Story World test series[ ICC 2005 or Blic 2005]

[afridi25]

World test series Announced

The ICC have announcent a nine team tournament like the world cup but involving test matches. The ICC have chosen 9 teams who will be split into 3 pools of 3 teams. The top two teams from each round will go through to the next round. This will be a nail biting tournament. I will play the tournament and i need a selector for each team. I am selector for Pakistan and u CAN BE selector for any team. Right here are the teams and pools.

I will continue with surrey story.

Pool A
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Pakistan> 5 points
Sri Lanka>1 point
England.> 0 Point

Pool B
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Australia>5 points
India> 1 point
Zimbawe>0 points

Pool C
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New Zealand>5 points
West Indies> 1point
South Africa.>0 points

FIXTURES.

Pool A

5th july: Pak Vs Sri L
13th july: Eng Vs Sri L
21st July: Eng Vs Pak
29th July: Pak vs Sri L
6th aug: Eng vs Sri L
14th Aug: Pak Vs Eng


Pool B

5th july:Aus Vs Ind
13th july:Aus Vs Zim
21st July:Ind Vs Zim
6th aug:Aus Vs Ind
14th Aug:Aus Vs Zim
22nd Aug:Ind Vs Zim.

Pool C

5th july:Nz Vs Wi
13th july:Nz Vs SA
21st July:WI Vs SA
6th aug:NZ Vs WI
14th Aug:NZ Vs SA
22nd Aug:WI Vs SA

ROUND 2 (to be announced)

Point System

Win= 5 points
lose=1 point
draw=3 points
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[afridi25]

The Pakistan Squad has been announced

18 Man Squad

S Butt
S Afridi
T Umar
I ul Haq
M Yousuf
Y Khan
A Kamal
H Raza
A Mahmood
K Akmal
A Razzaq
S Malik
N ul Hasan
M Sami
M asif
S Ahktar
D Kaneria
S Ahmed

If you would like to select a squad sign up now

 

[banjo6]

Aus Selector please

 

[afridi25]

Sure can u select the squad before Tuesday

Remember it is a test series

 

[treva]

england selector afridi
cheers

 

[afridi25]

Sure btw u can just chose the squad do not bother asking first

 

[afridi25]

The whole Tournament will be hosted in england.

Here are the grounds in use.

Oval
Rose Bowl
Headingly
Lords
Edgebasten
Leeds
Old Trafford
Trent Bridge

 

[afridi25]

Sky Sports Sign Contract

Sky sports have signed a contract with the icc to host the upcoming World test series. They had a bid of 4 million which beat ARY Digital and Sony TV.

Hero Honda Is the main sponsor of the tournament and all this has been put on the cricket talk website. Many people are interseted in this tournament and the Icc may introduce a lower rated team one to help them play more games.

 

[afridi25]

I will start on tuesday

 

[banjo6]

Aus Squad
1 Ponting
2 Langer
3 Hayden
4 CLarke
5 Katich
6 Lee
7 Warne
8 Tait
9 Mc Grath
10 Bracken
11 Macgill
12Gillespie
13 Martym
14 Symonds
15 M.Hussey
16 Lehmann
17 Gilly
18 Haddin

 

[treva]

England1.Trescothick (SOM)
2.Flintoff (LAN)
3.Vaughan (YOR)
4.Strauss (MID)
5.Mahmood (LAN)
6.Harmison (DUR)
7.S.Jones (GLA)
8.G.Jones (KENT)
9.Plunkett (DUR)
10.Hildreth (SOM)
11.Dalrymple (MID)
12.Panesar (NOR)
13.Joyce (MID)
14.Gazzard (SOM)
15.Hoggard (YOR)
16.Bell (WAR)
17.Pietersen (HAM)
18.Collingwood (DUR)

 

[evertonfan]

South Africa

1.Graeme Smith (c)
2.Herschelle Gibbs
3.Boeta Dippenaar
4.AB DeVilliers
5.Ashwell Prince
6.Jaques Kallis
7.Jaques Rudolph
8.Justin Kemp
9.Shaun Pollock
10.Makhaya Ntini
11.Dale Steyn
12.Andrew Hall
13.Charl Langeveldt
14.Andre Nel
15.Nicky Boje
16.Mark Boucher
17.Mondei Zondeki
18.Hashan Amla

NOT placed in starting XI order.

 

[PhilD123]

India squad

Laxman
Sehwag
Jaffer
Dravid
Gambhir
Tendulkar
Ganguly
Yurav Singh
Kaif
Dhoni
Pathan
Kumble
H Singh
Munaf Patel
Agarkar
Sreesanth
VRV Singh

 

[andyptl18]

New Zealand Selector
Squad:
Due to a broken wrist Daniel Vettori won't be in squad
1.S Bond
2.S Fleming
3.N Astle
4.S Styris
5.K Mills
6.B McCullum
7.J Patel
8.H Marshall
9.L Vincent
10.C Martin
11.M Sinclair
12.P Fulton
13.C McMillan
14.J Franklin
15.J Oram
16.M Mason

 

[afridi25]

Thanx for that

ICC ANNOUNCE UMPIRES FOR TOURNAMENT

The ICC have announced the top 12 umpires to umpire the matches

They are:

Billy Bowden
Rudy Kirtzen
Billy Doctrove
Mark Benson
Steve Bucknor
Daryl Harper
Darrell Hair
Simon Taufel
Bob Parry
Asad Rauf
Aleem Dar
Asoka de Silva

3rd Umpires
Robert Parry
Nadir Shah
Nigel Llong
Ivaturi Shivram
Evan Watkin
Zamir Haider