On Hold Masters Champions League - Close encounters FTW!

[sathishsky]

I can be Co for any team

 

[CerealKiller]

Round 1

Lahore Qalandars vs Johannesburg Knights @ Gaddafi Stadium
Manchester City C.C vs Sydney Thunder @ Etihad Stadium
Bye : Kolkata Knight Riders

@Sami Kumar @Saroj padhy @Jack Ryder @Rudolph @NaviN GandhI
The home team can select between four types of pitches : Flat, Dusty, Green and Normal.
Please check your squads on the first page to see which batsmen can be used as 5th/6th bowlers (particularly important for JBK).
Mark a captain (), a WK () and at least 6 bowlers. The captain cannot be dropped throughout the tournament.

 

[RUDI]

1. Ricky Ponting
2. Graeme Pollock
3. Steve Waugh
4. Clive Lloyd
5. Mark Boucher
6. Mike Procter
7. Andrew Flintoff
8. WG Grace
9. Sir Richard Hadlee
10. Denis Lillee
11. Shane Warne

 

[Sami Kumar]

1) Bill Ponsford
2) Barry Richards
3) Javed Miandad
4) Sir Viv Richards
5) Clyde Walcott
6) Imran Khan ^
7) Keith Miller ^
8) Wasim Akram ^
9) Derek Underwood ^
10) Joel Garner ^
11) Fred Trueman ^

 

[NaviN GandhI]

Sachin Tendulkar
Adam Gilchrist
Jacques Kallis
Inzamam-ul-Haq
Sir Gary Sobers
Graeme Smith
Greg Chappell
Mushtaq Mohammand
Glenn McGrath
Muttiah Muralitharan
Anil Kumble

Pitch Type : Dusty

 

[CerealKiller]

1) Bill Ponsford
2) Barry Richards
3) Javed Miandad
4) Sir Viv Richards
5) Clyde Walcott
6) Imran Khan ^
7) Keith Miller ^
8) Wasim Akram ^
9) Derek Underwood ^
10) Joel Garner ^
11) Fred Trueman ^

Pitch type?

 

[CerealKiller]

@Jack Ryder to post his lineup.

 

[Na Maloom Afraad]

SYDNEY THUNDER
Virender Sehwag
Sanath Jayasuria^
Jack Hobbs
Wally Hammond
Mark Waugh*
Andy Flower†
Richie Benaud^
Kapil Dev^
Waqar Younis^
Curtly Ambrose^
Chaminda Vaas^​

 

[Till Valhalla]

Will post in an hour or two.

 

[Sami Kumar]

Pitch type?

Pitch type: Normal

 

[CerealKiller]

Will post in an hour or two.

@Na Maloom Afraad has been appointed as your co-manager.

 

[CerealKiller]

A note to all the managers : i'll be posting matches in a quite different way, because i hate the "code" and "HTML" thing. Hopefully y'all are ok with it.

 

[CerealKiller]

A note to all the managers : i'll be posting matches in a quite different way, because i hate the "code" and "HTML" thing. Hopefully y'all are ok with it.

Round 1 - Match 1
Manchester City C.C vs Sydney Thunder @ Etihad Stadium


Toss: Sydney Thunder won the toss and chose to bat
Pitch: Dusty

Sydney Innings

Player|Status|Runs|Balls|4s|6s|S/R
Virender Sehwag|b. McGrath|14|7|1|1|200
Sanath Jayasuriya|lbw b. McGrath|34|42|2|1|80.95
Jack Hobbs|c.McGrath b. Kumble|23|30|2|0|76.66
Wally Hammond|c. Smith b. Muralitharan|12|18|1|0|66.66
Mark Waugh*|c. Gilchrist † b. Kumble|4|11|0|0|36.36
Andy Flower † |b. Muralitharan|1|3|0|0|33.33
Richie Benaud|b. Muralitharan|0|2|0|0|0
Kapil Dev|c. Tendulkar b. Mohammad|43|41|4|2|104.87
Waqar Younis|c. Smith b. Muralitharan|1|7|0|0|14.28
Curtly Ambrose|b. Muralitharan|0|3|0|0|0
Chaminda Vaas|not out|7|30|1|0|23.33
Extras|11
Total|151/10|32.2 overs|4.67 RPO

Player|Overs|Maidens|Runs|Wickets|E/R
Glenn McGrath|9.0|0|65|2|7.22
Jacques Kallis|3.0|0|6|0|2.00
Anil Kumble|10.0|0|41|2|4.10
Muttiah Muralitharan|10.0|3|28|5|2.80
Mushtaq Mohammad|0.2|0|6|1|18.00

Playing on a dusty pitch, Murali showed everyone why he's the leading wicket-taker in international cricket's history, by blowing away Sydney's batsmen with a great spell of 5-28. Only a rearguard effort from Kapil Dev could take the Thunder to a respectable total.

Manchester Innings

Player|Status|Runs|Balls|4s|6s|S/R
Sachin Tendulkar|c. Ambrose b. Younis|11|14|1|1|78.57
Adam Gilchrist* † |c. Hammond b. Ambrose|50|24|7|3|208.33
Jacques Kallis|not out|46|43|5|2|106.98
Inzamam-ul-Haq|b. Younis|1|2|0|0|50.00
Gary Sobers|b. Younis|0|1|0|0|0
Graeme Smith|c. Hobbs b. Dev|26|42|2|1|61.90
Greg Chappell|c. Flower † b. Younis|0|6|0|0|0
Mushtaq Mohammad|c. Waugh* b. Ambrose|2|3|0|0|66.66
Glenn McGrath|lbw b. Younis|0|2|0|0|0
Muttiah Muralitharan|b. Younis|0|1|0|0|0
Anil Kumble|b. Younis|0|2|0|0|0
Extras|11
Total|146/10|23 overs|6.34 RPO

Player|Overs|Maidens|Runs|Wickets|E/R
Chaminda Vaas|5.0|1|50|0|10.00
Waqar Younis|9.0|0|26|7|3.11
Curtly Ambrose|6.0|0|32|2|5.33
Richie Benaud|1.0|0|11|0|11.00
Kapil Dev|1.0|0|7|1|7.00
Sanath Jayasuriya|1.0|0|18|0|18.00

What a bowling performance by the Burewala Express! Despite the pitch being far from helpful, Waqar used his most potent weapon, the yorker, to make the dust and cracks on it irrelevant, taking 7-26 to almost single handedly beat Manchester City, who were given a lightning fast start by their skipper Adam Gilchrist. Jacques Kallis watched his teammates fall one after another, as he remained stranded on 46*.

Sydney Thunder won by 5 runs.
MoM : Waqar Younis


@NaviN GandhI | @Na Maloom Afraad @Jack Ryder
p.s i don't know why Waqar performed so well on a dusty pitch. I'm sure his rating wasn't too high. Hopefully the next matches will be more realistic.

 

[Na Maloom Afraad]

Wicky, son of a gun, Jones!

 

[Till Valhalla]

p.s i don't know why Waqar performed so well on a dusty pitch. I'm sure his rating wasn't too high. Hopefully the next matches will be more realistic.

Maybe it was just his day.
A good start to the campaign.