Youssou N'Dour's Prime Minister's XI

Discussion in 'CPL Cricket' started by HeathDavisSpeed, Aug 4, 2009.

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  1. HeathDavisSpeed HT Davis

    Cripes. Those FC stats make this look a bloody good bowling line-up. Ryder with a superior FC bowling average than Pathan and Jayasuriya not too shabby either. Will be simple to fill the middle order with decent enough players to shore things up batting wise and I have my eyes on a left-field selection to give us cracking team balance.

    All coming together well, really.
     
    HeathDavisSpeed, Aug 17, 2009
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  2. Fungus K Fung

    Yep. :D

    Looks like a gun bowling attack now with those stats there. And we have batting all the way down to 9.
     
    Fungus, Aug 17, 2009
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  3. Fungus K Fung

    With the latest addition. Looking good. Just need to fill up the middle order.

    1. Sanath Jayasuriya (Bat: 38.59, Bowl: 32.77)
    2. Heino Kuhn (43.48)
    3. Brad Hodge (48.57)
    4. Jesse Ryder (Bat: 44.37, Bowl: 27.26)
    5.
    6.
    7.
    8. Irfan Pathan (Bat: 29.89, Bowl: 29.92)
    9. Chaminda Vaas (Bat: 25.95, Bowl: 25.02)
    10. Mark Davies (21.31)
    11. Makhaya Ntini (28.56)
     
    Fungus, Aug 17, 2009
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  4. HeathDavisSpeed HT Davis

    1. Sanath Jayasuriya (Bat: 38.59, Bowl: 32.77)
    2. Heino Kuhn (43.48)
    3. Brad Hodge (48.57)
    4. Jesse Ryder (Bat: 44.37, Bowl: 27.26)
    5.
    6.
    7. Steve Tikolo (Bat 53.59, Bowl 36.98)
    8. Irfan Pathan (Bat: 29.89, Bowl: 29.92)
    9. Chaminda Vaas (Bat: 25.95, Bowl: 25.02)
    10. Mark Davies (21.31)
    11. Makhaya Ntini (28.56)

    Big fan of Steve Tikolo. A very astute player and possibly the best batsman produced by a non-test nation. Arguably better than RTD as a bat (arguably), but RTD was produced by South Africa.
     
    HeathDavisSpeed, Aug 18, 2009
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  5. Cribbage RG Cribb

    Ed Joyce? I suppose you could argue he was developed by England, but he wasn't really.
     
    Cribbage, Aug 18, 2009
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  6. HeathDavisSpeed HT Davis

    I did think of Joyce. I guess you could argue that he was developed by Middlesex as much as Tikolo was assisted by Border when he was a youngster. Morgan could be a decent call in future years, but to my mind he really wasn't much cop until he started playing in England. Ditto for Kervezee if he actually improves.
     
    HeathDavisSpeed, Aug 18, 2009
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  7. Ged GEC King

    I was doing research on him just to see what his record was like and I actually thought that it was better. Comes from a hectically large family and two of his brothers and three of his sisters have played for Ireland, from memory.
     
    Ged, Aug 18, 2009
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  8. HeathDavisSpeed HT Davis

    1. Sanath Jayasuriya (Bat: 38.59, Bowl: 32.77)
    2. Heino Kuhn (43.48)
    3. Brad Hodge (48.57)
    4. Jesse Ryder (Bat: 44.37, Bowl: 27.26)
    5. Dale Benkenstein (Bat: 46.00, Bowl: 35.77)
    6.
    7. Steve Tikolo (Bat 53.59, Bowl 36.98)
    8. Irfan Pathan (Bat: 29.89, Bowl: 29.92)
    9. Chaminda Vaas (Bat: 25.95, Bowl: 25.02)
    10. Mark Davies (Bat: 11.09, Bowl: 21.31)
    11. Makhaya Ntini (Bat: 9.49, Bowl: 28.56)

    A pick I didn't discuss with Fung :ninja: Sorry, lad.
     
    HeathDavisSpeed, Aug 19, 2009
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  9. Eds E Ames

    Should change your pick to one Fung approves of, imo. <_<
     
    Eds, Aug 19, 2009
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  10. Farny AP Farnsworth

    I'd have picked Benkenstein if I had any room in the middle order. That's the top notch Saffas in county cricket pretty much gone now...
     
    Farny, Aug 19, 2009
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  11. Callum CJ Laing

    Very decent pack of allrounders you have put together. Will be interested to see how Tikolo goes in this, very good FC record but I would be interested to see how much of it is made up of Intercontinental games. Benkenstein is a very handy player who is a top player with his bat alone.
     
    Callum, Aug 19, 2009
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  12. Fungus K Fung

    Haha, looks good. :)
     
    Fungus, Aug 19, 2009
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  13. HeathDavisSpeed HT Davis

    Tikolo's average is obviously inflated by Intercontinental Cup games, but his ODI record isn't shabby and he is clearly able to cut it at proper international level.

    Anyway, if Tikolo's averages are inflated by Intercontinental Cup games, Ryan ten Doeschate's are even more so - as I recall, he scored 3 or 4 consecutive centuries in the Intercontinental and he takes wickets for fun at that level.
     
    HeathDavisSpeed, Aug 19, 2009
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  14. BoyBlunder BOY Blunder

    Gutted you got Vaas. :p
     
    BoyBlunder, Aug 19, 2009
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  15. Fungus K Fung

    Expected team is finally filled, although might not be final lineup. Pretty happy overall. :)

    1. Sanath Jayasuriya (Bat: 38.59, Bowl: 32.77)
    2. Heino Kuhn (Bat: 43.48)
    3. Brad Hodge (Bat: 48.57)
    4. Jesse Ryder (Bat: 44.37, Bowl: 27.26)
    5. Dale Benkenstein (Bat: 46.00, Bowl: 35.77)
    6. Peter Fulton (Bat: 43.90)
    7. Steve Tikolo (Bat 53.59, Bowl 36.98)
    8. Irfan Pathan (Bat: 29.89, Bowl: 29.92)
    9. Chaminda Vaas (Bat: 25.95, Bowl: 25.02)
    10. Mark Davies (Bat: 11.09, Bowl: 21.31)
    11. Makhaya Ntini (Bat: 9.49, Bowl: 28.56)

    12. Ramesh Powar (Bat: 28.65, Bowl: 27.81)
     
    Fungus, Aug 19, 2009
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  16. nz0003 JR Denton

    You've got 4 batsmen who could bat 3 - 4. Jesse Ryder ----> 5 IMO, that's where he has proven himself.
     
    nz0003, Aug 19, 2009
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  17. Cribbage RG Cribb

    Davies got injured today in real life, but Benkenstein picked up the slack for Durham with 3/10. :p
     
    Cribbage, Aug 19, 2009
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  18. Julian BJ Taylor

    Powar has to play IMO.
     
    Julian, Aug 19, 2009
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  19. Fungus K Fung

    I think we were gonna go with Jayasuriya as the spinning option. Powar instead of Pathan you reckon?

    I think we have pretty good balance, so moving things around shouldn't be a problem.
     
    Fungus, Aug 19, 2009
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  20. Julian BJ Taylor

    Yeah I'd have him ahead of Pathan. Then you still have Vaas, Davies and Ntini, with Ryder and Benkenstein bowling meds if need be as well.
     
    Julian, Aug 19, 2009
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