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[Herbie66]

Australia 164/5

Stoinis 67* (36)
Warner 56 (51)

 

[tso]

ok how do you check that you have the Booster on the correct player

Boosters here. Not sure about the individual player booster.

 

[Diabolical]

ok how do you check that you have the Booster on the correct player

The booster applies to your whole team (except the triple captain one).

 

[Herbie66]

The booster applies to your whole team (except the triple captain one).

Probably should have read the rules

 

[Herbie66]

They made that hard for themselves

PNG 77 (19.1)
UGA 78/7 (18.2)

Uganda won by 3 wkts

 

[Herbie66]

Turns 43 in August

One of the few remaining players still active who started playing before Anderson

But only the 2nd eldest to take a wicket in a T20 World Cup

Ex Australian wicket keeper Ryan Campbell still holds the record . playing for Hong Kong v Afghanistan in the 2016 T20 World Cup , 4-0-28-2

 

[Herbie66]

50-plus score and 3 wickets in a T20 WC match

66* & 4/38 - Dwayne Bravo (WI) vs IND, Lord’s, 2009
51 & 3/26 - Shane Watson (AUS) vs IRE, Colombo RPS, 2012
72 & 3/34 - Shane Watson (AUS) vs IND, Colombo RPS, 2012
67* & 3/19 - Marcus Stoinis (AUS) vs Oman, Barbados, 2024

 

[Herbie66]

AUS 164/5 (20)
OMAN 125/9 (20)

Australia won by 39 runs

PLAYER OF THE MATCH
Marcus Stoinis

 

[Miller is a Steele]

Sitting on:
Pooran
Azam, Balbirnie, Munsey
Russell, Shadab, Chase, Wiese
Shaheen, Currie, Watt

3 PAK, 3 SCO, 3 WI, 1 NAM, 1 IRE

Undecided for the captaincy. Leaning towards Azam.

 

[Damion23]

Sitting on:
Pooran
Azam, Balbirnie, Munsey
Russell, Shadab, Chase, Wiese
Shaheen, Currie, Watt

3 PAK, 3 SCO, 3 WI, 1 NAM, 1 IRE

Undecided for the captaincy. Leaning towards Azam.

I have gone Sole as captain bit of a pod player + captain. two great match ups for Scotland you'd think some easy wickets.

 

[Herbie66]

Imad Wasim ruled out of the USA match

 

[mike89]

I have gone Sole as captain bit of a pod player + captain. two great match ups for Scotland you'd think some easy wickets.

It's just occurred to me that if I'm playing double points for wickets I should probably take a bowling captain

 

[Darkie]

50-plus score and 3 wickets in a T20 WC match

66* & 4/38 - Dwayne Bravo (WI) vs IND, Lord’s, 2009
51 & 3/26 - Shane Watson (AUS) vs IRE, Colombo RPS, 2012
72 & 3/34 - Shane Watson (AUS) vs IND, Colombo RPS, 2012
67* & 3/19 - Marcus Stoinis (AUS) vs Oman, Barbados, 2024

I remember watching a fair bit of the 2012 tournament. Shane Watson was absolutely immense.

 

[Herbie66]

I remember watching a fair bit of the 2012 tournament. Shane Watson was absolutely immense.

Player of the series (just looked it up)

probably in the Top 3 T20 players for Australia of all time.

I can hardly remember any T20 World Cups (not being on FTA I guess) , this is the 9th edition.

 

[Diabolical]

With a few hours left it looks like we have seven in our league - @Damion23 @Professor @tso @Miller is a Steele @mike89 @Herbie66 and myself.

Looks like we have given 33k others up to a 1470 point head start … Surely we can catch up 165 points per round from here!

Still 4 1/2 hours until Set 2 lockout so time for anyone else to join in with the rest of us latecomers. Time commitment looks minimal given lockout at the start of each round.

 

[tso]

Had a tinker. Rogue captain. 6xDGR and still wicket boost.

 

[mike89]

Slight tinker for me as well:

Pooran
Kohli, Babar, Munsey
Russell, Chase, Hasaranga
Naseem C, Haris, Sole, Watt

Pakistan is the one team we can react to at selection so I might wait up and see which bowlers actually get named. With Shaheen and Amir in their pace attack as well there's no guarantees on who gets a run!

 

[Connoisseur]

 

[wolfbunny]

Being a Amazon Prime subscriber has finally paid off, get to see some T20 cricket.
Happy days 🤣
Warner was solid this morning. That’s his role I’d reckon, big hitters all around him and him to be the anchor role thru the innings.
Stoinis was huge.
Never seen that skippy bloke play before, Ellis? Strange run up!

 

[Diabolical]

Goodnight all, I have to work tomorrow. Good luck with all of your selections.

I have decided to take Rizwan and Barbar on which will likely come back to bight me given at least one of them should kill it in a double.

Starting a round behind means I need to start to look partially away from the more popular players with nothing to lose. Also playing the wicket booster, so may as well make sure most of my doubles bowl!