Chewie
BCCI President
I normally pick a keeper and a fast allrounder or just a good fast bowler if there are no good alrounders. I never seem to find good keepers in England, and always end up with lots of good batsman and spinners but no pacers...
Picking Overseas Players
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navin-boss
Club Cricketer
Best of luck mate..Hope u win all the cups!
thesweepmaster
County Cricketer
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- Baghdad, Iraq
For the first 5 years in my Leicester game, I had 2 overseas players, both opening bowlers in Brett Lee and Shoaib Akhtar. When my homegrown talent grew over those 5 years, I decided on no overseas players because I had 22 international quality players from my youth system and 10 of them were on England contracts, so I had enough players to run 2 teams.
Top quality players for overseas are:
Batsman
1. Habibul Bashar
2. Chris Gayle
3. Ross Taylor
4. Hasan Amla
Bowlers
1. A.Hasan (Bangladesh)
2. Dewald Pretorius
3. Brett Lee
4. Lasith Malinga
Wicketkeepers
1. Brad Haddin
2. Lou Vincent
3. Khalid Masmud
4. Kumar Sangakkara
My suggestion is to not go over the top with your overseas players and allow your homegrown talent to play and trust me it will pay off.
Top quality players for overseas are:
Batsman
1. Habibul Bashar
2. Chris Gayle
3. Ross Taylor
4. Hasan Amla
Bowlers
1. A.Hasan (Bangladesh)
2. Dewald Pretorius
3. Brett Lee
4. Lasith Malinga
Wicketkeepers
1. Brad Haddin
2. Lou Vincent
3. Khalid Masmud
4. Kumar Sangakkara
My suggestion is to not go over the top with your overseas players and allow your homegrown talent to play and trust me it will pay off.
Chewie
BCCI President
Playing for New Zealand in my game, Ross Taylor wasn't the best, I've found Timothy Weston as a very good New Zealand wicket keeper though, averages over 40 in tests and ODIs for me.
thesweepmaster
County Cricketer
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- Location
- Baghdad, Iraq
In a way your right, Ross Taylor isn't good enough for international level but what I'm talking about is County and State level where he has consistantly scored 1500 runs a season on every game I've played and his best position always suited my team which was number 4 in the order.
On Timothy Weston, I have had him once and he was pretty good but I have never had him again so I couldn't have a fair view on getting him as an overseas player. I am sure though that you wouldn't lie about him so he could also be a handy guy to get aswell.
Burnsy1
Club Cricketer
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one of the worst I've had was the South African All-Rounder Imraan Khan. got very few wickets only about 40-50 in all competitions and scored less than 900 runs. I think he was on Kolpac but i only signed him for one year and let him go.
navin-boss
Club Cricketer
Muralitharan was good when i signed him before long ages ago..He was the leading wicketaker for two seasons he played for me..
thesweepmaster
County Cricketer
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I actually had him aswell and I must say he did well for you compared to me. I played him all 16 matches because of an injury crisis and only got 450 runs at an average of about 12 and 11 wickets at 90 a piece, so he did very well for you.
Kev
Chairman of Selectors
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He sucked so much eggs for me, as a general rule I stay well away from Aussie players in the game, never had one I've been even tempted to try and re-sign.
Burnsy1
Club Cricketer
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another bad pick for me was shane bond. he played one game all season took 1 wicket and was on international duty either side of that. i could have used that money to buy Harmison who was top wicket taker for 3 seasons with his new team kent.
navin-boss
Club Cricketer
Shane Bond???lol...He was worse for me too..I have bought him..He took only 30-40 wickets in 11 FC games.
