Okay, here are the groupings I've got. I've divided them up so each group has either 1,4,5,8 or 2,3,6,7 when it comes to the batting orders shown in previous posts (I did check on Green and Blue since there was unsurity - KennyD and PY opened in the last game where they and bronco all played, so I've ordered them KennyD, PY, broncoman. I also moved Majin above lo'd and Rose below Hoy.
TEAM A
Group 1: Ferd, Nnanden, Majin, Andre
Gouup 2: Mr. P, PY, age master, AUST HiTMaN
Group 3: kears_falcon_9, Mr Mxyzptlk, thewizard101, Slats4ever
Group 4: superkingdave, Sudeep, biased indian, Samuel Vimes
TEAM B
Group 5: ash chaulk, Paid The Umpire, roseboy64, bugssy
Group 6: masterblaster, broncoman, Loony BoB, Mister Wright
Group 7: cbuts, Adamc, lord of darkness, marc71178
Group 8: Neil Pickup, KennyD, Jamee999, steds
I'm hoping the captains are okay with actually captaining the games, and to avoid any conflict, I've manged to get them each captaining two games, and so that each of their games is against a different captain. The captains and teams (sorted by groups) will be as follows:
age vs. marc
123 vs. 567
age vs. Neil
412 vs. 678
Mxyz vs. marc
341 vs. 785
Mxyz vs. Neil
234 vs. 856
And remember, this is all about having fun and being given a chance to play some cricket with some different people. I trust all the players will have a great time playing alongside both old and new players that they would usually be playing against. In the case of picking a 12th man, I trust the captains will also pick according not to "who is better" but to "who needs more gametime", and also would strongly encourage them to not pick the same player twice - I'm hoping that every player will play in at least two matches. In the case of one player being unavailable due to injury, captains will be able to pick someone from the remaining group to be 12th man. If two are unavailable due to injury, they can pick another member from the remaining group to join the starting XI, and so on.
Liam, if you could let me know if you can schedule these in to your calendar, that would be great - obviously if it could be during a time that all players would be availalbe, that would be great! Don't forget we're also hoping for one more match, between the Dev League bowling XI and Dev Leage batting XI
I'll also be happy to answer any other questions'n'suggestions people might have.
I still don't know what to call the competition.