Na Maloom Afraad
Man of Tomorrow
That^ ain't so bad.
Draft: IPL Draft - Completed!
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Na Maloom Afraad
Man of Tomorrow
NMA's IPL XI
Matthew Hayden
Sourav Ganguly
Roelof van der Merwe
Umar Gul
Shoaib Akhtar
Incredibly happy with this. I've got my fiery new-ball pacer in Akhtar, yorker/death-specialist in Gul, stock spinner/capable-hand in Merwe and an excellent opening pair of Ganguly and Hayden. Ganguly, undoubtedly will also be the captain of the team.
This is awesome.
Matthew Hayden Sourav Ganguly Roelof van der Merwe Umar Gul Shoaib AkhtarIncredibly happy with this. I've got my fiery new-ball pacer in Akhtar, yorker/death-specialist in Gul, stock spinner/capable-hand in Merwe and an excellent opening pair of Ganguly and Hayden. Ganguly, undoubtedly will also be the captain of the team.
This is awesome.
Bevab
Staff Member
So how did we all fare until now?
@Bevab - Lot #1
Paul Collingwood
MS Dhoni
Shakib Al Hasan
Mitchell Johnson
Nathan Rimmington
- A middle order of Dhoni and Collingwood is fantastic for hitting sixes, not to mention the huge impact Dhoni's keeping and leadership will have on the team.
- Shakib is the ideal all-rounder that Dhoni craves. He can bat in the top six (even if he is not as good with the bat in T20s) and bowl finger spin accurately with variations to keep the batsmen guessing.
- While Johnson might have a decent IPL record, a large part of it came when he was the supporting act to Malinga rather than the leader of the attack.
- Rimmington's sole IPL game might have been decent but there is no doubt that he isn't anywhere near good.
@Aislabie - Lot #2
KL Rahul
Eoin Morgan
Shahid Afridi
Sohail Tanvir
Michael Neser
- Rahul is one among the top T20 batsmen currently and will easily be a match-winner on most occasions.
- Tanvir is the type of pacer who is difficult to extract runs from and even if he wouldn't have taken as many wickets in future seasons, he would have been one of the top T20 pacers in the IPL.
- There is no getting around it, Morgan's record in the IPL is quite poor for an overseas star despite playing 50 matches and Afridi under-performed in his single season and would have only been as slightly worse than his international numbers if he had played more seasons.
- Neser is a shockingly bad bowler and the best choice would be to give him just a single over in most games.
@Na Maloom Afraad - Lot #3
Matthew Hayden
Sourav Ganguly
Roelof van der Merwe
Shoaib Akhtar
Umar Gul
- Matthew Hayden is one of the three players who you could have hoped for to get as the ideal partner for Ganguly and you did manage to do it. Certainly helps that he is an extremely good player too.
- Akhtar and Gul are two of the perfect bowlers to bowl in tandem, with one being an express pace bowler and the other a deceptive seamer. In addition, they both have previous experience together and have a very good yorker.
- There is a reason why Kolkata won the league just two seasons after Ganguly last played a game for them while he could only struggle in Pune. While he might have been their top scorer in two seasons, was it worth it when the team arguably suffered from his relative lack of aggression?
- More of a nitpick, but Roelof van der Merwe's job could have easily done by any one of the dozens of spin all-rounders that India has everywhere.
@Akshay. - Lot #4
Virender Sehwag
Andre Russell
Rilee Rossouw
Kevon Cooper
Jason Holder
- Sehwag and Russell are two of the most destructive batsmen the IPL has ever seen and both have decent experience with captaincy too.
- Cooper is a fantastic option at the death and can also whack the ball down the order if required.
- Rossouw might have been mismanaged by RCB but five games is a lot more than what a lot of other players receive and four of them were in the Chinnaswamy too. Only one of those performances was any good and there is also the question of whether he should play as an opener or in the middle order.
- Holder is a really bad T20 player who is bound to be expensive no matter in which phase he bowls due to his lack of variations.
@CerealKiller - Lot #5
Albie Morkel
Bhuvneshwar Kumar
Brett Lee
Ashley Noffke
Abdur Razzak
- Morkel is one of the best pace all-rounders you could have hoped for and will cause absolute chaos when he walks in to bat.
- Bhuvi is a fantastic pick as the best Indian pacer in IPL history and can bowl both upfront and in the death with a bag of tricks to surprise anyone.
- Lee is decent for bowling an average T20 spell but if you need wickets, he is not your man.
- Noffke and Razzak were both one match wonders for the same team and are simply not good enough to bowl their full quota.
@ahmedleo414 - Lot #6
Manish Pandey
Nuwan Zoysa
Akila Dananjaya
Tim Southee
Yusuf Abdulla
- Pandey is one of the best fielders you could have hoped to pick. He can save around 10-20 runs every game and is good for pulling a wonder catch every now and then that no one else is capable of.
- Abdulla is a good T20 bowler who can be useful for several variations and a left-arm pace option is always something that helps.
- Akila is just a bad choice for an overseas spinner. He is ineffective on Indian pitches and can be easily read by a lot of domestic batsmen.
- Zoysa's T20 experience is very limited and his IPL stint was no good while Southee is simply not a decent white ball bowler who becomes progressively worse the shorter the format and the closer he is to the final over.
@Nilay_60 - Lot #7
Adam Gilchrist
Sachin Tendulkar
Colin Ingram
Peter Handscomb
Lasith Malinga
- Tendulkar and Gilchrist is the perfect opening combination one could wish for. Both have good experience of captaincy but Gilchrist was one of the best captains when he played and it would make sense for him to be the leader.
- Malinga is the best bowler in IPL history. He will win you games by himself and you can rely on him to defend any target in the final over.
- There is no getting around it, that middle order is quite weak with Handscomb being a particularly shocking batsman.
- Neither Ingram nor Handscomb can bowl, meaning that you will need to rely entirely on domestic options for all-rounders.
@Bigby Wolf - Lot #8
Chris Lynn
Rob Quiney
Tatenda Taibu
Shaun Pollock
Jasprit Bumrah
- Lynn is one of the most feared T20 batsmen present today and even if he hasn't been a top overseas IPL player, the number of sixes he can hit means that when he has a good game your team has a high chance of winning.
- Pollock and Bumrah are a very miserly duo and it will be particularly difficult to score runs off them.
- Taibu is not really good enough to merit a spot in the top six as a batsman and given the rules he can't play as a keeper either.
- Seven games is enough to assess an overseas player and it is clear that Quiney is no good as an opener. And this was in South Africa, imagine how much worse he would have been on the dry pitches of India.
@VC the slogger - Lot #9
Sunil Narine
Owais Shah
Rishabh Pant
Sam Billings
Ray Price
- Narine is a great spinner who can bowl in any phase of the game and is also one of the few pinch-hitters who actually is good.
- Pant is an excellent choice given how he can score big quickly and consistently and could work well with Shah.
- Unfortunately Price will simply have to play as a specialist fielder who can't bowl which puts more pressure on Narine and the hypothetical all-rounder at seven to bowl their entire quota.
- Billings is completely redundant in this team as Pant can do everything he does with better results.
With all said and done, it is time for the fourth and final layer as we try to fix the mess left behind. I've put up a temporary list of rejected domestic players in the first post and will update it with the entire list including overseas players and the users later. The order is based on the previous drafts where the worst teams get a chance first. Rememeber that you will only be allowed to pick Indian players from here on.
Good luck!
@Bevab - Lot #1
Paul CollingwoodMS DhoniShakib Al HasanMitchell JohnsonNathan Rimmington - A middle order of Dhoni and Collingwood is fantastic for hitting sixes, not to mention the huge impact Dhoni's keeping and leadership will have on the team. - Shakib is the ideal all-rounder that Dhoni craves. He can bat in the top six (even if he is not as good with the bat in T20s) and bowl finger spin accurately with variations to keep the batsmen guessing. - While Johnson might have a decent IPL record, a large part of it came when he was the supporting act to Malinga rather than the leader of the attack. - Rimmington's sole IPL game might have been decent but there is no doubt that he isn't anywhere near good. @Aislabie - Lot #2
KL RahulEoin MorganShahid AfridiSohail TanvirMichael Neser - Rahul is one among the top T20 batsmen currently and will easily be a match-winner on most occasions. - Tanvir is the type of pacer who is difficult to extract runs from and even if he wouldn't have taken as many wickets in future seasons, he would have been one of the top T20 pacers in the IPL. - There is no getting around it, Morgan's record in the IPL is quite poor for an overseas star despite playing 50 matches and Afridi under-performed in his single season and would have only been as slightly worse than his international numbers if he had played more seasons. - Neser is a shockingly bad bowler and the best choice would be to give him just a single over in most games.@Na Maloom Afraad - Lot #3
Matthew HaydenSourav GangulyRoelof van der MerweShoaib AkhtarUmar Gul - Matthew Hayden is one of the three players who you could have hoped for to get as the ideal partner for Ganguly and you did manage to do it. Certainly helps that he is an extremely good player too. - Akhtar and Gul are two of the perfect bowlers to bowl in tandem, with one being an express pace bowler and the other a deceptive seamer. In addition, they both have previous experience together and have a very good yorker. - There is a reason why Kolkata won the league just two seasons after Ganguly last played a game for them while he could only struggle in Pune. While he might have been their top scorer in two seasons, was it worth it when the team arguably suffered from his relative lack of aggression? - More of a nitpick, but Roelof van der Merwe's job could have easily done by any one of the dozens of spin all-rounders that India has everywhere.@Akshay. - Lot #4
Virender SehwagAndre RussellRilee RossouwKevon CooperJason Holder - Sehwag and Russell are two of the most destructive batsmen the IPL has ever seen and both have decent experience with captaincy too. - Cooper is a fantastic option at the death and can also whack the ball down the order if required. - Rossouw might have been mismanaged by RCB but five games is a lot more than what a lot of other players receive and four of them were in the Chinnaswamy too. Only one of those performances was any good and there is also the question of whether he should play as an opener or in the middle order. - Holder is a really bad T20 player who is bound to be expensive no matter in which phase he bowls due to his lack of variations.@CerealKiller - Lot #5
Albie MorkelBhuvneshwar KumarBrett LeeAshley NoffkeAbdur Razzak - Morkel is one of the best pace all-rounders you could have hoped for and will cause absolute chaos when he walks in to bat. - Bhuvi is a fantastic pick as the best Indian pacer in IPL history and can bowl both upfront and in the death with a bag of tricks to surprise anyone. - Lee is decent for bowling an average T20 spell but if you need wickets, he is not your man. - Noffke and Razzak were both one match wonders for the same team and are simply not good enough to bowl their full quota. @ahmedleo414 - Lot #6
Manish PandeyNuwan ZoysaAkila DananjayaTim SoutheeYusuf Abdulla - Pandey is one of the best fielders you could have hoped to pick. He can save around 10-20 runs every game and is good for pulling a wonder catch every now and then that no one else is capable of. - Abdulla is a good T20 bowler who can be useful for several variations and a left-arm pace option is always something that helps. - Akila is just a bad choice for an overseas spinner. He is ineffective on Indian pitches and can be easily read by a lot of domestic batsmen. - Zoysa's T20 experience is very limited and his IPL stint was no good while Southee is simply not a decent white ball bowler who becomes progressively worse the shorter the format and the closer he is to the final over.@Nilay_60 - Lot #7
Adam GilchristSachin TendulkarColin IngramPeter HandscombLasith Malinga - Tendulkar and Gilchrist is the perfect opening combination one could wish for. Both have good experience of captaincy but Gilchrist was one of the best captains when he played and it would make sense for him to be the leader. - Malinga is the best bowler in IPL history. He will win you games by himself and you can rely on him to defend any target in the final over. - There is no getting around it, that middle order is quite weak with Handscomb being a particularly shocking batsman. - Neither Ingram nor Handscomb can bowl, meaning that you will need to rely entirely on domestic options for all-rounders.@Bigby Wolf - Lot #8
Chris LynnRob QuineyTatenda TaibuShaun PollockJasprit Bumrah - Lynn is one of the most feared T20 batsmen present today and even if he hasn't been a top overseas IPL player, the number of sixes he can hit means that when he has a good game your team has a high chance of winning. - Pollock and Bumrah are a very miserly duo and it will be particularly difficult to score runs off them. - Taibu is not really good enough to merit a spot in the top six as a batsman and given the rules he can't play as a keeper either. - Seven games is enough to assess an overseas player and it is clear that Quiney is no good as an opener. And this was in South Africa, imagine how much worse he would have been on the dry pitches of India.@VC the slogger - Lot #9
Sunil NarineOwais ShahRishabh PantSam BillingsRay Price - Narine is a great spinner who can bowl in any phase of the game and is also one of the few pinch-hitters who actually is good. - Pant is an excellent choice given how he can score big quickly and consistently and could work well with Shah. - Unfortunately Price will simply have to play as a specialist fielder who can't bowl which puts more pressure on Narine and the hypothetical all-rounder at seven to bowl their entire quota. - Billings is completely redundant in this team as Pant can do everything he does with better results. With all said and done, it is time for the fourth and final layer as we try to fix the mess left behind. I've put up a temporary list of rejected domestic players in the first post and will update it with the entire list including overseas players and the users later. The order is based on the previous drafts where the worst teams get a chance first. Rememeber that you will only be allowed to pick Indian players from here on.
- @ahmedleo414
- @CerealKiller
- @VC the slogger
- @Aislabie
- @Bigby Wolf
- @Nilay_60
- @Akshay.
- @Bevab
- @Na Maloom Afraad
- @ahmedleo414
- @CerealKiller
- @VC the slogger
- @Aislabie
- @Bigby Wolf
- @Nilay_60
- @Akshay.
- @Bevab
- @Na Maloom Afraad
- @ahmedleo414
- @CerealKiller
- @VC the slogger
- @Aislabie
- @Bigby Wolf
- @Nilay_60
- @Akshay.
- @Bevab
- @Na Maloom Afraad
- @ahmedleo414
- @CerealKiller
- @VC the slogger
- @Aislabie
- @Bigby Wolf
- @Nilay_60
- @Akshay.
- @Bevab
- @Na Maloom Afraad
- @ahmedleo414
- @CerealKiller
- @VC the slogger
- @Aislabie
- @Bigby Wolf
- @Nilay_60
- @Akshay.
- @Bevab
- @Na Maloom Afraad
- @ahmedleo414
- @CerealKiller
- @VC the slogger
- @Aislabie
- @Bigby Wolf
- @Nilay_60
- @Akshay.
- @Bevab
- @Na Maloom Afraad
Good luck!
Na Maloom Afraad
Man of Tomorrow
To be fair, I made Sourav Ganguly my icon pick because I thought that most of the obvious names (Kohli, Sharma, Tendulkar, Dhoni) will be picked by others and I didn't wanna lose my iconic pick because of a clash. Too bad two of the four I mentioned actually got picked and the two (arguably) better options in Kohli and Sharma didn't.
I went through his record and it wasn't all that bad apart from a few blemishes here and there, so I thought, yeah let's go with him. I didn't watch him much during that time so I never knew that Kolkata 'lacked aggression' under his captaincy, which I can not bring myself to believe. I mean, he's known for his aggressive captaincy. Nonetheless I'm still happy with having him as my icon player and captain. I hope he can deliver with the bat when needed, even if his captaincy isn't all that aggressive.
I totally agree. That's why I said I would've given everything to have Pollock instead of him seeing that he was nominated for the Auction.
Bevab
Staff Member
The lack of aggression wasn't about his captaincy but his own style of batting rather. I do think his actual/adjusted strike-rate would be closer to 120 given that the first few IPLs were not exactly known for consistently high scores. Surround him with players who are proactive and he shall be a good option.
ahmedleo414
The Butcher
So I have the first pick, because I have the worst team so far... sounds about right.. So for my first pick I'll go with. Gautam Gambhir
Matches: 154
Runs: 4,217
Ave: 31.23
S/R: 123.88
@CerealKiller you have the next pick
Matches: 154
Runs: 4,217
Ave: 31.23
S/R: 123.88
- Gautam Gambhir
- ?
- Manish Pandey
- ?
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- ?
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- Nuwan Zoysa
- Akila Dananjaya
- Tim Southee
- Yusuf Abdulla
@CerealKiller you have the next pick
CerealKiller
Staff Member
I'll pick Shreyas Gopal, the leg spin bowling all-rounder.
CerealKiller's XI
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5. Albie Morkel
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7. Shreyas Gopal
8. Bhuvneshwar Kumar
9. Brett Lee
10. Ashley Noffke
11. Abdur Razzak
@VC the slogger
@Bevab could you put the draft order on the first page? It'd be easier to find.
CerealKiller's XI
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Albie Morkel 6.
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Shreyas Gopal 8.
Bhuvneshwar Kumar 9.
Brett Lee 10.
Ashley Noffke 11.
Abdur Razzak @VC the slogger
@Bevab could you put the draft order on the first page? It'd be easier to find.
Bevab
Staff Member
With @VC the slogger missing his chance, @Aislabie can now make his pick.
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Bigby Wolf
Guest
Yes I had no tweaking idea about how the draft will work.
Gifted few of the guys some great players.
Aislabie
Test Cricket is Best Cricket
Hardik Pandya (MI, 66 matches) 1,068 runs @ 28.86 (SR: 154.78, best 91, b/6: 10.1) 42 wickets @ 31.26 (econ: 9.06, best 3/20)So Hardik Pandya's ability to hit 150 kph will make him a pretty useful option with ball in hand, even if he only bowls two or three overs. What really makes him exceptional though is his ability to absolutely demolish opposition teams with bat in hand. He's a naturally destructive batsman who hits a six every ten balls, which is a huge asset to any team. I'll slot him in at five, where the late-innings hitters start. Very happy to pick him up.
Ascending @Aislabie Asteroids
(That's basically how IPL team names work right?)
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KL Rahul3.
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Eoin Morgan5.
Hardik Pandya6.
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Shahid Afridi8.
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Sohail Tanvir10.
Michael Neser11.
@Bigby Wolf
NILAYSHAH60
Dreamcatcher
Not too sure about this. Infact, he struggles to hit anything short of length at that pace. He is majorly destructive against slower bowlers.
Aislabie
Test Cricket is Best Cricket
Bevab
Staff Member
DJ Bravo
The allrounder from Trinidad & Tobago who all be my allrounder in the squad a specialist death bowler with those slower deliveries & cutters and is more than handy with the bat.
IPL Stats - 147 wickets @24.39 eco - 8.39 & 1483 runs @23.17 with sr of 123.14.
@Nilay_60
You're only allowed to select domestic players so your selection is wrong I'm afraid.[DOUBLEPOST=1591527718][/DOUBLEPOST]
That name would fit right in along with Rising Pune Supergiant.
