ICF All Time ODI Cricket Draft [MATCH DAY 6 - Group B] | Match 12 | FINAL ROUND

[BeautifulGame]

MATCH 12 : UNSTABLE JOE vs BEAUTIFULGAME  ( @Unstable Joe vs  @BeautifulGame )

 

VENUE : WACA ,  PERTH

 

 

TEAM ALL STARS XI (UNSTABLE JOE)

Openers

1. The Silent Assailant - Martin Guptill

The Kiwi aggressive batsman is almost a certain choice of the side at one end of the opening wicket and rarely has it happened that Martin Guptill disappointed his devotees. With a highest ever world cup score of 237* Martin Guptill has scored 5414 runs in 143 ODI match and averages at 43.25 in ODIs with 12 centuries and 32 fifties. 

2. Hit Man - Rohit Sharma

Rohit Sharma has broken several ODI records and has placed himself as one of the best opening batsmen in the modern generation. Opening the batting has definitely helped Rohit’s approach to the game; not alone his technique, but the mental aspect of the game too. The 29-year-old has achieved a special feat in his ODI career which most batsmen could'nt even dream of doing – he is the only batsman to have scored two double centuries in ODI’s. Sharma has scored 5008 runs in 148 matches at an impeccable average of 42.08, with a highest individual score of 264, which is very unlikely to be broken.

 

Middle Order

3. The Undoubted King - Jacques Kallis

The Numero Uno, Jacques Kallis, is one of the greatest cricketers of all time, being the only cricketer in the history of the game to hold more than 10,000 runs and 250 wickets in both one day and Test match cricket. He has been described by Kevin Pietersen and Daryll Cullinan as the greatest cricketer ever to play the game. One of the most consistent players over the past decade, he has scalped 259 wickets at 31.90 and scored over 11,000 runs at 45.84. He is a formidable right-handed batsman and a wicket-taking medium pacer.

4. The Six-Fingered Wonder - Sir Gary Sobers

If asked to pick a few cricketers from the bygone era who would have thrived in limited-overs cricket had they an opportunity to play a lot of it, Garry Sobers’s name would have featured unanimously in all the lists. The world’s greatest all-rounder at the time was so entertaining as a batsman, bowler and fielder that despite playing only the longest format of the game for a significant part of his career, there was no doubt in people’s mind the world over that the southpaw was cut out for One-Day cricket. He was the most natural cricketer you would ever want to see and quite simply he could do it all. He is in the top ten greatest batsmen of all time, he took over 200 Test wickets and was a sensational fielder who could field in multiple positions.

5. The Innovative Genius - Martin Crowe (VC)

 

A talismanic cricketer and an inspirational leader Crowe was a widely recognised batsman for his technique and knowledge of the game. He became famous for his out-of-the box captaincy and batting prowess. He debuted against Australia in 1982 aged 19 and gained many fans with his skill to hit the ball all around the park. He was the pillar of New Zealand cricket in the 1980s and early 1990s, leading the batting line-up along with Richard Hadlee, who shouldered bowling responsibilities. Crowe played 77 Tests and 143 one-day internationals for New Zealand in a 13-year career. He scored 5,444 Test runs at an average of 45.36 with 17 centuries. Crowe's 299 against Sri Lanka stood as the record-highest score by a New Zealander in Tests for two decades, before Brendon McCullum crossed that landmark with a triple hundred against India in 2014.

 

6. Ruthlessly Efficient Captain - Steve Waugh (C)

 

Steve Waugh is one of only 12 players to have run over 10,000 Test runs, led Australia to fifteen of their record sixteen consecutive Test victories, and to victory in the 1999 Cricket World Cup. He was an innovative captain who never gave up hope even in the most adverse of situations. Waugh is one of the best captains of all time, and his batting abilities are top-notch. All this contributes to him being appointed as the Captain of this All Stars XI team.

 

Lower Order

7. The Caged Tiger - Imran Khan

 

One of the greatest players from Pakistan, Imran Khan is best remembered for making a name for himself when the West Indian bowlers were creating havoc. He is still revered for his reverse swing and pace, taking 182 ODI wickets in 175 matches at an average of 26.61 with best figures of 6/14. He finished his ODI career with 3709 runs, at an average of 33.41, with a high score of 102*.

8.  The Cobra Behind The Stumps - Mark Boucher (WK)

 

Widely considered as one of, if not, the greatest keepers of all time, Boucher held the record for most number of dismissals as keeper at the international level – 998! And if not for the serious eye injury which put an end to his career, he would have become the first gloveman to affect 1,000 dismissals in international matches. Boucher effected 555 dismissals in Tests (the highest by anyone till date) and 444 in the shorter formats including 424 in ODIs (behind only Sangakkara and Adam Gilchrist) and 19 in T20Is. He averaged just below 30 across both formats, which may not be considered great, but his value to the team as a crisis batsman was unrivalled. This makes him the wicket keepr of the All Stars XI.

Bowlers

9. Ravalpindi Express - Shoaib Akhtar

There are fastest bowlers and than their is Shoaib Akhtar, he consistantly bowled over 150 km/h in his career albeit short one. Reached a world record speed during World Cup 2003 against England when he produced a 161.3 km/h speed of a ball to England’s knick Knight. He become the first bowler to reach speed of 100 miles an hour in official ICC match. He has taken 247 wickets in 163 ODIs at an an average of 24.97 with best figures of 6/16. He enters this team as the primary spearhead.

10. The Physiological Phenomenon - Courtney Walsh

 

A physiological phenomenon, Walsh had an unbreakable body, for he holds the record for most balls bowled by a fast bowler in the history of Test cricket — 30,019. He has taken 227 wickets from 205 ODI matches at an average of 30.47 with best figures of 5/1 against Sri Lanka. His durability guarantees him a place in this XI.

11. Smiling Assassin - Muttiah Muralitharan

The ‘smiling assassin’ packed 800 Test wickets in 133 Test matches and 534 wickets in 350 ODIs.  Without a doubt one of the greatest spinners of all time. Murali’s achievements, abilities, talent and longevity cannot be expressed/defined/explained in words. One has to witness the magic and then feel blessed. His action was scary and those scary eyes wide open chased away the Batsman’s intentions of scoring against Murali. He is one of the GOAT spinners and thus, makes his way into this team.

 

TEAM ALL STARS XI - KEY NOTES

• Balance : 4 Specialist Batsmen, 2 Perfect All-Rounders (Equally top-notch batting & bowling), 1 Bowling all-rounder, a wicket-keeper crisis batsman, 2 specialist fast bowlers, and 1 specialist Spinner
• Fast Bowling Line-Up : A devastating pace bowling line-up in Shoaib Akhtar, Courtney Walsh and Imran Khan. They are Supported by all-rounders - Sir Gary Sobers and Jaques Kallis, making it a total of SIX pace bowling options.
• Spin : Muttiah Muralitharan leads the spin attack with support from Sir Gary Sobers and Rohit Sharma, if needed.
• Opening : Rohit Sharma and Martin Guptill. Both openers have had successfull careers in ODI cricket. Both have scored Double 100s in ODIs with Rohit Sharma having scored 2. Rohit has the highest individual score in ODIs (264) with Guptill having the second highest (237*).
• Middle Order : A top-level middle order in Jaques Kallis, Sir Gary Sobers, Martin Crowe and Steve Waugh
• Finishers : 2 Bonafide flinishers and crisis batsmen in Imran Khan and Mark Boucher.
• Keeping : The Keeper with the most amount of dismissals in international cricket - 998, in Mark Boucher.
• Fielding : Plenty of amazing fielders in Rohit Sharma, Martin Guptill, Jaques Kallis, Steve Waugh, and Imran Khan.
• Captaincy : A lot of experienced captains in the team that can help and give inputs to the main captain Steve Waugh and Vice Captain Martin Crowe : Sir Gary Sobers, Jacques Kallis, Imran Khan, Courtney Walsh have all captained their national teams while Rohit Sharma has captained the IPL side Mumbai Indians to the title twice.
• I wholeheartedly believe that this is the best side in the tournament, with balance, pace, spin, batting, keeping, and finishing. Hence, I named it the All Stars XI. If you like the team, then don't forget to vote for us! ;)

                                       

                                      VS

 

 

BEAUTIFULGAME

 

 

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As part of the ICF ODI Cricket draft, this is the voting for Match 12, FINAL GAME IN GROUP STAGE.Vote for the team you consider the best equipped to win a face of at WACA,PERTH.

 

The voting will close on Tuesday .

 

Also vote for the 11th match here 

 

[Sooda]

Two good attacks especially pace attacks but BG's batting is much better

[Unstable Joe]

@laaloo @maniac @Lannister @Mosher @express bowling @Pollack  @speedheat @asterix 

Help me out against the Chamcha army!  

 

Edited May 28, 2017 by Unstable Joe

[Pollack]

Perth!

Pace : Both teams equal.

Spin: Unstable Joe

Batting: Only Rohit and Guptill are weaker comparatively. But even Rohit enjoys pace and bounce. Batting undoubtedly goes to Unstable Joe since its WACA,Perth.

Overall :  Unstable Joe.

 

[SLICKR392]

10 hours ago, Unstable Joe said:

@laaloo @maniac @Lannister @Mosher @express bowling @Pollack  @speedheat @asterix 

Help me out against the Chamcha army!  

 

Are those your chamchas? Ironic 

[Unstable Joe]

2 hours ago, Pollack said:

Perth!

Pace : Both teams equal.

Spin: Unstable Joe

Batting: Only Rohit and Guptill are weaker comparatively. But even Rohit enjoys pace and bounce. Batting undoubtedly goes to Unstable Joe since its WACA,Perth.

Overall :  Unstable Joe.

 

[Unstable Joe]

38 minutes ago, SLICKR392 said:

Are those your chamchas? Ironic 

Nope, they are the non-Dhoni chamchas here.

[Unstable Joe]

@OpeningBatsman @Ankit_sharma03 @Khota @beetle @tweaker @MultiB48 @WC2011INDIA @New guy Please vote :)

[Ankit_sharma03]

@BeautifulGame team will win

Warner, ABDV, YUVI all ahve enjoyed pace bounce against quality attacks and they ll love patta as well

And with sehwag u dnt knw if he has a good game

Bond, starc, marshal is dream attack and hogg will enjoy the bounce

 

@Unstable Joe has few match changing players as well like akhtar, sobers  but a few only 

Guptil rohit will enjoy only patta and them against bond, starc n marshall......wnt even let them breathe

[BeautifulGame]

9 minutes ago, Ankit_sharma03 said:

@BeautifulGame team will win

Warner, ABDV, YUVI all ahve enjoyed pace bounce against quality attacks and they ll love patta as well

And with sehwag u dnt knw if he has a good game

Bond, starc, marshal is dream attack and hogg will enjoy the bounce

 

@Unstable Joe has few match changing players as well like akhtar, sobers  but a few only 

Guptil rohit will enjoy only patta and them against bond, starc n marshall......wnt even let them breathe

 

Also pls vote too.

[Pollack]

Don't like this game though. Teams should've been anonymous. Only after all matches it should have been revealed who owns which team. But then team owners would've used PM feature. So its not possible, I guess.

[BeautifulGame]

1 minute ago, Pollack said:

Don't like this game though. Teams should've been anonymous. Only after all matches it should have been revealed who owns which team. But then team owners would've used PM feature. So its not possible, I guess.

The teams are selected in the ICF draft thread.

Not sure how one can make teams anonymous in such case .

 

Anyone could simply hop into the draft thread and check who owns which team.

[kira]

11 minutes ago, Pollack said:

Don't like this game though. Teams should've been anonymous. Only after all matches it should have been revealed who owns which team. But then team owners would've used PM feature. So its not possible, I guess.

PMs can be moderated by the mods, and people revealing their teams in the thread or PMs could be disqualified from the competition, it could be done and would've been better

[SLICKR392]

3 hours ago, Unstable Joe said:

Nope, they are the non-Dhoni chamchas here.

Exactly.

[Ultimate_Game]

Will go with Beautiful Game's team as they have more batting striking power both at the top of the order (Warner, Sehwag) and lower down the order (ABDV, Yuvraj, Klusener). Plus Marshall, Starc & Bond at WACA would be a handful. Unstable show has Guptill and Rohit at the top of the order but they aren't as proven as their counterparts and his team doesn't have the same explosiveness in the lower middle order. Steve Waugh and Imran would be quite useful in Tests but in odis they can't compete with likes of ABDV, Yuvi & Klusener.

[SLICKR392]

17 hours ago, kira said:

PMs can be moderated by the mods, and people revealing their teams in the thread or PMs could be disqualified from the competition, it could be done and would've been better

Who has PMS? 

[Pollack]

18 hours ago, BeautifulGame said:

The teams are selected in the ICF draft thread.

Not sure how one can make teams anonymous in such case .

 

Anyone could simply hop into the draft thread and check who owns which team.

Then don't do it in draft thread.

[Pollack]

18 hours ago, kira said:

PMs can be moderated by the mods, and people revealing their teams in the thread or PMs could be disqualified from the competition, it could be done and would've been better

Not sure but heard someone saying that they are also connected through whatsApp especially dhoni fans. So it will still be a failure. Hehehe. 

[kira]

5 hours ago, SLICKR392 said:

Who has PMS? 

Dhoni chamchas of course 

 

3 hours ago, Pollack said:

Not sure but heard someone saying that they are also connected through whatsApp especially dhoni fans. So it will still be a failure. Hehehe. 

Yeah, forgot about that, can't get around the whatsapp group

[Rasgulla]

Kiras moaning is boring  asusual LOL lost before... tried to tag his chamchas no one voted for his team but somehow cries on other people..