**Official** TEST XI ANNOUNCEMENTS

[Magrat Garlick]

You'll be fine. You've inherited one of the front-runners in the League.

Yep, the front-runners went down 1-0 to Sri Lanka on home soil :P

Now, however, some serious changes must be made:

MS Atapattu
ST Jayasuriya
HP Tillekaratne+
TT Samaraweera
KC Sangakkara
A Ranatunga
RL Dias
PA deSilva*
WPUJC Vaas
M Muralitharan
KPJ Warnaweera (OS please)

Opening bowlers:
Muralitharan
Vaas

 

[Tom Halsey]

England squad for 2nd Test:

H Sutcliffe
JB Hobbs
KF Barrington
WR Hammond
DCS Compton
ER Dexter
AJ Stewart
GA Lohmann
SF Barnes
FS Trueman
JC Laker

Barnes and Lohmann for the new cherry please.

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

West Indies 2nd Test XI

CG Greenidge
PJL Dujon +
GA Headley
EdC Weekes
FMM Worrell
GStA Sobers
IVA Richards
MD Marshall
CEL Ambrose
J Garner
CA Walsh

New Ball: Ambrose and Marshall

 

[Yousuf_Youhana]

2nd Test XI

1. W.H.Ponsford
2. M.Hayden
3. D.G. Bradman
4. R.Ponting`
5. S.R.Waugh*
6. A.K.Davidson
7. A.C.Gilchrist+
8. H.Ironmonger (LMF please)
9. C.T.B. Turner
10. F.R.Spofforth (2)
11. G.D.McGrath (1)


` = V.Captain

Use, Davison, Ironmonger, Turner, Spofforth + McGrath please.

 

[Tom Halsey]

Englands edited squad for 2nd test:

H Sutcliffe
JB Hobbs
E Paynter
L Hutton
FS Jackson
ER Dexter
AJ Stewart
GA Lohmann
SF Barnes
W Bates
FS Trueman

Lohmann and Barnes for the new cherry please.

Sure fire win. SA were lucky last game. :P

 

[Magrat Garlick]

SL XI for 3rd Test to avoid the whitewash:

MS Atapattu
ST Jayasuriya
HP Tillekaratne+
TT Samaraweera
KC Sangakkara
A Ranatunga
LRD Mendis
PA deSilva*
AP Gurusinha (2)
WPUJC Vaas (1)
M Muralitharan

 

[Mister Wright]

**New Zealand team for 3rd Test**

C. Dempster
J. Wright
J. F. Reid
N. Astle
M. Sinclair
A. Jones
C. Cairns
A. Parore (wk)
D. Nash
R. Hadlee (c)
S. Bond

Opening bowlers: Hadlee & Bond

 

[marc71178]

Saeed Anwar
Taufeeq Umar
Javed Miandad
Inzamam-ul-Haq
Yousuf Youhana
Mushtaq Mohammed
Imran Khan (c)
Imtiaz Ahmed (wk)
Pervez Sajjad
Waqar Younis
Danish Kaneria

Imran and Waqar for the new ball please.

 

[Jamee999]

S Tendulkar
S Gavaskar
R Dravid+
V Laxman
S Ganguly
K Dev
M Azharudin
A Kumble
J Srinath
B Bedi
Z Khan

Dev and Srinath with the new ball please

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

West Indies 3rd Test XI

CG Greenidge
PJL Dujon +
GA Headley
EdC Weekes
FMM Worrell
GStA Sobers
IVA Richards
MD Marshall
CEL Ambrose
J Garner
CA Walsh

New Ball: Ambrose and Marshall

 

[Tom Halsey]

H Sutcliffe(c)
E Paynter
KF Barrington
WR Hammond
L Hutton
JB Hobbs
AJ Stewart+
W Bates
GA Lohmann
SF Barnes
W Barnes

Lohmann and W Barnes for the new cherry, please. Looking fo another win following my 10 wicket destruction of SA. :P

 

[Yousuf_Youhana]

3rd Test XI For Aus.

1. J.L.Langer
2. W.M.Lawry
3. D.G. Bradman*
4. J.Ryder
5. R.N.Harvey
6. K.R. Miller
7. A.C.Gilchrist+`
8. S.C.G MacGill (SLA please)
9. S.K. Warne
10. D.Lillee (2)
11. R.R.Lindwall (1)


` = V.Captain

Big Changes to this side, Coach Youhana doing some experimenting as Langer, Lawry, Ryder, Harvey, Miller, MacGill, Warne + Lillee all come into the side, with Don Bradman + Adam Gilchrist the only survivors

 

[Tom Halsey]

Re: 3rd Test XI For Aus.

8. S.C.G MacGill (SLA please)

Maybe I'm wrong, but MacGill does not bowl SLA. :P

 

[marc71178]

Re: Re: 3rd Test XI For Aus.

Maybe I'm wrong, but MacGill does not bowl SLA. :P

It can't be much worse than his efforts at Leg Spin!

 

[Tom Halsey]

Very true, Marc.

 

[Mister Wright]

**New Zealand team for 1stTest**

C. Dempster
J. Wright
J. F. Reid
N. Astle
M. Sinclair
A. Jones
C. Cairns
A. Parore (wk)
D. Nash
R. Hadlee (c)
S. Bond

Opening bowlers: Hadlee & Bond

 

[Jamee999]

The Indian Team.

S.Gavaskar(vc)
S.Tendulkar
D.Vengarsarkar
G.Viswanath
R.Dravid+
S.Ganguly
K.Dev*
A.Kumble
J.Srinath
Harbhajan
B.Bedi

Vengarsarkar is back

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

West Indies 1st Test XI

CG Greenidge
IVA Richards
GA Headley
GStA Sobers
EdC Weekes
BC Lara
CL Walcott+
MD Marshall
CEL Ambrose
J Garner
CA Walsh

New Ball: MD Marshall and CEL Ambrose

 

[Neil Pickup]

The Caretaker Manager takes over once again

South Africa to host Pakistan at the Wanderers

*GC Smith
B Mitchell
RG Pollock
AD Nourse
KC Bland
JH Kalls
+HH Gibbs
G Kirsten
BM McMillan
TL Goddard
SM Pollock

If I'm not allowed to have Gibbs keeping, MV Boucher replaces him and bats at 11.

New ball: SM Pollock & TL Goddard

My LftA record stands at P1 D1 so far

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

Re: The Caretaker Manager takes over once again

South Africa to host Pakistan at the Wanderers

*GC Smith
B Mitchell
RG Pollock
AD Nourse
KC Bland
JH Kalls
+HH Gibbs
G Kirsten
BM McMillan
TL Goddard
SM Pollock

If I'm not allowed to have Gibbs keeping, MV Boucher replaces him and bats at 11.

New ball: SM Pollock & TL Goddard

My LftA record stands at P1 D1 so far

That's unorthodox...

Gibbs can't keep.