TRIAL FORM Smith (15.00) Atapattu (21.25) (1.00) Ackerman (21.50) Joyce (45.50) van Jaarsveld (45.00) (18.50) Sarwan (34.25) Akmal (33.25) Johnson (56.50) (41.16) Arafat (12.00) (20.75) Warne (4.50) (39.40) Kulesekara (2.00) (23.20) Razzaq (10.50) (14.00)
Code: <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="429"><col style="width: 130pt;" width="173"> <col style="width: 48pt;" width="64" span="4"> <tbody><tr style="height: 15pt;" height="20"> <td style="height: 15pt; width: 130pt;" width="173" height="20">1. Graeme Smith</td> <td colspan="2" style="width: 96pt;" width="128">151runs @ 30.20</td> <td style="width: 48pt;" width="64"> </td> <td style="width: 48pt;" width="64">1w @ 115.00</td> </tr> <tr style="height: 15pt;" height="20"> <td style="height: 15pt;" height="20">2. Marvan Atapattu</td> <td colspan="2" style="">215runs @ 43.00</td> <td> </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 15pt;" height="20"> <td style="height: 15pt;" height="20">3. Hylton Ackerman</td> <td colspan="2" style="">172runs @ 34.40</td> <td> </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 15pt;" height="20"> <td style="height: 15pt;" height="20">4. Ed Joyce</td> <td colspan="2" style="">278runs @ 55.60</td> <td> </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 15pt;" height="20"> <td style="height: 15pt;" height="20">5. Martin van Jaarsveld</td> <td colspan="2" style="">182runs @ 36.40</td> <td> </td> <td>1w @ 68.00</td> </tr> <tr style="height: 15pt;" height="20"> <td style="height: 15pt;" height="20">6. Ramnaresh Sarwan</td> <td colspan="2" style="">200runs @ 50.00</td> <td> </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 15pt;" height="20"> <td style="height: 15pt;" height="20">7. Kamran Akmal</td> <td colspan="2" style="">102runs @ 25.50</td> <td> </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 15pt;" height="20"> <td style="height: 15pt;" height="20">8. Mitchell Johnson</td> <td colspan="2" style="">84runs @ 21.00</td> <td> </td> <td>28w @ 17.32</td> </tr> <tr style="height: 15pt;" height="20"> <td style="height: 15pt;" height="20">9. Yasir Arafat</td> <td colspan="2" style="">59runs @ 11.80</td> <td> </td> <td>10w @ 37.20</td> </tr> <tr style="height: 15pt;" height="20"> <td style="height: 15pt;" height="20">10. Shane Warne</td> <td colspan="2" style="">104runs @ 20.8</td> <td> </td> <td>13w @ 35.61</td> </tr> <tr style="height: 15pt;" height="20"> <td style="height: 15pt;" height="20">11. Nuwan Kulasekara</td> <td colspan="2" style="">64runs @ 21.33</td> <td> </td> <td>9w @ 51.66</td> </tr> </tbody></table>
You can always look to sign your team back and hope people don't pinch them. I agree that four it too few though.
Johnson and Smith are the definite keepers, depsite Smith doing pretty much nothing. Warne did enough to stay, but ive got a feeling he'll drop skill wise a fair bit over the 'off-season', plus he could free up an early draft pick.
Warne's one I'd definitely think about getting rid of. He may be worthy of picking again, but he definitely won't be worthy of a pick in the first couple of rounds where you picked him last time.
If there was no new teams coming in I would say you could have more but as I said previously on this I think it just leaves the new teams with a big disadvantage. As things stand the new teams will still have a disadvantage IMO.
My system would prevent new teams form being a massive disadvantage because it'd encourage people to release their early draft picks, and if they didn't, the new teams would get a stack of picks before they had a go anyway. Honestly though, if new teams are going to **** up every single idea that could improve this in the eyes of the poor new team managers, perhaps all the collective potential improvements > the new team improvement itself, and we should just not have new teams?
