Cricket-Match-Special ... A forum for discussion

A bit late in the piece, but let's see if we get some entries. I guess everyone's been distracted by the Olympics.

Usual terms and conditions apply.

Feel free to pick 5 players from the two countries (a mix of the two, or 5 from one country - it's up to you), and two reserve players just in case one of the chosen 5 does not play. The first reserve player picked will come into contention first.

Scoring

Batting

1 point per run.
+10 for a score of 50.
+10 for every further increment of 50 scored.
If a batsman is not out after 50 = +10, after 100 = +15, after 200 = +25 etc....

Fielding

10 points per catch or stumping
20 points per run out, or 10 points each, if two players share the responsibility
10 bonus points for 3 contributions with catches,stumpings or run outs

Bowling

20 points per wicket
2 points per maiden over
+10 for 5 wickets in the match
+20 for 5 wickets in an innings
+30 for 10 wickets in the match
+50 for 10 wickets in an innings
+30 for a hat trick

Squads can be found here - https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/ind ... 527/squads

And in this era of COVID uncertainty, good luck picking 7 players who will actually play...

Teams in by the toss please.

If we don't have at least 5 participants I reserve the right to cancel...

Kohli
Anderson
Pant
Jadeja
Robinson

Root
Shami

Need to get a mod to PM. Maybe allow changes up to the end of day one to permit late entries?

Root/Robinson/Rohit/Pant/Ashwin
Anderson/Kohli

Cheers.

Fifty minutes left!

1) James Anderson (Eng)
2) Haseeb Hameed (Eng)
3) Virat Kohli (India)
4) R Ashwin (India)
5) Mohammed Shami (India)

Reserves
Ishant Sharma (India)
Ravi Jadeja (India)

Kohli
Ashwin
Pujara
Anderson
Bumrah

Root
Crawley

Ill be honest, I pressed send just as Bumrah took a wicket in the first over.

My side

Dom Sibley
Jos Buttler
Ishant Sharma
Rishabh Pant
James Anderson

R Ashwin
Mark Wood

My bad thought started tomorrow not today

You're number five though, if accepted.

Given Andy managed to pick 3 players who aren't featuring in the first test, I don't think he took an unfair advantage from being late

I'll allow it so we can have a comp.

Wishing I'd gone with my gut and put Shami in my 5 rather than reserves. Oh well, early days.

Hunch not to pick Kohli pays off, so far.

sorry fluffy, I missed this

presumably I was too distracted by the newest high quality cricket competition on the block

or perhaps not

The new rounders competition and the associated clearing out of cricket over the summer meant that cricket competitions and series haven't even crossed my mind for about a month

congratulations ECB...... you've all done very well