New Zealand Premier League XIII

[Haarithan]

I had him at #7 last season, and I generally having this preference of giving depth to batting, and Harris at #8 only helps that cause. What do you suggest anyway? Also, I dunno who's better rated with the bat among Harris and McCullum...

 

[riz7khan12]

Also, I dunno who's better rated with the bat among Harris and McCullum...

Harris probably, he used to bat at 6 for me. after all he is a batting all rounder.

 

[Sartaj]

Yeah,he should bat ahead of McCullum IMO.

 

[Haarithan]

Right then, Harris and McCullum will just interchange their positions in the batting order in that case. Thanks guys!

 

[riz7khan12]

My likely XI

1. Michael Papps
2. Craig Kieswetter+
3. Jacques Kallis
4. Ross Taylor*
5. JP Duminy
6. Kane Williamson ^
7. Colin de Grandhomme ^
8. Andre Adams ^
9. Ryan Harris ^
10. Trent Boult ^
11. Saeed Ajmal ^

Depending on the pitch type, ronnie hira is likely to come in at 9, and hopefully the opening combo works out, not too many options available if it doesn't.

 

[Chewie]

hmmm haven't really had a look at my team composition. Lets see now...


1. Tim McIntosh
2. Aaron Redmond/Daniel Flynn
3. Kevin Pietersen
4. Tillakaratne Dilshan ^
5. Shivnarine Chanderpaul
6. Daniel Vettori ^
7. Peter McGlashan +
8. Brett Lee ^
9. Dale Steyn ^
10. Neil Wagner ^
11. Graeme Aldridge/Michael Bates ^

 

[Dipak]

This' how we look

Tendulkar ^
Watling
de Villiers * ?
M Hussey
Yuvraj/Tendo ^
J Marshall
M Sinclair
Bracewell ^
Broad ^
Mills ^
Mason/Martin ^

Well I have no back-up for my out-form batsmen and the batting is quite thin which is a draw-back.

 

[Haarithan]

How you brand your batting lineup to be 'quite thin' is really beyond me! Easily the best batting lineup if you ask me.

 

[Dipak]

Because I have to rest each player atleast once and I don't have any back-up batsman.

 

[Haarithan]

All you need is one back-up and you have Tendo as an optional candidate in your playing XI. So yeah, play him while resting the other. Solved.

 

[RPHKR]

Not sure about the final lineup but this is how my team looks like

1. Craig Cumming
2. Kumar Sangakkara +
3. Michael Clarke/Virat Kohli/Ramnaresh Sarwan(If others didn't perform)
4. Peter Fulton
5. Jamie How
6. Shakib Al Hasan ^/Kruger van Wyk +/Hamish Marshal
7. Jacob Oram ^ (c)
8. Internation options - Ravichandran Ashwin/Kulasekara, Local options - Brent Arnel/Bruce Martin ^
9. Morne Morkel ^
10. Lance Shaw ^
11. Daryl Tuffey ^

Batting order may change.

 

[BKB1991]

1. Ricky Ponting*
2. Jono Trott/Gautam Gambhir
3. Rob Nicol ^ (only during poor pitches)
4. Lou Vincent
5. Angelo Mathews ^
6. Darren Broom
7. Nathan McCullum ^
8. Chris Harris ^
9. Mitchell Johnson/Andre Russell/Ajantha Mendis (poor pitches) ^
10. Zaheer Khan ^
11. Mark Gillespie ^

Basically, I'm stacked with quite a number of fillers in my squad.
Todd, Corey Anderson, Derek de Boorder and Dewayne Bowden to be precise.

I still sugget you give me McCullum and take a NZL dom batsman in return. You have got plenty of bowling options, but batting looks thin tbh.

 

[Haarithan]

I'm absolute devoid of local spinners during the time of poor pitches. McCullum is my only go.

 

[BKB1991]

You have Mendis and Nicol how many more do you want?

you have only got three genuine batsman.

 

[Haarithan]

Nicol's a local back-up dude, McCullum's our main spin weapon. And I'm really not fussed on my batting line-up tbh, this's almost the same batting lineup that went all the way last season.