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I can't believe I won that, given that my team only managed about 200 runs!

Luke Wood, who turned out to be my 13th man scored 153 runs and took 5 wickets, I thought not having him in my XI was going to cost me.

Tavare (Gloucs)
Dilshan (Derby)
N O'Brien (Leics) - probably on Ireland duty
T Smith (Lancs) - probably still injured
Hastings (Durham)
Kleinveldt (Northants)
Shahzad (Sussex) - probably still injured
Porter (Essex)
McKay (Leics)
Bird (Hants) - probably still injured
Rehman (Somerset) - probably still not playing

Fletcher (Surrey) - probably still not playing
Stone (Northants) - probably still not playing
Peters (Northants)
Buck (Lancs) - probably still not playing
C Wood (Hants) - probably still not playing
Edwards (Hants) - probably still not playing
Griffiths (Kent) - probably still not playing
Marshall (Gloucs)
Critchley (Derby)
Pinner (Leics)
MacLeod (Durham)
RML Taylor (Leics)
Durston (Derby) - probably still not playing

Provisional team for this week:

Brooks, JA
Patterson, SA
Willey, DJ
Dawson, LA
Roderick, GH
Ansari, ZS
Meschede, CAJ
Miles, CN
Dunn, MP
Footitt, MHA
Cox, OB

Davies, SM
Mullaney, SJ
Lloyd, DL
Wells, TJ
Thomas, IAA
Handscomb, PSP
Cosgrove, MJ
Mustard, P
Malik, Adeel
Patel, RH
Naik, JKH
Lyth, A
Riley, AEN
Tremlett, CT
Beer, WAT
Browne, NLJ
Gidman, APR
Hodd, AJ
Claydon, ME

ianp1970 wrote:Provisional team for this week:

Brooks, JA
Patterson, SA
Willey, DJ
Dawson, LA
Roderick, GH
Ansari, ZS
Meschede, CAJ
Miles, CN
Dunn, MP
Footitt, MHA
Cox, OB

that's a good looking team. not necessarily full of big names, but full of in form players. I'm pleased I'm not playing you this week

My Team

Ashwell Prince
Aj Robson
C Dent
JC Mickleberg
Kumar Sangakkara
Sam Northeast
JA Simpson
Cj Jordan
GK Berg
Tim Bresnan
Graham Napier

Subs
J Clark
Rest is on the spreadsheet.

R Bopara
J Franklin
J Hildreth
N Dexter
J Harris
P Trego
L Wright
S Crook
T Cooper
S Thakor
T Bailey

G Wilson
M Hobden
A Gale
B Godleman
J Fuller
A Wakely
K Velani
J Davey

Madsen
Stirling
Cobb
Ryder
Stevens
Brown BC
Billings
Raine
Gregory
Finn
Palladino

Pyrah
Briggs
Coughlin
Overton J
Batty

Not so confident this week. My in form batsmen are all having this week off.

Waiting to see how Ben Raine does. His figures each week are as follows
not picked... 24 runs 3 wkts
not picked... 51 runs 6 wickets
picked........ 19 runs 1 wkt
not picked... 90 runs 4 wickets
picked........ 15 runs 2 wkts
not picked... 1 run 8 wkts

based on his track record, I'm expecting him to fail miserable this week, now that I've picked him

Burns
Newton
Jennings
Klinger
Richardson
Faulkner
Horton
Shreck
Roland-Jones
Overton C.
Azharullah

Great start for Footitt 2 in his first over

Hope I don't regret forgetting about Adam Lyth!

Thakor is mysteriously omitted.

there seems to be a few not playing for me. I'm suddenly thinking England ODI squad, which I hadn't considered

I thought that my depleted team might go all the way to Karl Brown who is 20th on my list, but of course he ended up being 12th man........ and scored 57 runs

still..... I'm not top for nothing, so bring it on

looks like my team is:-

Cobb
Ryder
Stevens
Brown BC
Raine
Gregory
Palladino
Briggs
Coughlin
Overton J
Sibley

I've just realised that Jamie overton is actually down as 12th man on the BBC scorecard, so Karl Brown does play for me. woo hoo!

If Richard Levi is not in my team this week, I may have a meltdown