Auction draft

[Blakus]

Team name: Balls of Steel

Batting order:
S.Gavaskar
H.Mohammad
R.Kanhai
Inzamam
S.Waugh
R.Dravid
F.Engineer
R.Lindwall
C.Grimmett
J.Garner
S.Barnes

Bowling order:
S.Barnes
R.Lindwall
J.Garner
C.Grimmett
S.Waugh (use sparingly)

Ground name: The Alley
Ground size: 6
Assistance:
Spin 8
Medium 8
Pace 9

Pitch starting conditions: 3
Pitch bounce : 1

Basically wanted a pitch that would help my bowlers plenty, whilst allowing my batsmen to show off their fantastic defensive technique and grit.

 

[marc71178]

Sobers (I guess just use his pace bowling as I doubt the simulation has the option for his spin bowling ability),

It doesn't have the option, no - hadn't thought of that!

Ground assistance for spin, medium and fast bowlers (1-11): Spin 11, Medium 1, Fast 1 (1 is brilliant for bowling right, rather than vice versa?)

11 is most assistance for bowling, 1 least.

 

[Somerset]

It doesn't have the option, no - hadn't thought of that!

11 is most assistance for bowling, 1 least.

Yeh I assumed as much for Sobers, those simulations can only incorporate so much I guess! Obviously reverse my preferences for the ground conditions in that case.

 

[GotSpin]

Nothing wrong with a bit of aggression on the field IMO

 

[NUFAN]

Team name
Purple Monkey Dishwasher

Batting order
J Hobbs
G Greendidge
N Harvey,
D Nourse,
P May,
I Botham
A Knott
A Kumble
F Mahmood
J Laker
N Adcock

Bowling order
N Adcock
I Botham
F Mahmood
J Laker
A Kumble

Ground name
3 Eye Fish

Ground size (1-11)
10

Ground assistance for spin, medium and fast bowlers (1-11)
Spin 8, medium 2, fast bowlers 9

Pitch starting conditions
3

Pitch starting bounce (1-5 where 1 is like concrete and 5 quicksand)
3

 

[vic_orthdox]

Nothing wrong with a bit of aggression on the field IMO

Please refrain from spamming the forums. Its highly irritating and achieves nothing. Continuing will see further action taken.

 

[pskov]

Pskovtastics

Batting Line-up

Arthur Shrewsbury
Victor Trumper
Jacques Kallis
Zaheer Abbas
Mohammad Yousuf
Mark Butcher
Les Ames+
Richard Hadlee
Heath Streak
Colin Croft
Sonny Ramadhin

Bowling Order

Hadlee
Croft
Streak
Ramadhin
Kallis

Ground Size - 11
Pitch Asisstance - Fast 8, Medium 6, Spin 3
Pitch Starting Conditions - 1
Pitch bounce - 2

Also Marc, do Kallis and Streak count as fast or medium bowlers for the purposes of pitch assistance? If the latter I may want to change my pitch stats.

 

[marc71178]

Sorry missed the edit - they'll be fast medium (so not sure how ITC deals with them to be honest!)

 

[honestbharani]

wen are we doing the sims, Marc?

 

[marc71178]

When I get my act together - had forgotten how time consuming setting it all up was but almost there!

 

[marc71178]

The Legend of Swanneh:

S Jayasuriya
M Atapattu
K Sangakarra
B Lara
C Lloyd
A de Silva
M Hussey
D Vettori
G Swann
C Vaas
B Lee

Ground: Ceylon Park:
Size: 6
Spin: 11
Medium: 6
Pace: 6
Starting condition: 4
Starting bounce: 4

 

[Jarquis]

Swanneh

 

[marc71178]

Bradman plus 10:

M Slater
B Sutcliffe
D Bradman
A Prince
G Blewett
M Ramprakash
B Haddin
R Irani
A Caddick
B Williams
M Ntini

Ground: Bowral II.
Size: 1
Spin: 1
Medium: 1
Pace: 1
Starting condition: 1
Starting bounce: 1

 

[honestbharani]

awesome..

 

[Himannv]

Wonder how it will play out.

 

[marc71178]

Round 1

At long last, the first round of matches. This isn't going to be a quick process as I'm simming all games manually. The highlight of round 1 came in the final game with a last ball victory for Northies Eagles inspired by a Matt Hayden double ton.

Overall it was definitely a round where the bowlers were in control, with 5 centuries scored and 8 5fers taken.

Scorecards are attached - do people want the ball by balls as well?

 

[Pothas]

Good stuff, Love that of all my bowlers Angus Fraser was the one to get Bradman.

 

[Somerset]

Really pleased about my team's seven wicket win to start the campaign. Eight wickets for Lohmann in the first innings, and eleven in the match particularly pleasing.

 

[Himannv]

I dont think my team is there :P

 

[G.I.Joe]

can't access attachments on the phone. Someone fill me in on the pink elephants game!