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Cricket ODI Auction Draft
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Super over Fiskey vs anant
Fiskey bats first and sends in Pollard up first, it is Narine on for anant. T20 specialist vs T20 specialist
Ball 1 - It's a flipper up first (yorker)...De kock reads it and drives it for SIX !
Ball 2 - Narine goes for Doosra the time (Bouncer).. De kock tries a slog.. NO RUN.
Ball 3 - Another Doosra (Bouncer).. another slog.. NO RUN
Ball 4 - Back to flipper (yorker)... an ugly pull and he is gone! OUT
Walks in De kock
Fiskey bats first and sends in Pollard up first, it is Narine on for anant. T20 specialist vs T20 specialist
Ball 1 - It's a flipper up first (yorker)...De kock reads it and drives it for SIX !
Ball 2 - Narine goes for Doosra the time (Bouncer).. De kock tries a slog.. NO RUN.
Ball 3 - Another Doosra (Bouncer).. another slog.. NO RUN
Ball 4 - Back to flipper (yorker)... an ugly pull and he is gone! OUT
Walks in De kock
Ball 5 .. normal leg spin (good length).. De Kock slogs it for SIX!!
Ball 6... yet another flipper (yorker).. slogs again but only for 2 RUNS this time.
Total score - 14 runs
Ball 6... yet another flipper (yorker).. slogs again but only for 2 RUNS this time.
Total score - 14 runs
anant needs 15 to win this outright, he sends in Hayden up top who faces Gough.. big surprise that it is Gough over Imran, Steyn or Murali.
Ball 1 - an ugly slog on a good length bowl but the mistimed shot carries over for SIX!!
Gough under pressure immediately.
Ball 2 - Yorker.. Hayden slogs again.. 2 RUNS.
Only 7 needed off 4 now.
Ball 3 - De ja vu.. Yorker + Slog = 2 RUNS
5 needed off 3... Gough is sweating buckets..
Ball 4 - It is yet another Yorker and yet another slog for 2 RUNS
3 needed off 2.. surely anant has got this?
Ball 1 - an ugly slog on a good length bowl but the mistimed shot carries over for SIX!!
Gough under pressure immediately.
Ball 2 - Yorker.. Hayden slogs again.. 2 RUNS.
Only 7 needed off 4 now.
Ball 3 - De ja vu.. Yorker + Slog = 2 RUNS
5 needed off 3... Gough is sweating buckets..
Ball 4 - It is yet another Yorker and yet another slog for 2 RUNS
3 needed off 2.. surely anant has got this?
FFS, I think I have an idea what happens after this
Ball 5 ... can you believe it? Yes I can.. yet another Yorker!
Hayden reads it and drives it straight over bowler's head for a SIX!
That's it @anant wins this 18 to 14
Hayden reads it and drives it straight over bowler's head for a SIX!
That's it @anant wins this 18 to 14
Hard luck @Fiskey but againt it is almost certain that you will get a second shot with lucky losers bracket.
Phew!
Good game @Fiskey and good luck in the next game
Good game @Fiskey and good luck in the next game
@Damien please delete the bowl
Forgot too sorry will do.
Thanks
Good game @anant!
@crappycraperson really slammed today with work mate. Not going to be able to start till evening.
Same 
@Michaelf7777777 please share your write up. @Samid already did it
I'm busy with a university assignment so I'll just send the lineups now.
Round 1 Match#4
Round 1 Match #4 - Samid vs Michahelf777777
Please adjudicate as to which team will win over a 3 match series with a match each on following pitches -
#2 Good batting pitch with assistance for seamers/pacers - Reasonably good surface for batsmen; fast bowlers can exploit some movement off the pitch with new ball along with reasonable bounce; no particular assistance for slow bowlers or spinners.
#3 Good batting pitch with assistance for spinners - Reasonably good surface for batsmen; fast bowlers will get no help from the pitch; spinners will be able to exploit the pitch with an older ball
#5 Good bowling pitch for slow bowlers/spinners: slow bowlers/spinners will be get assistance throughout the match; pacers will not get any assistance; batsmen will have to dig deep to make runs against slow bowlers.
Team Samid
Team Micahelf77777
Note: Cairns, Klusener and Afridi will be promoted for the last few overs of the innings or when quick runs are needed.
Samid wons 5-4
Please adjudicate as to which team will win over a 3 match series with a match each on following pitches -
#2 Good batting pitch with assistance for seamers/pacers - Reasonably good surface for batsmen; fast bowlers can exploit some movement off the pitch with new ball along with reasonable bounce; no particular assistance for slow bowlers or spinners.
#3 Good batting pitch with assistance for spinners - Reasonably good surface for batsmen; fast bowlers will get no help from the pitch; spinners will be able to exploit the pitch with an older ball
#5 Good bowling pitch for slow bowlers/spinners: slow bowlers/spinners will be get assistance throughout the match; pacers will not get any assistance; batsmen will have to dig deep to make runs against slow bowlers.
Team Samid
- Rohit Sharma
- Tilakaratne Dilshan
- Babar Azam
- Andy Flower (wk)
- Jonty Rhodes
- Mahmudullah
- James Faulkner
- Ian Botham (Pitch 2) / Kuldeep Yadav (Pitch 3+5)
- Waqar Younis (c)
- Saeed Ajmal
- Allan Donald
Team Micahelf77777
- David Warner
- Jonny Bairstow
- Greg Chappell
- Ross Taylor
- Steve Waugh (*)
- Mushfiqur Rahim (+)
- Chris Cairns
- Lance Klusener
- Shahid Afridi
- Kyle Mills (Pitch 2) / Anil Kumble (Pitch 3,5)
- Jasprit Bumrah
Note: Cairns, Klusener and Afridi will be promoted for the last few overs of the innings or when quick runs are needed.
Samid wons 5-4
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Writeups
Team Samid
Openers:
Rohit Sharma. This madman needs no introduction. He's the greatest ODI opener ever, averaging 58 @ 93 while opening the batting. He has a mind blowing 8 scores of 150+, including this insane record of 200+ scores:
Dilshan's overall numbers don't do him any justice. For the early part of his career he was wasted down the order. When he finally got the nod at the top of the order he became unstoppable, accumulating 7000+ runs in 7 calendar years. As an opener he averages 46 @ 89.
Middle order:
Babar is the perfect anchor, averaging 60 @ 87 at #3. While the traditional 'Fab 4' have been getting all the headlines in recent years, Babar has been putting up staggering numbers under the radar. Don't get fooled by the word 'anchor', historically that's been used for batsmen batting for long periods but scoring at a low rate as a consequence. But Babar is different. He both bats long and scores at a fantastic rate without wasting valuable deliveries which is why he has the 2nd highest averages ever in both the white ball formats. His batting is so effortless and he will go down as Pakistan's greatest batsman.
Flower and Rhodes provide a solid and gritty middle order. Flower in particular usually delivers the goods, with 60 scores of 50+ in just over 200 games.
Finishers:
Mahmudullah is a big game player. He knocked England out of the 2015 World Cup with an excellent century. He followed that up with a sensational 128* in the following game, coming agonisingly close to beating the unstoppable New Zealand. But he would end up getting his revenge vs NZ in the following ICC tournament. Walking in to bat at 33/4, Bangladesh were destined to fail on a tricky pitch against a potent bowling attack. But Mahmudullah was part of a 224 run record partnership, scored an unbeaten century and guided his team to their first ever ICC semi final.
Faulkner has won several games from improbable positions. 44 runs required in 3 overs? No worries, Faulkner will smash Ishant Sharma for 30 runs in an over and take you over the finish line. 60 runs required in 6 overs with only 1 wicket remaining? No worries, Faulkner will destroy the English death bowlers and win the game with several balls to spare.
Bowling:
Botham will take the new ball with Waqar on the seaming wicket. Donald+Waqar on the spinning wickets. Donald is exceptional both with the new and older ball. But on the seaming pitch I want him to bowl majority of his overs between overs 12-40. On the slow pitches I want him with the new ball because spinners will control the middle overs there.
Ajmal and Kuldeep with their excellent averages and strike rates will strangle the opposition in the middle overs. Ajmal will provide deadly wicket to wicket accuracy. Kuldeep with his unorthodox chinaman bowling will offer a different test altogether. On the two slow wickets he will spin the ball a mile both ways. These two are lightyears ahead of Afridi and Kumble in this format.
Waqar at the death with his reverse swing and lethal yorkers needs no explanation. Faulkner is also known for being a death over specialist. While Waqar will hit you with the fast yorkers, Faulkner will bamboozle you with his many variations.
Why I win:
Team Samid
| Runs | Avg | SR | Wickets | Avg | SR | Eco | |
| Rohit | 9115 | 49 | 89 | ||||
| Dilshan | 10290 | 39 | 86 | 106 | 45 | 55 | 4.8 |
| Babar | 3359 | 54 | 87 | ||||
| Flower | 6786 | 35 | 75 | ||||
| Rhodes | 5935 | 35 | 81 | ||||
| Mahmudullah | 4070 | 34 | 77 | ||||
| Faulkner | 1032 | 34 | 104 | 96 | 31 | 33 | 5.5 |
| Botham (P2) | 2113 | 23 | 79 | 145 | 29 | 43 | 3.9 |
| Yadav (P3+5) | 104 | 26 | 30 | 5.1 | |||
| Waqar | 416 | 23 | 30 | 4.7 | |||
| Ajmal | 184 | 22 | 32 | 4.2 | |||
| Donald | 272 | 21 | 31 | 4.1 |
Openers:
Rohit Sharma. This madman needs no introduction. He's the greatest ODI opener ever, averaging 58 @ 93 while opening the batting. He has a mind blowing 8 scores of 150+, including this insane record of 200+ scores:
Dilshan's overall numbers don't do him any justice. For the early part of his career he was wasted down the order. When he finally got the nod at the top of the order he became unstoppable, accumulating 7000+ runs in 7 calendar years. As an opener he averages 46 @ 89.
Middle order:
Babar is the perfect anchor, averaging 60 @ 87 at #3. While the traditional 'Fab 4' have been getting all the headlines in recent years, Babar has been putting up staggering numbers under the radar. Don't get fooled by the word 'anchor', historically that's been used for batsmen batting for long periods but scoring at a low rate as a consequence. But Babar is different. He both bats long and scores at a fantastic rate without wasting valuable deliveries which is why he has the 2nd highest averages ever in both the white ball formats. His batting is so effortless and he will go down as Pakistan's greatest batsman.
Flower and Rhodes provide a solid and gritty middle order. Flower in particular usually delivers the goods, with 60 scores of 50+ in just over 200 games.
Finishers:
Mahmudullah is a big game player. He knocked England out of the 2015 World Cup with an excellent century. He followed that up with a sensational 128* in the following game, coming agonisingly close to beating the unstoppable New Zealand. But he would end up getting his revenge vs NZ in the following ICC tournament. Walking in to bat at 33/4, Bangladesh were destined to fail on a tricky pitch against a potent bowling attack. But Mahmudullah was part of a 224 run record partnership, scored an unbeaten century and guided his team to their first ever ICC semi final.
Faulkner has won several games from improbable positions. 44 runs required in 3 overs? No worries, Faulkner will smash Ishant Sharma for 30 runs in an over and take you over the finish line. 60 runs required in 6 overs with only 1 wicket remaining? No worries, Faulkner will destroy the English death bowlers and win the game with several balls to spare.
Bowling:
Botham will take the new ball with Waqar on the seaming wicket. Donald+Waqar on the spinning wickets. Donald is exceptional both with the new and older ball. But on the seaming pitch I want him to bowl majority of his overs between overs 12-40. On the slow pitches I want him with the new ball because spinners will control the middle overs there.
Ajmal and Kuldeep with their excellent averages and strike rates will strangle the opposition in the middle overs. Ajmal will provide deadly wicket to wicket accuracy. Kuldeep with his unorthodox chinaman bowling will offer a different test altogether. On the two slow wickets he will spin the ball a mile both ways. These two are lightyears ahead of Afridi and Kumble in this format.
Waqar at the death with his reverse swing and lethal yorkers needs no explanation. Faulkner is also known for being a death over specialist. While Waqar will hit you with the fast yorkers, Faulkner will bamboozle you with his many variations.
Why I win:
- The top 3 compliment each other perfectly. Dilshan gets off to flyers while Rohit needs a few overs early on to settle in. When Rohit is allowed to settle in he always goes big. Babar and Rohit is the perfect partnership. One will rotate the strike at a high strike rate while the other will pile on the runs with massive sixes.
- Mahmudullah and Faulkner are clutch finishers. The former has history of putting on match winning displays at ICC tournaments, whilst the latter is great at winning high pressure games with the tail.
- Rhodes is the godfather of world class fielding. Not only will he save numerous runs himself but he will also inspire and lift the standards of the rest of the field.
- There's a reason why my opponent vetoed the seamer friendly pitch. Bumrah and Mills are no match whatsoever for Waqar and Donald. The latter two are all time greats. Bumrah might get there one day but as of today he isn't close to those two.
- The gap is somehow even bigger in the spin department. His two spinners Kumble and Afridi have a strike rate in the mid 40s. Ajmal and Yadav however have strike rates in the low 30s. Two of the games will be on slow pitches. I also have Faulkner, a master of deceiving batsmen with his huge variation in pace.
Samid's batting after number 3 is very weak for me but I think his bowling is better. Kumble + Afridi will be handful on spinning wickets but Ajmal and Yadav would be lethal too. Waqar and Donald are in different class to any of oppo's pacers.
Michael's batting is much better balanced with good depth with Cairns, Klusener and Afridi at 9!
Michael's batting is much better balanced with good depth with Cairns, Klusener and Afridi at 9!
They wouldn't. Their record in Asia is pretty much the same as their overall record which is very ordinary.
Batting deep is pretty worthless if your overall balance is poor. He doesn't even have a second opening bowler for the slow pitches. That's criminal against my destructive openers. Imagine turning up against Rohit Sharma and not giving yourself the best opportunity of getting him out with the new ball. Once Rohit is settled he always goes big. Not having a second new ball bowler also means his only bowling threat (Bumrah) is neutralised. Any pressure asserted by him from one end goes out the window from the other side.
Bumrah apart this is a below average bowling line up. Look at these strike rates, where on earth are the wickets going to come from? Most of these should be 4th/5th choice bowlers, instead they will be bowling 80 % of the overs.
| Avg | SR | |
| Bumrah | 24 | 32 |
| Waugh | 35 | 46 |
| Cairns | 33 | 41 |
| Klusener | 30 | 38 |
| Chappell | 29 | 43 |
| Afridi | 35 | 47 |
| Kumble | 31 | 43 |
My worst bowler (Faulkner) has a slightly worse strike rate than his best one!
The next available day is fine for me.
Not keen on Samid's batting below 3. Mahmudullah and Faulkner as finishers is fine but they'll need better partners than Flower and Rhodes going forward. However you can see he's at least taken care of the most important batting positions and got a fine bowling attack, whereas Michael is missing too much quality in his bowling unit for me so I'm going Samid.
@12OunceEpilogue Thursday then? Looks like other days are taken.
Batsmen win matches in ODIs and I think Michael has the better batting lineup here. I don't like his bowling attack as it's missing out on a top pace bowler, but in this format, better batting will make the difference.
Excellent opener obviously, but greatest ever? Surely he's not better than Tendulkar.
Of course he isn't.
Just send me the write ups @12OunceEpilogue
So who am I going to be facing @crappycraperson
Will be decided after 2 more matches
That's true but Michael's attack just looks so short that it'll bring Samid's average batsmen into the game, whereas at least Samid has matched up Michael's strong batting with strong bowlers. For me Samid has at least covered his fundamentals with a strong top three, decent finishers and quality opening bowling. I'm sure he's aware he'll need a fair bit of work to progress next time but he's less lopsided than Michael so gets my vote.
Had it been a flat pitch, I'd have definitely voted for Samid because the gap between the quality of batsmen would have reduced. But, on bowler friendly tracks, I believe strength in batting is more important and am slightly favouring Michael here because of that
Batsmen win you matches on flat tracks that don't offer any kind of bowling assistance.
Afridi played cricket for an eternity but only twice in 20 years did he bat at 9. What is the purpose of him batting at 9 here? Team balance is a basic fundament of any kind of cricket. You can't just shoehorn in X amount of batsmen in a team and expect it to work. He has simply gone overkill with all rounders and that bowling lineup is suffering heavily as a consequence.
England in recent years are the perfect example of good/bad team dynamics. For a period they were approaching games with the 'we bat to 11' motto. On flat pitches they were scoring 350+ and simply batting the opposition out of the game. Bowlers didn't really matter in those games. But as soon as the pitch was offering something to the bowlers they were blown away for 200 and didn't have the bowlers to defend it. At some point right before the World Cup they realised that batting extremely deep might look good on paper but you need proper bowlers if you want to become a well rounded team.
Also I've made a dozen arguments but I'm yet to hear anything in return. Who is going to bowl the overs? Where are the wickets going to come from? My batsmen will play Bumrah with caution. After him there's not a single wicket taking threat in that team. Who is even the second opening bowler? Where is the sustainable pressure in that bowling line up? How are a bunch of bowlers with a SR in their 40s going to stop Rohit and Babar, two batsmen that compliment each other perfectly and regularly bat 40+ overs?
His two spinners are orthodox leg spinners with ordinary records on spin friendly pitches. Are they expected to carry the burden on the spinning pitches, a role they quite clearly aren't capable of doing? How are they supposed to compete with my spinners? One is a top 5 off spinner in this format with one of the most lethal doosras. The other is probably the best chinaman bowler ever in the format, spinning the ball both ways.
How are his openers + Waugh going to survive the slow pitches? That's 3 of his top 5 with poor batting records in Asia. Bairstow averages less than 20 there. Compare that to my top order who are basically born and bred on slower lower wickets.
Why is Afridi at 9? He played two games there in 20 years. Why is Rahim at 6 when his best position quite clearly is 4? Why have so many jack of all trades been picked? Did specialist bowlers stop existing? Why have so many players been shoehorned in for the sake of it rather than adding clear and defined value to the team?
So many question marks.
His two spinners are orthodox leg spinners with ordinary records on spin friendly pitches. Are they expected to carry the burden on the spinning pitches, a role they quite clearly aren't capable of doing? How are they supposed to compete with my spinners? One is a top 5 off spinner in this format with one of the most lethal doosras. The other is probably the best chinaman bowler ever in the format, spinning the ball both ways.
How are his openers + Waugh going to survive the slow pitches? That's 3 of his top 5 with poor batting records in Asia. Bairstow averages less than 20 there. Compare that to my top order who are basically born and bred on slower lower wickets.
Why is Afridi at 9? He played two games there in 20 years. Why is Rahim at 6 when his best position quite clearly is 4? Why have so many jack of all trades been picked? Did specialist bowlers stop existing? Why have so many players been shoehorned in for the sake of it rather than adding clear and defined value to the team?
So many question marks.