Scorecard Draft

[NUFAN]

Hunte is a value acquisition at this stage. I thought I'd be in a position to pick him, sseing that he isn't all that much talked about on the forums.

Yeah he's not talked about too much hey, but what a player! If you looked at the batsman who played with or against Edrich he was clearly the best batsman available and I'm pretty happy now with a top 4 of C Hunte, G Smith, T Dexter, G Chappell.

 

[kingkallis]

HB does not have a PC @ home so I doubt he will be able to pick one today...

 

[kingkallis]

Infact, 12 hours are up, marc71178 can pick...

 

[marc71178]

Aravinda de Silva

 

[kingkallis]

Top pick marc!

 

[kingkallis]

Round 1:

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NUFAN - Muttiah Muralitharan
weldone - Adam Gilchrist
Noble One - Glenn Mcgrath
Cevno - Curtly Ambrose
Blakus - Vivian Richards
Himmanv - Imran Khan
honestbharani - Richard Hadlee
kingkallis - Malcolm Marshall
GI Joe - Brian Lara
Shri - Kumar Sangakkara
pskov - Shane Warne
HeathDavisSpeed - Jacques Kallis
Somerset - Sachin Tendulkar
marc71178 - Wasim Akram
Marcuss - Waqar Younis
Jamee999 - Ricky Ponting
Michaelf7777777 - Andy Flower
Riggins - Michael Slater

Round 2:

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Riggins - Rahul Dravid
Michaelf7777777 - Shaun Pollock
Jamee999 - Courtney Walsh
Marcuss - Kapil Dev
marc71178 - Ian Botham
Somerset - Dennis Lillee
HeathDavisSpeed - Joel Garner
pskov - Sunil Gavaskar
Shri - Garry Sobers
GI Joe - Keith Miller
kingkallis - Donald Bradman
honestbharani - Wally Hammond
Himmanv - Jack Hobbs
Blakus - Sydney Barnes
Cevno - Wilfred Rhodes
Noble One - Clarrie Grimmett
weldone - George Headley
NUFAN - Fred Trueman

Round 3:

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pskov - Alan Davidson
Jamee999 - Len Hutton
Marcuss - Les Ames
GI Joe - Herbert Sutcliffe
kingkallis - Aubrey Faulkner
Riggins - Charles Macartney
Michaelf7777777 - Colin Blythe
Shri - Hugh Trumble
weldone - George Lohmann
Blakus - Frederick Spofforth
NUFAN - Charlie Turner
Cevno - W.G Grace
Noble One - Victor Trumper
HeathDavisSpeed - Warwick Armstrong
Himmanv - Stanley Jackson
Somerset - Kumar Ranjitsinhji
marc71178 - Archie MacLaren
honestbharani - Johnny Briggs

Round 4:

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marc71178 - Bobby Abel
honestbharani - Billy Barnes
Somerset - Billy Bates
Himmanv - Dick Barlow
HeathDavisSpeed - Tom Garrett
Noble One - Arthur Shrewsbury
Cevno - Bobby Peel
NUFAN - Allan Steel
Blakus - Billy Murdoch
weldone - George Ulyett
Shri - Syd Gregory
Michaelf7777777 - Frank Woolley
Riggins - Bill Voce
kingkallis - Bill O'Rielly
GI Joe - Ray Lindwall
Marcuss - Jim Laker
Jamee999 - Clyde Walcott
pskov - Neil Harvey

Round 5:

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Shri - Alec Bedser
Jamee999 - Peter May
honestbharani - Graeme Pollock
Blakus - Ken Barrington
Cevno - Frank Tyson
Michaelf7777777 - Arthur Morris
Riggins - Vinoo Mankad
GI Joe - Denis Compton
HeathDavisSpeed - Everton Weekes
kingkallis - Colin Cowdrey
Noble One - Brian Statham
pskov - Neil Adcock
weldone - Richie Benaud
Marcuss - Frank Warrell
Himmanv - Rohan Kanhai
Somerset - Godfrey Evans
marc71178 - Hanif Mohammad
NUFAN - Ted Dexter

Round 6:

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marc71178 - Alan Knott
NUFAN - Greg Chappell
Somerset - Javed Miandad
Himmanv - Gordon Greenidge
Marcuss - Allan Border
weldone - Geoff Boycott
pskov - Michael Holding
Noble One - Martin Crowe
kingkallis - Rodney Marsh
HeathDavisSpeed - Andy Roberts
GI Joe - Bob Willis
Riggins - Garth Mckenzie
Michaelf7777777 - Colin Croft
Cevno - Farokh Engineer
Blakus - Bob Simpson
honestbharani - Doug Walters
Jamee999 - Bishan Bedi
Shri - Derek Underwood

Round 7:

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HeathDavisSpeed - Peter Pollock
Marcuss - Graham Gooch
Cevno - Allan Donald
Jamee999 - Matthew Hayden
marc71178 - Harbhajan Singh
honestbharani - MS Dhoni
Himmanv - Dale Steyn
Noble One - Andrew Flintoff
kingkallis - Virender Sehwag
NUFAN - Greame Smith
pskov - Steve Waugh
weldone - Shane Bond
Riggins - Mahela Jayawardene
Somerset - Mohammad Yousuf
GI Joe - Jeff Thomson
Shri - Darren Gough
Blakus - Ian Bishop
Michaelf7777777 - Desmond Haynes

Round 8

Blakus - Zaheer Abbas
Michaelf7777777 - Clive Lloyd
Shri - Roy Fredericks
GI Joe - Bill Lawry
Somerset - Eddie Barlow
Riggins
weldone - Ian Chappell
pskov - John Edrich
NUFAN - Conrad Hunte
kingkallis - Dennis Amiss
Noble One - David Gower
Himmanv - Abdul Qadir
honestbharani
marc71178 - Aravinda de Silva
Jamee999
Cevno
Marcuss
HeathDavisSpeed

Round 9:

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Somerset
kingkallis
NUFAN
marc71178
Himmanv
Noble One
Marcuss
Cevno
weldone
Riggins
honestbharani
Shri
Blakus
Michaelf7777777
Jamee999
GI Joe
pskov
HeathDavisSpeed

Round 10:

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pskov
HeathDavisSpeed
GI Joe
Jamee999
Michaelf7777777
Blakus
Shri
honestbharani
Riggins
weldone
Cevno
Marcuss
Noble One
Himmanv
marc71178
NUFAN
kingkallis
Somerset

 

[Himannv]

Aravinda de Silva

Fantastic pick.

 

[nick-o]

so frustrating

I wrote a long and immensely interesting reply here, but by the time I hit Submit, CricketWeb had logged me off again. It's so annoying! Will try again tomorrow...

 

[Himannv]

so frustrating

I wrote a long and immensely interesting reply here, but by the time I hit Submit, CricketWeb had logged me off again. It's so annoying! Will try again tomorrow...

Strange, I never get logged off.

I suspect its my good looks.

 

[kingkallis]

Strange, I never get logged off.

I suspect its my good looks.

Its past your bed time Sam! Hit the bed...

 

[nick-o]

I'll try an abbreviated version.

What i wanted to say was, first, that I thought this draft was a magnificent idea.

And secondly, however good the team you pick, you can't win a match unless you can take 20 wickets. So the most important consideration is how many wickets your bowlers get per match, and unless that adds up to 20 your team isn't going to win anything.

So, basically, it would be stupid for anyone to pick another batsman until their bowling line-up adds up to 20 wickets per match.

This was followed by statistical analysis of each team, based on wickets per match and runs conceded against runs scored, conclusively proving that Somerset has chosen a crap team, and that Barnes is the greatest cricketer in history.

But that is all lost now, and we shall never know the truth...

 

[Himannv]

Sounds like it would have been one helluva post. Do it again mate and keep a backup this time lol..

KingKallis, you know my sleeping habits so well these days.

 

[Jamee999]

That sounds like a bad post. You think that wickets/game is the best measure of how good a bowler is when so many other factors affect it?

(I know I'm up)

 

[Jamee999]

Anil Kumble

2nd Test: India v Sri Lanka at Nagpur, Nov 26-30, 1997 | Cricket Scorecard | Cricinfo.com

Team so far:

*Sir Leonard Hutton
ML Hayden
RT Ponting
PBH May
+Sir Clyde Walcott
A Kumble
BS Bedi
CA Walsh

 

[G.I.Joe]

That is an insanely good batting line-up.

 

[Somerset]

This was followed by statistical analysis of each team, based on wickets per match and runs conceded against runs scored, conclusively proving that Somerset has chosen a crap team, and that Barnes is the greatest cricketer in history.

Given your analysis and the criteria you've adopted of the respective bowling line-ups of our drafted teams I'm not surprised to see my side come out near the lower end of the scale at the moment. Though I still have three picks and two of those will be genuine bowling options, and any attack led by Dennis Lillee is a threat IMO. Also have to be careful when it comes to statistical analysis, particularly with the early 19th century players selected and those that had to perform on uncovered wickets.

 

[NUFAN]

Anil Kumble

2nd Test: India v Sri Lanka at Nagpur, Nov 26-30, 1997 | Cricket Scorecard | Cricinfo.com

Team so far:

*Sir Leonard Hutton
ML Hayden
RT Ponting
PBH May
+Sir Clyde Walcott
A Kumble
BS Bedi
CA Walsh

I'm looking forward to seeing which quick you end up getting to partner Walsh, because if he's any good your team is going to be awesome.

Must admit I was looking at Kumble because he's capable of batting at 8 and having him bowl with Murali would be pretty awesome (similar to Bedi and Kumble).

Maybe someone should start a Murali vs Bedi thread.

 

[Cevno]

Inzamam-Ul-Haq -

3rd Test: India v Pakistan at Bangalore, Mar 24-28, 2005 | Cricket Scorecard | Cricinfo.com

 

[Cevno]

Team so Far-


1)W.G Grace
2)
3)
4)Inzamam -Ul -Haq
5)
6)Wilfred Rhodes
7)Farokh Engineeer
8)Bobby peel
9)Curtly Ambrose
10)Alan Donald
11)Frank Tyson

 

[kingkallis]

Jumbo & Inzy...both very good picks!