But THEY play Baseball(ICC2002)

[Jamee999]

Some pre-dynasty authors notes
This is being played on a game called International Cricket Captain 2002 which is a Commercial game. Before the start of this dynasty 9 American teams have been invited to play in the English Pro Cricket Leagues....
I have used a pre-game editor by the very nice people at my most favoritest website in the whole world Cricket Web.net (www.cricketweb.net)

The 9 new teams inducted to the Championship were announced as:
Washington
San Francisco
Houston
Boston
Las Vegas
New Orleans
Los Angeles
New York
Miami

The teams had recruited staff from around the world but only New York had recruited an Englishman. Jamee Gray was a cricket fan and snapped up the opportunity to manage a Championship team.

The first thing I am going to do is analyse the squad.

Craig SPEARMAN-New Zealand. A good player to have as one of my two overseas players and he will fill one of the opening batsman spots.
Kim BARNETT-England. He was a good player but at 41 will probably not get a game this season.
Tim HANCOCK-England. A reasonable opening batsman who I will use if either of the senior openers are injured.
Chris TAYLOR-England. A good young player who will open the batting this season.
Matthew WINDOWS-England. A First Class batsman who will get a start in the team.
Stephen POPE-England. A young keeper who will hopefully be the first choice in a few years.
Mark ALLEYNE-England. A good batsman,bowler and keeper how ever he probably won't handle the gloves this season.
Jack RUSSELL-England. A world-class gloveman who will keep for New York this year.
Richard WILLIAMS-England. A sub-standard player who will be realeased in the winter.
Ian HARVEY-Australia. A good all-rounder who will have to bat and bowl to the highest standard all year to be a real success as an overseas player.
James PEARSON-England. A rookie all-rounder who won't a get a game for a few years.
Alex GIDMAN-England. A young all-rounder who's made a small impact in his games so far.
Jeremy SNAPE-England. A good spinner who bats; he;s made an impact in his time and will start at New York.
James AVERIS-England. A good pace bowler who's stats don't do justice to his ability.
Martyn BALL-England. A spinner who is probably not good enough to play for the Big Apple.
Alistair BASSINGTON-England. A rookie medium pace bowler who may get a game in a few years.
Ian FISHER-England. Yet another spinner who will be Snape's understudy.
Ben GANNON-England. A fast bowler who will need to develop control to get a game.
Mark HARDINGES-England. A rookie bowler.
Jonathan LEWIS-England. A good bowler who will probably start for New York.
Roger SILENCE-England. A rookie bowler who has taken a good reputation from England.
Andrew SMITH-England. An expierience quality pacer who is one of the best bowlers New York has to offer.

New York's first match is a 4 Day Championship Match against Los Angeles.

New York(0-0) at Los Angeles(0-0)

New York 502 and 199/6 drew with Los Angeles 520/7 Declared.

New York(0-1-0) at Essex(0-0)

Essex 273 and 146 beat New York 147 and 188 by 84 runs.

New York's 3rd match is a 1 Innings Super Cup match at Los Angeles

New York(0-0) at Los Angeles(0-0)

New York 274/5 beat Los Angeles 92 by 182 runs.

Las Vegas(1-0) at New York(1-0)

Las Vegas 259 for 6 beat New York 175 by 84 runs.

[SirFozzie]

Ok, time for a brief overview for those of you who have clicked on this thread and wondering what the hell he's talking about

New York's first match is a 4 Day Championship Match against Los Angeles.

New York(0-0) at Los Angeles(0-0)

New York 502 and 199/6 drew with Los Angeles 520/7 Declared.

A four day match is the standard type of cricket in non-international play (at least in England where it's called the County championship, where each county has their own team)

Each team has two innings, and a team's inning is over when all 10 batters are out (there are various ways to be out, I'll go through them later if people want), or when the batting team voluntarily ends their inning (called declared.. usually it's when you want to force a result, because if the game hasn't ended at the end of the fourth day, it's called a draw no matter how much you were winning by)

In this case, New York batted first, and put up a great total of 502 all out (all out is when ten batters are out, because although you have 11 total batters, you have two of them on the pitch at all times, one at each end).

However, LA came back and basically used NY's bowlers for chew toys, scoring 520 runs (a run is when the two batters swap sides, while the ball is in play) with 7 men out. Then they declared their inning over, to make NY bat again, in an attempt to force a result (there was probably less then a day left), and at the end of the final day, New York had scored 199 runs in their 2nd inning for six outs. But since there wasn't a result, the match was called a draw.

To encourage attacking play, since a determined batter could slow things way down by just blocking the ball with his bat consistently, a team earns up to five bonus points based on how many runs it scores in the first 130 overs. The fielding team earns up to 3 bonus points for how many men it can get out in the first 130 overs.

A win earns the winning team 14 points + any bonus points they earned, the losing team gets nothing but their bonus points. A draw awards each team four points + bonus points. (so it's always good to play for the win)

A over is six balls, kinda like pitches in Baseball, except the pitcher (called a bowler), can take a running start, and MUST keep his arm straight when bowling the ball (usually over hand) towards the stumps (which the batter tries to protect)

New York's 3rd match is a 1 Innings Super Cup match at Los Angeles.

New York 274/5 beat Los Angeles 92 by 182 runs.

This is the other version of county cricket, called a One Day game, because it's played over one day. In this game, both teams are limited to 50 overs (300 balls). The team with the higher score wins. In this case, New York batted first, and did pretty well, scoring 274 runs in their 50 overs, with 5 men out when the 50 over limit was reached.

Then the NY Bowlers showed up for this one, LA had a fairly big total to chase, and NY dismissed em all with ease, getting all 10 LA batters out for just 92 runs.

Hope Jamee didn't mind me popping up with the discussion :)

[tanglewood]

NO WAY!!!

I was thinking about starting an ICC dynasty on these very boards only yesterday.

I think it will be hillarious trying to explain all the rules and concepts to everyone though... good luck. ;)

[Jamee999]

New York(1-1) at Glamorgan(2-0)

Glamorgan 170/5 beat New York 169 by 5 wickets.

Somerset(0-3) at New York(1-2)

New York 287/7 beat Somerset 286/7 by 3 wickets.

New York(2-2) at Northamptonshire(2-2)

New York 223 beat Northamptonshire 220/8 by 3 runs.

As we had been eliminated from the Super Cup we had another One Day match in the League.

New York(0-0) at Washington(0-0)

Washington 142/7 beat New York 141/6