ICC Sim League V

[morgieb]

Should give Mujtaba a run out, he dominated world cricket on ICC 2005

A true contender for the domestic GOAT looking at his stats, seemingly.

 

[mr_mister]

that is an immense effort jimmy. this will be great fun. Love the finals system too, so much better than the McIntyre system

 

[jimmy101]

Well, it's time to get everybody amped up for the India/Pakistan Round 1 clash with a curtain raiser...

 

[jimmy101]

Friendly

India v Pakistan A - Jharkhand International Cricket Stadium, Ranchi

India

Pakistan A

India won by 11 runs.

Man of the match: Fawad Alam

 

[jimmy101]

More friendlies to follow.

 

[mr_mister]

im too superstitious for friendlies. worried i'll waste some good luck and have like Athurton ton up in one and then do nothing for the actual games.

It's why I never buy other people scratch lotto tickets a a gift.


So just to re-confirm, my starting XI for the proper tournament.


Campbell
Simmons
Richardson *
Arthurton
Logie
Adams
Murray +
Harper
W Benjamin
K Benjamin
Bishop

 

[honestbharani]

Its a pretty strong Pak A side there that we defeated. Good going, guys.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

That typical Fawad Alam inning...

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Everyone gets: 8 home matches - 7 away matches.

The ten Test nations will play their homes matches in their home country (naturally). West Ocean traders will play their homes matches in WI, England, Ireland, Scotland & Netherlands. The Sanzacs will play in RSA, NZ & Australia, whilst Asia will play in India, Pakistan, SL, the UAE as well as breaking new ground by playing in Afghanistan (simulated security checks complete).

The World XI will play all of their matches away, travelling the world, as we are the World XI.

8 + 7 = 15 matches, no? Doesn't seem right.

I get 6 home and 7 away counting for my team, which seems fair enough as we don't really have a home.

Can we nominate grounds for each of our home matches, or will you be sovereign?

 

[srbhkshk]

Team for friendly -


Andrew Jones
Grant Elliott
Peter Fulton
Scott Styris
Jeremy Coney
Ken Rutherford
Mark Greatbatch
Craig McMillan
Jacob Oram
Kyle Mills
Tim Southee


Bench -

Martin Snedden
Danny Morrison
Bruce Edgar

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Kaif and Fawad Alam

Two similar type of batsmen. They work the ball around and they can clear the ropes when they are on song...

Mahmudullah is another batsman who fits this mould.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

First round India will play Pakistan.

That will be a cracker.

Sreesanth versus Sohail
Nehra versus Rameez
Kaif versus Sami


Hype up

Ravi Shastri versus Sohail Tanvir
Dinesh Karthik versus Kamran Akmal...

 

[Shri]

Friendly XI:

1. Navjot Sidhu
2. Imran Farhat
3. Fawad Alam
4. VVS Laxman
5. Subramaniam Badrinath
6. Mohammad Shahzad [+]
7. Manjural Islam
8. Mohd Amir
9. Ishant Sharma
10. Muthiah Muralitharan
11. Mohd Asif

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Friendly XI:

1. Navjot Sidhu
2. Imran Farhat
3. Fawad Alam
4. VVS Laxman
5. Subramaniam Badrinath
6. Mohammad Shahzad [+]
7. Manjural Islam
8. Mohd Amir
9. Ishant Sharma
10. Muthiah Muralitharan
11. Mohd Asif

Shahzad definitely the wildcard

 

[jimmy101]

Are teams allowed to play in Pakistan?

As long as you keep everything above board as chairman of the PCB.

 

[jimmy101]

8 + 7 = 15 matches, no? Doesn't seem right.

I get 6 home and 7 away counting for my team, which seems fair enough as we don't really have a home.

Can we nominate grounds for each of our home matches, or will you be sovereign?

Ah stupid fixture generator, it said it was going to distribute home/away matches evenly. Nevermind, I've found a different site that does a better job of generating fixtures, so I'll update my previous post shortly. Good pick up though, luckily we didn't begin using that fixture, only for someone to notice (probably not me) that some teams were getting more home matches than away & vice versa.

With the new fixture everyone should get 7 home & 6 away matches.

You can nominate grounds if you like. The game doesn't actually let you pick which ground you want to play at, only which country you play in. I just include ground names with my scorecard posts for cosmetic purposes. Ground conditions don't differ from ground to ground, but they do differ from country to country.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Thanks for clearing that up Jimmy.

Nominate the following fixtures. I know Bar/Tri/Jam probably defaults to WI, but just for flavour.

R1 West Ocean v Sanzacs: At Bridgetown Oval (Barbados)
R2 West Ocean v Bangladesh: At Dublin (Ireland)
R4 West Ocean v New Zealand: At Kensington Oval (Trinidad)
R6 West Ocean v Sri Lanka: At Kingston Oval (Jamaica)
R8 West Ocean v West Indies: At Lord's (England)
R10 West Ocean v World XI: At The Hague (Netherlands)
R13 West Ocean v Asia: At Edinburgh (Scotland)

 

[jimmy101]

Cool. Yeah exactly, it just adds flavour.

Just so you know Ireland, Netherlands & Scotland will default to England (the associates aren't playable in ICC '13 vanilla)

Afg will default to Pakistan.

Thinking of hosting the Zim vs World XI match in Kenya, just so big Steve can have a home match (in game it will really be in Zimbabwe).

 

[jimmy101]

Friendly

Pakistan v India A - Niaz Stadium, Hyderabad

India A

Pakistan

Pakistan won by 6 wickets.

Man of the match: Aamer Sohail

 

[OverratedSanity]

Some of the names in that Indian lineup give me severe ptsd.