IN PROGRESS Yes, Another Big Bash Themed Draft

[Disharies]

Curtly Ambrose

 

[Aislabie]

One more all-time great to complete a hilariously OP T20 bowling attack.

1. Adam Gilchrist
2. Don Bradman
3.
4.
5.
6. Mike Procter
7. Richie Benaud
8. Wasim Akram
9. / Duncan Spencer
10. Waqar Younis
11. Derek Underwood

@mohsin7827

 

[Aravind.]

Curtly Ambrose

Buddy never seen you tag the next manager in this draft, kindly do it atleast from your next pick.

 

[mohsin7827]

Thunder #8: Sir Richard Hadlee
Role: Bowling All Rounder

one of the four great allrounders of the 1980s and had great skills with the ball, with today's t20s need of having your no. 8 who can bat and gives you quality 4 overs Hedlee will be perfect role player.

01. David Warner
02. Chris Gayle
03. Dean Jones
04. Suryakumar Yadav
05. Garfield Sobers
06. Shahid Afridi
08. Richard Hadlee
10. Joel Garner

@ahmedleo414

 

[Aislabie]

01. David Warner
02. Chris Gayle
03. Dean Jones
04. Suryakumar Yadav
05. Garfield Sobers
06. Shahid Afridi
08. Richard Hadlee
10. Joel Garner

This is a phenomenal team you're building - unless you've an absolutely evil rule to fulfil, this will be the best in the draft

 

[mohsin7827]

This is a phenomenal team you're building - unless you've an absolutely evil rule to fulfil, this will be the best in the draft

Thanks! Lucky for me it is completed.
Completely might have missed and not picked pre t20 legends without your Duncan Spencer pick.

 

[Viper.]

I dunno how the pre t20 legends thing works cause clearly nobody has seen them play t20 so i don’t get how one can judge.

Well yes you may have seen them play and attributed the style to t20 cricket, but that’s harder with bowlers. Plus, I’m too young to have watched pre t20 players play.

So I’ve been building purely a t20 specialists side cause otherwise I wouldn’t be able to judge my own picks

 

[Aislabie]

I dunno how the pre t20 legends thing works cause clearly nobody has seen them play t20 so i don’t get how one can judge.

So for me at least, I think there are levels to it:

• For very experienced ODI/List A players, it is quite evident how their kills will transfer, especially when we can see them bowl on film. In my team this applies to most of my bowling attack: Wasim, Waqar, Procter and Underwood are all very experienced one-day players with lots of surviving film.
• For others, I've picked on attributes: Duncan Spencer played little professiomal cricket, but to be the fastest Viv Richards ever faced means that he need only have/learn a slower ball to be a top quality T20 bowler. All the same, I put him as part of a six- rather than five- man attack because there will be off days
• For players with no List A experience and limited film, I had to be a bit choosier. For Bradman, well, it's Bradman, but his three-over century was a great demonstration that he could be a power hitter if the situation demands it. For Benaud, his selection was based more on the descriptions of his playing style: a leg-spinner who was fast through the air, not a big spinner but confidently mixing a leggie, googly and top spinner - the archetypal T20 spinner. His batting is more of a wildcard - he did once score 120 in an hour and a half in a Test match, but he and Wasim might be interchangeable at 7 & 8 depending on the situation.

Of course it does help that I've just been picking players who are already famous legends of the game, but there are also less famous players who could've been T20 guns for hire if not for being born at the wrong time: Jack Gregory, Jack Iverson, Bruce Taylor and Paul Winslow are just a few of the players who fit that mould.

More pressingly though, I don't think anybody has even picked Kapil yet.

 

[ddrap14]

Bruce Taylor and Paul Winslow

So two things:
1) Paul Winslow is a PHENOMENAL pull for my alternate history, please remind me if/when I get to Rhodesia being a Test nation
2) Bruce Taylor's link goes to a completely unrelated match in your England playthrough

ETA add George Bonnor to that list

 

[ahmedleo414]

My next two picks, Tim Southee and Jacques Kallis

WG Grace (Mission 2: 2/3)
Colin de Grandhomme (Mission 1: 1/3)
Rassie v.d. Dussen(Mission 2: 1/3)
Jacques Kallis
Kieron Pollard (Mission 1: 2/3)
Andre Russell (Mission 1: 3/3)
Mitch Starc
Tim Southee
Imran Tahir (Mission 2: 3/3)


@mohsin7827

 

[mohsin7827]

I dunno how the pre t20 legends thing works cause clearly nobody has seen them play t20 so i don’t get how one can judge.

Well yes you may have seen them play and attributed the style to t20 cricket, but that’s harder with bowlers. Plus, I’m too young to have watched pre t20 players play.

So I’ve been building purely a t20 specialists side cause otherwise I wouldn’t be able to judge my own picks

@Aislabie put it well
I have picks the pre t20 players in place of t20 players who are already picked and fills similar roles and style like Jones in place of Kohli, Garner in place of Bumrah

 

[mohsin7827]

Thunder #9: Moin Khan
Role: Wicket-Keeper
Bat Avg: 44.20 | Bat SR: 156.73

I wanted a hard hitting wicket keeper who can bat at no. 7 and Moin does it at speed and is not shy to improvisation. He can make already good situation better or can held the lower order together well.

01. David Warner
02. Chris Gayle
03. Dean Jones
04. Suryakumar Yadav
05. Garfield Sobers
06. Shahid Afridi
07. Moin Khan
08. Richard Hadlee
10. Joel Garner

@Aislabie

 

[Aislabie]

Bruce Taylor's link goes to a completely unrelated match in your England playthrough

I'm beginning to think my phone clipboard is entirely broken

 

[Aislabie]

Given the pre-T20 skew of my team so far this might come as a bit of a surprise, but Tilak Varma is already shaping up to be the pre-eminent T20 number three of this, and possibly any generation. When batting in this position he averages 49.30 at a strike rate of 151.77 and with a six every 12.9 balls; this includes his record-breaking three-innings stretch that totalled 378 runs from 170 balls (including 27 sixes) before being dismissed.

Whilst I'm not going to pretend that he's going to be at that level forever more, I absolutely am going to pick him as a bit of a modern influence on my less modern players.

1. Adam Gilchrist
2. Don Bradman
3. Tilak Varma
4.
5.
6. Mike Procter
7. Richie Benaud
8. Wasim Akram
9. / Duncan Spencer
10. Waqar Younis
11. Derek Underwood

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