A Leftie's draft

[Aoun13]

@ Dare I guess player like Lloyd must be in every team, we always talk about batsmen who bat brilliantly through out there career but was not as good team man as Lloyd was.

 

[Iridium]

Don't get your hopes up is all I'll say. I doubt he'll be able to make his pick within the 24 hour limit.

I'll wait for him to make his pick unless sifter says otherwise.

 

[Dare]

@ Dare I guess player like Lloyd must be in every team, we always talk about batsmen who bat brilliantly through out there career but was not as good team man as Lloyd was.

True Lloyd was the reason for that great team but you arent building a team on personality but skills. No matter Lloyd is still a great batsman to start your team with. Probably the best captain available.

 

[sifter132]

I'll wait for him to make his pick unless sifter says otherwise.

Well what if we just swap Iridium and Cricketman in the order? You make one pick now Iridium, then we'll give Cricketman 24 hours after you pick to get his act together and get settled back in after his flight. Then if he hasn't shown you can make a 2nd pick and we'll work out what happens from there. Sound cool?

 

[shravi]

Well what if we just swap Iridium and Cricketman in the order? You make one pick now Iridium, then we'll give Cricketman 24 hours after you pick to get his act together and get settled back in after his flight. Then if he hasn't shown you can make a 2nd pick and we'll work out what happens from there. Sound cool?

I say just wait for the 24 hour limit to be over. It's 8:11am in India at the moment. It's possible that he will make the pick later on in the day.

 

[sifter132]

I'll give him the extra time by letting him make a double pick after iridium. I've changed the order on the first page. Anyway, at least we know he's not far away

 

[drainpipe32]

^Well guys I'm gonna pick the man who you could argue as being the greatest left armer ever - he just he didn't play in the era of TV or media hype. Ohh controversial statement I know

Alan Davidson

Davo, as he was known played in the late 50s and early 60s and has the best average of any left arm paceman in history - 20.53. In fact it's even better when you consider than after a fairly slow start to his career he averaged 19.25 during his last 6 or 7 years Alan Davidson 1956-1963. He was great in all conditions too, England, SA, India, Pakistan, West Indies - all averaging below 25 and most below 20 in that amazing period. Davidson had exceptional control allowing an economy rate of just under 2 RPO for his career! He wasn't of express pace, but was sharp enough and was renowned for his late swing well before the Wasim/Waqar show got fired up. On top of all that, he could bat quite well, often coming in at #7 for Australia and he was a good catcher too taking almost 1 catch per Test close to the wicket. In short, a fantastic all-round cricketer who has been very underrated by history. Personally I think he and Wasim are almost inseparable when arguing who might be the greatest left arm bowler ever. Cue the arguments

Sribabu would be proud

 

[Iridium]

I know there are better first picks to make, but I can't resist...

Adam Gilchrist

With 17 centuries to his name (the most of any wicketkeeper batsmen) and a strike rate of 81.95, this is testament to his aggressive playing style. Regarded as one of the best wicketkeeper-batmen in the game, his aggressive style of strokeplay could turn a competitive total into a match winning score. All this he did and yet still managed to maintain a batting average of 47.60, unusually high for a keeper-batsmen.

As a keeper, there were others who were better than him in this regard, but it doesn't mean he was a slouch behind the stumps. He kept wicket for Warne for many years, pulling off stumpings and kept byes to a minimum. He briefly held the record for the most dismissals in Test cricket and is now second on the all-time list, behind Mark Boucher and ahead of his predecessor Ian Healy.

 

[drainpipe32]

Top pick, averaged 50 for most of his career as well.

 

[shravi]

I know there are better first picks to make, but I can't resist...

Nah, good keeper-batsmen are scarce. Smart pick.

 

[drainpipe32]

Ravi Ratnayake

I'm going to his house tonight :laugh

 

[McLOVIN]

No offense but these drafts are such a waste of time. No point in this whats so ever. Ok you all take turns to pick players. whoop dee doo! Then what happens? What are you gonna do with these XI? :sarcasm

We had like bunch of these in the past.

 

[mattfb]

I was going to pick Gilchrist tbh, quality keeper. But I couldn't really go past Lara or Akram.

mattfb added 0 Minutes and 22 Seconds later...

No offense but these drafts are such a waste of time. No point in this whats so ever. Ok you all take turns to pick players. whoop dee doo! Then what happens? What are you gonna do with these XI? :sarcasm

We had like bunch of these in the past.

Ok, so you don't like it. Cool. Now you can leave.

 

[shravi]

I guess you said the same thing about English class huh. What's the point?

 

[McLOVIN]

Ok, so you don't like it. Cool. Now you can leave.

No it's not about whether I like it or not. I just want to know what's the point of it.