I'm not going to have a batting or bowling line up full of superstars due to the Taylor pick which was a round early, so I got a tier 2 batsman and didn't get the trade off of a tier 1 bowler. Both my first two picks are a little below the worlds best. You know my ATG selection philosophy; you're about to see the anti-kyear in action here.
The Squirts are delighted to announce they have signed OPWB for the season. He will take the gloves and bat at number six. In the event of injury to another batsman he will likely be the first called upon to move up the order due to his ability to bat anywhere in the top six.
1. 2. 3. 4. - Ross Taylor (c) 5. 6. - BJ Watling (wk) (vc) 7. 8. - Ryan McLaren (3) 9. 10. - Graeme Swann (4) 11. - Kemar Roach (1)
Squirty Statz 1. - TBA 2. - TBA 3. - TBA 4. Ross Taylor (Central Districts and New Zealand) Tests: 4134 @ 47.51. 11 hundreds, 21 fifties. All FC: 7348 @ 42.97. 17 hundreds, 40 fifties. 5. - TBA 6. Bradley John Watling (Northern Districts and New Zealand) Tests: 956 @ 35.40. 2 hundreds, 6 fifties. 49 catches, 0 stumpings. All FC: 4878 @ 39.02. 10 hundreds, 29 fifties. 141 catches, 0 stumpings. (Very few matches with the gloves) 7. - TBA 8. Ryan McLaren (Eagles/Knights and South Africa) Tests: 33 @ infinity. 0 hundreds, 0 fifties. 1w @ 43. 0 fifers, 0 tenfors. All FC: 3408 @ 29.89. 3 hundreds, 17 fifties. 313w @ 24.81. 12 fifers. 1 tenfor. 9. Graeme Swann (Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire and England) Tests: 1370 @ 22.09. 0 hundreds, 5 fifties. 255w @ 29.96. 17 fifers. 3 tenfors. All FC: 7811 @ 25.52. 4 hundreds, 37 fifties. 739w @ 32.12. 32 fifers, 6 tenfors. 10. - TBA 11. Kemar Roach (Antigua, Barbados, Worcestershire and West Indies) Tests: Can't bat. 85w @ 27.71. 5 fifers, 1 tenfor. All FC: Can't bat. 172w @ 28.86. 8 fifers, 1 tenfor.
The Squirts welcome the only Indian batsman of this century who isn't an overrated lame hack, Rahul Dravid. Dravid continues our policy of only picking the gunnest of characters and Swann.
1. 2. 3. - Rahul Dravid 4. - Ross Taylor (c) 5. 6. - BJ Watling (wk) (vc) 7. 8. - Ryan McLaren (3) 9. 10. - Graeme Swann (4) 11. - Kemar Roach (1)
New and completely coincidental club rule: Fast bowlers are also exempt from having to be good people. This will allow me to relay instructions to bowl tactical beamers without having to worry about the consciences of my players. what does roach post btw?
roach is gun. from athlai's mocking i take it roach is probably way lower than he should be but no way are there many picked after him who can claim to be better imo
I don't think Athlai even knows Roach's database stats. If anything I think the database over-rates him but that's obviously not surprising as I wouldn't pay him in bent washers.
whats so wrong with him? inswing, pace, hits the cut strip. way worse test bowlers floating around. btw i seem to remember you posting on cw he's in the southee/boult quality zone, and you like them.
