Best side?

[morgieb]

Which side is the best?

The Shakespearean Animals CC

1. Alastair Cook
2. Sam Robson
3. Darren Bravo
4. Usman Salahuddin
5. Nick Compton
6. Ben Stokes
7. Peter Nevill (wk)
8. Johan Botha
9. Neil Wagner
10. Trent Boult
11. Marchant de Lange

Globo-Gym Cobras

1. Chris Gayle (6)
2. Taufeeq Umar
3. Usman Khawaja
4. Subramaniam Badrinath
5. Jesse Ryder
6. Matthew Prior+
7. Daniel Vettori (5)
8. Murali Karthik (4)
9. Ryan Sidebottom (2)
10. Mohammad Amir (3)
11. Zaheer Khan (1)

Pouncing Kittens

1. Ed Cowan
2. Jacques Rudolph
3. Virat Kohli
4. Mahela Jayawardene (c)
5. Manoj Tiwary
6. Glenn Maxwell (5)
7. Parthiv Patel (+)
8. Irfan Pathan (3)
9. Steve O'Keefe (4)
10. James Pattinson (1)
11. Steve Magoffin (2)

Funky Town Monkey Pimps

1. Tamim Iqbal
2. Simon Katich (6)
3. Brendon McCullum
4. Jacques Kallis (6)
5. Mohammad Yousuf
6. VVS Laxman
7. Shakib Al Hasan (4)
8. James Hopes
9. Vernon Philander (1)
10. Ryan Harris (2)
11. David Masters (3)

**** Fishers

1. Murali Vijay (#9)
2. Matthew Hayden (#11)
3. Hashim Amla (#3)
4. Ajyinka Rahane (#6)
5. Ian Bell (#2)
6. Chestewatar Pujara (#7)
7. MS Dhoni (#4)
8. Sachitra Senenyake (#8)
9. Morne Morkel (#1)
10. Umar Gul (#5)
11. Fidel Edwards (#10)

Fire Breathing Rubber Duckies

01. Phillip Hughes
02. Phil Jacques
03. Rilee Rossouw
04. James Taylor
05. James Hildreth
06. Mark Cosgrove
07. Kaushal Silva+
08. Chris Woakes
09. Andre Adams
10. Muttiah Muralitharan
11. Glenn McGrath

The Brudenell Social Club Pub Quiz Team

1. Fawad Alam
2. Tillakaratne Dilshan (6)
3. Dinesh Chandimal+
4. Younis Khan
5. Gary Ballance
6. Angelo Mathews*
7. Mohammed Hafeez (5)
8. Graeme Swann (3)
9. Rangana Herath (4)
10. Glen Chapple (1)
11. Ravi Rampaul (2)

The Hectic Glow

1. Graeme Smith
2. Virender Sehwag (6)
3. Ravi Bopara (8)
4. Dale Benkenstien
5. Mike Hussey (7)
6. Dwayne Bravo (2)
7. Tim Bresnan (1)
8. Mushfiqur Rahim
9. Harbhajan Singh (5)
10. Darren Sammy (3)
11. Andre Russell (4)

Annoying Siblings GLC CC

Lumb
Joyce
Trott
Pietersen
Davies+
Bairstow
Flintoff
Tremlett
Harmison
Onions
Panesar

Sneaky Soldiers CC

1)Abhinav Mukund
2)David Warner
3)Tharanga Paranavitana
4)Kumar Sangakkara (Wk)
5)Rohit Sharma
6)Shivnarine Chanderpaul
7)Sourav Ganguly
8)Nikita Miller
9)Praveen Kumar
10)Quinton Friend
11)Alan Richardson

Mick Lewis Invitational XI

1. A Peterson
2. N McKenzie
3. A Prince
4. S Tendulkar
5. D Brownlie
6. S Patel
7. HAPW Jayawardene
8. L Butterworth
9. R McLaren
10. P Siddle
11. A Rehman

Sparks With Laser Beams In Their Eyes CC

1. Matthew Wade
2. Michael di Venuto
3. Ricky Ponting
4. Michael Clarke
5. Paul Collingwood
6. Albie Morkel
7. James Faulkner
8. Mitchell Johnson
9. James Anderson
10. Makhaya Ntini
11. Mark Davies

SHSDWIDFG Squirts Cricket Club

1) S Sriram
2) Murray Goodwin
3) Kirk Edwards
4) Rahul Dravid
5) Kane Williamson
6) James Franklin
7) Kruger van Wyk
8) Johan van der Wath
9) Pragyan Ojha
10) Doug Bracewell
11) Chris Martin

Cute Soft Cuddly Bears CC

1. Andrew Strauss*
2. Gautam Gambhir
3. Michael Carberry
4. AB de Villiers
5. Asad Shafiq
6. Ryan ten Doeschate
7. Ravindra Jadeja
8. Ravichandran Ashwin
9. Pat Cummins
10. Saeed Ajmal
11. Aizaz Cheema

Furball's Fenoms

1. CJL Rogers
2. OA Shah
3. DJ Hussey
4. TT Samaraweera
5. JP Duminy
6. AB McDonald
7. J Foster
8. BCJ Cutting
9. DW Steyn
10. ST Finn
11. MI Tahir

Prince EWS's XI

1. Shane Watson
2. Vusi Sibanda
3. Mathew Sinclair
4. Mark Ramprakash
5. Misbah-ul-Haq
6. Brendan Taylor
7. Mahmadullah Riyad
8. Chaminda Vaas
9. Trent Johnston
10. Nathan Lyon
11. Doug Bollinger

Samuel_Vimes' XI

1. Marcus Trescothick
2. Dean Elgar
3. Azhar Ali
4. Ross Taylor
5. Adam Voges
6. -
7. Brad Haddin
8. Stuart Broad
9. Cornelius de Villiers
10. Trent Copeland
11. Ben Hilfenhaus

[Spark]

Marcuss's, easily.

[morgieb]

Way I see it:

rvd1242321 - will be good in the future, but it won't do much damage this season.
Eds - risky side. Can arguably win it, but also flop significantly. Hard to tell.
Johnners - mediocre.
Marcuss - really should win it.
mine - risky, but fairly good. Probably one of the stronger sides.
Himmanv - lacks big names. Will do reasonably well but won't really challenge.
Howe_zat - top side if they play on spinning pitches a lot. May struggle if they don't.
weeman27bob - should do pretty good. Should finish in the upper half of the comp.
GIMH - not even very strong by English standards.
Cevno - wickets may be an issue. Will probably be hard to beat but won't win much.
Noble One - mid-table side.
Spark - fairly strong, but rather risky.
Daemon/Flem274* - strugglers.
Cabinet96 - pretty solid side. One of the contenders.
GingerFurball - not nearly as strong as last season. Probably should do reasonably well though.
Prince EWS - strugglers, though the top 5 (except for Sibanda) is fairly strong.
Samuel_Vimes - meh. Pretty strong bowling attack though.

[Marcuss]

Underrating Noble_One imo. Also think Himannv has a decent side.

Also disagree with GIMH's rating. That bowling attack would dominate the CC and besides Lumb the batting isn't awful. Not good enough for this standard though.

[morgieb]

So....

1. Funky Town Monkey Pimps (Marcuss)
2. Sparks With Laser Beams In Their Eyes CC (Spark)
3. Cute Soft Cuddly Bears CC (Cabinet96)
4. The Brudenell Social Club Pub Quiz Team (Howe_zat)
5. Globo-Gym Cobras (Eds)
6. **** Fishers (yours truly)
7. The Hectic Glow (weeman27bob)
8. Furball's Fenoms (GingerFurball)
9. Mick Lewis Invitational XI (Noble One)
10. Samuel_Vimes
11. Sneaky Soldiers CC (Cevno)
12. Fire Breathing Rubber Duckies (Himmanv)
13. Pouncing Kittens (Johnners)
14. The Shakespearean Animals CC (rvd1242321)
15. Annoying Siblings GLC CC (GIMH)
16. Prince EWS
17. SHSDWIDFG Squirts Cricket Club (Flem274*/Daemon)

[morgieb]

Originally Posted by Marcuss

Underrating Noble_One imo. Also think Himannv has a decent side.

Also disagree with GIMH's rating. That bowling attack would dominate the CC and besides Lumb the batting isn't awful. Not good enough for this standard though.

Yeah you're probably right with GIMP's, but yeah it would struggle at this standard.

Himannv's isn't very good for mine, batting lacks a standout and the bowling is a massive risk. Probably underrated Noble One's lineup though.

Really though apart from the bottom 4 and your side it looks rather close. Should be fun.

[Flem274*]

Going to enjoy the Squirts destroying Morgz.

Hopefully his trading schemes don't get in first.

[Marcuss]

No way in hell that I'd have Cabinet third

[morgieb]

Originally Posted by Flem274*

Going to enjoy the Squirts destroying Morgz.

Hopefully his trading schemes don't get in first.

I won't trade with you ****. Or Eds.

[Noble One]

Not sure why I have dropped from runner-up last season to mid-table this year in Morgieb's assessment.

1. A Peterson = A Puttick
2. N McKenzie = W Jaffer
3. A Prince - Retained
4. S Tendulkar - Retained
5. D Brownlie > C White
6. S Patel = M North
7. HAPW Jayawardene > N Pothas
8. L Butterworth - Retained
9. R McLaren - Retained
10. P Siddle - Retained
11. A Rehman > Mendis

[Marcuss]

Mendis just freakishly underperformed. Without doubt he was better than Rehman will be.

[Cevno]

Marcuss has the best side. I have the best batting.

[Eds]

Originally Posted by morgieb

I won't trade with you ****. Or Eds.

I've got Amir already.

[Cabinet96]

Originally Posted by Marcuss

No way in hell that I'd have Cabinet third

AWTA, I can easily see my middle order doing **** all and my bowlers really struggling for wickets.

[Eds]

Back on topic, I think I could finish anywhere, really. Gayle, Ryder, Amir, Karthik and to an extent Sidebottom, Umar and Vettori are all pretty hit-and-miss.