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[James90]

Simply brilliant!

Dalrymple didn't only deserve 100 but I would have traded in both of his double hundreds for the knock he just played to help me overcome Yorkshire in a dramatic runchase. Coming to the crease at 3-100 and shortly after 4-120 it looked like game over but together with Hinds, Dalrymple went around resurrecting the innings and after the loss of Hinds did it all himself to win the game with no less that 4 overs to spare.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

This is the best comeback I've ever had. It briefly made me forget I was coming last in division 2.

First black Zimbabwean in county cricket playing against you, too?

 

[James90]

Promotion!

Biggest achievement of my short ICC career so far.

4th with one game to come I absolutely needed to win to have any chance whatsoever. I thrashed Durham but was still shocked to see myself in 3rd.

Simply awesome!

 

[James90]

Scotland's highlighted! How embarrassing!

 

[Robertinho]

Good internationals I thought

Tendulkar made 92 in his last innings to JUST miss out on breaking the big 2000

 

[sammy22]

Does anyone know when signing overseas players whether there is a way to check or work out how often that player will be away on international duty? I thought the obvious way would be to check internation fixtures, yet my star Sri Lankian player Dias has only played 3 games this season as he is always on international duty.

However Sri Lankia don't have any games for this time listed, unless i;m missing something. I have found this frustrating, as you only get 2 players and i've spent a large part of my budget on getting him only for him to play in 3 games a season.

Obviously my main concern is making the same mistake next season and once again being without my star player.

Can anyone help?

thanks

 

[_Ed_]

I don't think you can find out from the contracts screen, it's a bit annoying. So try to notice what team is touring each year and see if you can pick a player from that team for the next season, or maybe pick a young star who hasn't played internationals before, that's what I try to do.

 

[_Ed_]

This is nothing amazingly special, but I'm very happy with this win in the first game of 2007 after coming last in pretty much everything with my retirements-decimated Surrey in 2006. Greg Marshall is a youth leg-spinner who took 53 wickets at 44.81 in his first season, what a difference the off-season can make!

Hoping for some good things from this team this season, maybe a trip out of division 2. Or at least up from last place in division 2!

 

[sammy22]

Thanks Ed, thats what I tried to do, the guy had only played 1 game for his country before and so i thought it was a good choice. I nearly went for a couple of more established stars but figured they;d be called up reguarly.

Obviously the guy is class and was always going to get selected at some stage but as he'd hardly appeared before I hoped he might be out of favour or stupidly overlooked.

This is my 3rd season with Lancashire and no-one has missed anything like this number of games before, hayden missed about 5 in a season.

However Dias has only played 3 matches all season

 

[Lyell_Chris]

ed do you prepare spinning pitches ??

 

[Robertinho]

There's a World Cup in 2007

 

[_Ed_]

ed do you prepare spinning pitches ??

I do, but that game was an away game, the pitch was turning by the end but not early on.

 

[Lyell_Chris]

ok

 

[Hoggy31]

Pretty good effort, a record?

 

[Lyell_Chris]

3 runs is a bit expensive

I wish my bowlers could do that

 

[Dark Hunter]

I hate games like these....2nd VB final (We lost the first one)
1.4 overs left, Pakistan needing 9 to win, I've got Pathan on now and Nehra for the final over. Pathan just clean bowled Malik to bring in Sami...

D*mnit...4 balls, 4 singles...

1 over - 5 runs...Nehra to bowl.

1 ball, 2 runs, 2 wickets.

Fields in....

4....

D*MNIT!!!!

 

[sammy22]

Not sure about a record but this was a magnificent knock. It's certainly a record for me. Before this game Knight averaged about 22 in 1 day cricket and I contemplated dropping him

Good job i didn't

Is this knock from Knight as incredible as I think? Once he got passed 150 I kept waiting for him to get out stupidly as always seems to happen to me when a player gets a hundred in 1 day cricket but he just kept getting better. He even outstaged Michael Hayden who I would have thought was far more likely to play this kind of innings

I am so delighted about this I don't quite know what more to say. Well played Knighty.

 

[superkingdave]

My best young keeper so far on ICC 2005, Adam Knott

 

[pskov]

Any relation?

 

[superkingdave]

im guessing we're not dream QF opponents in the twenty 20