JP's First-Class Sim

Mystery, suppose you have to bowl 200 overs?

Originally posted by -JP- You can only select who opens the bowling and who doesn't bowl - the sim isn't that complex that I can set it to bowl certain players at any time.

In that case Ntini and Bond to open, with the other bowlers being Panesar, Sidebottom and Ten doeschate.

Originally posted by -JP- You can only select who opens the bowling and who doesn't bowl - the sim isn't that complex that I can set it to bowl certain players at any time.

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

Yeah I'll go for default for all my batsmen, but I'll have Mendis at 8, Shrama and Morkel at 7, with Martin and Bravo at 4. Also I'll bat if I win the toss

Edited by slogger72N/O - 25 February 2009 at 6:10pm

Why? Do you reckon they're too defensive?

Those are bowling orders, all batsmen are on default 

can i have everyone agression level 5 accept Kallis 6 Arafat 7 and Davies Gul and Khan 4

Edited by robbie - 25 February 2009 at 9:24pm

Looks like everyone's set to go teams wise.

I'd be surprise if JP does this today, or this weekend.  His team is playing Test Cricket plus the two of the very best are battling it out as well.  Can't same I blame him either.

I think I am going to have to push the first round of fixtures back to the weekend - an early start tomorrow for the New Zealand-India game means I won't quite have time tonight to get the other teams ready in the sim, play the games, and sort out some web pages to display the results so I'll have a go on Friday/Saturday night when I will have some more time.

Sorry about that, but I'm sure you can build the anticipation up some more with some entertaining press releases ;)

Melbourne owner Bladescape had this to say about the weather interuption that made the first match for his team have to be postphoned:

"The blasted weather interrupted training this morning and is likely to wash out the first match if we continue on scedule at Canterbury.
So I had a talk to their owner,NZFast and We've agreed that this is the least wanted result for both sides,I'd even take a loss to Canterbury over a loss to the weather!
You know what we should do?
We should ban the weather from buying a ticket!
Anyhow,on to other matters,Yashpal and Badrinath are eager to bat in the first match(When the weather is finally averted) because of recent speculation by NZFast and Perth owner Mystery that Canterbury had a better middle order and Nannes,Bracken,Siddle,Rashid and Murali are raring to go in the anticipation of a green pitch which offers little for the batsman.
I'm hoping Hughes can get over his recent duck in the first test in SA as I'm relying on him and Smith to get me off to a good start.
Then again with the experienced campainer of Greame Smith facing the new ball at the other end he shouldn't have much trouble with nerves.
I'm a bit dissappointed with my lower order with Taibu at 7 but I'm confident that he can rack up a few good scores.
I've got a good announcement to make at this stage:
With the research going into this team I've put Thornley into the allrounder status after seeing him bowl extremely well in the nets,and to add another one to that area we now have McDonald joining the team in Canterbury and he is a very welcome addition to the team.
I feel that we're probably the underdogs in this competition because we're using a lot of domestic players instead of international stars.
However I think we have one of the most talented teams in the competition."

I was all set to go and play the games when I discovered that I'd made a bit of a cock-up, basically misreading the sim.

No harm done, but all it means that the fixtures are now changed, so the first round's fixtures are now as follows (home team first)

Canterbury v Hyderabad
Kolkata v Caribbean
Perth v Freuchie
Surrey v Blackpool
West Yorkshire v Melbourne

And we can ignore my points system, as the sim will automatically use its own:

15 points for a win plus bonus points for runs/wickets in the first innings
10 points for a tie
5 points for a draw
0 points for a loss

  Batting Points   Runs scored   Bowling Points
              0             < 150            5
              1           150 - 225          4
              2           226 - 300          3
              3           301 - 375          2
              4           376 - 450          1
              5             > 450            0

Apologies for this latest delay, hopefully if everyone can get teams/pitches to me over the weekend, we can get going again.

I'll stay the same too JP, but i'll just post it again anyway.

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

******Edit: 2 Pitch, 2 bounce and 3 outfield. Team aggression to be 6 but I want Panesar and Bond as 7. If I win the toss I will bowl thanks JP.*****


Edited by NZ_Fast - 28 February 2009 at 9:54am

Same team for me.