Story Celebrity Cricket Survivor [C2007] Famous XI 6/233 off 15 (chasing 271)

[tassietiger]

Due to the lack of competition in world cricket at the moment, the ICC has come up with a revolutionary idea to mix reality TV with cricket and have a world 20:20 tour of the world with a team made up of celebrities.

The idea will be that a carefully selected team of 11 players will come up against all nine test-playing nations in 20:20 games, and if any of these games have crowds that beat the attendance figures of the recent Australia vs. Sri Lanka series (which means any more than four spectators) then the team may become a more regular fixture in international cricket in 2008 (i.e. replacing New Zealand)

As the Famous XI doesn?t have a home ground, they will play away from home in all games. This may cause a severe case of jetlag in the players, but it has been confirmed that none of the selected players have had any cricketing experience and the jetlag will not be a factor with an ability to outweigh the fact they are terrible.

The fixture has been announced as follows (there is a pattern to the order, you would have to be an absolute mastermind to figure it out though.
West Indies vs. Famous XI
Sri Lanka vs. Famous XI
South Africa vs. Famous XI
Pakistan vs. Famous XI
New Zealand vs. Famous XI
India vs. Famous XI
England vs. Famous XI
Bangladesh vs. Famous XI
Australia vs. Famous XI

Also, to add a little bit more of a ?reality show? feel to the tour, you, the audience, will have the power to vote out the person you would least like to carry on in the tour. Fortunately for Celebrity Cricket Survivor, we have acquired the services of none other than Gretel Killeen to evict the least liked player, as she has no other job at the moment so we let her in.

When a player is evicted from the Celebrity Cricket Survivor tour, another celebrity will be given the call-up to come into the side. Suggestions of celebrities to be given the call-up are most welcome, as will be suggestions on whether or not I should bother setting up polls, the other option being to just get people to post their votes in this thread as I am not anticipating many readers (or games actually finishing)

The team for the first game against the West Indies has been decided, and each player will be posted individually as they all accept their baggy blue, red and whites.

 

[Highlander999]

Sounds like a brilliant idea :happy

Look forward to this. You should get Ant and Dec involved though

 

[tassietiger]

Opening batsmen for the Famous XI announced

1. Doc Emmett Brown, Opening Right-Handed Bat.

Firstly, the time-travelling Doc Emmett Brown from the Back to the Future series. Great Scott, this guy can bat. With his supreme knowledge of physics he can detect exactly what velocity the ball is going at (in m/s) and what part of the bat he needs to use to displace it to the rope. He, like Andrew Symonds, has been known for one particular incident in which he clearly drank alcohol when he shouldn?t have. This incident was in Back to the Future III, and his co-star Marty McFly had to cover for him in this instance. Doc has previously been sought out by cricketing nations to join up, but has refused, stating that father-time prevents him from playing domestic or international cricket, as he has two children, Jules and Verne. Luckily, they died. His timetable is now freed up and he is putting all of his energy (which is half of the mass times the velocity squared plus the potential stored energy) into this cricket tour

2. The iPod Guy, Opening Left-Handed Bat.

While not being a much-talked about celebrity, the iPod guy has subliminally entered all of our fields of vision at some point or another. With his smooth but seductive appearance, he makes us all want to go and buy the latest iPod, iPod nano, iPod video, iPod phone or iPod nano videophone. The openers? role is to take the shine off the ball, and who would be better to take the shine off than someone who shows no light whatsoever? Armed with Eye of the Tiger on repeat, the iPod guy is regularly pumped when he goes out to bat, and this is further proven by his swashbucklingly high strike rates, smashing the ball to all parts of the ground.

 

[Punk_Sk8r]

Right I know it's not voting out time yet, but the ipod guy has got to go, so frikkin annoying ah I could say so much about him but some members have him in their avvy's.

Plus all the stuff I could say wouldnt apply to them also fab story mate I love reading your stories because their one of the few things that make me laugh out loud on PC.

 

[Left_Hander]

Nice start. This is going to be quite funny. Looking foward to who the next celebrities are and is the order reverse alphabetical?

 

[evertonfan]

OMG! Tassie doing a story. This is Lolgasm material.

 

[westindies2007]

cool idea. looking forward for this story

 

[khan31]

1. Doc Emmett Brown, Opening Right-Handed Bat.

Firstly, the time-travelling Doc Emmett Brown from the Back to the Future series. Great Scott, this guy can bat. With his supreme knowledge of physics he can detect exactly what velocity the ball is going at (in m/s) and what part of the bat he needs to use to displace it to the rope. He, like Andrew Symonds, has been known for one particular incident in which he clearly drank alcohol when he shouldn?t have. This incident was in Back to the Future III, and his co-star Marty McFly had to cover for him in this instance. Doc has previously been sought out by cricketing nations to join up, but has refused, stating that father-time prevents him from playing domestic or international cricket, as he has two children, Jules and Verne. Luckily, they died. His timetable is now freed up and he is putting all of his energy (which is half of the mass times the velocity squared plus the potential stored energy) into this cricket tour

2. The iPod Guy, Opening Left-Handed Bat.

While not being a much-talked about celebrity, the iPod guy has subliminally entered all of our fields of vision at some point or another. With his smooth but seductive appearance, he makes us all want to go and buy the latest iPod, iPod nano, iPod video, iPod phone or iPod nano videophone. The openers? role is to take the shine off the ball, and who would be better to take the shine off than someone who shows no light whatsoever? Armed with Eye of the Tiger on repeat, the iPod guy is regularly pumped when he goes out to bat, and this is further proven by his swashbucklingly high strike rates, smashing the ball to all parts of the ground.

I know its wrong but that line had me laghing for 3 seconds! Thats a long laugh. Great story lol!

 

[sami007]

i think the order is such that you play somewhere...then go back to south asia...then to another place..then back to asia...etc

am i right?!

 

[blake]

^ Lol, it's just back to front... I couldn't have thought it would've taken anybody longer than 3 seconds to work that out.

 

[Covvy]

i think the order is such that you play somewhere...then go back to south asia...then to another place..then back to asia...etc

am i right?!

Wow Your smart . I would have never of gotten it right

Anyway, Great idea for story mate.

 

[mattfb]

Haha this sounds like an awesome story. Go iPod guy!

 

[Skater]

Tassie, this looks as good as the Super Duper Series. Keep going with it!

 

[tassietiger]

Batsmen 3 and 4 announced

3. Jesus Christ, Right Handed Batsman

In a number 3 batsman you need to play your big guns. They need to be experienced, talented, and an ability to perform miraculous feats to save your team from defeat. Jesus has all of these attributes. He also has a massive amount of facial hair, which is useful in protecting him from getting sunburnt as much, which is the pain of playing cricket. He plays straight through the line of the ball, as he has a thing against cross batted strokes due to past experience. He can also hit the ball hard by pretending it is Judas? head, although deep down he realises he should know better than to not forgive him.

4. Denny Crane (c), Right Handed Batsman

It?s not often that Jesus plays in a sporting team and does not have as many worshippers as a team mate, but in this case it is true. Denny Crane is one of the greatest strikers of a ball that this world has ever seen, and anyone who disagrees is a democrat or a Bush-basher. He has never been given out LBW, as whenever he sees the umpire pondering a decision, he mutters the two words ?Denny Crane? and the ponderation ceases. Realising that he is in a team among people who cannot claim to be anywhere near of the talent of their opposing players, he has supplied the whole team with guns on the off-chance that they begin to lose. ?Hell, the criminals have them! It?s not less guns that this world needs, it?s more.?

 

[blake]

Haha... this is going to be interesting. Can't wait until you get some matches in.

Definitely though, I think Donald Duck should get a go. Good bowler, but his batting... well.. yeah, matches his name.