All Formats Draft

[Red]

CTB Turner- a guy who should really be remembered with the same reverence as SF Barnes. Took 6 wickets per test, and would have been very adaptable to the modern shorter game if required.

I think I need a better 5th bowling option than Maxwell in the ODI team (he is fine for 4 overs in the T20). Which means dropping a batsman and playing Turner. But I'm not sure who to drop. Probably Weekes.

TEST Barry Richards Farohk Engineer + Ian Chappell * Everton Weekes Neil Harvey Dean Jones Keith Miller (4) Alan Davidson (1) Shane Warne (5) CTB Turner (3) Harold Larwood (2)

ODI Barry Richards Farohk Engineer + Dean Jones Ian Chappell Keith Miller (3) Neil Harvey Glenn Maxwell (6) Allan Davidson (1) Shane Warne (4) * CTB Turner (5) Harold Larwood (2)

T20 Barry Richards Everton Weekes Keith Miller (3) Glenn Maxwell (5) Dean Jones Ian Chappell Neil Harvey Farohk Engineer + Allan Davidson (2) Shane Warne (4) * Harold Larwood (1)

 

[watson]

Razzaq is a better option than Aravinda IMO as having 5 frontline bowlers never hurt a LO cause. And since your team bats all the way down to Hadlee at No.9 it is hardly relying on Razzaq to make a stack of runs in the middle-order.Damned good side SK.

Nice choice Monk. So now I've effectively got all day to consider a middle-order batsman from the last 130 years or so. Who to pick???

 

[Saint Kopite]

Razzaq is a better option than Aravinda IMO as having 5 frontline bowlers never hurt a LO cause. And since your team bats all the way down to Hadlee at No.9 it is hardly relying on Razzaq to make a stack of runs in the middle-order.

Damned good side SK.

Its better for my T20 and ODI sides as Razzaq was also a great pinch-hitter. So with him, Yuvi, Pollock, Hadlee and Boucher, I have the players who can score plenty of quick runs late in the innings. All of them were big hitters. The only issue is I'm not entirely sure how Yuvi would be rated in tests which is why I wanted Aravinda as he could have started ahead of Yuvi in the test matches and also because he was one of my favs batsman.

 

[watson]

Should really select Peter May or Ted Dexter, but DAVID GOWER it is.

 

[watson]

TEST SERIES XI 01. Graeme Smith 02. Gordon Greenidge 03. Rahul Dravid 04. Mark Waugh 05. David Gower* 06. Shakib Al-Hasan 07. Kapil Dev 08. Ian Healy+ 09. Abdul Qadir 10. Joel Garner 11. Allan Donald 12th. Michael Bevan

ODI SERIES XI 01. Mark Waugh 02. Gordon Greenidge 03. David Gower 04. Rahul Dravid 05. Shakib Al-Hasan 06. Michael Bevan 07. Kapil Dev* 08. Ian Healy+ 09. Abdul Qadir 10. Joel Garner 11. Allan Donald 12th. Graeme Smith

T20 TOURNAMENT XI 01. Graeme Smith* 02. Gordon Greenidge 03. Shakib Al-Hasan 04. Kapil Dev 05. Mark Waugh 06. Michael Bevan 07. David Gower 08. Ian Healy+ 09. Abdul Qadir 10. Joel Garner 11. Allan Donald 12th. Rahul Dravid

 

[AldoRaine18]

Excellent teams there, watson!

 

[watson]

Excellent teams there, watson!

Thanks Aldo. Decided that I wanted 12 players who had plenty of LO experience and were ODI specialists in one way or another. David Gower is not often thought as a ODI specialist, but by 1984 he was the No.2 ranked batsman in the world (behind Richards of course) after scoring 1083 ODI runs at 63.88 during 1983. At No.5 in Tests he averages a touch under 50.

Rahul Dravid spent nearly all of his Test match career at No.3. However, he spent equal time between No.3 and No.4 in ODIs. So Dravid sitting just below Gower in the ODI batting order is nothing out of the ordinary.

I selected Kapil Dev as the ODI Captain because he led India to their first World Cup victory in 1983 against the West Indies. And as the biggest hitter in the team I decided that he should be higher up the order for T20s. Shakib normally bats No.5, in ODIs and first drop in T20 matches, so he gets those prime positions. Michael Bevan did most of his best work at No.6 where he averages a phenomenal 56.72, so he is a natural for that spot.

Admittedly, I don't think that I have the strongest teams on show, but in any format they would extremely hard to beat just the same.

 

[Howe_zat]

Peter May you reckon?

Peter May then

 

[Howe_zat]

Warner		Warner		Warner
Gayle		Gayle		Gayle
May		Jayawardene	McCullum
Jayawardene	Taylor		Jayawardene
Taylor		McCullum	Taylor
McCullum	May		Hussey
Afridi		Afridi		Afridi
Broad		Broad		Broad
Ajmal		Ajmal		Ajmal
Malinga		Malinga		Malinga
McGrath		McGrath		McGrath

 

[harsh.ag]

Amazing Limited Overs sides, Howe.

Can somebody encourage GI Joe to complete his squad? Howe?

 

[Howe_zat]

He's too busy ****ing sheep.

 

[G.I.Joe]

He's too busy ****ing sheep.

It's one bleat for yes, two for no. I'm not a savage, you know. Stay out of my personal affairs.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

EWS in liking a 19th century NSW cricketer pick shocker

 

[watson]

GI JOE's teams perhaps?

TEST 01. Andrew Strauss* 02. Glenn Turner 03. Charlie Macartney 04. Stan McCabe 05. Kevin Pietersen 06. Andrew Flintoff 07. Adam Gilchrist + 08. Heath Streak 09. Hedley Verity 10. Fred Trueman 11. Dennis Lillee 12th. Jonty Rhodes

ODI 01. Adam Gilchrist +* 02. Glenn Turner 03. Charlie Macartney 04. Kevin Pietersen 05. Andrew Flintoff 06. Stan McCabe 07. Jonty Rhodes 08. Heath Streak 09. Fred Trueman 10. Hedley Verity 11. Dennis Lillee 12th Andrew Strauss

T20 01. Adam Gilchrist +* 02. Andrew Strauss 03. Charlie Macartney 04. Kevin Pietersen 05. Andrew Flintoff 06. Stan McCabe 07. Jonty Rhodes 08. Heath Streak 09. Fred Trueman 10. Hedley Verity 11. Dennis Lillee 12th. Glenn Turner

Note: Just to be pedantic - Macartney did open from time to time, but he wasn't an opener.


(Didn't take that long to dream-up 5 players tbh)

 

[Blakus]

Tests 1. Herbert Sutcliffe 2. Virender Sehwag 3. Hashim Amla 4. Clyde Walcott 5. Inzamam ul Haq 6. Garry Sobers 7. Mahendra Dhoni+* 8. Ray Lindwall 9. Brett Lee 10. Saqlain Mushtaq 11. Alec Bedser

ODI's 1. Hashim Amla 2. Virender Sehwag 3. Garry Sobers 4. Inzamam ul Haq 5. Mahendra Dhoni+* 6. Clyde Walcott 7. Gilbert Jessop 8. Ray Lindwall 9. Brett Lee 10. Saqlain Mushtaq 11. Alec Bedser

T20's 1. Hashim Amla 2. Virender Sehwag 3. Garry Sobers 4. Inzamam ul Haq 5. Mahendra Dhoni+* 6. Clyde Walcott 7. Gilbert Jessop 8. Ray Lindwall 9. Brett Lee 10. Saqlain Mushtaq 11. Alec Bedser

Pretty happy with my teams. Reckon Jessop would of been a monster in the LO's format. Born 100 years to early

 

[watson]

Just thinking about voting.

OPTION 1: What about 3 seperate voting threads, one for each format? Voters must vote in all 3 voting threads.

The winner of the All Formats Draft would be the one with the highest combined tally.

OPTION 2: The other way of voting would be to have 1 thread, and each voter nominate 3 winners in a single post. For example;

Best Test Match Team = Fred
Best ODI Team = PEWS
Best T20 Team = NUFAN

Again, the winner would be one with the highest combined tally.

OPTION 3: Just a standard as per normal voting thread. No change.


Just an idea because this a unique Draft with more than one team per drafter. Thoughts?

 

[ohnoitsyou]

Just go with one thread. imo. A bit of format bias won't be the end of the world.

Actually now you've edited, second option is good.

 

[morgieb]

I like Option 1, but it might be too complex I guess.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Should be one poll. The point is to pick one team regardless of format. If you have three polls, a specialist t20 or odi or test team can sneak a win, in theory. Doesn't make sense to have three separate polls if it's to decide which team will be the most versatile across formats.

Edit: I see you want voters to pick the best team for each format individually regardless. Hmm, I thought a single poll simply asking for voters to vote for the best team for all 3 formats might have worked

 

[kyear2]

Just thinking about voting.

What about 3 seperate voting threads, one for each format? Voters must vote in all 3 voting threads.

The winner of the All Formats Draft would be the one with the highest combined tally.

The other way of voting would be to have 1 thread, and each voter nominate 3 winners in a single post. For example;

Best Test Match Team = Fred
Best ODI Team = PEWS
Best T20 Team = NUFAN

Again, the winner would be one with the highest combined tally.


Just an idea because this a unique Draft with more than one team per drafter. Thoughts?

Was thinking the same thing. Three threads for the different formats but that would take a lot of work.