Draft: The Exclusive Club Draft

[Viper.]

Will pick by tomorrow afternoon , in about 14 hours if that’s ok?

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

Will pick by tomorrow afternoon , in about 14 hours if that’s ok?

Perfectly fine if done within 24 hours of the last pick

 

[Viper.]

For some balance in my XI, I'm going to go with a controversial one from the 2009 World Twenty20 winning side- Yep you guessed it-



BOOM BOOM Shahid Afridi will complete my bowling attack but his batting will definitely not be ignored. With 395 ODI wickets and 98 wickets in T20Is, he's going to pair Muralitharan in the spin attack as a leggie. His pinch-hitting and aggression will also add firepower to my lower-middle-order.

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1. Sunil Gavaskar
2. Sir Gordon Greenidge
3. Sir Vivian Richards
4.
5. Steve Waugh
6. Michael Bevan
7. Imran Khan
8. Shahid Afridi
9. Malcolm Marshall
10. Muttiah Muralitharan
11. James Anderson

@Fenil

 

[noducksallowed]

Shami was a brilliant pick but not to be. I think Joe Root is a little off-place for his style of play. There is still a fantastic player for that spot who is unpicked.

Yeah, I think there's so much firepower in that batting line up that having someone like Root to bat through adds balance to the side.

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For some balance in my XI, I'm going to go with a controversial one from the 2009 World Twenty20 winning side- Yep you guessed it-

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BOOM BOOM Shahid Afridi will complete my bowling attack but his batting will definitely not be ignored. With 395 ODI wickets and 98 wickets in T20Is, he's going to pair Muralitharan in the spin attack as a leggie. His pinch-hitting and aggression will also add firepower to my lower-middle-order.

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1. Sunil Gavaskar
2. Sir Gordon Greenidge
3. Sir Vivian Richards
4.
5. Steve Waugh
6. Michael Bevan
7. Imran Khan
8. Shahid Afridi
9. Malcolm Marshall
10. Muttiah Muralitharan
11. James Anderson

@Fenil

cereal killer already has Afridi in his side

 

[Fenil]

May I ask for extra time please. My granny has expired today. Need some time to recollect.

I will try to pick a player tomorrow.

 

[Aravind.]

May I ask for extra time please. My granny has expired today. Need some time to recollect.

I will try to pick a player tomorrow.

RIP

I can wait until you return, take care mate.

 

[noducksallowed]

Take your time Fenil... @Viper. has to remove the Afridi pick anyway.

@Verified Enigma over to you for review

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

@Viper. Shahid Afridi is already picked so your pick becomes invalid. Kindly pick someone else.

@Fenil take care mate. Hope she rests peacefully.

I will be making my pick post Fenil's picks. Surely we can wait for a while...

 

[Viper.]

Condolences and sorry for your loss, @Fenil . No hurries


And about the pick, that sucks, I'll make my replacement pick in 12 hours cause it's again late night for me. Need to run through my options. Would also be nice if the main post was updated cause I didn't see Shahid there.

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Nvm, even though the front page ain't updated, missing Afridi was my own mistake as he was picked quite early and is updated

 

[Fenil]

Thanks for your support, guys.

Five 50+ scores including a hundred amassing 440+ runs at a SR of 115+ and averaging 63+ in just 7 innings depicting the consistency, prowess and sheer dominance, I pick one of the best white ball openers in recent times - Jason Roy.



1. Roy
2.
3. Clarke
4. Yuvraj
5. ABD
6. Maxwell
7. Kapil Dev
8. Hogg
9. Vaas
10. Starc
11. Tait

@mohsin7827 is next I guess.

 

[mohsin7827]

1. Rohit Sharma
2. Chris Gayle
3. Kumar Sangakkara
4. Dean Jones
5. Clive Lloyd
6.
7. Lance Klusener
8. James Faulkner
9. Zaheer Khan
10. Shane Warne
11. Brett Lee

MoM in WC final and some memorable performance lower down the order.

@Verified Enigma

 

[Fenil]

Yeah, I think there's so much firepower in that batting line up that having someone like Root to bat through adds balance to the side.

You sure have aggressive openers but...

Mark Waugh is batting out of place (was an opener most times)

Pointing is batting out of place (was the best #3 batsman but you have him at #4. You would want him to be at 3 to control the innings).

Sir Sobers didn't play much ODIs and what he could have achieved is only a fairytale with no conclusion much like the case of a certain all-rounder having the initials as C.R.

You picked Root who could bring "balance" to the side but if he is batting that low, I guess you would need a player who could shift gears at will and Root is certainly not one of those despite his good T20 record. He is largely a one gear person although a class act at that.

All in all, my personal opinion is that yours is a bunch of brilliant out of place individuals that in real world would most likely suffer the same fate as the ill fitted bunch of legends did in ICC World XI team against Australia back in the day.

 

[Viper.]

I still have to pick my replacement guys can you give me a few hours

 

[Viper.]

My 10th pick will also be my first pick from Sri Lanka's 1996 World Cup Squad, and is their top run getter in that winning triumph-



Aravinda de Silva fits like a jigsaw piece in my XI's puzzle. He will bat at No. 4 and share the sixth bowling duties with Steve Waugh. Averaging 42.98 in Tests and 35 in ODIs, the main thing to note is his 448 runs in just 6 games in the 1996 WC, at an average of 109.67 which was instrumental to winning Sri Lanka the trophy. I haven't picked a lot of players who have actually excelled in the World Cups they've won, but de Silva comes as a perfect choice for that.

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1. Sunil Gavaskar
2. Sir Gordon Greenidge
3. Sir Vivian Richards
4. Aravinda de Silva
5. Steve Waugh
6. Michael Bevan
7. Imran Khan
8.
9. Malcolm Marshall
10. Muttiah Muralitharan
11. James Anderson

 

[noducksallowed]

You sure have aggressive openers but...

Mark Waugh is batting out of place (was an opener most times)

Pointing is batting out of place (was the best #3 batsman but you have him at #4. You would want him to be at 3 to control the innings).

Sir Sobers didn't play much ODIs and what he could have achieved is only a fairytale with no conclusion much like the case of a certain all-rounder having the initials as C.R.

You picked Root who could bring "balance" to the side but if he is batting that low, I guess you would need a player who could shift gears at will and Root is certainly not one of those despite his good T20 record. He is largely a one gear person although a class act at that.

All in all, my personal opinion is that yours is a bunch of brilliant out of place individuals that in real world would most likely suffer the same fate as the ill fitted bunch of legends did in ICC World XI team against Australia back in the day.

I made the mistake of picking Waugh after picking Warner because I had forgotten the Warner pick!

So I basically moved them down a slot each but Waugh is a world cup great and Ponting a legend, I don't think it would affect them much at all. Plus Roots strikerate is nowhere near as bad as its made out and his run of scores in 2019 is more than worth it. My batting looks killer and consistent...yours definitely has more firepower but not consistent as mine.

There's always a bit of give and take with ODI selections.