You will be selecting two teams simultaneously. Right handers XI and left handers XI.
Anyone who has played 5 Tests qualifies.
If you are picking someone who is a right handed bat + left arm bowler/left handed bat + right arm bowler, his main discipline decides which team he belongs to.
Examples:
Ravi R qualifies for the right XI as a bowler - his batting counts
Arjuna qualifies for the left XI as a batsman - his bowling counts
Right XI should have a WK who bats right handed. Left XI should have a WK who bats left handed.
Obviously you have to provide two sets of answers (for both teams) in each round of questions. You know what to do
Quote:SLC hopes to become first Full Member to host T10 league with 'commercial' benefits
Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) is hoping to become the first ICC Full Member nation to host a national T10 league, with SLC this week having called for tenders over franchise ownership and tournament sponsors.
While the details of the tournament are yet to be finalised, SLC hopes to hold the tournament sometime in 2021, though a suitable window would have to be found that is compatible with the Lanka Premier League T20 tournament and potential national team tours.
"Definitely it would help Sri Lanka Cricket in a commercial sense, but it's also a new concept. It will be more interesting for the spectators, while it will also bring something new to the country," SLC CEO Ashley de Silva said about the tournament. "England is going to play The Hundred, so it's always good to be innovative; it's all about popularising the game."
As of now, the proposed specifications for the tournament will see 17 games taking place in a double round-robin format, followed by the semi-finals and a final. Six teams are expected to feature, with SLC hoping to include a team from northern Sri Lanka. Each squad will likely comprise 16 players, including a maximum of six foreign internationals.
While only two venues - the Dambulla and Pallekele International Cricket Stadiums - have at present been pencilled in to host the games, SLC hopes to utilise the R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo as well provided renovations are completed in time.
The postponement of another series (3 Tests vs. Bangladesh) has only added to the woes of Sri Lanka’s cricketers, who have been starved of international competition since the first week of March, when they completed a T20I series against the West Indies. Since then all the cricket they have played has been in the Premier Super Eight and Premier Plate League that comprised four 3-day matches.
Not even when they have suffered injuries has the players been kept inactive without any international cricket for now counting upon seven months, and the frustration is beginning to creep in, although they are trying their best not to become victims of the circumstances.
For former Sri Lanka captain Angelo Mathews, the long break has been frustrating as well as a godsend. Frustrating because he and his team mates have been preparing for a series intensely, only to find that at the end of the day it is not taking place, and on the other hand the break has given him time to be with his family, to catch upon on lost time, and to recover from a string of injuries that has plagued his career throughout.
“If you know that there is a tour coming up you get prepared mentally and physically both, but knowing that there is a lot of uncertainty even in the future especially with the coronavirus hanging around still, we never know when we are going to play again, that is very frustrating,” Mathews told Daily FT. “We have been preparing ourselves for every single tour and to see it get postponed it is very frustrating, you don’t really know when you are going to really play next.”
“We travel a lot and play a lot of cricket; we hardly get time off to be with our families. It is good in a way, we’ve got a lot of time to spend with them and catch upon lost time. Then again we are waiting to start and get into our normal routine, because we have just been practicing and practicing. We were ready and looking forward to the Bangladesh Test series, but unfortunately it’s not going to happen. It’s out of our control. We are missing the game so much,” he said.
On the positive side, Mathews was happy that the break has given him time to recover from his injuries.
“I take it as a blessing in disguise. I had a few months to work on several areas of my game, not only skills. It is a refreshing breath. Now I think I am all ready and looking forward to whomever we play and start playing international cricket as soon as possible.”
At 33, Mathews is not getting any younger, and it is at this age that every cricketer peaks and plays his best cricket.
“The way I go about is that if you’re fit and scoring runs and taking wickets and performing for your country, age is just a number. What I can control and what I can focus on, for which I am working really hard, I think the rest will take care of itself, obviously performance and all that matters. All I can do is prepare myself and be as fit as I can to continue as for as long as possible.”
On not being able to reach the desired goals in one’s career: “Obviously we can’t control the nature, all we got to do is try and keep focusing, keep working hard day in day out and not get disappointed, not think whether you can achieve your goals or not. You need to keep going, keep working day in day out till we get on the park again. I am sure when we start to play again it will be a very busy calendar and that all the postponed matches will be rescheduled. I am sure if we face this and if we perform, we don’t need to worry about not playing many matches and not achieving our targets,” Mathews said.
Getting back to international cricket won’t be all that hard as the players have been hard at training, said Mathews.
“It boils down to preparation. If you have good preparation you don’t have to worry about being rusty on the field. We were supposed to play a 3-day game in the next few days but it won’t happen because the Bangladesh tour got postponed. We were going to play a lot of matches before we started playing Bangladesh, and I am sure with the programming they have put into together, there’s no doubt that we are fit and ready to go when we are playing next.”
“If we start to play in the future, there will be a lot of games so that is why we are working hard now. We know that when we start playing it will be demanding mentally and physically, that is why you give yourself a chance to prepare your body and mind. This is the game that you love and enjoy playing. You can’t really complain about playing a lot of cricket, because I love playing a lot of cricket. I love playing for my country and performing for my country. It’s not about thinking that we are playing a lot of cricket, or wasting ourselves or not about wear and tear, it’s about keeping up with the game, keeping up with intensity of the game and most importantly performance. When you perform you tend to enjoy the game more,” continued Mathews.
“We can’t wait to get onto the park and we hope we will be able to get onto the park very soon. At the same time we have to respect the authorities, they know exactly what they are doing, we have to listen to them and follow their guidelines. Sri Lanka has done great in controlling this pandemic so we need to listen to them and take their advice,” he said.
Mathews will be in action for his club Colombo Colts when the SLC Major Club T20 tournament commences on October 22.
September 24 2020
The 59-year-old, who was working on the IPL 2020 broadcast from the Mumbai studios, suffered a cardiac arrest.
Former Australia cricketer and one of the revolutionaries of the modern ODI game Dean Jones has passed away. The 59-year-old, who was working on the IPL 2020 broadcast from a studio in Mumbai, suffered a cardiac arrest. He is survived by wife Jane, and daughters Isabella and Phoebe.
Jones rewrote the book on ODI batsmanship, using his feet to charge bowlers and complimenting his style with his aggressive running between the wickets. He was a central cog in Australia's revolution in the mid-80s, which saw the Allan Border-led side capture its maiden World Cup title at the Eden Gardens in 1987. Jones would go on to feature 164 times in the 50-over format, finishing with 6068 runs at an excellent average of 44.61.
However, Jones wasn't just a limited-overs specialist. He played the first of his 52 Tests for Australia against a formidable West Indies side in the 1984 Port of Spain Test, scoring a gutsy 48 on debut and putting on over a 100 with Border despite being sick on the morning of the Test match. Steve Smith had pulled out with a stomach bug of his own and captain Kim Hughes decided to call on the Victorian.
More of Jones's resilience was on display a couple of years on when he battled extreme dehydration enroute to his magnum opus 210 in the tied Test of Madras. Jones then went on to have a breakthrough Ashes series in 1989, scoring 566 runs and also topped the averages in his last Test assignment against Sri Lanka in 1992, before selectors dropped him in favour of Damien Martyn.
He finished his Test career with 3631 runs at an average of 46.55 including 11 centuries. In all he made, 19188 first class runs at 51.85 with a best of 324* against arch rivals New South Wales in the 1994-1995 season.
Post his playing career, Jones transitioned into a commentator and broadcaster, earning the sobriquet 'The Professor' in Indian television for his penchant for numbers and analysis. His contract was terminated in 2006 for a racist remark on air. A repentant Jones later returned as coach in the Pakistan Super League, guiding Islamabad United to two titles in the first three years of the competition.
"Dean Jones was a hero to a generation of cricketers and will forever be remembered as a legend of this great game," Cricket Australia chairman Earl Eddings said about the 2019 inductee to the Australian cricket hall of fame.
"Anyone who watched cricket in the 1980s and 1990s will fondly recall his cavalier approach at the crease and the incredible energy and passion he brought to every game he played.
"Jones remained an immensely popular figure in Australian and Victorian cricket throughout his life and was a much-loved columnist and commentator in every corner of the cricketing world. This is a truly sad day. Deano's loss will be felt not just at home in Australia, but across the globe."
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