All Time ODI Cricket Draft <---Shravis uppp

[Cricketman]

I've got a couple of guys in mind. I think it'll be a pretty good attack.

 

[StinkyBoHoon]

while I know Bevan was the ultimate no.6 in ODIs, you'd play him above Bravo surely?

 

[Cricketman]

I'm pretty certain who Shravi is going to pick to finish off his batsman. I've had him on my mind for a while but didn't know how to fit him in, plus I needed a 5th bowler.

Cricketman added 3 Minutes and 5 Seconds later...

while I know Bevan was the ultimate no.6 in ODIs, you'd play him above Bravo surely?

Although Bravo is a floater, he does predominantly bat at number 5 for the Windies. He's shown some consistency in that position also, with an average of 37 in 22 innings. Plus you cannot really dislodge Bevo from #6.

 

[shravi]

Martin Crowe was New Zealand's greatest ever batsman. He had massive talent and unlike many other batsmen in New Zealand's history, he fulfilled it. For example, he made the highest number of runs in the 1992 Cricket World Cup, which New Zealand had dominated. Crowe played an attacking style of cricket, taking full advantage of the fielding restrictions in ODIs. In 143 matches (140 innings), he scored 4704 runs at an average of 39 with 4 centuries and 34 fifties. He wasn't too shabby with the ball either. In 216 overs, he took 29 wickets at an average of 33 and at an economy rate of 4.41 and a strike rate of 44.6. That of course, isn't his job in my team but I suppose he could bowl one or two overs every now and then.

Matthew Hayden (AUSTRALIA)
+ Adam Gilchrist (AUSTRALIA)
Mohammad Azharuddin (INDIA)
Mohamamd Yousuf (PAKISTAN)
Martin Crowe (NEW ZEALAND)
Javed Miandad (PAKISTAN)
Kapil Dev (INDIA)
8
Andy Roberts (WEST INDIES)
Dennis Lillee (AUSTRALIA)
Saqlain Mushtaq (PAKISTAN)

 

[sifter132]

while I know Bevan was the ultimate no.6 in ODIs, you'd play him above Bravo surely?

I'd hope so. Bravo's batting record is pretty mediocre. In fact he might even be batting at #8 if you are going by his record. Boucher's is definitely better and you could argue Shaun Pollock's been better too.

 

[TumTum]

In the future we should make an available time-zone rounds, so that it doesn't take this long to make picks.

Like:
1- Tumtum 0000GMT - 1200GMT
2- Gazza 0500GMT - 1200GMT (he has school )
3- hMarka 1000GMT - 2400GMT
etc.

 

[sifter132]

Yeah I like that idea. If you had it right you could run a round every 24 hours. The only trouble is the same guy would pick first every day so you'd have to change the order at some point to make it fair for the guys who picked later in the earlier rounds.

 

[TumTum]

Yeah I like that idea. If you had it right you could run a round every 24 hours. The only trouble is the same guy would pick first every day so you'd have to change the order at some point to make it fair for the guys who picked later in the earlier rounds.

We could shuffle the order, and it will only cause minimal delay.

Like I go to the bottom at the 2nd round and the rest move up by one. That way the time-zones would still be in the correct order.

 

[pcfan123]

It just depends on the activity of the people involved. Just look at KPs draft, we had no special rules and it finished in a week simply due to the participants being active.

 

[drainpipe32]

In the future we should make an available time-zone rounds, so that it doesn't take this long to make picks.

Like:
1- Tumtum 0000GMT - 1200GMT
2- Gazza 0500GMT - 1200GMT (he has school )
3- hMarka 1000GMT - 2400GMT
etc.

Bitch

 

[TumTum]

Almost 12 hours have passed since the last pick :

 

[sifter132]

It was going so well there for a couple of rounds.

KP must have had a big night out...

 

[King Pietersen]

I wish, internet's gone kapoot. I pick Paul Collingwood but posting on my phone so can't do a write-up. Hopefully the internet'll be up and running again soon!

 

[TumTum]

A couple of good picks still there

 

[sifter132]

Are you sure AB De Villiers doesn't bowl? Everyone else you've picked can bowl KP :laugh

To round out my attack, I've gone with:
Anil Kumble

It's my belief that every good ODI side should have a decent spin option. However, looking through the raw figures for the remaining spinners, I wasn't terribly impressed. But digging a little deeper, I found that Kumble stood above the rest because he was clearly a very good spinner earlier in his career. Kumble was at his ODI best in the mid-late '90s which seems so long ago now... In the 6 years from 1993-1999 he played 137 matches, took 199 wickets @ 25.44 with a RPO of 4.12 - excellent figures. He took more wickets in those 6 years than the 11 other years of his career: Statguru - Anil Kumble: 1993/94-1999

Even if 'over the hill Anil' turns up for my team, he's going to be economical. I already have 4 bowlers who are wicket takers with good strike rates - I don't really need my spinner to be one too. So I've deliberately picked an economical one. 4.3 RPO over a career is one of the best of the modern spinners. And it's not like Anil won't take wickets. If he is underestimated for a minute, he'll be able to slip through.

1 Gordon Greenidge
2 Virender Sehwag
3 Sir Viv Richards
4 Allan Lamb
5 Inzamam-ul-Haq
6 Lance Klusener
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8 Sir Richard Hadlee
9 Brett Lee
10 Anil Kumble
11 Joel Garner

GO for it Num.