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[ahmedleo414]

Next pick Harmanpreet Kaur

Stats||Matches||Runs||HS|| Ave||100s/50s||Wkts||BBI|| Ave||Econ||4w/5w
T20 (as per BBL stats) | |177| |3,625| |103| |29.71| |1/14| |41| |4/23| |24.71| |6.42| |2/0
T20i | |114| |2,186| |103| |26.98| |1/6| |29| |4/23| |23.41| |6.13| |1/0

A bit of her bio from cricket.com.au:

"Harmanpreet Kaur grew up playing cricket with both men and women, with her father being her first ever coach.

Making her WODI debut at the age of 20 in the 2009 ICC Women's Cricket World Cup, the all-rounder registered impressive bowling figures of 10 runs conceded off 4 overs.

Kaur made her WT20I debut the same year in the 2009 ICC Women's World Twenty20.

Alongside her list of incredible knocks in WODIs & WT20Is, Kaur also has a few firsts to her name. In 2016, she became the first ever Indian, male or female, to sign a Big Bash League contract - with Sydney Thunder welcoming her that year. In 2017, she also became the first Indian to sign up with the Kia Super League.

Kaur was offered WODI captaincy for the first time in 2013, while taking over as captain of the T20I side in 2016.

Her 171* in the 2017 Women's Cricket World Cup is the highest individual score by an Indian in Women's Cricket World Cup history.

Kaur's T20I exploits also saw her secure a spot in the ICC Women's T20I Team of the Year in 2017."

A bit of her bio from cricinfo:

"Harmanpreet Kaur lives and swears by her idol Virender Sehwag's mantra of 'see ball, hit ball.' She represents the new-age India women's cricketer, part of a generation that has been at the center of ad campaigns, endorsements and central contracts. She's a path-breaker too, having become the first India cricketer - male or female - to sign a Big Bash League contract with Sydney Thunder in Australia. The deal came about on the back of an impressive showing during India's tour of Australia in January 2016, where she made a 31-ball 46 to script India's highest-ever T20 chase. In June 2017, she became the first Indian to sign with Surrey Stars in ECB's Kia Super League.

Harmanpreet broke through in 2009, but it wasn't until 2013 when she stamped her class. Her century against England at the World Cup, albeit in a losing cause, earned her plaudits from opposition captain Charlotte Edwards. Her career graph since has skyrocketed since.

In April 2013, she was handed the captaincy when Mithali Raj was rested for the limited-overs series against Bangladesh, making it clear that she is the one in waiting for the job. In November 2016, she replaced Raj as captain of the T20 team for the series against West Indies."


ahmedleo414's playing XI:

1. ?
2. ?
3. ?
4. Ellyse Perry
5. Harmanpreet Kaur
6. ?
7. ?
8. Anya Shrubsole
9. ?
10. ?
11. ?

@mohsin7827 you have next

 

[mohsin7827]

Jess Jonassen to boost the spin department


@Yash.

 

[Yash.]

Poonam Yadav will be my first spinner. With a T20 bowling average of 14.63, and an economy of 5.66, she is the reason behind India's success in T20 cricket.[DOUBLEPOST=1609949490][/DOUBLEPOST]@qpeedore

 

[qpeedore]

Wicketkeepers in the women's game, especially T20s, are difficult. They're usually good behind the stumps, but give them a bat and that vast majority of them don't do very well. Healy and Taylor are definite outliers in that aspect, and it shows in the numbers.

It's why I'm going with Katey Martin behind the stumps. She started off very quietly with the bat, but since 2018 she's been able to up her game in terms of both her average and strike rate. Unfortunately she's not the youngest, at 35 she might be on her way out rather than still in. If she can squeeze another year or two of playing time, I think she will continue to show that she can bat.

1. Mithali Raj
2. Stafanie Taylor
3.
4.
5. Katey Martin
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11. Megan Schutt [DOUBLEPOST=1609958509][/DOUBLEPOST]@ahmedleo414

 

[ahmedleo414]

Next pick Suzie Bates

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Stats​	Matches​	Runs​	HS​	Ave​	100s/50s​	Wkts​	BBI​	Ave​	Econ​	4w/5w​
T20 (as per BBL stats)​	324​	8,896​	124*​	31.32​	5/50​	196​	5/15​	23.41​	6.57​	3/1​
T20i​	122​	3,301​	124*​	30.00​	1/21​	50​	4/26​	25.52​	6.73​	1/0​

A bit of her bio from cricket.com.au:

"Suzie Bates is a highly-accomplished player who won the 2013 ICC ODI Women's Cricketer of the Year. She joined the WA set-up with the Alcohol.Think Again Western Fury in 2012-13. Bates debuted for New Zealand in 2006 and was part of the side which reached the final of the 2009 Women's World Cup.

During that tournament, Bates took 4-7 in a group game against South Africa and hit a New Zealand record 168 off 105 balls against Pakistan in the Super Sixes. She shone in 2013, winning the ICC Women's World Cup Player of the Tournament, after top scoring.

In 2018, Bates scored her tenth century in WODI's, with 151 runs against Ireland. In the same match, Bates became the leading run-scorer for New Zealand Women in WODI's, passing Debbie Hockley's total of 4,064 runs.

During a match against South Africa Women in the 2018 women's Tri Nation Series, Bates scored her first century in WT20I cricket. In this match, Bates became the leading run-scorer in the format, passing Charlotte Edwards' record of 2,605 runs. Bates became the second woman, after Jenny Gunn, to play 100 WT20I matches in the sixth match of the tri-series.

In 2018, Bates stepped down as captain of New Zealand and was replaced by Amy Satterthwaite.

During the 2018 ICC Women's World T20 tournament in the West Indies, Bates became the first cricketer, male or female, to score 3,000 runs in T20 international matches. During the tournament, Bates was the leading run-scorer for New Zealand, with 161 runs in four matches."

A bit of her bio from cricinfo:

"A batting allrounder who plays in the top order, Bates made her international debut in 2006 against India, and has been smashing records ever since. She scored her first ODI century at the age of just 19 and was an instrumental part of New Zealand Women's 2009 World Cup campaign, where they made the final ahead of hosts Australia. Bates took 4 for 7 with her medium pace in the group match against South Africa, but the highlight was her innings against Pakistan: a glorious 168 off 105 balls that included six sixes - the joint fourth-highest score ever in women's ODIs.

Bates initially juggled two sports, representing New Zealand in basketball at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. However, basketball has taken a back seat since she was offered captaincy of the White Ferns in July 2011.

One of standout aspects of Bates' captaincy has been the lack of impact it has had on her batting. In the 2013 World Cup, despite her side's fourth-place finish, she was named Player of the Tournament; later that year, she was named the ICC Women's ODI Cricketer of the Year.

Bates scored an unbeaten 94 off 61 balls against Pakistan in the 2014 World Twenty20 - the highest score by a New Zealander in women's T20Is. In the same year, she was selected to captain the Rest of the World, against MCC Women at Lord's."


ahmedleo414's playing XI:

1. Suzie Bates
2. ?
3. ?
4. Ellyse Perry
5. Harmanpreet Kaur
6. ?
7. ?
8. Anya Shrubsole
9. ?
10. ?
11. ?

@Aislabie next pick

 

[ahmedleo414]

@Aislabie missed his time @mohsin7827 has the next pick

 

[Aislabie]

Lizelle Lee

T20I stats - 1,664 runs @ 25.21 (SR: 109.47, best 101) in 74 matches

Batting VARP (opener) 13.49%

Lizelle Lee doesn't come with a huge VARP, not least because the first three years of her career were entirely mediocre. Since 2016, which featured a breakthrough 69*, and especially since her return to the top of the order the following year, she has excelled as a destructive hitter both in the international game and in the two main women's T20 leagues: the WBBL and the KSL (may it rest in peace). She's also the perfect, more experienced foil to a younger opening partner.

1. Shafali Verma (hitter)
2. Lizelle Lee (hitter)
3. Sarah Taylor (accumulator, wicket-keeper)
4. Ashleigh Gardner (hitter)
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10.
11.

@mohsin7827

 

[mohsin7827]

Katherine Brunt


Bio from cricket.com.au:
Brunt is a talented English all-rounder, known more so for being a strike bowler with her skiddy right-arm medium-pace.

The Englishwoman has vast international experience and has twice been nominated for the ICC Women’s Cricketer of the Year, while she won the 2014 ICC Women’s Spirit of Cricket Award. Brunt played a key role during England’s twin successes in 2009 when they won the ICC Women’s World T20 and ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup titles.

Having served England for over a decade and a half, Katherine Brunt has led her side's bowling attack to many memorable wins and performances.

Following her international debut in August 2004, the strike bowler emerged in 2005 when she played a key role in England regaining the Women’s Ashes that year.

In 2009, Brunt was also instrumental in handing England their ICC Women's World T20 and World Cup titles. Her match-defining spell of 3-6 against New Zealand in the World T20 final that year won her the Player of the Match award.

The medium-pacer is also the first ever English woman to take 150 wickets in ODI cricket.

Brunt joined the Perth Scorchers for the inaugural edition of WBBL, finishing the season with 16 wickets and best figures of 4-17.

@Aislabie

 

[qpeedore]

@Aislabie is late, @mohsin7827 to go.

 

[Aislabie]

Sorry - for some reason I keep struggling to keep track of this one.

Amelia Kerr will probably bat at seven

 

[mohsin7827]

Beth Mooney
Will accompany Devine at the top.
A world cup star
Probably 2nd most run scored in WBBL overall.


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[ahmedleo414]

Ugh, Beth was going to be my pick.... but I'll have to go with Meg Lanning

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Stats	Matches	Runs	HS	Ave	100s/50s
T20 (as per BBL stats)	240	7,437	133*	39.98	3/56
T20i	107	2,859	133*	36.18	2/13

A bit of her bio from cricket.com.au:

"Meg Lanning is a cricket superstar. From a young age, she has made a huge impact at both domestic and international levels.

She made her domestic debut for Victoria in 2008 at the age of 16 and quickly settled into the top order. Lanning had a breakout domestic season in 2011-12 in which she claimed the Women’s National Cricket League T20 Player of the Year award, as well as the Sharon Tredrea Trophy and Cathryn Fitzpatrick Award for the WNCL and Women's T20 Player of the Year respectively for the Commonwealth Bank VicSpirit.

Lanning finished as the third-highest run scorer at the 2012 ICC Women’s World Twenty20 in Sri Lanka and was rewarded with selection in the Team of the Tournament. Her results also saw her become the first player to score over 30 runs in five consecutive T20 internationals.

2012-13 was a record breaking season in international, domestic and club cricket for Lanning. In December 2012, she broke the record for the fastest 50 and fastest 100 in an ODI by an Australian female cricketer. She required only 23 balls to reach her half-century, then went on to smash her ton from just 45 balls. Her knock included 18 fours and three sixes and saw her overtake Karen Rolton on the honour roll, who had taken 57 balls to reach the milestone. While playing for Victoria in the WNCL earlier that season, Lanning broke the record for the highest individual score in a WNCL match when she hit 175 against the ACT Meteors; once again eclipsing Rolton (173). Only eight days after snatching the WNCL record, Lanning broke the record for the highest score in a Victorian Women’s Cricket Association (VWCA) match. Playing for Box Hill, she posted 241 off 136 balls, which included 34 fours and 4 sixes. She capped off her season by helping Australia claim the ICC Women’s World Cup in India in early 2013, a tournament which also saw her record her fourth ODI century.

Lanning took over as full-time ODI captain in 2014, filling in for an injured Jodie Fields. She went on to lead Australia to a clean sweep of Pakistan in both the ODI and T20 series.

In 2015, Lanning captained the Melbourne Stars in the opening season of the Women's Big Bash League, WBBL|01.

Lanning also captained her national side to claim their fourth title at the ICC Women's World T20 in 2018, hosted by West Indies."

A bit of her bio from cricinfo:

"Aptly nicknamed "the Megastar", Meg Lanning has achieved an incredible amount. In 2006 she became the first girl to play first XI cricket for a Public Schools team when she represented Carey Grammar at the age of 14. Her ODI debut came in 2011 against England, and in only her second game, she scored an unbeaten 103, becoming at 18 years and 288 days old the youngest Australian - male or female - to score an international century. A year later, in an ODI against New Zealand, she broke the record for the fastest century by an Australian, racking up her ton in a mere 45 balls.

Recognised as having a great cricket brain, in January 2014 Lanning became the youngest ever captain of Australia (aged 21) mid-Ashes after an injury to Jodie Fields. She led from the front to finish as her side's top run-scorer in the series. In April that year she led her team to their third consecutive T20 World Cup title, putting up a ferocious performance with the bat: she hit 44 in the final, and in the group match against Ireland, in a breathtaking performance, she slammed 126 off 65 balls. At the time that was the highest score in Women's T20Is and in 2019 Lanning would break her own record with 133 not out against England, although a few months later would lose top spot to team-mate Alyssa Healy.

Thanks to her trademark aggressive style with the bat, Lanning can truly claim to be one of women's cricket's household names. 2015 brought the excitement of being named as Wisden's inaugural Leading Female Cricketer in the World, as well as captaining her side to victory in the 2015 Ashes series. Lanning's fresh, innovative approach to captaincy was praised, particularly during the Canterbury Test match, which her side won by 161 runs.
There then followed a couple of years where Australia did not have things all their own way, losing to West Indies in the 2016 World T20 final and being knocked out of the 2017 ODI World Cup in the semis by Harmanpreet Kaur spectacular century during which Lanning was hampered by a long-standing shoulder injury that would ultimately rule her out of the 2017-18 Ashes.

However, since then she has overseen one of the most dominant eras in Australian sport as she led the team to a record unbeaten run in ODIs and back-to-back T20 World Cup triumphs, firstly in the West Indies and then a crowning moment for her career - regardless of what is still to come - when she lifted the trophy in front of more than 86,000 people at the MCG in early 2020."


ahmedleo414's playing XI:

1. Suzie Bates
2. ?
3. Meg Lanning
4. Ellyse Perry
5. Harmanpreet Kaur
6. ?
7. ?
8. Anya Shrubsole
9. ?
10. ?
11. ?

@qpeedore you are next

 

[qpeedore]

I'll go with Dane van Niekerk at number 4 in my team, she's been up and down the order over the years, but some of her better returns have come while batting at 4, with a better strike rate.

From Cricinfo:

A leg-spinning all-rounder who turns the ball prodigiously, Dane van Niekerk made her international debut for South Africa at the 2009 World Cup in Australia, playing in South Africa's loss to the West Indies in the group stages, and then taking 3 for 11 as South Africa beat Sri Lanka in the 7th place play-off later in the tournament.
In 2013 she took a hat-trick on her way to figures of 5 for 28 against the West Indies in St. Kitts; and also that year scored her first international half-century against Pakistan.
A year later, at the Women's World T20 in Bangladesh in 2014, against Pakistan, she shared the highest ever undefeated partnership in women's international T20 history - an unbroken opening-wicket stand of 163 with Lizelle Lee.
Drafted by the Melbourne Renegades for the inaugural Women's Big Bash League, she scored 267 runs in the tournament at a Strike Rate of 99, and took 9 wickets with a best of 4 for 20.
Internationally, by 2015 she had arguably become South Africa's most important player, having taken 129 international wickets and scored 1899 international runs, up to and including the 2016 Women's World T20. So when long-standing Women Proteas skipper Mignon du Preez decided to step-down from the role after that tournament, van Niekerk was the obvious candidate to succeed her, and she was officially appointed South African captain in June 2016.

She's valuable with both bat and ball to my team, and might just end up being the captain.

1. Mithali Raj
2. Stafanie Taylor
3.
4. Dane van Niekerk
5. Katey Martin
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11. Megan Schutt

@Yash.

 

[ahmedleo414]

@Yash. Missed his time @mohsin7827 is next

 

[mohsin7827]

Heather Knight
Avg: 30
SR: 114+

A transformed T20 player in 2020 striking at 135+

Bio from Cricinfo:
Heather Knight was left with big shoes to fill when she was named England captain in June 2016 following the retirement of Charlotte Edwards. It was, though, a natural progression for Knight who had been Edwards' vice-captain since 2014 and had built captaincy experience with Berkshire in county cricket and Hobart Hurricanes in the WBBL.
Knight, a top-order batsman who has latterly developed her offspin into a very handy second string, having initially bowled medium pace before a serious hamstring injury, had become a regular presence in England's top order since making her debut in 2010.
Her Test debut came a year later, against Australia in Sydney, and it is the longest format that includes her stand-out international performance to date. Facing Australia again, in 2013 at Wormsley, Knight scored 157 in a near seven-hour stay in the middle which helped England secure a draw and they would ultimately regain the Ashes.

@Aislabie