Round 2 Tests

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

Group A
MCG v Lords
Eden Gardens v Sharjah

Group B
Lahore v Toronto
Basin Reserve vs Cape Town

Group C
Dhaka vs Kandy
Harare vs Kensington Oval

The team on the right-hand side is the home team.

 

[Mister Wright]

MCG Manta Rays

WM Lawry
AJ Stewart+
Javed Miandad
DR Martyn
AR Border*
NJ Astle
JR Reid
Wasim Akram
CV Grimmett
CL Ambrose
AV Bedser

 

[Magrat Garlick]

SHARJAH SHARKS vs EG Eagles

1. HH Gibbs
*2. JB Hobbs
3. CS Dempster
4. DS Lehmann
+5.KC Sangakkara
6. CC Hunte
7. M Azharuddin
8. Pervez Sajjad
9. CTB Turner
10.SF Barnes
11.BS Chandrasekhar

12th Man: NS Sidhu

An attempt to get some points from a spinning pitch. Bishop certainly wasn't up to it.

 

[garage flower]

Toronto Tigers - same XI as Round 1 (if it ain't broke.....)

1. D Nourse
2. G Chappell
3. G Pollock *
4. S McCabe
5. T Dexter
6. M Crowe
7. S Pollock
8. F Engineer +
9. A Davidson
10. J Garner
11. F Spofforth

12. T Goddard

 

[Tom Halsey]

The Cape Town Cats manager wishes to apologise for missing the ODI lineup, and ask for the same lineup as the 1st Test.

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

KO Komodos 2nd Test XI

MH Richardson (New Zealand)
H Sutcliffe (England)
J Ryder (Australia)
KC Bland (South Africa)
CL Walcott (West Indies)
SC Ganguly (India)
KR Miller (Australia)
Imran Khan (Pakistan)
Fazal Mahmood (Pakistan)
Khan Mohammad (Pakistan)
NAT Adcock (South Africa)

 

[Adamc]

Harare Hammerheads

CG Greenidge
GC Smith
Zaheer Abbas*
DPMdeS Jayawardene
VS Hazare
M Amarnath
Imtiaz Ahmed+
AME Roberts
MA Holding
SE Bond
GA Lohmann

Tough decision to leave out Lock but the Kensington pitch should provide some assistance for a 4-man seam attack.

 

[Jamee999]

Cape Town Cats vs Basin Reserve Bears

L Hutton
J Langer
J Kallis
V Sehwag
B Mitchell
A Gilchrist(wk)
T Graveney
B Statham
J Laker
B Willis
A Donald*

Sehwag moves up to 4 and Graveney fills his place. Willis is replaced by Ntini.

Donald captaining the side and we need runs down to 7.

TEAM NEWS: Ntini injured by over-bowling in his very hard push to get in the team: 10 overs on Wednesday+ plus 20 overs a day on Thursday and Friday injured him. Will be rested until Tuesday when his fitness test will be taken.
Willis regains his place

 

[marc71178]

The team on the right-hand side is the home team.

No, it's the teams on the left that are at home!


The round will be delayed till Sunday or Monday UK time to allow people to change the teams as appropriate if they so wish.

 

[marc71178]

Lords Team:

GM Turner
AF Rae
RT Ponting
EdC Weekes
GStA Sobers (c)
KD Walters
APE Knott (wk)
RJ Hadlee
FS Trueman
HJ Tayfield
CEH Croft

Giving the lads another chance to impress, but we expect results...

 

[marc71178]

The Cape Town Cats manager wishes to apologise for missing the ODI lineup, and ask for the same lineup as the 1st Test.

Even if unchanged, it would be very helpful if you were to post it in here in future!

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

No, it's the teams on the left that are at home!


The round will be delayed till Sunday or Monday UK time to allow people to change the teams as appropriate if they so wish.

I knew that...

Can't be bothered to check if it's true but my excuse is that I posted that at night and was tired....

 

[Mister Wright]

I didn't even read that last line. I just assumed the home team was the one on the left.

 

[Adamc]

Harare Hammerheads

CG Greenidge
GC Smith
Zaheer Abbas*
DPMdeS Jayawardene
VS Hazare
M Amarnath
Imtiaz Ahmed+
MA Holding
GAR Lock
SE Bond
GA Lohmann

New team based on home team being on the left - Lock in for Roberts.

 

[Jamee999]

Basin Reserve don't change the team- pitches are the same really.

 

[Neil Pickup]

First home game in the National Stadium. The Dingos expect a sellout crowd:

Matthew Hayden
Roy Fredericks
Thilan Samaraweera
Ken Barrington
Seymour Nurse
Wilfrid Rhodes
Jack Russell
Bapu Nadkarni
Bert Vogler
Muttiah Muralitharan
Shoaib Akhtar

Kapil Dev replaced by Wilfrid Rhodes

 

[AUST_HiTMaN]

1. ST Jayasuriya
2. VG Kambli
3. R Dravid
4. BC Lara (c)
5. SR Tendulkar
6. Yousuf Youhana
7. SMH Kirmani (wk)
8. A Kumble
9. BS Bedi
10. CA Walsh
11. GD McGrath

Anil Kumble comes in for Darren Gough due to the spin friendly pitch.

 

[marc71178]

Andre announced an unchanged side on MSN.

Only Dylan left...

 

[marc71178]

J Ryder (Australia)

Is still 4 weeks away from recovery...

 

[Mister Wright]

Andre announced an unchanged side on MSN.

Only Dylan left...

Are we waiting for him, or will his team be random picked? I have a feeling it is past his bed time and won't be back online tonight.