World Cup draft, a player from each WC must be picked

[Fuller Pilch]

Yeah but this draft is specifically about world cups.

If I could choose between Warne and Saqlain to play in a world cup final for me I'd take Warne in a heartbeat, particularly on unfriendly surfaces.

Mr Mister said it is on overall ODI performances (see page 2)

 

[ankitj]

Saqlain is overrated? In ODIs?

How are people not embarrassed about expressing such views? Like seriously.

 

[ankitj]

Yeah but this draft is specifically about world cups.

If I could choose between Warne and Saqlain to play in a world cup final for me I'd take Warne in a heartbeat, particularly on unfriendly surfaces.

Did you ever watch a game other than Australia's? Saqlain was superb on all surfaces. This is such **** posting.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Gutted! I was going to pick Bevan Congdon (ODI average of 56 and a useful part-timer), but he didn't play in the 75 CWC and had retired before 79

 

[kingkallis]

Dale Steyn

 

[stephen]

Saqlain is overrated? In ODIs?

How are people not embarrassed about expressing such views? Like seriously.

Did you ever watch a game other than Australia's? Saqlain was superb on all surfaces. This is such **** posting.

I didn't say he was bad. I just said overrated.

If he was as great as people on this forum make out, why did his career end when he was 28 years old? Why did he only significantly contribute in one world cup? He had a pretty amazing first 5 years but got figured out somewhat after that.

It's a hard pill to swallow that a guy who got dropped for good before he turned 30 was one of the greatest 2 spin bowlers of all time.

Murali and Warne both significantly contributed to world cup wins. Saqlain was good in 1999 but didn't really contribute in either the semi or the final (not that I blame him for the final loss - Warne won it in the first innings).

Saqlain was an innovator and a gun. But he was not as great as his stats suggest. If he was he would never have been dropped so soon in his career. Given the prevalence of the doosra in modern cricket, if he played today he would not have anywhere near the record he has. Warne and Murali both had skills that were far more resilient to long term success.

He's a bit like Safraz Nawaz - a great innovator but probably wouldn't be as successful in today's environment where everyone can use his tricks.

 

[trundler]

Warne didn't play ODIs after 2003 and Australia's dominance was largely unaffected. Saqlain didn't get dropped either. That's a stupid statement regardless as selection politics in Pakistani cricket is horrid. He was a wicket taker. Way more fifers and WPM. Ridiculous.

 

[trundler]

Warne is better than his stats suggest based on this narrow, arbitrary measure whilst Saqlain isn worse than his stats and you have to make up a baseless hypothetical scenario to support that. Ridiculous. Would he not have made it past grade cricket if he had been Australian too?

 

[Teuton]

Less whining, more picks.

Who's up?

 

[Bolo]

Fmd people under rate Australian players on this forum. Warne should have gone forest round given he basically won the 99 WC single handedly. Morgieb should gave picked him up second round to have the best spin bowling attack by 13 country miles.

Hmm...

Either everyone from everywhere other than Aussies underate AUS players or Aussies overate them. One of these is distinctly more plausible than the other.

Everyone overate players from their own countries. It's natural, even if you take the patriotism factor out of it- we know more about them and have spent more time watching them. But the Aussies on CW can be particularly myopic.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Gordon Greenidge (75, 79, 83)

 

[AndrewB]

Andrew Flintoff, Mitchell Starc

 

[trundler]

I believe it is my turn now, owing to timeouts.

Edit: ah still in round 3. My bad.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

I was about to pick one of Starc or Flintoff! (Hadn't decided which)

Shane Bond (2003, 2007)

 

[AndrewB]

Great minds think alike... I was surprised Starc was still available.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Saeed Ajmal
Piyush Chawla

 

[kingkallis]

Andrew Symonds

CricZo XI

1.
2.
3. Ricky Ponting / (c) - 1996, 1999, 2003, 2007, 2011
4.
5. Andrew Symonds / o - 2003, 2007
6.
7. Kapil Dev o / - 1979, 1983, 1987, 1992
8.
9.
10. Dale Steyn o - 2011, 2015
11.

 

[mr_mister]

Round 1:

bagapath - MS Dhoni
trundler - Glen McGrath
AndrewB - Viv Richards
morgieb - Muttiah Muralitharan
Sillycowcorner1 - Inzamam
Michaelf77777 - Wasim Akram
Fuller Pilch - AB De Villiers
randycricfreak - Virat Kohli
weldone - Sachin Tendulkar
kingkallis – Ricky Ponting
mr_mister - Kumar Sangakkarra
srbkhshk – Adam Gilchrist
Teuton – Joel Garner
Red Hill – Curtly Ambrose

Round 2:

Red Hill – Shane Watson
Teuton – Richard Hadlee
srbkhshsk – Imran Khan
Mr mister – Dennis Lillee
king kallis – Kapil Dev
weldone – Shaun Pollock
randycricfreak – Clive Lloyd
Fuller Pilch – Zaheer Abbas
Michaelf77777 – Javed Miandad
SillyCowCorner1 - Saeed Ajmal
morgieb –Lance Klusener
AndrewB – Sanath Jayasuriya
trundler – Mark Waugh
bagapath – Waqar Younis

Round 3:

morgieb –Michael Bevan
weldone – Brendon McCullum
Michaelf77777 – Brian Lara
Teuton – Dean Jones
srbkhshsk – Hashim Amla
Red Hill – Greg Chappell
bagapath – Shane Warne
trundler – Saqlain Mushtaq
mr_mister – Michael Holding
randycricfreak – Allan Donald
SillyCowCorner1 - Piyush Chawla
king kallis - Dale Steyn
Fuller Pilch - Gordon Greenidge
AndrewB – Mitchell Starc

Round 4:

AndrewB - Andrew Flintoff
Fuller Pilch - Shane Bond
king kallis - Andrew Symonds
SillyCowCorner1 -
randycricfreak -
mr_mister -
trundler -
bagapath -
Red Hill -
srbkhshsk -
Teuton -
Michaelf77777 -
weldone -
morgieb -

 

[mr_mister]

Round 5:

SillyCowCorner1 -
AndrewB -
Teuton -
Michaelf77777 -
mr_mister -
weldone -
Fuller Pilch -
king kallis -
bagapath -
Red Hill -
srbkhshsk -
morgieb -
trundler -
randycricfreak -

 

[stephen]

Saeed Ajmal
Piyush Chawla

Wtf?