Draft: ODI World Cup Draft | Tournament underway

[CerealKiller]

Tim Southee.
Have exams, so will have to wait a little for all the writeups.

 

[Targaryen]

@Manish.

 

[Manish.]

Brendon Mccullum​

New Zealand wicket-keepers have traditionally been poor run-scorers in WCs, with the best of the lot, undoubtedly, being Brendon McCullum, the former Kiwi ODI skipper.

McCullum’s stats of 742 WC runs, at an average of 34 and a strike-rate (SR) of 120 may look healthy, but a closer scrutiny will reveal that these figures have been bloated by performances.

While one-down is not his favourite batting position, the incredible striking prowess of Baz, I believe, could best be utilized here, especially given the fact that none of the openers can exactly be termed ‘dashers’.

World Cup Stats

Matches: 27
Not Outs: 5
Runs: 742
Highest Score: 101
Average: 33.73
50s: 6
100s: 1
Ducks: 2
Scoring Rate 120.85
Opened Batting: 17

Catches: 30
Stumpings: 2
Most Catches in Match: 4
Most Dismissals in Match: 4


Manish's XI

1. Graham Gooch
2. Brendon Mccullum
3. Virat Kohli
4. Michael Clarke
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
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11. Rubel Hossain

@AliB , up next.

 

[CerealKiller]

McCullum’s stats of 742 WC runs, at an average of 34 and a strike-rate (SR) of 120 may look healthy, but a closer scrutiny will reveal that these figures have been bloated by performances against ******s. The right-hander’s WC averages against Australia, India, Pakistan, South Africa and Sri Lanka make for a dismal reading – 8, 4, 6, 8 and 7 respectively.

Don't think you should write this for your own pick

 

[AliB]

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[Gaurav_7]

Nah it's nice to read all that. I was hoping there will be a healthy discussion too along with the drafts, we did have one during the last WC draft. It makes the process lot more fun. I remember how Papa Smurf picked up Dipak Patel in the NZ round and most people didn't agree with him.

Don't think you should write this for your own pick

Scotty Styris. Will update soon.

1. Mark Waugh
2. Sourav Ganguly
3. 
   
4. Jonathan Trott
5. 
   
6. Scott Styris
7. Mahmudullah

[DOUBLEPOST=1539251168][/DOUBLEPOST]@Ashutosh. Up.

Styris is a fantastic pick and I was just hoping Bigby picked up Bond and then I can take Styris. I can never let Bond go, he is my favorite bowler ever! Styris has a wonderful batting record in WCs and can be a very handy 6th bowler.

 

[Gaurav_7]

Also @AliB I think Trott batted at 3 in all his WC matches.

 

[AliB]

Also @AliB I think Trott batted at 3 in all his WC matches.

He ain't better than the player I've been eyeing at 3 though!

 

[Targaryen]

@Rebel2k18 if I'm not wrong 'others' refers to associate teams and 'best of rest' refers to unpicked players right?

 

[Gaurav_7]

@Rebel2k18 if I'm not wrong 'others' refers to associate teams and 'best of rest' refers to unpicked players right?[DOUBLEPOST=1539256669][/DOUBLEPOST]@Rebel2k18

Yep. Others is all the teams which have participated in the WC but do not have their specific round. And then the last round is a no country restriction round.[DOUBLEPOST=1539256925][/DOUBLEPOST]

He ain't better than the player I've been eyeing at 3 though!

Aah damn you are number 1 to pick in the WI round so yeah you have got the perfect number 3 sealed!

 

[Perfect Square]

Everyone trying there best. Will be interesting to see which teams will stand out (I think everyones.

P.S: I'm first to pick in Pakistan round. A little confused. :/

 

[Gaurav_7]

@Ashutosh. Your turn.

 

[Ashutosh.]

Martin Guptill

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World Cup Stats:
Matches: 17
Runs: 809
HS: 237*
Ave: 57.78
SR: 89.39
100: 2
50: 3
4s: 86
6s: 20

Ashutosh' WC XI-
1- Martin Guptill
2- Sachin Tendulkar
3- Ian Bell
4-
5-
6-
7-
8- Brett Lee
9- Mashrafe Mortaza
10-
11-

 

[Targaryen]

@Kumbis Up

 

[Targaryen]

Rahul Dravid.

He is well known as 'The Wall' of Indian Cricket. Since he was a great test player, he wasn't considered as a ODI batsman. He proved everybody wrong through his consistent performances in 1999 WC where he average more than 60 and also created many records on that WC. His highest score in WC is 145 which resulted in huge 300+ partnership with Ganguly against SL which became was a world record. The same SL that had once wrecked India in 1996.

In 2003 WC, Indian WK Nayan Mongia got injured which forced Dravid to keep wickets for rest of the tournament. He also continued his consistent performance with the bat in the same tournament but failed miserably after WC. He also failed as a captain in 2007 WC where India got kicked out in group stage itself. Although, he still averages more than 60 in WC games.

He will play at his regular position of no.3 and will also be my Wicket-Keeper.

Rahul Dravid's World Cup Stats:

Spoiler: Stats

Innings: 22
Runs: 860
Average: 61.42
SR: 74.97
HS: 145
100s: 2
50s: 6

WK:
Catch: 16
St: 1

PresidentEvil's WC XI

1.
2.
3. Rahul Dravid
4. Allan Lamb
5.
6. Minhajul Abedin
7.
8.
9.
10. Glenn McGrath
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