The One Day Bands Draft

[ddrap14]

Yash and Neo are now both on autoskip until they return to actually make picks.

@Till Valhalla otc

 

[Till Valhalla]

Brian Bennett
@Perfect Square

 

[Perfect Square]

30% Band Pick:

Salman Agha



20% Band Pick:

Pat Cummins



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01. Yashasvi Jaiswal
02. Nishan Madushka
03. Dawid Malan
04. Venkatesh Iyer
05. Salman Agha
06. Sherfane Rutherford
07. Liam Dawson
08. Pat Cummins
09.
10. Abrar Ahmed
11. Vince van der Bijl

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Back to you one last time. @Till Valhalla

 

[Till Valhalla]

Anshuman Rath
@Neo 7
Or maybe @Supreme General

 

[Supreme General]

Been putting off my uncapped player for long enough, might as well use him now. Like many others I’m going with a South African but unlike the rest of them he wasn’t denied by apartheid he’s denied because he’s 19 years old. Luckily this draft didn’t drag on any longer cause he’s currently selected to play in their ODI squad to play Australia soon.
My uncapped pick, my opener, my keeper is Lhuan-Dre Pretorius


1. Lhuan-Dre Pretorius (0)
2. Kim Barnett (1)
3. Rohan Kanhai (5-7)
4. Harry Brook (21-32)
5. Jacob Bethell (8-12)
6. Dan Christian (13-20)
7.
8. George Linde (2)
9. Qais Ahmad (3-4)
10. Joel Garner (94+)
11. Jasprit Bumrah (54-93)


Would be @Yash. but autoskip so @mohsin7827

 

[ddrap14]

Sit rep: @Yash. @Neo 7 @Umair7 all have multiple outstanding picks and need to make them at their convenience

 

[mohsin7827]

Bob Simpson:
Bob Simpson will return to captain the side and bat a six.

01. Dennis Amiss
02. Matthew Elliott
03. Zaheer Abbas
04. Ryan ten Doeschate
05.
06. Bob Simpson
07. Jaker Ali
08. Franklyn Stephenson
09. Dunith Wellalage
10. Wasim Akram
11. Sylvester Clarke

@Aislabie

 

[Neo 7]

Washington Sundar & ?

 

[Yash.]

1. Ayush Mhatre
2. Prithwi Shaw
3. Bevan Congdon
4. Daryl Mitchell
5. AB de Villiers
6. Rinku Singh
7. ?
8. Ottis Gibson
9. Varun Chakaravarthy
10. Dilshan Madushanka
11. Shane Bond

I'll pick Bevan Congdon and Prithwi Shaw.

Bevan spent most of his short ODI career batting at number 3 and mantaining a batting average of over 50. Even in List A cricket, he ended up with an average over 40. Add to that his captaincy skills and his handy bowling in the middle overs, he'll be a complete package at number 3.

While his stock is quite low nowadays, it's hard to look past Prithwi Shaw's inhumane average of 55 in List A cricket, that too at a strike rate of 125. Paired with Mhatre, this will be an opening partnership to watch.

 

[Aislabie]

Matthew Breetzke
233 runs @ 116.50 (SR: 100.43, 1 century, best 150) in 2 ODI matches

We're taking full advantage of a small sample size here, but we have to when the person picking before us takes our would-be captain. Breetzke does improve the Northants quota of this side though.

1. Barry Richards
2. Ibrahim Zadran
3. Matthew Breetzke
4. Michael Hussey
5. Heinrich Klaasen
6.
7. Gary Gilmour
8. Keith Boyce
9. Ryan Harris
10. Lance Gibbs
11. Dirk Nannes

 

[ddrap14]

Here's my matchwinner.

Lance Klusener was a very good batsman who averaged 40 in ODIs, usually as a late overs hitter. Lance Klusener was a very good bowler who averaged under 30 with the ball and conceded under five runs an over. But Lance Klusener's greatest asset was the clutch. Yes that's weird to say about a South African in ODIs, but he was on the correct end of two of their most infamous chokes - he was the guy who got them even into the position where Allan Donald could run himself out, and he was the guy at the other end when Mark Boucher misread the DLS. Plus, he means I can take a glovework specialist as my keeper rather than a sub-average keeper-batsman.

@Bladezz

 

[Neo 7]

Washington Sundar & ?

& Mohammed Siraj .

 

[Umair7]

Gurinder Sandhu & Matt Henry