tassietiger
International Cricketer
- Joined
- Mar 15, 2005
- Online Cricket Games Owned
Due to twenty20s being dubbed by the cricketing public ‘boring’ and too slow-paced, the ICC has acted quickly, and shortened the game to a six over-a-side game. This is due to the common thought that overs 4-17 are boring, and people only really turn up to watch the overs 1-3 and 18-20. This condensed version, six6, still has the usual 10-wicket rules, but each bowler may only bowl one over.
Another general complaint from the cricketing public is that they are sick of seeing cricketers play cricket. They want to see useless players play instead. Despite the ICC’s attempt to advertise the current Zimbabwe tour of Bangladesh as an avenue to satisfy this hunger, this complaint has not gone away. So the ICC decided to bring back an old concept which died very shortly after it started almost two years ago, the Famous XI. This is a team of celebrities who take on international teams, and despite mostly being cricket newcomers, they tend to do surprisingly well, and you can hardly tell that they are a bunch of duds.
The issues of the last outing of the Famous XI have been addressed, the largest one being the fact that not even one game got finished. Obviously the shortening to six6 matches should help the continuing of this series, but no guarantees can ever be made. Also the old games looked very EA-like, and the new ones are expected to look more Codemasters-like, not suggesting the games aren’t real as that blows my cover, but they will look more Codemasters-like just to change it up a bit. (to be honest, both were uninstalled from my computer to free up space, and I just re-installed the nearest one which turned out to be BLIC)
The way it will work, is that I will pick the initial XI to play the first game, and that will be posted after this. (no players from the old team, didn’t want to recycle material) Once I have posted the whole team, the reader interaction comes in and this gets a lot more fun (when I say fun I mean boring for me, as I have to count up votes). As the game is going and for a little while after the game, there will be voting, on a 3-2-1 thing, of who should get the axe from the team. Also, preferably, you will nominate one or two people you think should enter the team. There should be two places in the team changing each game, might only be one if there is only one good suggestion for a new player, or a five-way tie for second place in the voting. Don’t suggest women to join the team, I’m letting dead people in the team, but I think letting women in the team is stretching reality a bit too much.
THE CURRENT TEAM:
1. Mahatma Gandhi
2. Isaac Newton
3. William Shakespeare
4. Jimi Hendrix
5. Homer Simpson
6. Elton John
7. George W. Bush
8. Barack Obama
9. Charlie Sheen
10. Clark Kent
11. Bruce Willis
SUGGESTIONS FOR NEW PLAYERS (suggest as many as possible): Bruce Wayne, Stephen Hawking, Dexter Morgan, Detective John Munch, Albert Einstein, Ryan Seacrest
ELIMINATED HACKS: Mark Nicholas, Kachra from Lagaan, Tiger Woods, John Lennon
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