Draft: ODI World Cup Draft | Tournament underway

[Gaurav_7]

Okay we had these some 5-6 years ago on this site and it was real fun then so let's see if these are popular now. As the world cup is near why not have a world cup draft! We had one earlier and it was super awesome. This is just for fun and also to learn a bit more about cricket world cup history and the players we might not know. I will need around 8 to 10 people who can make their picks.

The aim is to get the best XI of the world cup history. So, only world cup performances of the players will matter here. There will be a limit of one player per country till the last round to make it more interesting. A player must have played at least 3 world cup matches to qualify. When you make a pick, try and add his pics and a little writeup as to why you picked him and maybe also highlight his special world cup moments. There will be a 24 hour time limit for each pick.

We will have 11 rounds in all, one player per round. In the last round you can pick a player from any country from the remaining ones.

This will be an ordered draft. I will let you know the order once we have the signups. You will need to do a lot of research too and then pick. That is the best thing about this. Make sure you have a balanced XI! One wicket keeper is a must, and his batting stats as a wicket keeper only will count. Players in their correct batting positions will earn you more points too. Maybe we can also have a virtual sim league at the end to determine who picked the best side!

Signups
Rebel2k18
El Loco
Perfect Square
Ashutosh.
PresidentEvil
AliB
CerealKiller
Bigby Wolf
Manish.
Kumbis

Draft order:

Round 1: Australia
Kumbis - Adam Gilchrist
Rebel2k18 - Ricky Ponting
Manish. - Michael Clarke
PresidentEvil - Glenn McGrath
CerealKiller - Matthew Hayden
Perfect Square - Shane Warne
Bigby Wolf - Mitchell Starc
Ashutosh. - Brett Lee
AliB - Mark Waugh
El Loco - Steve Waugh

Round 2: Bangladesh
El Loco - Shakib Al Hasan
AliB - Mahmudullah
Ashutosh. - Mashrafe Mortaza
Bigby Wolf - Mushfiqur Rahim
Perfect Square - Abdur Razzak
CerealKiller - Tamim Iqbal
PresidentEvil - Minhajul Abedin
Manish. - Rubel Hossain
Rebel2k18 - Khaled Mahmud
Kumbis - Mohammad Rafique

Round 3: England
Manish. - Graham Gooch
Bigby Wolf - Sir Ian Botham
Kumbis - Joe Root
Perfect Square - Kevin Pietersen
El Loco - Andrew Flintoff
PresidentEvil - Allan Lamb
CerealKiller - Mike Gatting
Rebel2k18 - Chris Old
AliB - Jonathan Trott
Ashutosh. - Ian Bell

Round 4: India
Ashutosh.- Sachin Tendulkar
AliB - Sourav Ganguly
Rebel2k18 - Yuvraj Singh
CerealKiller - Zaheer Khan
PresidentEvil - Rahul Dravid
El Loco - Anil Kumble
Perfect Square - MS Dhoni
Kumbis - Virender Sehwag
Bigby Wolf - Kapil Dev
Manish. - Virat Kohli

Round 5: New Zealand
Bigby Wolf - Martin Crowe
Rebel2k18 - Shane Bond
CerealKiller - Tim Southee
Manish. - Brendon McCullum
AliB - Scott Styris
Ashutosh. - Martin Guptill
Kumbis - Trent Boult
PresidentEvil - Glenn Turner
El Loco - Richard Hadlee
Perfect Square - Geoff Allott

Round 6: Pakistan
Perfect Square - Wasim Akram
El Loco - Javed Miandad
PresidentEvil - Imran Khan
Kumbis - Shoaib Akhtar
Ashutosh. - Mushtaq Ahmed
AliB - Umar Gul
Manish. - Shahid Afridi
CerealKiller - Saqlain Mushtaq
Rebel2k18 - Abdul Qadir
Bigby Wolf - Saeed Anwar

Round 7: Srilanka
Rebel2k18 - Kumar Sangakkara
CerealKiller - Muttiah Muralitharan
PresidentEvil - Chaminda Vaas
Bigby Wolf - Aravinda Da Silva
Manish. - Lasith Malinga
El Loco - Sanath Jayasuirya
Kumbis - Mahela Jayawardene
AliB - Ajantha Mendis
Ashutosh. - Arjuna Ranatunga
Perfect Square - Tillakaratne Dilshan

Round 8: South Africa
Cereal Killer - AB de Villiers
Ashutosh. - Jacques Kallis
AliB - Imran Tahir
Kumbis - Allan Donald
El Loco - Gary Kirsten
Manish. - Lance Klusener
Bigby Wolf - Herschelle Gibbs
PresidentEvil - Shaun Pollock
Perfect Square - Morne Morkel
Rebel2k18 - Andrew Hudson

Round 9: West Indies
AliB - Vivian Richards
Bigby Wolf - Andy Roberts
Ashutosh. - Ramnaresh Sarwan
El Loco - Michael Holding
Manish. - Courtney Walsh
Perfect Square - Brian Lara
Kumbis - Shivnarine Chanderpaul
CerealKiller - Ridley Jacobs
Rebel2k18 - Clive Lloyd
PresidentEvil - Curtley Ambrose

Round 10: Others
PresidentEvil - Neil Johnson
Rebel2k18 - John Davison
CerealKiller - Brendan Taylor
Kumbis - Ryan ten Doeschate
Perfect Square - Sean Williams
Manish. - Shaiman Anwar
El Loco - Andy Flower
Ashutosh. - Tatenda Taibu
Bigby Wolf - Paul Strang
AliB - Niall O'Brien

Round 11: Best of the rest
Kumbis - Andrew Symonds
PresidentEvil - Brad Hogg
Perfect Square - David Boon
Manish. - Daniel Vettori
CerealKiller - Corey Anderson
Bigby Wolf - Ravichandran Ashwin
El Loco - Waqar Younis
AliB - Andy Bichel
Ashutosh. - Robin Peterson
Rebel2k18 - Chris Harris

Rebel2k18:

01. Andrew Hudson 02. John Davison 03. Ricky Ponting 04. Kumar Sangakkara 05. Yuvraj Singh 06. Clive Lloyd 07. Chris Harris 08. Chris Old 09. Khaled Mahmud 10. Abdul Qadir 11. Shane Bond

El Loco:

01. Gary Kirsten 02. Sanath Jayasuriya 03. Andy Flower 04. Javed Miandad 05. Steve Waugh 06. Shakib Al Hasan 07. Andrew Flintoff 08. Richard Hadlee 09. Anil Kumble 10. Michael Holding 11. Waqar Younis

Perfect Square:

01. David Boon 02. TM Dilshan 03. Brian Lara 04. Kevin Pietersen 05. MS Dhoni 06. Sean Williams 07. Wasim Akram 08. Shane Warne 09. Morne Morkel 10. Abdur Razzak 11. Geoff Allot

Ashutosh:

01. Martin Guptill 02. Sachin Tendulkar 03. Jacques Kallis 04. Ian Bell 05. Ramnaresh Sarwan 06. Arjuna Rangatunga 07. Tatenda Taibu 08. Robin Peterson 09. Brett Lee 10. Mashrafe Mortaza 11. Mushtaq Ahmed

PresidentEvil:

01. Glenn Turner 02. Neil Johnson 03. Rahul Dravid 04. Allan Lamb 05. Imran Khan 06. Minhajul Abedin 07. Shaun Pollock 08. Brad Hogg 09. Chaminda Vaas 10. Sir Curtly Ambrose 11. Glenn McGrath

AliB:

01. Mark Waugh 02. Sourav Ganguly 03. Sir Viv Richards 04. Jonathan Trott 05. Niall O'Brien 06. Scott Styris 07. Mahmudullah 08. Andy Bichel 09. Umar Gul 10. Ajantha Mendis 11. Imran Tahir

CerealKiller:

01. Matthew Hayden 02. Tamim Iqbal 03. AB de Villiers 04. Mike Gatting 05. Brendan Taylor 06. Corey Anderson 07. Ridley Jacobs 08. Tim Southee 09. Zaheer Khan 10. Saqlain Mushtaq 11. Muttiah Muralitharan

Bigby Wolf:

01. Saeed Anwar 02. Herschelle Gibbs 03. Aravinda De Silva 04. Martin Crowe 05. Mushfiqur Rahim 06. Sir Ian Botham 07. Kapil Dev 08. Ravi Ashwin 09. Mitchell Starc 10. Paul Strang 11. Sir Andy Roberts

Manish.:

01. Graham Gooch 02. Brendon Mccullum 03. Virat Kohli 04. Michael Clarke 05. Shaiman Anwar 06. Lance Klusener 07. Shahid Afridi 08. Daniel Vettori 09. Courtney Walsh 10. Lasith Malinga 11. Rubel Hossain

Kumbis:

01. Adam Gilchrist 02. Virender Sehwag 03. Joe Root 04. Mahela Jayawardene 05. Shivnarine Chanderpaul 06. Andrew Symonds 07. Ryan ten Doeschate 08. Mohammad Rafique 09. Shoaib Akhtar 10. Trent Boult 11. Allan Donald

 

[El Loco]

Fixtures & Results

Round 1

CerealKiller v El Loco at Edgbaston - El Loco's XI won by 4 runs
Ashutosh. v Bigby Wolf at Lord's - Ashutosh.'s XI won by 3 wickets (with 1 ball remaining)
Manish. v Kumbis at The Oval - Manish.'s XI won by 71 runs
PresidentEvil v AliB at Trent Bridge - PresidentEvil's XI won by 87 runs
Byes: Rebel2k18 & Perfect Square

Round 2

El Loco v Ashutosh. at Taunton - El Loco's XI won by 3 runs
Rebel2k18 v CerealKiller at Cardiff - Rebel2k18's XI won by 35 runs
Kumbis v PresidentEvil at Headingley - Kumbis' XI won by 5 wickets (with 10 balls remaining)
Perfect Square v Manish. at Old Trafford - Perfect Square's XI won by 3 wickets (with 8 balls remaining)
Byes: Bigby Wolf & AliB

Round 3

Ashutosh. v Rebel2k18 at Edgbaston - Rebel2k19's XI won by 35 runs
Bigby Wolf v El Loco at The Oval - El Loco's XI won by 4 runs
PresidentEvil v Perfect Square at Lord's - Perfect Square's XI won by 15 runs
AliB v Kumbis at Southampton - AliB's XI won by 45 runs
Byes: CerealKiller & Manish.

Round 4

Rebel2k18 v Bigby Wolf at Bristol - Bigby Wolf's XI won by 30 runs
CerealKiller v Ashutosh. at Chester-le-Street - CerealKiller's XI won by 55 runs
Perfect Square v AliB at Cardiff - AliB's XI won by 49 runs
Manish. v PresidentEvil at Trent Bridge - PresidentEvil's XI won by 9 runs
Byes: El Loco & Kumbis

Round 5

Bigby Wolf v CerealKiller at The Oval - CerealKiller's XI won by 50 runs
El Loco v Rebel2k18 at Old Trafford - El Loco's XI won by 5 wickets (with 17 balls remaining)
AliB v Manish. at Lord's - Manish.'s XI won by 118 runs
Kumbis v Perfect Square at Headingley - Perfect Square's XI won by 6 wickets (with 6 balls remaining)
Byes: Ashutosh. & PresidentEvil

Semi-finals

El Loco v Manish. at Edgbaston - El Loco's XI won by 1 wicket (with 1 ball remaining)
Perfect Square v CerealKiller at Old Trafford - Perfect Square's XI won by 1 run

Final

El Loco v Perfect Square at Lord's - Perfect Square's XI won by 3 runs​

 

[Perfect Square]

Standings​

Group A

-||Team||Pld||Won||Lost||NR/T||NRR||Pts
| | El Loco | | 4 | | 4 | | 0 | | 0 | | +0.155 | | 8
| | CerealKiller | | 4 | | 2 | | 2 | | 0 | | +0.330 | | 4
| | Rebel2k19 | | 4 | | 2 | | 2 | | 0 | | +0.104 | | 4
| | Bigby Wolf | | 4 | | 1 | | 3 | | 0 | | -0.130 | | 2
| | Ashutosh. | | 4 | | 1 | | 3 | | 0 | | -0.456 | | 2

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Group B

-||Team||Pld||Won||Lost||NR/T||NRR||Pts
| | Perfect Square | | 4 | | 3 | | 1 | | 0 | | -0.093 | | 6
| | Manish. | | 4 | | 2 | | 2 | | 0 | | +0.863 | | 4
| | PresidentEvil | | 4 | | 2 | | 2 | | 0 | | +0.344 | | 4
| | AliB | | 4 | | 2 | | 2 | | 0 | | -0.555 | | 4
| | Kumbis | | 4 | | 1 | | 3 | | 0 | | -0.559 | | 2

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[Ashutosh.]

In.

 

[Targaryen]

In.

 

[AliB]

I'm in. Sounds fun.

 

[CerealKiller]

In

 

[Bigby Wolf]

In

 

[Manish.]

in​

 

[Gaurav_7]

One more and we can get this underway.

 

[Mijurkat]

In.

 

[Gaurav_7]

I have put the order, remember one pick at a time and only pick when it is your turn. This won't be a like a draft in the cricket leagues. This will be a slow and steady thing. Make sure you put your best effort in the writeups and mention WC stats of the player so that we know why you picked a particular player. I have tried to be fair to everyone in that order which is random at the odd round and then follows snake order for the even ones.

@Kumbis you can get us started with the first Australian player!

 

[Mijurkat]

Australia

Adam Gilchrist, after his 'Hurricane' knock against Srilanka in the 2007WC final.


Adam Gilchrist
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The Aggressor, Risk taker, Demon Slogger those names are not enough for this Australian cricket rockstar. Gilly is my opening wicketkeeper batsman. The way he smashed opening bowlers in the past is the most murderous sloggfest! I take him in my team for quick starts, proper balance and wicketkeeping. Gilly was the Rockstar for Australia in the finals. Churchy has played in three World Cups for Australia, and each time the side has won the tournament. The main aim of Adam Gilchrist in all world cup matches is to use batting powerplay. In the 1999 final, against Pakistan, Gilchrist scor-
-ed 54 from 36 balls. The way he treated Shoaib Akhtar in the final was great to see as a cricket fan. I still remember that upper cut he played against Shoaib Akhar in the 1999 WC final. In the 2003 final against India, he scored 57 from 48 balls, which was enough for demoralizing young Indian bowlers and foundation to built a mamouth score. In 2007 WC, Gilchrist scored 149 off 104 against Sri Lanka in the final thrashing Srilankan triumph cards Chaminda Vass and Muttaih Murali-
-tharan with disdane. Gilchrist's 149 is the highest score in a World Cup final. Gilly also hold the record for most catches by a wicket-keeper in a single World Cup and 8 sixes in an innings.​

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Adam Gilchrist's records in the World Cup :

M: 31
Runs: 1,085 @ 36.16
SR : 98.01
HS: 149
MotM: 12​

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Kumbis's WC XI :

1. Adam Gilchrist
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[Gaurav_7]

That's good, Kumbis but I would like as I have mentioned before if people post some writeups and reasons for picking a player.

For example, https://www.planetcricket.org/forum...-players-of-the-90s-and-later-finished.75366/

Check out this thread. You will get a fair idea.

 

[Gaurav_7]

Ricky Ponting
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No Indian can forget that 140 runs not out innings by Ponting in the 2003 WC final. He broke over a billion hearts that day. What a batsman! He is the highest run scorer for Australia in the world cups with over 1700 runs and only next to Sachin Tendulkar in the most runs chart in the world cups. He has 5 centuries in the world cups and again only Sachin has more (6). What makes Ricky Ponting even more special is his captaincy. He is the best captain ever in the world cup history which is evident from the fact that he has lost only 2 matches of the 29 he has captained. A win percentage of over 90 is something no other captain has been able to achieve! A very safe pair of hands and a live wire on the field. Ricky Ponting walks into my All time WC XI at number 3. He is also my captain!

M: 46
Inns: 42
NO: 4
Runs: 1743 @ 45.86
HS: 140*
50s: 6, 100s: 5
MotM: 3

Rebel2k18's WC XI -

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3. Ricky Ponting (c)
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