Thread: KO4- CA v Bunzz - (Starts June 16th 10pm Aus time)

THIS IS GOING TO BE ONE GREAT PLAY OFF... Fingers crossed.. so is the Jansz vs AK one.. 2 epic encounters

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And If you guys want Any further Info about my players here It is with a summarised Intro for each Player.And At the end there is strengths of my team as a unit as well.And those were my team strengths for any match.Not only for this.


Sidney Barnes (Mr. Consistent)
My opening batsman. As most people know, Sid Barnes was a Household name in 1930s, was both a great cricketer and a bizarre character. He was the only opener in cricket history who has scored more than 1000 runs averaging over 60 runs per innings. Playing for ‘The Invisibles’, he and Sir Donald Bradman, each scoring 234, shared a world record partnership for the fifth wicket in Test cricket when adding 405 against W. R. Hammond's team of 1946-47. Once he came in for much criticism for his custom of fielding at point or short-leg some five yards from the bat and almost on the pitch. That just shows his character. Playing at the Second World War time and a injury happened when fielding at short leg prevented him playing lot more matches.

Sanath Jayasuriya (The Master Blaster)
Bashing opener who is going to start the innings with Mr. Consistent. A real game changer. You can recall the man who could score equally briskly in every form of the game, who slashed and burned his way through bowling attacks. As with anyone who relied so much on extraordinary hand-eye coordination, there were so little few lean times, but just as the obit writers got busy, he would produce another innings of supreme power. The bowling, always canny and relying more on variations in pace than sharp turn, became the supporting act, though 420 international wickets should tell you that he was pretty adept at what he did. A man who brings luck to any team with the awesome luck he always carries with himself. And with his Bowling he made my team lot more balanced.

George Headley (Black Bradman)
Panama born, Headley was the first of the great black batsmen to emerge from the West Indies. Between the wars, when the West Indies batting was often vulnerable and impulsive, Headley's scoring feats led to his being dubbed the black Bradman. His devoted admirers responded by calling Bradman the white Headley - a pardonable exaggeration. If Bradman is not allowed for the Draft, this guy is the best batsman in this competition without a doubt. And he is my No.3 batsman averaging over 60. He was the first to score a hundred in each innings of a Test at Lord's, in 1939, and it was a measure of his ability that from 1929 to 1939 he did not have a single bad Test series. Clarrie Grimmett described Headley as the strongest on-side player he had ever bowled against. Sir Leonard Hutton, who saw him at his best in 1939, declared he had never seen a batsman play the ball later. It was hard to set a field for him, such was his genius for collecting runs with his precise placement of the ball. He is going to play the anchor role in my team.

Jacques Kallis (Mr. Multi-skilled)
Best All Rounder of Modern Era. He always shares his place with Sir Garfield Sobers as the Best All-Rounder ever to play test cricket. No batsman prizes his wicket more highly, and no wicket in all of cricket is more highly prized. A figure whose looming presence inspires calm in some and dread in others. Few players who belong to the modern age are a better fit for the notion of the classical cricketer. A forceful batsman who has at his disposal both a rock-solid technique and a mind impervious to distraction. As a bowler, he will be remembered as a purveyor of sometimes surprising pace and swing, and awkward bounce. In the slips, his sure-handedness and rattlesnake reflexes make ridiculous catches look regulation. Over 12,000 runs, 250 Wickets and 181 catches is just shows the class of the man. With his all-round abilities as one of the all-time greats, he made my team more and more balanced than any other team in the competition.

Colin Cowdrey (Captain) (The Lord)
Cowdrey was successively known to the when world Wisden reported on him as a 13-year-old schoolboy prodigy - Colin Cowdrey, Sir Colin and finally Lord Cowdrey, when he became the first English cricketer to be given a peerage. In an era of outstanding English batsmen, he was the most durable, with a Test career spanning more than two decades. Cowdrey was the first ever man to play 100 Tests, captained England 27 times as a outstanding captain and scored almost 43,000 first-class runs - 7,624 of them in Tests and yet Fred Trueman describe Cowdrey on his death as "a terrific talent who never fulfilled his potential". He played as a opener,no.3,no.4 and as no.5 throughout his career and done well in every position. so it brings the Batting flexibility to my team as well.


Les Ames (The Unrecovered)
Ames was without a doubt the greatest wicketkeeper-batsman the game has so far produced; and yet, at the time he was playing, it used to be said there were better wicketkeepers than Ames, and that he was in the England team because of his batting. If this was so, would Jardine, for example, have preferred him to Duckworth in Australia in 1932-33? Surely not. He scored eight hundreds in 44 Tests as wicketkeeper, and averaged 43.40. He played in the 1930s, when the overall average of wicketkeepers was 25.67, which offers a good indication of how much better he was than the others in his era. In that decade, Ames scored 2387 runs; no other wicketkeeper scored more than 820. His aggressive approach to batting and form behind the stumps repeatedly caught the eye of everyone then. He had 1,121 dismissals to his name in county cricket, and His total of 418 stumpings is easily a record. In 1935, against South Africa at The Oval, he made 123 before lunch on the final day, a tremendous effort and still the most runs in the morning session of a Test match. Just shows he is the perfect fix for No.6 with his aggression. fluent classical style; a magnificent driver, he employed the lofted drive ,turn good-length balls into half-volleys on lightning feet. A superb entertainer, he was popular with spectators up and down the land.As a keeper, His style was unobtrusive; there were no flamboyant gestures. He saw the ball so early that he was invariably in the right position without having to throw himself about. His glovework was neat and economical, his stumpings almost apologetic.
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Shaun Pollock (The Rader)
Shaun has bits of both his dad(Peter) and uncle(Graeme) in his makeup, but it is as an immaculate, Hadlee-esque, line and length seamer that he has established himself. At the start of his FC career, though, he was both slippery and aggressive and his Natall team-mates delighted in totting up the number of batsmen he pinned match after match. But then,Perhaps the straightest bowler in world cricket, Pollock is able to move the ball both ways at a lively pace. It was fitting that he became the first South African to take 400 Test wickets averaging 23.11 as a bowler. He averaged almost 33 with the Bat, getting the crucial runs under pressure whenever the team needs from him. And he has the ability to turn on the gear and clear the ropes at ease. He made my team much more balanced after two batting all-rounders(sanath,Kallis),As a my Bowling all-rounder.

Tony Lock (Mr.Aggressive)
Lock was an aggressive, attacking left-arm spinner, who complemented ideally the subtleties of Jim Laker's off-spin when Surrey were winning the County Championship every year from 1952 to 1958 and England regained, then retained, the Ashes. He is an aggressive but orthodox slow bowler, relying on guile and flight as much as spin. In the 1951 spring Wisden named him as one of the Five Cricketers of the Year. He was the leading wicket-taker on MCC's tour of India and Pakistan in 1961-62 and in New Zealand he took 13 Test wickets at less than nine apiece showing he can be a threat on any conditions. He is the holder of the record for the most number of runs scored in first-class cricket without a century. He and Bob Taylor (Derbyshire and England) remain the only players to have scored 10,000 first-class runs without a hundred. So averaging 25 with the ball with his aggressive spin bowling style, Tony Lock Brings Left arm Variation to My bowling attack combining with Sanath and also useful late order batting.

Ian Bishop (Bullet)
Giant athletic Bishop was one of the most promising fast-bowlers WI has produced. From a long straight hustling run and orthodox side-on action Ian Bishop was fast, showing the sort of pace that makes a crowd gasp as the ball thuds into the gloves of a keeper seemingly in another time-zone. There was sharp movement away from the bat too. After stress fractures of the vertebrae were diagnosed early in 1991, the giant Bishop underwent intensive rehabilitation, prayed a lot and modified his action, and became front-on without losing his away swing. Two years later he came back and took 6 for 40 on a rapid Perth pitch, to prove he had lost little of his potency. As a batsman he was known as someone who can hit a long ball. Averaging just 24 with the ball and with his fearsome pace Bishop adds real pace to my attack.




Frank Tyson (The Killer)
He was tall and strong, he reached for the crease with his final stride and his action wasn't fluid, but he sent down the bullets to the batsman who at the other end of the pitch without any kindness. In terms of raw, unbridled pace, few bowlers in history can match England's Frank Tyson. Richie Benaud rated him the quickest he's ever seen. In 17 Tests, Tyson took 76 wickets at an average of 18. This was no brainless quickie, however - Tyson was a Durham University graduate, and had a penchant for quoting Shakespeare or Wordsworth to batsmen. Most famously, Tyson blew away Australia as England retained the Ashes in 1954-55. After starting off with 1 for 160 in defeat at Brisbane, he shortened his run and took 10 wickets at Sydney and nine more at Melbourne, when he took 7 for 27 in the second innings and frightened the life out of the Aussies. There can have been few faster spells in history than Tyson's in that innings. He skittled the opposition, and bowling downwind off a shorter run, was literally as fast as a typhoon. Combining With Pollocks seaming accuracy, Bishops pacy outswing and with Kallis’ support, Tysons’ out and out pace make the perfect Fast bowling attack for my team under any conditions.


Stuart MacGill (The Shadow)
An old-fashioned operator with a gargantuan legbreak and majestic wrong'un, Stuart MacGill had the best strike-rate and worst luck of any modern spin bowler. MacGill stayed philosophical throughout his career, eagerly running in and invariably running amok. He bewitched 53 wickets in 11 Tests during Warne's 12-month drugs ban in 2003-04. Playing seven matches in 2005-06, he dismantled the World XI with nine victims above all others.With the best Strike Rate for spin bowler who has more than 50 wickets he shows the quality in him.Even the greats like Warnie,Murali are below him when it comes to Strike rate. Still He has more than 200 wickets playing under the shadow of warnie.So with the two left armes Tony lock and Sanaths’ support, Macgills’ aggressive wicket taking bowling perfectly full fill the dream spin attack any team would like to have.

12th Man
Brett Schultz (The Giant)
Brett Schultz, Strong Built an aggressive left-handed paceman with fearsome pace. Probably the fastest left arm bowler ever cricket has seen. When he did get his line and length right, however, batsmen were often done for pace. On his debut tour in 1993-94, on the slow pitches of Sri Lanka, Schultz showed that his pace was through the air and not so much off the pitch. This, together with the angle of delivery, presented major problems for both right- and left-handed batsmen and he ended with 20 wickets in the three-Test series. As with my perfect pace attack if anyone needs a rest he can play instead.With the Left arm pace he could add the extra little bit whenever I want it to be with him in my team as the 12th man.

My Strengths –

1.With Sid Barnes consistency and Jayasuriyas stroke play combining I have one of the best balanced opening pair who can put any team in to back foot straight away.

2.Black Bradman, George Hadley is my no.3.Probebly the best test batsman ever after Sir Donald Bradman which means the best batsman in this competition is my no.3 playing the anchor role.

3.My No.4 and No.5 would be Kallis,who is known as one of the most highly priced wickets in test cricket ever,and Great Colin Cowdery,whoz versatile batting(he can Bat from No.1 to No.5 equally efficiently according to the situation) and experience make my middle Order very strong with Les Ames to come as well.

4. Les Ames,Probebly the Best Wicket keeper Batsman in the competition with Gilchrist,will be my no.6 batsman.He Adds far more solidity to my middle order as well as adding more efficiency in wicket keeping as one of the best in the business with his nimble and classy footwork as a keeper.

5.I got Three all rounders in my team.Two Batting all rounders who has more than 300 test wickets and One Bowling all rounder in Pollock who average over 32 with the Bat.At no.7 Pollock can made crucial runs for my team.Also he can be a big hitter according to the situation which made my batting line up more versatile and powerful.

6.My fast Bowling attack is full filled with everything. The Fearsome pace of Tyson, Pacy outswing of bishop gonna be combine with the Accuracy and seam/swing moment plus crafty off cutters and slow balls of Pollock.And add to that I have a back up pace bowler in Kallis who has more than 250 test wickets.It made my pace attack,one of the most fearsome and effective attacks in this completion under any circumstances. With Kallis as 4th seamer my pace attack would be the most durable pace attack in the whole competition.And add to that I have Bratt Schultz as my 12th man whenever ready to play if wants.

7.In spin department I have the most Aggressive spinner world has seen so far with 208 wickets.He is Macgill with Strike Rate of 54 which is not only less than murali and warnie,also less than any spinner who has taken more than 50 wickets.To Partner him,I got the Tony Lock another aggressive and great spinner of all time.He adds Varity with his left arm spin.And to Back up both I have sanath who has more than 400 International wickets to his name.That made my spin attack a great one.

8.Most Importantly I got Great 5 bowlers and Sanath and Kallis who in combine got more than 750 international wickets to support them.No other team in the competition has this much variety and power in there Bowling line ups.Specially the durability.

Fuck me CA ,you really are putting serious effort in to this ,Well done

yeah CA .. NICE MATE>. Waiting for Bunzz to come up with an essay