We're Off - The JP Premier League

I'll give the pitch and conditions so that Monty can give his team, I'll declare my team tomorrow.

Same team.

Melbourne spinners put Blackpool in a daze!

The last round in the JPPL for Melbourne saw Rashid,debutent Mishra and the ever reliable Murali tear apart a demoralised Blackpool batting line up.
Phil Hughes and Marcus North made half centuries in the first innings to seal the match as they took an over 100 first innings lead.
Bladescape said this about the match:
"We'd just lost for the first time and then we lost again,we were in a bit of a disarray but thanks to this heartening performance,we should be back on the road to victory!"

Team for match against Melbourne :

Akash Chopra
Gautam Gambhir
Rahul Dravid
Sourav Ganguly
AB de Villiers (wk)
Laxmi Ratan Shukla (6)
Chaminda Vaas (1)
Daniel Vettori (4)
James Franklin (3)
Ashoke Dinda (5)
Ranadeb Bose (2)

I will bat first if I win the toss.


Edited by dips_december - 22 March 2009 at 5:59am

West Yorkshire Wildcats XI

 

Batting lineup and their Aggressions

 

Andrew Puttick A.L = 5

Murray Goodwin A.L = 5

Lendl Simmons A.L = 5

Heino Kuhn (Wk.) A.L = 5

Ajinkya Rahane A.L = 7

Malinda Warnapura A.L = 5

James Hopes A.L = 6

CJ de Villiers A.L = 8

Jeetan Patel A.L = 5

Saqlain Mushtaq A.L = 4 (Capt.) (Designated Night-watchman)

Lonwabo Tsotsobe A.L = 2

 

Bowlers and their Aggressions

 

Lonwabo Tsotsobe - 7 (Opens the Bowling)

CJ de Villiers - 7 (Shares the new ball)

 

James Hopes - 5

Saqlain Mushtaq - 6

Jeetan Patel - 6

 

If we win the Toss - Bat

 

Pitch - 4

Bounce - 3

Outfield - 3

Can I have Younus Khan in for Bell at 3. State 4, bounce 4 and outfield 1 for this game with Mendis on aggression 7, Martin and Bravo on 4. All batsmen on default aggression

What happened to Patel opening the bowling JP? 

The KKR manager dips_december said he was very unhappy with the way his team performed against Melbourne. He said, "280 was never enough on such a wicket in the first innings. That's where we gave them the advantage. When you bat first you have to ensure that you bat only once. We failed to capitalise and our bowling didn't cause them too many problems either. In the second innings it was Dravid again who held the innings together. But, you have to give credit to Badrinath. He played really well. He is a good prospect and might just be the man to fill in Dravid's boots once his India career is over."

He also said that some of his players were injured and won't be taking part in the next game. "Jimmy Franklin's out for two games and so is Shoaib Malik, for one. So we are looking at our options. Mortaza is one option and Gambhir or Chopra may drop down to accomodate Cook. Monish Parmar is also in strong contention, lets see."

Team and conditions for match against Hyderabad. Ah,, finally I'll play an Indian team. Good luck sam.

Pitch : 2
Outfield : 3
Bounce : 2

Team :

Alastair Cook
Gautam Gambhir
Rahul Dravid
Akash Chopra
Sourav Ganguly
AB de Villiers (wk)
Chaminda Vaas (1)
Daniel Vettori (4)
Mashrafe Mortaza (3)
Monish Parmar (5)
Ranadeb Bose (2)

I will bat first if I win the toss.


Edited by dips_december - 23 March 2009 at 12:57pm

Press Release:

1 change in the team. Hussey is out because of the injurie. Guptill will replace him and will bat at 4. 

BREAKING TRANSFER NEWS

Kolkata Knight Riders and Hyderabad Victors have swapped all-rounders Shoaib Malik and Yusuf Pathan ahead of their derby tomorrow.

Malik welcomed in the team, Salman excited about playing at the Edens!

Edited by sam_ahmed - 24 March 2009 at 4:47pm

Mortaza : Can't wait to play in front of a packed Eden Gardens.

Bangladesh and KKR all-rounder Mashrafe Mortaza has expressed his delight and has said its a dream come true to play in front of a packed Eden Gardens. Morataza said, "It's a dream come true. Every cricketer wants to play in front of a packed Eden Gardens. It will be a totally new experience. If you look at it, its my home. I live in Bangladesh and Kolkata is full of Bengali's. I feel all at home over here. The atmosphere, the environment, the food and the culture is all the same. I am just loving my stay at the KnightRiders. I am getting an opportunity to rub shoulders with some big names like Ganguly, Dravid and Vaas. Sharing the dressing room with such players is also like a dream come true. I am loving every bit of it and looking forward to playing and contributing to a successful team."

ROUND EIGHT: BIG SCORING AND LAST-DITCH FINISHES

Extraordinary stuff in round eight, although Freuchie bounced back from their loss last week to thrash Blackpool and the number 87 proved lucky for them.

There was some monstrous scoring for Canterbury, for whom Dhoni and Gibbs made more than 150 and Prince also scored a century to set up a commanding victory over West Yorkshire.

There was a thriller at Eden Gardens as the Indian derby provided a real spectacle while the derby in Australia saw Melbourne complete a stunning comeback with Badrinath in the spotlight again.

And finally, Caribbean Blasters won again thanks to Flower power, with a little help from KP and Dale Steyn against Surrey.

http://www.originalonion.com/cricketsim/pbmindex.htm

Wow, that's certainly given me some (welcome) selectorial headaches.

You've got to be so pleased with that result, especially after the previous games effort?  Oh yes. The lads were really down after the previous game, but we managed to move on and get our momentum back.

The next round is a huge game for your team, are you up for it?  Absolutely. Obviously missing Ryan through injury is a blow, but we've asked Jesse to step up with the ball, and taken some run scoring responsibility off him while he's in that role.

Some have termed you a bully team. You beat up the teams that are lower on the table, but can't stand up to the better teams? I've never heard such nonsense. While we haven't performed as well as we would like against better teams, its because one of the opposition team step up and have a blinder, rather then use not being able to play at that level.

Gibbs and Dhoni, amazing right?  Well its just what i've been saying all along. Gibbsey has looked a million bucks, but he just manages to get out, or gets a pearler of a delivery, hopefully this is his breakthrough innings. Dhoni, well again, hes looked pretty good but just failed to do anything meaningfull. He's had a good break and we decided to put him in at 4 rather than Misbah, and it paid off.

Is Punters form a worry? Well it is a little. He's scoring a few now and then, but as a senior batsmen we expect more consistancy from him. He knows this and is really trying, but if he doesn't step up soon there are other options.