JP's First-Class Sim

Can I Join???

ok, my Icon player will be VVS Laxman.

Thanks  lot JP!!!  ok JP, can you please change my home stadium to Rajiv Gandhi Stadium then?

I'll be taking Shane Bond as my icon player then.

I'd go for Shane Watson first up. Price offered £ 6m

Bids are to be PM'd to me - up to 10 players with your maximum bid for them please.

Siddle has cost you £2.5m, blade.

I've received bids for Australians from slogger, NZ fast, dips and Tyke while mystery has made a bid of sorts!


Edited by -JP- - 12 February 2009 at 1:05pm

You can PM me if you want to keep your bids secret!

can my icon player be owais shah

i have pm'ed them to you with a few questions aswell

dips - once you've picked a player from each nation, you can bid for whoever you like, so yes you'll be able to pick Bengal players.

OK, the first auction has been completed, and these are the players you have picked up:

Surrey Sloggers - Brad Haddin £5m (only team to bid)
Canterbury Crushers - Ricky Ponting £9m (4 franchises bid)
West Yorkshire Wildcats - James Hopes £3.5m (2 franchises bid)
Kolkata Demolishers - David Hussey £3.5m (returns to Kolkata!) (2 franchises bid)
Freuchie CCC - Simon Katich £6.5m (4 franchises bid)
Melbourne Masters - Phil Hughes £4m (2 franchises bid)
Perth Giants - Shane Watson £10.5m (3 franchises bid)
Caribbean Crushers - Stuart Clark £4.3m (2 franchises bid)
Hyderabad Victors - Shaun Tait £5.5m (3 franchises bid)

Some fine players, such as Symonds, Clarke, Lee and Jaques weren't picked up and will be available later on.

Money left and current squad:

Surrey: £89.2m (Butcher, Haddin)
Freuchie: £89m (Shah, Katich)
Caribbean: £89.6m (Chanderpaul, Clark)
Melbourne £93.5m (Siddle, Hughes)
Kolkata: £89.9 (Ganguly, D Hussey)
Hyderabad: £89m (Laxman, Tait)
Perth: £83.1m (M Hussey, Watson)
Canterbury: £86.5m (Bond, Ponting)
West Yorkshire £91m (Hoggard, Hopes)

Your minimum squad size is 15, remember, maximum is 20.

The next auction will be for English players, but you can send me bids for India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, New Zealand, South Africa, West Indies, and then Bangladesh/Zimbabwe + associates whenever you like.

I would suggest a new maximum of five players to bid for, it makes it easier and far more manageable, obviously putting your players in order of preference.

Just a quick note - you can't bid for Owais Shah, Mark Butcher, Matthew Hoggard, VVS Laxman, Saurav Ganguly, Shane Bond, or Shivnarine Chanderpaul as they've already been grabbed as icon players.


Edited by -JP- - 13 February 2009 at 8:08am

I've not made that very clear, have I?

Basically you bid for all eight established Test-playing nations and then pick five (max) players in total from all the other countries (Bangladesh, Zimbabwe, etc.) So you could go for Ashraful, Taibu, Tikolo, ten Doeschate and Leverock, for example.


Edited by -JP- - 13 February 2009 at 8:23am

It wasn't a stupid question - I hadn't quite explained it properly.

Yes, once  we've gone through the other countries, it'll effectively be open season and you can bid for those you missed.

Robbie, There will be bids for every country and each person will get one person from that country.  You can send 10 bids the max for players from a country but in the end, you'll get one.

Ok.  So when we're done with that phase, we're suppose to have 14 players, right.  8 test nations plus the 5 minnows plus the icon player.  Then we're free the get the remaining 6 (max) from where ever we choose.  Am I correct JP?

Edited by spin wizard - 13 February 2009 at 4:18pm