Story World Test Championship

[The Spin]

BREAKING NEWS

Today the ICC announced a new competition for the worlds 10 best test nations: Australia, England, South Africa, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan, West Indies, Bangladesh and Zimbabwe.

The competition will start with 2 groups of 5 with the top 2 from each group progressing to the semi finals.

The 1st round draw and matches coming soon!

 

[The Spin]

1st Round Draw

Group 1
Australia
England
Bangladesh
India
New Zealand

Group 2
Pakistan
Zimbabwe
West Indies
Sri Lanka
South Africa

The top 2 teams from each group go through

Scoring:
Win 5pts
Draw 3pts
Loss 0pts

Batting (1st innings)
100-199 - 1pt
200-299 - 2pts
300-399 - 3pts
400-499 - 4pts
500+ - 5pts

Bowling (1st 100 overs)
1-3wkt - 1pt
4-6wkt - 3pts
7+ wkt - 5pts

 

[The Spin]

Sky Sports has the rights to show you Englands group matches

England Fixtures:

v. New Zealand at Auckland
v. India at Lords
v. Bangladesh at Old Trafford
v. Australia at Sydney

Then if they qualify:
Semi-final
Final
1 test each

 

[ashu2411]

It will be longgggggggggggggg.

 

[The Spin]

England v. New Zealand

Its time to kick off the tournament with Englands opening match

Teams:
England
Trescothick
Strauss
Vaughan
Bell
Pieterson
Flintoff
Jones
Giles
Hoggard
Harmison
Anderson

New Zealand
Vincent
Sinclair
Fleming
Astle
Mcmillan
Marshall
McCullum
Vettorri
Tuffy
Bond
Butler

Richie Benaud says "I think that was a bit of a risk as batting onthe last day will really be hard"

So England get started but bad news already as off goes Strauss to a mix up with the running

More wickets drop and then Bell consolidates with some big shots until hes caught

Find out the result tommorrow!

 

[Steve Moore]

No Simon Jones!!!!!!!!!!!!!
you must be frigging mad!

 

[ZoraxDoom]

No Simon Jones!!!!!!!!!!!!!
you must be frigging mad!

And Anderson is the replacement!!!

 

[Cricketman]

India Zindabaad.

 

[nikish_a]

u freak you stole my idea I am alreay playing this.

 

[The Spin]

Firstly to clear up anything, I had no idea anyone else was doing the same/similar tournament. I'm sorry if it seems I am copying you. That is the last thing I would want to do.

We welcome you back to this interesting test. England now struggling with 106-5.

Can Flintoff save the day?

But more quick wickets fall and England are soon down to the last pair at 114-9

No tailend miracles, last wicket falls and England finish 115 all out with this one finishing them

So New Zealand are off but they to are struggling and fail to take advantage of Englands failure posting 199 all out

Now its Englands turn again, they need to do better than last time but Trescothick then Strauss both get caught early on

But a true captains innings takes England to a reasonable total of 287 all out

Thats the end of day 2. New Zealand will have 3 days to try and reach 204 to win. Join us tommorrow fo more exciting cricket

 

[The Spin]

Welcome to Day 3 of this great test. New Zealand require 204 runs. It seems like an easy task.

Early wickets disrupt New Zealands plans though and then the whole order collapsed with this the dominoe that started them off

New Zealand came out from lunch looking like this

New Zealand slump to a 96 all out meaning England win their opening match by 107 runs!

 

[The Spin]

Group Match Results:

Group 1
ENG beat NZL by 107 runs
IND beat BAN by 8 wickets

Group 2
PAK beat SRI by 59 runs
WIN beat SAF by 12 runs


Group tables:
Group 1
IND 14pts
ENG 11pts
NZL 6pts
BAN 2pts
AUS 0pts

Group 2
PAK 12pts
WIN 12pts
SAF 7pts
SRI 5pts
ZIM 0pts

 

[The Spin]

The ECB have sent out to the media that they would like fans input before the next match v.India (28th Sep)

If you want to give some advice before the next match about selection, tactics, etc. then please post

 

[usy]

I am here england ....

 

[usy]

i will se the result .... i cant be bother seeing all that long series .. should have made it ODI 1 ???