Division 1 - Round 8 - First Class

[Simon]

Kent vs Cobras
Kandurata vs North Zone India
Queensland vs South Zone India
Western Australia vs New South Wales

Teams due in Wednesday 9am AEDST

Injuries
J Hopes (Qld)
A Noffke (Qld)
A Symonds (Qld)
A Raza (Kandurata)
V Rao (SZI)
J Denly (Kent)
S Dhawan (NZI)
V Malik (NZI)
H Nixon (WA)
R Rushambwa (WA)
V Philander (Cobras)

 

[Mister Wright]

1. M. Hayden
2. R. Broad
3. M. Love
4. S. Watson
5. J. Jenkins
6. Y. Stark
7. Z. MacDonald
8. C. Gonzalez
9. M. Johnson
10. M. Kasprowicz
11. D. Zulch

Captain: M. Hayden
Keeper: Z. MacDonald

One forced change with Broad replacing Symonds due to injury. Watson will drop from the opening position to 2nd drop to accommodate Broad in the side.

 

[Simon]

Cape Cobras
1 G Smith*
2 F Hammett
3 J Kallis
4 B Allen
5 R Levi
6 D Telo
7 A Puttick+
8 W Fitzstanford
9 Y Porter
10 P Sandri
11 N Rupasinghe

Sandri returns from injury in place of the injured Philander

 

[oz_fan]

1. A Chopra
2. V Sehwag
3. G Gambhir
4. V Kohli
5. S Yashpal
6. R Bhatia
7. U Kaul
8. L Harris
9. I Tamhane
10. VRV Singh
11. D Withe

 

[chaminda_00]

Kandurata

1. Tharanga Paranavitana
2. Marvan Atapattu
3. Kumar Sangakkara (c)
4. Mahela Jayawardene
5. JP Duminy
6. James Midlane (wk)
7. Thiru Alwis
8. Kaushalya Weerartne
9. Akalanka Ganegama
10. Phillip Leigh
11. Muttiah Muralitharan

Going with the form players here. Hopefully it doesn't backfire.

Samaraweera is in better form then I thought with the ball, so he replaces Alwis.

1. Tharanga Paranavitana
2. Marvan Atapattu
3. Kumar Sangakkara (c)
4. Mahela Jayawardene
5. JP Duminy
6. Thilan Samaraweera
7. James Midlane (wk)
8. Kaushalya Weerartne
9. Akalanka Ganegama
10. Phillip Leigh
11. Muttiah Muralitharan

 

[SirBloody Idiot]

South Zone India
F du Plessis
M Vijay
RS Dravid
S Badrinath (capt)
VVS Laxman
Y Venugopal Rao
S Vidyut
T Binny
LNP Reddy (wicketkeeper)
L Balaji
VI Kumar
IN: du Plessis, Binny
OUT: Cowe, Guy

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

C Rogers
J Langer
L Pomersbach
M Hussey
J Watambwa
A Voges
L Ronchi+
B Hogg
M Suraj
O Cope
B Edmondson

 

[readie]

1 P Jaques
2 P Hughes
3 S Katich
4 M Clarke
5 D Quayle
6 B Haddin+
7 G Belle
8 B Lee
9 S Clark
10 D Bollinger
11 S MacGill*

 

[Simon]

Kent fail to submit, cannot gain win/draw points this week.