'World Cup 2011' Draft

[centurymaker]

Thomas Odoyo (ken)

 

[Himannv]

We'll take Shoaib Akthar.

 

[smash84]

Cheers, thanks to marc, he's been great to work with in this draft.

I really think Wahab Riaz was an absolute steal to get so late in the draft (chosen in round 8). I don't want to jinx him, but he's a good value pick to be the tournament's leading wicket taker in my opinion.

I haven't looked at all the attacks, but I like KK's 3 quicks, they should all do well.

Wahab Riaz does have a fantastic yorker in the best traditions of Pakistani quicks (although he uses it very sparingly). His SR atm is in the mid to late 20s IIRC. Definitely a great pick for round 8.

We'll take Shoaib Akthar.

Something tells me S Akhtar will get smacked all over the park.

 

[Himannv]

Something tells me S Akhtar will get smacked all over the park.

Its possible. Still, considering the other options around at this point in the draft he seemed like a reasonable pick. He may go for a few runs but might take a few wickets too. Some of the minnows wouldn't like his pace much as well so I think he might do ok.

 

[Prince EWS]

Its possible. Still, considering the other options around at this point in the draft he seemed like a reasonable pick. He may go for a few runs but might take a few wickets too. Some of the minnows wouldn't like his pace much as well so I think he might do ok.

Yep, don't think Pakistan would've lost to Ireland in 2007 if Shoaib was playing.

 

[weeman27bob]

Cevno & weeman27bob XI --

1)Shivnarine Chanderpaul
2)Imrul Kayes
3)Jacques Kallis
4)Younis Khan
5)Suresh Raina
6)Matt Prior(Wk)
7)Dwayne Bravo
8)Abdul Razzaq
9)Hamish Bennett
10)Rangana Herath
11)Muttiah Muralitharan

Quite happy with our team.

Could be pretty hit and miss though, what with Raina, Bravo and Razzaq.

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

Can't be arsed. Steve Tikolo. He was good 2 World Cups ago.

 

[Somerset]

Cheers Centurymaker for making the last few picks for our side. I think we've now got a line-up of the following:
G.Gambhir (India)
J.Ryder (New Zealand)
J.Trott (England)
K.Sangakkara (Sri Lanka)
C.White (Australia)
R.Sarwan (West Indies)
J.Franklin (New Zealand)
T.Odoyo (Kenya)
J.Anderson (England)
R.Hossain (Bangladesh)
R.Ashwin (India)

 

[Himannv]

Team so far:

01. Sachin Tendulkar (India) (batsman)
02. Martin Guptill (New Zealand) (batsman)
03. Darren Bravo (West Indies) (batsman)
04. Misbah-ul-Haq (Pakistan) (batsman)
05. Yousuf Pathan (India) (all-rounder)
06. Carlton Baugh (West Indies) (wicket-keeper)
07. Johan Botha (South Africa) (all-rounder)
08. Stuart Broad (England) (all-rounder)
09. Morne Morkel (South Africa) (bowler)
10. Shaun Tait (Australia) (bowler)
11. Shoaib Akthar (Pakistan) (bowler)

Pretty happy with this.

 

[kingkallis]

Round 1 :

Howe_zat & Teja - Shane Watson (Australia)
G.I.Joe & Marcuss - Hashim Amla (South Africa)
morgieb & Himmanv - Sachin Tendulkar (India)
kingkallis - Virender Sehwag (India)
Somerset & centurymaker - Kumar Sangakkara (Sri Lanka)
NUFAN & marc71178 - AB de Villiers (South Africa)
HeathDavisSpeed & Flyonthewall - MS Dhoni (India)
smalishah84 & Blaze18 - Yuvraj Singh (India)
M0rphin3 & Athlai - Lasith Malinga (Sri Lanka)
weeman27bob & Cevno - Muttiah Muralitharan (Sri Lanka)
Micheal7777777 & Contra - Michael Hussey (Australia)


Round 2 :

Micheal7777777 & Contra - Daniel Vettori (New Zealand)
weeman27bob & Cevno - Jacques Kallis (South Africa)
M0rphin3 & Athlai - Chris Gayle (West Indies)
smalishah84 & Blaze18 - Umar Gul (Pakistan)
HeathDavisSpeed & Flyonthewall - Brett Lee (Australia)
NUFAN & marc71178 - Tilakratne Dilshan (Sri Lanka)
Somerset & centurymaker - Gautam Gambhir (India)
kingkallis - Brad Haddin (Australia)
morgieb & Himmanv - Morne Morkel (South Africa)
G.I.Joe & Marcuss - Virat Kohli (India)
Howe_zat & Teja - Brendon McCullum (New Zealand)

Round 3 :

smalishah84 & Blaze18 - Ricky Ponting (Australia)
HeathDavisSpeed & Flyonthewall - Kevin Pietersen (England)
kingkallis - Doug Bollinger (Australia)
NUFAN & marc71178 - Shakib Al Hasan (Bangladesh)
Micheal7777777 & Contra - Shahid Afridi (Pakistan)
Howe_zat & Teja - Harbhajan Singh (India)
M0rphin3 & Athlai - Angelo Matthews (Sri Lanka)
Somerset & centurymaker - Jesse Ryder (New Zealand)
weeman27bob & Cevno - Dwayne Bravo (West Indies)
G.I.Joe & Marcuss - Graeme Swann (England)
morgieb & Himmanv - Stuart Broad (England)

Round 4 :

morgieb & Himmanv - Yusuf Pathan (India)
G.I.Joe & Marcuss - Greame Smith (South Africa)
weeman27bob & Cevno - Abdul Razzaq (Pakistan)
Somerset & centurymaker - Jonathan Trott (England)
M0rphin3 & Athlai - Scott Styris (New Zealand)
Howe_zat & Teja - Lonwobe Tsotsobe (South Africa)
Micheal7777777 & Contra - Mahela Jayawardene (Sri Lanka)
MarcFAN - Zaheer Khan (India)
kingkallis - Dale Steyn (South Africa)
HeathDavisSpeed & Flyonthewall - David Hussey (Australia)
smalishah84 & Blaze18 - Michael Clarke (Australia)

Round 5 :

morgeib & Himannv - Misbah-ul-Haq (Pakistan)
Howe_zat & Teja - Andrew Strauss (England)
Blaze18 & smalishah84 - Kamran Akmal (Pakistan)
weeman27bob & Cevno - Matt Prior (England)
NUFAN & marc71178 - JP Duminy (South Africa)
Michaelf7777777 & Contra - Kieron Pollard (West Indies)
M0rphin3 & Athlai - Ross Taylor (New Zealand)
KingKallis - Mohammad Haffez (Pakistan)
Somerset & centurymaker - Cameron White (Australia)
HeathDavisSpeed & Flyonthewall - Ryan ten Doeschate (Netherlands)
G.I.Joe & marcussjd9 - Eoin Morgan

Round 6 :

G.I.Joe & marcussjd9 - Jacob Oram (New Zealand)
HeathDavisSpeed & Flyonthewall - Abdur Razzaq (Bangladesh)
Somerset & centurymaker - James Anderson (England)
KingKallis - Kyle Mills (New Zealand)
M0rphin3 & Athlai - Ian Bell (England)
Michaelf7777777 & Contra - Brendan Taylor (Zimbabwe)
NUFAN & marc71178 - Tamin Iqbal (Bangladesh)
weeman27bob & Cevno - Suresh Raina (India)
Blaze18 & smalishah84 - Tim Bresnan (England)
Howe_zat & Teja - Tim Southee (New Zealand)
morgeib & Himannv - Carlton Baugh (West Indies)

Round 7 :

Somerset + centurymaker - Ravichandran Ashwin (India)
HeathDavisSpeed + Flyonthewall - Ajantha Mendis (Sri Lanka)
Howe_zat + Teja - Van Wyk (South Africa)
KingKallis - Paul Collingwood (England)
Blaze18 + smalishah84 - Michael Yardy (England)
weeman27bob + Cevno - Younis Khan (Pakistan)
M0rphin3 + Athlai - Munaf Patel (India)
MarcFAN - Steve Smith (Australia)
morgeib + Himannv - Shaun Tait (Australia)
Michaelf7777777 + Contra - Nuwan Kulasekara (Sri Lanka)
G.I.Joe + Marcuss - Kemar Roach (West Indies)

Round 8 :

G.I.Joe + marcussjd9 - Mitchelle Johnson (Australia)
Michaelf7777777 + Contra - Umar Akmal (Pakistan)
morgeib + Himannv - Johan Botha (South Africa)
MarcFAN - Wahab Riaz (Pakistan)
M0rphin3 + Athlai ) - Mushfiqur Rahim (Bangladesh)
weeman27bob + Cevno - Shivnarine Chanderpaul (West Indies)
Blaze18 + smalishah84 - Nathan McCullum (New Zealand)
kingkallis - Adrian Barath (West Indies)
Howe_zat + Teja - Thisara Perera (Srilanka)
HeathDavisSpeed + Flyonthewall - Thilan Samaraweera (Srilanka)
Somerset + centurymaker - James Franklin (Newzealand)

Round 9 :

Somerset + centurymaker - Ramnaresh Sarwan (West Indies)
KingKallis - Darren Sammy (West Indies)
G.I.Joe + marcussjd9 - Saeed Ajmal (Pakistan)
Howe_zat + Teja - Praveen Kumar (India)
M0rphin3 + weldone - Ahmed Shehzad (Pakistan)
HeathDavisSpeed + Flyonthewall - Mahmudullah (Bangladesh)
Blaze18 + smalishah84 - Ashish Nehra (India)
weeman27bob + Cevno - Hamish Bennett (New Zealand)
morgeib + Himannv - Darren Bravo (West Indies)
NUFAN + marc71178 - Raymond Price (Zimbabwe)
Michaelf7777777 + Contra - P.Utseya (Zimbabwe)

Round 10 :

Michaelf7777777 + Contra - Shafiul Islam (Bangladesh)
NUFAN + marc71178 - Upul Tharanga (Sri Lanka)
morgeib + Himannv - Martin Guptill (New Zealand)
weeman27bob + Cevno - Rangana Herath (Sri Lanka)
Blaze18 + smalishah84 - Mohammed Ashraful (Bangladesh)
HeathDavisSpeed + Flyonthewall - Tom Cooper (Netherlands)
M0rphin3 + Athlai -
Howe_zat + Teja - Ed Joyce (Ireland)
G.I.Joe + marcuss - Trent Johnston (Ireland)
Kingkallis - Junaid Siddique (Bangladesh)
Somerset + centurymaker - Robel Hussain (Bangladesh)

Round 11 :

G.I.Joe + marcuss - Tatenda Taibu (Zimbabwe)
weeman27bob + Cevno - Imrul Kayes (Bangladesh)
Blaze18 + smalishah84 - Chamara Kapugedara (Sri Lanka)
M0rphin3 + Athlai
KingKallis - Seren Waters (Kenya)
Somerset + centurymaker - Thomas Odoyo (Kenya)
Michaelf7777777 + Contra - John Davison (Canada)
NUFAN + marc71178 - William Porterfield (Ireland)
Howe_zat + Teja - Hamilton Masakadza (Zimbabwe)
morgeib + Himannv - Shoaib Akhtar (Pakistan)
HeathDavisSpeed + Flyonthewall - Steve Tikolo (Kenya)
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Morphin-Athlai have to make two picks (one of them is for round ten)

 

[smash84]

Cheers Centurymaker for making the last few picks for our side. I think we've now got a line-up of the following:
G.Gambhir (India)
J.Ryder (New Zealand)
J.Trott (England)
K.Sangakkara (Sri Lanka)
C.White (Australia)
R.Sarwan (West Indies)
J.Franklin (New Zealand)
T.Odoyo (Kenya)
J.Anderson (England)
R.Hossain (Bangladesh)
R.Ashwin (India)

A bad bowling line-up

Team so far:

01. Sachin Tendulkar (India) (batsman)
02. Martin Guptill (New Zealand) (batsman)
03. Darren Bravo (West Indies) (batsman)
04. Misbah-ul-Haq (Pakistan) (batsman)
05. Yousuf Pathan (India) (all-rounder)
06. Carlton Baugh (West Indies) (wicket-keeper)
07. Johan Botha (South Africa) (all-rounder)
08. Stuart Broad (England) (all-rounder)
09. Morne Morkel (South Africa) (bowler)
10. Shaun Tait (Australia) (bowler)
11. Shoaib Akthar (Pakistan) (bowler)

Pretty happy with this.

One of the best teams on paper here. The bowling line-up is excellent and IMO it is the bowling that will make the difference on these flat decks.

 

[centurymaker]

Our XI-
1. Gambhir
2. Ryder
3. Sangakkara
4. Trott
5. Sarwan
6. Cameron White
7. James Franklin
8. Thomas Odoyo
9. Ashwin
10. Anderson
11. Rubel Hossain

 

[marc71178]

Is the bowling line up really that excellent when 2 of the 3 carry the threat of disappearing at 10 an over?

 

[kingkallis]

World Cup 2011: Praveen Kumar undergoes fitness test for elbow injury | Cricket News | ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 | ESPN Cricinfo

So now if Sreesanth replaces Praveen Kumar for the World Cup 2011, he will be automatically added to Howe_zat & Teja.

 

[Howe_zat]

Someone check Teja's room for a balaclava and baseball bat.

Fairly certain he had something to do with this.

 

[kingkallis]

Someone check Teja's room for a balaclava and baseball bat.

Fairly certain he had something to do with this.

 

[Somerset]

A bad bowling line-up

Could've commented on our star-studded batting combination.

I'd agree, however, that the bowling unit is the weak point in our XI, and perhaps not picking up more specialist bowlers early in the draft will hurt our chances, but I think we've got a good mix.

 

[Teja.]

In all seriousness, That is sad tbh.


Fecking Hallelujah!

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

The Writing on the Wall Team Update.

1. Tom Cooper (Batsman) NED
2. Steve Tikolo (Batsman) KEN
3. Thilan Samaraweera (Batsman) SL
4. Kevin Pietersen (Batsman) ENG
5. Ryan ten Doeschate (All Rounder) NED
6. David Hussey (Batsman) AUS
7. Mahindra Singh Dhoni (Keeper) IND
8. Mahmudullah (All Rounder) BAN
9. Brett Lee (Bowler) AUS
10. Abdur Razzak (Bowler) BAN
11. Ajantha Mendis (Bowler) SL[/QUOTE]

This XI has epic fail written all over it. Expect most runs to be contributed by extras.

 

[M0rphin3]

Morphlai

1. Chris Gayle
2. Ahmed Shehzad
3. Ross Taylor
4. Craig Ervine
5. Ian Bell
6. Scott Styris
7. Angelo Matthews
8. Mushfiqur Rahim+
9. Imran Tahir
10. Lasit Malinga
11. Munaf Patel

New Zealand (2/2)
Sri Lanka (2/2)
West Indies (1/2)
England (1/2)
India (1/2)
Bangladesh (1/2)
Pakistan (1/2)
South Africa (1/2)
Zimbabwe (1/2)

Batsman (5/ 4-5)
Allrounder (2/ 2-3)
Keeper (1/1)
Bowler (3/3)