I'm actually shocked it's taken so long for Dravid to be taken. That's without even considering he can keep as well. Should have been 2nd round pick really
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Stewart the better WK, Dravid the better cricketer. Mental that he goes in round 4.
Round 5 even.
Round 5 even.
He was not able to see image I posted on his phone.After abuse last round, Aldo must be nearing violence if this goes on.
What are you doing with harshad's phone?
- Harshad - TMH: 1. AB De Villiers 2. Curtly Ambrose 3. Brett Lee 4. S. Waugh 5. Dilshan
- Aldo-Varun: 1. S Tendulkar 2. Shane Bond 3. Yuvraj Singh 4. Mark Waugh 5. Andrew Symonds
- Edgar Allan Pillow: 1.Viv Richards 2. R. Hadlee 3. Dean Jones 4. M.Marshall 5. Dravid
- RedTiger - LeChuck: 1.A Gilchrist 2. Hashim Amla 3. J Miandad 4. Vaas
- VP: 1. Wasim Akram 2. D. Lillee 3. Brendon McCullum 4. Michael Clarke
- Mani - Ijazz17: 1. Glenn McGrath 2. Hayden 3. Mohammed Yousuf 4. Alec Stewart
- KM: 1. Allan Donald 2. Shane Watson 3. Saeed Ajmal 4. Aravinda De Silva
- PaulScholes18: 1. Kumar Sangakara 2. Sehwag 3. Holding 4. Rohit Sharma
- Boycott: 1. Waqar Younis 2. Ganguly 3. Malinga 4. Walsh
- MJJ - Akash: 1. Imran Khan 2. Lara 3.Pietersen 4. Steyn
- Crappy: 1. Jacques Kallis 2. Shane Warne 3. Shoaib Akhtar 4. Saeed Anwar
- The Red Viper: 1. Shaun Pollock 2. Klusener 3. Michael Hussey 4. Desmond Haynes
- Skizzo: 1. Murali 2. Jayasuriya 3. Gayle 4. Inzamam
- NM -Prath: 1. MS Dhoni 2. Virat Kohli 3. Flintoff 4. Andy Roberts
- Skills: 1. Ricky Ponting 2. Kapil Dev 3. Saqlain Mushtaq 4. Andy Flower
- Samid: 1. Joel Garner 2. Michael Bevan 3. Gordon Greenidge 4. Zaheer Abbas
Ofcourse but unless you have a specialist no 3 already, he's an obvious pick.
Yup. There's another player not picked who should have gone ages back.
@Mani You went for steward to open over dravid as 3. Would have had it the other way round without blinking.
Maybe they wanted a batsman-wicketkeeper. For all the qualities Dravid had, he wasn't a "great" one day batsmen by any stretch of imagination.
I feel people are rating the likes of Dravid, Imran Khan etc more by their test records rather than ODI.
I feel people are rating the likes of Dravid, Imran Khan etc more by their test records rather than ODI.
It's a little hard to justify but we wanted a solid opener to complement haydos. That was greenidge, but he got picked and by the time it came to our turn, most of the half decent openers were taken. Stewart offers that. He has a similar number of centuries to Dravid if I am not mistaken with having played fewer matches. Though average was on the lower side.
BTW @NM's team looking the strongest right now
With @The Red Viper and @Skizzo coming in at 2 and 3.
With @The Red Viper and @Skizzo coming in at 2 and 3.
Dravid's ODI carrier didn't start that well in fact he was dropped/ close to getting dropped from the ODI squad as they thought he was too slow for ODI and never rotate strike etc but he was much better late in his carrier, yes he's good at one down the order especially at test but comparatively as Samid said Alec is better keeper and we are looking at batsmen who complement well with Hayden at opening position.
Don't say that. I thought I had one of the strongest teams last time, and then Varun and Mani used 100 posts (plus what I thought was a lot of hyperbole) to win
It was a close one.Did both of them argue against you? It's bit of a ridiculous rule where two people can influence the voting. Ideally, no AM's should be allowed to debate. One vs One
People aren't kids. They read what's written and make then their own decision.
You think low of people if you think they simply vote for whoever does the highest selling. One of the finalists was the guy who barely posted anything other than an excel as his write up.
Edit : I do agree you had one of the strongest teams btw but that's what happens in a KO draft.
Obviously, that's why there should be one person arguing against another. A team who has two managers will obviously have an advantage as compared to a solo manager. If I'm not wrong, then I think this two people arguing against one is banned football drafts.
There aren't many spinners being picked. Are people prioritising part timers as their front line spinner?
Guys, give me 15mins. @harshad my second pick was Malcolm Marshall....
I'm going to make my pick without lechucks agreement, I'm sure he'll be OK with the pick.
Yep, plus Varun plays the "I'm neutral BUT my Manager's team is better because XXX really well"
I didn't post much in my match either. I'm not complaining, just stating a fact. It's the nature of the game.
It is what it is. I was just stating what I thought happened. One of the greatest spinners before Murali/Warne was shat on.
If an AM can't post, he would simply post in the convo and the manager would post it in the match thread. Unless people pretend something this obvious isn't happening, I don't see how it makes any difference. My point is that people read the arguments and then use that combined with what they know to decide. How many managers a side has makes no difference, neither does the volume of posts being made. If anything, excessive selling comes across as desperate.
Stewart vs Dravid in ODI isn't even close. Dravid is too good a player. Rahul Dravid just has the test batsman tag that goes against him and people consider him a tier below Lara and all but he had almost 11k runs and he was the partner when Sachin made 186 (he made 153) and Saurav made 183 (he made 145).
Why would I be neutral? How can it even be so? Makes no sense. Can you quote where I said that in our match thread? Would love to see it.
It isn't the nature of the game or skills wouldn't be in the finals. You're treating people as sheep who get swayed by volume of posts, that's obviously untrue.
Dravid's an ODI great. Over 10k runs, 39 average is excellent. He was just a lot more epic in tests, it kinda underplays his ODI talents. I feel it's the same with Tendulkar at times too but in reverse.
Just saying that two people can gang up over one person.
@NM Also, do quote where we shat on Lance Gibbs in the match thread.
The funny thing about Dravid is that for all the talks of slow batting he ended his career with a strike rate of 71 while Ganguly had a SR of 73 with the image of an attacking opening batsman.
There is one really good batsman left who could bat at 3/4 and was one of the best fielders of his generation.
He played one of my favourite ODI innings in England in 2007, where he came in at the end and smashed a brilliant 90 odd runs after the commentary was wondering if he was the right man to come in during that situation.
At 3 ?
Boom boom
His batting is overstated.
You have no idea who I am talking about, I am sure that he will be picked soon.
I do think two people arguing for one side at the same time is a little unfair. It's fine if they only enter the thread when the other isn't around, imo. Most people do make up their own minds though - otherwise Skills would not have gotten very far last draft.
I'm pretty certain I know who you're talking about.
Quality batsman but a little defensive no?