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Stumped!

Charlie B

U19 Vice-Captain
Managing an International team is so different to club level.

With a club you get to build a team to play the gameplan you want to play. If your new ball bowlers aren't good enough, you replace them, if your allrounder sucks you find another. You set your home pitch so you know you can have a strategy that works 50% of the time, and just recruit a few players to fill the gaps for other conditions.

With the Nat team you're stuck between trying to get the best players you have into the XI while also figuring out a workable strategy that revolves around them. You sometimes have to balance playing weaker players because they fit a role, with the risk being that they might suck anyways because they're just not good enough. Much higher skill levels at Nat cricket too, and no Friendly games to work out strategies in.

The Bangladesh team is an interesting one. Our best batters are all suited to hyper-aggressive roles, our best top-order options have low stamina, we only have 1 good spinner who is already 28, and we've got no quality bowlers who can hold the stick. So we're stuck constructing these very old-school looking XIs with a bits and pieces allrounder at 7 and a long tail. But then we don't quite have the Top 6 to back them up. A lot of the pitches at Nat level are high wear too, since we play on club grounds on the days right after a club match, so that lack of a 2nd spinner and batting depth really hurts us. We've also got three bowlers who are first-XI material who are all LM which is kinda annoying. Lefties aren't hax in this game the way they are IRL.

It's an interesting challenge. Need to figure out how to build a winning strategy with the talent at our disposal somehow. Doesn't help that we have the shallowest talent pool in the game. I think I'm coming close to figuring it out, but really wish I could play a bunch of friendly matches, or simulate some BD vs BD 'A' games to get a better idea.
A very interesting post - I liked the description of your 'old school XI' Nat team and its strengths/weaknesses - rather reminiscent of my old reports on my essay writing - well the start was weak and it tailed off at the end and the middle was nothing to write home about, but apart from that yes!... well , plenty of potential.
 
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Jarquis

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Yea but potentials can't be higher than starting skills, so generally speaking higher starting skills = higher potentials overall.
Hmmm. I’d say historically my highest potentialled pulls have had terrible starting skills
 

StephenZA

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
One way to work around this is to always pick the YP with the highest batting average, and to ignore bowing average completely. I've been doing that lately and have had more batting-skewed pulls, it's just my poor luck that none of them have been good lol. FHK have got some decent bats through this method tho.
I've been doing this since early after I read about the difficulty regarding getting high quality batsmen. Always pick the player with highest batting avg potential, everything thereafter is roll of the dice.
 

Magrat Garlick

Rather Mad Witch
Put the 44 bowler up for offer btw. I really think he can do a job with 16 ACC/18 VAR, especially as late over specialist as part of a green mamba specialist attack
 

ataraxia

International Coach
Put the 44 bowler up for offer btw. I really think he can do a job with 16 ACC/18 VAR, especially as late over specialist as part of a green mamba specialist attack
If you want a moderate downgrade on that, here you go

I actually need a bowler more than a bat rn (hence why I pulled that bowler), but I'm still light a couple of gun bats for my side 5 seasons in the future.
 

ataraxia

International Coach
Rusty attacking the 2-6-1 field is gun. 21 (9) for him, just the sort of innings I'm pleased with from him. Thinking, he might get a pop today actually.
 
GG v Moo in an U-21, 50 over match...

GG are batting first and currently on 117/3.
Tony Watt is going strong on 78 (82), along with him is his skipper Peter Sutherland who just came in the middle on 3 off 7.

For Moo, a wicket a piece for Henton, Vethanayagam, and McCormack.
 
This looks like it'll be a thriller. Low scoring at that.

Prior to this game...I know that the last encounter between the youths of these two teams ended in a high-scoring tie...but that was a 40-over affair.

I think Moo has enough overs to make the runs today.
 

cnerd123

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20/48 17 YO bat on the market for around 300K. Tempted to blow my Zack Yattack sales earnings on him. Would replace the 16 YO 41 pot bat I currently have opening the batting in the Dev team, could get him some coaching as well and make him a long term opener.

Problem is he's 20-14-14. Skills aren't linear, so the gap between 19 and 20 isn't the same as 14 to 15, so he'll actually perform a bit below what you'd expect of a 48 pot batter. Late bloomer and 14 stam potential is good, only 8 fielding pot is meh, and he can chuck down some LMF with 16/36 skill/pot, so possible 6th bowling option if I can find him some overs but not really worth investing in.

Tough call.
 
20/48 17 YO bat on the market for around 300K. Tempted to blow my Zack Yattack sales earnings on him. Would replace the 16 YO 41 pot bat I currently have opening the batting in the Dev team, could get him some coaching as well and make him a long term opener.

Problem is he's 20-14-14. Skills aren't linear, so the gap between 19 and 20 isn't the same as 14 to 15, so he'll actually perform a bit below what you'd expect of a 48 pot batter. Late bloomer and 14 stam potential is good, only 8 fielding pot is meh, and he can chuck down some LMF with 16/36 skill/pot, so possible 6th bowling option if I can find him some overs but not really worth investing in.

Tough call.
Throw throw the dice on him.
 

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