ATG Draft - Batting Averages - Voting

[Shady Slim]

Hi there - we had a draft where the criteria was you had to pick one (1) batsman from a set of eleven average brackets, naturally with a batsman per bracket per team. The brackets:

>50.01
45.01-50.00
40.01-45.00
35.01-40.00
30.01-35.00
25.01-30.00
20.01-25.00
15.01-20.00
10.01-15.00
5.01-10.00
<5.00

We found it was hard to get a strong batting order when you probably had to have two batsmen in the top six averaging below 35 and two for your top seven averaging below 30.

THE TEAMS DRAFTED
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Shady Slim's Jims

1. Farokh Engineer+
2. Tillakaratne Dilshan (5)
3. VVS Laxman
4. AB de Villiers
5. Mark Ramprakash
6. Jonty Rhodes
7. Mike Brearley*
8. Tim Southee (2)
9. James Anderson (1)
10. Terry Alderman (3)
11. Alf Valentine (4)

Kiwiviktor's The Bottom Feeders

1. Mark Richardson
2. Virender Sehwag
3. Matthew Bell
4. Brendan Taylor +
5. Brendon McCullum*
6. Sir Garry Sobers (4)
7. Daniel Vettori (5)
8. Andre Adams (6)
9. Jason Gillespie (2)
10. Sir Andy Roberts (1)
11. Willie Watson (3)

Mister's Mash-up

1. Jack Hobbs
2. Alec Stewart +
3. Roger Twose
4. Aravinda De Silva
5. Clive Lloyd *
6. Gavin Hamilton (6)
7. Shaun Pollock (1)
8. Heath Streak (2)
9. Trent Boult (3)
10. Bill O'Reilly (5)
11. Angus Fraser (4)



Zinzan's Chocolate Pavlova Roll XI

1. Victor Trumper
2. Martin Guptill
3. Burt Sutcliffe
4. Walter Hammond*
5. Tom Hayward
6. Adam Gilchrist +
7. Chaminda Vaas
8. Malcolm Marshall
9. Dale Steyn
10. Makhaya Ntini
11. Jack Saunders

Schearzie's The Schadows

1. Archie Jackson
2. Grant Flower
3. George Headley*
4. Mark Waugh
5. Monty Noble (5)
6. Brian McMillan (6)
7. Don Tallon +
8. Wasim Akram (2)
9. Dennis Lillee (1)
10. Lance Gibbs (4)
11. Bill Bowes (3)

The Watson XI

1. Graham Gooch
2. Majid Khan
3. Viv Richards
4. Neil Harvey
5. John R. Reid* (6)
6. Trevor Bailey (3)
7. Ken Wadsworth +
8. Sylvester Clarke (2)
9. Michael Holding (1)
10. Bishan Bedi (4)
11. Bhagwath Chandrasekhar (5)

The OS XI

1. Charles Macartney
2. Archie MacLaren
3. Brian Lara
4. Kevin Pietersen
5. George Giffen
6. Syed Kirmani +
7. Imran Khan*
8. Harold Larwood
9. Fred Trueman
10. Stuart MacGill
11. Brett Schultz

The J_C XI

1. Arthur Shrewsbury
2. Percy McDonnell
3. David Gower
4. Peter May
5. Greg Chappell*
6. Billy Murdoch +
7. Alan Davidson (2)
8. Hugh Tayfield (4)
9. Joel Garner (3)
10. Sydney Barnes (1)
11. Dilip Doshi (5)

TBY's Odd Jobs XI

1. WG Grace (7)
2. Hanif Mohammad
3. Frank Worrell*
4. Jacques Kallis (5)
5. Warwick Armstrong (6)
6. Michael Bevan
7. Ray Lindwall (1)
8. Wally Grout +
9. Clarrie Grimmett (4)
10. Glenn McGrath (2)
11. Ken Farnes (3)

The ***** XI

1. Michael Atherton
2. Roy Fredericks
3. Rahul Dravid
4. Martin Crowe
5. Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi*
6. Salim Durani
7. Bert Oldfeild +
8. Sir Wes Hall
9. Jeff Thomson
10. Fred "The Demon" Spofforth
11. Bert "Dainty" Ironmonger

The Howe XI

1. Len Hutton*
2. Chris Gayle
3. Frank Woolley (5)
4. Mahela Jayawardene
5. Joe Darling
6. Fred Grace
7. Ian Botham (3)
8. Derryck Murray +
9. Shane Warne (4)
10. Waqar Younis (1)
11. Courtney Walsh (2)

The Morgieb XI

1. Matthew Elliott
2. Jimmy Cook
3. Kumar Ranjitsinhji
4. Sachin Tendulkar
5. Inzamam-ul-Haq*
6. Keith Miller (3)
7. Ian Healy +
8. Ryan Harris (1)
9. Muttiah Muralitharan (5)
10. Mohammad Asif (2)
11. Chris Martin (4)

The WW XI

1. Graeme Smith
2. Desmond Haynes
3. Ricky Ponting*
4. Marvan Atapattu
5. Mark Butcher
6. Mike Proctor (4)
7. Anil Kumble (5)
8. Godfrey Evans (+)
9. Curtly Ambrose (2)
10. George Lohmann (3)
11. Bruce Reid (1)

Harsh's B&B XI

1. Gordon Greenidge
2. Andy Ducat
3. Rohan Kanhai
4. Graeme Pollock
5. Clem Hill
6. CB Fry
7. Chris Read +
8. Richie Benaud*
9. Sir Richard Hadlee
10. Neil Adcock
11. Allan Donald

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You vote for a maximum of three (3) teams. In the thread there are some posts where people talk up their team, so if you want to read them they are here -> http://www.cricketweb.net/forum/cricket-chat/68192-atg-draft-batting-averages-28.html as well as here -> http://www.cricketweb.net/forum/cricket-chat/68192-atg-draft-batting-averages-29.html

Get voting and I have to just say this, many thanks to everyone who got on my draft idea, it was a lot of fun drafting with you!

 

[watson]

You vote for a maximum of three (3) teams.

Thanks for running the draft Shady. Will need to think about the teams as several are very close.

 

[Shady Slim]

Thanks for running the draft Shady. Will need to think about the teams as several are very close.

well thanks to everyone especially you and harsh for helping me - i didn't do a lot of what i should have and you guys picked up slack

 

[mr_mister]

big fan of the batting lineups with FC legends Ramprakash and Bevan, as their poor test records helped stretch the order and shorten the tail.

 

[smash84]

some very good teams on display, not an easy pick. How many do we have to select?

Given that this is test match cricket I am quite partial to teams with very strong bowling attacks,

I like OS XI, WW XI, Howe XI, JC XI, and Zinzan's sides

 

[OverratedSanity]

some very good teams on display, not an easy pick. How many do we have to select?

Given that this is test match cricket I am quite partial to teams with very strong bowling attacks,

I like OS XI, WW XI, Howe XI, JC XI, and Zinzan's sides

Three.

I'll go for Zinzan, Watson and TBY. Would've voted for harsh too but the other 3 have better 5th/6th bowling options.

 

[kingkallis]

Odd jobs clear No.1, then Zinzan and Mashups

 

[The Battlers Prince]

The OS XI is my favourite at first look

 

[watson]

My favourites were;

Schearzie's The Shadows
TBY's Odd Jobs
The J_C XI

Special mention to ***** which I liked for it's originality.

 

[Howe_zat]

think i did pretty well

 

[fredfertang]

Voted for Schearzie, OS and Watson in the end although several unlucky to miss out - but how on earth has Howe's side got no votes at all?

 

[Shady Slim]

wow haha i have two votes cheers guys

 

[The Battlers Prince]

Its a tough choice all round, I haven't voted yet because the nature of the draft evened out the teams so well.

 

[The Battlers Prince]

Went for Watson, OS and the B&B XI's. Honourable mention to Howe's side for one but I would have taken Darling as the captain but other than that a good side. The Odd jobs side is strong too and seeing its votes I can't say I disagree with it too much at top spot

 

[morgieb]

Went for TBY, harsh and OS.

TBY's batting lineup is by far the strongest, and as well as an awesome new ball pairing it has a **** load of all-rounders/decent part-timers to help the bowling look good.

Harsh's bowling attack is great and he bats very deep, which is important in something like this.

OS....I just would love to watch it. Great bowling attack and Lara, KP and Macartney make for a very strong core with the bat. Though I'd consider changing Giffen for an opener.

Unluckies:

J_C - great middle order, and bowling attack, but I feel the batting lineup is a bit shallow.

WW - awesome bowling attack, but I dislike the balance of the middle order.

Zinzan - again a very good bowling attack, but the tail is too long IMO.

Howe - batting a bit reliant on Hutton IMO. Love that attack though (this applies to a lot of sides I see)

Watson - would gone very close to votes if it had an absolute ATG bowler. Not sure Holding is quite there.

 

[harsh.ag]

How the **** am i behind OS??? This is a wrestling thread conspiracy

 

[mr_mister]

well at least I got one vote

 

[OverratedSanity]

How the **** am i behind OS??? This is a wrestling thread conspiracy

I'd be leading the poll if I'd voted for myself tbf.

WAC smali is by the way, said he liked my team but didn't vote.

 

[watson]

I thought that WalkingWicket would come close to getting the most votes, but in fact he has none.

Evans should be at No.7, Atapattu is out of his normal opening position, and Procter is one rung too high, but other than these trivialities his line-up has few flaws.

The top 3 batsman are brilliant (where it counts) and the attack is great: Ambrose - Procter - Lohmann - Kumble - Reid.

Butcher Is probably the weakest player, but he was still good enough to score 173* against McGrath - Gillespie - Lee - Warne. So importantly, the team has no unproven passengers.

Unlucky.

 

[smash84]

Sorry for the late vote.

Went with os, jcxi and howe

And howe the **** doesn't how's team have no votes until now?