**Official** TEST XI ANNOUNCEMENTS

[Neil Pickup]

I'd rather play batsmen than Stat Muppets... 8D

As I have absolutely no reason to change a winning side:

*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]

Struggle to see what should help:

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

Opening bowlers: Gurusinha, Vaas.

 

[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

Waqar and Wasim new ball please.

 

[Mister Wright]

**New Zealand Team for 2nd Test**

C. Dempster
M. Richardson
J. F. Reid
A. Jones
C. McMillan
J. R. Reid (OS)
A. Parore (wk)
R. Hadlee (c)
B. Taylor
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

Important series coming up against the Windies. I hope this win will shut people up about the SM's...

Lohmann and W Barnes for the new cherry, please.

 

[marc71178]

I hope this win will shut people up about the SM's...

It won't, since any victory you gain is because of them!

 

[Neil Pickup]

Eight Tests Unchanged for me.. W4 D3 so far:

*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

 

[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.

 

[Armadillo]

Sunil Gavaskar
Virender Sehwag
Navjot Sing Sidhu
Mohammad Azharuddin (c)
Sachin Tendulkar
Rahul Dravid (wk)
Ravi Shastri-
Kapil Dev-
Harbhajan Singh-
Zaheer Khan-
Anil Kumble-

Could you please bowl the bowlers with a dash next to them if possible, Kapil Dev and Zaheer Khan with the new ball please.

 

[marc71178]

I thought Dravid wasn't a Keeper?!

 

[Armadillo]

yer but i can still use him as one.... right?

 

[Neil Pickup]

Fine by me, if he wants more drops than the average PY Test 8D

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

yer but i can still use him as one.... right?

Dravid has never kept in a Test and thus does not qualify.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Struggle to see what should help:

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

Opening bowlers: Gurusinha, Vaas.

 

[Jamee999]

Dravid has never kept in a Test and thus does not qualify.

But I could use him

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

But I could use him

An oversight on Marc's part.

 

[marc71178]

But I could use him

Anyone else find it ironic that Jamee now posts more in here than he did when he was managing a side?

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

Australia XI to be randomly selected.

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

I'd appreciate if people would do like Neil and indicate when they're playing the same XI as the last game. It's a lot of help when I don't have to check each player on the team.

 

[marc71178]

Unchanged Pakistan Team please!