T20 Auction Draft | Round 1 | Boycott vs Crappy

Who would win with the conditions in mind?

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Welcome to the fourth R8 match of this T20 Auction Drafts. A few pointers to keep in mind for voters.
  • Players should be judged based on T20 performances only
  • Pitch Conditions: Good batting track with some assistance for slow/spin bowlers.
The line ups

Team @Boycott
  1. Sehwag
  2. De Kock (WK)
  3. Warner
  4. Morgan (C)
  5. JP Duminy
  6. Pollard
  7. Faulkner
  8. Morris
  9. Botha
  10. Thomas
  11. Junaid Khan
Team @crappycraperson
  1. Martin Guptil
  2. Hashim Amla
  3. Gautam Gambhir
  4. AB Devillers
  5. Anjikya Rahane
  6. Glenn Maxwell
  7. Shakib Al Hasan
  8. Greame Swann
  9. Morne Morkel
  10. Shoaib Akhtar
  11. Mohammed Amir
 
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Team Boycott​

  • My openers have tremendous power and out in the middle will ensure the power-play is taken advantage of. Sehwag will pummel the pace bowlers on this track and with his ability to beat the fielders through the off side especially it will be very difficult for the fielding side to curtail his runs. De Kock is equally dangerous and the left-hand - right-hand combination is there too. With David Warner coming one down we have a relentless top three. Stopping one is hard, stopping all three.....?

  • Morgan and Duminy add more finesse to the power above them. Both are busy cricketers with the ability to accumulate the runs and then go up a gear without looking too flustered. Be it applying cool heads in a run chase or pacing the innings to get a big total these two provide cool heads to the innings. Both also appear in the top ten for most sixes in T20Is (along with Warner) so they have the ability to hit big in their locker as well. If needs be Duminy also provides left arm spin as an option.

  • Pollard is only second to Gayle when it comes to the most sixes in all T20 history (Gayle is ahead by 250 odd :lol:, but McCullum is nearly a 100 behind Pollard :D). Nonetheless he is one of the most in demand T20 cricketers in the world thanks to his unbelievable batting power, superb athleticism in the field and handy medium pace bowling. He can be the difference between a good score and a great score.

  • Faulkner and Morris add excellent options to this side. Faulkner has variety with his bowling which will come handy. Capable of hitting upwards of the 80mph mark, he also possesses a good slower ball which comes handy in this format. As a batsman he can strike blows but also has a calmness which has led him to be known as The Finisher as he makes sure he's still there at the end and finish the job. Morris is a more front line bowler capable of good speeds and again strike heavy blows with the bat.

  • Botha is a well travelled T20 cricketer. He is in the team for his off spin bowling first and foremost. With an economy rate of under 7 in these conditions his experience and use of pace and bounce will be important to stifle the opposition.

  • Alfonso Thomas is another nomadic cricketer. Not a household name by any means but someone I rate very highly having seen him in action many times for Somerset. While his international career was limited to one T20I, it's important to understand why. Having been in the shadow of the mainstays of the South African attack, he had to make a decision between continuing to chase his international dreams or accept the security that came from county cricket. With younger players coming through he probably has made the correct choice taking up Kolpak registration which essentially ended his eligibility to ever play for his country again (the Kolpak ruling has been under scrutiny for years but in simple terms it means that nations who not in the EU but have signed an association agreement with the EU have the right for its people to move freely and have equal rights to work in EU countries). As Thomas was 30 when he registered under this category, by the time his contract expired he'd have been 37 when he was able to play for South Africa again.
Now lets talk more of his playing exploits. A fine exponent of swing bowling, he possessed immaculate control coupled with the nous to work a batsman out. Spear-heading Somerset's attack they finished runners-up twice and also reached the semi-finals of the Champions League. Thomas took eight wickets in five matches in the tournament. He also was the leading wicket taker in the 2013 Bangladesh Premier League as his side Dhaka Gladiators won the competition and was part of the Perth Scorchers side who won the 13-14 Big Bash. Stints in the IPL and CPL along with his home domestic competition makes him the third highest wicket taker in T20 history.​

  • Junaid Khan is a fine left arm bowler who can extract bounce and pace along with movement with seam and swing. A fantastic death bowler thanks to his ability to nail yorkers, he provides the option of really testing the batsmen's technique. A key strike bowler his record on placid pitches in the UAE is excellent so these conditions are nothing new.
 
Team Crappy​

Batting

As in any T20 game, the batting order is very much in flux. Someone like Rahane can come in early if we lose 2 wickets early or Maxwell can come in if the need is to increase the rate of scoring. Overall the front 7 has nice mix of batsmen capable of building an innings or slogging to increase the run rate. In Gambhir, ABD and Maxwell, the line up has 3 match winners.

- Gambhir has a stellar T20 record. He was one of India's best players in their T20 WC win. In IPL, he has been a rock for Kolkatta, driving them to 2 titles.

- ABD has undeperformed for SA in T20Is but he is still one of the most dangerous batsmen about. Still most likely to swing this match.

- Maxwell is a different animal in T20s, a format that suits him the best. He has shown for Punjab in IPL that he is capable of playing the big innings as well.

Bowling

Morkel, Akhtar and Amir form a formidable pace attack. Supplemented by Swann, Shakib and Maxwell as spin options.

- On a pitch that will assist spin, Swann and Hasan will be the different makers. The best spinner opposition as got is Botha. Only Sehwag in the opposition line up is really good against spin. Warner is known to struggle against it, as is Morgan IIRC.

-On the other hand, Gambhir was one of the best players of spin during his peak. No batsmen in the front 7 has a weakness against spin.
 
@Rado_N could you please set-up the following poll?

Who would win with the conditions in mind?
  • Boycott
  • Crappy

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crappy -- by a large margin for me.

Incredible bowlers who will complement each other. Aamir -- got everything, Morne height and bounce, Akthar speed. Swann is an excellent bowler and he is brilliant at against left handers -- which the opponent line up is chock full of.

Shakib is a good bowler in his own right and he'll be crappy's 5th. The batting lineup is fabulously balanced -- with only question mark being Rahane'sposition. Got AB, Maxwell, Guptill for power hitting and Amla, Gambhir, Rahane to anchor.. great balance.


Opponent bowling is just T20 journeymen cricketers like Morris, Thomas. Junaid Khan is good. Batting line-up has a couple too many flaky players like Morgan and Duminy who show potential but never really deliver.
 
AB is very overrated in T20s and Rahane in the middle order is suicide.

I'm not a big fan of Warner at 3 but overall I feel Boycott's top 7 is much more balanced and suited for T20.

Would have voted Boycott on a flat track but he has to convince me that his spinning options are better than Crappy's (I don't think they are).
 
Samid said:
AB is very overrated in T20s and Rahane in the middle order is suicide.

I'm not a big fan of Warner at 3 but overall I feel Boycott's top 7 is much more balanced and suited for T20.

Would have voted Boycott on a flat track but he has to convince me that his spinning options are better than Crappy's (I don't think they are).
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How can he do that when they aren't ?

I agree that Rahane position can be an issue. But like I said in t20 batting order can be fluid. If we lose 2 wickets early, he can come up. If 3rd wicket goes after 10, the most likely maxwell comes in before.
 
Crappy middle order contains players who are highly overrated in T20 but then his bowling shits all over Boycott. Don't know about Swann record in t20.
 
KM said:
Crappy middle order contains players who are highly overrated in middle order but then his bowling shits all over Boycott. Don't know about Swann record in t20.
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16 average, 6.4 economy..
he was very solid in the WC England won.
 
zing said:
16 average, 6.4 economy..
he was very solid in the WC England won.
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Your point about him being effective against lefthanders was brilliant. Still remember how he owned Gambhir in that trip to England.
 
I think by large Swann is one of my favorite bowlers ever. No doosra and no dodgy action, just pure skill to outfox the batsmen. Brilliant stuff.
 
I'm on my phone so this will be a brief post but I want to point out this is a "good batting track with some assistance for spin/slow bowlers"

Botha is a wily bowler who has good economy and can hold an end. If needs be there is Duminy to take an over or two.

This won't be a ragged turner. I have Pollard and Faulkner who are experienced campaigners with the ball. Pollard is no more than medium pace and Faulkner has plenty of variation including a great slower ball/back of the hand delivery. Thomas is a T20 journeyman and there is a reason for it: he's successful. Read my post on him.

So I have options for pace off the ball whereas my opponent has three frontline quicks who on this track will allow the ball to come onto the bat. He has Maxwell as a spin option but those three won't offer anything with the bat so to justify their selection I expect them to bowl the quota.
 
"Flaky" Duming:
Overall T20 career: averages 38.04
T20I: averages 38.46
IPL: averages 40.04
 
Boycott has the better batting, crappy the better bowling. Batting trumps bowling in T20s everytime, particularly on a pitch like this.
 
Had it been pitch with variable bounce favouring Spin, Crappy was the obvious choice, but on a batting track it is much closer. Although Crappy has some tremendous spinners, where Boycott IMO lags behind, I am voting for Crappy now, but my vote may change depending on the arguments that will be presented for and against both teams
 
anant said:
Had it been pitch with variable bounce favouring Spin, Crappy was the obvious choice, but on a batting track it is much closer. Although Crappy has some tremendous spinners, where Boycott IMO lags behind, I am voting for Crappy now, but my vote may change depending on the arguments that will be presented for and against both teams
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He has three front line quick bowlers who offer nowt with the bat. So I presume they will have 12 overs between them. While I don't have a second spinner (could argue Duminy but I won't), I have more variation in my attack as I explained above. I don't see how Morkel's height and bounce will come to much success on this track and Akthar will be steaming in offering pace onto the bat. This is a track that suits pace off the ball and I have that in my attack.
 
An irrational hatred of Eowyn, a complete befuddlement over who 'Thomas' was until I scrolled down and found out its the black Azhar Mahmood, Boycotts refusal to write his players full names, and a pretty yawn worthy bowling attack hands an easy victory to @crappycraperson
 
Crappy's bowling is much much better, but I think his batting is short in depth. He basically has batting till like 7, and I am not sure if Shakib actually comes down that low, but has mentioned that the batting order can change. Boycott probably doesn't have that one player that can be a match winner on his own, but his team seems very balanced. A mixture of Power hitting and Finesse batting. Duminy is very underrated in his team. He has a stellar T20 record that even AbD can't match. Going for Boycott. I think he's likely to win this 3/5 times.
 
Switched my vote. Checked Botha's stats and they were pretty good and I perceived his batting was way weaker than it actually is.
Although, again, may change vote
 
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Guptil/ABD/Maxwell,Crappy got enough batters who can hit ball long, i don't see anything wrong with his batting or bowling,in fact its well balanced team.
For some reason i see De kock as inconsistent and Junaid/thomas ,not sure how good these two were?otherwise he'd build an strong side.
May be if i would've watched more of this format would have helped me,i had just gone what i had watched, sorry Boycott.
 
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