PS3: ICC Cricket World Cup (ODI)

[RIZZYX]

If possible, keep short tour so that we can have Asia Cup from something around 15th August. @RIZZYX

I have revised the tour proposal to 1 test match and 1 odi. We will complete this before the Asia cup.

 

[RIZZYX]

Unite for Gaza Series
Pakistan vs Bangladesh Only ODI - Lahore
31/07/2014

The one and only ODI between Pakistan and Bangladesh got underway today. Pakistan had the momentum behind them coning into this match with the comfortable victory in the Test match only a few days ago. Both sides made three changes from the Test side with replacing Saeed Ajmal, Younis Khan and Kamran Akmal with Shahid Afridi, Shoaib Malik and Umar Akmal, and Bangladesh replacing Mortaza, Gazi and Riyad with S Rahman, A Sunny and S Islam.

Pakistan won the toss and knowing they had scarred the Bangladeshi batting line up in the test match they put them into bat. The decision paid off immediately with Tamim Iqbal trying to loft Junaid Khan over mid on only in the second ball of the match. Things got worse for Bangladesh with Irfan cleaning up M Haque for 0, Bangladesh were well and truly on the back foot at 2/2. Bangladesh never really recovered from the early losses and kept losing wickets regularly with some hostile bowling from Pakistan's pace men exploiting the hard and bouncy Lahore track. Irfan was the pick of the bowlers getting the most purchase from the pitch due to his extra height, he returned figures of 21 for 3 from 7 overs. Bangladesh were bowled out for 62 from 16.5 overs.

Pakistan's opening pair Jamshed and Hafeez both in good form having got runs in the test match again began well, they put on a opening stand of 35 before Hafeez was deceived by a quicker delivery from Shakib. Pakistan then lost two wickets in quick succession as Mailk and Amin both were removed by the spinners. By this time Pakistan had reached 54 and were only 9 runs away from victory. Jamshed made sure Pakistan got here without any further blows and ended unbeaten on 33 from only 26 add to his 58 and unbeaten 21 in the test match making it a memorable tour for the left hand opening batsman.

Pakistan thus win the one match ODI series to go along with the victory in the one match Test series with now only the two match T20 series to be played in the tour. Bangladesh will want to put the losses behind them and give it their best to challenge Pakistan.

Stay tuned to the T20's.

Scores:
Bang: 62/10 (16.5 Overs)
Pak: 64/3 (10.1 Overs)
Pak win by 7 Wickets
MOM: N Jamshed

 

[rishabh96]

I have revised the tour proposal to 1 test match and 1 odi. We will complete this before the Asia cup.

Which is the home team?

 

[_Sam_]

I'm happy to switch from Netherlands to Afghanistan if you want them in the Asia cup as I have no particular personal links to each .

 

[RIZZYX]

I really do like the whole online tour concept set up by Rishabh, however there are a few points that i feel are possible draw backs and possible reasons preventing this being adopted by all planet cricket regular online players.

1) The limitation of having to stick to one international side and no one else being able to use the same team. This means the first 8 sign ups get the best teams and the rest have to make do with weaker sides like Ireland, Afghanistan, Netharlands even Bangladesh.

For a World cup there is no option but to stick to one team per manager, but for the tours there should be more flexibility considering this is for the long run unlike a league. It is unfair to expect a manager to be stuck with a team with no fast bowlers and no quality batsman for every single tour.

My personal suggestion would be to have two teams per manager. So for example if i had Pakistan and South Africa and Ameen also had Pakistan and South Africa. If we decided to do a tour between each other the home team for the tour would chose which team they want, so if i was the home team and i chose South Africa, Ameen would have to go with Pakistan.

This way everyone gets two strong teams of their choice and this should make it fair for all managers and more appealing to a wider number of managers.

2) Being limited to taking part in one tour before being allowed to play another tour. Lets say me and chaman organise a 5 test match series and we chaman is only available to play on weekend evenings. If i want to play another tour with say kushari during the week days i should be able to.

(Finally as I always say, these are just my thoughts and suggestions, this is rishabh's project so it is ofcourse completley up to him how he wants to do things and he has every right to do as he feels is best.)

 

[kushari]

I really do like the whole online tour concept set up by Rishabh, however there are a few points that i feel are possible draw backs and possible reasons preventing this being adopted by all planet cricket regular online players.

1) The limitation of having to stick to one international side and no one else being able to use the same team. This means the first 8 sign ups get the best teams and the rest have to make do with weaker sides like Ireland, Afghanistan, Netharlands even Bangladesh.

For a World cup there is no option but to stick to one team per manager, but for the tours there should be more flexibility considering this is for the long run unlike a league. It is unfair to expect a manager to be stuck with a team with no fast bowlers and no quality batsman for every single tour.

My personal suggestion would be to have two teams per manager. So for example if i had Pakistan and South Africa and Ameen also had Pakistan and South Africa. If we decided to do a tour between each other the home team for the tour would chose which team they want, so if i was the home team and i chose South Africa, Ameen would have to go with Pakistan.

This way everyone gets two strong teams of their choice and this should make it fair for all managers and more appealing to a wider number of managers.

2) Being limited to taking part in one tour before being allowed to play another tour. Lets say me and chaman organise a 5 test match series and we chaman is only available to play on weekend evenings. If i want to play another tour with say kushari during the week days i should be able to.

(Finally as I always say, these are just my thoughts and suggestions, this is rishabh's project so it is ofcourse completley up to him how he wants to do things and he has every right to do as he feels is best.)

West Indies is looking forward to Tour Pakistan or Invite them to Caribbean...Lets do it.. BTW, Though, I agree with all the points mentioned by you, I think this is @rishabh96 league, and he has a vision to organize it like the way he want. What stops us from playing against each other, other than we cant post the score in this thread. Are we playing for Fun or only statistics of who win more. I am sure even Rishabh wont be able to keep track of all the Tours after some time. I am also NOT sure whether he is compiling the statistic for these tours or not.
So, suppose I play with India against you with South Africa and dont post anything on this thread. Problem Solved.

 

[lonewolf5646]

Exactly I wanted to tour rizzy or some other player but currently I am touring Sri Lanka and somehow we are not able to play due to some timing constraints and I cannot start a tour with any other due to limitations

On the other hand in clash of legends I have played almost 4 test matches because I could start with multiple players and play as anyone is available

In the end again rishabh is the best one to take decision but I would really like to allow him for us to play multiple tours at same time so that the thread is also bit more active

 

[rishabh96]

See okay I allow two teams to two owners but again same problem. Only 8 people will get best teams. Like you get South Africa and Pakistan, I get India and Australia. What about other users except those 8 players?

Secondly I told you that we can have two teams if everyone says yes but two teams will have different players. Two teams will be like Pakistan team and Pakistan A.

What we can do is combine both points. You become owner of Pakistan and South Africa A.

These are just suggestions and this is everyone's thread. I welcome every single suggestions and if everyone is perfect with that then we are on.

I said no to multiple tours because its not realistic. I mean do we see same team in two different countries? That looks slightly weird to me.

When I started this, my main aim was World Cup but everyone was saying that many leagues are going so shift the World Cup and I thought fine, not a big issue for me but I thought let everyone get some sort of practice of their teams so lets introduce tours before World Cup.

These are my points and don't say this is my league. This is your league. I want to make this thing one of the best thing so I guess everyone can suggest me and if everyone wants multiple tours then go on.

I will update first post by tuesday as I was busy with exams. My last exam is on Monday and I will be active after that.

 

[AL_Amin]

What we can do is combine both points. You become owner of Pakistan and South Africa A

.

Good proposal.

I said no to multiple tours because its not realistic. I mean do we see same team in two different countries? That looks slightly weird to me.

I think what you can do is allow double tours to happen but strictly forbid the managers from posting Scorecard and match reports for two different teams at once, here on planetcricket. What the managers could do is write daily match report and save it on their computer, then post it along with Scorecard only when their first committed is over. Eg; If Pakistan are in ongoing tour with Bangladesh, They can also start a tour with England at the same time bit they will not be allowed to mention match reports/Scorecard until they complete all their fixtures against Bangladesh first.

(This just popped into my head so sharing. Maybe other managers could give you better suggestions)

@rishabh96

Another example;

Bangladesh agrees to tour Pakistan for xyz # matches (mention able in the forums - allowed to post scores as it happen)

Pakistan agrees to tour England after Bangladesh Series ( mention able in the forums - barred from posting scores before bangladesh series is over to make it realistic )

 

[rishabh96]

That is fine proposal and I agree with @kushari as well. You can download all of my teams and then you can play friendlies. Who can stop you from that?

 

[_Sam_]

@kushari the Netherlands would like to propose a possible limited overs tour with the West Indies .

 

[kushari]

@kushari the Netherlands would like to propose a possible limited overs tour with the West Indies .

West Indies would love to play 05 T20 & 03 ODIs with Netherlands...But if it is OK, can we play on PC? I am not fond of PS3.

 

[rishabh96]

Tonight BCCI will unveil the new Jersey of India which will be used in both formats ie. T20I and ODI. For the unveiling of jersey, Indian Captain MS Dhoni, Indian Vice Captain Virat Kohli and All Rounder Yuvraj Singh will be seen with the new jerseys on.

 

[rishabh96]

Yuvraj Singh, Virat Kohli and MS Dhoni posing with new jerseys. ​

 

[RIZZYX]

Unite for Gaza Series
Pakistan vs Bangladesh 1st T20 - 02/08/2014

Pakstan and Bangladesh got their T20 campaign under way yesterday with Pakistan coming into the contest as firm favorites after comprehensive victories in both the test and ODI match. Pakistan won the toss and unsurprisingly chose to bowl first once again wanting to press the advantage their bowlers have over the Bangladeshi batting line up.

The start was no different than the ODI witht the Bangladeshi top order capitulating against some accurate fast bowling by Junaid Khan and Muhammad Irfan, three of the top four failed to score a single run. However Tamim Iqbal was solid and began to show form for the first time on the tour, he built meaningful partnerships with Mushfiqur Rahim and Nasir Hossain taking Bangladesh to 74 for 4 before the 5th wicket fell. Tamim worked his way towards a solid half century before being dismissed by a Umar Amin quicker delivery trapping him in front for 42.

Once Tamim was removed Pakistan held things back and made sure Bangladesh could not accelerate and bowled them out for 109 with 10 balls to spare. Muhammad Irfan was the pick of the bowlers ending with figures of 14 for 3. Bangladesh felt they were 30 runs short against an inform Pakistan top order.

Nasir Jamshed set the tone for Pakistan smashing two fours from the first two balls of the innings, cutting S Islam up and over the fly slip fielder to the vacant third man area. S Islam then came back brilliantly by bowling a slower one on the stumps and Jamshed could not resist trying to loft it over mid off only to sky it giving a easy catch. Pakistan then suffered from a dramatic collapse going from 8 for 1 to 16 for 6 with a mixture of rash shots, suicidal running and brilliant bowling. Pakistan would need to build some solid partnerships to recover from such a dire situation but this was not to happen with 3 further wickets falling and only 39 on the board.

At 39 for 9 and 71 runs to win the game was over, or was it? Pakistan's number 10 and 11 Junaid Khan and Muhammad Irfan certainly did not think so, both began to work the ball around without taking any risk, as despite all the wickets falling the run rate required was still hovering around 6 an over, they showed the temperament that the top order lacked, a lesson for them indeed. Both Junaid and Irfan found the occasional boundary as well to make sure the run rate did not get out of hand. They took the score to 82, requiring another 28 to win from 22 balls. It was at this point that Irfan was beating by a seeming delivery on leg stump handing Bangladesh their first win of the tour and indeed on this occasion they were deserving of it, being the better side with both bat and ball on the day.

Pakistan will be dissapointed not to have chased down 109, non of their top 7 even got to double figures, and when a scorecard shows the number 10 and 11 batsman getting the highest scores of the innings the top order should feel they let the side down.

Bangladesh will no go into the final match of the tour with some much needed momentum and would love to end the tour with a clean sweep of the T20's. They should however be weary of a Pakistan come back as Pakistan will certainly want to avoid being whitewashed in the shortest format.

Stay tuned to the final T20.

Scores:
Bang: 109/10 (18.2 Overs)
Pak: 82/10 (16.2 Overs)
Bang win by 27 runs.
MOM: T Iqbal.