Bruno Lawrence's Electric Revelation and Travelling Apparition Cricket Club

Disappointingly, Youssou N'Dour withdrew his sponsorship for the team after failing to make the knockout stages. For someone who knows nothing about cricket, he shows a very aggressive attitude towards abject failure.

As such, we have appointed a new sponsor for the coming season in a deceased Kiwi actor's travelling band of minstrels.



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Season Two

Team Sheet

1. Heino Kuhn (+)
2. Fawad Alam
3. Jesse Ryder (5/6)
4. Virat Kohli
5. Stiaan van Zyl
6. Dale Benkenstein
7. Albie Morkel (4)
8. Irfan Pathan (3)
9. Ramesh Powar (6/5)
10. Friedel de Wet (2)
11. Peter Siddle (1)

Anyway, our picks so far:

1. Albie (JA) Morkel
2. Peter (PM) Siddle
3. Jesse (JD) Ryder (retention)
4. Friedel (F) de Wet
5. Virat (V) Kohli
6. Fawad (F) Alam
7. Irfan (IK) Pathan (retention)
8. Heino (HG) Kuhn (retention)
9. Stiaan (S) van Zyl
10. Dale (DM) Benkenstein (retention)
11. Ramesh (RR) Powar (retention)
12. Zander (Z) de Bruyn
13. Shoaib (S) Malik
14. Mohammad (M) Wasim
15. Mohammad (M) Irfan
16. Sunil (SB) Joshi
17. Carlton (CS) Baugh
18. Abdur Rauf Khan (AR Khan?)

 

I'm very anti naming teams in the American style.

Albie and Ramesh will swap, actually.

 

Virat Kohli & Fawad Alam sign in. Looking pretty solid - certainly a more modern team that Youssou N'Dour were last season.

 

S1/S2 Picks Comparison

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S1            		S2
Albie Morkel		Makhaya Ntini
Peter Siddle		Chaminda Vaas
Jesse Ryder		Jesse Ryder
Friedel de Wet		Sanath Jayasuriya
Virat Kohli		Brad Hodge
Fawad Alam		Mark Davies
Irfan Pathan		Irfan Pathan
Heino Kuhn		Heino Kuhn
Stiaan van Zyl		Steve Tikolo
Dale Benkenstein	Dale Benkenstein
Ramesh Powar		Ramesh Powar
Zander de Bruyn		Peter Fulton
Shoaib Malik		Neil Wagner

Actually, thinking that in many places we've got an upgrade on our picks from last season so far. Obviously in career terms, Ntini & Vaas are > Morkel and Siddle, but those retirement penalties won't be crippling us this season.

 

He was definitely the next on the list for retention, but I thought we really took him a bit early given that he's retired from first class cricket and will presumably be hit by a small penalty.

 

Stiaan van Zyl in and completes the XI for now.

 

That's a mistake with the additional benefit of stirring Huntay up a little.

And on de Wet, I don't think you've got anyone that we'd like to trade at the moment.

 

Looking ****ing good to me. And now we've got that monster Mohammad Irfan too, we've got all the backup we really need. Might go for a backup spinner though.

 

I only vaguely recall him playing for Pakistan, and I guess at the time it was a bit of an odd selection, but he's really kicked on in the last few seasons to become a good international player. How do I know that he would be a good international player? He's not being selected by Pakistan.