ICC All-time World Cup Sim League

[mr_mister]

Nope I've got NZ

 

[MrPrez]

If Sri Lanka's available (and Magrat wasn't wanting them), I'll take them.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

If Sri Lanka's available (and Magrat wasn't wanting them), I'll take them.

I've double checked, it's yours.

List:

Australia - morgieb
India - srbhk
West Indies - SCC
Sri Lanka - MrPrez
Pakistan - Teuton
England - Howe_zat
New Zealand - mr_mister
South Africa - Michaelf7s
Zimbabwe - Dan
Namibia - GoodAreasShane

Kenya
Bangladesh
Ireland
Canada
Netherlands
Scotland
UAE
Afghanistan
Bermuda

 

[Teuton]

trundler had Windies and I picked Pakistan

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

trundler had Windies and I picked Pakistan

Trundler backed out and I took WI

 

[Magrat Garlick]

yeah I think we're in line now

 

[GoodAreasShane]

Will grab Zimbabwe because **** Cribb.

Gonna destroy you with Namibian Burger power. Zimbabwe won't stand a chance against the sizzle.

Seriously though, looking forward to the Zim v Nam game

 

[Magrat Garlick]

OK, don't think we're going to get much more take up. So we'll have 10 teams.

I suggest
2 groups of 5,
group winners go to semi-finals,
runners-up and 3rd placed in each group go to quarter-finals.

You've got 48 hours to post the squads of 15 and the year you're selecting from. The squad templates on Wikipedia should be a decent start.

 

[morgieb]

What's the rules re: players who were originally picked but withdrew? I'm assuming it's only from one WC yeah?

 

[Magrat Garlick]

What's the rules re: players who were originally picked but withdrew? I'm assuming it's only from one WC yeah?

1 World Cup, exactly.
you can pick them if they were demonstrably part of the team in the season preceding it. This also applies to teams that had smaller squads than 15 for whatever reason.

And you can sub out the second keeper.

 

[Michaelf7777777]

Are players judged based on their overall career or their ability at the time?

 

[morgieb]

1 World Cup, exactly.
you can pick them if they were demonstrably part of the team in the season preceding it. This also applies to teams that had smaller squads than 15 for whatever reason.

And you can sub out the second keeper.

Right, so I'll go 2003 for Australia in that case:

Ricky Ponting
Michael Bevan
Andy Bichel
Nathan Bracken
Adam Gilchrist
Jason Gillespie
Matthew Hayden
Brad Hogg
Brett Lee
Darren Lehmann
Damien Martyn
Glenn McGrath
Andrew Symonds
Shane Warne
Shane Watson

 

[mr_mister]

I don't understand, you're estimating player skills but using ICC?

 

[Howe_zat]

Imma just pick the provisional 2019 squad along with Archer (who everyone expects to get in the squad).

Eoin Morgan
Jos Buttler
Moeen Ali
Jofra Archer
Jonny Bairstow
Tom Curran
Joe Denly
Alex Hales
Liam Plunkett
Adil Rashid
Joe Root
Ben Stokes
David Willey
Chris Woakes
Mark Wood

 

[Magrat Garlick]

I don't understand, you're estimating player skills but using ICC?

Ended up not using ICC, we couldn't get Namibia to work anyway.

Are players judged based on their overall career or their ability at the time?

Ability at the time

 

[Michaelf7777777]

I will choose 2015 and my South African squad will be as follows:

Hashim Amla
Quinton de Kock
Faf du Plessis
AB de Villiers
David Miller
JP Duminy
Rilee Rossouw
Jacques Kallis
Ryan McLaren
Wayne Parnell
Vernon Philander
Imran Tahir
Dale Steyn
Morne Morkel
Kagiso Rabada

 

[srbhkshk]

I'll pick India 2011

1.MS Dhoni - wicketkeeper and captain
2.Virender Sehwag - batsman
3.Ravichandran Ashwin - spinner
4.Piyush Chawla - spinner
5.Gautam Gambhir - batsman
6.Harbhajan Singh - spinner
7.Zaheer Khan - fast bowler
8.Virat Kohli - batsman
9.sreesanth - seamer
10.Ashish Nehra - seamer
11.Munaf Patel - seamer
12.Yusuf Pathan - allrounder
13.Suresh Raina - batsman
14.Sachin Tendulkar - batsman
15.Yuvraj Singh - batsman

 

[mr_mister]

New Zealand 2003

Brendon McCullum +
Stephen Fleming *
Matthew Sinclair
Nathan Astle
Craig McMillan
Scott Styris
Chris Cairns
Chris Harris
Daniel Vettori
Kyle Mills
Shane Bond

Jacob Oram
Andre Adams
Lou Vincent
Daryl Tuffey


The main difference between this and the '99 team would have been Twose, Parore and Allott for Styris, Mccullum and Bond, the core side was pretty similar. The 90s batting strike rates may have been harmful to my chances though

 

[Teuton]

Pakistan 1992

Saeed Anwar
Aamer Sohail
Ijaz Ahmed
Javed Miandad
Inzamam-ul-Haq
Imran Khan
Moin Khan
Wasim Akram
Waqar Younis
Mushtaq Ahmed
Aaqib Javed

Ramiz Raja
Saleem Malik
Akram Raza
Zahid Fazal

 

[GoodAreasShane]

Ended up not using ICC, we couldn't get Namibia to work anyway.

Sorry about that.

Deon Kotze
Jan-Berrie Burger
Louis Burger
Sarel Burger
Morne Karg
Daine Keulder
Bjorn Kotze
Gavin/Brian Murgatroyd
Gerrie Snyman
Stefan Swanepoel
Johannes van de Merwe
Burton van Rooi
Melt van Schoor
Rudi van Vuuren
Riaan Walters

Didn't really have much choice here. Half considered a more modern Namibian side but decided against it