See, I came up with a "three-way cricket" idea back when I was about eight years old.
I don't have my old notes anymore, but I do remember that it was nine players per team, and sixteen overs per side - maximum four per bowler. You'd have one fielding team, one bowling team and one batting team, and the bowlers who were in use at the time made up the tenth and eleventh fielders. Honestly it's not my favourite concept now, but back when I was a kid I must have used dice to simulate a good 100 to 200 of these games with my own strange
"3CC World IX" which off the top of my head included:
1.
Michael Hussey
2.
Jamie How
3.
Chamu Chibhabha
4.
David Sales
5.
Jacob Oram
6.
Chris Read
7.
Me
8.
Bas Zuiderent *
9.
James Kirtley *
R.
Phil Jaques
R.
Dominic Clapp *
R.
Jason Lewry *
R.
Jason Brown
* A lot of my early cricketing knowledge was based around a long-standing Sussex save I ran on Cricket Captain 2002. One notable thing about Cricket Captain 2002 is that for some reason, Bas Zuiderent was listed as a strangely effective medium-pace bowler. Unfortunately this does mean that a lot of my "World IX" all played for Sussex at the same time.
I'm fully aware of how weird a list of favourite cricketers that is for any age, let alone an eight-year-old. My only defence is that I used to really like TransWorld Sport and ICC Cricket World back when they used to be on telly.
I do kinda like the idea that even I knew it would never catch on and I mostly filled the teams with unmarketable players because they'd be the only ones available.
