CWC Pre-Season: OD Round Robin
 

The CWC Pre-Season continues with a series of OD matches, held over 3 days, to be competed by 3 trial squads.
Each team will play each other once, in a round robin format, for a total of two games each. Each team will play one home and one away game.

The schedule is as follows:

3rd SEPT
CWC Trial XI A vs CWC Trial XI B

4th SEPT
CWC Trial XI B vs CWC Trial XI C

5th SEPT
CWC Trial XI C vs CWC Trial XI A

The squads are:

CWC Trial XI A
E Ames
P Spark
D Jellett
JD Hurricane
L Townsend
C Ardley
D Garson
SC Somerset
GIMH Martyn
L Himann
HT Davis
M Wisney

CWC Trial XI B
G Shriram
H Mork
A Turb
G Furball
DB Wayne
I Narang
C Lewis
S Delev
A Fagina
M Morkel
A Sharma
M Deen
Dazinho

CWC Trial XI C
O du Toit
P Ingram
A Monk
J Howe
JB De Prag
Z Dunlop
T Loganathan
R Yamadera
H Beaver
M Hunt
G Sriram
S Zadran
B Smythe-Smith

Could one player from each squad please put their hand up for captaincy - for trial games, your only responsibility is to select an XI.

The first match of the series will be contested later tonight, AEST.

If there is no captain nominated for any given team, that teams selection will be conducted automatically by the sim.

Umm, I am a middle order batsman, not an opener.

I'll take the B XI if you want.

Game One:

1. H Mork
2. C Lewis - 6
3. G Furball - 7
4. A Turb
5. G Shriram
6. D Wayne (wk)
7. I Narang - 5
8. M Deen - 2
9. Dazhino - 3
10. A Fagina - 4
11. M Morkel - 1

Delev and Sharma missing out. Going with a spin-heavy attack.
Toss: Bat first.
Special Instructions: Only bowl Furball if desperate. Bunny Fagina and Morkel, if the sim allows for it.

Game Two:

1. G Furball - 7
2. I Narang - 8
3. G Shriram
4. A Turb
5. H Mork (wk)
6. M Deen - 6
7. C Lewis - 5
8. Dazhino - 4
9. S Delev - 3
10. A Sharma - 1
11. M Morkel - 2

Fagina and Wayne missing out.
Toss: Bat
Special Instructions: Use bowlers 5 through 8 pretty evenly, unless one is getting belted. Bunny Sharma and Morkel if possible.


More a lottery than anything else - testing guys out in random positions to see how they cope etc. etc.

Sure, I'll take C.

Lineup vs CW Trial B
O du Toit
P Ingram
A Monk
JB De Prag
Z Dunlop (6)
J Howe (wk) (c)
S Zadran (3)
T Loganathan (4)
R Yamadera (1)
H Beaver (5)
M Hunt (2)

Toss: Bat

Lineup vs CW Trial A
J Howe (wk)
O du Toit
JB De Prag (6)
A Monk
B Smythe-Smith
P Ingram
Z Dunlop (3)
R Yamadera (2)
H Beaver (5)
M Hunt (1)
G Sriram (4) (c)

Toss: Bowl

I'll take A if you email me the info

Please note new registration B Smythe-Smith has been added to your squad; as your first match is not until tomorrow, you can edit your line-ups any time between now and then if you wish.

Please also note that although I have some control of bowling in the sim, it is not total. The sim I am using is VC4 (for a number of reasons), and whilst I have gained a good insight into the mechanics of the game engine and how to database around this, I cannot totally control the bowling over-by-over. One of the key reasons I selected this sim was for just this reason, as it assures equal chances for all in the sim - will justify the choice of sim at more length elesewhere if desired, but I am not prepared to change now (at least for season one) as I have put a fairly heavy amount of time into creating and testing the databases.

Done. Please post team line-ups as soon as you can, so the first match can begin.

Done.

Hurricane please note, your team line-up must be in within the next hour; if it is not, an XI wil be selected for you. Thanks :)

Morkel and Atul Sharma together. Jizzworthy.

Hell yeah. Won't be pretty if we ever bowl to each other though.

If I am elected as a club captain this will never happen :wub:

OD Trial Match
CWC Trial XI A vs CWC Trial XI B

CWC Trial XI A
1. E Ames
2. C Ardley (wk)
3. D Jellett
4. JD Hurricane (c)
5. L Townsend
6. P Spark
7. D Garson
8. M Wisney
9. SC Somerset
10. L Himann
11. HT Davis

CWC Trial XI B
1. H Mork
2. C Lewis
3. G Furball
4. A Turb
5. G Shriram
6. D Wayne (c) (wk)
7. I Narang
8. M Deen
9. Dazhino
10. A Fagina
11. M Morkel

CricketWeb Trial XI B won the toss and elected to bat first on what looked a belter of a track for the batsmen. Somerset struck early, before Lewis and Furball added a quick 120 for the second wicket; Lewis with a fine 66 (68) and Furball with 75 (82). After losing both these wickets in short time, the B's again rallied - a couple of clever partnerships allowing Turb to score 73* (68), suported by Shriram (39 off 35) and his captain Wayne (not out 29) - leaving the B's with an outstanding total of 4/308. Not surprisingly, the bowlers struggled, with all-rounder Ames the only multiple wicket taker.

The A's needed to start strongly and new trialist wicket-keeper Chris Ardley raced to 83 (59) at the top of the order. He struggled to keep a partner initially, until captain JD Hurricane - being touted as a potential #1 draft pick - strode confidently to the centre, and got on top from the outset. The skipper made a magnificent century at better than a run a ball, but could not find sustained support in his middle-lower order and fell disappointingly short of the target. Deen and Narang, whilst expensive, captured 3 wickets each to really take the life out of the chase.

MOTM: JD Hurricane

I had a mare.