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SOTM Winner - July 2014
It's @blockerdave next. AB has had a long career, so I can't wait to see what the next few picks are.
This is actually a pretty good Draft, because while you can sort of plan in terms of decades, you really can't plan long term...unless your name is @Aislabie, who always seems to ace these Drafts.
I've got Sobers and @ahmedleo414 has Gibbs. Here's a weird stat from a recent "Ask Steven" column on CricInfo...Sobers took a wicket every 91 point something balls, and Gibbs did so every 87ish balls. Yet Gibbs' average is under 30, with an economy under two. Among Test bowlers who have taken more than 200 wickets, they are highest in terms of strike rate. Yet I'd still never disagree with Gibbs as a pick. Keeping one end quiet until, somewhere in his 15th over, after bowling 10 maidens, he strikes.
Here's the column, for those interested.
Ask Steven - Who has scored 10,000 runs in T20 cricket but never played a Test?
EDIT: Ooh, another weird stat. Sobers' 365 included a total of zero sixes. This is a man who would later hit Malcolm Nash for FC cricket's first ever "total" 6-ball over. Hutton, another (twice!) picked player, hit no sixes in his 364. Weirdly enough, when Lara hit his 375 (another player previously picked in this Draft), it also included no sixes. That's rather unusual, as ODI cricket was reshaping the Test game at that time in 1994.
This is actually a pretty good Draft, because while you can sort of plan in terms of decades, you really can't plan long term...unless your name is @Aislabie, who always seems to ace these Drafts.
I've got Sobers and @ahmedleo414 has Gibbs. Here's a weird stat from a recent "Ask Steven" column on CricInfo...Sobers took a wicket every 91 point something balls, and Gibbs did so every 87ish balls. Yet Gibbs' average is under 30, with an economy under two. Among Test bowlers who have taken more than 200 wickets, they are highest in terms of strike rate. Yet I'd still never disagree with Gibbs as a pick. Keeping one end quiet until, somewhere in his 15th over, after bowling 10 maidens, he strikes.
Here's the column, for those interested.
Ask Steven - Who has scored 10,000 runs in T20 cricket but never played a Test?
EDIT: Ooh, another weird stat. Sobers' 365 included a total of zero sixes. This is a man who would later hit Malcolm Nash for FC cricket's first ever "total" 6-ball over. Hutton, another (twice!) picked player, hit no sixes in his 364. Weirdly enough, when Lara hit his 375 (another player previously picked in this Draft), it also included no sixes. That's rather unusual, as ODI cricket was reshaping the Test game at that time in 1994.
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Hanif Mohammad 
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