ODI Auction Draft v.2025 - Voting Thread

[anil1405]

Vote for the top 3 sides

trundler

Amla
Hope+
Jones
Abbas
Miller
Cronje* 6
Shakib 5
Streak 3
Warne 4
Bumrah 2
McGrath 1

Capt_luffy

1. Rohit Sharma
2. Saeed Anwar
3. Kane Williamson
4. Babar Azam
5. Heinrich Klaasen+
6. Michael Bevan
7. Imran Khan*
8. Shaun Pollock
9. Abdul Qadir
10. Craig McDermott
11. Nathan Bracken

Himannv

1. Sanath Jayasuriya
2. Nick Knight
3. Jacques Kallis
4. Yuvraj Singh
5. AB de Villiers*+
6. Mike Hussey
7. Simon O'Donnell
8. Shahid Afridi
9. Umar Gul
10. Jerome Taylor
11. Lasith Malinga

Bitmap

Virender Sehwag
Shane Watson
Ricky Ponting*
Greg Chappell
Andy Flower+
Ben Stokes
Glenn Maxwell
Wasim Akram
Mitchell Starc
Brad Hogg
Derek Underwood

Line and Length

M.Hayden
Q.de Kock w/k
C.Gayle
A.Lamb
R.Taylor
C.Lloyd (c)
M.Ali
A.Roberts
Mohammad Shami
C.Ambrose
A.Mendis

ataraxia

1 David Warner /
2 Mark Waugh /
3 Brett Lee o /
4 Mohammad Rizwan + /
5 Misbah-ul-Haq* /
6 Jonty Rhodes /
7 Carl Hooper / o
8 Lance Klusener / o
9 Corey Anderson o /
10 Shane Bond o
11 Allan Donald o

Silver Silva

1.Gordon Greenidge
2.Travis Head
3.Virat Kohli
4.Aravinda De Silva
5.Faf Du Plessis
6.KL Rahul
7.Andrew Flintoff
8.Richard Hadlee
9.Mitchell Johnson
10.Anil Kumble
11.Dennis Lillee

Honest Hunks (honestbharani)

Sourav Ganguly (vc)
Aiden Markram
Brian Lara
Steve Smith
Darren Lehmann
MS Dhoni (c) (wk)
Sam Curran
Jason Holder
Malcolm Marshall
Kuldeep Yadav
Shoaib Akhtar

Cricaddict (The addicts)

Adam Gilchrist (wk)
Sachin Tendulkar
Kumar Sangakkara
Kevin Pietersen
Steve Waugh (c)
Mitchell Marsh
Ravindra Jadeja
Abdul Razzaq
Pat Cummins
Trent Boult
Mutthiah Muralitharan

Pothas

Tilakaratne Dilshan
Martin Guptill
Viv Richards
Eoin Morgan*
Inzamam-ul-Haq
Jos Buttler+
Chris Cairns
Daniel Vettori
Chaminda Vaas
Joel Garner
Michael Holding

JOJOXI

Brendon McCullum (wk)
Jonny Bairstow
Joe Root
Martin Crowe
Andrew Symonds
Arjuna Ranatunga
Kapil Dev (c)
Rashid Khan
Saqlain Mushtaq
Waqar Younis
Fanie de Villiers

 

[honestbharani]

The immediate thoughts that came to my head as I read through each side -

trundler - ATG bowling, meh batting and keeping
Luffy - good top order and lower middle order but maybe too much cake. no second spinner is a turn off.
Himan - Good side but maybe light on proper spin options for SC wickets.
Bitmap - Almost perfect side if he could have shagged a Right arm fast bowler instead of either Starc or Akram.
L&L - too many lefties and very suss last 4
ataraxia - Brett Lee at 3? NO thanks.
Silver Silva - Good side with depth from all aspects. Only weakness is Rahul as keeper and no lefties apart from Head in the top 7.
Cricaddict - One of the better sides this draft
Pothas - decent side but again have feeling will be found out in the SC.
Jojo - Good side but somehow just reads slightly unbalanced as I go through it Maybe a left arm seamer would have helped.

So going to vote, in order

Cricaddict
Silver Silva
Bitmap

Jojo if I had to pick a 4th

 

[capt_Luffy]

The immediate thoughts that came to my head as I read through each side -

trundler - ATG bowling, meh batting and keeping
Luffy - good top order and lower middle order but maybe too much cake. no second spinner is a turn off.
Himan - Good side but maybe light on proper spin options for SC wickets.
Bitmap - Almost perfect side if he could have shagged a Right arm fast bowler instead of either Starc or Akram.
L&L - too many lefties and very suss last 4
ataraxia - Brett Lee at 3? NO thanks.
Silver Silva - Good side with depth from all aspects. Only weakness is Rahul as keeper and no lefties apart from Head in the top 7.
Cricaddict - One of the better sides this draft
Pothas - decent side but again have feeling will be found out in the SC.
Jojo - Good side but somehow just reads slightly unbalanced as I go through it Maybe a left arm seamer would have helped.

So going to vote, in order

Cricaddict
Silver Silva
Bitmap

Jojo if I had to pick a 4th

Hey I have Bevan!!!

 

[trundler]

It increasingly became clear during the draft that I rate some of the players I bid for much higher than everyone else.

 

[capt_Luffy]

It increasingly became clear during the draft that I rate some of the players I bid for much higher than everyone else.

Fwiw, I liked your team the best. Maybe a better 4th bowler than Streak, but that's it.

 

[Himannv]

It increasingly became clear during the draft that I rate some of the players I bid for much higher than everyone else.

Amla and Cronje are the two I don’t rate much there, but that may be just me. I rate Nick Knight and Fairbtother really highly in this formal, but that’s just me I think.

 

[capt_Luffy]

Amla and Cronje are the two I don’t rate much there, but that may be just me. I rate Nick Knight and Fairbtother really highly in this formal, but that’s just me I think.

Cronje I can understand, but how come you don't rate Amla much???

 

[anil1405]

Amla and Cronje are the two I don’t rate much there, but that may be just me. I rate Nick Knight and Fairbtother really highly in this formal, but that’s just me I think.

I dont know if it's got to do with the evolution of attacking cricket in modern era but the likes of Fairbrother, Knight, Twose, Lehmann etc. don't get the same recognition anymore.

 

[Himannv]

Cronje I can understand, but how come you don't rate Amla much???

Just never liked his technique and couldn’t get past it. Once his hand eye coordination wasn’t there to bail him out, he immediately started failing. It’s not that I don’t rate him at all, I just don’t think he’s as good as some others who aren’t rated as highly.

 

[Himannv]

I dont know if it's got to do with the evolution of attacking cricket in modern era but the likes of Fairbrother, Knight, Twose, Lehmann etc. don't get the same recognition anymore.

All of those guys can keep up with modern cricketers in my view and are vastly underrated. They were in teams that let them down or, in Lehmann’s case, overshadowed by bigger stars.

 

[Pothas]

It increasingly became clear during the draft that I rate some of the players I bid for much higher than everyone else.

I like this about ODI drafts. Think there I'd way more variety of opinion than in tests drafts.

I basically always seem to think my team is great when we do an ODI draft. Sometimes that is reflected in the voting others very much not.

 

[Pothas]

This one a case in point. I have both Richards and Garner and then no obvious weakness that I can see. I often seem end up with Guptill and Dilshan so maybe people don't rate them.

Morgan and Buttler I am probably just biased towards.

 

[anil1405]

I really like two sides in following order

1. Silver Silva - Solid side with two huge X factors in Kohli and Freddie
2. Bitmap - All basis covered with quality

Can't decide on the third team yet

 

[Himannv]

This one a case in point. I have both Richards and Garner and then no obvious weakness that I can see. I often seem end up with Guptill and Dilshan so maybe people don't rate them.

Morgan and Buttler I am probably just biased towards.

Yeah, I think you have a top side and voted for you. For some reason it doesn't pop out at you as a top side when you take in the top 5, but it's very very good if you take in the full picture and consider it carefully.

 

[Himannv]

ataraxia - Brett Lee at 3? NO thanks.

This is actually a very good side if you ignore the batting order. If Lee just bats in his usual position and everyone shifts one slot up, it looks perfectly balanced. I mean, some of them can go up the order depending on the match situation, but it shouldn't be Plan A. A spinner in place of Corey and it's a side that could take the gold.

 

[capt_Luffy]

This is actually a very good side if you ignore the batting order. If Lee just bats in his usual position and everyone shifts one slot up, it looks perfectly balanced. I mean, some of them can go up the order depending on the match situation, but it shouldn't be Plan A. A spinner in place of Corey and it's a side that could take the gold.

Misbah was a poor ODI player imo

 

[Pothas]

Bitmap just lacks one seamer for me. I know he has Chappell I just don't trust those early part timers.

 

[Himannv]

Misbah was a poor ODI player imo

No way. Misbah and Umar Akmal were the difference between Pakistan and total annihilation in ODIs for a period of 3 years or more. Misbah went from being the guy who scored quickly at the death to being the guy who held it together so they had a chance to win against the odds. He was absolutely their best ODI bat for a good while.

 

[capt_Luffy]

No way. Misbah and Umar Akmal were the difference between Pakistan and total annihilation in ODIs for a period of 3 years or more. Misbah went from being the guy who scored quickly at the death to being the guy who held it together so they had a chance to win against the odds. He was absolutely their best ODI bat for a good while.

Okay, poor was a huge stretch, but yeah, I don't think he was much great either. 0 tons in whole career is a bit iffy for a proper MOB

 

[ataraxia]

This is actually a very good side if you ignore the batting order. If Lee just bats in his usual position and everyone shifts one slot up, it looks perfectly balanced. I mean, some of them can go up the order depending on the match situation, but it shouldn't be Plan A. A spinner in place of Corey and it's a side that could take the gold.

Strange, I only did it because I thought the side was shithouse. I've got no eye for what's a good team in ODI drafts.