International Cricket Fantasy League...Who Would Be Interested?

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As the IPL fantasy league has proved quite popular I thought I'd see if anyone would be interested in a International Cricket version. I was going to wait until after the IPL one had finished but as there is only 1 game a week in that one I thought I may aswell start now. If you are interested in joining please post the country you would like to have below, nations to be awarded on a first come first serve basis.

Team	Test Ranking*	ODI Ranking*	Coach
Australia	5	1	Mad for Chelsea
Bangladesh	9	9
England	1	5	Liam_Main
India	3	4	cricketfan90
New Zealand	8	7	shankythebiggestengfan
Pakistan	6	6
South Africa	2	3	hodge
Sri Lanka	4	2	Gregers
West Indies	7	8	GG
Zimbabwe	10	10

*rankings correct as of 8/9

PLz guys plz guys plz plz plz pz

shanky can we get through the ipl one first!

Liam_Main wrote:Think just doing the winner of the test would be easier MFC

easier certainly, but you would miss out on the ebbs and flows that make the beauty of test cricket

TBH just throwing out ideas that I think could make this international league more fun for everyone

cricketfan90 wrote:shanky can we get through the ipl one first!

yeah I agree, I think that come the end of the IPL people might fancy something a bit different...

cricketfan90 wrote:shanky can we get through the ipl one first!

I am saying that we should this one only after the IPL one gets over.

We could predict the score to the nearest 100th a day MFC?

I cant understand what problem you guys have with my idea.

Liam_Main wrote:We could predict the score to the nearest 100th a day MFC?

my idea is basically something like this
Sri Lanka vs India
pitch - very flat to start with, turns on days 4 and 5, some uneven bounce on day 5.
toss - Sri Lanka elect to bat first.

Day 1 predictions:
MFC: SL 294/4
Liam: SL 315/5
Gregers: SL 287/4
let's say we were the only three to get our score predictions in...

average score = 298.67/4.33 which we round off to 299/4

Based on that people then make their day 2 predictions

shankythebiggestengfan wrote:I cant understand what problem you guys have with my idea.

not a problem as such, but your idea seems like a "glorified" IPL, and I think after this IPL's finished I may want something a little different....

The reason why i included limited overs internationals was to make it more even. IMO anyone of the 10 teams could beat any other in ODI cricket and especially in t20

I like that idea mfc!

MFC
We can implement that in the mixed league as well mate.

the 300 players in an auction thing making it confusing, could you just not spilt it into, Opening batters, middle order batters, all rounders, WK's, Spin Bowlers and seam bowlers, either that or do auctions by country meaning there arn't many people per auction.

Tbh i don't mind which league is done just that i think an international league doesn't leave much to the imagination as most people would probably predict a game on how it would go in real life eg, India in england in tests ok maybe not 4-0 but after the performances this summer probably an england win probably same with Aussies etc

GG mate
Would you be willing to do it if I were to help you?

hodge wrote:the 300 players in an auction thing making it confusing, could you just not spilt it into, Opening batters, middle order batters, all rounders, WK's, Spin Bowlers and seam bowlers, either that or do auctions by country meaning there arn't many people per auction.

Tbh i don't mind which league is done just that i think an international league doesn't leave much to the imagination as most people would probably predict a game on how it would go in real life eg, India in england in tests ok maybe not 4-0 but after the performances this summer probably an england win probably same with Aussies etc

Thats what I was gonna do in any case.

GG wrote:I like that idea mfc!

thanks, just think it adds something a little different to the current format, you get more of the ebb-and-flow that IMO makes the test match format so special, as opposed to just voting on winners. Also, the advantage would be that not everyone would have to vote for every day (for instance if other people have lives ), you just average out over those who have voted by say 9pm in the evening or something.

Could you all vote on my poll please.

Maybe wait until this one is over before deciding?

So if I were to come up with player suggestions for the auction
Openers

Strauss
Cook
Hales
Root
Sehwag
Gambhir
Vijay
Mukund
Smith
Alviro Petersen
Elgar
Hendriks
Watson
Hughes
Marsh
Warner
Maddinson
Tamim
Kayes
Siddique
Dilshan
Paranavitana
Thirimanne
Gayle
Barath
Simmons
McIntosh
Mccullum
Watling
Guptill
Hafeez
Taufeeq
Farhat

Mad for Chelsea wrote:

GG wrote:I like that idea mfc!

thanks, just think it adds something a little different to the current format, you get more of the ebb-and-flow that IMO makes the test match format so special, as opposed to just voting on winners. Also, the advantage would be that not everyone would have to vote for every day (for instance if other people have lives ), you just average out over those who have voted by say 9pm in the evening or something.

Well we can do a similar thing to my suggested league as well.

vote on Liam's poll and decide it that way

Makes things simpler and we'll know which Fantasy League will be following the IPL one.

I would have New Zealand.

south africa dont play many tests at all..

good luck hodge :p

But when they play do well hence why there 2nd in the world.

If there's enough interest I'll add more associates and create 2 tiers

can i recall Alfonso Thomas for ODI's

lol haha

Goodbye Ravi, that's all i'm saying

Liam_Main wrote:Goodbye Ravi, that's all i'm saying

Liam_Main wrote:Goodbye Ravi, that's all i'm saying

lol i will have get my indian side able to play the swinging ball from jimmy anderson

cricketfan90 wrote:lol i will have get my indian side able to play the swinging ball from jimmy anderson

Also Tim Southee from NZ

na not worried about him

:P

cricketfan90 wrote:na not worried about him

He will blow Sehwag away for a duck everytime the match is played in NZ conditions.
In India,it could be a different story though.

Southee is massively underrated

Shanks PM for you

im more worried about what steyn could do to my side's brittle batting.

I'm not worried at all, i'm England :P

suprised no one has taken pakistan

cricketfan90 wrote:suprised no one has taken pakistan

Oops didnt realise that.In that case I would like to have Pakistan rather than NZ.

sri lanka could be dark horses

cricketfan90 wrote:sri lanka could be dark horses

I would fancy Zimbabwe to beat SL in Test Cricket atm tbh.At least they have 3 good bowlers in Price,Jarvis and Vitori.
SL have only one Test quality bowler in Herath.

lol with india im gonna start to phase out the greats.

cricketfan90 wrote:lol with india im gonna start to phase out the greats.