Draft: IPL Draft - Completed!

[Bigby Wolf]

I shall pick Saurabh Tiwary. Will try to provide write-ups and update the index page in the next two days, life has taken quite a bad turn recently.

@Na Maloom Afraad

Take care man.

 

[CerealKiller]

@Na Maloom Afraad has missed the deadline, so @ahmedleo414 is up
@VC the slogger has three picks to make

 

[Aalay]

Love the draft so far @Bevab. I wish I had seen it earlier.

 

[ahmedleo414]

My final pick is Pawan Negi

Matches: 50
Runs: 365
Ave: 14.04
S/R: 126.30
Wickets: 34
Ave: 27.62​

Ahmedleo414's Amazing XI

1. Gautam Gambhir
2. Robin Uthappa
3. Manish Pandey
4. Yuvraj Singh
5. Axar Patel
6. Washington Sundar
7. Pawan Negi
8. Nuwan Zoysa
9. Akila Dananjaya
   
10. Tim Southee
11. Yusuf Abdulla

I had no choice in picking any of my bowlers, which left me in a terrible position to try and pick any all-rounders, the issue is I am really not familiar with any local Indian players, so I don't know who is and upcoming talent. So I picked the best that I could under those circumstances. My team may not win any IPL titles, but we are still the Amazing XI!

@CerealKiller you have the next pick

 

[CerealKiller]

I'll go with Shivam Dube as my last pick, who has played for India as an all-rounder. His IPL batting stats are a bit underwhelming, but his domestic stats in other formats show his prowess with the bat.

CerealKiller's XI
1. Sanju Samson
2. Prithvi Shaw
3. Karun Nair
4. Manoj Tiwary
5. Albie Morkel
6. Shivam Dube
7. Shreyas Gopal
8. Bhuvneshwar Kumar
9. Ashley Noffke
10. Brett Lee
11. Abdur Razzak

@VC the slogger has four picks to make now

 

[Na Maloom Afraad]

Once again, apologies for the late pick. I'mma choose Subramaniam Badrinath and slot him right into that coveted number three position. Subramaniam Badrinath was, for a number of years, a crucial part of Chennai Super Kings. Despite never being the poster boy for the team, he played a vital role in CSK's triumphant IPL campaigns of 2010 and 2011. Especially the latter, as he averaged 56.57 with 5 fifties to his name in that season. Subramaniam Badrinath is a rather risky choice as a number three, not JUST because of his overall record but also the fact that his follow-up is Rahul Dravid. I'd hope that with Hayden at the top, he can get us off to a flyer. Then Subramaniam Badrinath and Rahul Dravid can anchor the innings (and just FYI, Dravid ain't no slouch. He can play the role of a top-order hitter if needed) and Dinesh Karthik, REDACTED and Vijay Shankar can finish it off with blitzy cameos and get us to a competitive total, which our bowling is more than capable of defending.

NMA's IPL XI

Sourav Ganguly
Matthew Hayden
Subramaniam Badrinath
Rahul Dravid
Dinesh Karthik
Vijay Shankar
Roelof van der Merwe
Umar Gul
Mohammad Shami
Shoaib Akhtar

 

[ahmedleo414]

@VC the slogger missed his deadline, @Aislabie has the next pick

 

[Na Maloom Afraad]

Can't wait to see who his number three is going to be...

 

[Aislabie]

Spoiler: Never mind

Mayank Agarwal (DD, KXIP, RCB, RPS - 77 matches)
1,288 runs @ 18.34 (SR: 128.13, best 68, b/6: 19.0)

Mayank Agarwal's IPL career record is somewhat tainted by a poor start, in which he was a young Ed Pollock-esque opener who hadn't actually got to grips with his technique yet. For a truer reflection of his abilities, one should look at his 2019 season: averaging 25.53 but more crucially than that he struck at 142 and thumped fourteen sixes. So my solution to finding a good number three was not to look for one: Manan Vohra bats three, and Agarwal takes on the role of the opener who targets the powerplay overs.

Ascending @Aislabie Asteroids
(That's basically how IPL team names work right?)
1. Mayank Agarwal
2. KL Rahul
3. Manan Vohra
4. Eoin Morgan
5. Hardik Pandya
6. Krunal Pandya
7. Shahid Afridi
8. Wriddhiman Saha
9. Sohail Tanvir
10. Michael Neser
11. Amit Singh

@Bigby Wolf

 

[Bigby Wolf]

Mayank Agarwal (DD, KXIP, RCB, RPS - 77 matches)
1,288 runs @ 18.34 (SR: 128.13, best 68, b/6: 19.0)

Mayank Agarwal's IPL career record is somewhat tainted by a poor start, in which he was a young Ed Pollock-esque opener who hadn't actually got to grips with his technique yet. For a truer reflection of his abilities, one should look at his 2019 season: averaging 25.53 but more crucially than that he struck at 142 and thumped fourteen sixes. So my solution to finding a good number three was not to look for one: Manan Vohra bats three, and Agarwal takes on the role of the opener who targets the powerplay overs.

Ascending @Aislabie Asteroids
(That's basically how IPL team names work right?)
1. Mayank Agarwal
2. KL Rahul
3. Manan Vohra
4. Eoin Morgan
5. Hardik Pandya
6. Krunal Pandya
7. Shahid Afridi
8. Wriddhiman Saha
9. Sohail Tanvir
10. Michael Neser
11. Amit Singh

@Bigby Wolf

Mayank Agarwal is in the Rejected Players list.

So thia makes him invalid pick right?

@Bevab

 

[ahmedleo414]

@Bigby Wolf you are correct, @Aislabie will have to make another pick

 

[Aislabie]

Oh dickbags

 

[Aislabie]

Mandeep Singh (KKR, KXIP, RCB - 97 matches)
1,529 runs @ 22.15 (SR: 124.71, best 77*)

Mayank Agarwal was invalid, but I think Mandeep Singh should be fine? Some relatively non-excellent IPL career numbers, but his peaks have been strong enough to get him picked for India five times in the format, and he's still only 28 and has recently started to evolve into a mature hitter. He'll open the batting because eh, why not.

Ascending @Aislabie Asteroids
(That's basically how IPL team names work right?)
1. Mandeep Singh
2. KL Rahul
3. Manan Vohra
4. Eoin Morgan
5. Hardik Pandya
6. Krunal Pandya
7. Shahid Afridi
8. Wriddhiman Saha
9. Sohail Tanvir
10. Michael Neser
11. Amit Singh

@Bigby Wolf

 

[Bigby Wolf]

@Nilay_60 you can go ahead and pick your next player.

I will pick mine on weekends.

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

Joined back a month late! Would have loved to be a part of this!!!!!!

Hope something close to this begins again!