Icon Meme Fantasy Test Match Cricket
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vaznettiThe cricket was too stressful to listen to thoday, and so instead of refreshing the scores again and again, BH and I invented Icon Meme Fantasy Test Match Cricket, since (like all sports people, cricket fans are obsessed by making fantasy teams). First, we made a team from the characters who appear in my Icon Pairings Meme:
My Eleven:
Jack Bristow -- veteran, opens batting
Frank Pembleton -- opens batting
Julian Sark -- bats 3, public school, good technique, agressive
Wesley Wyndam-Pryce -- bats 4, ditto
Han Solo -- all rounder, change bowler, bats 5
Bill Adama -- captain, wicket keeper
Julius Caesar -- spin bowler, bats seven
Jack Bauer -- fast bowler, agressive (reverse swing)
Aeryn Sun -- strike bowler
Alex Krycek -- pace bowler, has to outfield due to the lack of one arm.
Marshall Flinkman -- leg spinner, makes Shane Warne look like an amateur, but some press scandals involving ball tampering accusations
There were a number of other capable spin bowlers on my icons, but there wasn't room on the team -- Minerva McGonagall being an obvious example. We thought Arvin might spend a bit too much time trying to rum out members of his own team (similar problem with Nina Myers, and Irina Derevko). We very nearly dropped Krycek, since he only has one arm, but BH reconsidered when he learned that it was his good arm. My icon list is full of wicket keepers and spin bowlers -- both McCoy and Frankie, for example. This probably says something about me.
But of course, a single team is no use at all -- you need another team for them to play, so off we went to look at other versions of the icon pairings meme, to see what teams we could pick from them. The first plausible one we came to was![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
selenak's.
Selena's eleven were drawn from her version of the meme:
Lee Adama -- opens
John Crichton -- opens, good fielder
Eowyn -- bats 3
Duncan McLeod -- bats 4
Frodo -- very small, but so is Ian Bell. Middle-order, can duck under bouncers
Buffy -- bats 6, all rounder, decent bowler
Kara Thrace -- bats 7, all rounder, fast bowler
Angel -- bats 8, fast bowler [see note below on vampires and cricket]
Michael Corleone -- bats 9, captain, spin bowler
Methos -- bats 10, spin bowler
Pilot -- many arms, very large, excellent reflexes, multi-tasker = the perfect wicket-keeper. Possible problems with MCC rules, and would certainly need a runner.
Of course, once you have two teams, you need to have a test match. Picky people will notice that the individual scores don't add up -- this is because a certain number of extra points occur in the course of a test match, for things like "no ball" and other stuff I don't really understand.
First, the short-hand version:
First innings:
Lee Adama: 8, b. {bowled] Bauer
John Crichton: 84, b. Bauer
Eowyn: 38, b. Solo, c. [caught] Caesar
McLeod: 26, c. Wyndam-Pryce, b. Flinkman
Frodo: 2, lbw Flinkman [leg before wicket -- the ball would have hit the wicket, but the batsman got his leg in the way]
Buffy: 4, c. Sark, b. Caesar
Kara Thrace: 98, b. Sun
Angel: 12, lbw Krycek
Corleone: 22 not out.
Methos: 0, b. Sun
Pilot: 4, hit wicket.
332 all out
Bristow: 53, c. Pilot, b. Thrace
Pembleton: 70, b. Methos
Sark: 12, c. Pilot, b. Corleone
Wyndam-Pryce: 0, b. Summers
Solo: 26, b. Corleone
Adama: 57, b. Thrace
Caesar: 65, b. Corleone
Bauer: 10, c. Pilot, b. Angel
Sun: 5, b. Thrace
Krycek: 14 not out
Marshall: 2, b. Summers.
369 all out
Second Innings
Lee: 2, lbw Sun
Crichton: 45, c. & b. Solo
Angel: 4, b. Bauer
Eowyn: 103, b. Solo
McLeod: 8, lbw Sun
Baggins: 61, run out
Summers: 14, stumped Adama, b. Flinkman
Thrace: 8, c. Sark b. Flinkman
Corleone: 12 not out.
Methos: 6, b. Sun
Pilot: 0, handling the ball.
300 all out
Bristow: 36, c. Pilot b. Thrace
Pembleton: 8, lbw Angel
Sark: 48, c. Baggins, b. Corleone
Wyndam-Pryce: 60 b. Methos
Solo: 28 b. Corleone.
Adama: 32 not out
Caesar: 20, stumped Pilot
Bauer: 4, c. Summers b. Corleone
Sun: 0, b. Crichton
Krycek: 4, b. Corleone
Marshall: 4 not out
265 for 9.
Day 1:
"Selena" wins the toss and elects to bat first:
Lee scores a couple boundaries, but is out in under three overs to Bauer, due to Bill's knowledge of his son's weaknesses; Bauer switches to a yorker after a couple of bouncers. Crichton and Eowyn build an excellent partnership over the first hour or so of their partnership, against Bauer and Aeryn Sun; Adama needs to shake them up a bit and brings in Solo, Eowyn is out, b. Solo c. Caesar. McLeod comes on and hits a couple boundaries -- at lunch, Crichton is 26, McLeod 10.
After lunch, Caesar and Flinkman as bowlers against McLeod and Crichton. McLeod is caught out, b. Flinkman. Frodo comes in but is out lbw by Flinkman, never really hits his stride. Buffy comes in, but is out with a slip catch off Caesar's bowling, caught by Sark, for 4. Meanwhile, Crichton makes his half-century (52). Kara comes on and put on 30 by tea. Kara and Crichton settle in, and Bill decides to switch the bowlers, bringing on Bauer and Solo. Crichton goes, finally, for 84; Kara gets her half-century.
Angel comes on, but goes out lbw Krycek. He sulks.
End of first day, Selena's team is 264 for 7 (Bauer gives away a lot of extras); Kara is at 60 not out, and Michael Corleone will come in in the morning.
Day 2:
Thrace and Corleone batting, against Krycek and Sun; Sun is on form, very accurate. She bowls two maiden overs against Corleone, although Thrace scores reasonably quickly against Krycek, and Coleone more slowly. Thrace is out for 98, trying to hit a six off Aeryn (she and Andama had a plan!). Methos comes on and makes the mistake of trying to flirt with Aeryn; out of a duck. Pilot comes on, makes a boundary but is out hit-wicket when an arm flies backward. Number of extras limited, because Bauer didn't bowl.
Selena's team are 332 all out.
For our team, Bristow and Pembleton open against Buffy and Angel (Angel doesn't burst into flames, by the way, because of a special rule regarding vampires and cricket -- after all, Nick Knight played for England for several years.) Just before tea, Bristow is at 35, and Pembleton at 27; Corleone decides to substitute Kara for Buffy after tea. She gets Bristow for 53 (edge off the bat, caught by Pilot), but Frank holds out against Angel and Kara. As the afternoon wears on, Corleone puts himself in to bowl; Sark is caught out for 12, but because Corleone is a criminal, Pembleton gets more agressive and starts scoring runs more quickly. When Wesley comes on to bat, Corleone brings on Buffy to bowl against him; Wesley reverts to his early season persona and is out for a duck.
Bill moves himself up the order and the day ends with Pembleton at 68 and Bill Adama at 3. Day ends with our team at 166 for 3 (Angel and Buffy give away a lot of extras as well).
Day 3.
In the morning, they're still using the old ball. Corleone puts on Methos and Buffy against Frank and Adama; Methos takes Frank early because he annoys him so much; Frank is out for 70. Adama settles into a partnership with Solo; Solo scores much faster than Adama, but is bowled out when Corleone comes back on. Han doesn't do so well against criminal masterminds, but at least doesn't end up frozen in carbonite this time. Adama and Caesar settle into a strong partnership (Caesar is scoring more quickly due to the occasional 6 -- he knows how to take a risk); they bring on the new ball, and Kara takes Adama before tea. Jack hits a six and a four and is out to Angel, and Caesar makes his half-century. We break for tea.
Aeryn comes on after tea, but is bowled out by Kara pretty quickly. Krycek, though, manages surprisingly well for a one-armed batsman, and the next wicket to fall is Caesar's. Marshall comes on, and is out for 2, b. Methos. 369 all out.
At the beginning of the second innings, Lee and Crichton come back on at the end of day. Lee's confidence is shaken by the first innings, and Kara's excellent performance, and he goes for 2. The light is fading, so they bring on Angel as the night watchman. At close of play, Crichton is on 10, Angel on 4.
Day 4.
Angel goes out in the first over -- he doesn't do mornings -- and Eowyn and Crichton are batting solidly against Sun and Bauer. Mid-morning, they switch bowlers (Solo for Bauer) and Crichton falls to Solo. Corleone brings on McLeod, who falls lbw Sun rather early. Just before lunch on day 4, Frodo comes on to partner with Eowyn, Solo and Sun bowling. In the afternoon, Marshall and Bauer are bowling; Frodo isn't fooled by Marshall this time, and he and Eowyn manage a very good partnership. After tea, Eowyn makes a century, with Frodo on 50, but goes out to Solo (who's come back on) for 103. Frodo is run out at 61 (Buffy forgot about the little hobit legs).
Late in the day, Marshall and Caesar are bowling; Buffy goes out, stumped by Adama. End of Day 4 comes when Thrace is caught in the slips by Sark.
Day 5
Opens with Corleone and Methos batting against a new ball; Methos is out for 6 to Sun. Pilot comes on and is out for handling the ball -- another arm-related accident.
Selena's team 300 all out (total 632); our team needs 264 to win.
Frank cracks under pressure [BH wanted him to have a stroke, but I protested] and is out for 8, lbw Angel. Surprisingly enough, Bristow and Sark settle into a good partnership; Sdark scores quickly, Bristow more consistently. By lunch, Bristow is on 22 and Sark on 45. After lunch, Corleone puts Frodo in his elven cloak mid-on (the umpires wouldn't let him use the One Ring), and Sark doesn't even see him. He's caught out for 48.
Wesley, coming on a second time, shows much more confidence and puts on a decent score. Bristow is playing against his natural temperment, trying to score runs fast and is b. Thrace c. Pilot in the mid-afternoon. Solo comes on, and Corleone and Methos are bowling. Just before tea, Wesley is bowled out by Methos. Solo is caught out immediately after tea.
At this stage, our team is at 186 for 5 (including 20 extras); they need 78 to win. Adama is in, and Caesar comes in. Caesar plays recklessly and pust on 20 quickly, before being stumped by Pilot; Adama is at 19, leaving 20 to get. It's looking good, but Bauer comes in and is 4 and out, caught by Summers. When Sun comes in, Corleone decides to let Crichton bowl, and this freaks Aeryn out. Krycek comes on, knowing full well that if he doesn't perform, Adama will toss him out the airlock. He makes 4, which is pretty good for a man with one arm.
Adama and Flinkman are up; there are two overs left in the day and five runs to make (259 for 9). Marshall has spent all day with his computer, calculating the aerodynamics of all the opposing bowlers. He lasts the penultimate over without scoring; one over is left, five runs to make, Adama is batting against Corleone: capo vs. capo. On the second ball, Adama scores two, leaving three to make. On the third ball, Corleone offers Adama a single, and he takes it. Marshall blocks for the fourth and fifth ball, and on the last ball of the match, Marshall works out the precise trajectory of Corleone's spin ball and glances it away for a four!
Victory! My team wins by a wicket and two runs. In my fantasy world. In the "real" world, Marshall could never have pulled that off.
That was so much fun that we made up a whole set of teams from other people's memes. The first one was fromsophia_helix's meme
Giles -- opens, captain
John Locke -- opens
Obi-Wan Kenobi -- bats 3
Anakin Skywalker -- bats 4, provided he isn't evil
Ginny Weasley -- bats 5
Crais -- bats 6, fast medium bowler, all rounder
Sayid -- spin bowler, bats 7
Harry Potter -- fast bowler, a uselful 8th batsman
The Dalai Lama -- wicket keeper
River Tam -- fast bowler, accurate and scary. Deadly in the field -- she can pick up the ball and knock down the wicket from the boundary with her eyes closed.
Vizzini -- spin bowler
(This is probably the best team -- very well-balanced! And the Force is strong in them.)
When we got toelishavah, we had to reuse a few players:
John Crichton -- Opener
Adam Carter -- Opener
The Doctor -- bats 3
Gaius Baltar -- bats 4
Benton Fraser -- bats 5 and wicket keeper.
Kara Thrace -- All Rounder, bats 6
Samantha Carter -- Captain, bats 7
Teal'c -- fast bowler, bats 8
Aeryn Sun -- fast bowler, bats 9
Vala Maldoran -- Spin Bowler and easily mistaken for Aeryn Sun to confuse batsmen, bats 10
Ray Kowalski -- spin bowler, bats 11.
I'm not 100% sure about Ray, but we thought he'd be worth a shot. Baltar, of course, will be no use against any team fielding Six, or indeed if he starts to hallucinate her presence, which he might do at any moment. And we're assuming the Christopher Eccleston Doctor. Some of the older version might bat further down the order.
The last one we did wasmonanotlisa's version, which produced a rather specialized team:
Scully -- opens
Michael Vaughn, captain [this is a big case of mistaken identity]
Gunn -- solid batsman, bats 3
Lauren Reed -- bats 4
Death -- bats 5
Faith -- all rounder, bats 6
Sydney -- wicket keeper, bats 7 to keep her away from Lauren
Nikita -- fast bowler, bats 8
Spike -- fast bowler, bats 9
Lilah Morgan -- spin bowler, bats 10
Irina Derevko -- spin bowler, bats 11
In general, this isn't a great team -- the batting looks weak, and I'm not sure who would open. But they'd destroy the team drawn from my list. Think about it. Unless they all killed each other, of course, but even so, I think we'd only be able to rely on Frank and Han, and maybe Adama and Julius Caesar, if Death didn't intimidate the latter two.
And yes, I know that no one will care about this but us.
ETA: I forgot! We made a list from Nestra's meme, as well.
Daniel Jackson -- opener
Simon Tam -- opener
Mal Reynolds -- captain, bats 3
Sirius Black -- bats 4
John Sheppard -- bats 5, occasionally over-confident
Jack O'Neill -- bats 6, medium pacer, all-rounder,
Ronon -- bats 7 fast bowler, good batsman
Sawyer -- bats 8, spin bowler
Lindsey McDonald -- bats 9, spin bowler, ambidextrous, evil hand expecially dangerous
Remus Lupin -- bats 10, fast bowler (he and Ronon make a very hairy fast bowling attack)
House -- bats 11, wicket-keeper, needs a runner.
And yes, I know, nobody cares.
My Eleven:
Jack Bristow -- veteran, opens batting
Frank Pembleton -- opens batting
Julian Sark -- bats 3, public school, good technique, agressive
Wesley Wyndam-Pryce -- bats 4, ditto
Han Solo -- all rounder, change bowler, bats 5
Bill Adama -- captain, wicket keeper
Julius Caesar -- spin bowler, bats seven
Jack Bauer -- fast bowler, agressive (reverse swing)
Aeryn Sun -- strike bowler
Alex Krycek -- pace bowler, has to outfield due to the lack of one arm.
Marshall Flinkman -- leg spinner, makes Shane Warne look like an amateur, but some press scandals involving ball tampering accusations
There were a number of other capable spin bowlers on my icons, but there wasn't room on the team -- Minerva McGonagall being an obvious example. We thought Arvin might spend a bit too much time trying to rum out members of his own team (similar problem with Nina Myers, and Irina Derevko). We very nearly dropped Krycek, since he only has one arm, but BH reconsidered when he learned that it was his good arm. My icon list is full of wicket keepers and spin bowlers -- both McCoy and Frankie, for example. This probably says something about me.
But of course, a single team is no use at all -- you need another team for them to play, so off we went to look at other versions of the icon pairings meme, to see what teams we could pick from them. The first plausible one we came to was
selenak's.Selena's eleven were drawn from her version of the meme:
Lee Adama -- opens
John Crichton -- opens, good fielder
Eowyn -- bats 3
Duncan McLeod -- bats 4
Frodo -- very small, but so is Ian Bell. Middle-order, can duck under bouncers
Buffy -- bats 6, all rounder, decent bowler
Kara Thrace -- bats 7, all rounder, fast bowler
Angel -- bats 8, fast bowler [see note below on vampires and cricket]
Michael Corleone -- bats 9, captain, spin bowler
Methos -- bats 10, spin bowler
Pilot -- many arms, very large, excellent reflexes, multi-tasker = the perfect wicket-keeper. Possible problems with MCC rules, and would certainly need a runner.
Of course, once you have two teams, you need to have a test match. Picky people will notice that the individual scores don't add up -- this is because a certain number of extra points occur in the course of a test match, for things like "no ball" and other stuff I don't really understand.
First, the short-hand version:
First innings:
Lee Adama: 8, b. {bowled] Bauer
John Crichton: 84, b. Bauer
Eowyn: 38, b. Solo, c. [caught] Caesar
McLeod: 26, c. Wyndam-Pryce, b. Flinkman
Frodo: 2, lbw Flinkman [leg before wicket -- the ball would have hit the wicket, but the batsman got his leg in the way]
Buffy: 4, c. Sark, b. Caesar
Kara Thrace: 98, b. Sun
Angel: 12, lbw Krycek
Corleone: 22 not out.
Methos: 0, b. Sun
Pilot: 4, hit wicket.
332 all out
Bristow: 53, c. Pilot, b. Thrace
Pembleton: 70, b. Methos
Sark: 12, c. Pilot, b. Corleone
Wyndam-Pryce: 0, b. Summers
Solo: 26, b. Corleone
Adama: 57, b. Thrace
Caesar: 65, b. Corleone
Bauer: 10, c. Pilot, b. Angel
Sun: 5, b. Thrace
Krycek: 14 not out
Marshall: 2, b. Summers.
369 all out
Second Innings
Lee: 2, lbw Sun
Crichton: 45, c. & b. Solo
Angel: 4, b. Bauer
Eowyn: 103, b. Solo
McLeod: 8, lbw Sun
Baggins: 61, run out
Summers: 14, stumped Adama, b. Flinkman
Thrace: 8, c. Sark b. Flinkman
Corleone: 12 not out.
Methos: 6, b. Sun
Pilot: 0, handling the ball.
300 all out
Bristow: 36, c. Pilot b. Thrace
Pembleton: 8, lbw Angel
Sark: 48, c. Baggins, b. Corleone
Wyndam-Pryce: 60 b. Methos
Solo: 28 b. Corleone.
Adama: 32 not out
Caesar: 20, stumped Pilot
Bauer: 4, c. Summers b. Corleone
Sun: 0, b. Crichton
Krycek: 4, b. Corleone
Marshall: 4 not out
265 for 9.
Day 1:
"Selena" wins the toss and elects to bat first:
Lee scores a couple boundaries, but is out in under three overs to Bauer, due to Bill's knowledge of his son's weaknesses; Bauer switches to a yorker after a couple of bouncers. Crichton and Eowyn build an excellent partnership over the first hour or so of their partnership, against Bauer and Aeryn Sun; Adama needs to shake them up a bit and brings in Solo, Eowyn is out, b. Solo c. Caesar. McLeod comes on and hits a couple boundaries -- at lunch, Crichton is 26, McLeod 10.
After lunch, Caesar and Flinkman as bowlers against McLeod and Crichton. McLeod is caught out, b. Flinkman. Frodo comes in but is out lbw by Flinkman, never really hits his stride. Buffy comes in, but is out with a slip catch off Caesar's bowling, caught by Sark, for 4. Meanwhile, Crichton makes his half-century (52). Kara comes on and put on 30 by tea. Kara and Crichton settle in, and Bill decides to switch the bowlers, bringing on Bauer and Solo. Crichton goes, finally, for 84; Kara gets her half-century.
Angel comes on, but goes out lbw Krycek. He sulks.
End of first day, Selena's team is 264 for 7 (Bauer gives away a lot of extras); Kara is at 60 not out, and Michael Corleone will come in in the morning.
Day 2:
Thrace and Corleone batting, against Krycek and Sun; Sun is on form, very accurate. She bowls two maiden overs against Corleone, although Thrace scores reasonably quickly against Krycek, and Coleone more slowly. Thrace is out for 98, trying to hit a six off Aeryn (she and Andama had a plan!). Methos comes on and makes the mistake of trying to flirt with Aeryn; out of a duck. Pilot comes on, makes a boundary but is out hit-wicket when an arm flies backward. Number of extras limited, because Bauer didn't bowl.
Selena's team are 332 all out.
For our team, Bristow and Pembleton open against Buffy and Angel (Angel doesn't burst into flames, by the way, because of a special rule regarding vampires and cricket -- after all, Nick Knight played for England for several years.) Just before tea, Bristow is at 35, and Pembleton at 27; Corleone decides to substitute Kara for Buffy after tea. She gets Bristow for 53 (edge off the bat, caught by Pilot), but Frank holds out against Angel and Kara. As the afternoon wears on, Corleone puts himself in to bowl; Sark is caught out for 12, but because Corleone is a criminal, Pembleton gets more agressive and starts scoring runs more quickly. When Wesley comes on to bat, Corleone brings on Buffy to bowl against him; Wesley reverts to his early season persona and is out for a duck.
Bill moves himself up the order and the day ends with Pembleton at 68 and Bill Adama at 3. Day ends with our team at 166 for 3 (Angel and Buffy give away a lot of extras as well).
Day 3.
In the morning, they're still using the old ball. Corleone puts on Methos and Buffy against Frank and Adama; Methos takes Frank early because he annoys him so much; Frank is out for 70. Adama settles into a partnership with Solo; Solo scores much faster than Adama, but is bowled out when Corleone comes back on. Han doesn't do so well against criminal masterminds, but at least doesn't end up frozen in carbonite this time. Adama and Caesar settle into a strong partnership (Caesar is scoring more quickly due to the occasional 6 -- he knows how to take a risk); they bring on the new ball, and Kara takes Adama before tea. Jack hits a six and a four and is out to Angel, and Caesar makes his half-century. We break for tea.
Aeryn comes on after tea, but is bowled out by Kara pretty quickly. Krycek, though, manages surprisingly well for a one-armed batsman, and the next wicket to fall is Caesar's. Marshall comes on, and is out for 2, b. Methos. 369 all out.
At the beginning of the second innings, Lee and Crichton come back on at the end of day. Lee's confidence is shaken by the first innings, and Kara's excellent performance, and he goes for 2. The light is fading, so they bring on Angel as the night watchman. At close of play, Crichton is on 10, Angel on 4.
Day 4.
Angel goes out in the first over -- he doesn't do mornings -- and Eowyn and Crichton are batting solidly against Sun and Bauer. Mid-morning, they switch bowlers (Solo for Bauer) and Crichton falls to Solo. Corleone brings on McLeod, who falls lbw Sun rather early. Just before lunch on day 4, Frodo comes on to partner with Eowyn, Solo and Sun bowling. In the afternoon, Marshall and Bauer are bowling; Frodo isn't fooled by Marshall this time, and he and Eowyn manage a very good partnership. After tea, Eowyn makes a century, with Frodo on 50, but goes out to Solo (who's come back on) for 103. Frodo is run out at 61 (Buffy forgot about the little hobit legs).
Late in the day, Marshall and Caesar are bowling; Buffy goes out, stumped by Adama. End of Day 4 comes when Thrace is caught in the slips by Sark.
Day 5
Opens with Corleone and Methos batting against a new ball; Methos is out for 6 to Sun. Pilot comes on and is out for handling the ball -- another arm-related accident.
Selena's team 300 all out (total 632); our team needs 264 to win.
Frank cracks under pressure [BH wanted him to have a stroke, but I protested] and is out for 8, lbw Angel. Surprisingly enough, Bristow and Sark settle into a good partnership; Sdark scores quickly, Bristow more consistently. By lunch, Bristow is on 22 and Sark on 45. After lunch, Corleone puts Frodo in his elven cloak mid-on (the umpires wouldn't let him use the One Ring), and Sark doesn't even see him. He's caught out for 48.
Wesley, coming on a second time, shows much more confidence and puts on a decent score. Bristow is playing against his natural temperment, trying to score runs fast and is b. Thrace c. Pilot in the mid-afternoon. Solo comes on, and Corleone and Methos are bowling. Just before tea, Wesley is bowled out by Methos. Solo is caught out immediately after tea.
At this stage, our team is at 186 for 5 (including 20 extras); they need 78 to win. Adama is in, and Caesar comes in. Caesar plays recklessly and pust on 20 quickly, before being stumped by Pilot; Adama is at 19, leaving 20 to get. It's looking good, but Bauer comes in and is 4 and out, caught by Summers. When Sun comes in, Corleone decides to let Crichton bowl, and this freaks Aeryn out. Krycek comes on, knowing full well that if he doesn't perform, Adama will toss him out the airlock. He makes 4, which is pretty good for a man with one arm.
Adama and Flinkman are up; there are two overs left in the day and five runs to make (259 for 9). Marshall has spent all day with his computer, calculating the aerodynamics of all the opposing bowlers. He lasts the penultimate over without scoring; one over is left, five runs to make, Adama is batting against Corleone: capo vs. capo. On the second ball, Adama scores two, leaving three to make. On the third ball, Corleone offers Adama a single, and he takes it. Marshall blocks for the fourth and fifth ball, and on the last ball of the match, Marshall works out the precise trajectory of Corleone's spin ball and glances it away for a four!
Victory! My team wins by a wicket and two runs. In my fantasy world. In the "real" world, Marshall could never have pulled that off.
That was so much fun that we made up a whole set of teams from other people's memes. The first one was from
sophia_helix's memeGiles -- opens, captain
John Locke -- opens
Obi-Wan Kenobi -- bats 3
Anakin Skywalker -- bats 4, provided he isn't evil
Ginny Weasley -- bats 5
Crais -- bats 6, fast medium bowler, all rounder
Sayid -- spin bowler, bats 7
Harry Potter -- fast bowler, a uselful 8th batsman
The Dalai Lama -- wicket keeper
River Tam -- fast bowler, accurate and scary. Deadly in the field -- she can pick up the ball and knock down the wicket from the boundary with her eyes closed.
Vizzini -- spin bowler
(This is probably the best team -- very well-balanced! And the Force is strong in them.)
When we got to
elishavah, we had to reuse a few players:John Crichton -- Opener
Adam Carter -- Opener
The Doctor -- bats 3
Gaius Baltar -- bats 4
Benton Fraser -- bats 5 and wicket keeper.
Kara Thrace -- All Rounder, bats 6
Samantha Carter -- Captain, bats 7
Teal'c -- fast bowler, bats 8
Aeryn Sun -- fast bowler, bats 9
Vala Maldoran -- Spin Bowler and easily mistaken for Aeryn Sun to confuse batsmen, bats 10
Ray Kowalski -- spin bowler, bats 11.
I'm not 100% sure about Ray, but we thought he'd be worth a shot. Baltar, of course, will be no use against any team fielding Six, or indeed if he starts to hallucinate her presence, which he might do at any moment. And we're assuming the Christopher Eccleston Doctor. Some of the older version might bat further down the order.
The last one we did was
monanotlisa's version, which produced a rather specialized team:Scully -- opens
Michael Vaughn, captain [this is a big case of mistaken identity]
Gunn -- solid batsman, bats 3
Lauren Reed -- bats 4
Death -- bats 5
Faith -- all rounder, bats 6
Sydney -- wicket keeper, bats 7 to keep her away from Lauren
Nikita -- fast bowler, bats 8
Spike -- fast bowler, bats 9
Lilah Morgan -- spin bowler, bats 10
Irina Derevko -- spin bowler, bats 11
In general, this isn't a great team -- the batting looks weak, and I'm not sure who would open. But they'd destroy the team drawn from my list. Think about it. Unless they all killed each other, of course, but even so, I think we'd only be able to rely on Frank and Han, and maybe Adama and Julius Caesar, if Death didn't intimidate the latter two.
And yes, I know that no one will care about this but us.
ETA: I forgot! We made a list from Nestra's meme, as well.
Daniel Jackson -- opener
Simon Tam -- opener
Mal Reynolds -- captain, bats 3
Sirius Black -- bats 4
John Sheppard -- bats 5, occasionally over-confident
Jack O'Neill -- bats 6, medium pacer, all-rounder,
Ronon -- bats 7 fast bowler, good batsman
Sawyer -- bats 8, spin bowler
Lindsey McDonald -- bats 9, spin bowler, ambidextrous, evil hand expecially dangerous
Remus Lupin -- bats 10, fast bowler (he and Ronon make a very hairy fast bowling attack)
House -- bats 11, wicket-keeper, needs a runner.
And yes, I know, nobody cares.
