Redcafe ODI Cricket Draft- zing vs The Best

[KM]

Zing
Dinesh Chandimal
Stephen Fleming
Ricky Ponting
Martin Crowe
Yuvraj Singh
Eoin Morgan
Angelo Mathews
Graeme Swann
Shane Bond
Shoaib Akthar
Bracken

Spoiler

My team will be:

Dinesh Chandimal
Stephen Fleming
Ricky Ponting
Martin Crowe
Yuvraj Singh
Eoin Morgan
Angelo Mathews
Graeme Swann
Shane Bond
Shoaib Akthar
Bracken

Summary:

Chandimal:
Superbly talented cricketer. He will by my wicket-keeper. Touted as the next Sri Lankan big batsman. He doesn't keep wickets much for SL as Sangakarra does that, but rose up the ranks as a specialist keeper.

Averages 50+ in SA, England and SA in ODIs in 20 matches. Overall career average of 34 and an average of 40 as wicket-keeper, but a small sample set of 10 matches.

Stephen Fleming
Average of 33 over 280 matches. 8 centuries. Great slip fielder. Will be captain of my side.
Ricky Ponting:

Don't need to say anything here.

Martin Crowe:

Overall career average of 38. Averages 44+ post 90s.
Played at #4 starting from 1992, including the 1992 world cup. Averages a whopping 66 at #4. Top scorer at the 1992 world cup and man of the series.

Yuvraj Singh:

One of the great modern day ODI players. Average of 38 with the bat and a very, very good part-time bowler, great arm ball and excellent control. Will be one of my 5th bowlers. Player of the series in the last 50 over world cup for both runs and wickets.

Eoin Morgan:

41 average in 85 matches. Ridiculously good player. One of the great modern day finishers. Not seen a guy read the game as well as he does, since Michael Bevan.

Angelo Mathews:
Averages 34 in 81 matches. Averages 50+ in Australia and England. Won more than a few games batting with the tail for Sri Lanka. Very good hitter. Just an all-round cricketer. Will share 5th bowling duties with Yuvraj Singh. Averages 36 with the ball, but a very decent, economical bowler(4.6).

Graeme Swann:
Averages 26 with the ball. Fantastic against left-hand batsmen. Crappy's got Jayasuriya, Gayle, Flower, Oram in there. Good lower-order hitter.

Bond:

Average of 21 with the ball. Everyone will know how devastating he was at his peak. Lovely on the eyes when he ran in to bowl, too.

Akthar:
Average of 25 with the ball. Pure pace. Will open the bowling along with Bond.

Bracken:
Will be my first-change bowler. Averages 24 with the ball. Ridiculously accurate and economical.
Tactics:

I went for a strong bowling unit as I believe 5 good bowlers allow no batsmen to get away.. My bowling has everything.. two very fast quicks, a left arm seamer, an off-spinner and the part time Yuvraj Singh who will turn it the other way, with Mathews providing medium pace. It may be ODI, but wickets are the best thing that can drag down run-rates.

I have match-winners all over the batting line-up and
very good hitters at 5/6/7. People who can accelerate when they want to.

I also have in Crowe, Ponting, Yuvraj, three players who have done it on the big occasion.

An excellent fielding unit, as well.

TheBest
1. Nick Knight
2. Marvan Atapattu
3. Kevin Pieterson
4. Hansie Cronje
5. Andrew Symonds
6. Lance Klusener
7. feckin Taibu
8. Andrew Hall
9. Wasim Akram
10. Darren Gough
11. Saqlain Mushtaq

Spoiler

Team

1. Nick Knight
2. Marvan Atapattu
3. Kevin Pieterson
4. Hansie Cronje
5. Andrew Symonds
6. Lance Klusener
7. feckin Taibu
8. Andrew Hall
9. Wasim Akram
10. Darren Gough
11. Saqlain Mushtaq

Hi everyone, this is TheBest from redcafe. I'm shit with punctuations as you can see, so shut up. With these qualities I can't win an essay competition, so I will just tell you why my team will win against crappies team.
1) My team is TheBest
3) I have got Zulu
4) I've got probably the best bowler in odi cricket in Akram
5) First 9 players can bat with 9th being akram
6) Darren gough is the 10th batsman and he can slog as well
7) A bowling triplet of Akram, Gough and Mushtaq is awesome followed by Lance Klusener and Andrew hall as the other two main bowlers. With Hansie cronje and symonds being the 6th and 7th bowlers@
8) You are sexy and you know it
9) In KP and cronje I've got 2 middle order batsman who are reliable and can control the innings in middle overs. KP can go big as well.
10) Symonds and Klusener are both beasts. They can hit anyone out of the park. So I've got no problems with runrate.
11) I've got 2 reliable openers in Atapattu(around 8500 runs @ 37.57 avg0) and Nick Knight(avg of 40.41).

 

[zing]

Where's everyone gone?

 

[ha_rooney]

About 2 hours left and 2 people have voted

At least the participants should be voting in all the games.

 

[zing]

Losing 2-1 now. Are we going to close this in 24 hours if only 3 have voted? :/

 

[KM]

No I'll replay this match if five votes aren't recorded.

 

[FlawlessThaw]

Gone with TB as I feel he has a better selection of players overall

 

[KM]

Sorry zing but Aldo for TB.

 

[NM]

Just realized I may be the winnnig vote.. sorry zing. This was close.

 

[zing]

Not sure where his team is better than mine. Akram and Saqlain, yes. But I think my batting is superior and my bowling more all-round.

 

[crappycraperson]

No disrespect to TB but I think it is a farce that he beat both me and zing. :thumbsdown:

 

[TheBest]

How would that disrespect me? Its just an online game where posters pick some players for ffs. Lighten up

 

[Interval]

Someone please start the new matches

 

[KM]

I'm out today, will probably be late.

 

[NM]

this seems to be dying..

 

[FlawlessThaw]

Bit like the ODI format itself, too many matches (I say that as someone who wanted 4 additional matches as well!)

 

[NM]

Nahh mate. People just aren't online... And if ODIs die, and test cricket slows down.. The game won't survive only with T20s.

 

[FlawlessThaw]

I think Test cricket will be fine without ODI's. They're not interlinked in my view. Personally I'd scrap ODI's or at the least cut back on the amount of matches (can't believe we're having a Champions Trophy next year).