Draft: Left-Handed Cricketers | Index updated

[RUDI]

David Warner

@Sinister One your up next!

I'll do a complete write-up once all are completed.

RUDI's XI

1. Graeme Smith
2. David Warner
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7.Wasim Akram
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[Master Bates]

Saeed Anwar

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A flamboyant left hander, Anwar was an immediate success in ODIs. Majestic timing and immaculate placement were trademarks whenever he came out to bat. Like most modern openers, minimal footwork was something which never bothered him as excellent hand-eye coordination made amends for that. Majority of his runs were scored in the region between cover and point as he utilized minimal width outside the off stump to find even the minutest gaps in the field. There have been instances where he has exasperated the bowlers with sublime off side play despite the captain packing that part of the field, especially in the record breaking knock of 194 against India in Chennai. Pakistan were happy to have an opener in the side who scored runs at an average of 39 and a strike rate of 81 in ODI cricket. Anwar finished his ODI career with 20 international hundreds with 7 of them coming at the Sharjah cricket ground, a favorite hunting ground for Pakistan throughout the 90s. Comparatively, his Test record was average as he ended up with 4052 runs in 91 Test innings with 11 hundreds

Stats:
Matches: 55
Innings: 91
Runs: 4052
Average: 45.53
Highest Score: 188
50s/100s: 25/11

 

[Morphed]

Sourav Ganguly

Write up next month due to exams

 

[Manish.]

Sanath Jayasuriya​

Sanath Jayasuriya has been at the vanguard of Sri Lanka's ascent as a cricketing power, and his rise as a feared international batsman has coincided with Sri Lanka's rise as a force to be reckoned with in international cricket.

Jayasuriya started his career as a fairly non-descript utility player who had an ability to smack the ball hard. His performances stayed ordinary for much of his early career. In fact, from his debut in 1989 till 1995, Jayasuriya had never ended a year with an average above 30 in ODIs and had played only a handful of Tests.

The year 1996 was the break-out year for Jayasuriya, and he took the cricketing world by storm with his exploits in the 1996 World Cup. Taking advantage of the fielding restrictions in the first 15 overs of an innings had been in vogue since a while, with Martin Crowe using Mark Greatbatch to good effect in the 1992 World Cup, but Jayasuriya took it to another level. In a remarkable statistic, from the year 1996 onwards, Jayasuriya never ended a calendar year with a strike rate of less than 83, and frequently achieved 100+ rates.

He was also a more than useful left-arm spinner, who was uncannily difficult to score off, and also picked up wickets. He brought a complete package to the ODI game with his smart fielding at any position, and his performance in the 1996 World Cup led to him being named the Most Valuable Player of the tournament.

Stats :

Batting
Matches: 110
Runs: 6973
Average: 40.07
SR: 65.27
50/100/200: 31/14/3

Bowling
Wickets: 98
Best: 9/74
Economy: 2.47
Average: 34.35

The Martian's XI

01.
02. Sanath Jayasuriya
03. Arthur Morris
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05. Clive Lloyd
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@Akshay. your turn !

 

[Akshay.]

Bill Johnston

@Aislabie

 

[Aislabie]

Overall Pick #30: Simon Katich

Profile
I am amazed that Simon Katich has so far been overlooked, given that he is one of only two left-handed batsmen to average over 50 opening the batting in Test cricket. His overall record is marred somewhat by his disappointing record when playing out of position in the middle-order for the first part of his career, but once the Hayden and Langer partnership had been broken apart and created a vacancy for a replacement, Katich more than stepped into those shoes. He somewhat lacks the career-defining performance that makes him stick in people's minds for anything other than his rather ungainly trigger movement, but without a doubt his record as an opening batsman stacks up with the very best. Not only that, but his chinaman spin bowling was a highly underrated second string good enough to claim a Test six-wicket haul on home debut.

Statistics

| | Left-handed batsman | Left-arm chinaman |
Tests|56 matches|4,188 runs @ 45.03 (10 centuries, best 157)|21 wickets @ 30.23 (1 5WI, best 6/65)|39 catches
First-class|266 matches|20,926 runs @ 52.84 (58 centuries, best 306)|107 wickets @ 35.30 (3 5WI, best 7/130)|227 catches

Finest Performance
Eight Tests into his second career as an opener, Simon Katich's job was to make a telling contribution on a 'Gabba wicket that was extremely helpful to seam bowlers. In the first innings, he failed by scoring only ten - not that he was on his own: only Michael Clarke made it past 40 as the first twenty wickets in the Test fell for only 370 runs. Things did not improve either, as Katich could only watch on from the non-striker's end as Hayden, Ponting, Hussey and Clarke were all sent back to the pavilion to leave Australia on 53 for four. Katich, however, was unfazed. He punched and prodded his way to fifty, then to his fourth Test hundred as an opener, and then onward still as wickets continued to fall at the other end. By the time Stuart Clark was the last man out, Katich had carried his bat for 131 not out. Australia would go on to win by 149 runs, and Mitchell Johnson - not Katich - would be named man of the match for his wickets.

Aislabie's Southpaws so far:
1. Trevor Goddard (Pick #22)
2. Simon Katich (Pick #30)
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4. Graeme Pollock (Pick #1)
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11.

This icon denotes somebody who performed both their primary and secondary skills left-handed. No restriction.
This icon denotes somebody who performed their secondary skill right-handed. Only five allowed.

Next pick:​

@CerealKiller

 

[CerealKiller]

Trent Boult.

Sinistral XI

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5. Allan Border
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8. Rangana Herath
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10. Trent Boult[DOUBLEPOST=1542795412][/DOUBLEPOST]@VC the slogger

 

[VC the slogger]

Shakib Al Hasan

@Rebel2k19

 

[Aislabie]

@Aislabie Pls change my pick

Please can you change it back

 

[Aislabie]

But no one has picked him so I changed @Aislabie

That's not how drafting players works. You didn't see the Cleveland Browns suddenly change their minds on Baker Mayfield and just low-key edit their pick to Josh Rosen because no-one had picked him yet.

 

[RUDI]

@Rebel2k19 you're up next.

 

[Aislabie]

Plsss

No.

 

[Aislabie]

As @Rebel2k19 has missed two successive days for his two successive picks, it will time in two hours from now for @VC the slogger again.

Gaurav can make his picks as soon as he comes online, as usual for late picks.

 

[VC the slogger]

Alrighty then. Justin Langer it is.

@CerealKiller

 

[VC the slogger]

@Aislabie pls

I don't understand why you'd want to change Saeed Anwar for Trescothick in the first place. With all due respect to the latter, Anwar is by far the superior batsman in both Test and ODI formats in my opinion.