Post Line-ups 2024/25 Pepsi Cup - Round 1 - Where The Best Play!

[Na Maloom Afraad]

Please submit your lineups for the first round of the Pepsi Cup:​

Round 1

1 December, 2024

PESHAWAR vs

BALOCHISTAN
Arbab Niaz Stadium, Peshawar
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No injuries
- Even - Provides an evenly balanced contest for all disciplines of the game.

2 December, 2024

FEDERAL TERRITORY vs

SINDH
Islamabad Club Cricket Oval, Islamabad
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No injuries
- Dusty - Plenty of turn on offer for spinners and a good place to bat for spin-savvy batsmen. Good pace bowlers are still likely to thrive.

3 December, 2024

CENTRAL PUNJAB vs

NORTHERN AREAS
Jinnah Stadium, Sialkot
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No injuries
- Green - A lot of movement on offer early on, making it ideal for fast bowlers. Batting expected to become easier as the match progresses.

4 December, 2024

JANOOBI PUNJAB vs

LAHORE
Multan Cricket Stadium, Multan
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No injuries
- Poor - Uneven bounce and a huge amount of turn on offer for spinners. Expect a slow hard grind for very few runs.

5 December, 2024

KARACHI vs

KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA
Asghar Ali Shah Cricket Stadium, Karachi
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No injuries
- Flat - A batsman-friendly pitch which provides little or no assistance to bowlers. Expect big totals.

Standings

R​	Team​	Mat​	Won​	Lost​	Tied​	N/R​	Pts​	NRR​
1​	Balochistan	0​	0​	0​	0​	0​	0​	0.000​
2​	Central Punjab	0​	0​	0​	0​	0​	0​	0.000​
3​	Federal Territory	0​	0​	0​	0​	0​	0​	0.000​
4​	Janoobi Punjab	0​	0​	0​	0​	0​	0​	0.000​
5​	Karachi	0​	0​	0​	0​	0​	0​	0.000​
6​	Khyber Pakhtunkhwa	0​	0​	0​	0​	0​	0​	0.000​
7​	Lahore	0​	0​	0​	0​	0​	0​	0.000​
8​	Northern Areas	0​	0​	0​	0​	0​	0​	0.000​
9​	Peshawar	0​	0​	0​	0​	0​	0​	0.000​
10​	Sindh	0​	0​	0​	0​	0​	0​	0.000​

Statistics

Available on respective team pages; to be updated every three rounds.

Lineup Rules

You must have at least six capable bowling (/) options in your lineup
You can have a maximum of three overseas () players in your lineup
Mark your active bowlers with ^ and your active wicket keeper with †/+

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Deadline

24 hours - failure to submit lineup within given deadline will result in auto-selection.

@Aislabie @Lazerknighta @CerealKiller @pillowprocter @Perfect Square @mohsin7827 @ahmedleo414 @Neptune @Aravind. @Till Valhalla​

 

[Na Maloom Afraad]

Announce your captains with your lineups for the first round.Unlike my other leagues, you can drop your captain and change captaincy mid-season.

Also, I was thinking about giving each team a 2-point ratings buff for their home games as sort of an artificial home advantage since the OD sim doesn't really have that, unlike the Test sim. So unless I see an overwhelming negative response to this idea, I think I'm gonna go ahead and implement it.

@Aislabie @Lazerknighta @CerealKiller @pillowprocter @Perfect Square @mohsin7827 @ahmedleo414 @Neptune @Aravind. @Till Valhalla

 

[Perfect Square]

KARACHI vs KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA

Quinton de Kock
Saim Ayub
Shan Masood
Saud Shakeel
Glenn Maxwell ^
Azam Khan †
Anwar Ali ^
Mitchell Starc ^
Rumman Raees ^
Mir Hamza ^
Abrar Ahmed ^

 

[Till Valhalla]

Abhishek Sharma
Sharjeel Khan
Mohammad Saddam

Jos Buttler
Hardik Pandya

Azeem Ghumman

Saad Khan

Shahnawaz Dahani
Muhammad Hasnain

Zahid Mahmood
Kashif Bhatti

 

[ahmedleo414]

1. Imam-ul-Haq
2. Abid Ali
3. Babar Azam
4. Usman Salahuddin
5. Salman Ali Agha
6. Qasim Akram
7. Zafar Gohar
8. Junaid Ali
9. Mohammed Siraj
10. Josh Hazlewood
11. Adam Zampa

 

[Na Maloom Afraad]

Abhishek Sharma
Sharjeel Khan
Mohammad Saddam

Jos Buttler
Hardik Pandya

Azeem Ghumman

Saad Khan

Shahnawaz Dahani
Muhammad Hasnain

Zahid Mahmood
Kashif Bhatti

Dahani captain, Ghumman at six

Okay

 

[Aravind.]

Sahibzada Farhan
Mohammad Haris
Virat Kohli
Shreyas Iyer
Mohammad Rizwan
Iftikhar Ahmed
Mohammad Sarwar
Shaheen Afridi
Kuldeep Yadav
Abbas Afridi
Usman Khan Shinwari

 

[Till Valhalla]

Dahani captain, Ghumman at six

Okay

This is me, take it on.

 

[pillowprocter]

Also, I was thinking about giving each team a 2-point ratings buff for their home games as sort of an artificial home advantage since the OD sim doesn't really have that, unlike the Test sim. So unless I see an overwhelming negative response to this idea, I think I'm gonna go ahead and implement it.

the only slight reservation i have about this is if the top 5 teams each season get an extra home game, this could sorta cause a greater inequality gap between top 5 and bottom 5 teams

 

[pillowprocter]

Rahmanullah Gurbaz
Zain Abbas
Mohammad Basit Ali
Sohaib Maqsood
Sharoon Siraj
Nicholas Pooran
Arafat Minhas
Aamer Yamin
Ali Usman
Jasprit Bumrah
Faisal Akram

EDIT: replaced Waseem Akram with Ali Usman

i much prefer picking local captains in leagues, so Siraj's decent domestic captaincy experience gets him the gig

 

[Na Maloom Afraad]

the only slight reservation i have about this is if the top 5 teams each season get an extra home game, this could sorta cause a greater inequality gap between top 5 and bottom 5 teams

That's a completely fair reservation to have, but the way I see it: for a team that's considered strong on paper, a 2-point ratings buff isn't really all that much. Whereas for a lower rung team, it's just enough of a boost to cause an upset. It helps a team that needs help more than it does a team that was already doing well, IMO.

 

[mohsin7827]

Shahzaib Khan
Fakhar Zaman
Kamran Ghulam
Daryl Mitchell
Heinrich Klaasen
Khushdil Shah
Ravindra Jadeja
Khalid Usman
Mohammad Wasim Jr.
Naseem Shah
Ihsanullah

 

[Neptune]

NORTHERN AREAS

Rohit Sharma
Shubman Gill
Kashif Ali
Husnain Shameer
Riazat Ali Shah
Naveed Malik
Usman Maroof
Kagiso Rabada
Zaman Khan
Sufiyan Muqeem
Salman Irshad

Extra pacer on that wicket, now we leave it to fate.

@Na Maloom Afraad mate I've tried looking and I legit cant find the espn profiles of Mohammad Abdullah and Mohammad Haider on espn, can you send me any links of their profiles if you can. Can't believe they made it into the final squad ,I mean imagine being one of the players dropped from the squad; how much worse can you even be

 

[Na Maloom Afraad]

@Na Maloom Afraad mate I've tried looking and I legit cant find the espn profiles of Mohammad Abdullah and Mohammad Haider on espn, can you send me any links of their profiles if you can. Can't believe they made it into the final squad ,I mean imagine being one of the players dropped from the squad; how much worse can you even be

Mohammad Abdullah Profile - Cricket Player Pakistan | Stats, Records, Video

Read about Mohammad Abdullah cricket player from Pakistan profile, stats, rankings, records, videos, photos at ESPNcricinfo

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Mohammad Haider Profile - Cricket Player Pakistan | Stats, Records, Video

Read about Mohammad Haider cricket player from Pakistan profile, stats, rankings, records, videos, photos at ESPNcricinfo

www.espncricinfo.com

 

[Perfect Square]

the only slight reservation i have about this is if the top 5 teams each season get an extra home game, this could sorta cause a greater inequality gap between top 5 and bottom 5 teams

I thought the same as well initially but I remember @Na Maloom Afraad saying that extra home game for top teams was done as a reward. Plus he has explained now how it's going to be an advantage for lower ranked teams as well.