The KO Draft

[anil1405]

Damn. You got Starc, Lee and McGrath?

Yea. Good luck to teams trying to score big against this bowling attack.

 

[J_C]

Gordon Greenidge
Damien Martyn / 7
Virat Kohli (c)
Rohan Kanhai
AB de Villiers +
Doug Walters / 6
Grant Elliott / 5
Brad Hogg / 4
Damien Fleming / 3
Dennis Lillee / 1
Andy Roberts / 2

 

[Shri]

I'll take Suresh Raina.

 

[Shri]

M Hayden
S Watson - RFM
G Gambhir
D Boon
M Jayawardene
MS Dhoni
S Raina
S Pollock - RFM
C Vaas - LFM
M Ahmed - LS
N Bracken - LFM

 

[kingkallis]

Yea. Good luck to teams trying to score big against this bowling attack.

Warner & Co just told me that we will target Lee, Corey and Tahir.

 

[anil1405]

Warner & Co just told me that we will target Lee, Corey and Tahir.

You ought to remind them that they are not playing test cricket. All the 5 bowlers i've picked have been nothing short of exceptional in ODI cricket.

 

[Red]

John Emburey

 

[Red]

Saeed Anwar
Sourav Ganguly 5
Dean Jones
Greg Chappell 5
Steve Waugh 5
Clive Lloyd *
Jeff Dujon +
John Emburey 4
Morne Morkel 3
Joel Garner 1
Bruce Reid 2

 

[Compton]

Tim Southee

 

[Compton]

Alec Stewart +
Tilla Dilshan 6
Kane Williamson 6
Jacques Kallis 3
Michael Clarke
Rahul Dravid
Arjuna Ranatunga* 6
Mitchell Johnson 1
Shane Warne 4
Roger Binny 2
Tim Southee 5

Happy with this team tbh. Plenty of good bowling options, a few part-time spinners to assist Warney if conditions suit, but plenty of seamers if conditions dictate.

Good batting depth with a few genuine quality batsman. Could probably use a big hitter to finish off the innings, but overall I'm happy.

 

[Shri]

Round 1

TBP - Ricky Ponting
Red Hill - Joel Garner
Teuton - Adam Gilchrist
Shri - Mahendra Singh Dhoni
AndrewB - Viv Richards
morgs - Sachin Tendulkar
Anil - Glenn McGrath
kingkallis - Wasim Akram
Compton - Shane Warne
J_C - Virat Kohli

Round 2

J_C - Ab de Villiers
Compton - Jacques Kallis
kingkallis - Muthiah Muralitharan
Anil - Mitchell Starc
morgs - Allan Donald
AndrewB - Imran Khan
Shri - Matthew Hayden
Teuton - Kapil Dev
Red Hill - Dean Jones
TBP - Michael Holding

Round 3

Compton - Mitchell Johnson
TBP - Ross Taylor
morgs - Michael Bevan
Anil - Kumar Sangakkara
Shri - Shane Watson
Red Hill - Clive Lloyd
Teuton - Mike Hussey
kingkallis - Lance Klusener
J_C - Andy Roberts
AndrewB - Andrew Symonds

Round 4

AndrewB - Sanath Jayasuriya
J_C - Dennis Lillee
kingkallis - Brendon McCullum
Teuton - Steve Smith
Red Hill - Saeed Anwar
Shri - Shaun Pollock
Anil - Brett Lee
morgs - Saqlain Mushtaq
TBP - Mark Waugh
Compton - Alec Stewart

Round 5

Teuton - Malcolm Marshall
TBP - Virender Sehwag
J_C - Gordon Greenidge
AndrewB - Ian Botham
Anil - Javed Miandad
morgs - Craig McDermott
Compton - Kane Williamson
Shri - Nathan Bracken
Red Hill - Sourav Ganguly
kingkallis - David Warner

Round 6

kingkallis - Yuvraj Singh
Red Hill - Greg Chappell
Shri - Chaminda Vaas
Compton - Michael Clarke
morgs - Inzamam-Ul-Haq
Anil - Darren Lehmann
AndrewB - Shahid Afridi
J_C - Brad Hogg
TBP - Trent Boult
Teuton - Daniel Vettori

Round 7

TBP - Glenn Maxwell
Teuton - Aravinda de Silva
Shri - Gautam Gambhir
kingkallis - Lasith Malinga
J_C - Damien Fleming
Compton - Tilakaratne Dilshan
AndrewB - Brad Haddin
Red Hill - Jeff Dujon
Anil - Desmond Haynes
morgs - James Faulkner

Round 8

morgs - Martin Guptill
Anil - Imran Tahir
Red Hill - Steve Waugh
AndrewB - Colin Croft
Compton - Rahul Dravid
J_C - Damien Martyn
kingkallis - Allan Lamb
Shri - Mushtaq Ahmed
Teuton - Dale Steyn
TBP - Josh Hazlewood

Round 9

Kingkallis - Abdul Razzaq
Teuton - Allan Border
Anil - Corey Anderson
morgs - Simon O'Donnell
TBP - Harbhajan Singh
AndrewB - Hashim Amla
Red Hill - Morne Morkel
Compton - Arjuna Ranatunga
J_C - Doug Walters
Shri - Mahela Jayawardene

Round 10

Shri - David Boon
J_C - Rohan Kanhai
Compton - Roger Binny
Red Hill - Bruce Reid
AndrewB - Philip DeFreitas
TBP - Quinton de Kock
morgs - Moin Khan
Anil - Neil Fairbrother
Teuton - Shoaib Akhtar
Kingkallis - Ian Chappell

Round XI

TBP - Sandip Patil
Anil - Aamer Sohail
J_C - Grant Elliott
Red Hill - John Emburey
Shri - Suresh Raina
Compton - Tim Southee
morgs - Graeme Hick
AndrewB - David Gower
kingkallis - Saleem Malik
Teuton - Geoff Marsh

 

[morgieb]

Graeme Hick

1. Sachin Tendulkar (6)
2. Martin Guptill
3. Graeme Hick (7)
4. Inzaman-ul-Haq
5. Michael Bevan (8)
6. James Faulkner (4)
7. Simon O'Donnell (3)
8. Moin Khan +
9. Craig McDermott (2)
10. Saqlain Mushtaq (5)
11. Allan Donald (1)

No real 6 hurts this side a bit, otherwise pretty happy with that.

 

[kingkallis]

You ought to remind them that they are not playing test cricket. All the 5 bowlers i've picked have been nothing short of exceptional in ODI cricket.

'Wasim Akram
Lasith Malinga
Lance Klusener
Abdul Razzaq
Muttiah Muralitharan

says Hi!'

Wickets, ER, SR - everything is there

 

[anil1405]

I thought you would pick Akhtar instead of Razzaq and that would've made your bowling attack much more powerful and close to being as good as mine :P

As it stands the bowling average of my 5 bowlers is 22.8 and s/r is 28.7 as compared to a bowling average of 27.2 and s/r of 36.3 of your bowling attack.

 

[kingkallis]

I thought you would pick Akhtar instead of Razzaq and that would've made your bowling attack much more powerful and close to being as good as mine :P

As it stands the bowling average of my 5 bowlers is 22.8 and s/r is 28.7 as compared to a bowling average of 27.2 and s/r of 36.3 of your bowling attack.

Longevity? Number of wickets?

 

[anil1405]

Longevity? Number of wickets?

Are nullified by the fact that you have Klusener and Razzaq in your bowling attack.

 

[AndrewB]

David Gower to complete the XI.

Sanath Jayasuriya (6)
Hashim Amla
Viv Richards* (8)
David Gower
Andrew Symonds (7)
Shahid Afridi (5)
Ian Botham (3)
Brad Haddin+
Imran Khan (2)
Philip DeFreitas (4)
Colin Croft (1)

Ridiculous depth of batting, with 3 of the all-time top 10 ranked ODI batsmen (Amla, Richards, Gower) alongside three of the fastest scorers, and four more who could score plenty on their day. In the field, a steady pace quartet backed up by four all-rounders with nearly 1000 wickets between them in a variety of styles.

 

[Red]

Great team Andrew.

 

[kingkallis]

Saleem Malik

CricZo XI

1. Brendon McCullum / +
2. David Warner /
3. Ian Chappell / (c)
4. Allan Lamb /
5. Yuvraj Singh / o (6)
6. Saleem Malik / o (7)
7. Lance Klusener / o (3)
8. Abdul Razzaq o / (4)
9. Wasim Akram o / (1)
10. Lasith Malinga o (2)
11. Muttiah Muralitharan o (5)

 

[Teuton]

Geoff Marsh

So my final team is:
Adam Gilchrist
Geoff Marsh
Steve Smith
Aravinda de Silva
Mike Hussey
Allan Border (c)
Kapil Dev
Daniel Vettori
Malcolm Marshall
Dale Steyn
Shoaib Akhtar

Very happy with this team with a devastating 4 man pace attack of Marshall, Steyn, Akhtar and Kapil supported by Vettori who was a high quality ODI spinner. Marsh will farm the strike to Gilchrist's fireworks. Then Smith, de Silva and Hussey are all middle order guns who score quick and big. Border adds experience to the middle order at 6 and will captain the team. Kapil was a great all-rounder who can do anything at 7 and Vettori and Marshall can bat too.