A T20 draft...cricket_icon & swacker's picks

[Aislabie]

Left-handed opening batsman Imran Farhat has hitting power to burn, although he has yet to prove himself on the biggest stage. One of many Pakistani players to have missed out on the IPL, he has had a chance to play instead for the likes of Lashings in England, and Uthura Rudras in Sri Lanka, and has excelled in such places. Most notably, he hit eleven consecutive sixes for the Lashings. He wouldn't be close to my first five Pakistani picks, but hopefully he can give my team a fact start.

Imran Farhat
Lahore, Pakistan, Uthura Rudras

MATCHES: 34

RUNS: 958
AVERAGE: 29.03
STRIKE RATE: 148.29
BEST: 115​

Imran Farhat
Graeme Hick
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Adam Hollioake is my English pick, write-up coming after I've had lunch.

 

[sifter132]

Swacker's up next, then me.

Just to finish off our Pakistan round, here's a few more players that weren't picked but are possibly worthy of mention:

*Abdur Rehman - The current left arm spinner for Pakistan. Tidy bowler with an economy rate below 7 at all levels of T20.

*Shoaib Malik - His international record looks a bit average now, but he was playing well up until 2009 when he got sacked as captain. Since then he's only been in the team randomly and has understandably lost a bit of confidence. Has always done well for Sialkot Stallions (he averages 61 for them over 41 games), captaining them to quite a few titles.

*Yasir Arafat - Very experienced T20 pace bowler who can contribute handy runs down the order. Has played a lot in England and in a few other leagues around the world.


And a couple of 'questionable' players, but worth noting their T20 abilities:

*Mohammad Amir - A talented left arm pace bowler, currently banned from cricket for bowling no-balls for money. Most of his T20 was played at international level, averaging just under 20 with the ball.

*Danish Kaneria - Opposite to Amir, a leg spinner who never played a T20I for Pakistan, instead playing most of his T20 at Essex in the English leagues. Currently banned for match fixing.

 

[Aoun13]

Didn't pick Aamir or Asif only because they don't deserve in any World XI.

 

[Bevab]

I was considering picking Malik, before I opted for Misbah.

 

[swacker]

Ryan Sidebottom, writing will be up soon.

 

[sifter132]

Marcus Trescothick

Trescothick has only played 3 T20Is for England because of personal issues, but he did very well in those matches, scoring 2 half centuries. He also had a very successful ODI and Test career, so there should be no question of his ability.

But it's his work for Somerset though that makes him one of the best T20 batsmen. The stats show he averages just under 35 with a strike rate of 157 in domestic T20s, a remarkable record. To underline that statement, Trescothick is only the 5th batsman to have scored over 2000 domestic T20 runs at a strike rate better than 150. Only 2 of those 5 have averages over 30. Any guesses for who my 2 openers are???

Doesn't go the aeriel route quite as often as some other openers, but he's good at spanking the ball through the gaps in the field from his upright stance and does it often enough to have a very high scoring rate.

Format | Matches | Innings | Runs | Highest Score | Average | Strikerate | 50s/100s T20I | 3 | 3 | 166 | 72 | 55.33 | 126.71 | 2/0 T20 | 68 | 67 | 2139 | 108* | 34.50| 157.16 | 17/2

1 Chris Gayle
2 Marcus Trescothick
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5 Umar Akmal (wk)
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10 Ajantha Mendis
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[Gaurav_7]

Gun pick that, Sifter.

 

[Bevab]

That was a nice pick there.

 

[Andrin Issac]

DRAFT ORDER:

Round 1: Any nation
farhan ahmed - Yuvraj Singh (India)
send2yaari - Shahid Afridi (Pakistan)
Andrin Issac- Virat Kohli (India)
sifter132 - Chris Gayle (West Indies)
User2010 - David Warner (Australia)
Fenil - Shane Watson (Australia)
The Author - Shane Warne (Australia)
swacker - Eoin Morgan (England)
Sedition - Brendon McCullum (New Zealand)
Bevab - Lasith Malinga (Sri Lanka)
cricket_icon - Umar Gul (Pakistan)

Round 2: Any nation
cricket_icon - Saeed Ajmal (Pakistan)
Bevab - Matthew Hayden (Australia)
Sedition - Sunil Narine (West Indies)
swacker - Cameron White (Australia)
The Author - Graeme Hick (England)
Fenil - Kevin Pietersen (England)
User2010 - Andrew Symonds (Australia)
sifter132 - Ajantha Mendis (Sri Lanka)
Andrin Issac - Gautam Gambhir (India)
send2yaari - Graeme Swann (England)
farhan ahmed - Virender Sehwag (India)

Round 3: Pakistan
User2010 - Azhar Mahmood
Fenil - Abdul Razzaq
Sedition - Rana Naved-ul-Hasan
cricket_icon - Imran Nazir
Bevab - Misbah-ul-Haq
send2yaari - Kamran Akmal
farhan ahmed - Mohammad Yousuf
Andrin Issac - Mohammad Hafeez
sifter132 - Umar Akmal
swacker - Sohail Tanvir
The Author - Imran Farhat

Round 4: England
The Author - Adam Hollioake
swacker - Ryan Sidebottom
sifter132 - Marcus Trescothick
Andrin Issac-Jonathan Trott
farhan ahmed
send2yaari
Bevab
cricket_icon
Sedition
Fenil
User2010

Round 5: West Indies
Sedition
farhan ahmed
send2yaari
The Author
swacker
User2010
Fenil
Bevab
cricket_icon
Andrin Issac
sifter132

Round 6: New Zealand
sifter132
Andrin Issac
cricket_icon
Bevab
Fenil
User2010
swacker
The Author
send2yaari
farhan ahmed
Sedition

Round 7: India
swacker
The Author
Bevab
cricket_icon
Andrin Issac
sifter132
Sedition
farhan ahmed
send2yaari
User2010
Fenil

Round 8: Australia
Fenil
User2010
send2yaari
farhan ahmed
Sedition
sifter132
Andrin Issac
cricket_icon
Bevab
The Author
swacker

Round 9: Sri Lanka
send2yaari
farhan ahmed
User2010
Fenil
Sedition
Andrin Issac
sifter132
swacker
The Author
cricket_icon
Bevab

Round 10: Minnows (Bangladesh, Zimbabwe, Ireland, Netherlands etc.)
Bevab
cricket_icon
The Author
swacker
sifter132
Andrin Issac
Sedition
Fenil
User2010
farhan ahmed
send2yaari

Round 11: South Africa
Andrin Issac
sifter132
swacker
The Author
Bevab
cricket_icon
farhan ahmed
send2yaari
User2010
Fenil
Sedition

Round 12: 12th man, coach, home ground and team name (can be from any nation)
Sedition
Fenil
User2010
send2yaari
farhan ahmed
cricket_icon
Bevab
The Author
swacker
sifter132
Andrin Issac

Full name Ian Jonathan Leonard Trott

Born April 22, 1981, Cape Town, Cape Province

Current age 31 years 121 days

Major teams England, Boland, England Lions, Otago, South Africa Under-15s, South Africa Under-19s, Warwickshire, Western Province

Nickname Booger,Trotters

Playing role Top-order batsman

Batting style Right-hand bat

Bowling style Right-arm medium

Height 6 ft 0 in

Education Stellenbosch University

Relation Half-brother - KC Jackson



Batting and fielding averages
Mat Inns NO Runs HS Ave BF SR 100 50 4s 6s Ct St
Tests 34 59 6 2676 226 50.49 5626 47.56 7 12 302 0 12 0
ODIs 50 48 6 2066 137 49.19 2709 76.26 3 17 161 2 12 0
T20Is 7 7 1 138 51 23.00 144 95.83 0 1 9 3 0 0
First-class 186 311 36 12343 226 44.88 29 60 163 0
List A 215 201 37 7590 137 46.28 14 52 66 0
Twenty20 77 72 16 2082 86* 37.17 1812 114.90 0 13 215 32 18 0


1.Gautam Gambhir
2.Mohammad Hafeez
3.Virat Kohli
4.Jonathan Trott
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[Fenil]

Do some write-up Adrin rather than copy-pasting the cricinfo profile page of Trott.

 

[cricket_icon]

I'm still waiting and a couple of names for England, which I wanted, have been taken. Damn you all!

Trott and Tresco class, sadly Tresco can't travel abroad or has depression, I forget. There's one name I really want....please don't pick him.

 

[sifter132]

I was considering picking Malik, before I opted for Misbah.

Yeah I had a good look at him too, but in the end having Umar Akmal as a keeping option made more sense that having Shoaib Malik's bowling. Interesting picking Misbah over Malik, since those 2 have interwoven fates ie. if Misbah had executed that scoop shot in the last over of the 2007 World T20 final and Pakistan had won, then Malik (and coach Geoff Lawson) would probably have been leading for longer and Malik's career might have looked a lot better.

Do some write-up Adrin rather than copy-pasting the cricinfo profile page of Trott.

Yes Andrin we'd love to read some more personalised thoughts about your picks. Just a little bit about why your player is special, what you like about him or one of his best matches/achievements. If you don't know, here's your chance to do some research and find out something new

And it looks like you've got your top order sorted - top 4 already


We've also got a supersub to announce: Stinky is stepping in for Sedition - so watch out everyone, master drafter in the house

 

[farhan ahmed]

DRAFT ORDER:

Round 1: Any nation
farhan ahmed - Yuvraj Singh (India)
send2yaari - Shahid Afridi (Pakistan)
Andrin Issac- Virat Kohli (India)
sifter132 - Chris Gayle (West Indies)
User2010 - David Warner (Australia)
Fenil - Shane Watson (Australia)
The Author - Shane Warne (Australia)
swacker - Eoin Morgan (England)
Sedition - Brendon McCullum (New Zealand)
Bevab - Lasith Malinga (Sri Lanka)
cricket_icon - Umar Gul (Pakistan)

Round 2: Any nation
cricket_icon - Saeed Ajmal (Pakistan)
Bevab - Matthew Hayden (Australia)
Sedition - Sunil Narine (West Indies)
swacker - Cameron White (Australia)
The Author - Graeme Hick (England)
Fenil - Kevin Pietersen (England)
User2010 - Andrew Symonds (Australia)
sifter132 - Ajantha Mendis (Sri Lanka)
Andrin Issac - Gautam Gambhir (India)
send2yaari - Graeme Swann (England)
farhan ahmed - Virender Sehwag (India)

Round 3: Pakistan
User2010 - Azhar Mahmood
Fenil - Abdul Razzaq
Sedition - Rana Naved-ul-Hasan
cricket_icon - Imran Nazir
Bevab - Misbah-ul-Haq
send2yaari - Kamran Akmal
farhan ahmed - Mohammad Yousuf
Andrin Issac - Mohammad Hafeez
sifter132 - Umar Akmal
swacker - Sohail Tanvir
The Author - Imran Farhat

Round 4: England
The Author - Adam Hollioake
swacker - Ryan Sidebottom
sifter132 - Marcus Trescothick
Andrin Issac-Jonathan Trott
farhan ahmed-andrew cook
send2yaari
Bevab
cricket_icon
Sedition
Fenil
User2010

Round 5: West Indies
Sedition
farhan ahmed
send2yaari
The Author
swacker
User2010
Fenil
Bevab
cricket_icon
Andrin Issac
sifter132

Round 6: New Zealand
sifter132
Andrin Issac
cricket_icon
Bevab
Fenil
User2010
swacker
The Author
send2yaari
farhan ahmed
Sedition

Round 7: India
swacker
The Author
Bevab
cricket_icon
Andrin Issac
sifter132
Sedition
farhan ahmed
send2yaari
User2010
Fenil

Round 8: Australia
Fenil
User2010
send2yaari
farhan ahmed
Sedition
sifter132
Andrin Issac
cricket_icon
Bevab
The Author
swacker

Round 9: Sri Lanka
send2yaari
farhan ahmed
User2010
Fenil
Sedition
Andrin Issac
sifter132
swacker
The Author
cricket_icon
Bevab

Round 10: Minnows (Bangladesh, Zimbabwe, Ireland, Netherlands etc.)
Bevab
cricket_icon
The Author
swacker
sifter132
Andrin Issac
Sedition
Fenil
User2010
farhan ahmed
send2yaari

Round 11: South Africa
Andrin Issac
sifter132
swacker
The Author
Bevab
cricket_icon
farhan ahmed
send2yaari
User2010
Fenil
Sedition

Round 12: 12th man, coach, home ground and team name (can be from any nation)
Sedition
Fenil
User2010
send2yaari
farhan ahmed
cricket_icon
Bevab
The Author
swacker
sifter132
Andrin Issac

 

[Bevab]

This guy's Cook, right?

 

[Andrin Issac]

Buhahahahaha......Andrew Cook who is he ???