Best and Worst Teams Thus Far?

Discussion in 'CPL Cricket' started by morgieb, Dec 30, 2019.

  1. morgieb MC Burridge

    Still early-ish days admittedly but would be fun to discuss.

    So, who does everyone think it is?
     
  2. Chewie JA Chewie

    Good way for you to start is if you could post everyone's team as they stand now :)
     
  3. morgieb MC Burridge

    I tried to but it came off in a really ugly format when I C+P'd it from Notepad. I can do another way but it'll have to wait until tomorrow.
     
  4. Magrat Garlick M Garlick

    yay for regular expressions

    HeathDavisSpeed (8): Steve Smith, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Peter Siddle, Abid Ali, Shai Hope, Hasan Ali, Ravi Bopara, Dominic Bess
    Boobidy (8): Ben Stokes, Jofra Archer, Mohammad Amir, Usman Khawaja, Michael Neser, Will Pucovski, Nick Maddinson, Callum Ferguson
    Captain (8): Virat Kohli, Umesh Yadav, Kyle Abbott, Hashim Amla, Jack Leach, Roston Chase, Kaushal Silva, Keegan Petersen
    Magrat Garlick (8): Pat Cummins, Aiden Markram, Joe Burns, Jhye Richardson, Mominul Haque, Mitchell Marsh, Kyle Verreynne, Wasim Jaffer
    GoodAreasShane (8): Kane Williamson, Lungi Ngidi, Travis Head, Kurtis Patterson, Trent Copeland, Darren Bravo, Eddie Moore, Nikita Miller
    StephenZA (8): Kagiso Rabada, Rohit Sharma, Zubayr Hamza, Anrich Nortje, Shyreyas Iyer, Mustafizur Rahman, Rudi Second, George Linde
    Cabinet96 (8): Jasprit Bumrah, Dean Elgar, Duanne Olivier, Moeen Ali, Shikhar Dhawan, Matt Henry, Alex Carey, Manish Pandey
    Hunter (8): Jason Holder, Ishant Sharma, Dimuth Karunaratne, Devon Conway, Dom Sibley, Tim Murtagh, Joe Denly, Harry Conway
    Number 11 (8): Josh Hazlewood, Ajinkya Rahane, Azhar Ali, Simon Harmer, Niroshan Dickwella, Dwaine Pretorius, Mahmudullah Riyad, Kusal Perera
    Phlegm (8): Neil Wagner, Henry Nicholls, Morne Morkel, Jackson Bird, Kusal Mendis, Will Young, Doug Bracewell, Ajaz Patel
    Athlai (8): Mitchell Starc, Angelo Mathews, Mushfiqur Rahim, Murali Vijay, Lockie Ferguson, Rangana Herath, Hamish Bennett, Martin Guptill
    morgieb (8): Ravindra Jadeja, Tom Latham, Babar Azam, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Suranga Lakmal, Shubman Gill, Darren Stevens, Pathum Nissanka
    Howe and Dan (8): Trent Boult, AB de Villiers, Keshav Maharaj, Tamim Iqbal, Chris Morris, Chris Tremain, Dane Vilas, Nick Larkin
    Alex (8): Ravichandran Ashwin, Tim Southee, Alastair Cook, Karun Nair, Matthew Wade, Wayne Parnell, Peter Handscomb, Kedar Jadhav
    spark!ptz (8): Vernon Philander, Ross Taylor, Hanuma Vihari, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Siraj, Priyank Panchal, Cameron Green, Abhimanyu Easwaran
    MrPrez (8): Shakib Al Hasan, Quinton de Kock, Faf du Plessis, Rassie van der Dussen, Daryn Dupavillon, Craig Overton, Dane Paterson, Pieter Malan
    Julian (8): Colin de Grandhomme, Stuart Broad, Mayank Agarwal, Jonny Bairstow, Dilruwan Perera, Gary Ballance, Mark Wood, Glenn Maxwell
    Dhokchau (8): Yasir Shah, Kumar Sangakkara, Steve O'Keefe, Shannon Gabriel, Shan Masood, Marcus Harris, Abhinav Mukund, Jake Weatherald
    jimmy_c8 (8): Mohammad Abbas, BJ Watling, Dinesh Chandimal, Sam Curran, Rory Burns, Taijul Islam, Kraigg Brathwaite, Theunis de Bruyn
    Benny (8): David Warner, James Pattinson, Rishabh Pant, Beuran Hendricks, Shaun Marsh, Janneman Malan, Dane Piedt, Chadd Sayers
    Baxter (8): James Anderson, Nathan Lyon, Ollie Pope, Prithvi Shaw, Wiaan Mulder, Lewis Gregory, Pite van Biljon, Mark Steketee
    Chewie (8): Mohammed Shami, Cheteshwar Pujara, Dale Steyn, Fawad Alam, Haris Sohail, Will Somerville, Glenn Phillips, Tom Blundell
    Skippos (8): Marnus Labuschagne, Kemar Roach, Rashid Khan, Asad Shafiq, Dhananjaya de Silva, Oshada Fernando, Ryan Higgins, Wriddhiman Saha
    Gazza (8): Joe Root, Chris Woakes, Jos Buttler, Lokesh Rahul, Jeetan Patel, Hardik Pandya, Ollie Robinson, Cam Bancroft
     
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  5. Captain SSD Dong

    Chewie
    Boobidy
    morgie

    Looking good to me.
     
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  6. Phlegm SP Phlegm

    chewie, captain and spark for mine, even with his massive green punt. i put morgie and boobidy midfield.

    solid efforts from hunter and baxter too.
     
  7. Phlegm SP Phlegm

    everyone looks pretty solid tbh.
     
  8. Boobidy BJ Gemmell

    Pretty much every team has at least 1 player I've never heard of, so hard to judge.
     
  9. Cribbage RG Cribb

    @Number 11's team has really snuck up on me as being a contender. I still like Morgie, Baxter, Heath and Hunter's teams a lot too. Heath's fortunes may hinge on him correctly identifying which associates the database actually thinks are good (spoiler: not a bad start with Frylink).

    StephenZA's band of South Africans and Rohit Sharma could be interesting, and Howedan is solid other than a kind of meh Round 1 pick (which is probably better than it looks to me on paper anyway due to left handedness and strike rate).
     
  10. Cribbage RG Cribb

    Chewie always sneaks under the radar by just never making crap picks too. Similar here so far other than the fact that he has a #9, two #10s and a #11 in his tail.
     
  11. StephenZA S Marais

    This was not planned... number of players I ear marked got picked up just before I had a shot. So went for what I knew...
     
  12. Cribbage RG Cribb

    Haha they are good picks tbf.

    I'm not sure anyone actually started the first two rounds with a better pair of specialists than you (especially excluding Baxter as two bowlers in a row is a bit different to what I mean here), and the rest are all solid even if mostly South African players.
     
  13. Phlegm SP Phlegm

    this was the correct decision. very easy to dig a hole trying to sift through competitions you haven't seen with your own eyes.

    obviously the top few players in every comp will be perfectly fine, but the early drafts in this had some atg fuck ups.
     
  14. Phlegm SP Phlegm

    nohit is a total spud away from home so they better have
     
  15. Chewie JA Chewie

    I'll make up for that with a crap pick round 11
     
  16. Number 11 CJ Downes

    Was not expecting this as have been fairly lukewarm on my draft but guess I've nailed it with recent picks. Batting looks strong but not sold on bowling attack outside of Haze. Think Morgie was running away with the best draft title until the last couple of rounds.
     
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  17. Cribbage RG Cribb

    Yeah even though Hughes was actually a very good pick I was expecting you to pick a bowler at that point. Team looking something like this:

    1 Hughes
    2 D Smith
    3 Azhar
    4 Rahane
    5 K Perera
    6 Dickwella
    7 Mahmudullah
    8 Pretorius
    9 Harmer
    10 Hazlewood
    11 Boland

    Batting definitely stronger than bowling but it's a very good side.
     
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  18. Number 11 CJ Downes

    Gun. Just need Pretorius getting a few more wickets vs England and we’re in business.

    As for worst sides, Dhokchau stands out with weird picks in recent rounds. Mostly everyone looks fairly solid tho, not a bad effort 11 rounds in.
     
  19. Chewie JA Chewie

    Here are the teams currently - batting positions aren't necessarily accurate. Hopefully my table works

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        Alex                    Number 11               StephenZA               Boobidy                 Skippos                 Heef                    Gazza                   Baxter
    1   Alastair Cook*          Hughes                  van Tonder              Renshaw                 Oshada Fernando         Abid Ali                Bancroft                S van Zyl
    2   Hassan Azad             D Smith                 Rohit                   Khawaja                 Dhananjaya de Silva (6) Daryl Mitchell                                  P Shaw
    3   Karun Nair              Azhar                   Hamza                   Pucovski                Marnus Labuschagne (7)  Brendan Taylor          Rahul                   Ian Bell
    4   Kedar Jadhav            Rahane                  Rudi Seconds+           Maddinson               Asad Shafiq             Steve(n) Smith (7/6)    Root*                   P van Biljon
    5   Peter Handscomb         K Perera                Shreyas Iyer            Stokes                  Shane Dowrich           Shai Hope (+)           Singh                   O Pope
    6   Matthew Wade +          Dickwella               Jason Smith (5)         Ferguson                Ryan Higgins (3)        Ravi Bopara (6/7)       Buttler +               W Mulder
    7   Liam Livingstone        Mahmudullah             Mohammed Nabi (6)       Nevill                  Wriddhiman Saha +       Bhuvneshwar Kumar (2)   Pandya
    8   Ravi Ashwin             Pretorius               George Linde (4)        Neser                   Bilal Asif (4)          Dominic Bess (6)        Woakes                  L Gregory
    9   Wayne Parnell           Harmer                  Rabada (1)              Archer                  Rashid Khan (5)         Jan Frylinck (4)        Patel                   M Steketee
    10  Tom Curran              Hazlewood               Mustafizur (3)          Amir                    Kemar Roach (1)         Peter Siddle (1)        Robinson                N Lyon
    11  Tim Southee             Boland                  Nortje (2)              Swepson                 Dan Worrall (2)         Hasan Ali (3)           Stone                   J Anderson
    
    
        Captain                 Spark                   Margrat                 Jimmy                   Julian                  Cabinet                 Morgie                  Flem
    1                           panchal                 Markram                 Rory Burns              M Agarwal               Elgar                   Latham                  greg hay
    2   Kaushal Silva +         easwaran                Burns                   Kraigg Brathwaite                               Dhawan                  Gill
    3   Hashim Amla             vihari                  Jaffer                  Theunis de Bruyn        G Balance                                       Nissanka                kusal mendis
    4   Virat Kohli             taylor                  Mominul                 Sam Hain                M Henriques             Vince                   Azam                    will young
    5   Roshen Silva            chanderpaul             Verreynne               Marcus Stoinis          Bairstow                Pandey                                          henry nicholls
    6   Keegan Petersen         sarfraz                 Marsh                   Dinesh Chandimal        G Maxwell               Carey                   Jadeja                  dinesh karthik
    7   Roston Chase            green                                           BJ Watling              C de Grandhomme         Moeen Ali               Stevens                 doug bracewell
    8   Ben Coad                Imad Wasim              Cornwall                Sam Curran              D Perera                Abbott                  Paine                   neil wagner
    9   Umesh Yadav             philander               Cummins                 Jason Behrendorff       J Mennie                Henry                   Mehidy                  morne morkel
    10  Kyle Abbott             kuldeep                 Richardson              Mohammad Abbas          M Wood                  Olivier                 Lakmal                  Jackson Bird
    11  Jack Leach              siraj                   Unadkat                 Taijul Islam            S Broad                 Bumrah                  Afridi                  ajaz patel
    
    
        Benny                   Dhokchau                HoweDan                 GAS                     MrPrez                  Chewie                  Hunter                  Athlai
    1   David Warner            Shan Masood             Tamim Iqbal             Edward Moore            Pieter Malan            Jason Roy               Karunaratne             Guptill
    2   Janneman Malan          Marcus Harris           Nick Larkin                                                             Glenn Phillips          Sibley                  Vijay
    3   Marques Ackerman        Abhinav Mukund          Baba Indrajith          Kane Williamson         Faf du Plessis          Cheteshwar Pujara       D Conway                Younis
    4   Shaun Marsh             Kumar Sangakkara        AB de Villiers          Darren Bravo            Rassie van der Dussen   Fawad Alam              Denly                   Mathews
    5   Rishabh Pant            Jake Weatherald         Mohammad Hafeez         Kurtis Patterson        Shakib al Hasan         Haris Sohail            Ambris
    6   MS Dhoni                Mahipal Lomror          Dane Vilas              Travis Head             Quinton de Kock (+)     Tom Blundell +          Rizwan                  Rahim
    7                                                   Ankit Bawne             Heinrich Klaasen        Temba Bavuma            Scott Kuggeleijn        Holder                  Shadab
    8   James Pattinson         Steve O'Keefe           Chris Morris            Trent Copeland          Bjorn Fortuin           Will Somerville         Muthusamy               Starc
    9   Dane Piedt              Toby Roland-Jones       Keshav Maharaj          Nikita Miller           Craig Overton           Dale Steyn              Murtagh                 Ferguson
    10  Beuran Hendricks        Yasir Shah              Chris Tremain           Alzarri Joseph          Daryn Dupavillon        Usman Shinwari          Sharma                  Herath
    11  Chadd Sayers            Shannon Gabriel         Trent Boult             Lungi Ngidi             Dane Paterson           Mohammed Shami          H Conway (4)            Bennett
    
    
    
     
  20. Magrat Garlick M Garlick

    think Baxter Cab and Athers have the best attacks, Captain's batting gonna be a pain to get out. Morgie in danger of doing a Morgie. Heef has a pretty decent attack for drafting the best batsman #1
     
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