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#1149173 - Mon Oct 31 2016 12:55 AM World Cricket 2016-17: Round 2 - Tuesday, Nov 8
srini701 Offline
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World Cricket 2016-17: Round 2 - Tuesday, November 8

India vs England 1st Test @ Rajkot, India

Please read all rules before picking your team

Rules
1. Pick 5 players from the list of players given below.
2. You can pick a maximum of 3 players from one team.
3. Pick 1 player from your team as "trump".
4. NEW RULE: Pick a "supersub" (6th player). This player ONLY scores if any of your original picks do not play the match. He should be from the team where you picked only 2 players.
5. Your team of 5 Test MUST include at least 2 player from each sub-section (So you have either 2 batsmen and 3 bowlers, or vice-versa)

Scoring
1. Every run scored by the player you pick scores 1 point.
2. Every wicket taken by a bowler scores you 20 points.
3. Every catch/stumping by the player scores you 5 points.
4. NO points for run-outs please
5. The score of your trump player is doubled.

Teams:
India (Announced):
Batsmen: Virat Kohli (captain), Ajinkya Rahane, Cheteshwar Pujara, Murali Vijay, Gautam Gambhir, Karun Nair, Wriddhiman Saha (w/k).
Bowlers: Hardik Pandya, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Amit Mishra, Jayant Yadav, Mohammed Shami, Umesh Yadav, Ishant Sharma.


England (Announced)...all-rounders have been shared between both sections
Batsmen: Alastair Cook (capt), Jos Buttler, Ben Duckett, Moeen Ali, Joe Root, Haseeb Hameed, Jonny Bairstow, Jake Ball, Gary Ballance
Bowlers: Zafar Ansari, Gareth Batty, Stuart Broad, Steven Finn, Adil Rashid, Ben Stokes, Chris Woakes


Deadline: Toss....that would be 03.30 am GMT, 08:30 am IST on Wednesday November 9 and 10 pm FT time, Tuesday November 8


Edited by illiniman14 (Tue Nov 08 2016 09:38 AM)
Edit Reason: Fixed deadline day
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#1149175 - Mon Oct 31 2016 01:00 AM Re: World Cricket 2016-17: Round 2 - Tuesday, Nov 8
wwe84 Offline
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Registered: Sun Feb 13 2011
Posts: 30806
Loc: New South Wales, Australia
Virat Kohli
Ravi Ashwin
Joe Root
Chris Woakes
Jonny Bairstow-Trump

Supersub: Ravindra Jadeja

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#1150001 - Mon Nov 07 2016 09:34 AM Re: World Cricket 2016-17: Round 2 - Tuesday, Nov 8
gtho4 Offline
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Registered: Sun Dec 26 1999
Posts: 54484
Loc: Sydney
oz downunder
India
    Batsmen: Virat Kohli (captain), Ajinkya Rahane, Cheteshwar Pujara [T], Murali Vijay, Gautam
    Gambhir, Karun Nair, Wriddhiman Saha (w/k).
    Bowlers: Hardik Pandya, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Amit Mishra, Jayant Yadav,
    Mohammed Shami, Umesh Yadav, Ishant Sharma.
England
    Batsmen: Alastair Cook (capt), Jos Buttler, Ben Duckett [ss], Moeen Ali, Joe Root, Haseeb Hameed,
    Jonny Bairstow, Jake Ball, Gary Ballance
    Bowlers: Zafar Ansari, Gareth Batty, Stuart Broad, Steven Finn, Adil Rashid, Ben Stokes, Chris Woakes

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#1150020 - Mon Nov 07 2016 03:50 PM Re: World Cricket 2016-17: Round 2 - Tuesday, Nov 8
paper_aero Offline
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Registered: Fri Jan 06 2006
Posts: 6393
Loc: Crawley Sussex
England UK
Root, J
Kohli, V
Rashid, A
Ashwin, R - TRUMP
Ali, Moeen

Sub
Jadeja, R
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#1150045 - Mon Nov 07 2016 11:43 PM Re: World Cricket 2016-17: Round 2 - Tuesday, Nov 8
srini701 Offline
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Registered: Wed Jan 04 2006
Posts: 11527
Loc: Hyderabad, India
Ajinkya Rahane
R Ashwin ... Trump
R Jadeja

Jonny Bairstow
Ben Stokes

supersub: Joe Root
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#1150114 - Tue Nov 08 2016 11:59 AM Re: World Cricket 2016-17: Round 2 - Tuesday, Nov 8
ozzz2002 Offline
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Registered: Mon Dec 03 2001
Posts: 20907
Loc: Sydney
NSW Australia
Virat Kohli = TRUMP
Ravichandran Ashwin
Cheteshwar Pujara

Ben Duckett
Stuart Broad

Gary Balance = SUPERSUB
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#1150124 - Tue Nov 08 2016 01:05 PM Re: World Cricket 2016-17: Round 2 - Tuesday, Nov 8
Howie72 Offline
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Registered: Thu Oct 27 2005
Posts: 10939
Loc: Timaru NZ
Cheteshwar Pujara
Ravichandran Ashwin - Trump
Ravindra Jadeja
Joe Root
Ben Stokes

Moeen Ali - Supersub

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#1150145 - Tue Nov 08 2016 03:58 PM Re: World Cricket 2016-17: Round 2 - Tuesday, Nov 8
ElfTwinkle Offline
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Registered: Wed Jul 10 2002
Posts: 14929
Loc: Crazy Canuck   


India (Announced):
Batsmen: Virat Kohli (captain), Ajinkya Rahane, Cheteshwar Pujara, Murali Vijay, Gautam Gambhir, Karun Nair, Wriddhiman Saha (w/k).
Bowlers: Hardik Pandya, Ravichandran Ashwin - TRUMP, Ravindra Jadeja, Amit Mishra, Jayant Yadav, Mohammed Shami, Umesh Yadav, Ishant Sharma


England (Announced)...all-rounders have been shared between both sections
Batsmen: Alastair Cook (capt), Jos Buttler, Ben Duckett, Moeen Ali, Joe Root - SUPER SUB, Haseeb Hameed, Jonny Bairstow, Jake Ball, Gary Ballance
Bowlers: Zafar Ansari, Gareth Batty, Stuart Broad, Steven Finn, Adil Rashid, Ben Stokes, Chris Woakes

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#1150148 - Tue Nov 08 2016 04:54 PM Re: World Cricket 2016-17: Round 2 - Tuesday, Nov 8
illiniman14 Offline
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Registered: Fri Jul 10 2009
Posts: 4970
Loc: Illinois, USA
Virat Kohli
Ajinkya Rahane
Ravichandran Ashwin
Moeen Ali - TRUMP
Chris Woakes

Supersub: Joe Root

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#1150152 - Tue Nov 08 2016 05:27 PM Re: World Cricket 2016-17: Round 2 - Tuesday, Nov 8
N-Bomb Offline
Forum Champion

Registered: Thu Sep 09 2010
Posts: 5019
Loc: New Zealand
Kohli
Ashwin - TRUMP
Jadeja
Stokes
Ali

Supersub - Root

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