Mystery Draft (ODI XI and Test XI, 79-09)

[Somerset]

Roll on ODIs. Everyone knows limited overs cricket means more than tests anyway.

If you want me to simulate the ODIs as well, I'd be happy to do it, so its up to you guys if you want an ODI simulation.

 

[Matt79]

You did a great job with the tests, so if you're willing def. would like you to do the ODIs.

 

[bagapath]

If you want me to simulate the ODIs as well, I'd be happy to do it, so its up to you guys if you want an ODI simulation.

go for it somerset. and, as i said before, really appreciate your time and effort

 

[Somerset]

In that case could everyone repost their ODI XI with the order they want their bowlers to bowl in (and how many bowlers you want as options, minimum of 5 obviously).

 

[NUFAN]

Good luck getting Precam to send through his bowling order. Anyway, here is my team - Looking to win this comp to go with the more important Mystery Draft Test Title.

ODD E NUF ODI XI
1 Graeme Smith [c]
2 Sanath Jayasuriya
3 Kumar Sangakarra [wk]
4 Ross Taylor
5 Michael Hussey [vc]
6 Neil Johnson
7 Russell Arnold
8 Manoj Prabhakar
9 Darren Gough
10 Curtly Ambrose
11 Shoaib Akhtar

bowling..
1 Ambrose [10]
2 Akhtar [10]
3 Gough [10]
4 Prabhakar [10]
5 Johnson [5+]
6 Jayasuriya [5+]
7 Arnold [an over or two if an injury/spinning track/other bowlers getting smashed sort of thing.

 

[Athlai]

Ah could we have Test finals pleeease?

 

[Athlai]

Athlai's Avengers!

ODI XI
Sourav Ganguly (IND) (vc)
Marcus Trescothick (Eng)
Shoaib Malik (Pak)
Arjuna Ranatunga (SL) (c)
Michael Bevan (AUS)
Shakib al Hasan (Ban)
Brendon McCullum (NZ) (+)
Wasim Akram (Pak)
MD Marshall (WI)
Waqar Younis (Pak)
Fanie de Villiers (SA)

1Wasim 10
2Marshall 10
3Waqar 10
4Fanie 10
5Shakib 10
(And let Ganguly have the occassional over or two maybe)

 

[Somerset]

Ah could we have Test finals pleeease?

I considered playing finals for the test simulation but Nufan was so far ahead that I thought he deserved to be declared the winner. Will definitely do semis and a final for the ODI draft using a Super 8 style ODI format though.

 

[Michaelf7777777]

My ODI Team

Sehwag (IND)
Tendulkar (IND)
Crowe (NZL)
Richardson (WIN)
Kambli (IND)
Stewart (ENG)
Rice (SAF)
Streak (ZIM)
Warne (AUS)
Malinga (SRI)
Abdul Qadir (PAK)

Bowling Order

Malinga (10)
Streak (10)
Rice (7)
Warne (10)
Abdul Qadir (10)
Tendulkar (3)
Sehwag (Part time option if others get smashed)

 

[bagapath]

Bagapath's ODI XI

Chris Gayle
Gautam Gambhir
BC Lara
A De Silva
Allan Lamb
Scott Styris
T Taibu (WK)
B Lee
S Mushtaq
I Bishop
A Donald

Bowling Order

A Donald (10)
B Lee (10)
I Bishop (10)
S Mushtaq (10)
S Styris (8)


Part time bowlers

C Gayle (2)
A De Silva (if necessary)

 

[chaminda_00]

lol at the bowling orders clearly never used VC4 before.

Are we including batting s/r?

 

[Somerset]

lol at the bowling orders clearly never used VC4 before.

Are we including batting s/r?

Where available I'll include strike rate in the statistics.

And I can't guarantee bowlers will bowl a certain amount of overs, I can only manipulate the order that the bowlers bowl in - the lower down the bowling order, the fewer overs that bowler should bowl.

 

[G.I.Joe]

VC4 doesn't take SR into account in its simulations though, even if they're entered.

 

[chaminda_00]

VC4 doesn't take SR into account in its simulations though, even if they're entered.

Yes it does, just not a major effect.

 

[chaminda_00]

****awera ****s - ODIs

1. Saeed Anwar
2. Mark Waugh
3. Andrew Jones
4. Mohammad Azharuddin
5. Neil Fairbrother
6. Chris Carins
7. Jacob Oram
8. Mark Boucher (wk)
9. Ryan ten Doeschate
10. Muttiah Muralitharan
11. Patrick Patterson

Bowling Order

1. Patrick Patterson
2. Chris Carins
3. Muttiah Muralitharan
4. Jacob Oram
5. Ryan ten Doeschate
7. Mark Waugh
11. The Rest

 

[Prince EWS]

Yes it does, just not a major effect.

Nah, it actually doesn't, at all.

 

[Prince EWS]

the lower down the bowling order, the fewer overs that bowler should bowl.

Not necessarily. It just dictates which order the bowlers are used in. VC4 uses an "Overs per Match" calculation to determine how many overs a bowler will bowl.

 

[chaminda_00]

Nah, it actually doesn't, at all.

I know it does in Twenty20 atleast. But maybe that was the bowler's e/r change.

 

[G.I.Joe]

Yes it does, just not a major effect.

I'm pretty sure it doesn't. I remember reading about how John Cole wanted to incorporate batting SR into it, but put it off until the next version which of course never materialised. The SR input in the file has no effect on the scorecards in VC4. The only reason the entry spot for SR exists is for backwards compatibility of the then proposed VC5 with existing VC4 files.

 

[Prince EWS]

But maybe that was the bowler's e/r change.

This.