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[Aislabie]

All of which makes the rankings look very peculiar...​

 

[Aggz]

Damn. Our batting really let us down this time, with six wickets in hand we should've gone for it. I really took a lot of time to settle in and failed to make up for it. Nevertheless, it was another great tour for us.

 

[VC the slogger]

Ah, cricsim. Even makes Southa Africa win a final.

 

[Aislabie]

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[Aggz]

Wow, great to finish as the leading run scorer of the World Cup. Really looking forward to the next tour.

 

[Aislabie]

Bumper summer for Southern Hemisphere
The PCFTP rolls on after a thrilling World Cup
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Of course, the headline series is the upcoming Ashes series. The Australians, led by Nick Agger, will go into the series as favourites after their impressive run to the World Cup final, but England will be looking to come back with a bang after disappointment in the same tournament.

Simranjit Singh told journalists that he was "embarrassed" by his team's performance at cricket's showpiece event, and that some players would be lucky to make the Ashes tour.

Agger, meanwhile, seems confident, and he has every right to be after averaging well over 150 in the World Cup. "We have a great set of players, and we're playing the Poms in our own backyard."
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While the Ashes are going on, neighbours New Zealand will be looking to expand upon their World Cup campaign with victory over the West Indies. The Windies, who topped their group, were a real surprise package in the World Cup before they lost out to semi-finalists India.

The Kiwis have a relatively settled side, and their gloveman Simon Kerrigan will be hoping for a better debut than his English namesake endured less than a year ago. He told the press that he is "confident that we'll come out on top against a struggling opposition."

The West Indies, though, are in turmoil. Darren Sammy has been sacked as Test skipper and replaced by Dwayne Bravo, who leads the ODI side. "We're going through a transitional stage at the moment," he said, "but we can make it work for us.​

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In terms of standard, though, the best cricket of all could be taking place halfway around the world. World Champions South Africa are preparing to take on the land of a billion cricket fans.

Indian skipper Red King has avoided the press, largely because they've all been busy stalking Sachin Tendulkar. We assume that rumours of the presence of his 14-year-old son Arjun Tendulkar in the squad are unfounded, although weirder things have happened.

The Proteas, meanwhile, will likely stick with their usual suspects for the Test side, although Stiaan van Zyl may be looking at a Test debut after his impressive initiation to ODI cricket on the biggest stage of them all. Also, Dale Steyn still exists, and will likely be rampant.​

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Squads and tour itineraries are to be released soon, but until that time we expect to see squads of up to 18 players being released by the relevant cricket boards.
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[Aggz]

18 Men Squad for Ashes 13/14

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nick Agger Anirudh Chandrasekaran Matthew Coldhill Sunibir Das Samuel Emmanuel Umair Nazim Michael Clarke David Warner Siddharth Chauhan Niranjan Gurupur Shane Watson Steve Smith VC Andrews Mitchell Johnson Ryan Harris Peter Siddle Vivek Acharya Nathan Lyon​

Will try to give Sunibir and Vivek a go in the longer format of the game.

 

[sos]

not good time for me, I am proving to be disastrous in everybody's sim.

 

[CG123]

We kind of blew that, 4.67 runs an over for 15 overs with seven wickets in hand should be a walk in the park.

 

[Pinch hitter]

16 Men Squad for South Africa Tour - Season 1

India

----------------------------------------------------------------------- Abhishek Sharma Gaurav Aggarwal Arun Prashanth Virat Kohli Red King Sathish Kumar Suren Ram Shubham Sinha Rizwan Zakariya Alex O'Riordan Ravichandran Ashwin Omkar Chaitanya Puh Lee Jack Ryder Bhuvneshwar Kumar Zaheer Khan ​

BCCI Selection Committee: 'We Still Exploring our new found players in International Cricket and we like to continue it... We included Zaheer Khan to the 16 player Squad...​

 

[surendar]

That's sad to see us go in semi finals though we were the first to qualify for semis. But in these kind of knockouts, things like these are expected to happen. Haha, I liked that bit on stalking of Tendulkar's son. good luck, skip!

Oh well, congrads to SA team. Job very well done atleast in simulator games to win the world cup title.

 

[Villain]

Our solid top order couldn't do well for the very first time, except me and Varun who put up a 135 runs partnership but sadly couldn't stick there for a longer time and snatch a win for us. Anyway, we'll look forward for future tournaments.

 

[TheNameisNiru]

i should have been more economical in the final match

 

[Varun]

Disappointing to see us bowing out after winning all three group stage games.

 

[Till Valhalla]

Congrats SA.