England v NewZealand 1st Test 2008

[icyman]

After the slam-bang of T20,we are down to some 'real' cricket. England take on NewZealand in the First Test starting this Thursday.So hurry up and register yourself before time runs out !

Squads :

England

Michael Vaughan (c)
Tim Ambrose (wk)
James Anderson
Ian Bell
Stuart Broad
Paul Collingwood - batting allrounder
Alastair Cook
Matthew Hoggard
Monty Panesar
Kevin Pietersen
Ryan Sidebottom
Andrew Strauss

New Zealand

Daniel Vettori (c) -bowling allrounder
Brendon McCullum
Grant Elliott -bowling allrounder
Daniel Flynn
Peter Fulton
Mark Gillespie
Gareth Hopkins (wk)
Jamie How
James Marshall
Chris Martin
Michael Mason
Kyle Mills
Iain O'Brien
Jacob Oram -bowling allrounder
Jeetan Patel
Aaron Redmond -batting allrounder
Tim Southee -bowling allrounder
Ross Taylor

 

[icyman]

Surprising that there havent been any registrations so far !

 

[Abhas]

Thanks for creating icy..
I've registered, dont worry people are sleeping, they'll register soon enough

Is Southee expected to play?

 

[Highlander999]

Registered

 

[Xuzuno]

Thanks for creating icy..
I've registered, dont worry people are sleeping, they'll register soon enough

Is Southee expected to play?

If he doesn't get injured, yes, he's expected to play.

 

[icyman]

Paul Collingwood is to undergo a fitness test.

 

[WORLD CHAMPIONS]

Many new faces in Kiwi camp cannot take risk with them

 

[Dare]

McCullum not going to be the WK??

 

[ZexyZahid]

I've included Jacob Oram as a batsman. He is an allrounder, but more a batsman allrounder. I didn't deselect him being a bowler, because some people might have chosen him for that position already.

Collingwood is fit to play.

 

[icyman]

I have a very young team and a different captain. I might be No.1 or No.last here. This is a big gamble.

 

[ZexyZahid]

I've got no idea, actually how the English players have been performing lately. Of the New Zealander players you can see by their warm-up matches.

 

[Highlander999]

Well KP and Sidebottom have been in excellent form and Strauss hasn't been looking too bad

 

[Highlander999]

Hoggy isn't playing

 

[lancashire666]

just done my first ever Fantasy Cricket team on here, if i dont finish last ill be happy lol, KP is going to perform very well i think, as will Sidebottom

 

[ZexyZahid]

Because of the rainy conditions I changed my captain Oram into Sidebottom. Hopefully that works out. I didn't select Collingwood, because he didn't have a great match in County Cricket just before this Test match took place.

I am surprised that Icyman has taken Redmond as captain. He has one problem already though: Hoggard isn't playing.