English Premier League VIII | Round 13

[CremerCurrans]

Team Captains

Aussie Team -
bcvstheworld - Shane Watson
BKB1991 -
CG123 - Alastair Cook
Dipak - 
Haarithan - Graeme Smith
swirler - Sachin Tendulkar
The Rock - Andrew Strauss

 

[CG123]

How about now?

1.Shane Watson
2.Virender Sehwag
3.Kevin Pietersen
4.Robert Key
5.Anthony McGrath
6.Samit Patel
7.Phil Mustard
8.Jacob Oram
9.Stuart Broad
10.Dale Steyn
11.James Anderson

1. Alastair Cook
2. Neil McKenzie
3. Owais Shah
4. Michael Clarke
5. Paul Collingwood
6. MS Dhoni
7. Daniel Vettori
8. Andrew Hall
9. Umar Gul
10. Sajid Mahmood
11. Steven Finn

You've not really got anything outside your top three, so I'd still say my batting's stronger.

 

[BKB1991]

Aussie Team -
bcvstheworld - Shane Watson
BKB1991 - Ian Bell
CG123 - Alastair Cook
Dipak - 
Haarithan - Graeme Smith
swirler - Sachin Tendulkar
The Rock - Andrew Strauss

Ian Bell*
Chris Read+
Ramnaresh Sarwan
Shivnarine Chanderpaul/Yuvraj Singh^
Van Jaarsveld/James Taylor
Dale Benkenstein^
Micheal Yardy^
Kyle Mills^
Muttiah Muralitharan^
Chris Tremlett^
Ajmal Shahzad^

Got more depth this time around. lol Murali and Mills were my overseas bowlers in the APL first season

 

[CG123]

Mills was very average for me here in the first two seasons. Season one 60.3 and 4.8, and season two 45.4 and 6.0 (average and E/R respectively).

 

[Iridium]

Over two seasons:

Kyle Mills
- Matches: 9
- Over:88
- Maidens: 4
- Runs conceded: 468
- Wickets: 9
- Best figures: 2/51
- Average: 52.00
- Economy: 5.32
- Strike rate: 58.7
- 4/5: 0/0

He's certainly not rated poorly.

 

[BKB1991]

Not a fan of him tbh, but I think he was one of the best left.

 

[CG123]

I expected him to have had more of an impact than he did here English conditions. In saying that I wouldn't call myself a fan of his, but over the last five years he'd be up there with the most underrated ODI bowlers. Although he is a bit of a minnow bully, so are guys like Malinga who gets a lot more credit than Mills.

 

[Haarithan]

Liverpool

Excellent

Joyce/Buttler
Kieswetter +
Ponting
Smith *
Stokes
ten Doeschate ^
James Harris ^
Swann ^
Thomas ^
Ryan Harris ^
Bollinger ^

Normal

Joyce
Kieswetter +
Ponting
Smith *
Stokes ^
ten Doeschate ^
Buttler
Swann ^
Thomas/James Harris ^
Ryan Harris ^
Bollinger ^

Poor

Joyce/Buttler
Kieswetter +
Ponting
Smith *
Stokes
ten Doeschate ^
Phillips ^
Swann ^
Dockrell ^
Ryan Harris/Bollinger ^
Mendis ^

 

[Haarithan]

Up for grabs from Pool are

Virat Kohli
David Hussey
Wes Durston

Iri, Durston is a batting allrounder...

 

[CG123]

I expected him to have had more of an impact than he did here English conditions. In saying that I wouldn't call myself a fan of his, but over the last five years he'd be up there with the most underrated ODI bowlers. Although he is a bit of a minnow bully, so are guys like Malinga who gets a lot more credit than Mills.

Infact Mills actually has both a better average and a better E/R than Malinga against the main eight teams.

Mills - 29.10 / 4.89
Malinga - 29.26 / 5.19

Others who I'd say are generally rated higher than Mills with the same criteria:

Gul - 29.20 / 5.35
Anderson - 30.68 / 5.15
Zaheer - 32.87 / 5.09

You get my point, I just thought the need to talk up a New Zealander before I go to bed.

 

[Iridium]

You get my point, I just thought the need to talk up a New Zealander before I go to bed.

Very patriotic. Did you hum the national anthem while you wrote that?

 

[CG123]

Na, I'm waiting for the Rugby World Cup before I start doing that.

 

[BKB1991]

Very patriotic. Did you hum the national anthem while you wrote that?

I hope those stats get you patriotic too

 

[Aussie Team]

Aussie Team - Matthew Hoggard
bcvstheworld - Shane Watson
BKB1991 - Ian Bell
CG123 - Alastair Cook
Dipak - 
Haarithan - Graeme Smith
swirler - Sachin Tendulkar
The Rock - Andrew Strauss

Scott Styris in for Martin Guptill
Clint McKay in for Ishant Sharma

ATM the playing eleven looks

1. Jesse Ryder
2. Niall O'Brien?
3. Jonathan Trott
4. AB de Villiers
5. Nick Compton
6. Scott Styris
7. Luke Wright
8. Chris Woakes
9. Tim Southee
10. Matthew Hoggard*
11. Simon Cook

 

[Biggy]

Na, I'm waiting for the Rugby World Cup before I start doing that.

That'd be handy if you could give us all of NZ's stats after they choke in the semis.