Yet another "bid for position" draft

[honestbharani]

Dawid Malan, Suresh Raina, Faf Du Plessis, Krunal Pandya, Hardik Pandya, Adil Rashid

 

[honestbharani]

Honest Hunks

Dawid Malan

Jos Buttler (wk)

Suresh Raina (vc)

Faf Du Plessis©

Andre Russell

Krunal Pandya

Hardik Pandya

Sunil Narine

Adil Rashid

Jofra Archer

Mitch Starc

 

[JOJOXI]

You are better off having shakib at 4 while dropping others one slot down. This looks so ugly with miller at 4 and other big hitters to follow while shakib sits at an unusual position.

Personally I like Shakib at 7 - not so much because I think his best position is at 7 but I think you are wasting one of the great middle order batsman a bit by playing Pollard at 7. I think he's better then just a death overs hitter and I think that is shown by both his average and the volume of runs he has in T20 cricket. In the IPL too his matchwinning moments (as far as i recall over the years and certainly this season) have come at 5 or 6 or when the side are struggling and so he is forced to come in earlier then Mumbai planned. Pollard also averages 15 at a strike rate of 108 at number 7 for the West Indies.

I presume Shakib comes up the order in case of an awful start but if that doesn't happen Pollard a better option I reckon at 6 even though it does dilute Shakib's impact at 7 but he at least brings a credible bowling option who could bowl 4 overs if Ataraxia goes down that route.

 

[JOJOXI]

Matthew Hayden


Chris Gayle
Matthew Hayden
Joe Root
AB de Villiers
Ben Stokes
MS Dhoni (c) (wk)
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Daniel Vettori
Mitchell Johnson
Trent Boult
--

 

[ataraxia]

You are better off having shakib at 4 while dropping others one slot down. This looks so ugly with miller at 4 and other big hitters to follow while shakib sits at an unusual position.

Fair enough. I'm kind of playing him as a bowling all-rounder as well as being no.4 batsman in a crisis - as always a T20 batting order is very fluid.

 

[JOJOXI]

Fair enough. I'm kind of playing him as a bowling all-rounder as well as being no.4 batsman in a crisis - as always a T20 batting order is very fluid.

I would probably swap Maxwell and Miller myself as a hunch but not looked into that closely.

 

[JOJOXI]

@kingkallis

 

[ataraxia]

Also of note is that Shakib's batting average in both T20s and T20Is is significantly lower than the other 3 - just putting that out there.

 

[ataraxia]

Anyhow, the whole point of my side is that it can get to enormous totals and collapses are highly unlikely.

 

[anil1405]

I understand that flexibility is a given in t20's when it comes to batting order but I personally don't see Miller as a no.4. Same goes to Maxwell and Pollard. Yeah occasionally sending them at 4 is understandable based on situation of the game but I still see no.4 as a very important position in this format and someone who can keep the innings together. Of all those players in that team I see Shakib as the best fit.

 

[JOJOXI]

Maxwell does average 37.52 striking @ 156 when he bats at number 4 in T20Is with 2 hundreds from that position in fairness to him. He is a bit of a player who you can't be sure will get you runs with the consistency of say a Root, Williamson type player but his record is very good at 4 in T20Is - not sure how much that translates over to T20s

 

[anil1405]

Maxwell does average 37.52 striking @ 156 when he bats at number 4 in T20Is with 2 hundreds from that position in fairness to him. He is a bit of a player who you can't be sure will get you runs with the consistency of say a Root, Williamson type player but his record is very good at 4 in T20Is - not sure how much that translates over to T20s

Ahh just checked his stats and Maxwell does have a good record at no 4. I guess he and Shakib can interchange in that position while Miller and Pollard can come later in the innings.

 

[anil1405]

@kingkallis > Himannv > ataraxia > KingKallis

 

[weeman27bob]

Honest Hunks

Dawid Malan

Jos Buttler (wk)

Suresh Raina (vc)

Faf Du Plessis©

Andre Russell

Krunal Pandya

Hardik Pandya

Sunil Narine

Adil Rashid

Jofra Archer

Mitch Starc

I really like this team, lots of bowling options and great batting depth. I would think about putting Faf to open and Malan at 3 personally but can see an argument either way

 

[kingkallis]

Imad Wasim

CricZo XI

Brendon McCullum / +
Rohit Sharma /
Babar Azam /
Eoin Morgan / (c)
-
-
Imad Wasim o /
Chris Morris o /
Kagiso Rabada o
Shane Bond o
Imran Tahir o

 

[Himannv]

Sanath Jayasuriya

@ataraxia

 

[ataraxia]

Kane Williamson

 

[JOJOXI]

@kingkallis again I think

 

[kingkallis]

JP Duminy

CricZo XI

Brendon McCullum / +
Rohit Sharma /
Babar Azam /
Eoin Morgan / (c)
JP Duminy / o
-
Imad Wasim o /
Chris Morris o /
Kagiso Rabada o
Shane Bond o
Imran Tahir o

 

[JOJOXI]

@ataraxia