**Official** TEST XI ANNOUNCEMENTS

[Armadillo]

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

Damn

 

[Yousuf_Youhana]

sorry for not posting XI, I forgot, had too much to do yesterday

 

[Mister Wright]

**New Zealand Team for 3rd Test**

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

Hadlee & Bond for new ball.

 

[Armadillo]

Sunil Gavaskar
Virender Sehwag
Najvot Singh Sidhu
Sachin Tendulkar
Rahul Dravid
Mohammad Azharuddin (c)
Kapil Dev
Farooq Engineer (wk)
Anil Kumble
Harbhajan Singh
Zaheer Khan

Zaheer and Kapil with the new cherry please

 

[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 game 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.

 

[Neil Pickup]

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

You're not quite understanding the SM issue, are you?

The fact that you only win because of packing your bowling attack full of them isn't likely to make us shut up about them...

 

[Tom Halsey]

Meh, who cares?

 

[marc71178]

You clearly do.

 

[Yousuf_Youhana]

3rd Test XI For Aus.

W Ponsford
J Langer
M Hayden
D Bradman
R Ponting VC
S Waugh*
A Gilchrist
D Lehmann~
H Ironmonger~ (2)
S Warne~
G McGrath~ (1)

~Should bowl if possible

 

[Neil Pickup]

Once again, no changes - no need.

*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]

Same team as 2nd test v Aus for 1st Test v India.

Sorry for missing the deadline yet again. ICC editing taking its toll

 

[Tom Halsey]

Unchanged team for England please, Liam.

 

[Mister Wright]

**New Zealand Team for First Test**

C. Dempster
M. Richardson
J. F. Reid
A. Jones
C. McMillan
J. R. Reid
A. Parore
R. Hadlee
S. Doull
D. Tuffey
S. Bond

Hadlee & Bond with new ball.

 

[Tom Halsey]

**New Zealand Team for First Test**

Getting ready for a loss, are we, Mister Wright?:P

 

[Armadillo]

indian team for first test against sri lanka

Sunil Gavaskar
Virender Sehwag
Mohammad Azharuddin (c)
Sachin Tendulkar
VG Kambli
Rahul Dravid
VS Hazare
Kapil Dev
Sanjay Manjrekar (wk)
Harbhajan Singh
Javagal Srinath
Anil Kumble

Kapil and Javagal with the new cherry

 

[Magrat Garlick]

indian team for first test against sri lanka

Sunil Gavaskar
Virender Sehwag
Mohammad Azharuddin (c)
Sachin Tendulkar
VG Kambli
Rahul Dravid
VS Hazare
Kapil Dev
Sanjay Manjrekar (wk)
Harbhajan Singh
Javagal Srinath
Anil Kumble

Kapil and Javagal with the new cherry

Who's 12th man?

 

[Tom Halsey]

LOL!!

Adil never was any good at maths!!

Does the number "11" mean anything to you?

 

[marc71178]

Pakistan unchanged again please - our form appears to be on the wane and this is their last chance before changes come into place!

 

[Mister Wright]

Getting ready for a loss, are we, Mister Wright?:P

We'll see. We are riding high after beating two big guns in Australia & Pakistan both by 2-1. You are on our turf now. But it will be tough for us Kiwi's considering we've only been in test cricket for 60 odd years, and didn't get the advantage of bowling on those crappy wickets in England that would have lowered our bowlers' averages.

 

[Armadillo]

sorry everyone team for 1st test v sri lanka, redone

S Gavaskar
V Sehwag
M Azharuddin
S Tendulkar
V Kambli
R Dravid
V Hazare
K Dev
S Manjrekar (wk)
J Srinath
Harbhajan Singh

Srinath and Dev with the new ball please