fewest wickets wins.

The Scoring System

Predictions involving names

You are correct, Angus is wrong: You score 25 runs

You are wrong, Angus is correct: You lose a wicket

You and Angus are both wrong: No score

You and Angus are both right: You score 1 run

Predictions involving numbers

You are correct, Angus is wrong: You score 30 runs

You and Angus are both wrong, but you are closer than he is: You score 15 runs

You are wrong, Angus is correct: You lose a wicket

You are both wrong, but Angus is closer: You lose a wicket

You are both wrong and both equally close: No score

You are both right: You score 4 runs

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^{There will be five games of Scorecard! starting from 7 July and continuing until the last Ashes Test (20-24 August). Each game will last for the duration of the Ashes Test to which it relates. There will be one winner in every game, the winner will be the person that has the highest number of runs at the end of the game. In the event of a tie, the winner will be the player among those tied who has lost the fewest wickets. If there is still a tie, the winner will be drawn at random from those tied. In the event of the Test match finishing before the end of the fifth day, or of play being lost because of rain or bad light, predictions which are no longer applicable will be considered void and scores will be based only on the remaining predictions. For each of the first four games of Scorecard!, the winner will receive one pair of tickets to a specific day of the next Ashes Test; for the fifth game of Scorecard!, the winner will win a pair of tickets for one of the one-day matches in the NatWest series in September. The winner, runner-up and third-placed player in each Scorecard! game will also be entered into a draw from which the winner of the overall prize, a trip to South Africa for two, will be chosen at random. Prize will include return flights from a UK international airport. Accommodation will be based on two people sharing one room. Travel insurance not included. For further details of first prize see the paper on Friday 10 July 2009. This promotion is only available to UK residents and you must be 18 or over. Entries must be received by 11am each day. By entering the game you are allowing The Independent to publish your name, team name and score in a league table online. The top ten leading players results will be published in paper. The winners of the weekly game will be notifed within 24 hours by telephone or email and it is a condition of entry that entrants agree if they win they will allow The Independent to publish their full name, the area they live in and a photograph of them. Winners’ details will be available by post from Scorecard!, Independent News & Media, 2 Derry Street, W8 5HF. Standard newspaper terms & conditions apply. See independent.co.uk/legal. Only one entry per person.}