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[Slug1793]

Day 2
First session

With England needing quick wickets Stuart Broad and Jofra Archer began the day with the ball, but it was the bowling change of Chris Woakes who got the break through, removing BJ Watling for 77 and putting a stop to a partnership that had put on 168.

Chris Woakes then struck again just 4 deliveries later to remove Colin de Grandhomme for a duck and with just 39 runs added to the over night score, England had got the start they wanted.

Mitchell Santner was the new man to the crease for New Zealand and helped steady the ship in a partnership worth 44, but he eventually fell lbw to the bowling of Jofra Archer for 31.

Tom Latham requires 14 more runs for his double century and his partner, Tim Southee is fairly new to the crease with just 2 to his name. England will be looking to wrap things up in the next session and for as little runs as possible.

New Zealand 460/7

T.Latham 186* (336)
BJ.Watling 77 (144)
C.de Grandhomme 0 (4)
M.Santner 31 (46)
T.Southee 2* (13)

C.Woakes 3/107
J.Archer 1/106

 

[Dutch]

Either a draw or defeat for England from here one feels!

 

[Slug1793]

Either a draw or defeat for England from here one feels!

Could be a tough one batting last that’s for sure!

 

[Slug1793]

Day 2
Second session

Chris Woakes does it again!! A good short ball drew Latham into the the hook shot, but he could only manage to get an edge on it which flew through to Jos Buttler behind the stumps. Latham fell 8 short of his double ton, as England took a step closer to wrapping up the innings.

It didn’t take long for the ninth wicket to fall, pitched up by Stuart Broad, he took the edge of Tim Southee’s bat and Buttler took a simple catch behind.

Trent Boult and Neil Wagner were hoping to add some quick runs and push the total up to 500, but Woakes made sure that this wasn’t going to happen and removed Wagner for just 4. Buttler was again the man who took the catch as Woakes found Wagner’s outside edge.

New Zealand managed just 22 runs after the restart as England picked up the 3 wickets they needed to bring the innings to a close.

New Zealand 482 all out

T.Latham 192 (347)
T.Southee 9 (38)
N.Wagner 4 (7)
T.Boult 0* (4)

S.Broad 3/102
C.Woakes 5/130

 

[Dutch]

Good to knock em over but now comes the real task: grinding out the runs to get as close as possible and at least avoid the follow on! Up to it?

 

[santana1026]

Good matchsummary and slider info. Thanks mates !!!

I'll try those new sliders for sure

 

[santana1026]

My Custom Test Championship has reached its conclusion, now onto the latter stages of my Custom ODI Championship.

Read all about it here at www.sillypointcricket.com

I’m doing a little custom T20 tournament as Yorkshire as well where I’ve put myself in the team. Next up will be a custom competition with my own closed innings match and me in the England team (4 day matches, bat twice, 100 overs max each innings each day). That’s what I love about this game, the unlimited customisation options.

All the best with your own tournaments etc however you play the game. I’ll be moving onto exclusively hard mode from now on too... belatedly!

Good stuff mate.. who won your test championship?

 

[santana1026]

Preparing a Custom Galaxy league With All time best West indies, india, Australia, South Africa, Sri lanka, Australia and New Zealand and the current Top 8 international Teams.

The Galaxy league/Council will consist of a World TEST Champions League qualifier, meaning the All time best Teams will play in a 6 team test league, and the current international teams will play in the ICC scheduled Would test championship Qualifiers. Top 3 teams from both leagues will qualify for the WORLD TEST CHAMPIONS LEAGUE.

I've mapped out a schedule for all the ATB (All time best Teams) teams. The current / present day top 8 will follow the ICC world test schedule.

The tours will also consist of T20 and T10 scheduled matches. I will also keep teams rankings for those matches.

Off topic, I started a tour match on ashes 17, Australia ATB vs Windies ATB, playing as windies ...I got DESTROYED by the Australian Greats.
Score cards below.

 

[Little Timmy]

Good stuff mate.. who won your test championship?

We, England, beat Scotland who didn’t show up in the final despite beating us both times in the round robin. I think that I won a crucial toss on a green deck so they didn’t chase down over 400 for once!

I failed to apply myself post patch though in the ODIs and lost a low scoring thriller against the Dutch in the semi.

I played the first half of each tournament on Medium then the second half on Hard.

I’m currently creating a custom French national team (Players completely made up/I have French connections) and intend to play on Hardest in another Test league but probably with some actual Test nations. I’m a stickler for the Associates and developing the sport which is why I was playing PNG, Canada and the rest in my leagues.

Many thanks for your interest.

 

[Little Timmy]

Preparing a Custom Galaxy league With All time best West indies, india, Australia, South Africa, Sri lanka, Australia and New Zealand and the current Top 8 international Teams.

The Galaxy league/Council will consist of a World TEST Champions League qualifier, meaning the All time best Teams will play in a 6 team test league, and the current international teams will play in the ICC scheduled Would test championship Qualifiers. Top 3 teams from both leagues will qualify for the WORLD TEST CHAMPIONS LEAGUE.

I've mapped out a schedule for all the ATB (All time best Teams) teams. The current / present day top 8 will follow the ICC world test schedule.

The tours will also consist of T20 and T10 scheduled matches. I will also keep teams rankings for those matches.

Off topic, I started a tour match on ashes 17, Australia ATB vs Windies ATB, playing as windies ...I got DESTROYED by the Australian Greats.
Score cards below.

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Wow, sounds epic!

This is what’s great about these games and what Big Ant have achieved and been committed to from their very first cricket game... the customisation. We can all get exactly what we want out of the game... it’s kind of a form of world building to use literary speak.

There was a snooker career game released and what I read online was that you couldn’t create your own player, not even just create a name, age, nationality, a head maybe and which hand!!!

 

[Ed Smith]

Me? Nah! Wasnt even scared mate...

 

[DAP]

Me? Nah! Wasnt even scared mate...

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This looks as exciting as the one Dean (Twistie 3) did!

 

[Ed Smith]

This looks as exciting as the one Dean (Twistie 3) did!

Was awful at the end, I had Lyon dropped needing 3 to win as well. Batted horrifically in the 4th inns

 

[Slug1793]

Good to knock em over but now comes the real task: grinding out the runs to get as close as possible and at least avoid the follow on! Up to it?

Sorry to have gone quiet, after about 80 extras in the 1st innings due to the bounce and my hatred of batting with Joe Root while he’s wearing those horrible blue sausage finger gloves, I opted for a complete overhaul.
Since my last post I haven’t played a game, I have just been editing (on Xbox, don’t use a computer). I have recreated England and few of the players so I could give them proper gloves and pads with the logos and stuff on, so it took a while. Just now starting a new tour of South Africa, trying out your sliders as well

 

[Slug1793]

Tour of South Africa has started and I think they look much better