The Forumer's Ashes

[J_asonR]

Player Name: J D Robertson
Player Role: Batting Allrounder
Batting position: Four
Bowling Style: Medium-Fast
Batting aggression: Moderate
Country: England

[stephen]

Player Name: S Stephen
Player Role: Bowler
Batting position: 10
Bowling Style: Right arm legspin
Batting aggression: Defensive
Country: Aus

[mightymariner]

Player Name: Bim T Tesnan
Player Role: Bowling AR
Batting position: 8
Bowling Style: Deviously economical FM
Batting aggression: Moderate

To sit on the bench.

[Howe_zat]

**Official** Fixture List

June

12-16 Ireland Inv. XI v England, Dublin

19-23 Somerset Inv. XI v Australia, Taunton

26-30 Essex Inv. XI v England, Chelmsford

July

2-6 Worcestershire Inv. XI v Australia, Worcester

10-14 1st Test, Trent Bridge

18-22 2nd Test, Lord's

24-28 Sussex Inv. XI v England, Hove

August

1-5 3rd Test, Old Trafford

9-13 4th Test, Chester-le-Street

15-19 Northants Inv. XI v Australia, Northampton

21-25 5th Test, The Oval

[LongHopCassidy]

Name: LH Cassidy

Player role: Team coach, high performance manager, Gatorade handler, indiscrete Tweeter, sledger, tigerish gully/cover/point, ball shiner/saboteur, team function philanderer, RH nurdler (in order of competence)
Batting position: 12
Bowling style: 70kph parabolas on leg stump
Batting aggression: Two bars
Country: Republic of Straya

[Howe_zat]

Is it possible to get mod powers over just this thread? I thought I'd be able to carry on updating the OP but apparently not.

[Howe_zat]

In an early sim test

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WAFG

[Samuel_Vimes]

Took the singles on offer

[GIMH]

Is it possible to get mod powers over just this thread? I thought I'd be able to carry on updating the OP but apparently not.

A sure fire sign you spend too much time at the edit when you like paradise aka cricsim

[Howe_zat]

Summer set to commence at Dublin

Ireland Invitational XI vs England XI
Castle Avenue, Dublin
12th-16th June

England's Ashes preparation gets off to a tricky start of the Irish Sea tomorrow, as the squad faces off an Ireland team with no mind to be written off. Joining the hosts are a crop of young guest players, batsmen Teja and Jansen, allrounders Mork, Phlegm and Dong, and wicketkeeper-batsman Dharan.

While each step at this stage is no doubt done with one eye on the urn, England will have considered enough time has been had going over plans in the training camp - it's time to get some wins on the board.

The formidable England pace attack will be chomping at the bit to get at what looks like a short batting order for the hosts, especially on a fresh Dublin wicket. But talented allrounders Sticky Phlegm and Daemon Dong will fancy their chances of springing an upset on the English.

Misinfo Predicts: England by 8 wickets

Expected XIs:

England: Fertang, Pickup, Moody, Wood, Robertson, Ardley, Deen, Smithington-Smythe, Myheart, Furball, Force
Ireland Invitational XI: Porterfield, Mork, Teja, Jansen, Joyce, Dharan, Phlegm, Dong, Johnston, Murtagh, Dockrell

[Viscount Tom]

Carn Rays!?! Wait that's not right.

[weeman27bob]

Carn Rays!?! Wait that's not right.

If I average 70 with the bat I won't be complaining...

[Howe_zat]

Day One

Ireland Invitational XI: Porterfield, Mork, Phlegm, Teja, Jansen, Joyce, Dharan, Dong, Johnston, Murtagh, Dockrell
England XI: Fertang, Pickup, Moody, Wood, Robertson, Ardley, Deen, Smythington-Smythe, Myheart, Furball, Force


Under overcast skies, the hosts won the toss and chose to put England in to bat. Fertang and Pickup began in typically cautious fashion, adding 30 runs in the first hour, before Dong got the breakthrough by having Pickup caught at slip for 8. Fertang progressed to 32 against the pacemen, before he was out against Dockrell in the offspinner's first over. Lunch came with England on an uncomfortable 67/2.


Wood and Moody took a more aggressive approach after the break, adding 55 more to the total in an hour, but Dong and Dockrell would keep the visitors in check again. The former had Moody caught behind for 36, before Dockrell fetched Wood out for 32 without the fourth wicket stand adding a single run. Robertson struggled to adapt to what was remaining an intense bowling performance, and having made 19 skied a short Murtagh delivery to fine leg. England were in some trouble at 169/5.


Marcuss Deen came out with a determination to seize the initiative, and after tea struck Sticky Phlegm for three boundaries in one over. Ardley had only managed 27 by the time he became Murtagh's second victim after tea, but by then Deen had already raised the visitor's 200, on a personal 28 from 17 balls. With support from Smythington-Smythe at the other end, Deen raised the first fifty of the day at a run a ball.


Hakon Mork was given an oppertunity to display his medium pace before the new ball, and the move paid off as Smythington-Smythe fell for 20, leaving the tail exposed to the new ball on 261/7. However, England's and particularly Deen's approach late in the day saw them begin to take the match away. First the visitors gained some fortune from Myheart's two edges through third man for four, and while he was out for a brief 15, Deen kept up the attack to raise England's 300. Furball carried on with him, playing a shot a ball and running hard for his unbeaten 23, while the allrounder reached stumps on a defining 87* from 95 balls, with the score reading 321/8.

[morgieb]

If I average 70 with the bat I won't be complaining...

Average 12 at FC cricket IIRC.

[weeman27bob]

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