JP's First-Class Sim

JP Just to remind you, we had decided that my home stadium will be Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Hyderabad, and not Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai... I hope that is fine.

A few last minute deals to bring you all news of:

Andrew McDonald  --> Melbourne £4m
Nilantha Cooray --> Perth £3.4m
Grant Elliott --> Perth £3.2m
Chris Rogers --> Canterbury £4.3m
Piyush Chawla --> Canterbury £3.7m

I have the fixtures ready to go but can't post them all at the moment. The first two rounds are as follows (this Weds/Thurs and this Sunday):

Wednesday/Thursday

Canterbury v Melbourne
Perth v W. Yorkshire
Blackpool v Freuchie
Hyderabad v Surrey
Caribbean v Kolkata

Sunday:

W. Yorks v Canterbury
Freuchie v Melbourne
Surrey v Perth
Kolkata v Blackpool
Caribbean v Hyderabad

POINTS SYSTEM:

Win: 6 points
Loss: 0 points
Draw and won on first innings: 2 points
Draw but lost on first innings: 1 point
Tie: 3 points

POINTS WIN PRIZE MONEY

Winners: £10m
Runners-up: £7.5m
3rd: £6m
4th: £5.5m
5th: £5m
6th: 4.5m
7th £4m
8th: £3m
9th: £2m
10th: £1m

I also playing at home so it will be a Green track, High bounce and Fast outfield. If i wins the toss i will bat first.

Looking at your team i cant wait to get started

NZF today released a short statement, welcoming the lastest, and final two players into his squad. "Rodgers provides experience, both on and off the field, as well as providing competition to the other openers in the squad." And on Chawla, "Chawla is an exciting young player, who can provide with both bat and ball. It was felt we needed a leg spinner in the squad to take advantage of different pitch conditions."

The finalised squad is Bond, Ponting, Sidebottom, Dhoni, Ryder, Misbah-ul-Haq, Ntini, Maharoof, ten Doeschate, Panesar, Jaques, Hodge, Gibbs, Prior, M Patel, Prince, P Harris, P Chawla and Chris Rodgers.
 

Edited by NZ_Fast - 24 February 2009 at 3:06am

With the frightened Canterbury Crushers unable to decide their first XI The Melbourne Masters quickly took the initiative and anounced the team to play in the opening round:
1.G.Smith(c)
2.P.Hughes
3.F.Alam
4.S.Badrinath
5.Yashpal Singh
6.A.Rashid(b)
7.T.Taibu(wk)(vc)
8.P.Siddle(b)
9.D.Nannes(b)
10.N.Bracken(b)
11.M.Muralidaran(b)

This is what Bladescape had to say:
"Smith,Hughes,Alam and Badrinath were a premeditated top 4 because of their undoubted ability.
It was a hard choice with the number 5 and 6 spots but in the end I decided to test out Yashpal at 5 and slip Rashid at 6.
Taibu couldn't be left out because he is my only keeper.
Siddle was chosen because he was my icon player and I'm going to give him at least 1 match,so he better hope he does well!
Murali was another premeditated spot,but the other two were difficult choices.
I decided to take two pacemen so Mishra was out,and I didn't need Southee in there so it was a choice of which of the three left armers were in.
Bracken was on the top of the list,so it was in the end between Nannes and Parnell.
Nannes won in the end because I wanted to check him out early before it became a need to win match."
One last comment he made was:
"I'll probably be cycling through my team for the first few matches to check out the talent I've got,then again,maybe I won't!"

Edited by bladescape - 24 February 2009 at 4:09am

Team selection:

Jaques
Gibbs
Ponting (vc)
Hodge
Prince
Dhoni (wk, C)
Ten doeschate (4)
Panesar (5)
Ntini (1)
Sidebottom (3)
Bond (2)

NZF released a statement a short time ago via his public blog, finalizing the team to take on Melbourne. "The only real issue I had selecting this team was whether to include a spinner in the team. In the end, after brief discussion with the captain and vice-caption, it was agreed that with the bounce the pitch is likely to provide, a spinner could be a useful attacking option, despite the green tinge." 

Thanks spinny. Green track fast up.

Press Release
Green track not a worry. - Ganguly

Sourav Ganguly, the KKR skipper said on tuesday that a green track won't be ringing alarm bells in his team.

Ganguly was quoted saying : "The pitch has a tinge of grass in it but that should'nt be a worry. We have got a good line-up and the pitch should be ideal for our medium-pacers like Vaasy, Bose and Franklin. The batting is pretty strong and hence we have are pretty confident about our chances."

On asked about the Caribbean team Ganguly said, "They have got quality players in Sehwag, Styen, Chanderpaul and KP. Their batting is very strong. We will need to get Viru out early because we all know what he can be capable of."

Ganguly also said that he is delighted to be playing competitive cricket again. "This is as good as test match cricket. Its going to be a real test of skill. The most important thing will be to get the team going together. Mixing with players around the world is always helpful. I am delighted to be playing with Rahul and the other guys again."

He also said that he and Rahul will be looking to carry on the same partnerhsip. "We have had a great time together and it feels great to be leading a team with Rahul as my deputy. We have enjoyed a great rappo and we will look to do our best for the team."


The team manager dips_december announced his team for Thursday's game against the Caribbean. Brendan Nash edged out Laxmi Ratan Shukla. The rest of the line up is pretty much according to what was expected.

Gautam Gambhir
Alastair Cook
Rahul Dravid (vc)
David Hussey (6)
Sourav Ganguly (c) (5)
AB de Villiers (+)
Brendan Nash (7)
Chaminda Vaas (1)
Daniel Vettori (4)
James Franklin (3)
Ranadeb Bose (2)


Edited by dips_december - 24 February 2009 at 8:11am

Originally posted by NZ_Fast Originally posted by bladescape Taibu couldn't be left out because he is my only keeper. Not a smart move?

Definatly,I was gutted in not getting quite a few keepers along the way but in the end Taibu was one of the best I could get.

JP I'd like to bowl first if I win the toss.

Press Release:

JP is that montys starting team and what are his pitch conditions from 1 to 5 and also for fixtures or at the start could you put the user name next to the team as because there is so many it is really hard to keep track of who manages who

Edited by robbie - 24 February 2009 at 4:14pm

Originally posted by slogger72N/O The Surrey Sloggers team Andrew Strauss Mark Butcher (c) Younus Khan Mark Ramprakash Paul Collingwood Brad Haddin (wk) Dwayne Bravo (5) Morne Morkel (2) Ishant Sharma (1) Ajantha Mendis (4) Chris Martin (3)

 

Edited by sam_ahmed - 24 February 2009 at 5:30pm

I think I'd have my lads bat at default.  Same for the bowling.