Round 5 Test

[marc71178]

Eden Gardens v Lords
MCG v Sharjah

Basin Reserve v Toronto
Lahore v Cape Town

Harare v Kandy
Dhaka v Kensington Oval

 

[Tom Halsey]

The Cats - need to bounce back...

DL Haynes
G Kirsten
GA Headley
WR Hammond
FMM Worrell*
Salim Malik
AW Greig
MV Boucher+ (batting over 'keeping skills)
RR Lindwall
MM Marshall
DR Tuffey

I really need Warne back...

 

[Jamee999]

*sees what a clanger Tom's made*

 

[Tom Halsey]

Don't see what it is...

 

[Andre]

Kandy

WH Ponsford
BM McMillan
IT Botham
RN Harvey
IVA Richards
DG Bradman (c)
PR Umrigar
CL Cairns
IA Healy +
DK Lillee
EA Martindale.

Gambling.

 

[Tom Halsey]

The Cats - need to bounce back...

DL Haynes
G Kirsten
GA Headley
WR Hammond
FMM Worrell*
Salim Malik
AW Greig
MV Boucher+ (batting over 'keeping skills)
RR Lindwall
MM Marshall
SK Warne

I really need Warne back...

EDIT: I've just realized he will be back, because Round 4 ODI's are before this...

 

[Tom Halsey]

The Cats - need to bounce back...

DL Haynes
G Kirsten
GA Headley
WR Hammond
FMM Worrell*
Salim Malik
AW Greig
MV Boucher+ (batting over 'keeping skills)
RR Lindwall
MM Marshall
SK Warne

I really need Warne back...

Renamed team, as I've just realized Warne is back, because the ODI's are before this.

 

[Jamee999]

I spotted it as soon as you posted it :P

 

[Tom Halsey]

Well to you then.

 

[Mister Wright]

Mcg

R Mahanama
B Lawry
J Miandad
D Martyn
A Stewart
A Border
C McMillan
W Akram
S Doull
C Grimmett
C Ambrose

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

Kensington Oval Komodos

MH Richardson (New Zealand)
H Sutcliffe (England)
J Ryder (Australia)
KC Bland (South Africa)
CL Walcott (West Indies)
RB Kanhai (West Indies)
KR Miller (Australia)
Imran Khan (Pakistan)
Khan Mohammad (Pakistan)
NAT Adcock (South Africa)
S Ramadhin (West Indies)

Kanhai for Ganguly and Ramadhin in for Mahmood, as the pitch should take a bit of spin.
Seriously considered Shastri for Kanhai, but I figure the latter is the better bet as I don't expect to win on the subcontinent. A draw would be great though, if only to prevent the bragging.

 

[garage flower]

Toronto Tigers - Goddard in for Spofforth

Bolstering the batting for what could be a tricky away trip and Goddard's medium pace should be a good first-change option on Basin Reserve's greentop.

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

 

[Jamee999]

The Basin Reserve Bears announce an-unchange line-up.

Here it is.

L.Hutton
J.Langer
J.Kallis
A.Gilchrist+
V.Sehwag
B.Mitchell
S.Waugh*
B.Statham
J.Laker
B.Willis
A.Donald

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Sharjah - still hampered by the loss of Jack Hobbs...

1. HH Gibbs
2. Saeed Anwar
3. CS Dempster
4. DS Lehmann
+5.KC Sangakkara (it is spelt that way!)
6. M Azharuddin
7. CC Hunte
8. IR Bishop
9. Pervez Sajjad
10.CTB Turner
11.SF Barnes

Seamers, it's time to step up...

 

[AUST_HiTMaN]

Eden Gardens XI

JH Edrich
ST Jayasuriya
R Dravid (wk)
SR Tendulkar
BC Lara (c)
VG Kambli
Yousuf Youhana
A Kumble
Iqbal Qasim
CA Walsh
GD McGrath

Big re-shuffle in the batting lineup. Playing 2 proper openers this time instead of 1 and a makeshift. Sanath Jayasuriya and Iqbal Qasim are in, and in an experimental move Dravid will be taking up the gloves meaning Kirmani makes his way out. Darren Gough departs for Iqbal Qasim due to pitch conditions.

Batting order has been shuffled to accomodate for the 2 openers. Just an experiment game - hoping it will pay off.

 

[Adamc]

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

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

11 of 12 was great for the last ODI round, but we're 9 out of 12 this time. Disappointing.

 

[Waughney]

Am getting mine up right now.

EDIT: here it is

1. S Gavaskar
2. G Boycott
3. D Compton
4. H Mohammed
5. J Coney
6. J Reid
7. A Parore (wk)
8. J Srinath
9. W Younis (1)
10. J Thompson (2)
11. H Ironmonger

 

[marc71178]

And Lords will play:

GM Turner
GA Gooch
RT Ponting
EdeC Weekes
GStA Sobers (c)
KD Walters
APE Knott (wk)
RJ Hadlee
HJ Tayfield
FS Trueman
N Hirwani

 

[Neil Pickup]

Dingos Unchanged

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

Please, no nightwatchmen this time...