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In my opinion - because he isn't that good.
Yeah I agree batting wise he's way too inconsistent, I reckon he's decent with the gloves though. I knew he'd last a while anyway as there's a few quality keepers then a heap of average ones. Probably better ones with the gloves e.g Healy but his average isn't very good.

It's a curse having a pick so late I guess. Happy to get Kohli though, I think people forget he's played around 80-90 ODI's averaging 45+. My choice was also not based on his century (assuming it doesn't really matter anyway) but I'd imagine in years time if there was another draft like this, he'd be in the top lot. Gonna be a gun, too bad he's a muppet.

Good choice in Gough as well.
 

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Once the main good keepers went and I missed out I figured there was so little between what was left that I would be better off getting the rest of the team in order. There are a fair few left with similar stats. Marsh for example has an impressive record but with a strike rate that some would even call slow in Test matches.

I thought about Kohli a lot freofan, I made the amateur mistake of letting personal feelings come into it, cause I ****ing hate the little prick!
 

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I didn't worry about keepers after Gilly, Dohni, Sanga and De Villiers. Could throw a blanket over the next 9 or 10 although Dravid was a good left of centre selection.
 
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A lot of the keepers pre Gilchrist/Dhoni etc were good with the bat, but batted lower in the order. I always thought Healy and Dujon were really good batsmen, but they rarely got a chance in ODIs to make big runs because they usually batted at 7 or 8. Healy certainly had a good SR for his era.

It should also be noted that strike rates have changed dramatically in the last ten years. Boon and Marsh were considered very good, solid openers in ODIs in the late 1980s for Australia, yet they had SRs of 65 and 55 respectively. Boon was actually considered pretty aggressive for an ODI opener.

The game has changed, both tactically and in the equipment used. Twenty years ago scores of 220 were really good, and openers often aimed to be 50 after 15 overs. Teams would prefer to be a lot more than that now. Also, the equipment used now (bats in particular) make boundaries a LOT easier to hit.
 
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Speaking of openers of days gone by, jester, my next pick is one of them. Despite his strike rate of 65 (not Boon), no-one would consider him to be anything other than aggressive. I am genuinely stunned that he has dropped so far. A mainstay of the Windies team of the 80s, one half of one of the great opening partnerships of all time. He is a wonderful addition to my team.

Gordon Greenidge.

http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/51901.html
 
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Speaking of openers of days gone by, jester, my next pick is one of them. Despite his strike rate of 65 (not Boon), no-one would consider him to be anything other than aggressive. I am genuinely stunned that he has dropped so far. A mainstay of the Windies team of the 80s, one half of one of the great opening partnerships of all time. He is a wonderful addition to my team.

Gordon Greenidge.

http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/51901.html
GG was going to be my next selection!

I'll go with his opening partner Desmond Haynes instead.

In the 1980s, I was a kid, I loved cricket, and I wished I was a West Indian every time they toured. Haynes and Greenidge were a cool opening pair, as well as being cool dudes. Haynes walking out to open my team's innings with Haydos works well in my head.

 

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My first pick here is one of the greatest fast bowlers of all time...and yes, while he may be yet another of my attack to be from the West Indies, he provides my attack a 'shorter' option compared to Holding and Ambrose. Having Marshall also adds some batting depth to my tail (average of 15 SR 78 in ODIs), allows Khan to bowl mostly at the death and also allows Sobers to focus more on his batting and spin.


Malcolm Marshall



MARSHALL, MALCOLM DENZIL, who died of cancer on November 4, 1999, aged 41, was one of the greatest fast bowlers of all time. Even in the formidable line-up of West Indians whose speed and ferocity dominated world cricket for the last quarter of the 20th century, Marshall stood out: he allied sheer pace to consistent excellence for longer than anyone else; he was relentlessly professional and determined; and he was also the best batsman of the group, coming nearer than any recent West Indian to being an allrounder of the quality of Garry Sobers.

Batsmen agreed that Marshall was hardest of all to face because of the way he used his ordinary height to produce telling rather than exceptional bounce. He was, they said, a skiddy bowler. His outswinger was magnificently controlled. And when he dropped short of a length - he was never shy of doing that - especially from round the wicket, he produced deliveries that were as physically intimidating as anything the game has seen.

My second pick may be a little enigmatic at times but he produced the goods when his country needed him the most, propelling them to win the most recent World Cup (362 runs, 15 wickets, Player of the Tournament). He is electric with the bat, one of the biggest hitters in the game today; clever with the ball; and his superb fielding skills won him this spot over South Australian legend Darren Lehmann.

On a side note, I'm sure we wish him all the best in his current struggle against cancer.


Yuvraj Singh



When all is well with Yuvraj Singh, he hits the ball as clean and long as it has ever been hit. When all is not well, he looks so awkward you forget he can hit the ball clean and long. All is well with Yuvraj more often in limited-overs cricket, where he can be effortless and brutal at the same time, than in Tests. When he started off his athleticism on the field and his canny left-arm spin made him a dream one-day player as Indian cricket went through a makeover at the turn of the century.
 
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On my phone, will post properly later. I'm going to take Allan Border. Brilliant cricketer. Great middle order batsman, handy left arm spinner, and an absolute gun mid wicket and slip fielder.

I think Border should be rated incredibly highly as a cricketer. The bowling attacks in the 80s were ferocious, and Border kept Aust alive at a pretty low point.



Photo: A couple of hard bastards who got Australian cricket back to the top in the late 80s, and early 90s. Border and Simpson.
 
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I'm happy with my XI, so I'll post it up!

Matthew Hayden
Desmond Haynes
Dean Jones
AB Devilliers
Allan Border *
MS Dhoni +
Ian Botham
Graham Swann
Shoaib Akhtar
Allan Donald
Joel Garner
 

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Round 10
1. FreoFanMundy - Brendan McCullum
2. Surkin - Martin Crowe
3. happy_eagle - Darren Gough
4. saintkildaman - Harbhajan Singh
5. Gak Attack - Alec Stewart
6. Glinn McGraw - Gordon Greenidge
7. courtjester - Desmond Haynes
8. thorne89 - Malcolm Marshall

Round 11
1. thorne89 - Yuvraj Singh
2. courtjester - Allan Border
3. Glinn McGraw - On the Clock
4. Gak Attack
5. saintkildaman
6. happy_eagle
7. Surkin
8. FreoFanMundy

Still need one judge. Post/PM if interested.
 
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Controversy at BigFooty Cricket Forum Fantasy Draft*




A minor scuffle broke out between Shane Warne and Shoaib Akhtar last night at the BigFooty Cricket Forum Fantasy Draft pre tournament drinks. Onlookers say the altercation was mostly verbal with some pushing and shoving. Friends separated the pair quickly.

Akhtar is aligned with courtjester's squad for this tournament, while Warne is playing under coach saintkildaman. Friends close to the pair said the heated exchange took place over rumours that Akhtar and Liz Hurley were seen eating together numerous times at local restaurants, over which Warne confronted Akhtar. According to sources, Akhtar denies any wrongdoing, however, it is believed Hurley and Akhtar looked extremely close and intimate at dinner.

At a press conference this morning, Akhtar's coach, courtjester, has urged his pace bowler not to be distracted, stating, "Look, we're here to do one thing, win a tournament. If our players enjoy something in their time away from the game, so be it. We respect Warney, who doesn't, but we don't feel he is a major threat in this format". Akhtar would only say that he "enjoys the company of women, most men do". Neither Saintkildaman nor Warne could be contacted for comment.

This certainly makes for interesting viewing when the two teams clash in the next few weeks.





*Story is made up.
 
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Controversy at BigFooty Cricket Forum Fantasy Draft*






A minor scuffle broke out between Shane Warne and Shoaib Akhtar last night at the BigFooty Cricket Forum Fantasy Draft pre tournament drinks. Onlookers say the altercation was mostly verbal with some pushing and shoving. Friends separated the pair quickly.

Akhtar is aligned with courtjester's squad for this tournament, while Warne is playing under coach saintkildaman. Friends close to the pair said the heated exchange took place over rumours that Akhtar and Liz Hurley were seen eating together numerous times at local restaurants, over which Warne confronted Akhtar. According to sources, Akhtar denies any wrongdoing, however, it is believed Hurley and Akhtar looked extremely close and intimate at dinner.

At a press conference this morning, Akhtar's coach, courtjester, has urged his pace bowler not to be distracted, stating, "Look, we're here to do one thing, win a tournament. If our players enjoy something in their time away from the game, so be it. We respect Warney, who doesn't, but we don't feel he is a major threat in this format". Akhtar would only say that he "enjoys the company of women, most men do". Neither Saintkildaman nor Warne could be contacted for comment.

This certainly makes for interesting viewing when the two teams clash in the next few weeks.





*Story is made up.
*Had to double post, too much work to languish at the bottom of a page!
 

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Getting Marshall this late is the steal of the draft so far. Considering where some of the West Indies greats went, absolute bargain.

No difference between him, garner and holding IMO.
 

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:thumbsu: for the article.

Surprised about at least someone who hasnt been pick yet. He mite not have had the record of Tendulkar but he was very much compared to him. I can't really say his name but I felt he was really under appreciated and was sad when he retired in 2006. If he goes soon he be about bargain of the tournament.
 
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Getting Marshall this late is the steal of the draft so far. Considering where some of the West Indies greats went, absolute bargain.

No difference between him, garner and holding IMO.
I'll take the bait here, because I took Garner with my first pick (second of the draft).

In tests, you could mount a good claim that Marshall was the greatest quick bowler of all time. ODIs are a slightly different story. Garner is clearly the greatest ODI quick of all time.

ODI Stats Comparison:

Marshall:
Bowling average - 26.96
Strike rate - 45.7
Economy rate - 3.53

Garner
Bowling average - 18.84
Strike rate - 36.5
Economy - 3.09

Garner clearly has a better average and SR than Marshall, which means he takes MORE wickets than Marshall while conceding LESS runs than Marshall.

Although their ERs are similar in appearance, there is still almost a 0.5 run per over difference between the two. Over ten overs, that means Garner concedes almost 5 less runs than Marshall. Extended to 50 overs, it means a bowling attack of Garners would concede almost 25 runs less than a bowling attack of Marshalls. That makes a big difference in an ODI.

So, clearly there is a bit of difference between Marshall and Garner....
 
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Had he played for any other country, this player probably would've gone down as a legend. As it was though, he was an Australian during the recent golden era of Australian cricket, leaving him with an abbreviated test career, but enjoying a good run in one dayers. A highly talented middle order batsman, undervalued spinner and hero of Australian and English domestic cricket.

Darren Lehmann.

http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/6285.html
 

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