Test cricket has been the driver of Milchama's cricket popularity. As a population of people who love idling around while watching something or other a slow, methodical, tactically complex game has fascinated large segments of the Milchamian public. It's the reason why Milchama has become a cricket nation, even if the cricket playing population is a small one in comparison to the two most popular sports of baseball and soccer.
Or, in other words, of course a baseball loving population would love a game like test cricket because it's very similar to baseball but just different enough that you get something new out of it even if a lot of the charms are similar. So, a bastardized, super fast version of the game that's basically baseball light is not the one that attracts Milchamians. If you go to a T20 game that's basically saying you're either at a low level amateur game, a quick pick up game, or some young school boy version of the game before the children get serious about sports. T20 is the version of cricket you play in adult leagues once a week that don't take them seriously and the drinking is just as important as the playing. This makes the T20 national team a bit tricky to come up with as there are very few opportunities for grown adults, particularly high level grown adults to play T20 cricket.
Manager Tomasz Rostik then had some very tough choices. Do you take the established veteran presences of Hayden Marsh, Tanya Pehrson, Bonnie Woods etc. because they are the best Milchamian cricketers even with limited T20 experience or do you take more specialist players who might know the format better but maybe aren't as good as cricketers. Rostik, and the other selectors, looks like have split the difference taking some new names, some young prospects, and the normal "crew" so that there will be some international experience. Rostik named the following team to Milchama's first T20 World Championship:
T20 Starting Lineup:
Golda Melst RHB Opening Batter
Arielle Colanta LHB Opening Batter
Hayden Marsh RHB Part time off spin
Greg Cochrane LHB Batter
Shmuli Steinmitz LHB All rounder leg spin
Eliana Rosen RHB Batter
Kyle Keelan RHB Bowling all around fast
Molly Isabelle RHB WK
Eli Barrows RHB Fast bowler
Tanya Pehrson RHB Opening fast bowler. Throws left
Bonnie Woods RHB Opening fast bowler Throws right
Rest of the squad:
Daniel Ross RHB Opening Batter
Lieb Levrovich LHB All Rounder. Bowls wrist spin.
Jerome Carney RHB Middle Order Batter
Neta Zanton RHB Off spin bowler
Molly Isabelle RHB WK
Dalia Cortez LHB Fast bowler
Manny Comar RHB Fast bowler
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