Draft: The Alphabet Draft 3 - Revenge of the Consonants

[ddrap14]

Irfan Pathan to complete the bowling lineup. I wanted Imran but he was 23%, so Irfan's 60% will do nicely. Will be first change paceman too

@qpeedore

 

[Yash.]

Issac Vivian Alexander Richards at no. 5
Sir Richard Hadlee at no. 7

Sorry for such barebones posts, but I'll give a whole summary of my team once it's formed.

 

[ahmedleo414]

@qpeedore missed his time @sanchitgarg is next

 

[sanchitgarg]

2. Kieran Omar Akeem Powell
He played 64 out of 79 innings at number 2
.

 

[ahmedleo414]

@mohsin7827 you got next

 

[mohsin7827]

2. Alastair Cook
136/291

@Mittal2002

 

[Mittal2002]

10) Dennis Lillee

Bowling​

Format	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w	10w
Test	70	132	18467	8493	355	7/83	11/123	23.92	2.75	52.00	23	23	7
FC	198		44806	20695	882	8/29		23.46	2.77	50.80		50	13

Eligibility- 30/90= 33% innings at no. 10.

 

[ahmedleo414]

@ddrap14 you're next

 

[ahmedleo414]

just a reminder to everyone, if you do not meet your 4 pick required picks, you will have to let one of your other picks go in order to meet the requirement

 

[ddrap14]

Mohammad Yousuf at 5 - exactly 50% of the time there
@ahmedleo414

 

[ahmedleo414]

My next pick

David "Andrew" Warner

Stats	Matches	Runs	HS	Batting Ave	100s/50s
First Class	117	9,790	335*	48.46	32/39
Test	86	7,331	335*	48.09	24/30

Eligibility: Played 107 innings out of 159 at position 2 = 67.30%

Bio from cricinfo:

David Warner's extraordinary batting feats in all three formats for Australia will forever be overshadowed by his role as the architect of the Newlands ball-tampering scandal in 2018 and his place as a central figure in Australian cricket's ensuing cultural crisis.

Warner was charged as the man who instructed team-mate Cameron Bancroft to use sandpaper on the ball in the infamous Cape Town Test. Although he was not charged by the ICC he was banned from international and Australian domestic cricket by Cricket Australia for 12 months. He was stripped of the vice-captaincy and banned from leadership roles for life.

However, he returned for the 2019 World Cup and enjoyed a prolific tournament before suffering a record-breakingly poor Ashes were he made just 95 runs in 10 innings. The bounce back was emphatic as he scored an unbeaten 335 against Pakistan in Adelaide - the second highest Test score by an Australian - during a home summer which was crowned with the Allan Border Medal

Prior to his ban, Warner had established himself as one of the best all-format openers in the world. In 2015 his seniority was recognised when he was named vice-captain to Steven Smith in the Test and ODI sides and he led the ODI side and T20 sides with great success when Smith was rested. It was quite a turnaround for the man who two years earlier had been suspended by Cricket Australia for punching England's Joe Root in a bar-room altercation in Birmingham, and had also been warned over a Twitter spat with a pair of journalists. It also completed a remarkable rise for a man who burst onto the international scene in 2008-09 as a T20 specialist; he was the first man since 1877 to debut for Australia before playing first-class cricket. His breathtaking 89 from 43 balls on debut against South Africa told the world of his talent, but few at the time expected him to become a key Test player as well.

My team so far:

1. Prithvi Shaw
2. David "Andrew" Warner
3. Cheteshwar Pujara
4. Niall O'Brien
5. Kevin O'Brien
6. Yuvraj Singh
7. E
8. R
9. Craig Overton
10. David O'Sullivan
11. T

@Yash. you're next

 

[Yash.]

N Kapil Dev at number 8 for me.
@ddrap14

 

[ddrap14]

Mudassar Nazar at 1 for me. 66/116

@sanchitgarg

 

[qpeedore]

Wait, we're taking middle names in this one?

 

[ahmedleo414]

Wait, we're taking middle names in this one?

Yes