1. SM Morgan 2. AM Farhat 3. T Delonge 4. DA Alessi 5. S Verigotta 6. AJ Son 7. SA Flack 8. JB Dempsey 9. JH Ridd/JHF Howe 10. WC Welker 11. SA Yates/HT Davis The tricky bit deciding how many pace bowlers to take in. All four of those always take wickets with the new ball. Also working out what's the best use of Flack.
Yeah I think the important thing to appreciate the importance of roles in generating the stats players get. Not getting to bowl at the death will comparatively blow out a bowler's average, and batting in the top 3 gives a player a much bigger chance to make big runs and not have to hit out. It's tempting to look at the stats and stack the team with opening batsman and death bowlers. For that reason, the players who manage to put up good stats in middle overs bowling roles or finishers with the bat stand out to me. Welker is basically first picked for this reason, but Chung and Weaver are really good in the middle overs too. Hunt, Nova, Farhat and Astele also do a good specialist job there in different ways. You've accounted for that better than most would IMO, particularly given you've got Mousey and Farhat to help out with the middle overs bowling if need be as well, but I'd probably go Ridd, Howe, Flack, Weaver, Welker as the main five bowlers, leaving out the third specialist opening/death bowler as Flack does that job too, and not trying to stick a keeper at 8. Farhat, Verigotta and Dempsey are still ranked high in batting but they've fallen away a fair bit this season so I'd probably leave them out. Ultimately I'd probably roll with: 1. Morgan 2. Heads 3. Delonge 4. Alessi 5. Son 6. Flack 7. O'Neill 8. Weaver 9. Welker 10. Ridd 11. Howe Perry, Gemmell, Martyn all pretty close at nabbing a 3-4 spot really.
Reckon Farhat does a better job of middle overs dobbing than you're giving him credit for. If I brought in Weaver to improve the bowling it'd probably be for Flack but the latter is just too good a cricketer to miss out.
You've been kinda meh in HC cricket but you've smashed it in provincial stuff. Ranked 14 with the bat and 40 with the ball overall, but I picked you because you've been the most successful aggressive opener. The rest of the top four all moderate batsmen; you're my team's Sanath I guess you could say. Alternatively I could have picked Gemmell at 4 and someone like Burridge, myself or Speirs to open but that would have been four moderate/defensive batsmen to start followed by three aggressive ones and I think it's good to split them up a little bit.
Ueah my 96 in the Rossleigh wouldve knocked me up that spot, yeah? Im amazed at how good I am at OD cricket, and I'm so consistent!
