Draft: One Track Bully Draft

[CerealKiller]

Joe Root
@Yash. your turn, plus please update the list if you can

 

[Yash.]

Angelo Mathews comes into my side, who has over a thousand runs at an average of 88, with 3 100s. Pretty handy stuff.

@Na Maloom Afraad

 

[Na Maloom Afraad]

Also funny to see the very different approaches here - you've gone legends who happened to do well in SA, whereas I've gone for (relatively) niche players who have done confusingly well in NZ.

It's 50/50 tbh - I am going to pick half of my team with players who only did well in a few matches, niche names or not. But I did want a strong enough core to support them and that's why I went with legends who stood out on South African pitches, to make up for their inevitable failures in this hypothetical scenario.

 

[Na Maloom Afraad]

Barry Richards. A very obvious pick tbh. Also my third local. Highest Test batting average for a South African in South Africa.

"A talent of such enormous stature that he once batted (and did well) using only the leading edge in a Durban club match, Richards was forced by South Africa's sporting isolation to play elsewhere, thrilling spectators with his nimble, aggressive strokeplay for Hampshire, Natal and South Australia, and in Kerry Packer's World Series Cricket. There were many feats of remarkable batsmanship from one of the finest talents of the 20th century, including nine hundreds before lunch and 1000 runs in a season 15 times. But South Africans will never forget the Durban Test of 1969-70, when Richards and Graeme Pollock flayed the Australian attack to all parts of the Kingsmead ground." - ESPNCricinfo

Barry Richards in South Africa (his entire Test career)

	Span	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	BF	SR	100s	50s	0s	4s	6s
in South Africa	1970-1970	4	7	0	508	140	72.57	854	59.48	2	2	0	70	5
	Span	Mat	Inns	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Avg	Econ	SR	5WI	10WM
` ` `	` ` `	` ` `	3	12.0	3	26	1	1/12	1/12	26.00	2.16	72.00	0	0

NMA's ONE-TRACK BULLIES

01. Barry Richards
02.
03. Jacques Kallis
04. Graeme Pollock
05.
06.
07. Richie Benaud
08. Bart King
09.
10.
11. Sydney Barnes

 

[Na Maloom Afraad]

Back to ya @Aislabie

 

[Na Maloom Afraad]

24 hours have elapsed, you're up next @Neptune

 

[Neptune]

Ken Barrington scored 674 runs @96.28 in India and in general was a great bat that isnt brought up in the best English bats of all time conversation enough. He averaged 69 away from home in 36 matches and I think NMA might have had him on his radar, he did average 101.60 in SA after all

1.
2.
3. Ken Barrington
4. Garry Sobers
5. Andy Flower
6.
7. Kapil Dev
8. Ravindra Jadeja
9. Ravichandran Ashwin
10.
11.

@Mittal2002

 

[Mittal2002]

Allan Border has scored 743 runs in Pakistan at 62. He will play at 5 in my team.
@ahmedleo414

 

[ahmedleo414]

Ricky Ponting

His overall record in Tests

13378 runs at an average of 51.85

In Australia his record in Tests

7578 runs at an average of 56.97

In order to accommodate Ricky Ponting, I've had to move my middle order a bit

My Team so far:

1. ?
2. ?
3. Ricky Ponting
4. Wally Hammond
5. Virat Kohli
6. ?
7. Imran Khan
8. Shane Warne
9. Sir Curtly Ambrose
10. ?
11. ?

@Mittal2002 back to you

 

[Mittal2002]

Gary Kirsten
Record in Pakistan- 529 runs @88.16
My team so far
1) Virender Sehwag
2) Gary Kirsten
3) Kumar Sangakkara
4) Javed Miandad
5) Allan Border
6)
7)
8)
9) Waqar Younis
10)
11) Courtney Walsh

@Neptune

 

[ahmedleo414]

Ricky Ponting

His overall record in Tests

13378 runs at an average of 51.85

In Australia his record in Tests

7578 runs at an average of 56.97

In order to accommodate Ricky Ponting, I've had to move my middle order a bit

My Team so far:

1. ?
2. ?
3. Ricky Ponting
4. Wally Hammond
5. Virat Kohli
6. ?
7. Imran Khan
8. Shane Warne
9. Sir Curtly Ambrose
10. ?
11. ?

@Mittal2002 back to you

I was planning my team yesterday, my plan was to have 4 local Australian players and one player per country to finish the rest. I was really happy with my team only to realize I am missing a wicket keeper... Back to the drawing board.

 

[Neptune]

Dale Steyn has 26 wickets @ 21.38 in India at a strike rate of 37. If an Indian pitch does provide some seam movement that it does occasionally, Steyn is one of the best equipped for the job to bundle the opposition.

1.
2.
3. Ken Barrington
4. Garry Sobers
5. Andy Flower
6.
7. Kapil Dev
8. Ravindra Jadeja
9. Ravichandran Ashwin
10.
11. Dale Steyn

@Aislabie

 

[Na Maloom Afraad]

He averaged 69 away from home in 36 matches and I think NMA might have had him on his radar, he did average 101.60 in SA after all.

I did! But, since I could only have one player per country (non-South African), I chose to go with Sydney Barnes instead of Ken Barrington. Had plenty of local and other options for batters, but not too many for bowlers.

I was also stuck between two options with [REDACTED] and Dale Steyn, being unable to pick one over the other, but you've made that decision much easier for me now too.

 

[Aislabie]

Of course he had to go in at number seven in this team. Brendon McCullum averaged 47.88 in New Zealand, with eight centuries and a best of 302. He's also my team's acrobatic wicket-keeper, and a captaincy candidate. Really an automatic pick.

3. Kane Williamson
4. Daryll Cullinan
6. Mushtaq Mohammad (?)
7. Brendon McCullum (?)
8. Jacob Oram
9. Kyle Jamieson

@Neptune

 

[Neptune]

It's @Na Maloom Afraad's turn, not mine