All Time ODI Cricket Draft <---Shravis uppp

[sifter132]

Don't worry buddy, it's very easy. You're just trying to form the best possible XI from players that haven't been picked. That means we'll go through 11 rounds to get a team for each of us. And because you're at the end of a round you'll get 2 picks each time it's your turn. Use them wisely

 

[Robelinda]

Focus on not dying? :sarcasm Is it that cold?

Ah yes, I remember well the Kalu/Jayasuriya assaults in the Aussie summer of 95/96. Boy those guys bugged me. You're right too about how he changed ODI cricket. Jayasuriya's the reason Mark Taylor got bumped for going too slow, Mark Waugh got promoted and soon Adam Gilchrist was shifted up the order to try and match fire with fire.

And he's a nagging bowler too. Very handy.

Mark Waugh had been opening with Taylor for 2 years before Taylor was dropped in 97. Mark Taylor had a pretty good WC 96 too, even if his strike rate was below Sanath.

 

[sifter132]

Mark Waugh had been opening with Taylor for 2 years before Taylor was dropped in 97. Mark Taylor had a pretty good WC 96 too, even if his strike rate was below Sanath.

Heh Big difference in explosiveness between those 2.

And of course, 95/96 was was the year Slats finally got turfed I think - not Tubby. Tubby would have been replaced by Gilchrist I guess after the brief flirtation with a couple of players - Michael Di Venuto was one.

 

[Robelinda]

Heh Big difference in explosiveness between those 2.

And of course, 95/96 was was the year Slats finally got turfed I think - not Tubby. Tubby would have been replaced by Gilchrist I guess after the brief flirtation with a couple of players - Michael Di Venuto was one.

Tom Moody was tried too after Diva. Slats made a odi comeback in India in 96, he did well too but got turfed then for good.

 

[shravi]

Just a heads up to Roebelinda in case he hasn't read it. I know you know a lot about cricket, but if you could try not to mention any names people would/should choose (or players that haven't already been mentioned), it would be much appreciated. That way we can have the possibility of laughing at some appalling decisions .

 

[drainpipe32]

Favouritism made me pick Ponting. I never saw Viv play either, so why would I pick him?

 

[sifter132]

I saw him play in the first summer of cricket I can remember in 1988/89. I was only 5, but I remembered part of an innings (some of which is now on youtube - YouTube - Cricket Classics 3) It was a rain shortened ODI where he carved up the Aussies etc. That was in his mid-late 30s when he was starting to go on a slow downward spiral.

Otherwise I'm picking on myth and legend

 

[drainpipe32]

I'm trying not to pick on myth and legend

Maybe my later picks.

 

[TumTum]

So is my round 2 pick supposed to be unique as well?

Sorry I have been holding you guys up for so long, had uni work for the whole day...

 

[drainpipe32]

Just in case, Phillip Hughes hasn't played an ODI

 

[sifter132]

Yep you need to end up with 11 different guys - different from the 77 other guys that the rest of us will pick at some stage.

 

[TumTum]

Just in case, Phillip Hughes hasn't played an ODI

Bugger

Glenn McGrath

An underrated bowler in the shorter formats of the game, most will jump to names that have been "exciting" (such as raw quicks, swing bowlers and bowlers that can bat). However Glenn McGrath is in fact the perfect ODI bowler, being both economical and a wicket taker, which many other bowlers in this format lack. An Economy rate of 3.88 and a SR of 34.0, combined with 381 ODI wickets proves this. He has been pivotal to Australia's dominance in the 3 consecutive WC wins, when in the 2003 WC taking 7/15 in a match. No batsmen has ever got hold of him when he was bowling and that remains even to this day. While being a tight line and length bowler, he is able to extract movement with the ball even in the most placid of pitches.

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[drainpipe32]

Crap

 

[Harishan]

TumTum you have a double pick, meaning you get to choose another player.

 

[TumTum]

TumTum you have a double pick, meaning you get to choose another player.

Uh uh I feel like I just won a lottery

TumTum added 9 Minutes and 56 Seconds later...

Muttiah Muralitharan

The greatest off-spinner ever, Murali has been the linchpin of Sri Lanka's bowling attack for many years. Never mind his Test record, his ODI record is even better. With his ability to put big revolutions on the ball and the many variations he has up his sleeve, batsman have had trouble picking him for all his career. This made him both as a wicket taker (SR of 35.1) and could keep an end tied up (Economy of 3.91).

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11. Glenn McGrath