One Day World Cup Losers Draft Voting Thread

[stephen]

Please vote for your top two teams.

When voting, bear in mind that you are to take the WHOLE careers of the players into account, not just their performance in world cup finals (unless that is how you rate players).

Trundler:

1 Shahid Afridi
2 Desmond Haynes
3 Graham Gooch
4 Ross Taylor
5 Allan Lamb
6 Ian Botham
7 Jeff Dujon+
8 Max Walker
9 Dilhara Fernando
10 Saqlain Mushtaq
11 Joel Garner

Stephen's also rans (bowling options in brackets) (Stephen):

1 Saeed Anwar
2 Mark Taylor
3 RT Ponting *
4 Kumar Sangakkara +
5 Steve Waugh (5)
6 Russel Arnold
7 Thilan Samaraweera
8 Daniel Vettori (4)
9 Matt Henry (2)
10 Lockie Ferguson (3)
11 Michael Holding (1)

A Massive Zebra:

1 Martin Guptill
2 Tillakaratne Dilshan (6)
3 Kane Williamson (c)
4 Graeme Hick
5 Rahul Dravid (wk)
6 Mohammad Kaif
7 James Neesham (5)
8 Chris Old (3)
9 Javagal Srinath (2)
10 Muttiah Muralitharan (4)
11 Lasith Malinga (1)

The Loss Leaders (BoyBrumby)

1) Mark Waugh (RHB/OS)
2) Geoff Boycott (RHB/RM)
3) Upal Tharanga (LHB)
4) Greg Chappell (RHB/RM)
5) Clive Lloyd* (LHB)
6) Grant Elliott (RHB)
7) Mitchell Santner (LHB/SLA)
8) Luke Ronchi+ (RHB)
9) Malcolm Marshall (RHB/RF)
10) Damien Fleming (RHB/RFM)
11) Glenn McGrath (RHB/RFM)

Ankitj

1 Henry Nicholls
2 Wajahatullah Wasti
3 Vivian Richards *
4 Mahela Jayawardene
5 Yuvraj Singh
6 Tom Latham +
7 Azhar Mahmood [5]
8 Paul Reiffel [4]
9 Jeff Thomson [1]
10 Zaheer Khan [3]
11 Trent Boult [2]

Fuller Pilch

1 Sanath Jayasuriya (6)
2 Virender Sehwag (9)
3 Sourav Ganguly (7) c
4 Neil Fairbrother
5 Corey Anderson (5)
6 Michael Bevan (6)
7 Colin De Grandhomme (4)
8 Gary Gilmour (2)
9 Rod Marsh wk
10 Nuwan Kulasekera (3)
11 Andy Roberts (1)

Honest Hunks (HonestBharani)

1 Sachin Tendulkar
2 Alan Turner
3 Ian Chappell ©
4 Inzamam ul Haq
5 Doug Walters (5)
6 Larry Gomes (6)
7 Abdul Razzaq (4)
8 Chris Lewis (3)
9 Moin Khan (wk)
10 Dennis Lillee (1)
11 Shoaib Akhtar (2)

Teuton:

1 Gordon Greenidge
2 Brendon McCullum
3 David Gower
4 Alec Stewart wk
5 Ijaz Ahmed
6 Mike Gatting
7 Thisara Perera 5
8 Chaminda Vaas 2
9 Wasim Akram 1
10 Shane Warne 4
11 Mike Hendrick 3

 

[stephen]

This was a much tighter draft than the winners draft. The quality of players was so much lower in this draft.

Not voting for myself obviously. Of the others, I think the team that jumped out most was BoyBrumby's team which had a great attack and a decent batting lineup. I really like HonestBharani's pace attack (well his openers anyway). Teuton had an ATG bowling attack and a strong top order as well but his middle order lets his side down a fraction. Trundler's strength is his bowling, lead by Garner and with some very decent supporting bowlers. A Massive Zebra reunites Murali and Malinga, probably Sri Lanka's two best bowlers in the format and has quite a solid batting order as well. Ankitj has a very good middle order, starting with the master blaster himself and follows it up with a very decent bowling attack. Fuller Pilch has the most aggressive opening pair ever, coupled with batting down to 9. This does mean that his bowling is slightly weaker though.

Hard to pick two winners here, but I think I'm leaning towards BoyBrumby and A Massive Zebra.

 

[honestbharani]

Trundler - Couple of ATGs and couple of ATVGs of the format thrown in between a very meh group. Seems more likely to lose than win in comparison to the other sides in the draft.

Stephen - Pretty much like the current Aussie ODI side when it comes to batting, pretty amazing top 4 followed by an extremely soft underbelly. Bowling is meh.

AMZ - For me, the best side in the draft. Only real drawback is Kaif at 6 and Chris Old and given the strength around them, neither should hold the side down much. Amazing allround strong side.

BoyBrumby - Couple of the ATGs with the ball and some ATVGs mixed in with some very good multi skilled players. Have them as #2 in this draft. Would love to watch that side.

Ankit - Very meh batting line up and literaly no spinners in the top 5 bowlers. Probably the least balanced side in the draft

FullerPitch - 3 of the ATGs in this side but way too many lefties and a bit full of bits and pieces folks, can get taken apart by some of the batting sides easily within this draft.

My own side - Not as happy as I was with the winners draft side. Got one ATG with the bat and ball and one ATVG with bat and ball each. Think it has decent depth but very middle of the pack within the context of this draft. I don't vote for myself but even if I were to, on actual quality, this side is very middle of the road IMHO.

Teuton - Excellent and well balanced bowling attack but the batting is very hit or miss. I am not sure any ODI side will be the better for having a Gatting at 6. Third best in the draft for me.



Also, Stephen, think you made it a one choice poll, instead of multiple choice.

 

[stephen]

Yeah please disregard this thread. Mods, can you close it? Vote in the other thread please.