Draft: The Worst of ODI Cricket

Late picks are just made any time after the original pick deadline passes I guess.

 

You just jump in when you're available and grab a player.

It allows us to keep things moving most easily

 

@CerealKiller I believe 24 hours have passed.

Gary Kidd



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4. Chamara Kapugedera
5. Al Sahariar
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7. Tony Suji
8. Kwame Tucker
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11. Gary Kidd

 

Overall Pick #33: Jacob-Jan Esmeijer
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Profile
Jacob-Jan Esmeijer has done many things. He has founded a successful business, run at least a half-marathon in good time, been part of a Netherlands side that won a Cricket World Cup match... but two things he never did were to take a One-Day International wicket, or to make a score of over ten with the bat, despite being selected originally as a left-arm spinning option good enough to bat at number seven.

With the bat, he was dismissed approximately once every nine deliveries, though it was no slight on him that he proved to be ill-equipped to handle Muttiah Muralitharan on debut: most were. What may have been a trifle insulting, however, was that within six months of his ODI debut, he had been shunted all the way down from number seven to number eleven: though the Dutch side was one built around all-rounders right the way down the order, it was still one in which Reinout Scholte was deemed good enough to bat at six.

With the ball - which was, by default, his primary role in the team - he proved to be rather toothless. Though up against very strong opposition, the fact remained that only twice in six matches did he manage to concede fewer than six runs per over in his spell. That said, comfortably his finest hour came against Pakistan, a game in which he managed to complete his ten-over spell while conceding only 35 runs, and achieved a surprisingly acrobatic run-out of Taufeeq Umar. But it says a lot that his finest hour was a game in which he took no wickets and scored no runs.

Statistics
ODIS - 10 runs @ 2.50, SR: 23.25 (best 7) and no wickets, econ. 5.47 in 6 matches
LIST A - 164 runs @ 12.61, SR: n/a (best 39) and 14 wickets @ 48.78, econ. 4.98 (best 3/36) in 21 matches

Role in the Team
Esmeijer comes into the team in the role he was selected to perform: he shall bat seven and bowl his stock left-arm spin. It won't work. That's the point.

Fields on Wheels so far:
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3. Zubin Surkari (Pick #15, 23 caps)
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7. Jacob-Jan Esmeijer (Pick #33, 6 caps)
8. Mluleki Nkala (Pick #13, 50 caps)
9. Srinivas Venkataraghavan (Pick #2, 15 caps)
10. Abul Hasan (Pick #28, 7 caps)
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(101/200 caps)

Next pick:
@Bevab

 

Disparaging assessments like this are what I signed up to this draft for

 

ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED

Seriously though, I was planning to hold off on Esmeijer for a bit, but then I saw you'd picked Gary Kidd and I decided I had to out-Gary Kidd you

 

My pick is Anwar Ali. He was tipped for greatness after taking 6-9 against India in the U19 WC final in 2006, but back injuries made his enourmous banana swing all but disappear. The largely toothless medium pacer that emerged out of the doctor's room managed 18 ODI wickets at an average of 52 in 22 matches.

CerealKiller's XI
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4. Mohammad Ashraful
5. Tom de Grooth
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8. Anwar Ali
9. Prosper Utseya
10. Ray Bright
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@Bevab

 

Well you did go one better cos he hasn't even taken a wicket to be able to register an ODI average, so bad that he can't even be ranked on a table of highest bowling averages!
Although to be fair to him his Cricinfo profile says he has a good sense of humour so I'm guessing he has personality to make up for his cricketing inability...