Draft time: World Cup history - ALL FINISHED!!

[sifter132]

Some more nice picks. Clive Lloyd I particularly like. He was an excellent fielder too

Zorax, when you're next on you can start the England round.

 

[AkshayS]

Desmond Haynes​

One of the greatest openers in ODIs of all time, he was great at World Cup too. He was the part of the two world cup wins and one final.
He gave his team some perfect starts and was one of the most successful openers.
He managed to make 854 runs at 37.13 with one century and 3 half ones.
He was a good fielder too.

Matches : 25
Runs : 854
Average: 37.13
100s/50s : 1/3
Catches : 12​

AkshayS World Cup XI

1.
2. Desmond Haynes (854 runs @37, 12 catches)
3.
4. Dave Houghton (+) (402 runs @33, 10 catches, 2 stumpings)
5. Andrew Symonds (515 runs @103, 5 wkts, 7 catches)
6. Kapil Dev (669 runs @37.16, bat. SR-116, 28 wkts @31, 12 catches)
7. Chris Harris (431 runs @29, 26 wkts @26, 7 catches)
8. Gavin Hamilton ( 228 runs @32.57, 3 wkts, 1 catch)
9.
10. Mutthiah Murlitharan (53 wkts @19, SR-30.4, ER-3.83)
11. Waqar Younis (22 wkts @21, SR-25.4)

 

[AngryPixel]

Joel Garner​

Also known as the Big Bird is the sight of sheer terror for batsman. He was a colossal figure standing 6 feet 8 inches tall(IMO tallest test cricketer). He used to deliver the ball from such a hight at fiery pace that more often than not balls took off from good length. It was a nightmare to face him. His overall Test and ODI record suggest what batsmen went through when they faced him. He has a avg of 20 in test and 18 in ODI. He is capable to generate unplayable deliveries even on the flat batsman friendly wickets. Hence he would be the perfect partner for Wasim Akram.
Akram would bowl full and bamboozle batsman with his genius. And just when batsman would try to commit more on frontfoot to counter the swing, Big Bird would push them back with his HOW-DARE-YOU-STEPPED-OUT-OF-CREASE attitude. Thus batsman would be in no mans land. He destroyed the England's middle order in the final of 1979 WC. England were in a comfortable position at 183/2 with 8 wickets in hand and plenty of overs to chase down 286. In next 11 runs england lost 8 wickets to bundle out for 194. Garner took 5 of those wickets.

WC Record
Matches: 8
Wickets: 13
Best: 5/38
Bowling avg: 22.23

Angrypixel's WC XI

1. Sachin Tendulkar
2. Sanath Jayasuriya
3. Mark Waugh
4. Andy Flower
5. Scott Styris
6.
7. Ryan Ten Doeschate
8. Wasim Akram
9. Joel Garner
10.
11.

Now i just need a express fast bowler and a good spinner. Oh boy, it would a nightmare for batsman to face Akram and Garner on a bowling friendly condition.

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I forgot to mention that 5/38 is the best bowling performance in a WC final

 

[ZoraxDoom]

Chris Old

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Matches Played: 9
Wickets Taken: 16
Average: 15.18
Economy: 2.68
Runs Scored: 91
Average: 18.20
Strike Rate: 119.73

A bustling 6 foot 3 seamer and a dagerous lower-order batsman, Chris Old is best remember for his heroic performance in the 1983 Headingly Test, where he and Botham combined to pull off the impossible.

But he was terrific in World Cups too, and would have played a lot more for England if he wasn't so injury prone. His best performances would have been his spell of 7-2-29-3 against Australia in 1975 Semi Final (England ultimately lost trying to defend a score of 94 runs), or his 4-8 in 10 overs against Canada. He also recorded economical spells against India, Pakistan, New Zealand, and took 1/33 in 12 overs against Australia in a 1979 group match which England managed to win. He also scored his only 50 of his ODI career in a WC game against India (a whirlwind 51* off 30 balls). It should be noted that the fact that he kept his ODI strike rate about 100 back in the 1970s is pretty impressive. Definitely a handy man to have down the order.

Quick, accurate and known for his late outswing, Chris Old rounds off my pace attack fairly well.

Probably just missing a pure spinner at this point, and maybe one more big hitting batsman for lower down the order. My batting depth is pretty excellent but lacking names with high strike rates.

Zorax's World Cup XI
Saeed Anwar (Pak '96, '99 and '03) (915 runs @ 53.82)
Jan-Berrie Burger (Nam '03) (199 @ 33.16)
+Rahul Dravid (Ind '99, '03, and '07) (860 runs @ 61.42, 17 catches, 1 stumping)
*Steve Waugh (Aus '87, '92, '96 and '99) (978 @ 48.9, 27 wickets @ 30.14)
Ramnaresh Sarwan (WI '03 and '07) (584 @ 58.4)
Steve Tikolo (Ken '96, '99, '03, '07) (724 @ 34.47, 14 wickets @ 28.21)
Chaminda Vaas (SL '96, '99, '03 and '07) (49 wickets at 21.22, 219 runs at 21.)
Sir Richard Hadlee (NZ, '75 '79 and '83) (22 wickets @ 19.13, 149 runs @ 16.55)
Chris Old (Eng '75 and '79) (16 wickets @ 15.18, 91 runs @ 18.20)

 

[Gaurav_7]

That is a solid team there AP.

 

[AngryPixel]

another Garner pic

 

[sifter132]

He's a big fella alright I'm always arguing for him as the greatest ODI bowler ever. He's not the greatest World Cup bowler ever that's for sure, but his bowling in the '79 final was apparently quite brilliant Makes up for the other disappointing matches a bit - well disappointing by Joel's high standards.

Anyway, my Englishman is going to be Sir Ian Botham. Here's a pic, and I'll tell you why he was a good World Cup player and a good fit for my XI in a little while.

Sir Ian played in 3 World Cups for England: 1979, 1983 and 1992. Generally known as a great all-rounder, he never had a great deal of success as a World Cup batsman, averaging 18.56 with only one 50 to his name - which was during his stint opening the batting in 1992. Due to that disappointing record he'll get demoted down to #8 in my XI, although padded up constantly ready to be thrown in as a pinch hitter. He did play a couple of useful lower order cameos earlier in his World Cup career, so I think the role will suit him pretty well.

While being underwhelming with bat, he was very effective with the ball though and takes a spot in my XI as a specialist bowler. He was very frugal, consistently bowling with good economy and in most innings picking up a wicket or 2. To illustrate, Botham only went wicketless in 4 of his 22 bowling innings, and his economy reached 5 RPO in only 3 of his 22 innings, and never above 6. He'll be the perfect bowler to come on first change and bowl opposite Abdul Qadir, building pressure on the batsmen in the middle overs.

World Cup stats:
Matches: 22
Runs: 297
Average: 18.56
HS: 53 v Australia, 1992.

Wickets: 30
Average: 25.40
Economy: 3.43
BB: 4/31 (10) v Australia, 1992.
2 Man of the Match awards:

• 2/27 (10) v India, 1992.
• 53(77) & 4/31(10) v Australia, 1992.

1 David Boon
2 Neil Johnson
3 Brian Lara
4 Aravinda de Silva
5 Mohammad Azharuddin
6
7 Niall O'Brien (wk)
8 Sir Ian Botham
9 Abdul Qadir
10
11 Geoff Allott

 

[Gaurav_7]

Oh yes, very nice WC bowler. And, we're moving along very nicely. I think Riz is on as well, he might pick up soon.

 

[ZoraxDoom]

Last pick in RSA and 2nd in best of the rest to get a spinner and a big hitting batsman. Hmm...

EDIT: OH, all writeups done btw.

 

[Gaurav_7]

I need a number 3, finisher and a spinner. SA, I've the first pick. I'll see what I can get in English round.

 

[ZoraxDoom]

SA Round, Finisher....hmm. I wonder who that could be.


I'm definitely getting a spinner, and a good one with that, unless Papa Smurf get's greedy and decides his existing spin attack of Dipak Patel, Viv Richards and John Davidson isn't enough.

Just need a big hitter from RSA. And I'm last pick. Gah, very unlikely I'm gonna get one.

 

[Gaurav_7]

I can get any one in SA round, finisher or number 3. Plus, an added bowling advantage. I just don't know whom I'll end up with in England round. In best of the rest, I'm hoping to fill up the left place as I'm third?

 

[riz7khan12]

Phil DeFreitas


Who's Phil DeFreitas you ask?, he was one of the most consistent english pace bowlers around the late 80's early 90's era. He was the perfect world cup seamer who was economical and picked up regular wickets in the '87 and '92 world cups where both times England fell at the last hurdle. DeFreitas had picked up 29 wickets in 22 games with a average of 25.6. Not to mention he was a agressive lower order batsman too, although he didn't live up to his batting potential on the international stage he still would make a handy no.9 and first change bowler.

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1. Virender Sehwag
2. Grant Flower
3. Ricky Ponting
4. Martin Crowe*
5. Javed Miandad
6.
7.
8. Trent Johnston
9. Phil DeFreitas
10. Lasith Malinga
11. Michael Holding​

 

[ZoraxDoom]

Couple of names pop to mind who are unpicked and better quicks than DeFreitas in WC tbh.

 

[sifter132]

Probably just missing a pure spinner at this point, and maybe one more big hitting batsman for lower down the order. My batting depth is pretty excellent but lacking names with high strike rates.

Zorax's World Cup XI
Saeed Anwar (Pak '96, '99 and '03) (915 runs @ 53.82)
Jan-Berrie Burger (Nam '03) (199 @ 33.16)
+Rahul Dravid (Ind '99, '03, and '07) (860 runs @ 61.42, 17 catches, 1 stumping)
*Steve Waugh (Aus '87, '92, '96 and '99) (978 @ 48.9, 27 wickets @ 30.14)
Ramnaresh Sarwan (WI '03 and '07) (584 @ 58.4)
Steve Tikolo (Ken '96, '99, '03, '07) (724 @ 34.47, 14 wickets @ 28.21)
Chaminda Vaas (SL '96, '99, '03 and '07) (49 wickets at 21.22, 219 runs at 21.)
Sir Richard Hadlee (NZ, '75 '79 and '83) (22 wickets @ 19.13, 149 runs @ 16.55)
Chris Old (Eng '75 and '79) (16 wickets @ 15.18, 91 runs @ 18.20)

I didn't realise Burger was an opener. I was expecting you to take a Pommie opener. And yeah a bit of spin wouldn't go astray, although as you say you've probably got the pick of the reject spinners in round 11. Vaas, Hadlee and Old are all handy with the bat too so that tail's looking solid.

Couple of names pop to mind who are unpicked and better quicks than DeFreitas in WC tbh.

I'd probably agree with that. But Phil does certainly lengthens any tail. It all depends what you value too with your bowlers. DeFreitas is more proven than the guys like Old who played less than 10 games. Old's stats are obviously better though.

And I think there's a few people looking around for that finisher type slot. Kapil Dev's probably the best one taken so far, he played HEAPS of quick cameos in World Cups.