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And I am reading from this:

There had been speculation that Monty Panesar could miss out, but with a good forecast for the match - the first morning was balmy in north-west London - his variation will be an important tool for Andrew Flintoff if the Sri Lankan batsmen get themselves settled
http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/engvsl/content/current/story/246781.html

So the spinners could be helpful.

And Flintoff decided to bat. So you can change some things now. ;)
 
Monty shouldn't cause Sri Lanka any problems. SL is brillant against spin. After hearing it's a batting track I've got Collingwood into my team. But I've got all 5 English batsmen so it will be hard for all of them to suceed.
 
ZexyZahid said:
Don't understand how you're coming with the word dictate with this. Like I said, I thought you didn't know about the stats of these players and I inserted them, since there was one day left and wanted to people to give time to edit their team.
I said what I felt. It seemed like you didn't think I did it right so you went ahead and changed it and then assumed that everybody would thank you for it. You could've at least PM'd me like I have said before. Consent with the creator of the game before you make any changes. It shows that you have respect for others. I'm not saying that you haven't got any respect for your fellow staff members, but calling my selection a JOKE didn't exactly help your cause. It pretty much seemed to me like you thought my selection was a joke so you took control. That is why I used the word 'dictate'.

ZexyZahid said:
And I never had the idea of having an 'own' Fantasy Game, since I was assuming since the beginning the Fantasy Cricket Updaters should work as a team. Especially since I had been updating a lot of scores the other Fantasy games created. And putting a selection of a team is one thing, but sticking firmly to your selection criteria of the players in the Fantasy game and denying the opinions of others is not really nice way of working together. And Aussie1st already changed some selection criteria the Fantasy Games I created, and I didn't have any problem with that. But I guess some people aren't that open minded.

Anyway have it your way.
Even though I have always appreciated you updating my games before I got a chance to, I'd really rather do it myself. I've explained to everybody that I have a job that requires a lot of attention, on top of which I go to college, which is why I'm not always able to update it on time, and most of the members don't have a problem with that anymore.

I didn't ignore anybody's opinions on the AR issue. If I did, we'd still have the three ARs. I have made it very clear since the beginning that I like to make the FC comp as challenging as possible. When I first revived FC, it was during the Ashes. Throughout most of the test series, I had only two ARs, namely Warne and Flintoff. Both were the best performers of the series. So if you picked a team you put a lot of thought and strategy into it. To me, that is what Fantasy Sports should be all about. Of course everybody would want to pick them both but since they couldn't, they had to shift things around.

Also, I never went against team work, but there is a fine line between helping someone out and interfering in someone's work.

Look, I have nothing against you. In fact, when I was too busy to do FC anymore, I was the one who requested you as my replacement since you seemed so into it. But I don't like anyone interfering with the way I do my work, call it a pet peeve of mine. Are we cool?
 
Of the five batsmen you can choose I've got four English batsmen. I only left out Strauss. I've got a feeling though he will make runs. But I've got no choice, since someone from Sri Lanka will be scoring runs too.

Seeing from the warm up matches I wanted to choose Kapugedera, but it seems he won't even play the Test match.
 
I probably need at least one more SL batsmen but it's dam hard to get them in. My problem is I have Murali and Vass so obviously I need them to take wickets while my other guys need to score.
 
Yo, Nightprowler, I don't have much time to respond to this. But anyway I want to put this on a rest and talk about the match, ok?

Sri Lanka team:
WU Tharanga, J Mubarak, +KC Sangakkara, *DPMD Jayawardene,
TT Samaraweera, TM Dilshan, CK Kapugedera, MF Maharoof,
WPUJC Vaas, KMDN Kulasekara, M Muralitharan.
 
Lasith Malinga doesn't play and I had him in my team. So I changed him for Plunkett.

And Kapugedera is actually playing, but I don't know who to replace him with.
 
Interesting SL team, Zoysa not picked. I thought he would be not that I had picked him. I've taken 2 punts like usual so let's see what happens.
 

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