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[Magrat Garlick]

Pakistan:

Taufeeq Umar
Salman Butt
Shoaib Malik
*Younis Khan
Asim Kamal
Sufyan Munir (FC)
+Kamran Akmal
Riaz Afridi (FC)
Shabbir Ahmed
Danish Kaneria
Umar Gul

Can Riaz' Test stats be disregarded and his FC ones be used instead (it's one game...)? If not pick

Mohammad Irshad

please.

Bowling order:

1: Shabbir, Gul
2: Riaz/Irshad
3: Danish
4: Shoaib
5: Sufyan

Pace: 9
Movement: 2
Spin: 8

(I think low number are bowl-friendly)

 

[Adamc]

Australia's options are a bit limited: they've only had nine debutants since 2000. I imagine that's what the '3 FC players' clause is for.

 

[Barney Rubble]

I'll take England (c.2009):

AJ Strauss
AN Cook
MP Vaughan*
IR Bell
KP Pietersen
A Flintoff
GO Jones+
LE Plunkett
SP Jones
SJ Harmison
M Panesar

Bowling order:
1. Harmison
2. Plunkett
3. Jones
4. Flintoff
5. Panesar
(6. Bell)
(7. Vaughan)
(8. Pietersen)

Pitch: (if low numbers are bowler-friendly)
Pace - 2
Movement - 8
Spin - 4

 

[NZTailender]

I'll take WI, if that's OK.

Yep Post your team and you'll be set.

Samual_Vimes gets Pakistan and I'll use Riaz's FC stats.

Barney Rubble..yeah you get England, but if you want to just quick link the players for later use I'd really appreciate it.

Teams left:
Australia
Bangladesh
India
New Zealand
South Africa
Sri Lanka
Zimbabwe

Taken:
England-Barney Rubble
Pakistan-Samuel_Vimes
West Indies-Adamc

 

[NZTailender]

Australia's options are a bit limited: they've only had nine debutants since 2000. I imagine that's what the '3 FC players' clause is for.

Yup But also any other teams with a low amount of players who debuted since then or ones who've played only 1 or 2 matches.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Yup But also any other teams with a low amount of players who debuted since then or ones who've played only 1 or 2 matches.

Bangladesh shouldn't have any problem, they've got 43 debutants.

Other countries:

West Indies 33
Zimbabwe 31
Pakistan 27
India 26
England 26
South Africa 24
New Zealand 22
Sri Lanka 21

 

[Barney Rubble]

Barney Rubble..yeah you get England, but if you want to just quick link the players for later use I'd really appreciate it.

Yeah no problem, was in a rush earlier.

AJ Strauss
AN Cook
MP Vaughan*
IR Bell
KP Pietersen
A Flintoff
GO Jones+
LE Plunkett
SP Jones
SJ Harmison
MS Panesar

There ya go mate.

EDIT: Just realised Flintoff and Vaughan debuted after 1st Jan 2000, so they have to go. Replace them with OA Shah and PD Collingwood. Could you use Collingwood's FC stats too, please? He'll be useless otherwise! And Strauss becomes captain 'cause Vaughan's not there.

 

[NZTailender]

Cheers

 

[NZTailender]

MP Vaughan*
A Flintoff

Andrew Flintoff:
Test debut England v South Africa at Nottingham - Jul 23-27, 1998

Michael Vaughan:
Test debut South Africa v England at Johannesburg - Nov 25-28, 1999

Sorry mate Could you please pick two different players?

 

[NZTailender]

EDIT: Just realised Flintoff and Vaughan debuted after 1st Jan 2000, so they have to go. Replace them with OA Shah and PD Collingwood. Could you use Collingwood's FC stats too, please? He'll be useless otherwise! And Strauss becomes captain 'cause Vaughan's not there.

Okay, acceptable. No problems now

 

[Barney Rubble]

Okay, acceptable. No problems now

Cheers.

 

[NZTailender]

Okay, hopefully this will make clear the pitch conditions (taken from the help file):


Modify pitch conditions

Pitch conditions can be set for each veune. N.B. each team is allocated one home ground. The pitch conditions in each game vary according to a gaussian distribution, but can be weighted by the pitch conditions controls. There are three factors to modify, pace, movement and turn:

Pace controls how quickly the wicket plays. Slower wickets are harder to score on and result in lower run rates. Faster wickets encourage greater run scoring but provide extra bounce for fast bowlers and spinners.

Movement controls how much the ball deviates both vertically and laterally. Greater movement produces more wickets and makes batting more difficult.

Turn controls how much assistance is in the pitch for slow bowlers. Pitches offering more turn will help slow bowlers take wickets.

So Pace: 0=low 10=high
Movement: 0=low 10=high
Spin: 0=low 10=high

0 pace would be a slow pitch, 10 would be fast.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Bangladesh shouldn't have any problem, they've got 43 debutants.

Actually, thinking about Bangladesh - should we only allow players who have made their ODI debut after 2000? Otherwise Mashud and Bashar and Rafique and the entire old guard would be eligible...

 

[Chubb]

I'll take Zimbabwe

Brendan Taylor
Terry "Podge" Duffin
Dion Ebrahim
Hamilton Masakadza
Tatenda Taibu
Charles "Chappie" Coventry
Andy Blignaut
Gavin Ewing
Keith Dabengwa
Blessing Mahwire
Douglas Hondo

I have limited myself to those guys who debuted after 2000 and are likely to play international cricket again. There isn't anyone better than this lot who made an FC debut since 2000!

Bowling Order
1. Blignaut
2. Mahwire
3. Hondo
4. Ewing
5. Dabengwa

pace 5 (Harare is not especially fast)
movement 3 (Don't really fancy that batting linup on a seaming pitch!)
spin 8 (two spinners...)

 

[Magrat Garlick]

I have limited myself to those guys who debuted after 2000 and are likely to play international cricket again. There isn't anyone better than this lot who made an FC debut since 2000!

Suggestion: Edward Rainsford

Hey, his FC stats are decent...

 

[Chubb]

Suggestion: Edward Rainsford

Hey, his FC stats are decent...

Forgot about him, and Tinashe too. But the thing is the Zimbabwe 1st class standard is so that Gavin Ewing averages 40 with the bat and 32 with the ball, and he's not that good. I would put Rainsy in now, but I think I'll stick with two spinners and I don't think he's strong enough to break into the pace attack, all those guys have mid-30s test bowling avgs. except Mahwire and his is coming down at the moment.

 

[NZTailender]

Actually, thinking about Bangladesh - should we only allow players who have made their ODI debut after 2000? Otherwise Mashud and Bashar and Rafique and the entire old guard would be eligible...

I'm not sure it'd matter much. Plus there are some players picked who made ODI debuts before 2000 IIRC.

 

[NZTailender]

Also, anyone picking FC players or players with few tests and would prefer their FC stats, please put FC next to their name. Thanks

 

[Adamc]

Suggestion: Edward Rainsford

Hey, his FC stats are decent...

He actually looked quite decent against Australia, why hasn't he been playing recently?

Anyway, here's my bizarrely spin-heavy WI side:

CH Gayle
WW Hinds
*RR Sarwan
T Maraj
R Ramdass (FC stats instead of Test, if possible)
DJJ Bravo
+D Ramdin
NC McGarrell
NO Miller
JC Lawson
CEL Stuart

For the FC only players, are you going to adjust their stats (e.g. increase their bowling average and decrease batting average)? If so, could you please replace Ramdass with MN Samuels. Also, Stuart appears to have retired. This probably defeats the purpose of the exercise, so if you want, you can replace him with DB Powell, but make Powell bat at 10.

Bowling order:
1 - Lawson
2 - Stuart
3 - Bravo
4 - McGarrell
5 - Miller
6 - Gayle
(7 - Hinds
8 - Sarwan)

Ta.

 

[NZTailender]

I'll only adjust FC players stats in rare cases (IE, bowlers having odd averages due to more than half of their innigns being not outs, or the like).

I'll replace Stuart with Powell.

Everything seems okay Except your pitch conditions