Story England: The Holding of The Little Urn (Cricket 2005)

[Simbazz]

A new look commentator team has come to the Sky Sports coverage of Englands fixtures, and it takes the form of the legend that is Richie Benaud, Mark Nicholas and Tony Grieg. Along side them they have the famous Analyst Simon Hughes.

England have been off form of late and the ECB have called an emergancy meeting just before the Ashes which states England will not be playing in the warm up games against NSW and others but they will infact be taking on the might of Bangladesh and Canada in a tri-series.

Its a shock Canada have been called into this series as they have only got a temporary test status so this will presumably cement thier place as a Test nation if they can finish anything than bottom.

Englands stand in captain Andrew Flintoff has this to say, and he sounded and looked a little shocked.

"Its a total mystery to me. The ECB said they were going to maybe have a few more fixtures for us to play which they guys moaned at but we all know we need it with Ashley just getting back and James aswell. In my view we could have done with maybe a few stronger opponents but im not going to underestimate Bangladesh nor Canada, although i haven't seen Canada in action i believe they have a couple of strong batters who can put us under pressure but hopefully they will have some questionable bowlers who we can take advantage of. With this we have pulled out of the Champions Throphy in India but im not sure that is a bad thing as we all know its the Aussie were looking to beat, and these are 5 day outings not a 1 day thing, so maybe its a good thing."

Its truly is a whacky turn for the ECB to take, but they have never been one to follow a formal way of managing the national side, have they?

Well join us on the 26th September for the first game against Canada, and then the might of Bangladesh who nearly gave Australia a shock will be coming to England to try to pick up a unlikely win over a very under-preforming team.

 

[evertonfan]

Why have Canada been granted temporary Test status to play in an ODI tri-series?

 

[Simbazz]

I will explain later how it works, hang on till then mate!

 

[Deleted member 13648]

I think I know why... It's because Simbazz can't beat the better teams

 

[treva]

I think I know why... It's because Simbazz can't beat the better teams

yep he told me

Lol good luck mate hope it goes well for you

 

[Left_Hander]

Good luck Simbazz.

I don't think England will win the warm-up series .

 

[m_vaughan]

Nice work Sim. Hope you get off to a good start in the warm-ups.

 

[Offspinner]

Great job so far. Good luck for the rest of the story.

 

[Simbazz]

Welcome to the first morning here in Sunny Sunny Auckland.

The ECB has said that they are really proud of what the New Zealand Board have been able to do with only a weeks notice. This Auckland pitch is looking hard and flat, which will aid the seam bowlers, especially someone like Hoggard or Flintoff who might get a bit of extra bounce and maybe when the ball is 30 or 40 overs old, Hoggard might have a good time trying to get this ball to reverse and seam.

As expected crowd favorite Monty Panesar is named as a lone spinner but England also announce Yardy, who will have his test debut today, well lets have a look at the lines ups.

Well interesting seeing as Trescothick has been told to rest ahead of the Ashes, Bell gets start with strauss, but what is even more interesting is the lack of pure bowlers, just M.Hoggard and M.Panesar make it as specialist bowlers. Im told Flintoff and Hoggard will share the new ball and im sure the captain will look to make some inroads in either batting or bowling.

Join us later for updates of this very special match, it being the warm up to the Ashes and also Canada's first ever test match.

Just like Richie Benaud said,"The first victim of these Canadians will really be red faced, and im sure the papers in England will have a field day when either Strauss or Bell falls!"

(Shocking presentation skills on the picture but i will get better just wait and see )

 

[Left_Hander]

Nice start Simbazz. Why are Canada granted Test Match status?

Good luck!

 

[Simbazz]

Because i wanted to start my game with somthing differnt, and a test tri series against Bangladesh and Canada seemed the way to go

And thanks very much LH!

 

[evertonfan]

In other words LH, he couldn't install AI patches because his game wouldn't work with them on so he has had to resort to playing the teams that he is capable of beating.

 

[Simbazz]

Haha very funny and i have got the gameplay patch to work im using the latest bosses one, but yeah i am still getting used to playing C2005 on the pc as i usually play it on PS2 so i thought ill go with these two before the might of Australia

 

[Left_Hander]

Thanks for clearing that up Simbazz.

Good luck for the rest of the story.

 

[kookaburra69]

jeez a strong batting line- up for england but only 2 specilist bowlers might come back to bite them.great start to the story mate cant wait for the first update