Round 6 Test

[marc71178]

The end of the initial Group stages, plenty still to play for.

Lords v Sharjah
Eden Gardens v MCG

Toronto v Cape Town
Basin Reserve v Lahore

Kandy v Kensington Oval
Harare v Dhaka

 

[garage flower]

Toronto Tigers - Spofforth back in for Goddard (who didn't bolster the batting as intended) as we try to complete an unbeaten 1st phase of the competition. A few order shifts too - Pollock stays at 4 after he finally made a score having dropped from 3 last week; Martin Crowe has a go at number 3.

1. D Nourse
2. G Chappell
3. M Crowe
4. G Pollock *
5. T Dexter
6. A Kallicharran
7. S Pollock
8. F Engineer +
9. A Davidson
10. J Garner
11. F Spofforth

Just a reminder - as per my e-mail to Marc - that I'm now on holiday until Saturday the 18th, so won't be able to post in either the next ODI or Test rounds (unless the tests are delayed prior to the next phase starting).
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[Tom Halsey]

G Kirsten
DL Haynes
GA Headley
WR Hammond
FMM Worrell
Salim Malik
MV Boucher+
RR Lindwall
MD Marshall*
SK Warne
DR Tuffey

Warne plays on a track that should help spin...must win game for us.

 

[Andre]

WH Ponsford
BM McMillan
DG Bradman (c)
RN Harvey
IVA Richards
PR Umrigar
IT Botham
CL Cairns
IA Healy +
DK Lillee
EA Martindale.

 

[Mister Wright]

R Mahanama
B Lawry
J Miandad
D Martyn
A Stewart+
A Border*
J Reid
W Akram
S Doull
A Qadir
C Ambrose

 

[Waughney]

Lahore

1. S Gavaskar
2. G Boycott
3. D Compton
4. H Mohammed
5. J Coney
6. J Reid
7. A Parore (wk)
8. J Srinath
9. W Younis
10. J Thompson
11. H Ironmonger

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

KO Komodos

As my spin tour continues, Ramadhin plays again.

MH Richardson (New Zealand)
H Sutcliffe (England)
J Ryder (Australia)
KC Bland (South Africa)
CL Walcott (West Indies)
RB Kanhai (West Indies)
KR Miller (Australia)
Imran Khan (Pakistan)
Khan Mohammad (Pakistan)
NAT Adcock (South Africa)
S Ramadhin (West Indies)

 

[Jamee999]

A win here would most likely put us through to the finals.

Shame Lahore sumbitt teams now :P

L.Hutton
J.Langer
J.Kallis
A.Gilchrist+
V.Sehwag
B.Mitchell
S.Waugh*
B.Statham
J.Laker
B.Willis
A.Donald

Must win game Come on GUYS!!!

 

[marc71178]

Lords:

GM Turner
GA Gooch
RT Ponting
EdeC Weekes
GStA Sobers (c)
KD Walters
APE Knott (wk)
RJ Hadlee
HJ Tayfield
FS Trueman
CE Croft

 

[marc71178]

Players to miss out if their teams aren't selected:

Sharjah - CS Dempster, CTB Turner
Eden Gardens - R Dravid, GD McGrath
Dhaka - ML Hayden, M MUralitharan.
Harare - Zaheer Abbas, M Holding.

 

[Tom Halsey]

G Kirsten
DL Haynes
GA Headley
WR Hammond
FMM Worrell
Salim Malik
AW Greig
MV Boucher+
RR Lindwall
MD Marshall*
DR Tuffey

Renamed team, thanks to Warne's injury. (Grr)

That said, it's given me the chance to strengthen the batting a touch.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

1. HH Gibbs
2. CS Dempster
3. DS Lehmann
+4.KC Sangakkara (it is spelt that way!)
5. M Azharuddin
6. CC Hunte
7. Mushtaq Mohammad
8. IR Bishop
9. BS Chandrasekhar
10.CTB Turner
11.SF Barnes

Fairly desperate charge due to injuries...

 

[Tom Halsey]

A win here would most likely put us through to the finals.

What exactly is you're reasoning for that? If I win, you're out whatever happens.

 

[Neil Pickup]

Nurse and Shoaib injured; Majid Khan and Kapil Dev come in

Matthew Hayden
Roy Fredericks
Thilan Samaraweera
Ken Barrington
Majid Khan
Kapil Dev
Wilfred Rhodes
+Jack Russell
Bapu Nadkarni
Bert Vogler
Muttiah Muralitharan

Seam attack left very short - could Dev and Vogler open, please?

 

[AUST_HiTMaN]

Eden Gardens XI

JH Edrich
ST Jayasuriya
R Dravid (wk)
SR Tendulkar
BC Lara (c)
VG Kambli
Yousuf Youhana
A Kumble
Iqbal Qasim
CA Walsh
GD McGrath

Unchanged XI - Dravid didnt drop a catch from memory last round, so he keeps the gloves.

 

[Jamee999]

What exactly is you're reasoning for that? If I win, you're out whatever happens.

How many teams have beaten Toronto?

 

[Tom Halsey]

There's a first time for everything - you're a bit overconfident IMO.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

There's a first time for everything - you're a bit overconfident IMO.

What's that about pots and kettles?

 

[Jamee999]

There's a first time for everything - you're a bit overconfident IMO.

You seem very confident that you're more likely to beat Toronto than I am to beat Lahore.
Our teams have been level in Tests and Toronto are a better team than Lahore.

You do the maths.

 

[Tom Halsey]

You seem very confident that you're more likely to beat Toronto than I am to beat Lahore.
Our teams have been level in Tests and Toronto are a better team than Lahore.

You do the maths.

I'm confident - but not over-confident. Toronto are the best team, but I reckon they're beatable.