**Official** TEST XI ANNOUNCEMENTS

[Mister Wright]

**New Zealand 1st Test Team to be played at Basin Reserve Wellington**

C. Dempster
M. Richardson
J. F. Reid
A. Jones
C. McMillan
J. R. Reid (off spin)
A. Parore (wk)
R. Hadlee (c)
D. Nash
D. Tuffey
S. Bond

New Ball: Hadlee & Bond

 

[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

Feel it's another sure fire innings win to stay at the top...

Lohmann and W Barnes for the new cherry, please.

 

[Neil Pickup]

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

SM Pollock & TL Goddard take the new ball

Major risk not playing any spinners...

I think it'll be a draw 0-0 this series.

 

[Tom Halsey]

I think it'll be a draw 0-0 this series.

I should think so, playing all them batsmen!

 

[Jamee999]

*GC Smith...
Major risk not playing any spinners...

Smith is a partimer:P

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Ignore this post. Misunderstanding.

 

[Yousuf_Youhana]

1st Test XI Away From Home V NZ!

Away tour here, hope to do well, after looking at Christchurch conditions I have picked the following squad

W.H.Ponsford
M.L.Hayden
D.G.Bradman
R.T.Ponting (VC)
S.R.Waugh*
A.C.Gilchrist+
K.R.Miller~
H.Ironmonger(SLA)~
C.T.B Turner~
F.R.Spofforth(2)~
G.D.McGrath(1)~

12th Man: J.L.Langer

~: Should bowl if possible.

 

[marc71178]

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

 

[Mister Wright]

**New Zealand 2ndTest Team to be played at McLean Park, Napier**


C. Dempster
M. Richardson
J. F. Reid
A. Jones
C. McMillan
J. R. Reid (off spin)
A. Parore (wk)
R. Hadlee (c)
D. Nash
D. Tuffey
S. Bond

New Ball: Hadlee & Bond

 

[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

Not sure who is going to catch us at the top...

Lohmann and W Barnes for the new cherry, please.

 

[marc71178]

Not sure who is going to catch us at the top...

Of 8 series completed, you've only played 2 against the strongest 4 sides and 6 against the weaker ones.

Don't count chickens...

 

[Tom Halsey]

I was under the impression that I had just beaten your side?

Meh, I guess I have a few tough series coming up.

 

[marc71178]

Meh, I guess I have a few tough series coming up.

You sure do...

The nature of this tournament means that your position is nowhere near as rosey as it appears!

 

[Jamee999]

Just realised I hav'nt posted a team so

S Tendulkar*
S Das
R Dravid+
S Ganguly
V Sehwag
K Dev
A Kumble
A Agarkar
J Srinath
S Gupte
B Bedi

Agarkar and Srinath with the new ball

PS: If Agarkar can not play he will be replaced with S Gavakar who will bat at 3 and K Dev will take the new ball

 

[Neil Pickup]

Are you going to name some pitch conditions or not?!

 

[Magrat Garlick]

2ND Test XI:

ST Jayasuriya
MS Atapattu*
TT Samaraweera
HP Tillekaratne+
DPMdS Jayawardene
A Ranatunga
RL Dias
AP Gurusinha
PA deSilva
WPUJC Vaas
M Muralitharan

New ball: Jayasuriya, Gurusinha.

 

[marc71178]

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

Imran and Wasim new ball please.

 

[Yousuf_Youhana]

2nd test
No Changes

W.H.Ponsford
M.L.Hayden
D.G.Bradman
R.T.Ponting (VC)
S.R.Waugh*
A.C.Gilchrist+
K.R.Miller~
H.Ironmonger(SLA)~
C.T.B Turner~
F.R.Spofforth(2)~
G.D.McGrath(1)~

12th Man: J.L.Langer

~: Should bowl if possible.

 

[Neil Pickup]

No need to change.. so no change!

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

SM Pollock & TL Goddard take the new ball

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Liam - just to be sure - I posted the 2nd test XI above, not the 1st. I'm a bit confused...