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[Welwyn]

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Hi All,

Tried this before when I first signed up here. However, the difficulties of doing it on Cricket Captain became too difficult. However, that was before I'd even heard of Syedur Rahman's Cricket Simulator, let alone used it in WoC.

I have been doing some background work with AI this time to set this up based on everything I have come across while using this website.

Sign-up's now available:

- @DuneTiger
- @Aravind.
- @Paranoid Kendroid
- @Till Valhalla
- @Perfect Square
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- @BasketballHooper

Pitch Rules: Managers have the right to chose which grounds host any match in each home series. They do not have to use every possible ground that is on their list. HOWEVER, only one ground can be a host in all 7 of their home series. (for example, if the Australian manager has a home game at the MCG in every home series, then every other ground will have to miss 1 series). The exception to that is for whoever manages England. For them, Lord's HAS to be that ground and has to host a match in every home series (because #homeofcricket).
All grounds for a series have to be announced before squads are named for the round.

Squads: Managers will have turn their long-list into a tournament squad of 30. Of which, they have to include at least 3 named wicket-keepers (these don't have to be recognised keepers but do have to have the ability to be 'part-time keepers' e.g. Ollie Pope). They have the right to include 1 player who isn't on that long-list in their 30 should they wish. After that, no-one outside that 30-man squad is allowed to be picked. When picking the initial 30-man squad, they must pick a captain & vice captain. Barring injury, this captain MUST play every game. In the case of injury, the VICE-captain must then play.

However, each manager can 'sack' their captain once during the competition. This can only happen after two consecutive series that have not been won. They can then appoint anyone else in the 30-man squad as captain and appoint a new vice captain (if the original vice is not the new captain, the manager can decide whether to keep them or change vice-captain too).

For each series, team managers will have to pick an 18 man squad from that includes 2 named wicket-keepers (see above rule about who can be named a WK). All XI's for that series then come from that 18-man squad.

Injuries: TBC (Fast & Seam/Swing bowlers will be more susceptible to injuries if playing multiple tests in a row in the series).

See below for series/schedules and Overall point scoring rules.

- League Winners will host the Finals series over a 5 Test Series
- Play-offs will see 4th play away at 3rd in a 3 Test series and winner will play away at 2nd in a 4 test series. (Draws in play-off series will see Home Side Qualify)

Spoiler: Schedule

Series 1
England v South Africa (4 Tests)
India v West Indies (3 Tests)
Sri Lanka v New Zealand (3 Tests)
Australia v Pakistan (3 Tests)
Series 2
West Indies v England (4 Tests)
New Zealand v South Africa (3 Tests)
Pakistan v India (5 Tests)
Australia v Sri Lanka (3 Tests)
Series 3
England v New Zealand (3 Tests)
West Indies v Pakistan (3 Tests)
South Africa v Australia (5 Tests)
India v Sri Lanka (4 Tests)
Series 4
Pakistan v England (3 Tests)
Australia v New Zealand (4 Tests)
Sri Lanka v West Indies (3 Tests)
India v South Africa (3 Tests)
Series 5
England v Australia (5 Tests)
Pakistan v Sri Lanka (4 Tests)
New Zealand v India (3 Tests)
West Indies v South Africa (5 Tests)
Series 6
Sri Lanka v England (4 Tests)
India v Australia (4 Tests)
South Africa v Pakistan (3 Tests)
West Indies v New Zealand (3 Tests)
Series 7
England v India (4 Tests)
Sri Lanka v South Africa (4 Tests)
Australia v West Indies (4 Tests)
Pakistan v New Zealand (3 Tests)
Series 8
South Africa v England (4 Tests)
West Indies v India (4 Tests)
New Zealand v Sri Lanka (5 Tests)
Pakistan v Australia (3 Tests)
Series 9
England v West Indies (4 Tests)
South Africa v New Zealand (4 Tests)
India v Pakistan (5 Tests)
Sri Lanka v Australia (3 Tests)
Series 10
New Zealand v England (4 Tests)
Pakistan v West Indies (4 Tests)
Australia v South Africa (4 Tests)
Sri Lanka v India (5 Tests)
Series 11
England v Pakistan (3 Tests)
New Zealand v Australia (4 Tests)
West Indies v Sri Lanka (3 Tests)
South Africa v India (3 Tests)
Series 12
Australia v England (5 Tests)
Sri Lanka v Pakistan (4 Tests)
India v New Zealand (3 Tests)
South Africa v West Indies (4 Tests)
Series 13
England v Sri Lanka (3 Tests)
Australia v India (3 Tests)
Pakistan v South Africa (4 Tests)
New Zealand v West Indies (4 Tests)
Series 14
India v England (4 Tests)
South Africa v Sri Lanka (3 Tests)
West Indies v Australia (4 Tests)
New Zealand v Pakistan (3 Tests)

Spoiler: Scoring format

HOME SERIES VICTORY: 5 points
AWAY SERIES VICTORY: 10 points

HOME SERIES DRAW: 2 points
AWAY SERIES DRAW: 4 points

EACH TEST MATCH WIN: 1 point
HOME CLEAN-SWEEP (win every game) BONUS: 2 points
AWAY CLEAN SWEEP BONUS: 5 points

 

[Welwyn]

ENGLAND

SQUAD
LONG LIST
Opener:

• Michael Atherton
• Geoffrey Boycott
• Alastair Cook
• Graham Gooch
• Len Hutton
• Jack Hobbs
• Herbert Sutcliffe

Middle Order Batsman:

• Ken Barrington
• Colin Cowdrey
• Kevin Pietersen
• Graham Thorpe
• Nasser Hussain
• Peter May
• Ted Dexter
• Joe Root
• Denis Compton

Wicket-Keeper:

• Alan Knott
• Matt Prior
• Jack Russell
• Les Ames

All-Rounder:

• Ian Botham
• Ben Stokes
• Andrew Flintoff
• Tony Greig
• Wilfred Rhodes

Fast/Seam Bowler:

• Jimmy Anderson
• Alec Bedser
• Stuart Broad
• Fred Trueman
• Frank Tyson
• Harold Larwood
• Sydney Barnes

Spinner:

• Jim Laker
• Graeme Swann
• Johnny Wardle
• Derek Underwood
• Hedley Verity

HOME GROUNDS:
The Oval - FLAT
Lords - EVEN
Old Trafford - DUSTY
Headingley - GREEN
Trent Bridge - EVEN
Edgbaston - HARD
Riverside, Chester Le Street - GREEN
Sophia Gardens - EVEN
Rose Bowl - GREEN

 

[Welwyn]

AUSTRALIA

SQUAD
LONG LIST
Opener:

• Matthew Hayden
• Justin Langer
• Bob Simpson
• Arthur Morris
• Victor Trumper

Middle Order Batsman:

• Don Bradman
• Ricky Ponting
• Steve Smith
• Neil Harvey
• David Boon
• Greg Chappell
• Allan Border
• Steve Waugh
• Michael Clarke

Wicket-Keeper:

• Adam Gilchrist
• Ian Healy
• Rod Marsh

All-Rounder:

• Keith Miller
• Ray Lindwall
• Alan Davidson
• Richie Benaud
• Stan McCabe

Fast/Seam Bowler:

• Glenn McGrath
• Dennis Lillee
• Pat Cummins
• Mitchell Johnson
• Terry Alderman
• Jeff Thomson
• Brett Lee
• Jason Gillespie
• Craig McDermott
• Mitchell Starc

Spinner:

• Shane Warne
• Bill O’Reilly
• Nathan Lyon
• Clarrie Grimmett

HOME GROUNDS:
SCG - DUSTY
Adelaide Oval - FLAT
The Gabba - GREEN
WACA - HARD
MCG - EVEN
Bellerive Oval - GREEN
Marrara Oval, Darwin -FLAT
Cazalys Stadium, Cairns - FLAT
Manuka Oval, Canberra - EVEN

 

[Welwyn]

INDIA
SQUAD:
LONG-LIST
Opener:

• Sunil Gavaskar
• Virender Sehwag
• Vijay Merchant
• Gautam Gambhir
• Rohit Sharma

Middle Order Batsman:

• Rahul Dravid
• Mohammad Azharuddin
• VVS Laxman
• Virat Kohli
• Cheteshwar Pujara
• Dilip Vengsarkar
• Gundappa Viswanath
• Shubman Gill
• Sachin Tendulkar
• Vijay Hazare
• Sourav Ganguly

Wicket-Keeper:

• Rishabh Pant
• MS Dhoni
• Farokh Engineer
• Syed Kirmani

All-Rounder:

• Kapil Dev
• Vinoo Mankad
• Ravi Shastri
• Ravichandran Ashwin
• Ravindra Jadeja
• Polly Umrigar
• Mohinder Amarnath
• Madan Lal
• C.K. Nayudu

Fast/Seam Bowler:

• Javagal Srinath
• Zaheer Khan
• Ishant Sharma
• Shardul Thakur
• Jasprit Bumrah
• Mohammed Shami

Spinner:

• Bishan Singh Bedi
• Harbhajan Singh
• Anil Kumble
• Bhagwat Chandrasekhar
• Subhash Gupte
• Erapalli Prasanna

HOME GROUNDS:
Eden Gardens - DUSTY
M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai - DUSTY
Green Park Stadium, Kanpur - DUSTY
Arun Jaitley Stadium, New Delhi - DUSTY
M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore - EVEN
Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai - EVEN
Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad - FLAT
Inderjit Singh Bindra Stadium, Mohali - GREEN
Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Pune - DUSTY
Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium, Dharamshala - GREEN

 

[Welwyn]

NEW ZEALAND
SQUAD
LONG-LIST
Opener:

• Glenn Turner
• Bert Sutcliffe
• Tom Latham
• Stewie Dempster
• John Wright
• Mark Richardson
• Devon Conway

Middle Order Batsman:

• Martin Crowe
• Andrew Jones
• Stephen Fleming
• Ross Taylor
• Kane Williamson
• Martin Donnelly

Wicket-Keeper:

• Brendon McCullum
• Ian Smith
• Tom Blundell
• BJ Watling

All-Rounder:

• Richard Hadlee
• Chris Cairns
• Lance Cairns
• Daryl Mitchell
• Colin de Grandhomme
• John Reid
• Bevan Congdon
• Jeremy Coney
• Nathan Astle
• Dipak Patel

Fast/Seam Bowler:

• Richard Motz
• Bruce Taylor
• Danny Morrison
• Bob Collinge
• Chris Martin
• Shane Bond
• Trent Boult
• Tim Southee
• Neil Wagner
• Jack Cowie
• Ewen Chatfield

Spinner:

• John Bracewell
• Hedley Howarth
• Jeetan Patel
• Daniel Vettori

HOME GROUNDS:
Basin Reserve, Wellington - GREEN
Eden Park, Auckland - EVEN
McLean Park, Napier - FLAT
Seddon Park, Hamilton - GREEN
University of Otago Oval, Dunedin - GREEN
Lancaster Park, Christchurch - EVEN
Hagley Oval, Christchurch - GREEN
Bay Oval, Mt. Maunganui - EVEN

 

[Welwyn]

PAKISTAN

SQUAD:
LONG-LIST
Opener:

• Hanif Mohammad
• Saeed Anwar
• Shoaib Mohammad
• Mudassar Nazar
• Majid Khan
• Aamer Sohail

Middle Order Batsman:

• Younis Khan
• Mohammad Yousuf
• Inzamam-ul-Haq
• Javed Miandad
• Zaheer Abbas
• Babar Azam
• Misbah-ul-Haq
• Saleem Malik
• Azhar Ali
• Ijaz Ahmed
• Ramiz Raja

Wicket-Keeper:

• Mohammad Rizwan
• Imtiaz Ahmed
• Wasim Bari
• Sarfraz Ahmed

All-Rounder:

• Imran Khan
• Mushtaq Mohammad
• Asif Iqbal
• Wasim Akram
• Shahid Afridi
• Abdul Razzaq
• Mohammad Hafeez
• Intikhab Alam

Fast/Seam Bowler:

• Waqar Younis
• Shoaib Akhtar
• Fazal Mahmood
• Shaheen Afridi
• Mohammad Asif
• Sarfraz Nawaz

Spinner:

• Saqlain Mushtaq
• Abdul Qadir
• Yasir Shah
• Mushtaq Ahmed
• Danish Kaneria

HOME GROUNDS:
National Stadium, Karachi - DUSTY
Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore - FLAT
Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad - FLAT
Jinnah Stadium, Sialkot - GREEN
Rawapindi Cricket Stadium - EVEN
Arbab Niaz Stadium, Peshawar - DUSTY
Multan Cricket Stadium - FLAT
Niaz Stadium, Hyderabad - FLAT

 

[Welwyn]

SOUTH AFRICA
SQUAD:
LONG-LIST
Opener:

• Barry Richards
• Eddie Barlow
• Gary Kirsten
• Graeme Smith
• Bruce Mitchell
• Herschelle Gibbs
• Jimmy Cook

Middle Order Batsman:

• Graeme Pollock
• Dudley Nourse
• Colin Bland
• Hashim Amla
• Daryll Cullinan
• Faf du Plessis
• Ken McEwan

Wicket-Keeper:

• Quinton de Kock
• Mark Boucher
• AB de Villiers
• Denis Lindsay
• Ray Jennings

All-Rounder:

• Mike Procter
• Jacques Kallis
• Shaun Pollock
• Brian McMillan
• Trevor Goddard
• Aubrey Faulkner
• Garth Le Roux
• Peter Kirsten
• Clive Rice

Fast/Seam Bowler:

• Neil Adcock
• Peter Heine
• Fanie de Villiers
• Allan Donald
• Makhaya Ntini
• Dale Steyn
• Vernon Philander
• Kagiso Rabada
• Morne Morkel
• Vincent van der Bijl

Spinner:

• Hugh Tayfield
• Imran Tahir
• Keshav Maharaj
• Athanasios Traicos

HOME GROUNDS:
Wanderers, Jo'burg - HARD
Centurion Park - GREEN
Kingmead, Durban - GREEN
Newlands, Cape Town - EVEN
St. George's, Gqeberha/Port Elizabeth - EVEN
Mangaung Oval (Springbok Park), Bloemfontein -FLAT
Senwes Park, Potchefstroom - EVEN
Buffalo Park, East London - EVEN
De Beers Diamond Oval, Kimberley - EVEN

 

[Welwyn]

SRI LANKA
SQUAD:
LONG-LIST
Opener:

• Sanath Jayasuriya
• Marvan Atapattu
• Dimuth Karunaratne
• Sidath Wettimuny
• Roshan Mahanama
• Upul Tharanga

Middle Order Batsman:

• Mahela Jayawardene
• Roy Dias
• Arjuna Ranatunga
• Thilan Samaraweera
• Hashan Tillakaratne
• Duleep Mendis
• Aravinda de Silva

Wicket-Keeper:

• Kumar Sangakkara
• Romesh Kaluwitharana
• Dinesh Chandimal
• Prasanna Jayawardene
• Amal Silva
• Kusal Mendis
• Niroshan Dickwella
• Kusal Perera

All-Rounder:

• Angelo Mathews
• Tillakaratne Dilshan
• Dhananjaya de Silva
• Chaminda Vaas
• Ravi Ratnayeke
• Ashantha de Mel

Fast/Seam Bowler:

• Rumesh Ratnayake
• Lasith Malinga
• Suranga Lakmal
• Dilhara Fernando
• Dhammika Prasad
• Nuwan Kulasekara
• Nuwan Pradeep

Spinner:

• Muttiah Muralitharan
• Rangana Herath
• Dilruwan Perera
• Ajantha Mendis
• Prabath Jayasuriya
• Lasith Embuldeniya

HOME GROUNDS:
Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu Stadium, Colombo - DUSTY
Singhalese Sports Club Cricket Ground, Colombo - FLAT
R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo - DUSTY
Asgiriya Stadium, Kandy - EVEN
Galle International Stadium - DUSTY
Pallekele International Cricket Stadium - EVEN
De Soysa Stadium, Moratuwa - DUSTY
Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium - DUSTY

 

[Welwyn]

WEST INDIES
SQUAD:
LONG-LIST
Opener:

• Frank Worrell
• Conrad Hunte
• Desmond Haynes
• Gordon Greenidge
• Chris Gayle
• Roy Fredericks

Middle Order Batsman:

• Brian Lara
• Everton Weekes
• Clive Lloyd
• Richie Richardson
• Shivnarine Chanderpaul
• Alvin Kallicharran
• George Headley
• Seymour Nurse
• Viv Richards

Wicket-Keeper:

• Clyde Walcott
• Rohan Kanhai
• Jeffrey Dujon
• Gerry Alexander

All-Rounder:

• Garry Sobers
• Dwayne Bravo
• Jason Holder
• Carl Hooper
• Learie Constantine
• Franklyn Stephenson

Fast/Seam Bowler:

• Malcolm Marshall
• Michael Holding
• Joel Garner
• Wes Hall
• Charlie Griffith
• Andy Roberts
• Courtney Walsh
• Curtly Ambrose
• Ian Bishop
• Colin Croft
• Patrick Patterson

Spinner:

• Lance Gibbs
• Sonny Ramadhin
• Alf Valentine

HOME GROUNDS:
Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain - EVEN
Sabina Park, Kingston - HARD
Kensington Oval, Bridgetown - HARD
Bourda, Georgetown - GREEN
Antigua Recreation Ground, St. John's - FLAT
Darren Sammy Cricket Ground, St. Lucia - EVEN
Arnos Vale Stadium, Kingstown, St. Vincent - EVEN
National Cricket Stadium, St. George's, Grenada - EVEN
Windsor Park, Roseau, Dominica - GREEN

 

[DuneTiger]

So are we picking a side? If so I'll take Straya mate.

 

[Till Valhalla]

India

 

[Perfect Square]

I'm in if sign-ups are opened. Pakistan

 

[Welwyn]

Correct, sign-ups open and rules updated.

 

[Paranoid Kendroid]

South Africa

Spoiler: Squad

Opener:

• Barry Richards
• Gary Kirsten
• Graeme Smith
• Bruce Mitchell
• Jimmy Cook

Middle Order Batsman:

• Graeme Pollock v/
• Dudley Nourse
• Hashim Amla
• Daryll Cullinan
• Ken McEwan

Wicket-Keeper:

• Quinton de Kock
• Mark Boucher
• AB de Villiers
• Denis Lindsay

All-Rounder:

• Mike Procter
• Jacques Kallis
• Shaun Pollock
• Trevor Goddard
• Aubrey Faulkner
• Garth Le Roux
• Clive Rice

Fast/Seam Bowler:

• Neil Adcock
• Allan Donald
• Dale Steyn
• Vernon Philander
• Kagiso Rabada
• Morne Morkel Marco Jansen
• Vincent van der Bijl

Spinner:

• Hugh Tayfield
• Keshav Maharaj

 

[BasketballHooper]

West Indies are mine