Bugger. With this 18 player malarky, it's a lot harder to know what your first XI is! Oh well, effectively the first few round robins also become trials of a kind.
I've basically just decided not to play anyone who I think is certainly going to make my first XI: Trescothick, Franklin, Laxman, Dhoni, Senananannayakeanan, Malinga And am using the trials just to see if anyone is making claims to the other 5 positions in the team.
Yeah, that's pretty much what I've done with my projected XI, though I've left big Jesse in there anyway, despite him being a guaranteed starter.
Yeah I have taken the same approach to a large extent although I left mathews as I want to see how his bowling goes.
Sounds like a plan. Why are we organising this so far in advance? Did we not learn anything from last time?
Btw, I'm seriously considering just playing a full strngth lineup in the first trial just to see how much I can crush Morgie's retards by.
I'm going to back the Souths. They're underdogs but I reckon they have enough in them to get there in the end. Bond is a big one.