Walter Montego: No, I have played ponds from the beginning ... my first and probably only win was the very first pond ... before all the funny business started. I had seen some of the discussion previously, in particular Basplund's open admittal that he conspired with others to rort the result ... as the cricket comment implies, being legal does not make it right. The debate in the pond kicked off because he scored a bonus in "unusual" circumstances.

I like the idea of team ponds and would consider playing in one, but tehr wsould be a few players that cause me to withdraw from even a team pond, who know what sort of deviousness they might be able to think up to stuff those too.