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LeChuck

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Is it possible to use the International Cricket Captain series to sim a game? They are the only commercial cricket sim/management game I know of that does this sort of thing.

Used to be an infuriating game I remember playing quite a few years back.
Wasted many hours playing this when I was younger. Loved it!
 

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NM/Prath vs Mani:

7 Match Series: NM wins a very close series 4-3. Margins of victory in this series were 5 runs, 43 runs, 1 wicket, 3 wickets, 3 runs, 1 wicket, 7 runs. Both teams with very strong bowling attacks, Roberts in particular with spells of 30-5 and 33-5. Lamb with the only century.

1000 Match Sim: NM/Prath - 216/6, Mani - 203/7. Mani's batting isn't bad, but Andy Roberts is just too good.
 

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  1. Ganguly
  2. De Kock
  3. Gibbs
  4. R Taylor
  5. Martyn
  6. Saleem Malik
  7. Agarkar
  8. Hogg
  9. Malinga
  10. Waqar Younis
  11. Walsh
 

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  1. Gordon Greenidge
  2. Brad Haddin
  3. Zaheer Abbas
  4. Martin Crowe
  5. Paul Collingwood
  6. Michael Bevan
  7. Ravi Jadeja
  8. Abdul Qadir
  9. Zaheer Khan
  10. Morne Morkel
  11. Joel Garner
 

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Lol. Screw the threads. Let's just do this. :p

But only if everyone agrees our team is 1st and the rest are just fighting for 2nd and 3rd.
 

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Nope, turns out that thing doesn't even run on any OS newer than Win XP. Plus, it never accounted properly for batsman SR and bowler econ, so I'm much happier with this.
You actually wrote this program ? With Visual Studio ? Damn, that's impressive. Then I am very sure there will API's for you to pull from Cricinfo.
 

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VP vs Boycott:

7 Match Series: VP wins 4-3. Although the series was very close, none of the matches were. Three games were decided by a team being bowled out for a sub-200 score. Taylor and de Kock the century makers. Waqar Younis best spell of 26-5.

1000 Match Sim: VP - 216/7, Boycott - 210/6. Very close. VP's bowlers are quite parsimonious, making any significant total very difficult to chase down.
 

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  1. Harshad - TMH: 1. AB De Villiers 2. Curtly Ambrose 3. Brett Lee 4. S. Waugh 5. Dilshan 6. Guptill 7. Razzaq 8. Kyle Mills 9. Gautam Gambhir 10. Jean-Paul Duminy 11. R. Ashwin
  2. Aldo-Varun: 1. S Tendulkar 2. Shane Bond 3. Yuvraj Singh 4. Mark Waugh 5. Andrew Symonds 6. Streak 7. M Boucher 8. Umar Gul 9. Younis Khan 10. Larsen 11. Ian Bell
  3. Edgar Allan Pillow: 1.Viv Richards 2. R. Hadlee 3. Dean Jones 4. M.Marshall 5. Dravid 6. G Swann 7. A Jadeja 8. G flower 9. G Marsh 10. C Harris 11. Aaqib Javed
  4. RedTiger - LeChuck: 1.A Gilchrist 2. Hashim Amla 3. J Miandad 4. Vaas 5. Kumble 6. Mitchell Johnson 7. R Sarwan 8. Misbah 9. S Styris 10. Stuart Broad 11. Boeta Dippenaar 12. J Franklin
  5. VP: 1. Wasim Akram 2. D. Lillee 3. Brendon McCullum 4. Michael Clarke 5. Afridi 6. Mahela 7. Botham 8. Harbhajan Singh 9. S. Gavaskar 10. Gooch 11. Richie Richardson 12. D. Cullinan
  6. Mani - Ijazz17: 1. Glenn McGrath 2. Hayden 3. Mohammed Yousuf 4. Alec Stewart 5. Kane Williamson 6.H.Cronje 7. J. Anderson 8. Raina 9. Jacob Oram 10. Fanie Di Villiers 11. Mushtaq Ahmed 12. Russel Arnold
  7. KM: 1. Allan Donald 2. Shane Watson 3. Saeed Ajmal 4. Aravinda De Silva 5. Joe Root 6. Angelo Matthews 7. Jos Buttler 8. Gillespie 9.Dhawan 10.Andre Russell 11. Junaid Khan 12. M. Prabhakar
  8. PaulScholes18: 1. Kumar Sangakara 2. Sehwag 3. Holding 4. Rohit Sharma 5. A Mendis 6. Eoin Morgan 7. James Faulkner 8. Du Plessis 9. Carl Rackemann 10. K. Pollard 11. Hafeez 12. AJ Hall
  9. Boycott: 1. Waqar Younis 2. Ganguly 3. Malinga 4. Walsh 5. Gibbs 6. Ross Taylor 7. Q. De Kock 8. Damien Martyn 9. Hogg 10. Agarkar 11. Saleem Malik 12. Steve Tikolo
  10. MJJ - Akash: 1. Imran Khan 2. Lara 3.Pietersen 4. Steyn 5. Steve Smith 6. Maxwell 7. D.Gough 8. Fleming 9.Tahir 10. P. Patterson 11. Kaluwitharana 12. Bermudan Whale
  11. Crappy: 1. Jacques Kallis 2. Shane Warne 3. Shoaib Akhtar 4. Saeed Anwar 5. Chris Cairns 6. Graeme Smith 7. Clive Lloyd 8. Carl Hooper 9. Brendan Taylor 10. Irfan Pathan 11. Damien Fleming 12. Craig McMillan
  12. The Red Viper: 1. Pollock 2. Klusener 3. Michael Hussey 4. Desmond Haynes 5. Greg Chappell 6. Vettori 7. Trescothick 8. Srinath 9. Bob Willis 10. Arjuna Ranatunga 11. Mushfiqur Rahim 12. Roger Harper
  13. Skizzo: 1. Murali 2. Jayasuriya 3. Gayle 4. Inzamam 5. McDermott 6. Rhodes 7. J. Trott 8. Rod Marsh 9. Tim Southee 10. Dwayne Bravo 11. Tsosobe 12. O'Brien
  14. NM -Prath: 1. MS Dhoni 2. Virat Kohli 3. Flintoff 4. Andy Roberts 5. Kirsten 6. Shakib Al Hasan 7. Chanderpaul 8. Bracken 9. O'Donnel 10. Allan Lamb 11. Ray Price 12. Malik
  15. Skills: 1. Ricky Ponting 2. Kapil Dev 3. Saqlain Mushtaq 4. Andy Flower 5. Azharuddin 6. Ntini 7. Nathan Astle 8. Ian Bishop 9. Atapattu 10. M. Samuels 11. Pringle 12. Aaron Finch
  16. Samid: 1. Joel Garner 2. Michael Bevan 3. Gordon Greenidge 4. Zaheer Abbas 5. Abdul Qadir 6. Martin Crowe 7. Zaheer Khan 8. Morne Morkel 9. Ravindra Jadeja 10. Paul Collingwood 11. Thisara Perera 12. Brad Haddin
 

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1. Dilshan
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3. Gautam Gambhir
4. S. Waugh
5. AB De Villiers
6. Jean-Paul Duminy
7. Razzaq
8. R. Ashwin
9. Brett Lee
10. Kyle Mills
11. Curtly Ambrose

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Le Chuck vs TMH:

7 Match Series: TMH won 6-1. Chuck's team often built a very solid platform but had no one to come in and really take advantage of it. Dippenaar and Gambhir with centuries.

1000 Match Sim: TMH - 232/7, Chuck - 219/6. Chuck could really use another pinch hitter.
For some reason I thought TMH was the manager.
 

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  1. Harshad - TMH: 1. AB De Villiers 2. Curtly Ambrose 3. Brett Lee 4. S. Waugh 5. Dilshan 6. Guptill 7. Razzaq 8. Kyle Mills 9. Gautam Gambhir 10. Jean-Paul Duminy 11. R. Ashwin
  2. Aldo-Varun: 1. S Tendulkar 2. Shane Bond 3. Yuvraj Singh 4. Mark Waugh 5. Andrew Symonds 6. Streak 7. M Boucher 8. Umar Gul 9. Younis Khan 10. Larsen 11. Ian Bell
  3. Edgar Allan Pillow: 1.Viv Richards 2. R. Hadlee 3. Dean Jones 4. M.Marshall 5. Dravid 6. G Swann 7. A Jadeja 8. G flower 9. G Marsh 10. C Harris 11. Aaqib Javed 12. B McMillan
  4. RedTiger - LeChuck: 1.A Gilchrist 2. Hashim Amla 3. J Miandad 4. Vaas 5. Kumble 6. Mitchell Johnson 7. R Sarwan 8. Misbah 9. S Styris 10. Stuart Broad 11. Boeta Dippenaar 12. J Franklin
  5. VP: 1. Wasim Akram 2. D. Lillee 3. Brendon McCullum 4. Michael Clarke 5. Afridi 6. Mahela 7. Botham 8. Harbhajan Singh 9. S. Gavaskar 10. Gooch 11. Richie Richardson 12. D. Cullinan
  6. Mani - Ijazz17: 1. Glenn McGrath 2. Hayden 3. Mohammed Yousuf 4. Alec Stewart 5. Kane Williamson 6.H.Cronje 7. J. Anderson 8. Raina 9. Jacob Oram 10. Fanie Di Villiers 11. Mushtaq Ahmed 12. Russel Arnold
  7. KM: 1. Allan Donald 2. Shane Watson 3. Saeed Ajmal 4. Aravinda De Silva 5. Joe Root 6. Angelo Matthews 7. Jos Buttler 8. Gillespie 9.Dhawan 10.Andre Russell 11. Junaid Khan 12. M. Prabhakar
  8. PaulScholes18: 1. Kumar Sangakara 2. Sehwag 3. Holding 4. Rohit Sharma 5. A Mendis 6. Eoin Morgan 7. James Faulkner 8. Du Plessis 9. Carl Rackemann 10. K. Pollard 11. Hafeez 12. AJ Hall
  9. Boycott: 1. Waqar Younis 2. Ganguly 3. Malinga 4. Walsh 5. Gibbs 6. Ross Taylor 7. Q. De Kock 8. Damien Martyn 9. Hogg 10. Agarkar 11. Saleem Malik 12. Steve Tikolo
  10. MJJ - Akash: 1. Imran Khan 2. Lara 3.Pietersen 4. Steyn 5. Steve Smith 6. Maxwell 7. D.Gough 8. Fleming 9.Tahir 10. P. Patterson 11. Kaluwitharana 12. Bermudan Whale
  11. Crappy: 1. Jacques Kallis 2. Shane Warne 3. Shoaib Akhtar 4. Saeed Anwar 5. Chris Cairns 6. Graeme Smith 7. Clive Lloyd 8. Carl Hooper 9. Brendan Taylor 10. Irfan Pathan 11. Damien Fleming 12. Craig McMillan
  12. The Red Viper: 1. Pollock 2. Klusener 3. Michael Hussey 4. Desmond Haynes 5. Greg Chappell 6. Vettori 7. Trescothick 8. Srinath 9. Bob Willis 10. Arjuna Ranatunga 11. Mushfiqur Rahim 12. Roger Harper
  13. Skizzo: 1. Murali 2. Jayasuriya 3. Gayle 4. Inzamam 5. McDermott 6. Rhodes 7. J. Trott 8. Rod Marsh 9. Tim Southee 10. Dwayne Bravo 11. Tsosobe 12. O'Brien
  14. NM -Prath: 1. MS Dhoni 2. Virat Kohli 3. Flintoff 4. Andy Roberts 5. Kirsten 6. Shakib Al Hasan 7. Chanderpaul 8. Bracken 9. O'Donnel 10. Allan Lamb 11. Ray Price 12. Malik
  15. Skills: 1. Ricky Ponting 2. Kapil Dev 3. Saqlain Mushtaq 4. Andy Flower 5. Azharuddin 6. Ntini 7. Nathan Astle 8. Ian Bishop 9. Atapattu 10. M. Samuels 11. Pringle 12. Aaron Finch
  16. Samid: 1. Joel Garner 2. Michael Bevan 3. Gordon Greenidge 4. Zaheer Abbas 5. Abdul Qadir 6. Martin Crowe 7. Zaheer Khan 8. Morne Morkel 9. Ravindra Jadeja 10. Paul Collingwood 11. Thisara Perera 12. Brad Haddin
 

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  1. Harshad - TMH: 1. AB De Villiers 2. Curtly Ambrose 3. Brett Lee 4. S. Waugh 5. Dilshan 6. Guptill 7. Razzaq 8. Kyle Mills 9. Gautam Gambhir 10. Jean-Paul Duminy 11. R. Ashwin
  2. Aldo-Varun: 1. S Tendulkar 2. Shane Bond 3. Yuvraj Singh 4. Mark Waugh 5. Andrew Symonds 6. Streak 7. M Boucher 8. Umar Gul 9. Younis Khan 10. Larsen 11. Ian Bell 12. David Miller
  3. Edgar Allan Pillow: 1.Viv Richards 2. R. Hadlee 3. Dean Jones 4. M.Marshall 5. Dravid 6. G Swann 7. A Jadeja 8. G flower 9. G Marsh 10. C Harris 11. Aaqib Javed 12. B McMillan
  4. RedTiger - LeChuck: 1.A Gilchrist 2. Hashim Amla 3. J Miandad 4. Vaas 5. Kumble 6. Mitchell Johnson 7. R Sarwan 8. Misbah 9. S Styris 10. Stuart Broad 11. Boeta Dippenaar 12. J Franklin
  5. VP: 1. Wasim Akram 2. D. Lillee 3. Brendon McCullum 4. Michael Clarke 5. Afridi 6. Mahela 7. Botham 8. Harbhajan Singh 9. S. Gavaskar 10. Gooch 11. Richie Richardson 12. D. Cullinan
  6. Mani - Ijazz17: 1. Glenn McGrath 2. Hayden 3. Mohammed Yousuf 4. Alec Stewart 5. Kane Williamson 6.H.Cronje 7. J. Anderson 8. Raina 9. Jacob Oram 10. Fanie Di Villiers 11. Mushtaq Ahmed 12. Russel Arnold
  7. KM: 1. Allan Donald 2. Shane Watson 3. Saeed Ajmal 4. Aravinda De Silva 5. Joe Root 6. Angelo Matthews 7. Jos Buttler 8. Gillespie 9.Dhawan 10.Andre Russell 11. Junaid Khan 12. M. Prabhakar
  8. PaulScholes18: 1. Kumar Sangakara 2. Sehwag 3. Holding 4. Rohit Sharma 5. A Mendis 6. Eoin Morgan 7. James Faulkner 8. Du Plessis 9. Carl Rackemann 10. K. Pollard 11. Hafeez 12. AJ Hall
  9. Boycott: 1. Waqar Younis 2. Ganguly 3. Malinga 4. Walsh 5. Gibbs 6. Ross Taylor 7. Q. De Kock 8. Damien Martyn 9. Hogg 10. Agarkar 11. Saleem Malik 12. Steve Tikolo
  10. MJJ - Akash: 1. Imran Khan 2. Lara 3.Pietersen 4. Steyn 5. Steve Smith 6. Maxwell 7. D.Gough 8. Fleming 9.Tahir 10. P. Patterson 11. Kaluwitharana 12. Bermudan Whale
  11. Crappy: 1. Jacques Kallis 2. Shane Warne 3. Shoaib Akhtar 4. Saeed Anwar 5. Chris Cairns 6. Graeme Smith 7. Clive Lloyd 8. Carl Hooper 9. Brendan Taylor 10. Irfan Pathan 11. Damien Fleming 12. Craig McMillan
  12. The Red Viper: 1. Pollock 2. Klusener 3. Michael Hussey 4. Desmond Haynes 5. Greg Chappell 6. Vettori 7. Trescothick 8. Srinath 9. Bob Willis 10. Arjuna Ranatunga 11. Mushfiqur Rahim 12. Roger Harper
  13. Skizzo: 1. Murali 2. Jayasuriya 3. Gayle 4. Inzamam 5. McDermott 6. Rhodes 7. J. Trott 8. Rod Marsh 9. Tim Southee 10. Dwayne Bravo 11. Tsosobe 12. O'Brien
  14. NM -Prath: 1. MS Dhoni 2. Virat Kohli 3. Flintoff 4. Andy Roberts 5. Kirsten 6. Shakib Al Hasan 7. Chanderpaul 8. Bracken 9. O'Donnel 10. Allan Lamb 11. Ray Price 12. Malik
  15. Skills: 1. Ricky Ponting 2. Kapil Dev 3. Saqlain Mushtaq 4. Andy Flower 5. Azharuddin 6. Ntini 7. Nathan Astle 8. Ian Bishop 9. Atapattu 10. M. Samuels 11. Pringle 12. Aaron Finch
  16. Samid: 1. Joel Garner 2. Michael Bevan 3. Gordon Greenidge 4. Zaheer Abbas 5. Abdul Qadir 6. Martin Crowe 7. Zaheer Khan 8. Morne Morkel 9. Ravindra Jadeja 10. Paul Collingwood 11. Thisara Perera 12. Brad Haddin
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  1. Harshad - TMH: 1. AB De Villiers 2. Curtly Ambrose 3. Brett Lee 4. S. Waugh 5. Dilshan 6. Guptill 7. Razzaq 8. Kyle Mills 9. Gautam Gambhir 10. Jean-Paul Duminy 11. R. Ashwin 12. Upul Chandana
  2. Aldo-Varun: 1. S Tendulkar 2. Shane Bond 3. Yuvraj Singh 4. Mark Waugh 5. Andrew Symonds 6. Streak 7. M Boucher 8. Umar Gul 9. Younis Khan 10. Larsen 11. Ian Bell 12. David Miller
  3. Edgar Allan Pillow: 1.Viv Richards 2. R. Hadlee 3. Dean Jones 4. M.Marshall 5. Dravid 6. G Swann 7. A Jadeja 8. G flower 9. G Marsh 10. C Harris 11. Aaqib Javed 12. B McMillan
  4. RedTiger - LeChuck: 1.A Gilchrist 2. Hashim Amla 3. J Miandad 4. Vaas 5. Kumble 6. Mitchell Johnson 7. R Sarwan 8. Misbah 9. S Styris 10. Stuart Broad 11. Boeta Dippenaar 12. J Franklin
  5. VP: 1. Wasim Akram 2. D. Lillee 3. Brendon McCullum 4. Michael Clarke 5. Afridi 6. Mahela 7. Botham 8. Harbhajan Singh 9. S. Gavaskar 10. Gooch 11. Richie Richardson 12. D. Cullinan
  6. Mani - Ijazz17: 1. Glenn McGrath 2. Hayden 3. Mohammed Yousuf 4. Alec Stewart 5. Kane Williamson 6.H.Cronje 7. J. Anderson 8. Raina 9. Jacob Oram 10. Fanie Di Villiers 11. Mushtaq Ahmed 12. Russel Arnold
  7. KM: 1. Allan Donald 2. Shane Watson 3. Saeed Ajmal 4. Aravinda De Silva 5. Joe Root 6. Angelo Matthews 7. Jos Buttler 8. Gillespie 9.Dhawan 10.Andre Russell 11. Junaid Khan 12. M. Prabhakar
  8. PaulScholes18: 1. Kumar Sangakara 2. Sehwag 3. Holding 4. Rohit Sharma 5. A Mendis 6. Eoin Morgan 7. James Faulkner 8. Du Plessis 9. Carl Rackemann 10. K. Pollard 11. Hafeez 12. AJ Hall
  9. Boycott: 1. Waqar Younis 2. Ganguly 3. Malinga 4. Walsh 5. Gibbs 6. Ross Taylor 7. Q. De Kock 8. Damien Martyn 9. Hogg 10. Agarkar 11. Saleem Malik 12. Steve Tikolo
  10. MJJ - Akash: 1. Imran Khan 2. Lara 3.Pietersen 4. Steyn 5. Steve Smith 6. Maxwell 7. D.Gough 8. Fleming 9.Tahir 10. P. Patterson 11. Kaluwitharana 12. Bermudan Whale
  11. Crappy: 1. Jacques Kallis 2. Shane Warne 3. Shoaib Akhtar 4. Saeed Anwar 5. Chris Cairns 6. Graeme Smith 7. Clive Lloyd 8. Carl Hooper 9. Brendan Taylor 10. Irfan Pathan 11. Damien Fleming 12. Craig McMillan
  12. The Red Viper: 1. Pollock 2. Klusener 3. Michael Hussey 4. Desmond Haynes 5. Greg Chappell 6. Vettori 7. Trescothick 8. Srinath 9. Bob Willis 10. Arjuna Ranatunga 11. Mushfiqur Rahim 12. Roger Harper
  13. Skizzo: 1. Murali 2. Jayasuriya 3. Gayle 4. Inzamam 5. McDermott 6. Rhodes 7. J. Trott 8. Rod Marsh 9. Tim Southee 10. Dwayne Bravo 11. Tsosobe 12. O'Brien
  14. NM -Prath: 1. MS Dhoni 2. Virat Kohli 3. Flintoff 4. Andy Roberts 5. Kirsten 6. Shakib Al Hasan 7. Chanderpaul 8. Bracken 9. O'Donnel 10. Allan Lamb 11. Ray Price 12. Malik
  15. Skills: 1. Ricky Ponting 2. Kapil Dev 3. Saqlain Mushtaq 4. Andy Flower 5. Azharuddin 6. Ntini 7. Nathan Astle 8. Ian Bishop 9. Atapattu 10. M. Samuels 11. Pringle 12. Aaron Finch
  16. Samid: 1. Joel Garner 2. Michael Bevan 3. Gordon Greenidge 4. Zaheer Abbas 5. Abdul Qadir 6. Martin Crowe 7. Zaheer Khan 8. Morne Morkel 9. Ravindra Jadeja 10. Paul Collingwood 11. Thisara Perera 12. Brad Haddin
 

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We'll use the same venues as the test draft because I can't be arsed to change anything.

1. Melbourne
2. Colombo
3. Kolkata
4. Karachi
5. Barbados
6. Lords
7. Cape Town
8. Wellington

https://www.random.org/sequences/?min=1&max=16&col=2&format=html&rnd=new

Your numbers are in the OP (i.e. the order of your draft pick - so 1. TMH-Harshad 2. Aldo-Varun).

The venues are assigned according to the order the pairs come out. So the first pair get Melbourne, second pair get Colombo etc.

I also can't be arsed with individual tosses for each match, so whoever's number comes out first in a pair has won the toss.

Get some poor neutral fecker to click on that link for us, and post the results once the drafting is finished.
@Donaldo could you help us with this?

Or any other neutral reading this for that matter.
 

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Surprised no one went for Sunil Narine. One heck of an average and Econ, even if it was with an illegal action.
 

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KM vs PaulScholes @ Melbourne
Skills vs MJJ @ Colombo
Harshad vs VP @ Kolkata
NM vs EAP @ Karachi
Red Viper vs Crappy @ Barbados
Skizzo vs RedTiger @ Lords
Boycott vs Samid @ Cape Town
Mani vs Aldo @ Wellington

Home teams have won all the tosses.
 

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The Red Viper I think was very close to picking Narine but got a bit scared because of the reaction to Hafeez.