Draft: The Role-Reversal Draft

[Aislabie]

Clyde Walcott

Test stats: 3,798 runs @ 56.68 (15 centuries, best 220) and 38 dismissals (27 ct, 11 st) in 44 matches
First-class stats: 11,820 runs @ 56.55 (40 centuries, best 314*) and ??? dismissals (??? ct, 33 st) in 146 matches

Was wicket-keeper: 15 times (34.1%)

Walcott is the part-time keeper I've had my eye on from the very start: an excellent gloveman in his own right, but one who ultimately became a full-time batsman for the West Indies because that was how he had the greatest value above a replacement player. In this way, he's very comparable to a more modern legend in Kumar Sangakkara... who in hindsight I should have picked, but I'm not going to edit away my pick like that.

@Aislabie 's XI so far:
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8. Sanath Jayasuriya
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@Yash.

 

[Yash.]

Daniel Vettori



Statistics :-

Test: 4531 Runs @ 30.00 (6 Hundreds) in 113 Matches
First Class : 6695 Runs @ 29.25 (9 Hundreds) in 174 Matches

Dan Vettori always appealed to me. Whether it was his captaincy, or his iconic (at least for me) full sleeves, spectacled smart bowling. He was also a handy lower order batsman for the Kiwis. He has the most runs in the positions 8-11 in Test cricket, where he made runs at an average of 32. He’ll bat no. 6 for me here as he made a century at that position.[DOUBLEPOST=1588883459][/DOUBLEPOST]@Na Maloom Afraad

 

[Master Bates]

@Na Maloom Afraad dual picks (including the old one)
@Asham old pick left buddy!

 

[Na Maloom Afraad]

Yes, apologies for the delay. Was a little busy.

Irfan Pathan - he has opened the innings on four occasions and came out to bat at number three on two. He's batted at number eight or below for India 28 times out of his 40 innings (70.0%). He averages 31.57 with the bat, has one century and six fifties.

Ravichandran Ashwin - a capable enough batsman to have four centuries and eleven fifties to his name in Test cricket. Out of the 98 innings he batted in, he only played in the top seven 30 times. That's 30.61%.

 

[Aislabie]

Shane Watson

Test stats: 75 wickets @ 33.68 (3 5WI, best 6/33) in 59 matches
First-class stats: 210 wickets @ 29.97 (7 5WI, best 7/69) in 137 matches

Bowled in first four: 47 times (39.8%)

Shane Watson started his career as a genuine all-rounder, but the more broken his body became, the more he became a batsman who could bowl a bit as a second string. By the end of his career, he had been one of Australia's first four bowlers 47 times in his 59 Test matches - the absolute maximum number of times allowed before he became ineligible. Given how difficult it will be to find good pace bowlers in this draft, I'm really happy to find that Watson is available.

@Aislabie 's XI so far:
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7. Clyde Walcott
8. Sanath Jayasuriya
9. Shane Watson
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@CerealKiller

 

[CerealKiller]

I'll go with Chaminda Vaas, who has batted just 18 times in the top seven, in 162 innings at the crease, averaging 24, with 13 fifties, and a high score of 100*.

CerealKiller's XI
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7. Javed Miandad
8. Steve Waugh
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@Yash.

 

[Yash.]

My pick would be:

Carl Hooper

Writeup Later

 

[CerealKiller]

@Life Warrior

 

[Master Bates]

I think @Aislabie has a certain advantage because he came up with the rules. [HASHTAG]#NotFair[/HASHTAG] Aislabie has done his homework.

 

[Aislabie]

Aislabie has done his homework.

I'm really not going to dedicate my time to getting an unfair edge in a draft like this. And I've even pointed everyone towards a couple of monster players who are eligible here but who haven't been taken yet. One in particular is baffling.

 

[Life Warrior]

Mitchell Starc
An Australian international cricketer who plays for the Australian national team and New South Wales in domestic cricket. He is a left-arm fast bowler and a capable lower order left-handed batsman. He has a Batting Average of 22.7 in Tests on Number 8 and below positions.
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Eligibility: Batted on Number 8 or below : 49 Times out of 57 Innings (85.9%)

DD's Role Reversal XI

1. Umesh Yadav
2. Mitchell Starc
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8. Rohit Sharma
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[Na Maloom Afraad]

@ahmedleo414 you're next mate

Also, @Asham you have a late pick pending

 

[ahmedleo414]

My next pick is Kane Williamson for bowling

For the 80 tests he played, Border bowled in the first 4 positions in 4 matches: 5%

His bio from cricinfo:

"By the time Kane Williamson is finished with playing cricket, it is probable that he will be New Zealand's greatest batsman. Even Martin Crowe endorsed that view. But he may also finish as one of the game's most loved global figures. Williamson is ambidextrous, bats right-handed in the top order across formats, and has become a pillar of the New Zealand side since he made his debut in 2010.

Williamson was born into a sporting family in Tauranga, the largest city in New Zealand's Bay of Plenty region. His father had played Under-17 cricket for Northern Districts, his mother was a representative basketball player, and his sisters played volleyball at age-group level. Williamson took to cricket and it grew beyond a hobby quite quickly. He was modest about his skills, too, - "Everyone is gifted, I guess, but you get some that seem exceptionally so. I'm not one of them," - yet Williamson was billed to make it since he was 14. He scored a century on Test debut at the age of 20, and at 24 years and 151 days he was the youngest New Zealand batsman to 3000 Test runs- younger than Don Bradman too. At the crease, Williamson is comfortable against pace and spin, and he trusts the coaching manual explicitly despite the mutation of batting in the Twenty20 era. Among his best performances is his maiden Test double-century in January 2015, which helped New Zealand come from behind and beat Sri Lanka in Wellington. The innings was a testament to Williamson's hunger for runs and batting time - he was dissatisfied despite making 242 in over 10 hours.

Williamson has made his orthodoxy work and is capable of scoring at a brisk tempo - he has a T20 hundred for Northern Knights and became the quickest New Zealand batsman, and fifth overall, to 3000 ODI runs. For a measure of his consistency, he has two streaks of five or more successive fifty-plus scores in ODIs in 20 months since 2014. He is rarely drawn to emotion and is a genial, but hard, competitor - Williamson once struck the winning six in a roller-coaster, one-wicket win over Australia in the 2015 World Cup, and celebrated with a smile and the calmest of fist pumps as Eden Park exploded in raucous jubilation. Williamson is also an outstanding catcher and a part-time offspinner, though he needed to remodel his bowling after being banned from bowling in international cricket in June 2014 for an illegal action.

With the mental strength to match his skills, Williamson was an automatic choice to take over the captaincy at the World T20 in 2016, soon after the retirement of the inspirational Brendon McCullum. Williamson led the team to four back-to-back victories in India, and was highly praised for his tactics that helped the team adapt to slow, turning pitches, before they were beaten by England in the semi-final.

In 2018, Williamson led New Zealand to two famous Test series wins. In April, he became the fourth New Zealand captain to win a series against England. In December, he was the chief architect of New Zealand's first away Test series win over Pakistan in 49 years, with 89 and 139 in the final Test. He became the first New Zealander to score 20 Test centuries in 2019 with an unbeaten double century against Bangladesh at home.

But he elevated himself into the global pantheon of greats at the 2019 World Cup, where he was not only named player of the tournament but he carried himself with unprecedented class as the trophy was snatched from New Zealand's hands by England in the greatest final of all time. He made two match-winning centuries against South Africa and West Indies and a vital 67 in a famous semi-final win against India to get New Zealand to a second successive World Cup final. His captaincy and calmness among the mayhem of a tied final and tied Super Over was extraordinary. His conduct in the aftermath having lost the Cup on a one-off tie-break provision where the team with the most boundaries wins, was even more incredible."

I have him batting down at 4, he is a great middle order batsman

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7. Hanif Mohammad
8. Allan Border
9. Kane Williamson
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@Asham you have the next two picks, as well as a previous pick (total 3 picks)

 

[Asham]

Sorry for the delay from my side, here are my pending picks


Firstly, we got a keeper in our side with Rahul Dravid who was an occasional wicket-keeper for India till 2004. He kept the wickets in the 2003 World Cup too. 71 catches and 13 stumpings aren't that bad for an occasional Wicket-keeper.

Second, Stuart Broad is the pick. He started his career as a batsman, but quite early switched to bowling. Stuart Broad showed some of his batting skills numerous times, recalling that knock of 169 when England were 7 down with the support of Jonathan Trott had a 300+ partnership. Although, this match is famous for other reasons, which everyone probably knows.

Third, England's Test captain Joe Root has many big wickets under his name. A proper part-time bowler always does his job when the team requires him.



ASHAM XI
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4. Stuart Broad
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7. Rahul Dravid
8. Joe Root
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I guess @Yash. is next

 

[ahmedleo414]

Just as an FYI, no big deal but "wicket-keeper also must not bat in the top six positions." You just need to move Dravid down to 7