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ODI Draft - Ascending Batting Average

ankitj

Well-known member
A very interesting variant of this draft can be one where you pick 11 players strictly in their batting order in the XI starting with openers. Voting should explicitly require the batting order to be taken into consideration. Will be interesting how early likes of Hadlee and Pollock get picked who are good enough to be lead bowlers of their attacks and also give good all round depth to the team.
 

anil1405

Well-known member
Round 5:

Pothas - Sanath Jayasuriya (32.36)
Trundler - Adam Gilchrist (35.89)
Mr_mister - Sachin Tendulkar (44.83)
Anil1405 - Shakib al Hasan (37.86)
KK - Brendon McCullum (30.41)
LL - Chris Wakes (25.02)
Weldone - Jacob Oram (24.09)
Teuton -
Fuller Pilch -
StephenZA -
HB -
Ankitj -

Round 6:

Ankitj -
HB -
StephenZA -
Fuller Pilch -
Teuton -
Weldone -
LL -
KK -
Anil1405 -
Mr_mister -
Trundler -
Pothas -


Teams:

Teuton - Glenn McGrath (3.83), Makhaya Ntini (8.65), Brad Hogg (20.25), Imran Khan (33.41)
LL - Muttiah Muralitharan (6.8), Lasith Malinga (6.83), Courtney Walsh (6.97), Shahid Afridi (23.57), Chris Wakes (25.02)
HB - Joel Garner (9.19), Andy Roberts (10.04), Sunil Narine (11), Mitchell Johnson (16.11)
StephenZA - Allan Donald (4.31), Richard Hadlee (21.61), Shaun Pollock (26.45), Ravi Jadeja (31.88)
Fuller Pilch - Imran Tahir (7.85), Shane Bond (16.22), Mohammad Amir (18.15), Kapil Dev (23.79)
Anil1405 - Jasprit Bumrah (3.8), Dennis Lillee - (9.23), Rashid Khan (19.25), Andrew Flintoff (32.01), Shakib al Hasan (37.86)
Pothas - Michael Holding (9.09), Wasim Akram - (16.52), Daniel Vettori (17.33), Ian Botham (23.21), Sanath Jayasuriya (32.36)
Mr_mister - Shoaib Akhtar (8.95), Anil Kumble - (10.53), Chaminda Vaas (13.68), Paul Reiffel (13.97), Sachin Tendulkar (44.83)
Ankitj - Curtly Ambrose (10.65), Shane Warne - (13.05), Malcolm Marshall (14.92), Ian Bishop (16.2)
KK - Mitchell Starc (11.59), Saqlain Mushtaq- (11.85), Brett Lee (17.81), Chris Cairns (29.46), Brendon McCullum (30.41)
Trundler - Saeed Ajmal (7.04), Craig McDermott (7.08), Nathan Bracken (11.7), Darren Gough (12.42), Adam Gilchrist (35.89)
Weldone - Dale Steyn (9.35), Waqar Younis (10.3), Bob Willis (10.37), Harbhajan Singh (13.3), Jacob Oram (24.09)


Round 7: Fuller Pilch, KK, Weldone, Teuton, Trundler, Mr_mister, Pothas, LL, HB, Ankitj, Anil1405, StephenZA
Round 9: LL, Teuton, Anil1405, Fuller Pilch, Ankitj, HB, StephenZA, Pothas, Trundler, Mr_mister, Weldone, KK
 
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Prince EWS

Global Moderator
This is mighty interesting. I assume you are going to have him as your 5th bowler because I don't know many batsmen with higher average that can bowl.
I reckon he's alright tbh. I can think of 7 players off the top of my head with better batting averages who are also better or at least equivalent bowlers. Whether you'd really want them in your team or not is maybe a different thing but if he ends up sticking one at 7 to share fifth bowler duties with Tendulkar I think it's probably fine.
 

ankitj

Well-known member
I reckon he's alright tbh. I can think of 7 players off the top of my head with better batting averages who are also better or at least equivalent bowlers. Whether you'd really want them in your team or not is maybe a different thing but if he ends up sticking one at 7 to share fifth bowler duties with Tendulkar I think it's probably fine.
What happened to your idea that you should have a 5th bowler in the XI that you will back to bowl 10 overs even if who you pick as 5th may not be one of the top 5 bowlers at your disposal. :p
 
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