Draft: The Alphabet Draft 2 - Rise of the Vowels

[ahmedleo414]

I had a doubt...for example a player's name is MJ Prior, and he is satisfying all the given constraints, so can I pick him for the letter J coming in his name?

No, so it must match the first letter of either the first name or the last name

 

[Mittal2002]

No, so it must match the first letter of either the first name or the last name

Okay

 

[qpeedore]

EDIT: Changing this into a question...

Are we doing it as openers-3-4-5-etc or is it specifically 1-2-3-etc?

 

[ahmedleo414]

specifically 1-2-3

 

[ahmedleo414]

Here is the draft order:

@ddrap14
@Mittal2002
@ahmedleo414
@mohsin7827
@NePtuNe Gaming
@Murtaza96
@Yash.
@qpeedore
@Ashutosh.
@qpeedore
@ddrap14
@ahmedleo414
@Yash.
@Mittal2002
@NePtuNe Gaming
@mohsin7827
@Murtaza96
@Ashutosh.
@Murtaza96
@Mittal2002
@NePtuNe Gaming
@ddrap14
@Ashutosh.
@ahmedleo414
@mohsin7827
@Yash.
@qpeedore
@Ashutosh.
@NePtuNe Gaming
@Yash.
@qpeedore
@mohsin7827
@ddrap14
@Murtaza96
@Mittal2002
@ahmedleo414
@Ashutosh.
@mohsin7827
@Mittal2002
@Yash.
@qpeedore
@ahmedleo414
@NePtuNe Gaming
@ddrap14
@Murtaza96
@mohsin7827
@Yash.
@ddrap14
@NePtuNe Gaming
@Ashutosh.
@ahmedleo414
@Mittal2002
@qpeedore
@Murtaza96
@Yash.
@NePtuNe Gaming
@qpeedore
@ddrap14
@ahmedleo414
@Murtaza96
@Ashutosh.
@mohsin7827
@Mittal2002
@Ashutosh.
@Yash.
@ddrap14
@Mittal2002
@Murtaza96
@qpeedore
@ahmedleo414
@NePtuNe Gaming
@mohsin7827
@mohsin7827
@Mittal2002
@qpeedore
@NePtuNe Gaming
@Murtaza96
@ddrap14
@Yash.
@ahmedleo414
@Ashutosh.
@Murtaza96
@mohsin7827
@ahmedleo414
@Ashutosh.
@NePtuNe Gaming
@ddrap14
@Yash.
@Mittal2002
@qpeedore
@NePtuNe Gaming
@qpeedore
@Yash.
@ddrap14
@mohsin7827
@Ashutosh.
@ahmedleo414
@Mittal2002
@Murtaza96






@ddrap14 you can start

 

[ddrap14]

Mohammad Hafeez batted at 1 for 41% of his innings. He goes into my team.

@Mittal2002

 

[ahmedleo414]

wow, I guess I completely forgot he was test opener most of his career

 

[Mittal2002]

I will go for Jonathan Trott, who has batted at no. 3 for nearly 80% of his total innings in tests and scored nearly 4000 runs for england and more than 18000 runs in FC cricket with an excellent average.

@ahmedleo414

 

[ahmedleo414]

My fist pick will be Umesh Yadav

Stats	Matches	Wickets	BBI	BBM	Bowling Ave	Econ	5w/10w
First Class	96	312	7/48	12/79	28.73	3.33	15/2
Test	48	148	6/88	10/133	30.54	3.55	3/1

Eligibility: Played 25 innings out of 55 at position 11 = 45%

Bio from cric info:

Less than two seasons after fast bowler Umesh Yadav first played with a leather ball, he was bowling against the likes of Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman in the Duleep Trophy. What makes his ascent even more remarkable is that he represents unglamorous Vidarbha in the Plate League of the Ranji Trophy. Yadav is the son of a coal-mine worker and was aiming to become a policeman. He only started considering a career in cricket as a 19-year-old, an age by which the best young Indian cricketers are in the running for a national cap.

As a fast bowler, he has many skills: he regularly bowls at over 140kph, moves the ball both ways, and has a pretty effective bouncer. These qualities helped him take 20 wickets at 14.60 in four games for Vidarbha in his debut season in 2008-09. While he made waves in the domestic scene, Umesh really caught the eye during IPL 2010, where he impressed a much wider audience with his pace for Delhi Daredevils. He finally broke into the big league, when he was flown to the West Indies as a replacement for the injured Praveen Kumar during the World Twenty20 tournament in May 2010, and earned his first call-up to the India Test team for the tour of South Africa in November the same year. He made the Test playing XI for the first time against West Indies in Delhi in November 2011, and picked up nine wickets in his first two Tests, which in turn earned him a place for the Australia tour.

My team so far:

1. C
2. O
3. N
4. T
5. I
6. N
7. G
8. E
9. N
10. C
11. Umesh Yadav

@mohsin7827 you are next

 

[mohsin7827]

11.Glenn McGrath

Format	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w	10w
Test	124	243	29248	12186	563	8/24	10/27	21.64	2.49	51.90	28	29	3

The young Glenn McGrath was described by Mike Whitney as "thin - but Ambrose-thin, not Bruce Reid-thin". Much later, Mike Atherton compared McGrath to Ambrose on a vaster scale. Catapulted from the outback of New South Wales into Test cricket to replace Merv Hughes in 1993, McGrath became the greatest Australian fast bowler of his time. He went on to beat Courtney Walsh's 519 wickets in the 2005 Super Test to become the leading wicket-taker among fast bowlers and his claim to the title of Australia's greatest fast man is contested only by Dennis Lillee. His obituary was prepared a few times - he was doubted after coming back in 2004 from ankle surgery and there were similar fears following a long lay-off to care for his wife two years later - but he wrote his own farewells. He retired from Tests at the SCG - his home ground - after Australia whitewashed England 5-0 in the 2006-07 Ashes and was adjudged the Man of the Tournament during Australia's successful World Cup campaign in 2007, his final one-day appearance.

McGrath's USP was an unremitting off-stump line and an immaculate length. He gained off-cut and bounce, specialised in the opposition's biggest wickets - especially Atherton's and Brian Lara's - and he was unafraid to back himself publicly in these key duels. He was a batting rabbit who applied himself so intently that while playing for Worcestershire he won a bet with an Australian team-mate by scoring a fifty. The hard work eventually paid off in Tests, when he made 61, then the third-highest score by a No. 11, against New Zealand in 2004-05. Only in his occasional fits of ill-temper did he fail himself.
Cricinfo staff February 2008

@NePtuNe Gaming

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

specifically 1-2-3

So a batsman has to play 40% of his innings specifically at No.1 position if there are 4 vowels?

 

[ahmedleo414]

So a batsman has to play 40% of his innings specifically at No.1 position if there are 4 vowels?

correct

 

[Neptune]

Trevor Goddard will be my opener #1. He batted there in 32/78 innings which is more than 40%.
His cricinfo bio reads
One of the great but most seldom acknowledged allrounders, Trevor Goddard is remembered for leading South Africa to a drawn series in Australia in 1963-64 after he had become captain virtually by default and his team had been described as no-hopers by the media in both countries. Instead, the tour launched the careers of such household names as Graeme and Peter Pollock, Eddie Barlow and Colin Bland. Goddard was a walking coaching manual, a left-hander of classically correct technique with bat and ball. His play was a model of economy of effort, and he was renowned for analysing opponents' strengths and weaknesses with uncanny accuracy and speed. A natural awayswinger to the right-hander, Goddard was also able to move the ball the other way. He remains one of South Africa's most solid opening batsmen. Goddard became an evangelist preacher after his retirement.

@Murtaza96

 

[Khan Sahab54]

Chris Gayle

 

[Yash.]

I guess I can pick now.



David Boon

Statistics

Tests - 7422 runs @ 43.65 (21 100s, 32 50s, HS - 200) in 190 innings
At No. 3 - 4412 runs @ 45.48 (13 100s, 20 50s, HS - 164*) in 111 innings

The man who could block at will, who could stay at one end for as long as possible. He could square cut even the fiercest of bowlers, and tire them at will.

@qpeedore