Draft: All-time T20 World Cup XI

[Paranoid Kendroid]

Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar !!!

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

Sachin has played 96 T20s but one T20I - as well as being Orange Cap in 2010 in IPL. Viv hasn't played T20 cricket at any professional level. They are not comparable.

Not part of the two rules - but if @liveinasociety disagrees with him; happy to replace with Dilshan. But I feel like he should be OK as he was a genuine T20 player with a strong record.

Yea ye is a great pick for T20s. No doubt about it.

But this draft is All Time T20 World Cup XI and not just overall All Time T20 XI.

 

[Ahmad94]

Fair enough - my bad. Misunderstood the rules: Replaced with Tillakaratne Dilshan

Ahmad94's team:

1. Matthew Hayden
2. Brendon McCullum
3. Tillakaratne Dilshan
4.
5. Roelof Van Der Merwe
6. Andre Russell
7. DJ Bravo
8. Rashid Khan
9.?
10. ?
11. Shane Bond

 

[Aravind.]

@Disharies to pick

 

[Aravind.]

24 hours since last pick @ahmedleo414 can pick his player now

@liveinasociety has allowed me to tag members when 24 hours is up, thus will do it whenever I am available and needed here.

 

[Disharies]

Tim southee

 

[Aravind.]

@Bevab can make his pick, as reminder to pick the player has been sent to @ahmedleo414 24 hours before.

 

[ahmedleo414]

@Bevab can make his pick, as reminder to pick the player has been sent to @ahmedleo414 24 hours before.

I'll be making both my picks shortly. Sorry for the delay

 

[Bevab]

I assume I'm fair game for making my next pick.

I'll choose Shaun Tait as my pick. The erratic pacer played in only one WC but was arguably the standout bowler of the tournament with his fiery pace being borderline unplayable at times and an economy rate of just around 5.5 (no other pacer is even remotely close to that barring Hamid Hassan who only played two games). Unplayable at times may very well be used as Tait's career story as he wandered from game to game hoping that his body held up to the rigors of international cricket and he could nail down his own accuracy. There was always the sense of Tait being very experimental in a lot of the bilaterals he played, pushing his body to the limits. However he was on top of his game for both the ODI and T20I WCs he featured in and his yorkers and short balls were well mixed to keep batters guessing throughout the tournament. Unfortunate for him that his one bad over in the entire tournament came up against Pietersen seeing it like a football in the final after Watto's dismal spell forced the Aussies to bowl Tait much earlier than they would have wanted him to.

Tait's role in my side will be a bit different than how the Aussies used him in the WC. He was primarily utilised as a powerplay wicket taker right off the bat and whilst he will bowl an over in the powerplay for us... more often than not his second over may be pushed to the end of the powerplay or the proper middle overs. He'll be tasked with bowling at least one over in the death overs like he did for Australia but we'll have him bowl two at the death on most occasions. If there's a match-up that favours Tait though we'll give him the time and space to make effective use of it. He'll be the side's enforcer primarily and a premium wicket taking option on the side.

1. Adam Gilchrist
2. Alex Hales
3. Virat Kohli
4. 
5. Angelo Mathews
6. 
7. Shadab Khan
8. 
9. Shaun Tait
10. Paul van Meekeren
11. Trent Boult

@liveinasociety to continue, @ahmedleo414 to fill out his missing picks.

 

[ahmedleo414]

Here's my team including my two missed picks

1. David Warner
2. Mahela Jayawardene
3. Babar Azam
4. JP Duminy
5. Shoaib Malik
6. ?
7. ?
8. ?
9. Stuart Broad
10. Lasith Malinga
11. Josh Hazlewood

 

[Paranoid Kendroid]

liveinasociety's XI:

01. Mohammad Rizwan
02. Jos Buttler
03. Faf du Plessis
04. Glenn Phillips
05. Glenn Maxwell
06.
07.
08.
09. Ajantha Mendis
10. Umar Gul
11. Dirk Nannes ()

@mohsin7827

 

[mohsin7827]

1. Shane Watson
2. Stephan Myburgh
3. 
   
4. 
   
5. Michael Hussey
6. Shahid Afridi
7. Darren Sammy
8. Wanindu Hasaranga
9. Josh Little
10. Anrich Nortje

@ahmedleo414

 

[Paranoid Kendroid]

03. Faf du Plessis

Changed my pick.

 

[ahmedleo414]

1. David Warner
2. Mahela Jayawardene
3. Babar Azam
4. JP Duminy
5. Shoaib Malik
6. JJ Smit
7. ?
8. ?
9. Stuart Broad
10. Lasith Malinga
11. Josh Hazlewood

@liveinasociety

 

[Aravind.]

24 hours long gone, @Parth D can post his pick.