Cricket Team Draft - ODI edition

[weldone]

Ross Taylor

An average of almost 40 with a strike rate of 83.74...I needed an aggressive batsman at the top of the order capable of taking the attack to the opposition (specially if I decide not to open with de Villiers), and Ross Taylor is perfect for doing that job at no. 3...I had 2 batting spots left and I wanted to choose an attacking batsman this time because I want to fill the other batting spot with a solid (I won't mind defensive) no. 5 (or opening) batsman and there are plenty of them available still...Really aggressive batsmen are in short supply, and I was in dilemma between Ross and another attacking batsman...But since that batsman was a no. 6 specialist, I decided to throw Shoaib Malik at no. 6 (who is equally capable of devastating slog)...So, now my batting line-up has 6 batsmen all of whom are capable of devastating strokeplay (who don't think the same way about Haynes need to revise their theory because it was Greenidge because of whom Haynes had to stay calm at the other end, and we have enough proof of what was consider devastating strokeplay in his time from Haynes at times)...So, now I can afford to pick a solid presence (besides Miandad and Haynes) who I don't mind if is a bit defensive...

Team so far:

AB de Villiers
Desmond Haynes
Ross Taylor
Javed Miandad
Shoaib Malik
Chris Cairns
Curtly Ambrose
Courtney Walsh
Muttiah Muralitharan

The bowling attack, too, will be threatening with lot of variety even if the other bowler (the one who is yet to be selected) is nothing more than decent...

 

[Athlai]

 

[Matt79]

What happened to Misbah ul Haq, weldone?

 

[weldone]

Good looking team so far.

Yeah, but all I need is a wicket early at the top to check the scoring rate of that batting line-up; and with the opening bowlers that I have (Ambrose and Walsh), I fancy my chances...Also, a big weakness of ozone's team is its fast bowling line-up...Srinath is only decent (compared to some other teams) to open the bowling, and two more bowlers are yet to be selected who, I am afraid, are not going to be great bowlers...So, if a team has a great batting line-up they'll always fancy their chances of piling up a huge total against ozone's team, and if ozone's opening partnership fails, he will be in deep trouble...Having said all that, I must say that despite the weaknesses his team is very decent till now (his strengths are his opening batsmen, wicketkeeper and spin bowling option), and definitely one of the top 6 teams thus far...

 

[Nate]

Team so far:

AB de Villiers
Desmond Haynes
Ross Taylor
Javed Miandad
Shoaib Malik
Chris Cairns
Curtly Ambrose
Courtney Walsh
Muttiah Muralitharan

The bowling attack, too, will be threatening with lot of variety even if the other bowler (the one who is yet to be selected) is nothing more than decent...

Batting maybe a touch weak, but that bowling attack is sensational.

 

[weldone]

What happened to Misbah ul Haq, weldone?

I was really in dilemma between Misbah and Ross, but realizing that I have a good slog option in Shoaib Malik for no. 6 and that I needed a real attacking option at the top of the order (specially if AB doesn't open), I decided to go with Ross...I think I clarified that in my selection post itself...And if you're asking if I can change my player once selected, then the answer is yes I can as long as the next person doesn't select, NUFAN already did it twice...

 

[Matt79]

Nah, not giving you a hard time, just curious...

 

[Nate]

I was really in dilemma between Misbah and Ross, but realizing that I have a good slog option in Shoaib Malik for no. 6 and that I needed a real attacking option at the top of the order (specially if AB doesn't open), I decided to go with Ross...I think I clarified that in my selection post itself...And if you're asking if I can change my player once selected, then the answer is yes I can as long as the next person doesn't select, NUFAN already did it twice...

Haha, whoa, no need to be so defensive.

 

[Matt79]

Pskov is up, yeah?

 

[weldone]

Batting maybe a touch weak, but that bowling attack is sensational.

I shall have 7 batsmen with de Villiers keeping, so that's a plus...And with quality like Miandad and Haynes and real attackers like AB, Ross, Malik and Cairns around, that line-up is anything but weak (even not a touch, no I won't give that to you )...My batting line-up is comparable to any other team (except NUFAN's)...And I have one more batsman to pick, so watch out...

In short, I would say, watch it as a combination, not as a collection of batsmen...Feel the variety inherent in that batting line-up...It is an ideal mix of solidity and aggression at the top, game-setting options in the middle overs (with one more to be selected besides Miandad), and devastating slog at the end...

And about your comment about my bowling line-up, I must say, you are sometimes correct dude

 

[weldone]

Haha, whoa, no need to be so defensive.

 

[Matt79]

You'd have to question that team's mental toughness however, in terms of being able to take it when the hard questions are asked...

 

[pskov]

Jason Gillespie

Need another seamer and he is the best available. 142 wickets at an average of 25.42 and an economy of 4.21 over the late 90s and early 00s is very good too.

Shane Watson
Greame Smith
Zaheer Abbas
Brian Lara
Kumar Sangakkara+


Farveez Maharoof
Abdul Qadir
Jason Gillespie
Joel Garner

Now I am looking for two late order slog specialists, with maybe one who can help out with the bowling a bit just to add another option.

 

[Nate]

Simon has just under 12 hours.

 

[ozone]

Yeah, but all I need is a wicket early at the top to check the scoring rate of that batting line-up; and with the opening bowlers that I have (Ambrose and Walsh), I fancy my chances...Also, a big weakness of ozone's team is its fast bowling line-up...Srinath is only decent (compared to some other teams) to open the bowling, and two more bowlers are yet to be selected who, I am afraid, are not going to be great bowlers...So, if a team has a great batting line-up they'll always fancy their chances of piling up a huge total against ozone's team, and if ozone's opening partnership fails, he will be in deep trouble...Having said all that, I must say that despite the weaknesses his team is very decent till now (his strengths are his opening batsmen, wicketkeeper and spin bowling option), and definitely one of the top 6 teams thus far...

There's a possibility that my order could still change slightly. Would possibly put in a attaking bowling all-rounder up the order and use him and Sachin as my fifth bowler. Also, Courtney Walsh wasn't a prolific one day bowler, and Srinath would certainly compare to him, IMO. I would say your main weakness is you're keeper. Asking de Villiers (not a regular keeper) to keep and to open the batting against, theoretically, some of the best ODI bowlers of all time is probably a big ask.

 

[G.I.Joe]

Unlike the Test draft, I don't think the batsmen here are going to face that many 'all time' class bowling attacks, unless they're playing the teams that specifically picked a lot of bowlers early on in the draft. The gap between the excellent real life bowling attacks and many of the bowling attacks assembled in this draft isn't all that great compared to the Test draft tbh.

 

[Simon]

Picking Neil Johnson as an opening batsman and will make up part of the fifth bowler. Really wanted at least one player from that Zimbabwe side that showed so much potential and Johnson is a perfect fit. With 1679 runs @ 36.5 in 48 ODI's, he also took 35 wickets.


One Day team so far
1 Nick Knight (100 ODIs - 3637 runs @ 40.41 sr 71.52)
2 Neil Johnson (48 ODIs - 1679 runs @ 36.50 sr 70.2 & 35 wickets @ 34.85)
3 Mark Waugh (244 ODIs - 8500 runs @ 39.35 sr 76.9 & 85 wickets @ 34.56)
4 Nathan Astle (223 ODIs - 7090 runs @ 34.92 sr 72.64 & 99 wickets @ 38.47)
5 Roger Twose (87 ODIs - 2717 runs @ 38.81 sr 75.4 & 4 wickets @ 58.75)
6
7 Imran Khan (175 ODIs - 3709 runs @ 33.41 sr 72.65 & 182 wickets @ 26.61)
8
9 Wasim Akram (356 ODIs - 3717 runs @ 16.52 sr 88.33 & 502 wickets @ 23.52)
10 Shane Warne (194 ODIs - 1018 runs @ 13.05 sr 72.04 & 293 wickets @ 25.73)
11 Darren Gough (159 ODIs - 609 runs @ 12.42 sr 64.3 & 235 wickets @ 26.42)

 

[G.I.Joe]

Gautam Gambhir



Team so far:

Gary Kirsten (LHB, 185 ODIs, 6798 runs @ 40.95, 10% no, sr 72.04)
Gautam Gambhir (LHB, 65 ODIs, 2224 runs @ 37.69, 9% no, sr 82.61)
Kevin Pietersen (RHB, 87 ODIs, 3047 runs @ 48.36, 19% no, sr 87.58)
Greg Chappell (RHB, 74 ODIs, 2331 runs @ 40.18, 20% no, sr 75.70, RM, 72 wickets @ 29.12, er 4.04, sr 43.1, 7 opm)
Damien Martyn (RHB, 208 ODIs, 5346 runs @ 40.80, 28% no, sr 77.73)
Mahendra Singh Dhoni + (RHB, 125 ODIs, 3935 runs @ 46.84, 25% no, sr 90.89, 125 catches and 40 stumpings)
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Andy Roberts (RHB, 56 ODIs, 231 runs @ 10.04, 16% no, sr 64.70, RF, 87 wickets @ 20.35, er 3.40, sr 35.8, 9.2 opm)
Damien Fleming (RHB, 88 ODIs, 152 runs @ 11.69, 58% no, sr 68.77, RFM, 134 wickets @ 25.38, er 4.41, sr 34.4, 8.74 opm)
Terry Alderman (RHB, 65 ODIs, 32 runs @ 2.66, 30% no, sr 32.98, RFM, 88 wickets @ 23.36, er 3.65, sr 38.3, 8.64 opm)

 

[G.I.Joe]

1.01 ozone - Sachin Tendulkar
1.02 NUFAN - Viv Richards
1.03 weldone - Muttiah Muralitharan
1.04 pskov - Joel Garner
1.05 Simon - Wasim Akram
1.06 G.I.Joe - MS Dhoni
1.07 Matt79 - Adam Gilchrist
1.08 Goughy - Richard Hadlee
1.09 GeraintIsMyHero - Michael Bevan
1.10 Jamee999 - Glenn McGrath
1.11 Dazza_20 - Sanath Jayasuriya
1.12 HeathDavisSpeed - Allan Donald
1.13 Nnanden - Nathan Bracken
1.14 pup11 - Brett Lee

2.01 pup11- Aravinda De Silva
2.02 Nnanden - Andrew Flintoff
2.03 HeathDavisSpeed - Waqar Younis
2.04 Dazza_20 - Ricky Ponting
2.05 Jamee999 - Michael Holding
2.06 GeraintIsMyHero - Shaun Pollock
2.07 Goughy - Lance Klusener
2.08 Matt79 - Shane Bond
2.09 G.I.Joe - Kevin Pietersen
2.10 Simon - Imran Khan
2.11 pskov - Zaheer Abbas
2.12 weldone - Curtly Ambrose
2.13 NUFAN - Dennis Lillee
2.14 ozone - Saqlain Mushtaq

3.01 ozone - Gordon Greendige
3.02 NUFAN - Andrew Symonds
3.03 weldone - Javed Miandad
3.04 pskov - Kumar Sangakkara
3.05 Simon - Shane Warne
3.06 G.I.Joe - Greg Chappell
3.07 Matt79 - Kapil Dev
3.08 Goughy - Michael Hussey
3.09 GeraintIsMyHero - Alec Stewart
3.10 Jamee999 - Dean Jones
3.11 Dazza_20 - Chaminda Vaas
3.12 HeathDavisSpeed - Saurav Ganguly
3.13 Nnanden - Jacques Kallis
3.14 pup11 - Mark Boucher

4.01 pup11 - Michael Clarke 
4.02 Nnanden - Matthew Hayden
4.03 HeathDavisSpeed - Ian Botham
4.04 Dazza_20 - Andy Flower
4.05 Jamee999 - Shoaib Akhtar
4.06 GeraintIsMyHero - Marcus Trescothick
4.07 Goughy - Rahul Dravid
4.08 Matt79 - Steve Waugh
4.09 G.I.Joe - Andy Roberts
4.10 Simon - Mark Waugh
4.11 pskov - Brian Lara
4.12 weldone - Desmond Haynes
4.13 NUFAN - Saeed Anwar
4.14 ozone - Brendon McCullum

5.01 ozone - Malcolm Marshall
5.02 NUFAN - Chris Gayle
5.03 weldone - Chris Cairns
5.04 pskov - Greame Smith
5.05 Simon - Darren Gough
5.06 G.I.Joe - Gary Kirsten
5.07 Matt79 - Brad Hogg
5.08 Goughy - Craig McDermott
5.09 GeraintIsMyHero - Lasith Malinga
5.10 Jamee999 - Herschelle Gibbs
5.11 Dazza_20 - Inzamam-ul-Haq
5.12 HeathDavisSpeed - Hansie Cronje
5.13 Nnanden - Jonty Rhodes
5.14 pup11 - Anil Kumble

6.01 pup11 - Yuvraj Singh
6.02 Nnanden - Mohammad Yousuf
6.03 HeathDavisSpeed - Darren Lehmann
6.04 Dazza_20 - Makhaya Ntini
6.05 Jamee999 - Virender Sehwag
6.06 GeraintIsMyHero - Bob Willis
6.07 Goughy - Ryan ten Doeschate
6.08 Matt79 - Shaun Tait
6.09 G.I.Joe - Terry Alderman
6.10 Simon - Nick Knight
6.11 pskov - Farveez Maharoof
6.12 weldone - Courtney Walsh
6.13 NUFAN - Ewan Chatfield
6.14 ozone -  Martin Crowe

7.01 ozone - Javagal Srinath
7.02 NUFAN - Clive Lloyd
7.03 weldone - AB de Villiers
7.04 pskov - Abdul Qadir
7.05 Simon - Roger Twose
7.06 G.I.Joe - Damien Martyn
7.07 Matt79 - Brad Hodge
7.08 Goughy - Mike Hendrick
7.09 GeraintIsMyHero - Shahid Afridi
7.10 Jamee999 -
7.11 Dazza_20 - Abdul Razzaq
7.12 HeathDavisSpeed - Tatenda Taibu
7.13 Nnanden - Ajantha Mendis
7.14 pup11 - Stephen Fleming

8.01 pup11 - Heath Streak
8.02 Nnanden - Shivnarine Chanderpaul
8.03 HeathDavisSpeed - Carl Hooper
8.04 Dazza_20 - Ramnaresh Sarwan
8.05 Jamee999 - 
8.06 GeraintIsMyHero - Neil Fairbrother
8.07 Goughy - John Davison
8.08 Matt79 - Allan Lamb
8.09 G.I.Joe - Damien Fleming
8.10 Simon - Nathan Astle
8.11 pskov - Shane Watson
8.12 weldone - Shoaib Malik
8.13 NUFAN - Jacob Oram
8.14 ozone - Paul Collingwood

9.01 ozone - Marvan Atapattu
9.02 NUFAN - Fanie de Villiers
9.03 weldone - Ross Taylor
9.04 pskov - Jason Gillespie
9.05 Simon - Neil Johnson
9.06 G.I.Joe - Gautam Gambhir
9.07 Matt79 - 
9.08 Goughy - 
9.09 GeraintIsMyHero - 
9.10 Jamee999 -
9.11 Dazza_20 - 
9.12 HeathDavisSpeed - 
9.13 Nnanden - 
9.14 pup11 -

 

[Matt79]

Dammit. Gambhir was going to my pick this round.

Scott Styris for me. Useful bat and can share 5th bowler duties with Tugga.