Cricket Team Draft - ODI edition

[ozone]

Saqlain Mushtaq - 288 wickets in 169 ODIs at an average of 21.78 gives him the second best average amongst bowlers who played more than 100 ODIs.

Gordon Greenidge - Throughout the 80's, was one of the most feared opening batsmen in the world, and has an outstanding record to go with it.

Team So Far:
Gordon Greenidge
Sachin Tendulkar
Saqlain Mushtaq

NUFAN's up again.

 

[Jamee999]

1 ozone - Sachin Tendulkar
2 NUFAN - Viv Richards
3 weldone - Muttiah Muralitharan
4 pskov - Joel Garner
5 Simon - Wasim Akram
6 G.I.Joe - MS Dhoni
7 Matt79 - Adam Gilchrist
8 Goughy - Richard Hadlee
9 GeraintIsMyHero - Michael Bevan
10 Jamee999 - Glenn McGrath
11 Dazza_20 - Sanath Jayasuriya
12 HeathDavisSpeed - Allan Donald
13 Nnanden - Nathan Bracken
14 pup11 - Brett Lee

15 pup11- Aravinda De Silva
16 Nnanden - Andrew Flintoff
17 HeathDavisSpeed - Waqar Younis
18 Dazza_20 - Ricky Ponting
19 Jamee999 - Michael Holding
20 GeraintIsMyHero - Shaun Pollock
21 Goughy - Lance Klusener
22 Matt79 - Shane Bond
23 G.I.Joe - Kevin Pietersen
24 Simon - Imran Khan
25 pskov - Zaheer Abbas
26 weldone - Curtly Ambrose
27 NUFAN - Dennis Lillee
28 ozone - Saqlain Mushtaq

29 ozone - Gordon Greendige

 

[NUFAN]

Andrew Symonds
Symonds is a terrific one day batsman who has produced some of the most exceptional one day innings in memory. With an average of over 40 and a Strike Rate over 90, opponents could very well be in a bit of a trouble if he gets going alongside Viv Richards.

Symonds superb fielding helps heaps and his bowling is steady and useful on occasions.

Team so far
Viv Richards
Dennis Lillee
Andrew Symonds

Weldone is up.

 

[weldone]

Javed Miandad

This guy was the mainstay of the Pakistani middle-order for decades making 7381 runs @ 41.7 in a really long career spanning from 1975 to 1996. He was one of the main contributors in their sole WC victory in 1992. When it comes to dissolving huge pressure in the middle and late overs in pressure cooker games, or when it comes to running hard between the wickets in the middle overs, or when it comes to milking singles playing the ball in the gap consistently in the middle overs, there was none better than this man in whole world in his time. His supremacy in the middle-order didn't only come from the fact that he had almost every shot in the book but also from the fact that he had almost every shot outside the book. When it comes to chasing targets, don't worry if your team loses 2 or 3 quick wickets as long as he is in the crease; he'll more often than not stabilize the innings and always have a calculator in mind. And in the odd scenario if you need an over-boundary to win the match in the last ball of the innings, he is the batsman you will look forward to!

Team so far:

Javed Miandad
Curtly Ambrose
Muttiah Muralitharan

Some say that it is the middle overs (15-40) which win you ODIs. Well, then I have the best bowler in the world in middle overs and one of the very best middle-order batsmen in my team. Of course, if you are playing on a bouncy surface then you may not even have to worry about the middle overs, simply because your batting line-up will often be wrapped up due to the presence of the other name in the team!

 

[pskov]

Kumar Sangakkara

A classy presence in the top order to build an innings around, plus a good keeper too. In fact in ODIs his batting record is far better when he has the gloves than not.

As keeper

191 matches, 6066 runs, 38.15 ave, 75.86 sr, 8 centuries, 41 fifties

Not as keeper

44 matches, 893 runs, 26.62 ave, 63.60 sr, 2 centuries, 2 fifties

My team

Zaheer Abbas
Kumar Sangakkara+
Joel Garner

 

[G.I.Joe]

Kumar Sangakkara

A classy presence in the top order to build an innings around, plus a good keeper too. In fact in ODIs his batting record is far better when he has the gloves than not.

As keeper

191 matches, 6066 runs, 38.15 ave, 75.86 sr, 8 centuries, 41 fifties

Not as keeper

44 matches, 893 runs, 26.62 ave, 63.60 sr, 2 centuries, 2 fifties

My team

Zaheer Abbas
Kumar Sangakkara+
Joel Garner

Haven't been following SL cricket closely of late, does he keep in ODIs nowadays?

 

[pskov]

Haven't been following SL cricket closely of late, does he keep in ODIs nowadays?

Yes he does. He last played an ODI not as a keeper in 2004.

 

[G.I.Joe]

Yes he does. He last played an ODI not as a keeper in 2004.

Could just be that his keeping coincided with an upswing in batting form then More secure of his place and all that jazz. Take Rahul Dravid for instance.

 

[pskov]

Yeah probably, but he's in my team so I'll spin the stats however I want.

 

[G.I.Joe]

Yeah probably, but he's in my team so I'll spin the stats however I want.

Nothing wrong with it. Engaged in a bit of the same myself, with Walcott in the other draft

 

[Simon]

Have been thinking long and hard about tactics here and I've decided to go with another bowler, their numbers are getting smaller very quickly and theres few top shelf ones left and still requiring three more will make it hard to get too many more of them.

I'm picking Shane Warne, 293 wickets @ 25.73 in 194 matches.

Team so far
7 Imran Khan
8 Wasim Akram
9 Shane Warne

 

[Matt79]

GI JOE - You're online right now - any danger of you selecting someone?

 

[G.I.Joe]

GI JOE - You're online right now - any danger of you selecting someone?

Sorry. Wasn't aware it was my turn.

Greg Chappell

Team so far:

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*
Kevin Pietersen (RHB, 78 inns, ave 48.36 with 19% not outs, sr 87.58)
Greg Chappell (RHB, 72 inns, ave 40.18 with 20% not outs, sr 75.70. RM, 72 wickets @ 29.12, er 4.04, sr 43.1, bowls 7 overs/match on average)
Mahendra Singh Dhoni + (RHB, 112 inns, ave 46.84 with 25% not outs, sr 90.89, 125 catches and 40 stumpings)
*
*
*
*
*
*

 

[G.I.Joe]

ozone - Sachin Tendulkar
NUFAN - Viv Richards
weldone - Muttiah Muralitharan
pskov - Joel Garner
Simon - Wasim Akram
G.I.Joe - MS Dhoni
Matt79 - Adam Gilchrist
Goughy - Richard Hadlee
GeraintIsMyHero - Michael Bevan
Jamee999 - Glenn McGrath
Dazza_20 - Sanath Jayasuriya
HeathDavisSpeed - Allan Donald
Nnanden - Nathan Bracken
pup11 - Brett Lee

pup11- Aravinda De Silva
Nnanden - Andrew Flintoff
HeathDavisSpeed - Waqar Younis
Dazza_20 - Ricky Ponting
Jamee999 - Michael Holding
GeraintIsMyHero - Shaun Pollock
Goughy - Lance Klusener
Matt79 - Shane Bond
G.I.Joe - Kevin Pietersen
Simon - Imran Khan
pskov - Zaheer Abbas
weldone - Curtly Ambrose
NUFAN - Dennis Lillee
ozone - Saqlain Mushtaq

ozone - Gordon Greendige
NUFAN - Andrew Symonds
weldone - Javed Miandad
pskov - Kumar Sangakkara
Simon - Shane Warne
G.I.Joe - Greg Chappell
Matt79
Goughy
GeraintIsMyHero
Jamee999
Dazza_20
HeathDavisSpeed
Nnanden
pup11

 

[NUFAN]

Sorry. Wasn't aware it was my turn.

Greg Chappell

Team so far:

*
*
Kevin Pietersen (RHB, 78 inns, ave 48.36 with 19% not outs, sr 87.58)
Greg Chappell (RHB, 72 inns, ave 40.18 with 20% not outs, sr 75.70. RM, 72 wickets @ 29.12, er 4.04, sr 43.1, bowls 7 overs/match on average)
Mahendra Singh Dhoni + (RHB, 112 inns, ave 46.84 with 25% not outs, sr 90.89, 125 catches and 40 stumpings)
*
*
*
*
*
*

Why are you highlighting the percentage of not outs? Do you think this shows that the players you've picked are good at not getting out or what exactly?

 

[Matt79]

hmmm... tough choice here between two excellent if sometimes often overlooked players for mine:

Kapil Dev: Good bowler, awesome late innings hitter.

Team so far:
Adam Gilchrist (9619 runs @ 35.89, SR: 96.94; 472 dismissals)
Kapil Dev (3785 runs @ 23.79, SR: 95.07; 253 wickets @ 27.45, SR: 44.2, ER: 3.71)
Shane Bond (125 wickets @ 19.32, SR: 27.5, ER: 4.2)

 

[G.I.Joe]

Why are you highlighting the percentage of not outs? Do you think this shows that the players you've picked are good at not getting out or what exactly?

Not outs inflating averages are a pet peeve of mine. I prefer players that have a healthy average and strike rate with a low percentage of not outs contributing to the average. Always bothered me when people take the batting averages of guys like Klusener, Bevan, Imran etc at face value.

 

[G.I.Joe]

hmmm... tough choice here between two excellent if sometimes often overlooked players for mine:

Kapil Dev: Good bowler, awesome late innings hitter.

Team so far:
Adam Gilchrist
Kapil Dev
Shane Bond

Damn you. he was to be my very next pick. He's the very antithesis of the statistically boosted cricketer for mine. Good batting average for a number 7, with low number of not outs and ridiculously high strike rate, and low economy rate as bowler.

 

[NUFAN]

Yeah I too was going to pick Kapil Dev over Andrew Symonds. Perhaps I picked Symo too early, but he has been a standout ODI performer.

Fair enough GI Joe about the not outs..

Goughy is up now.

 

[Goughy]

I dont have my list with me.

I have 3 in my mind. I dont want to pick this guy but I think I need to.

M. Hussey