Commonwealth Bank Championship: Round 6- Matches posted

[VC the slogger]

Happy with my squad, especially with the fast bowling lineup I've managed to put up. I hope we wreck havoc at the WACA. Our batsmen I reckon are definitely good enough to put up enough runs on the board. De Kock, the Marshes, and especially Du Plessis & Smith have all been batting brilliantly at international and domestic level this year, and they're well backed up by two Western Australian stalwarts in Hussey and North.

I admit we're a little short in the spin department, but we don't really need too many spinners at the WACA or any Australian venue in this competition apart from Sydney. O'Keefe is a handy containment bowler while the likes of North and Smith can more or less fill up for the one missing spinner.

Michael Hussey, undoubtedly one of the greatest players to emerge from Western Australia shall lead us. Steve Smith can be his deputy.

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---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shaun Marsh Quinton de Kock Brendon McCullum Faf du Plessis Michael Hussey Marcus North - Right-arm offbreak Steven Smith - Right-arm legbreak Suresh Raina - Right-arm offbreak Mitchell Marsh Daniel Christian Matthew Wade Nathan Coulter-Nile Dale Steyn Morne Morkel Brett Lee Pat Cummins Josh Hazlewood Steve O'Keefe ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Oh yeah?

Flat Sydney wickets. What more can I say..

 

[Sulaiman7]

Looks like a competitive team, with the likes of aggressive, hard-working and sweating to score as much as possible batter like Watson, Hughes, Paine and Clarke in the top order. Such top order can demolish any bowling attack, no matter if there's Steyn and Morkel, even if they fail once in a blue moon, Williamson, Mathews and Duminy will be ready to hunt in the middle order. It'll be easy for them to play as Corey Anderson will be waiting to hit at least 2 sixes in the end to add as much as possible in the death overs. The local Scott Styris will be given some chances to prove why he was one of the best pure all rounders New Zealand ever had.

Bowling looks very strong as well spin-wise. Ajmal who is capable of taking no less than 3 wickets combining with the carrom ball expert Ashwin will make sure no-one gets easy or settled on any pitch, giving the fast, hungry wicket-taking and knowing their way around getting batsmen bowled young local bowlers their deserved chances. I'm sure no team will easily beat this huge all round team.
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---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Phillip Hughes Shane Watson Tim Paine Rob Quiney Michael Clarke - Slow left-arm orthodox Kane Williamson - Spin Angelo Mathews JP Duminy - Spin Scott Styris (*) Corey Anderson Clint McKay Doug Bollinger Alister McDermott Ben Laughlin Timm van der Gugten Ravichandran Ashwin Saeed Ajmal Brad Hogg ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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@Yonga, your reviews mate?

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[PCA]

Nic Maddinson and Chadd Sayers

 

[Asham]

Sully,We have the likes of very experienced lads like Hogg,Clarke,Styris and some young guns blazing I will rate our teams 4.7/5.0 a great squad.We are ready to spread blue fever

 

[VC the slogger]

Ajmal who is capable of taking no less than 3 wickets combining with the carrom ball expert Ashwin will make sure no-one gets easy or settled on any pitch, giving the fast, hungry wicket-taking and knowing their way around getting batsmen bowled young local bowlers their deserved chances. I'm sure no team will easily beat this huge all round team.

Ajmal? Isn't the guy banned from bowling or something till his action get's cleared?

Wait, he is! But for your sake, let's hope he's turned himself into a batting legend.

Pakistan Cricket News: Saeed Ajmal banned from bowling | ESPN Cricinfo

 

[Sulaiman7]

Ajmal? Isn't the guy banned from bowling or something till his action get's cleared?

Wait, he is! But for your sake, let's hope he's turned himself into a batting legend.

Pakistan Cricket News: Saeed Ajmal banned from bowling | ESPN Cricinfo

He was available in the player list so...

And I recently heard from somewhere (maybe a news channel) that Saqlain Mushtaq says that Ajmal is almost ready for action which means that he will return very soon.

 

[VC the slogger]

Looks like a competitive team, with the likes of aggressive, hard-working and sweating to score as much as possible batter like Watson, Hughes, Paine and Clarke in the top order. Such top order can demolish any bowling attack, no matter if there's Steyn and Morkel

Watson and Clarke, I accept are very good and can overpower the best bowlers. But to say Hughes and Paine can also demolish Steyn and Morkel is just laughable.

Hughes was dropped 'cause he kept edging these guys to the slips every freaking match. They were so scared to play him that they gave Rob Quiney a Test debut instead. Sure, he's hit a List-A double ton since then but against an attack far less threatening than one with Steyn and Morkel in it and on a very flat pitch. It still remains to be seen if he's overcome his weaknesses against them, so it's better not to make judgements beforehand.[DOUBLEPOST=1414513592][/DOUBLEPOST]

He was available in the player list so...

Backdated player list from ELA IV, I reckon. If Aggz had asked me, I'd have done up a new chucker-free one.

 

[VC the slogger]

And I recently heard from somewhere (maybe a news channel) that Saqlain Mushtaq says that Ajmal is almost ready for action which means that he will return very soon.

They say lots of things in the news. At some point they even said we'll have flying cars by 2015, but look where we are now.

 

[PCA]

This one is just for you

 

[VC the slogger]

This one is just for you

Let's see if he can repeat this on a real pitch like the WACA.

 

[Sulaiman7]

Watson and Clarke, I accept are very good and can overpower the best bowlers. But to say Hughes and Paine can also demolish Steyn and Morkel is just laughable.

Hughes was dropped 'cause he kept edging these guys to the slips every freaking match. They were so scared to play him that they gave Rob Quiney a Test debut instead. Sure, he's hit a List-A double ton since then but against an attack far less threatening than one with Steyn and Morkel in it and on a very flat pitch. It still remains to be seen if he's overcome his weaknesses against them, so it's better not to make judgements beforehand.

I didn't mean that they'll individually destroy any bowling attack but as a team and pairs they'll of course. One does not individually destroy such world class bowlers like Steyn and Morkel. Even De Villiers has to get a good chemistry with the batter at the other end to stay calm and score else he gets out quick as well, he got this partner Plessis with whom he's a very good connection and these guys as a pair can no doubt destroy bowlers like Steyn and Morkel.

Backdated player list from ELA IV, I reckon. If Aggz had asked me, I'd have done up a new chucker-free one.

If that's the case than I'm afraid no world class spinner would have been left.

They say lots of things in the news. At some point they even said we'll have flying cars by 2015, but look where we are now.

I don't know why would someone hoax about such a serious matter. Flying cars is no serious matter.

 

[Umair7]

Squad

Aaron Finch
Chris Lynn
Tillakaratne Dilshan
Adam Voges
Michael Klinger
Misbah-ul-Haq
Ross Taylor

Glenn Maxwell
Sean Abbott

MS Dhoni
Luke Ronchi
Kumar Sangakkara

Mitchell Johnson
Dirk Nannes
James Pattinson
Gurinder Sandhu
Kane Richardson

Sunil Narine

Need one AR !! @Sami Kumar local or !!!

 

[Sami Kumar]

Squad

Aaron Finch - Slow left-arm orthodox
Chris Lynn
Tillakaratne Dilshan
Adam Voges - Slow left-arm orthodox
Michael Klinger
Misbah-ul-Haq
Ross Taylor

Glenn Maxwell
Sean Abbott

MS Dhoni
Luke Ronchi
Kumar Sangakkara

Mitchell Johnson
Dirk Nannes
James Pattinson
Gurinder Sandhu
Kane Richardson

Sunil Narine

Credits to @Umair2000 for most of the picks ,team looks quite balanced. Hope we can make it easily into the Finals

 

[Aggz]

Backdated player list from ELA IV, I reckon. If Aggz had asked me, I'd have done up a new chucker-free one.

Well tbh I actually had that chucker thing in my mind but I really didn't want to imply it because it would've ultimately led to the downfall of the quality of the league with so many world-class spinners like Ajmal, Narine etc. missing the league.

And IIRC these guys are just banned from bowling in the international circuit, aren't they?

 

[Aggz]

Does the captain have any special impact ! here @Aggz

Yes, the successes and failures will add to a captain's ratings.