Skippos Team name: The Accumulators Name Rating: A- I like it. Squad: 1. Oshada Fernando 2. Dhananjaya de Silva (5) 3. Marnus Labuschagne (6) 4. Asad Shafiq 5. Misbah-ul-Haq 6. Shane Dowrich 7. Ryan Higgins (2F/2P) 8. Wriddhiman Saha + 9. Bilal Asif (3) 10. Rashid Khan (4) 11. Kemar Roach (1/1) 12. Dan Worrall 13. Krishnappa Gowtham 14. Gabe Bell 15. Brendon McCullum 16. Sikandar Raza 17. Zak Crawley 18. Michael Hogan Squad Depth: B+ Last team to be reviewed is Skippos' squad. It's decent. The openers are a bit ehh but the middle order looks as solid as a rock. Bowling is good. Middle of the pack material this though there is a chance that Labuschagne scoring more runs than God since he was picked might make him stupidly h4x enough to carry this team to the top 8. Best Pick: Gabe Bell - R14 Morgs on Bell: Pretty nice pick. Like a few Aussie medium-pacers is a bit in and out of his domestic team but his stats are still good and should be handy here. Cribb's Best Pick: Bilal Asif - R10 Morgs on Bilal Asif : Without his Test performances this wouldn't be a great pick, but he did rather well in those apperances that I'm surprised he hasn't got a better crack at did. Did well in the most recent domestic season too on utter roads. Worst Pick: Oshada Fernando Morgs on Oshada: Hmmm....his FC record isn't all that special, his Test career also hasn't been very long. Probably would've gone a couple of other options at this point I think before BOP. Bell was an unsexy pick but there is no way in hell he should have slid to R14. Same could be said about Bilal and R10, but I (apparently, Cribb reminded me just now) told you to pick him. So I guess I'll pat myself on he back for that one too? While I appreciate the ballsy move of picking an opening pair as a double pick. Oshada was too early so yeah. Not ideal. Likely to be a machine at home and fairly competitive away. I can't wait till I rock up to The Accumulators with two better spinners than you and just ruin your whole day.
Garg was a little more of a cynical pick in that I have no interest in him, just that he has the potential to be a high value retention. Other than Steve Smith (the obvious and deserved first pick for the point you make) and perhaps Bess and Mitchell, I've picked a squad I like.
I actually answered with "Anshy Rath" for Heath best pick. I think I said something like "Nauman also a great pick" later in the same discussion so I can see why it ended up being listed as that, but I really wanted it to be known that Rath was good.
I was planning on sneaking him in as a back-up keeper in the later rounds as I thought it'd only be Stephen who really rated him. He's had a poor second season as Stephen said but I rate him as a late pick who could be a gem in the next CPL as a retainee.
I also want to see Heef's associates do well, but mostly for the popcorn as season 2 inevitably overpicks associates with many many spuds.