4 minute read We’re playing a Sim Series between a 1990s World Test XI and a Current World Test XI using Cricket Captain’s ‘All-Time Greats’ mode. Here’s what happened on day four. And here’s the match situation at the start of day five: The Now XI need 318 to win. The 90s XI
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90s XI v Now XI, day 4: They’ll try and chase down any target nowadays
4 minute read We’re playing a Sim Series between a 1990s World Test XI and a Current World Test XI using Cricket Captain’s ‘All-Time Greats’ mode. Here’s what happened on day three. Here’s the match situation. The 90s XI leads by 264 runs with nine second innings wickets in hand. We’re not a
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4 minute read We’re playing a Sim Series between a 1990s World Test XI and a Current World Test XI using Cricket Captain’s ‘All-Time Greats’ mode. Day two went like this. Here’s the match situation. No comment from us on any of this because we’re completely impartial. It’s going to be a pivotal
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4 minute read We’re playing a Sim Series between a 1990s World Test XI and a Current World Test XI using Cricket Captain’s ‘All-Time Greats’ mode. Day one was fairly stupid in that Nathan Lyon took four wickets. No matter which team you’re supporting, let’s hope that’s the end of that sort of
Continue reading90s XI v Now XI, day 1: Slow pitch mars opening day
4 minute read We’re playing a Sim Series between a 1990s World Test XI and a Current World Test XI using Cricket Captain’s ‘All-Time Greats’ mode. Let’s start with teams and stats. Partly because we imagine you want to pore over the averages, but mainly because there’s a 12th man joke we want
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3 minute read We’re going to play a Sim Series between a 1990s World Test XI and a Current World Test XI. Let’s pick the latter. As we asked the other day, what is ‘now’? We’re still niggled by the notion that the 90s XI has a whole era of talent at its
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5 minute read We’re going to play a Sim Series between a 1990s World Test XI and a Current World Test XI. Let’s pick our first team. After we announced that this particular Sim Series Test was going to take place, there was quite a lot of discussion about who should be in
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2 minute read We’re going to play another Sim Series. The last few were a bit Ashes-centric so this time we’re going to pit a World 90s XI against a World Now XI. If you don’t about Sim Series, this is how it works: we pick two fantasy teams based on some flimsy
Continue readingEvil v Good, day 4: Match skitters to a conclusion
3 minute read We’re pitting an England XI comprising the players we invested in the most against an Antagonists XI using International Cricket Captain’s ‘All Time Greats’ mode. England made 202 runs and lost four wickets on day three. It was very boring and far and away their most successful day. Australia still
Continue readingEvil v Good, day 3: England’s best day so far
3 minute read We’re pitting an England XI comprising the players we invested in the most against an Antagonists XI using International Cricket Captain’s ‘All Time Greats’ mode. Taken in isolation, day two was less rubbish than day one. However, the nature of Test cricket is that it cannot be taken in isolation,
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