The first Cricket sheep thread

paulscholes18 said:
I like your Kane Williamson pick, he was on my shortlist lucky enough I went for KP
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Oh good, didn't think he would be considered if I'm honest. He is my personal favourite amongst the current 'big four'. Also love how he has transformed his limited overs game (off topic I know). Scores effortlessly. Scored a century in every country bar the two African ones at the age of 25, I'll milk it for all it's worth.
 
RedTiger said:
Do you guys rate my miandad pick? If I don't get a no.3 then kallis at 3 and miandad at 4? What you reckon?
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I would keep Kallis at 3 (even if his avg drops from 61-49 from 4) as he's played 78 innings @3

Mine

1 Sehwag
4 KP
5 Yousuf
6 Botham
7 Prior
 
Samid said:
Oh good, didn't think he would be considered if I'm honest. He is my personal favourite amongst the current 'big four'. Also love how he has transformed his limited overs game (off topic I know). Scores effortlessly. Scored a century in every country bar the two African ones at the age of 25, I'll milk it for all it's worth.
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He belongs in the same discussion as most other players picked so far, without a doubt.
 
RedTiger said:
Do you guys rate my miandad pick? If I don't get a no.3 then kallis at 3 and miandad at 4? What you reckon?
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Great pick ,top batsmen to build innings in the middle order.If you would have not we would have gone for him in coming round.Play Kallis at 3 and Miandad at 4.In fact he's pick of the round IMO.
 
Samid said:
Oh good, didn't think he would be considered if I'm honest. He is my personal favourite amongst the current 'big four'. Also love how he has transformed his limited overs game (off topic I know). Scores effortlessly. Scored a century in every country bar the two African ones at the age of 25, I'll milk it for all it's worth.
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After Crowe he's probably already the second best batsman NZ have ever produced.
 
Mani 1. Holding 2. Ian Smith 3. Adam Bacher 4. J. Garner 5. Michael Clarke
Akshay 1. Ambrose 2. Harshan Tillakratne 3. Inzamam 4. Chanderpaul 5. Herbert Sutcliffe
Ijazz17 1. McGrath 2. Rod Marsh 3. Trescothick 4. F. Trueman 5. Wally Hammond
Samid 1. Waqar Younis 2. Moin Khan 3. Michael Hussey 4. P. Collins 5. Kane Williamson
PaulScholes18 1. Botham 2. Prior 3. Mohammed Yousuf 4. Sehwag 5. Kevin Pietersen
RedTiger 1. Hirwani 2. Mushfiqur Rahim 3. Klusener 4. Kallis 5. Miandad
Skills 1. Steyn 2. Carlton Baugh 3. Justin Langer 4. Border 5. Greg Chappell
Crappy 1. Mendis 2. Alan Knott 3. Nick Knight 4. S. Sreesanth 5. Alviro Petersen
NM 1. Donald 2. Les Ames 3. Roger Twose 4. Lance Gibbs 5. Martin Crowe
VanGaalEra 1. Shillingford 2. Junior Murray 3. Ajay Jadeja 4. Vettori 5. Amla
Boycott 1. Chetan Sharma 2. Khaled Mashud 3. Blair Pocock 4.Boycott 5. Gooch
Kazi 1. Bond 2. Dhoni 3. Craig Spearman 4. Greenidge 5. Haynes
Aldo 1. Andy Roberts 2. Don Tallon 3. Basit Ali 4. D. Malcolm 5. George Headley
Harshad 1. Marshall 2. McCullum 3. Vaas 4. D. Compton 5. Graeme Pollock
Prath 1. Harbhajan 2. Andy Flower 3. Stephen Fleming 4.Stuart Broad 5. Kohli
Skizzo 1. Mushtaq Ahmed 2. Jeff Dujon 3. Laxman 4. D. Boon 5. Colin Cowdrey

All great picks guys.
Now kazi got the best openers in the draft, no. of partnership these two had build is amazing.
I never knew much about rest of oldies mentioned there.
 
Mani said:
I never knew much about rest of oldies mentioned there.
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Read. 10 tons in 22 games played, averaged over 60, though that ranks pretty low in defining what an important figure he was, specially in laying the foundations for WI cricket, in the days of racism Don Bradman was also conversely called the White Headley. Absolute immortal of the game.


http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/428006.html

For the next decade Headley was the first West Indian picked everywhere; the other 10 players were almost an irrelevance. In 19 pre-war Tests he made 26.9% of West Indian runs off the bat - a greater ratio than even Don Bradman, who made 26.5% of Australia's in his 37 pre-war Tests. Headley scored two-thirds (10 of 15) of all West Indian hundreds in his appearances; Bradman not quite half (21 of 46) of the Australian centuries in his.
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Headley's placement was so precise, teammate remembered, that he would pick out fielders who were also bowlers, endeavouring to tire them. "Sometimes he places the ball with fiendish cunning, so close and tempting that the player strains a shade too much to make an impossible catch or stop a ball a foot beyond his outstretched finger tips; and then a muscle is pulled or an ankle dragged."
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Aldo said:
Read. 10 tons in 22 games played, averaged over 60, though that ranks pretty low in defining what an important figure he was, specially in laying the foundations for WI cricket, in the days of racism Don Bradman was also conversely called the White Headley. Absolute immortal of the game.


http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/428006.html
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Average of over 60, and scoring 2 third of Windies runs, he is something special.
Nice share Aldo.
 
RedTiger said:
Talking with my older customers today and they agree that @Kazi Has the best openers:(
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If someone would have got Hayden/langer,then that would have been close ,but again considering the bowling at those days Greenidge /Haynes gets the upper hands.We would have gone for Haynes in this round if at all kazi had never picked Greenidge for previous criteria.
 
Boycott and Gooch other interesting opening combo but my bowling pair had better of both these openors;)
 
paulscholes18 said:
I would keep Kallis at 3 (even if his avg drops from 61-49 from 4) as he's played 78 innings @3

Mine

1 Sehwag
4 KP
5 Yousuf
6 Botham
7 Prior
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I'll do the critique. I simply don't fancy Sehwag or Prior. Sehwag simply isn't as good outside india with a moving ball. The GOAT bowlers will get him earlt 9/10, but the other time he will score a 200.

I'll refrain from KP/Yousuf as I rate modern batsmen lower than batsmen from the mid 70s to early 2000s.

Botham is awesome. Great pick!
Don't rate Prior, but probably because I hate the English team he was part of. Needs bowlers obviously.


I can't ask to judge mine yet as I have two bowlers ,a batsman, wicketkeeper bastman and a sheep
 
harshad said:
I really thought I was blocking Wally Hammond in Round 2. Thats a great pick there @Ijazz17
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Thanks :). Admittedly, I don't know a lot about him, but his bio really impressed me. To be considered amongst the likes of Bradman and Sir Jack Hobbs is no easy feat.

RedTiger said:
Guys, it's abit off topic but, could you guys have a look at the teams in the football draft and maybe vote?
https://www.redcafe.net/threads/sheep-draft-sf1-stobzilla-v-enigma_87-redtiger.413720/#post-18669936
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Will do Sire!

Mani said:
Mani 1. Holding 2. Ian Smith 3. Adam Bacher 4. J. Garner 5. Michael Clarke
Akshay 1. Ambrose 2. Harshan Tillakratne 3. Inzamam 4. Chanderpaul 5. Herbert Sutcliffe
Ijazz17 1. McGrath 2. Rod Marsh 3. Trescothick 4. F. Trueman 5. Wally Hammond
Samid 1. Waqar Younis 2. Moin Khan 3. Michael Hussey 4. P. Collins 5. Kane Williamson
PaulScholes18 1. Botham 2. Prior 3. Mohammed Yousuf 4. Sehwag 5. Kevin Pietersen
RedTiger 1. Hirwani 2. Mushfiqur Rahim 3. Klusener 4. Kallis 5. Miandad
Skills 1. Steyn 2. Carlton Baugh 3. Justin Langer 4. Border 5. Greg Chappell
Crappy 1. Mendis 2. Alan Knott 3. Nick Knight 4. S. Sreesanth 5. Alviro Petersen
NM 1. Donald 2. Les Ames 3. Roger Twose 4. Lance Gibbs 5. Martin Crowe
VanGaalEra 1. Shillingford 2. Junior Murray 3. Ajay Jadeja 4. Vettori 5. Amla
Boycott 1. Chetan Sharma 2. Khaled Mashud 3. Blair Pocock 4.Boycott 5. Gooch
Kazi 1. Bond 2. Dhoni 3. Craig Spearman 4. Greenidge 5. Haynes
Aldo 1. Andy Roberts 2. Don Tallon 3. Basit Ali 4. D. Malcolm 5. George Headley
Harshad 1. Marshall 2. McCullum 3. Vaas 4. D. Compton 5. Graeme Pollock
Prath 1. Harbhajan 2. Andy Flower 3. Stephen Fleming 4.Stuart Broad 5. Kohli
Skizzo 1. Mushtaq Ahmed 2. Jeff Dujon 3. Laxman 4. D. Boon 5. Colin Cowdrey

All great picks guys.
Now kazi got the best openers in the draft, no. of partnership these two had build is amazing.
I never knew much about rest of oldies mentioned there.
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Some cracking teams already starting to develop. Mani with his fast paced attack and a solid captain/batsman in Clarke. Sami/MJJ have their middle order sorted, so too does PaulScholes and RedTiger (Kallis and Miandad..DAMN!). Kazi and Harshad too with their batting pairs and opening bowler and two of modern times greatest WK/Captain. I don't know about some of the other players, so they may be a real gem too. Also, whilst it's gone a little under the radar, I quite like Akshay's team as well. I always liked Chanderpaul, thought he was very under appreciated (he would usually maul India whenever I remember playing them) and well Inzi is you know Inzi.

Btw, is it possible to see what our player's average is for a particular position ?

Edit: @KM could you please threadmark the latest completed squads, latest blocked list and Critera 5 as well whenever you find the time.
 
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@Ijazz17 cricinfo has the average info. Go to detailed batting summary in thet player profile
 
@NM Is it that last set of rows that says 2nd Position (From year to Year) , 3rd Position (Year to Year) etc ?
 
10 picks in. Mani, Akshay, Ijazz, Samid, Crappy and Boycott remain.
 
I am hoping we get at least 4 more criteria done by Friday evening. I won't be available from Friday evening till Wednesday morning. Have a wedding to attend on 25th-26th so will be away for weekend+those two days. KM will be better by then hopefully so game will be modded and there is @kotha too to assist I think. I just want to be around till all criteria are done though! Will check caf in between when I will be away but it will be on phone only and not for long duration.
 
We are already in half way,how about changing the pick time to 12 hrs instead of 24?
 
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