Two of Hunter's weaker picks going on to score a Test ton opening in SA in one case and take a FC 10WM in the other right after he picked them was pretty jammy shit. Also, you haven't changed the Gregory/Faulkner stuff from your template.
I had no idea just how gun Holder's bowling form/transformation has been in tests. 53 wickets @ 14.22 (lol) since 2018 began, compared to 53 wickets @ 38.52 before that.
I had Holder at #5 in my power rankings of all players, and that was only because I think the impact of getting a superstar bat was really big. Such an important selection for that squad.
That was the only thing he's done that I remembered. I knew he'd be a genuine #7 in this, I just didn't think he'd also be one of the best bowlers outright as well. Assumed Hunter was prioritising an all-rounder at the expense of a gun bat or bowler, rather than getting both.
Yeah was umming and ahhhing over whether to select Babar or Latham in Round 2. The fact I got both is a bit lols.
And Hunter. The actual cut-off fucks you over instead because Bangladesh finally scheduled their tour of Pakistan and it's Feb 7. Poor Naseem.
I'd have probably still made the cut off Jan 31 because I don't really want to wait to March to start finalising things.
One of those weird situations where making the statistically wrong decision probably paid off. If you'd picked Babar, someone might've picked Latham before your next turn.
Howe/Dan Team name: (Unannounced) Name Rating: A+ These two are some of the biggest nerds I know and them not having announced a name yet, only means they have something special planned. Right guys? Looking forward to it. Squad: Tamim Larkin Baba Indrajith AB de Villiers Mohammad Hafeez Dane Vilas Ankit Bawne Chris Morris Keshav Maharaj Chris Tremain Trent Boult Qais Ahmed Tim Bresnan Zohaib Khan Eoin Morgan Keith Barker Bahir Shah Squad Depth B+ This is a quality first XI and is likely going to push the outers of the top 8. Theres some good backup here, and theres some spuds too. I'd guess some of this is Dan throwing things against the wall. Best Pick: Tamim Iqbal - Round 4 Morgs on Tamim: See Shafiq. Though his most recent Test series was actually rather good, shame he hasn't played since. Cribb's Best Pick: Chris Morris - Round 5 Morgs on Morris: Good pick. One of the best bowlers left over and can bat for good measure. Worst Pick: Zohaib Khan - Round 15 Morgs on DBZ: Lots of ways this pick could go; gun recent record with the bat but with a lot of not outs, and he rarely seems to bowl these days. It's a decent pick on paper but might not work out at all. DBZ. Yikes. Boult was a poor first round pick IMO, but somehow you then went on to get AB and Tamim who are some of the best bats in CPL. This team will go far and looking forward to some random shit head getting picked in R18 by Dan that is somehow secretly h4x.
Gonna be so much taste if Zohaib makes it to 30 and/or takes 1/40 in at least one trial, such has been the ferocity of the hate. But yes, it was a colossal fuck up.
Wasn’t Babar picked round three? I’m sure they were picked at diff parts of the round but surely backing Babar to still be Bette than Pope by enough