ODI Draft - Ascending Batting Average

[weldone]

Here come the meme players:

Anil: Peter Moor
Stephenza: Rakep Patel
Pothas: Bas Zuiderent

 

[StephenZA]

1. Sharma
2. Lara
3. ABdV+
4. Mathews (6)
5. Bevan
6. (Rakep) Patel
7. ten Doeschate (5)
8. Jadeja (4)
9. Pollock* (3)
10. Hadlee (2)
11. Donald (1)

 

[Pothas]

Sanath Jayasuriya
Imam-ul-Haq
Shai Hope
Joe Root
MS Dhoni
Ian Botham
James Faulkner
Bas Zuiderent
Daniel Vettori
Wasim Akram
Michael Holding

Yeah, not very good. Bowling is decent I suppose.

 

[honestbharani]

Honest Hunks



Shane Watson
David Warner
Steve Smith
Asif Iqbal
KL Rahul +
Ben Stokes
Aqib Ilyas
Mitch Johnson
Sunil Narine
Andy Roberts
Joel Garner



Roberts and Johnson with the new ball will be a very lethal one on most tracks, Garner as the ultimate 3rd seamer of all time, Watson and Stokes complement with 140+ heat as well as swing, both conventional and reverse. Will be awesome for the captain to have 5 seamers to pick from for the slog too. Sunil Narine has an ER of 4.5 or something and that is just ridiculous in modern day ODI cricket. Aqib will mainly bowl leggies to complement Sunil but chip in with both crucial runs and crucial wickets. Steve Smith and Asif Iqbal will bowl when needed too.

With the batting, an amazing AT Aussie combo of Warner and Watson with Smith slotting in nicely at 3, with Asif Iqbal and Rahul providing solidity as well as dash as needed. Stokes will be awesome at 6 and Aqib will lend some useful runs and guide the hitting of Johnson and Narine. Roberts is no mug with the bat either. All in all pretty awesome team inspite of FP Congdon blocking me for no reason.

 

[ankitj]

Matthew Hayden
Glenn Turner
Dennis Amiss
Dean Jones *
Ambati Rayudu
Jos Buttler +
Lance Klusener [5]
Malcolm Marshall [2]
Shane Warne [4]
Ian Bishop [3]
Curtly Ambrose [1]

This is a very good team. That's my writeup.

 

[anil1405]

Waiting for mr_mister to post his final team so that I can create a poll.

 

[anil1405]

Thanks to everyone for participating. This draft might have needed an additional rule or two but then if it had more rules I guess entertainment (and anxiety, as trundler pointed it out) wouldn't have been as high as it was. It was nice to see first Stephen pick a solid top 3 bowlers (2 all rounders) and looked like he would run away, then mr_mister made a perfect move at the right time to dismantle everyone else's plans and then it went haywire from there on.

 

[Line and Length]

Thanks again for a most entertaining draft. Your work has been greatly appreciated.

 

[mr_mister]

Sachin Tendulkar 5
Jonny Bairstow +
Kane Williamson 7
Viv Richards 6 *
Babar Azam
Faf Du Plessis
Mohammad Nadeem
Chaminda Vaas 2
Paul Reiffel 3
Anil Kumble 4
Shoaib Akthar 1