Team Thread Nine Dragons: As active as an American truck driver

[IceAgeComing]

Pretty nifty imo

 

[Dipak]

This is where I'd want to be!

 

[IceAgeComing]

I've just realised that this is quite possibly the only cricket team ever that could play two Chinaman bowlers in the same XI which is pretty cool imo

Here's where @The Author comes up with some game played in Canada in 1982 that had two SLC bowlers and thus ruin my fun

 

[Aislabie]

I've just realised that this is quite possibly the only cricket team ever that could play two Chinaman bowlers in the same XI which is pretty cool imo

Here's where @The Author comes up with some game played in Canada in 1982 that had two SLC bowlers and thus ruin my fun

Pretty sure the South African Test side in 1906 had a couple of Chinaman bowlers - they had a ridiculous amount of wrist-spinners but I can't remember which hand they bowled with

 

[VC the slogger]

Here's where @The Author comes up with some game played in Canada in 1982 that had two SLC bowlers and thus ruin my fun

Pretty sure the South African Test side in 1906 had a couple of Chinaman bowlers - they had a ridiculous amount of wrist-spinners but I can't remember which hand they bowled with

Guess I'll just have to do it then.

There was at least one instance of Brad Hogg and Michael Bevan bowling together in the same innings of an ODI. Then, in a Test against Zimbabwe in '03, Hogg actually bowled in tandem with another chinaman in Simon Katich and was rather dubiously out-bowled by him in the same match.

That's probably not saying much but Bevan has a Test match ten-fer to his name and Katich an innings five-fer. Hogg, the so-called specialist chinaman has neither of those at Test level.

 

[Aislabie]

Guess I'll just have to do it then.

There was at least one instance of Brad Hogg and Michael Bevan bowling together in the same innings of an ODI. Then, in a Test against Zimbabwe in '03, Hogg actually bowled in tandem with another chinaman in Simon Katich and was rather dubiously out-bowled by him in the same match.

That's probably not saying much but Bevan has a Test match ten-fer to his name and Katich an innings five-fer. Hogg, the so-called specialist chinaman has neither of those at Test level.

C'est magnifique!

 

[Varun]

Up the activity, mates!

 

[Dutch]

I have just performed a little Irish jig....

 

[Dutch]

The auctionis very unclear to me: did we sign anyone from the A pool? Does it matter?

 

[Aislabie]

The auctionis very unclear to me: did we sign anyone from the A pool? Does it matter?

They're all going for silly money - like 30k a pop - so I've backed out of the pool A auctions. There are lots of players I'd like to target in the later pools anyway, so it ought to work out in our favour in the end - the other teams will be skint and they'll have to sign Cricket Star or something, but we can pick up the likes of VC (for example)

 

[Dutch]

Ha ha! Good call...there are some pretty silly things going on there!

 

[IceAgeComing]

I'm going to make a prediction that two teams will go over their salary cap during the auction

Also VC is going for megabucks as well which is a little annoying because it means we can't carry on the "staff members only" approach

 

[themusketeer]

We have the privilege of all the staffs (FC team) in one team.

 

[Varun]

Hell yeah, we'll be active enough to catch up with all those pool A players!

****in' hell, our entire team is staff members.

 

[Aislabie]

we can't carry on the "staff members only" approach

I looked into it, but no - it likely won't be possible. After all, we already missed out on @SpitfiresKent and @User2010

I might pick up a couple of budget players to enable us to sign a couple of bigger names