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  1. Lions81

    Cricket Web Draft

    Awesome, three more captains! Also, I assume we're picking a Test team right? It won't really matter for the first couple of rounds, but later on that might come into play.
  2. Lions81

    Target 400

    3 I could see, but opening? Inzamam seems like the kind of player who will destroy the opposition attack if he comes in when the ball's well broken-in and they're a little tired and gasping for air. Opening might be a little difficult, and is so risky. But Inzamam seems so comfortable at 4, why...
  3. Lions81

    World Cricket Draft

    Yeah, that sounds good. His seems a little easier to implement, since it's just straight picking, while yours seems like more of a manager-type thing, so doing his first and then yours seems like the best thing to do.
  4. Lions81

    Cricket Web Draft

    Yeah it probably bakes the grass, but Akhtar bowled really well on his tour of India on dusty pitches, so I'm confident he'll be fine.
  5. Lions81

    Cricket Web Draft

    Well as presumably I now control the BCCI too, I will order wickets to be made with grass, grass and more grass! I will fly in special soil if necessary! In the meanwhile, I'll play Test Matches in places like Mohali, which is a pretty fast pitch. I'm sure green, fast wickets can be made...
  6. Lions81

    Cricket Web Draft

    Well I think it's sort of like the chicken or the egg. Does India have no fast bowlers because of the wickets or are the wickets made so placid because they have no fast bowlers? My hope is that with Akhtar as a spearhead, pitch curators are gonna make sure there's some grass on the pitch at all...
  7. Lions81

    Cricket Web Draft

    True, I should realize that it's 3:30 in the afternoon only in NY and not in England or India or Australia!
  8. Lions81

    World Cricket Draft

    I think we've been able to merge both ideas, right? What do you think?
  9. Lions81

    Cricket Web Draft

    Yeah, cmon, people sign up!
  10. Lions81

    Cricket Web Draft

    Ahh decisions, decisions. My philsophy is bowlers first, so now it's a toss-up: Muralitharan or Akhtar; Akhtar or Muralitharan. Oh hell, I always enjoy the sight of the off stump flying out of the ground... I take Shoaib Akhtar!
  11. Lions81

    World Cricket Draft

    Yeah, I think your's and Loony Bob's idea would be a lot of fun, let's do it! I call India! I guess we should continue this on Loony Bob's thread from now on.
  12. Lions81

    Cricket Web Draft

    Okay, but if we do first in, first pick rule, should we then reverse the picks for the second round? For example, let's say this is the order: Bangladesh Australia South Africa (yeah I know it's only three but I'm too lazy to type them all out!) then for the second round, it would be South...
  13. Lions81

    Cricket Web Draft

    I'm in! Put me down for India!
  14. Lions81

    World Cricket Draft

    What do you all think?
  15. Lions81

    Target 400

    4 is too low? It seems perfect to me.
  16. Lions81

    World Cricket Draft

    Let's dream, as Jamee999 has suggested, that there was some sort of World Cricket Draft, with teams drafting backwards in order of strength, maybe going by ICC Test rankings. Here's my first round: (I've left Zimbabwe out for obvious reasons) 1. Bangladesh - Muttiah Muralitharan (Best bowler...
  17. Lions81

    Streak Sacked As Zimbabwe Captain

    That would be really fun, and maybe we should start a thread and just imagine what it would be like and actually play out such a draft. And I were Bangladesh, I'm taking Akhtar or Muralitharan with that first pick. In today's game, there seem to be so many great batsmen compared to bowlers...
  18. Lions81

    **Official** England in The West Indies

    Yes, I completely understand and agree with Lara's decision to rest his main strike bowlers for the third innings, but why have such a defensive field with everyone on the boundary line? Be aggressive, it's not often you have 500 runs to play with when you need to get two wickets.
  19. Lions81

    Streak Sacked As Zimbabwe Captain

    I think it may have more to do with the fact that no one really feels bad for these white Zimbabwe cricketers. Their lives are a million times better and more comfortable than the average Zimbabwean. They sound so whiny, "Oh we can't play cricket for our country!" Well "our country" it may be...
  20. Lions81

    **Official** England in The West Indies

    The West Indians need to stop doing their excellent Indian impersonation and knock these tail wickets out quickly.

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