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[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!

 

[tso]

Pakistan (Playing XI): Babar Azam(c), Mohammad Rizwan(w), Usman Khan, Fakhar Zaman, Azam Khan, Iftikhar Ahmed, Shadab Khan, Shaheen Afridi, Naseem Shah, Mohammad Amir, Haris Rauf

Pakistan batting first

 

[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.

Decided I’d use my ‘Wicket Wizards’ booster.

Pooran
King, Nissanka, Stirling
Shadab, Chase
Shaheen, Amir, Watt (C), Currie, Sole

 

[tso]

Final team

Wicket booster

Klaasen
King, Munsey, Jones
Chase, Hasaranga
Afridi, N Shah, Rauf, Sole, Nortje

 

[tso]

Still a struggle to bat

 

[Diabolical]

Looks like Pakistan did a Pakistan playing a minnow at a WC

Glad that I loaded up on their bowlers … not!

 

[Diabolical]

I do like how we can work on our Set 3 team even though Set 2 is in progress.

 

[tso]

PAK 159/7 (20)
USA 159/3 (20)
Match tied (United States won the super over)

 

[tso]

Wicket boost a big fail so far
Afridi captain a big fail except his batting

 

[tso]

NAM 155/9 (20)
SCO 157/5 (18.3)
Scotland won by 5 wkts

 

[tso]

0/281

 

[Herbie66]

Thought the wicket booster was fun yesterday

Rauf , Shadab , Shaheen , Sole , Watt (C) combining for 2 wickets (so far) , hopefully their next game is more rewarding

On the board at least

 

[tso]

I do like how we can work on our Set 3 team even though Set 2 is in progress.

Looks like just USA with a double and Scotland and Uganda with a bye

 

[Damion23]

Always nice when you nailed a nice pod 93pts with another game to go!


Was keen on a Scotland bowler seems I picked the wrong one arghh! (50/50 call)

 

[Diabolical]

Looks like just USA with a double and Scotland and Uganda with a bye

Bangladesh have a double too.

 

[mike89]

Always nice when you nailed a nice pod 93pts with another game to go!


Was keen on a Scotland bowler seems I picked the wrong one arghh! (50/50 call)

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Yep, annoyingly went the same way! Sole was their best bowler by a distance in the qualifiers last year but I didn't think to check anything more recent.

 

[Herbie66]

Did I miss that New Zealand didn't qualify ? 😉

12 matches played and they (and Bangladesh) haven't appeared yet.

 

[Miller is a Steele]

0/323
Currie 122, Shadab 55, Amir 52, Sole 50, Afridi 28, Watt C 8x2

Wicket boost not panning out so far. Captaincy choice wasn’t exactly perfect either.

Just Stirling tonight.

 

[Herbie66]

Another dumb question

Playing around with a team for Set 3 , but can't work out how to change the Booster from the one I originally picked to a different one to use.

Think I have clicked on everything but beats me how to change it.

 

[Diabolical]

I was just having a look at our league over a coffee.

We all used (wasted so far) a wicket booster except @Professor and @mike89

We have chosen 6 different captain options, with @Professor and I leading the way with a game to go
1 x Babar Azam (110)
1 x Shadab Khan (110)
1 x Shaheen Afridi (56)
1 x Naseem Shah (54)
1 x Chris Sole (50)
2 x Mark Watt (16)

Structure wise @Professor @Miller is a Steele and @tso have diverted from the majority (WK, Bat, AR, Bwl)
1 x 2, 3, 2, 4
2 x 1, 3, 2, 5
4 x 1, 3, 3, 4

Overall @Damion23 has opened up a gap of 117 points on his nearest rival. Unequal use of boosters probably showing out in the scores.
@Damion23 440
@Miller is a Steele 323
@Diabolical 285
@tso 281
@Herbie66 217
@mike89 185
@Professor 182