Opener1
Opener2
Kallis
Inzy
Boon
Haddin
Shakib-Al-Hasan
Shastri
Morkel
Anderson
Bond
My team. Comments anyone?
Opener2
Kallis
Inzy
Boon
Haddin
Shakib-Al-Hasan
Shastri
Morkel
Anderson
Bond
My team. Comments anyone?
RedCafe Cricket Draft
- Thread starter KM
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Good bowling depth with very deep batting line up. Kallis gives so much balance to any side and with Inzy following Kallis in the batting line up you look good. You could even use Boon as an opener if push comes to shove. Your team looks really solid.
I think some of the lads here focused a bit too much on batsmen and have no real strike bowlers capable of getting 20 wickets in 5 days.
True. I reckon my bowling attack is more than capable of getting 20 wickets. Anderson, Morkel, Bond and Kallis is a great fast bowling attack. Al Hasan and Shastri can also chip in with wickets.
Wasn't Boon always a number 3 batsman? Seems too low in the order for me.
I also thought so, that's why I suggested he can use Boon as opener even. Boon used to open in ODI's I think.
EDIT: Oh snap, I'm giving you tips here. Last of that, that's for sure!
Lower order is dodgy for me- Shastri probably the only sorta reliable batsmen there, should be coming in place of Haddin
Bowling looks solid but it is going to come down to how much your new age pacers get rated compared to oldies. I personally would vote for someone like Gough, Caddick before Bond. Kallis helps you out lot in bowling aspect though. It is going to come down to match ups so very hard to predict anything now.
In Anderson and Morkel though, they are two world class bowlers. Kallis too at his peak was world class in bowling.
Pick againAs is nm03.
My bad, didn't see. Knew it was too good to be true.Award for first cock-up of this nature of the draft?
Award for first cock-up of this nature of the draft?
There's no award. There's a penalty. You get Venkatpathy Raju.
Pick won't take too long, will put it up shortly. Just running over other names, making sure I've got the best ... of the worst that are left
Patrick Patterson
Crazy man, but a very attacking fast bowler. Yes an average of 30 runs per wicket, but that was the nature of his game. He'd risk the runs to get the wickets. Probably among the best that's left at this stage. Oh and yes, I did check seven times to make sure I didn't feck up and that no one had yet picked him. Now, someone will still tell me they did though
Crazy man, but a very attacking fast bowler. Yes an average of 30 runs per wicket, but that was the nature of his game. He'd risk the runs to get the wickets. Probably among the best that's left at this stage. Oh and yes, I did check seven times to make sure I didn't feck up and that no one had yet picked him. Now, someone will still tell me they did though
Providing the above pick is original, which it probably isn't [ ], the following is the tale of the tape so far. Need an opener and either another batsmen that's a good #8, or final bowler. Not sure yet. Don't regret picking Fleming, he's one of my favourite bowlers of all time (yes, I know, quirky) but that's the fun of the game... personal preference and all that.
1. Andrew Strauss
2. xxx
3. Ricky Ponting (c)
4. Graham Thorpe
5. Ian Bell
6. Ian Healy (wk)
7. Irfan Pathan (all-rounder)
8. xxx
9. Damien Fleming
10. Harbhajan Singh
11. Patrick Patterson
], the following is the tale of the tape so far. Need an opener and either another batsmen that's a good #8, or final bowler. Not sure yet. Don't regret picking Fleming, he's one of my favourite bowlers of all time (yes, I know, quirky) but that's the fun of the game... personal preference and all that. 1. Andrew Strauss
2. xxx
3. Ricky Ponting (c)
4. Graham Thorpe
5. Ian Bell
6. Ian Healy (wk)
7. Irfan Pathan (all-rounder)
8. xxx
9. Damien Fleming
10. Harbhajan Singh
11. Patrick Patterson
Patrick Patterson
Crazy man, but a very attacking fast bowler. Yes an average of 30 runs per wicket, but that was the nature of his game. He'd risk the runs to get the wickets. Probably among the best that's left at this stage. Oh and yes, I did check seven times to make sure I didn't feck up and that no one had yet picked him. Now, someone will still tell me they did though
I did that check so many times yesterday and thought Stephen Fleming was already picked when in fact it was Damien Fleming.
KM - Kallis, Inzy, Anderson, Shane Bond, Morne Morkel, Shakib Al Hasan, David Boon, Ravi Shashtri, Brad Haddin,
Omar Dalvi - Tendulkar, Kaneria, Boucher, Caddick, Mohammed Asif, Katich, Mitchell Johnson, Shoaib Mohammad, Nasser Hussain
AldoRaine18 - S Waugh, Flower, Jayawardene, Mark Taylor, Merv Hughes, Gibbs, Hoggard, Collingwood, Ranatunga
Unitedfan101 - Ponting, Harbhajan, Ian Healy, Damien Fleming, Strauss, Ian Bell, Thorpe, I Pathan, Patrick Patterson
Zen - Gilchrist, Vettori, Jason Gillespie, Darren Gough, Damien Martyn, Angus Fraser, Vaughan, Sidhu
Interval Level - Akram, S. Mushtaq, Chanderpaul, Watson, Gul, Brendan McCullum, Gambhir, Robin Smith
ha_rooney - Warne, de Villiers, Vaas, Langer, Clark, Richardson, Trescothick, Tillakaratne,
nm03 - Lara, VVS Laxman, Stewart, Ntini, Reiffel, Broad, Dean Jones, Mushtaq Ahmed,
kps88 - Murali, Flintoff, Jayasuriya, Azharuddin, Zaheer, G. Lawson, Slater, Saleem Malik,
R-Indian - McGrath, Kumble, G Smith, M. Clarke, B McMillan, Streak, A DeSilva, Dujon
Desert Eagle - Hayden, Sehwag, M.Hussey, Dhoni, Sammy, Srinath, D. Morrison, Malinga
Crappy - Dravid, Walsh, Chris Cairns, G. Kirsten, M. Crowe, S. Mcgill, Alderman, Cullinan
MJJ - Younis, Steyn, M. Yousuf, Ganguly, S. Ajmal, Trott, Sarwan, Atapattu
Mightberight - Pollock, Ambrose, A.Cook, Akhtar, Swann,M. Prior, Gayle, Fleming
Donadol - Sangakarra, Donald, Pietersen, McDermott, M. Waugh, S. Anwar, Atherton, Hooper
Stretch - Amla, Lee, Younis Khan, Ian Bishop, Samarweera, F. De Villiers, T. Dilshan, K.Wessels
PM Zen.
Omar Dalvi - Tendulkar, Kaneria, Boucher, Caddick, Mohammed Asif, Katich, Mitchell Johnson, Shoaib Mohammad, Nasser Hussain
AldoRaine18 - S Waugh, Flower, Jayawardene, Mark Taylor, Merv Hughes, Gibbs, Hoggard, Collingwood, Ranatunga
Unitedfan101 - Ponting, Harbhajan, Ian Healy, Damien Fleming, Strauss, Ian Bell, Thorpe, I Pathan, Patrick Patterson
Zen - Gilchrist, Vettori, Jason Gillespie, Darren Gough, Damien Martyn, Angus Fraser, Vaughan, Sidhu
Interval Level - Akram, S. Mushtaq, Chanderpaul, Watson, Gul, Brendan McCullum, Gambhir, Robin Smith
ha_rooney - Warne, de Villiers, Vaas, Langer, Clark, Richardson, Trescothick, Tillakaratne,
nm03 - Lara, VVS Laxman, Stewart, Ntini, Reiffel, Broad, Dean Jones, Mushtaq Ahmed,
kps88 - Murali, Flintoff, Jayasuriya, Azharuddin, Zaheer, G. Lawson, Slater, Saleem Malik,
R-Indian - McGrath, Kumble, G Smith, M. Clarke, B McMillan, Streak, A DeSilva, Dujon
Desert Eagle - Hayden, Sehwag, M.Hussey, Dhoni, Sammy, Srinath, D. Morrison, Malinga
Crappy - Dravid, Walsh, Chris Cairns, G. Kirsten, M. Crowe, S. Mcgill, Alderman, Cullinan
MJJ - Younis, Steyn, M. Yousuf, Ganguly, S. Ajmal, Trott, Sarwan, Atapattu
Mightberight - Pollock, Ambrose, A.Cook, Akhtar, Swann,M. Prior, Gayle, Fleming
Donadol - Sangakarra, Donald, Pietersen, McDermott, M. Waugh, S. Anwar, Atherton, Hooper
Stretch - Amla, Lee, Younis Khan, Ian Bishop, Samarweera, F. De Villiers, T. Dilshan, K.Wessels
PM Zen.
At this stage of the draft, Raju is more a genuinely helpful suggestion than a joke. We all knew it would come to this.
My top two choices for this round are gone. There are five assholes who have to pick yet. I'm sure they're greedily coveting my third.
Azhar Ali
Nice and consistent, even if a pretty small sample size, but he's less suspect than the other guy I wanted for 3 and this guys not even played in his homeland yet.
Nice and consistent, even if a pretty small sample size, but he's less suspect than the other guy I wanted for 3 and this guys not even played in his homeland yet.
Jimmy Adams
Incidentally, he had an average of 61 in his first 30 test matches.
You saw me calling you an asshole a while ago. Well, this is why
PM ha_Rooney somebody.
My pick is Ross Taylor
Should have put myself in for this
You wouldn't have enjoyed this part of it. Who'd have thought I would be pissed off at having lost Ravi Shastri as a pick in my team? It wasn't so long ago that I was shouting Shastri Hai Hai!
This may be a surprising pick - but I am going to go with Shahid Afridi. He can provide some BANG at the top of the order for me, and chip in with more spin, which I badly need to provide some variety to my attack.
I also have two leg spinners now - no other team can claim that! (I think)
I also have two leg spinners now - no other team can claim that! (I think)
I want to get my pick in tonight, keep sending PMs to people below you peeps!
I did consider Afridi but you've got to account for the fact that he hated playing tests. Over a 16 year career, he's played 27 of them...and only one in the last 6 years.
He'll probably burn your team bus, retire immediately and then demand to be made captain.
Edit: You've even got him in the wrong uniform. He probably refused to bowl unless unless he was allowed to play in pyjamas.
He'll probably burn your team bus, retire immediately and then demand to be made captain.
Edit: You've even got him in the wrong uniform. He probably refused to bowl unless unless he was allowed to play in pyjamas.
Hate has nothing to do with it. As has been pointed out - it is the players at their peak - so it will be when he played his best tests. That being said, he's a great bowler, batsman and fielder. He plugs my hole at the top, picks up the strike rate and has the ability to break partnerships. What more do you want at this stage!!
Just pulling your leg man. Who doesn't like Boom Boom?
If we were picking a one-day day, he'd probably be a second round pick. In a test team, he's been picked at just about the right time. Unreliable but a useful option.
If we were picking a one-day day, he'd probably be a second round pick. In a test team, he's been picked at just about the right time. Unreliable but a useful option.
I know. I'm just pissed off I didn't take this more seriously. I am really enjoying it. I jsut picked players of the top of my head early (eg. Lakshman in round 2), but am a lot more strategic about it now.
Laxman was not a bad round 2 pick at all but you defo needed to a pick a bowler in third.
I like the pace, keep it going. PM your picks if you are going off, anyways i think we might get stuck on DE tonight.
Yeah, however, I now have Afridi to break partnerships, and have some "interesting" picks coming up. Stewart was a bad pick - no doubt about that.
Is kps88 around? I'd rather have the bandage pulled off quickly if he's going to take my third choice pick this round, thank you very much.
Shastri and Adams are both gone...taken by grasping wretches.
Shastri and Adams are both gone...taken by grasping wretches.
Another reason I took Afridi is I now have two openers.. Many people (surprisingly) need opening batsmen.
Shocked that Ross Taylor lasted that long..
Are you picking twelfth men that you can switch into your team depending on the opposition? It could bring in more tactics regarding all-rounders.
I am and I think we all are.