Post Line-ups Champions League XX - Round 1 - It's time to give the people what they need, not what they want...

[riz7khan12]

Auckland doesn't get any matches. Eden Park is too wierdly shaped for cricket anyway.

Wtf?, no africa and no auckland i bet callum will beg to differ about no matches at auckland.

 

[Chewie]

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[Biggy]

Chewie. Who are all the player clashes?

Chewie?

 

[Chewie]

Chewie?

This is the overall list of clashes:

Clashes:

AB de Villiers:
	Bucks
	Melbourne
	Titans

Ricky Ponting:
	Magpies
	Cobras

Jacques Kallis:
	Cobras
	Adelaide
	Titans

Eoin Morgan:
	Bucks
	MCC

Graeme Smith:
	Otago
	Melbourne

Hashim Amla:
	Titans
	Otago

JP Duminy:
	Cobras
	MCC

Brendon McCUllum:
	Bucks
	Melbourne
	Magpies

Yuvraj Singh:
	Magpies
	MCC

Shahid Afridi:
	Magpies
	Melbourne

Daniel Vettori:
	Bucks
	Melbourne

Mitchell Johnson:
	Bucks
	Titans

Shoaib Akhtar:
	Adelaide
	Magpies

Ray Price:
	Cobras
	MCC

James Anderson:
	Bucks
	Melbourne

Kyle Mills:
	Otago
	Titans

I haven't yet figured it out for the different groups.

Chewie added 0 Minutes and 43 Seconds later...

Oh, and the first post is completely updated

 

[Biggy]

OK, so these are the clashes with a home team?

AB de Villiers - Bucks

Jacques Kallis - Cobras

JP Duminy - Cobras

Brendon McCUllum - Magpies

Eoin Morgan - MCC

Leaves 10 clashes..

Biggy added 0 Minutes and 42 Seconds later...

I am not a fan of a player playing for 2 different teams in the same competition. I think each player should be assigned to a squad before the comp starts.

 

[Chewie]

OK, so these are the clashes with a home team?

AB de Villiers - Bucks

Jacques Kallis - Cobras

JP Duminy - Cobras

Brendon McCUllum - Magpies

Eoin Morgan - MCC

Leaves 10 clashes..

Biggy added 0 Minutes and 42 Seconds later...

I am not a fan of a player playing for 2 different teams in the same competition. I think each player should be assigned to a squad before the comp starts.

Some of the clashes should never eventuate because of the teams being in different groups though. I'm not sure how they could be assigned to a squad and this is how it was in the past two editions.

Chewie added 13 Minutes and 35 Seconds later...

Hashim Amla - Titans v Otago
AB de Villiers - Bucks v Titans
JP Duminy - Cobras v MCC
Mitchell Johnson - Bucks v Titans
Jacques Kallis - Adelaide v Cobras
Brendon McCullum - Bucks v Magpies
Kyle Mills - Titans v Otago
Ray Price - Cobras v MCC

Only two clashes in group plays where a home team is not involved. I tried to minimise it as much as possible. In the play-offs anything can happen though.

 

[Biggy]

I tried to work it out but some players just lost too much talent (up to 3 batsmen in some cases) so your idea is the best way.

 

[CG123]

Where's Abdul Razzaq in Otago's squad?

 

[Chewie]

Where's Abdul Razzaq in Otago's squad?

Must have missed him out. Fixing now

Chewie added 1 Minutes and 9 Seconds later...

And as you can see I've gone a bit overboard with the all-rounders

 

[CG123]

In the NZPL I have Graeme Smith as a PT bowler, and not Martin Guptill as one.
While here Martin Guptill is one, while Graeme Smith isn't.
Smith has taken 47 List A wickets, while Guptill has taken 2...

 

[Chewie]

Well I don't really expect Guptill or Smith to bowl but I'll make Smith one as well Just that I don't remember the last time Smith bowled.

 

[CG123]

I don't really remember him bowling in RL, but going by his stats he bowls in every 3rd/4th ODI innings.
Bilal bowled him at bit in the NZPL.

 

[Sartaj]

This will be our third game in a row against the Lions.

 

[Chewie]

Well you had one match in between them

I used a fixture generator to make them and that's what they came up with.

I also see that the first round Otago v Hawke's Bay is basically the final, which won't have been played by then...

 

[CG123]

I like the look of my line-up:

1. Chris Gayle
2. Jacques Kallis (c) (^)
3. Ricky Ponting
4. Michael Clarke
5. JP Duminy
6. MS Dhoni (wk)
7. Andrew Hall (^)
8. Johann Louw (^)
9. Tyron Henderson (^)
10. Nuwan Kulasekara (^)
11. Andre Nel (^)

For the normal and poor pitches I still got Murali and Price to come back in, as well as Mathews and Yousuf as international cover, and the best local talent in AfPL season one, Stiaan van ZyL.

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I also see that the first round Otago v Hawke's Bay is basically the final, which won't have been played by then...

It might be, depending on when you post your matches.