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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 incase one of the chosen 5 does not play. The first reserve player picked will come into contention first.

Scoring

Batting

1 point for every run scored
A batsman scoring 50 will receive a 20pt bonus, with another 10pts for every further 50 runs scored
(ie. 50 = 20pts, 100 = 30pts, 150 = 40pts, 200+= 50pts)
A batsman scoring at least 20 runs, will receive.....
10 bonus pts for scoring at a strike rate of 80-99
20 bonus pts for scoring at a strike rate of 100-149
30 bonus pts for scoring at a strike rate of 150-199
40 bonus pts for scoring at a strike rate of 200+

Bowling
20pts per wicket
20 bonus pts for a 3fer
30 bonus pts for a 5fer
5 bonus pts per maiden over
A bowler who has bowled at least 3 overs will receive.....
10 bonus pts for an economy rate of <=6.0
20 bonus pts for an economy rate of <=5.0
30 bonus pts for an economy rate of <=4.0
(ie. an ER of 4.25 scores 20pts)

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.

Fixtures

sun, 06 feb, 8:00 am
1st ODI (D/N), Ahmedabad, Feb 6 2022, West Indies tour of India
India
West Indies

wed, 09 feb, 8:00 am
2nd ODI (D/N), Ahmedabad, Feb 9 2022, West Indies tour of India
India
West Indies

fri, 11 feb, 8:00 am
3rd ODI (D/N), Ahmedabad, Feb 11 2022, West Indies tour of India
India
West Indies

wed, 16 feb, 2:00 pm
1st T20I (N), Kolkata, Feb 16 2022, West Indies tour of India
India
West Indies

fri, 18 feb, 2:00 pm
2nd T20I (N), Kolkata, Feb 18 2022, West Indies tour of India
India
West Indies

sun, 20 feb, 2:00 pm
3rd T20I (N), Kolkata, Feb 20 2022, West Indies tour of India
India
West Indies

Squads

West Indies ODI squad: Kieron Pollard (captain), Fabian Allen, Nkrumah Bonner, Darren Bravo, Shamarh Brooks, Jason Holder, Shai Hope, Akeal Hosein, Alzarri Joseph, Brandon King, Nicholas Pooran, Kemar Roach, Romario Shepherd, Odean Smith, Hayden Walsh Jr

India ODI squad: https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/wes ... ies-squads

Please get your ODI squads in before the first ball is bowled in the first match on Sunday.

Good luck!

1) Fabian Allen (WI)
2) Nkrumah Bonner (WI)
3) Brandon King (WI)
4) Odean Smith (WI)
5) Shardul Thakur (India)

Subs

Yuzvendra Chahal (India)
Rohit Sharma (India)

Cheers Mike. I'll have a think.

Dhawan
Rohit
Rahul
Sundar
Holder

Pollard
Siraj

Rohit
Kohli
Pant
Kuldeep
Chahal

Holder
Pollard

Rohit
Rahul
Pant
Holder
Smith

Shepherd
Chahal

The kid says ...

Rohit
Rahul
Pant
Sundar
Pooran

SKY
Kohli

My side is

Rohit
Rahul
Pant
Hope
Pooran

Kohli
Chahar

Hi Mike, the twins have gone to sleep and tge better half won't let me wake up 8 year olds to pick their fantasy team - women

If it's ok I'll get them to pick their team when they wake up before they do anything else, but that might be after official cut-off

Red Devil wrote:Hi Mike, the twins have gone to sleep and tge better half won't let me wake up 8 year olds to pick their fantasy team - women

If it's ok I'll get them to pick their team when they wake up before they do anything else, but that might be after official cut-off

I'll give a little more time for adult posters too.

Twins say ...

Rohit
Kohli
Pant
Pollard
Pooran

Holder
Sundar

The cashpoint is now closed.

well, that wasn't the India batting line up that I was expecting

Here are the player scores for the first ODI....

1) Washington Sundar (India) 125
2) Yuzvendra Chahal (India) 120
3) Rohit Sharma (India) 100
4) Jason Holder (WI) 97
5) Alzarri Joseph (WI) 73
6) Prasidh Krishna (India) 70
7) Suryakumar Yadav (India) 64
8) Mohammed Siraj (India) 60
9) Rishabh Pant (India) 51
10) Fabian Allen (WI) 39
11) Deepak Hooda (India) 36
12) Akeal Hosein (WI) 30
13) Ishan Kishan (India) 28
14) Darren Bravo (WI) 18
15) Nicholas Pooran (WI) 18
16) Brandon King (WI) 13
17) Shamarh Brooks (WI) 12
18) Kemar Roach (WI) 10
19) Shardul Thakur (India) 10
20) Shai Hope (WI) 8
21) Virat Kohli (India) 8
22) Kieron Pollard (WI) 0

Poster scores will go up tomorrow....

Had a reasonable think about whether to stick with Kohli. Maybe I shouldn't have.