Balanced Averages Budget draft - ODI edition

[anil1405]

1. Herschelle Gibbs
2. Mohammad Hafeez 6
3. Steve Smith
4. Allan Border 7
5. Michael Hussey
6. Jos Buttler (wk)
7. Imran Khan (C)2
8. Chris Harris 4
9. Ravi Ashwin 5
10. Shoaib Akhtar 3
11. Glenn McGrath 1

Happy to have two able, proven and World Cup winning captains in the side. They've known to take teams from nowhere to world beating sides.

Particularly like the Hussey and Buttler combination in the middle order as I see Buttler as a modern day and more consistent version of Klusener.

Was surprised to know that Gibbs has 21 centuries to his name and a combined tally of 43 centuries for the top three is more than I had anticipated looking at the face value of those names.

McGrath + Imran + Shoaib is the heart of that team with able support to come from the reliable Harris. Spin stocks are not too shabby either right?

With Gibbs, Hussey and Harris that's a top class fielding unit which is much needed in ODIs.

 

[anil1405]

Some of my fav cricketers/mostly 90s/players I loved to watch who missed out.

Nick Knight
Neil Johnson 5
Allan Lamb
Roger Twose 8
Russel Arnold 7
Brian McMillan (C) 6
Ian Smith (wk)
Rashid Khan 4
Fanie deVilliers 2
Morne Morkel 1
Charl Langeveldt 3

 

[mr_mister]

Tossed up between Lamb, Martyn, Lehmann and Twose for ages. Lamb actually got a spot in my CW ODI batsmen countdown exercise which none of the others did


Martyn got the nod for his '03 final performance

 

[Line and Length]

Some of my fav cricketers/mostly 90s/players I loved to watch who missed out.

Nick Knight
Neil Johnson 5
Allan Lamb
Roger Twose 8
Russel Arnold 7
Brian McMillan (C) 6
Ian Smith (wk)
Rashid Khan 4
Fanie deVilliers 2
Morne Morkel 1
Charl Langeveldt 3

Not a bad line-up ... and (by my quick calculations) 24 points under budget. McMillan would be your 5th bowler under WPM figures (ahead of Johnson) and Rashis has a better average than Smith with the bat. An interesting exercise. Well done.

 

[CricAddict]

Some of my fav cricketers/mostly 90s/players I loved to watch who missed out.

Nick Knight
Neil Johnson 5
Allan Lamb
Roger Twose 8
Russel Arnold 7
Brian McMillan (C) 6
Ian Smith (wk)
Rashid Khan 4
Fanie deVilliers 2
Morne Morkel 1
Charl Langeveldt 3

Finch, Reiffel, Rahim are few more missing.

 

[Himannv]

Fairbrother. He was a really good ODI player IMO.

 

[anil1405]

Finch, Reiffel, Rahim are few more missing.

Finch would provide that firepower upfront but didn't particularly enjoy watching him bat personally.

Fairbrother. He was a really good ODI player IMO.

Yeah, I realised later that I somehow managed to miss Fairbrother but on second thoughts I guess Arnold isn't too far behind Fairbrother and the former was a better fielder and would provide the second spin bowling option for the team.

 

[Pothas]

Younis Khan

Brendon McCullum
Rohit Sharma
Younis Khan
Ross Taylor
MS Dhoni
Glenn Maxwell
Shaun Pollock
Graeme Swann
Darren Gough
Bishan Bedi
Jasprit Bumrah

OK maybe the 3 could be better but apart from that the batting has everything you could possibly want and there are 5 proper frontline bowlers.

 

[JOJOXI]

I'll go with Mohammad Azharuddin please and will post my full side in a little bit

 

[Teuton]

Please post your final xis if you haven't already done so. I am aiming to do the voting thread on Monday.

 

[JOJOXI]

Gordon Greenidge
Romesh Kaluwitharana (wk)
Mohammad Azharuddin
Viv Richards (c) (6)
Mahela Jayawardene
Arjuna Ranatunga (7)
Chris Cairns (3)
Malcolm Marshall (1)
Abdul Qadir (4)
Michael Holding (2)
Muttiah Muralitharan (5)

Pretty happy with my side. A top-quality spinner in Qadir coupled with perhaps the best ODI spinner ever in Muralitharan. Gives us a big wicket-taking threat in the middle overs. Holding and Marshall a very good new-ball pair ably assisted by Chris Cairns. Viv Richards and Arjuna Ranatunga give us (options to fill in the overs if any of front line 5 do not fire - edited)

Perhaps lacks as many star batsman but Ranatunga at 6 and Cairns at 7 ensures the good work from Viv shouldn't fizzle out, Kaluwitharana should get us off to quick starts and Greenidge, Azharuddin and Jayawardene should have enough between them to get us to at least par totals

 

[Teuton]

Alan Knott

Just waiting on your final batting order

 

[Michaelf7777777]

Matthew Hayden
Nathan Astle (7)
Babar Azam
Javed Miandad (*)
Jacques Kallis (4)
Kapil Dev (2)
Alan Knott (+)
Roger Harper (5)
Akram Raza (6)
Lasith Malinga (3)
Waqar Younis (1)

 

[Teuton]

The voting thread is up at http://www.cricketweb.net/forum/threads/balanced-averages-odi-vote.84997/

 

[Teuton]

The vote has concluded so I declare @anil1405 the winner.

Congratulations!

 

[Line and Length]

Well done @anil1405 and thanks @Teuton

 

[anil1405]

Thanks for yet another well organised Draft @Teuton

 

[honestbharani]

Well done @anil1405 and well run @Teuton

 

[CricAddict]

Well done @anil1405 and thanks @Teuton

 

[kingkallis]

Congratulations @anil1405

@Teuton se kuchh shikh lo @trundler about how to organise a draft