With the 66th pick I select Clint McKay. I had kind of forgotten about McKay but for a couple of years he was Australia's best ODI bowler. 97 wickets in 59 matches at 24.37 is an impressive haul.
My team so far:
1. Martin Guptill
2. Tillakaratne Dilshan
3. Kane Williamson
4. Babar Azam
5.
6.
7.
8. Trent Boult
9. Clint McKay
10. Mohammad Shami
11. Saeed Ajmal
1) AB de Villiers (zimbos_05)
2) Virat Kohli (grant)
3) Kumar Sangakkara (jaybro)
4) Steve Smith (brmtaylor.com admin)
5) Chris Gayle (Mueddie28)
6) Shakib al Hasan (foreignfield)
7) Kane Williamson (eugene)
8) Mushfiqur Rahim (Kriterion_BD)
9) Mitchell Starc (rusty17)
10) Ross Taylor (rusty17)
11) Mustafizur Rahman (Kriterion_BD)
12) Trent Boult (eugene)
13) Shane Bond (foreignfield)
14) Joe Root (Mueddie28)
15) MS Dhoni (brmtaylor.com admin)
16) Dale Steyn (jaybro)
17) Jos Buttler (grant)
18) Jasprit Bumrah (zimbos_05)
19) Hashim Amla (zimbos_05)
20) Rashid Khan (grant)
21) Brendan McCullum (jaybro)
22) Mitchell Johnson (brmtaylor.com admin)
23) Ben Stokes (Mueddie28)
24) Sachin Tendulkar (foreignfield)
25) Babar Azam (eugene)
26) David Warner (Kriterion_BD)
27) Morne Morkel (rusty17)
37) Marnus Labuschagne (zimbos_05)
38) Jonny Bairstow (grant)
39) Mohammed Amir (jaybro)
40) Brendan Taylor (brmtaylor.com admin)
41) Quinton de Kock (Mueddie28)
42) Lungi Ngidi (foreignfield)
43) Martin Guptill (eugene)
44) Faf du Plessis (Kriterion_BD)
45) Shai Hope (rusty17)
46) Sunil Narine (rusty17)
47) Jason Roy (Kriterion_BD)
48) Mohammad Shami (eugene)
49) Shaun Tait (foreignfield)
50) Ravi Ashwin (Mueddie28)
51) Pat Cummins (brmtaylor.com admin)
52) Kuldeep Yadav (jaybro)
53) Brett Lee (grant)
54) Tom Curan (zimbos_05)
55) Muttiah Muralitharan (zimbos_05)
56) Nicholas Pooran (grant)
57) Kagiso Rabada (jaybro)
58) Michael Clarke (brmtaylor.com admin)
59) Shikhar Dhawan (Mueddie28)
60) Mohammad Hafeez (foreignfield)
61) Tillakaratne Dilshan (eugene)
62) Shaheen Shah Afridi (Kriterion_BD)
63) Vernon Philander (rusty17)
64) Ryan ten Doeschate (rusty17)
65) Glen Maxwell (Kriterion_BD)
66) Clint McKay (eugene)
Neil Johnson, Alistair Campbell, Murray Goodwin, Andy Flower (w), Grant Flower, Dave Houghton, Guy Whittall, Heath Streak (c), Andy Blignaut, Ray Price, Eddo Brandes
I was wondering why no one has picked up Dilshan yet. He could basically do anything on the cricket field. May be captaincy was not his forte. That's all.
There are a few other fine guys not yet picked up from what I see here. May be I'll do a line up of the leftover guys on my own after the draft is complete.
In hindsight I already regret two of my early picks, Shakib and Tendulkar; both were spontaneous knee-jerk reactions after Jaybro took Sangakarra (the one player I really craved after--and who, as I hoped, would not get picked ahead of KW, Gayle or Steve Smith) and then McCullum away from me, the latter the only available opener that I really liked ...
Tendo, a great pick for his batting stats, I believe, though probably from a small sample against mediocre opposition?
The ‘stats’ aspect of this draft has certainly influenced a lot of picks in this draft no doubt.
I've largely picked my favorites, albeit with an eye on the stats. A few of my favorites got picked up early.
But Babar Azam averages 55 with a 87 strike rate and he was picked 25th whereas the numerically far inferior Steve Smith averages 42 at an 86 strike rate and was picked 4th overall. I think people are picking their faves for the most part.
Jacob Oram will bat at no. 8 and lend medium-pace support to my frontline quicks.
1) AB de Villiers (zimbos_05)
2) Virat Kohli (grant)
3) Kumar Sangakkara (jaybro)
4) Steve Smith (brmtaylor.com admin)
5) Chris Gayle (Mueddie28)
6) Shakib al Hasan (foreignfield)
7) Kane Williamson (eugene)
8) Mushfiqur Rahim (Kriterion_BD)
9) Mitchell Starc (rusty17)
10) Ross Taylor (rusty17)
11) Mustafizur Rahman (Kriterion_BD)
12) Trent Boult (eugene)
13) Shane Bond (foreignfield)
14) Joe Root (Mueddie28)
15) MS Dhoni (brmtaylor.com admin)
16) Dale Steyn (jaybro)
17) Jos Buttler (grant)
18) Jasprit Bumrah (zimbos_05)
19) Hashim Amla (zimbos_05)
20) Rashid Khan (grant)
21) Brendan McCullum (jaybro)
22) Mitchell Johnson (brmtaylor.com admin)
23) Ben Stokes (Mueddie28)
24) Sachin Tendulkar (foreignfield)
25) Babar Azam (eugene)
26) David Warner (Kriterion_BD)
27) Morne Morkel (rusty17)
The ‘stats’ aspect of this draft has certainly influenced a lot of picks in this draft no doubt.
Initially I wondered for a second whether I should, just for the curiosity of it, pick the only current German national team player in the draft, the former Afghan seamer Izatullah Dawlatzai.
After your post above and the Tendo pick earlier (who is not a bad player, no mistake) I had a quick look at some other possible stats wonders and realised that Dawlatzai would have been a steal with his bowling average of 11 from two matches against the Dutch.
To be fair ten doeschate has played a heap of county and played it bloody well. And I do really like him. And after 60 odd picks a lot of my favourites are gone. So yeah it is partly for the stats i guess but why pick someone worse if your favourites are gone ?
Jacob Oram will bat at no. 8 and lend medium-pace support to my frontline quicks.
1) AB de Villiers (zimbos_05)
2) Virat Kohli (grant)
3) Kumar Sangakkara (jaybro)
4) Steve Smith (brmtaylor.com admin)
5) Chris Gayle (Mueddie28)
6) Shakib al Hasan (foreignfield)
7) Kane Williamson (eugene)
8) Mushfiqur Rahim (Kriterion_BD)
9) Mitchell Starc (rusty17)
10) Ross Taylor (rusty17)
11) Mustafizur Rahman (Kriterion_BD)
12) Trent Boult (eugene)
13) Shane Bond (foreignfield)
14) Joe Root (Mueddie28)
15) MS Dhoni (brmtaylor.com admin)
16) Dale Steyn (jaybro)
17) Jos Buttler (grant)
18) Jasprit Bumrah (zimbos_05)
19) Hashim Amla (zimbos_05)
20) Rashid Khan (grant)
21) Brendan McCullum (jaybro)
22) Mitchell Johnson (brmtaylor.com admin)
23) Ben Stokes (Mueddie28)
24) Sachin Tendulkar (foreignfield)
25) Babar Azam (eugene)
26) David Warner (Kriterion_BD)
27) Morne Morkel (rusty17)
1) AB de Villiers (zimbos_05)
2) Virat Kohli (grant)
3) Kumar Sangakkara (jaybro)
4) Steve Smith (brmtaylor.com admin)
5) Chris Gayle (Mueddie28)
6) Shakib al Hasan (foreignfield)
7) Kane Williamson (eugene)
8) Mushfiqur Rahim (Kriterion_BD)
9) Mitchell Starc (rusty17)
10) Ross Taylor (rusty17)
11) Mustafizur Rahman (Kriterion_BD)
12) Trent Boult (eugene)
13) Shane Bond (foreignfield)
14) Joe Root (Mueddie28)
15) MS Dhoni (brmtaylor.com admin)
16) Dale Steyn (jaybro)
17) Jos Buttler (grant)
18) Jasprit Bumrah (zimbos_05)
19) Hashim Amla (zimbos_05)
20) Rashid Khan (grant)
21) Brendan McCullum (jaybro)
22) Mitchell Johnson (brmtaylor.com admin)
23) Ben Stokes (Mueddie28)
24) Sachin Tendulkar (foreignfield)
25) Babar Azam (eugene)
26) David Warner (Kriterion_BD)
27) Morne Morkel (rusty17)
