Draft: Best to Never Play ODIs

[VC the slogger]

Nilay's XI

1. Michael Klinger ​
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6. Aditya Tare ​
7. ​
8. Garth Le Roux ​
9. Franklyn Stephenson ​
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11. ​

Franklyn at 9 is a bit of a waste tbh. He was a superb 6/7-ish player with the ability to strike the ball a long way in the manner of a 80s/90s Dre Russ of sorts, and has at least once managed two centuries in either innings of an FC match.. Certainly a far better bat than le Roux..

 

[NILAYSHAH60]

Oh dear.. That was meant to be my next pick!

Perfect way to balance things after what happened during IODC drafts 3 years ago.

@NilayShah60 I picked Bhuvneshwar Kumar literally nanoseconds before you..

Yeah, right.. This is why it's always best to post all your picks at once rather than one at a time when you're last to pick in a draft.

 

[VC the slogger]

Perfect way to balance things after what happened during IODC drafts 3 years ago.

Dayyum..

 

[NILAYSHAH60]

Franklyn at 9 is a bit of a waste tbh. He was a superb 6/7-ish player with the ability to strike the ball a long way in the manner of a 80s/90s Dre Russ of sorts, and has at least once managed two centuries in either innings of an FC match.. Certainly a far better bat than le Roux..

Having him at 7 now. Couldn't play Tare above 6 and playing an all-rounder at 6 would mean a batsman short. So 7 is the best place that Franklyn could find in that team.

 

[Aislabie]

Yeah, I'm not surprised to see the amount of my targets that are really dropping like flies as this draft goes on. That said, I feel like I have sufficient back-up picks planned that this shouldn't be a problem as I assemble my team

 

[NILAYSHAH60]

Yeah, I'm not surprised to see the amount of my targets that are really dropping like flies as this draft goes on. That said, I feel like I have sufficient back-up picks planned that this shouldn't be a problem as I assemble my team

No wonder why you are one of the few people with the best Cricketing knowledge on this forum! The other guy is the one who created this thread.

 

[VC the slogger]

I would have loved an all-rounder in the mould of Wally Hammond for this draft - someone who can bat aggressively, averages well over 50 and has a few tricks up his sleeve in another discipline. But I didn't get him, so I'm just gonna have to settle for another such player in Clyde Walcott - a man who could not only bat aggressively, average well over 50, but who could also keep wickets quite ably having started his career as a proper wicket-keeper bat prior to giving that up due to back problems and in order to fully concentrate on his batting. And what a batsman he was indeed; 3798 runs at 56.68 with 15 hundreds as opposed to only 14 fifties at Test level, including an instance of him once recording a mind-blowing 5 Test centuries in a single Test series against the world's then best Test side Australia. When he got going there was simply no stopping him, regardless of how quick the bowlers were he would simply hang back and smash them into the stands with his devastating hook shoot. His muscular frame allowed him to generate a lot of power from his shots and he is recorded to having smashed 11 sixes throughout his Test career at a time when Test cricket was dominated by some very boring defensive batsmanship in the 1950s. And while he was always a better batsman when not tasked with the gloves at Test level averaging nearly 65, he still averaged a more than respectable 40.36 as a keeper-batsman - figures that are pretty much on par with the likes of Kumar Sangakkara, MS Dhoni among others from the modern era. It was a shame that some typical West Indian board politics caused his very early retirement aged only 34, just before his comrade Frank Worrell was appointed the first full-time black captain of the West Indies and would only see them go from strength to strength, though he continued to play for Barbados until 1963/64.


VC's XI

1. Barry Richards
2.
3.
4. Graeme Pollock
5. Clyde Walcott
6.
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8. Bart King
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11.


@ddrap14

 

[Aislabie]

5. Clyde Walcott

Not a huge surprise to see you grab my planned next pick. C'est la vie

 

[ddrap14]

Yes! The player I want wasn't taken!

I'm taking JJ Ferris, the Aussie quick. Why, you may ask? Well, it's possible it would have been more clever to take a batsman or an all rounder. But I now have the first best Test bowler by average (Lohmann), the second best Test bowler by average (this chap) and the third best Test bowler by average (B. Barnes). That's a devastating one-two-three punch for opposing batting lineups.

@ahmedleo414

 

[ahmedleo414]

So my pick will go to Bill O'Reilly

1. Sid Barnes
2. W.G. Grace
3. ?
4. ?
5. ?
6. Denis Lindsay
7. ?
8. ?
9. Bill O'Reilly
10. ?
11. ?

@Parth D

 

[NILAYSHAH60]

Aren't we building a one-day team with players that have not played ODI Cricket? @VC the slogger

 

[VC the slogger]

Aren't we building a one-day team with players that hae not played ODI Cricket? @VC the slogger

Yeah, that's the point. But it doesn't mean we have to limit ourselves to List-A capped players only, though good List-A players are always valuable to have in a squad in case I do decide to sim a draft tourney at the end.

 

[Verified Enigma]

I will go with the best spinner in Test history, englishman Hedley Verity.



@Aislabie for a double pick

 

[ahmedleo414]

I will go with the best spinner in Test history, englishman Hedley Verity.

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@Aislabie for a double pick

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[Aislabie]

I will go with the best spinner in Test history, englishman Hedley Verity.

I love that I've spawned a small community of Hedley Verity truthers on here; never stop banging that drum.

Anyway, I am also going to pick my second spinner (after Barnes) now, and that spinner will be...



Aubrey Faulkner

Though often famed more for his batting than his bowling, Aubrey Faulkner's attacking leg-spin brought him 82 Test wickets at 26 apiece, out of an overall 449 first-class scalps at 17 apiece. Although the temptation was to pick Bapu Nadkarni (I mean I still might in the end), the sheer disrespect of picking Aubrey Faulkner and not even batting him in the top six amuses me greatly.

Clem Hill

He might not have quite averaged that arbitrary benchmark of 40 in Tests, but Clem Hill was a truly remarkable cricketer. Not only did he make big scores (his first triple-hundred came aged only 16) but he made them quickly too - his estimated Test strike rate of 70 runs per hundred balls a wild outlier in an era when Proper Batsmen just didn't play like that.

1.
2. Wally Hammond
3. Clem Hill
4.
5.
6. Gilbert Jessop
7. Aubrey Faulkner
8.
9.
10. SF Barnes
11.

@Parth D