All Formats Draft

[Red]

Allan Border would've been awesome in T20s at number 6. Plus his little spinners and his brilliant fielding. Good choice.

 

[Blakus]

Virender Sehwag

 

[watson]

Shakib Al Hasan - one of the best allrounders in limited over cricket. Gives excellent depth to the bowling. Preferable IMO to either Symonds or Watson who were my backups for Round 5.

 

[kyear2]

Sourav Ganguly

 

[harsh.ag]

R5
Camo999 - Sunil Narine
Dan - Mitchell Johnson
Howe_zat - Saeed Ajmal
morgieb - Wally Hammond
Monk - Everton Weekes
Aldo Raine - Lance Klusener
ohnoitsyou - Chris Cairns
Pothas - Andrew Symonds
harsh.ag - Shane Watson
Saint Kopite - Allan Border
Blakus - Virender Sehwag
watson - Shakib Al-Hasan
kyear2 - Sourav Ganguly
GI Joe

R6
GI Joe
kyear2
watson
Blakus

 

[G.I.Joe]

Shakib Al Hasan - one of the best allrounders in limited over cricket. Gives excellent depth to the bowling. Preferable IMO to either Symonds or Watson who were my backups for Round 5.

I hate you.

 

[G.I.Joe]

I need to run out. Make my pick in a while.

 

[morgieb]

Virender Sehwag

Seriously, how did he slide this long?

 

[watson]

I need to run out. Make my pick in a while.

Just home from the beach thinking that I'd be holding up proceedings. Strange definition of 'in a while' Joe

Yeah, Sehwag is another good pick by Blakus.

 

[G.I.Joe]

Just home from the beach thinking that I'd be holding up proceedings. Strange definition of 'in a while' Joe
.

Sorry. Came back and realised I needed to make two picks. I had to think of the second one and other stuff came up in the interim.

Fiery Fred and the Governor-General

Test	ODI	T20
- Charlie Macartney - Kevin Pietersen - Andrew Flintoff Adam Gilchrist + - - Fred Trueman Dennis Lillee	Adam Gilchrist + Charlie Macartney - Kevin Pietersen - Andrew Flintoff - - - Fred Trueman Dennis Lillee	Adam Gilchrist + Charlie Macartney - Kevin Pietersen - Andrew Flintoff - - - Fred Trueman Dennis Lillee

 

[Dan]

Macartney gone. ****.

I was hoping I'd be the only one in the draft who rated him that highly. But Hoe knows

 

[harsh.ag]

Macartney gone. ****.

I was hoping I'd be the only one in the draft who rated him that highly. But Hoe knows

Bit harsh to call him a hoe for that.

 

[ohnoitsyou]

Macartney gone. ****.

I was hoping I'd be the only one in the draft who rated him that highly. But Hoe knows

Was relying on macartney for that number three spot

 

[G.I.Joe]

Macartney gone. ****.

I was hoping I'd be the only one in the draft who rated him that highly. But Hoe knows

Had 3 openers in mind at the start - Sehwag, Macartney and Warner. Had to grab at least one of them.

 

[Dan]

Had 3 openers in mind at the start - Sehwag, Macartney and Warner. Had to grab at least one of them.

I prefer not to use Macartney as a Test opener in these hypotheticals, personally. Always my #3.

Good pick for ODIs and T20s IMO. Unorthodox and aggressive, can open the innings there, and bowls left-arm spin to about fifth bowler standard.

 

[Prince EWS]

Yeah, Macartney an awesome pick. Definitely still part of #TeamHoe. The only thing that grates me slightly is Flintoff batting #6 in the Test side (I'm a big fan of Flintoff the cricketer but not Flintoff the Test batsman) but having Gilchrist at 7 more than makes up for that anyway.

 

[watson]

Macartney and Trueman are both facinating choices Joe given the trend of the last Round or two. All of a sudden we've gone from mostly hyper-modern to pre and post War.

Macartney would make a thumping good limited over batsman though.

 

[morgieb]

Maccartney a great pick. Reckon he could've been a gun at the limited overs formats.

 

[Prince EWS]

Maccartney a great pick. Reckon he could've been a gun at the limited overs formats.

I do think people are getting slightly carried away with how good pre-ODI batsmen would've been at ODIs based on how quickly they scored. Being too boundary-reliant (as I imagine most of the quick-scoring pre-war players war) can be a big drawback, especially when batting #3-5. Opening the batting with the field up is a bit different though (which is why I'm so happy Joe has inserted Macartney as opener in ODI cricket), and I'm sure guys like Trumper and Macartney would've been top T20 players if they played the game in their time.

 

[Dan]

Yeah, when I think of Macartney as being a good potential ODI/T20 bat, it comes more from tales of his technique rather than anything related to boundary reliance. He was unique in that he almost had the ability to score anywhere on the ground from almost any delivery. I reckon he'd be a master of hitting boundaries through gaps.