Dennis Amiss - The man who scored the World Cup's first ever century against India in a match that has now become infamous for Sunil Gavaskar's unbeaten 36 off 174 balls. He was perhaps the first great opening batsman in ODI cricket, scoring 859 runs at an average of 47.72 from 18 matches between 1972 and 1977. The inaugural 1975 tournament, where he scored 243 runs at an average of 60.75 from 4 matches whilst maintaining an excellent strike rate of above 84 (which was stratospheric by the 70s standards) was to be his one and only appearance at cricket's biggest event.
Allan Lamb - One of England's finest cricketers in the ODI arena who generally saved his best performances for World Cups where he scored 656 runs at an average of 50.46 and strike rate of above 84 from 19 matches between 1983 and 1992. His aggressive batting in the middle-order was one of the key reasons behind England excelling at ODI cricket for much part of the 1980s - first making a semi-final appearance in 1983 and then narrowly missing out on the World Cup trophy to arch-rivals Australia in 1987. Among his notable innings in the World Cup were a century on his first appearance against New Zealand in 1983, a brutal 58-ball 76 against Sri Lanka in 1987. But his unbeaten 67 off 68 balls against two-time World Cup winners West Indies in 1987, which took England to victory despite them needing 91 runs off their last 10 overs will probably go down as his greatest ever innings in the tournament.
Win: 4 points to winning team Bonus Point: 1 if victory margin exceeds 100 runs/8-10 wickets Loss: 0 points to losing team Tie: 2 points to both participating teams No Result: 1 point to both participating teams
Other Points Batting Totals between 160 to 190 - 1 point
Totals between 191 to 210 - 2 points
Totals between 211 to 240 - 3 points
Totals between 241 to 260 - 4 points
Totals between 261 to 290 - 5 points
Totals above 300 - 6 points
Bowling 4/5 wickets taken - 1 point
6 wickets taken - 2 points
7 wickets taken - 3 points
8 wickets taken - 4 points
9/10 wickets taken - 5 points
With cricket officially returning to the Commonweath Games for the first time since 1998 in the form of Women's T20Is thanks to the cowards at the ICC who somehow excluded the men altogether, I reckoned it the best time to do a sequel to my 2014 Cricket at the Commonwealth Games in the Men's 50-over format. A total of 16 nations have come forward to participate although many noticeably without some of their leading cricketers as a result of bubble fatigue and international cricket's gruelling schedule with two marquee tournaments coming up in the next 1-year period in the form of the 2022 T20 World Cup and the 2023 Men's 50-over World Cup. Eight years is a bloody long time, but lets see if I still have some of that old spark up my sleeve.
Teams participating
Aaron Finch Travis Head Usman Khawaja
Marnus Labuschagne Ben McDermott Mitchell Marsh
Alex Carey Cameron Green Glenn Maxwell Marcus Stoinis Matthew Wade
Ashton Agar Daniel Sams
Jason Behrendorff Nathan Ellis Josh Hazlewood Jhye Richardson
Adam Zampa
Anamul Haque Litton Das Tamim Iqbal
Mushfiqur Rahim Najmul Hossain Shanto Shakib Al Hasan
Afif Hossain Mahmudullah Soumya Sarkar
Mosaddek Hossain Nurul Hasan
Mohammad Saifuddin Mustafizur Rahman Rubel Hossain Shoriful Islam Taskin Ahmed
Mehidy Hasan Miraz Nasum Ahmed
Justin Greaves Shai Hope Kyle Mayers
Shamarh Brooks Roston Chase
Jonathan Carter Jason Holder Raymon Reifer
Carlos Brathwaite Shamar Springer Nyeem Young
Miguel Cummins Dominic Drakes Chemar Holder Akeem Jordan Kemar Roach
Joshua Bishop Ashley Nurse
Jonny Bairstow Tom Banton Jason Roy
Sam Hain Dawid Malan James Vince
Jos Buttler Liam Livingstone Sam Billings
Moeen Ali Sam Curran David Willey
Brydon Carse Chris Jordan Craig Overton David Payne Reece Topley
Adil Rashid
Shikhar Dhawan Shubman Gill Ishan Kishan
Shreyas Iyer KL Rahul Suryakumar Yadav
Deepak Hooda Hardik Pandya Sanju Samson
Axar Patel Washington Sundar
Arshdeep Singh Bhuvneshwar Kumar Mohammed Siraj Prasidh Krishna Shardul Thakur
Ravi Bishnoi Kuldeep Yadav
John Campbell Chris Gayle Leroy Lugg
Jermaine Blackwood Nkrumah Bonner Brandon King Chadwick Walton
Rovman Powell Andre McCarthy Andre Russell
Fabian Allen Odean Smith Aldane Thomas
Sheldon Cottrell Nicholson Gordon Derval Green Oshane Thomas
Jeavor Royal
Stephen Baard Divan la Cock Lo-handre Louwrens Michael van Lingen
Gerhard Erasmus JP Kotze Craig Williams
Karl Birkenstock Jan Nicol Loftie-Eaton David Wiese
Jan Frylinck JJ Smit
Dylan Leicher Tangeni Lungameni Ben Shikongo Ruben Trumplemann
Bernard Scholtz Pikky Ya France
Martin Guptill Finn Allen Henry Nicholls
Devon Conway Tom Latham Will Young
Michael Bracewell Daryl Mitchell Jimmy Neesham Glenn Phillips
Michael Rippon Mitchell Santner
Lockie Ferguson Matt Henry Kyle Jamieson Adam Milne Blair Tickner
Ish Sodhi
James McCollum William Porterfield Paul Stirling
Nick Larkin William McClintock Peter Moor
Ross Adair Shane Getkate Andy McBrine Stuart Thompson
Mark Adair Ruhan Pretorius
Matt Dunn Conor Olphert Graham Hume Graeme McCarter Craig Young
Graham Kennedy
Fakhar Zaman Imam-ul-Haq Shan Masood
Babar Azam Mohammad Rizwan
Agha Salman Asif Ali Khushdil Shah Saud Shakeel
Mohammad Nawaz Faheem Ashraf Shadab Khan
Haris Rauf Hasan Ali Mohammad Wasim jnr Naseem Shah Shaheen Shah Afridi Wahab Riaz
Kyle Coetzer Matthew Cross Michael Jones
Richie Berrington Tom Bruce Calum MacLeod
Chris Greaves George Munsey Craig Wallace
Michael Leask
Josh Davey Alasdair Evans Gavin Main Safyaan Sharif Chris Sole Brad Wheal
Dushmantha Chameera Asitha Fernando Chamika Karunaratne Suranga Lakmal Nuwan Pradeep
Maheesh Theekshana Jeffrey Vandersay
Evin Lewis Lendl Simmons Tion Webster
Darren Bravo Joshua Da Silva Nicholas Pooran
Jason Mohammed Kieron Pollard Denesh Ramdin
Dwayne Bravo Akeal Hosein Sunil Narine
Shannon Gabriel Anderson Phillip Ravi Rampaul Jayden Seales
Imran Khan Khary Pierre
Thomas Bevan Phil Salt Nick Selman
Chris Cooke Aneurin Donald Jeremy Lawlor
Kiran Carlson Imad Wasim David Lloyd
Alex Horton Callum Taylor
Lukas Carey Andy Gorvin James Harris Ruaidhri Smith Roman Walker
Andrew Salter Prem Sisodiya
Squads have been selected as realistically as possible taking into account real life injuries, recent retirements, game time since last appearance, format preferences, performances, playing conditions, experience in those conditions and cannot be altered under normal circumstances. Still, if you desperately want an unpicked/obscure, uninjured/unretired player or two or more added in place of some of the selected, you'll have to make your case via PM to me.
And if you can, please sign up with 2 teams apiece seeing as its rather unlikely we'll get 16 different managers. Only one top nine team (Barbados, Jamaica, T&tT in place of the West Indies) as per the ICC ODI rankings of July 2022 allowed per member.
Deadly Smashers line up
Warm Up-1
Murray Goodwin
Matthew Wade
Mark Boucher(wk)
Shahid Afridi^
Shakib Al Hasan^
Steven Smith^
Farveez Maharoof^
Glenn McGrath^
Nathan Bracken^
Makhaya Ntini^
Anil Kumble(c) ^
please open the bowling with McGrath & Ntini
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