Auction draft 2011

[smash84]

you know what kyear2? Despite the above marketing effort I must say your team is quite terrible.

Sent my bids

 

[Somerset]

Pleased to get Croft. Bowling depth was still on the short side so he was just who I was looking for.

 

[Blakus]

Sent my bids.

 

[kyear2]

you know what kyear2? Despite the above marketing effort I must say your team is quite terrible.

Sent my bids

Never said it was the best and I dont expect to win, but considering my penalty in rd. 2 and that its my first draft, I am quite pleased with my effort. But thanks for the thumbs up.

 

[weldone]

I have emailed round 13 bids and round 14 nomination.

 

[smash84]

Never said it was the best and I dont expect to win, but considering my penalty in rd. 2 and that its my first draft, I am quite pleased with my effort. But thanks for the thumbs up.

 

[marc71178]

Waiting on 6 - Somerset, weeman, Vimes, pskov, Howe and f_o_s

 

[four_or_six]

Sent mine. I hope I am still within my remaining budget!

 

[marc71178]

If you're not I just reduce the bids!

Others still to submit.

 

[marc71178]

And none of them submitted - only 8 out of 13.

The following players have been drafted:

George Lohmann - Himannv
Ted Dexter - Blakus
Godfrey Evans - Howe_Zat
Justin Vaughan - Samuel_Vimes
John Warr - Somerset
Richard Hutton - pskov
James Anderson - weeman27bob
Maurice Tate - four_or_six
Jim Laker - Michael7777777
Herbert Sutcliffe - weldone
Len Hutton - smalishah84
Colin Cowdrey - Pothas
Alec Stewart - kyear2

I added in James Anderson, Colin Cowdrey, Len Hutton, Richard Hutton and Jim Laker.

The following were the successful bids:$3,814, $5,004, $100,000, $210,112, $400,998, $777,000, $1,111,435, $2,000,000,

For the next round we have the following available:

Alec Bedser
Aravinda de Silva
Gordon Greenidge
Conrad Hunte
Damien Martyn
Bryce McGain
Eddie Paynter
Richie Richardson
Chris Schofield
Virender Sehwag
Tatenda Taibu
Daniel Vettori
Doug Walters

Deadline of 1pm GMT on Sunday please - and those who've failed to submit in the past you can still have an impact if you at least try and submit something, otherwise it does render it kind of pointless to a degree carrying on at all.

 

[Michaelf7777777]

Very happy to get another quality bowler in in Laker, just one more needed now.

Everyone's Team so Far

honestbharani/ Somerset

Hashim Amla
Viv Richards
Mahela Jayawardene
Andy Flower (+)
Mark Waugh
Keith Miller (*)
Kamran Akmal
Aminul Islam
Wasim Akram
Javagal Srinath
Colin Croft
Justin Ontong
John Warr

pskov

Geoffrey Boycott
Vijay Merchant
Eddie Barlow
Frank Worrell (*)
Mark Boucher (+)
Richard Hadlee
Ray Lindwall
Omar Henry
Richard Hutton
Chuck Fleetwood-Smith
Brian Statham
Mahes Goonatilleke
Pramodya Wickremesinghe

Michaelf7777777

Bert Sutcliffe
Sid Barnes
Don Bradman (*)
Graeme Pollock
Colin Bland
Tony Greig
John Waite (+)
Learie Constantine
Ajantha Mendis
Jim Laker
Erapali Prasanna
Rameez Raja
Ravi Bopara

Pothas

Tamim Iqbal
Colin Cowdrey
Clyde Walcott
Peter May (*)
Kevin Pietersen
Aubrey Faulkner
Jack Gregory
Farook Engineer (+)
Bill O'Reilly
Curtley Ambrose
Waqar Younis
Malinda Warnapuna
Andrew McDonald

weldone

Junaid Siddique
Herbert Sutcliffe
Kumar Sangakarra
Greg Chappell
Vijay Hazare
Rashid Latif (+)
Richie Benaud (*)
Irfan Pathan
Dale Steyn
Andy Roberts
Courtney Walsh
Darren Pattinson
Paul Harris

Blakus

Sunil Gavaskar
Jack Hobbs
Stewie Dempster (*)
Everton Weekes
Ken Barrington
Ted Dexter
Dennis Lindsay (+)
Dennis Lillee
Michael Holding
Shoaib Akthar
Subash Gupte
Mpumelelo Mbangwa
Mahmudullah

Himannv

WG Grace (*)
Jackie McGlew
Martin Crowe
Garry Sobers
Virat Kohli
Adam Gilchrist (+)
Kapil Dev
Shane Bond
Lasith Malinga
Sydney Barnes
George Lohmann
Michael Beer
Gerald Hartigan

weeman27bob

Shariar Nafeez
Roy Fredericks
Brian Lara
Javed Miandad (*)
Jacques Kallis
Brian McMillan
Alan Davidson
Yasir Arafat
Clarrie Grimmett
Mohammad Aamir
James Anderson
Bryan Strang
Alok Kapali

smalishah84

Alistair Campbell
Len Hutton
Mohammad Azharuddin
Arjuna Ranatunga
Imran Khan (*)
MS Dhoni (+)
Devon Smith
Mitchell Johnson
Tim Southee
Glenn McGrath
Muttiah Muralitharin
Eknath Solkar
Eddo Brandes

four_or_six

Sanath Jayasuriya
Bill Ponsford
Denis Compton
Jonathan Trott
Sourav Ganguly
Clive Lloyd (*)
Ian Smith (+)
Shaun Pollock
Maurice Tate
Shane Warne
Allan Donald
Dave Mohammad
Fazal Mahmood

Samuel_Vimes

Glenn Turner
Mark Richardson
Steve Waugh (*)
Les Ames (+)
Trevor Goddard
Mike Procter
Imrul Kayes
Saleem Yousef
Roshan Jurangpathy
Malcolm Marshall
Ian Salisbury
George Gladstone
Justin Vaughan

Kyear2

Barry Richards
James Marshall
Neil Harvey
Sachin Tendulkar
AB de Villiers
Alec Stewart (+)
Tim Bresnan
Anil Kumble (*)
Mohammad Nissar
Fred Trueman
Ernie Toshack
Xavier Marshall
Mohammad Ashraful

Howie_Zat

Michael Slater
Wally Hammond (*)
Darren Lehmann
Ross Taylor
Andrew Flintoff
Jeffrey Dujon (+)
Prasanna Jayawardene
Heath Streak
Ajit Agarkar
Zaheer Khan
Hugh Tayfield
Nayan Mongia
Godfrey Evans

 

[Blakus]

That's my team done. Lucky that so many people didn't submit otherwise I don't think I would have got exactly who I wanted this round.

1.Jack Hobbs 5410 runs @ 56.94
2.Sunil Gavaskar 10122 runs @ 51.12
3.Stewie Dempster 723 runs @ 65.72
4.Everton Weekes 4455 runs @ 58.61
5.Kenny Barrington 6806 runs @ 58.67 , 29 wickets @ 44.82
6.Ted Dexter 4502 runs @ 47.89 , 66 wickets @ 34.93
7.Denis Lindsay 1130 runs @ 37.66 , 59 dismissals
8.Michael Holding 910 runs @ 13.78 , 249 wickets @ 23.68
9.Dennis Lillee 905 runs @ 13.71 , 355 wickets @ 23.92
10.Shoaib Akhtar 544 runs @ 10.07 , 178 wickets @ 25.69
11.Subhash Gupte 183 runs @ 6.31 , 149 wickets @ 29.55

Reserves: Pommie Mbangwa, Mahmudullah

That's a pretty handy team if I do say so myself.

 

[Michaelf7777777]

Round 14 Bids and Round 15 Nomination Sent

 

[kyear2]

Bids and nomination sent.

 

[four_or_six]

This is getting a bit silly now with all the non-submissions, I've just got a top quality bowler for virtually nothing. According to cricinfo Hobbs said that Maurice Tate was one of the greatest bowlers of all time, and yet I have paid less than 1% of the money I paid for Shaun Pollock for him! Tate can clearly strengthen the batting, too.

Anyway... I reckon I have a fantastic bowling line-up now. What do people reckon... is Tate better than Fazal Mahmood? Which would you start with?

 

[weldone]

This is getting a bit silly now with all the non-submissions, I've just got a top quality bowler for virtually nothing. According to cricinfo Hobbs said that Maurice Tate was one of the greatest bowlers of all time, and yet I have paid less than 1% of the money I paid for Shaun Pollock for him! Tate can clearly strengthen the batting, too.

Anyway... I reckon I have a fantastic bowling line-up now. What do people reckon... is Tate better than Fazal Mahmood? Which would you start with?

You should have tried a batsman. Your bowling attack was already awesome, even without Tate. But some of the batsmen in your side is not quite that great. Don't get me wrong, you have a good side. But if I was at your place, I would have tried to make my batting look better with whatever money is left - rather than spending a penny on a bowler.

 

[weldone]

Herbert Sutcliffe, it is. I'm trying my best to catch up with Blakus' awesome team - fingers crossed.

Weldone XI so far:
Herbert Sutcliffe
Kumar Sangakkara
Greg Chappell
Vijay Hazare
Rashid Latif+
Richie Benaud*
Andy Roberts
Dale Steyn
Courtney Walsh

Reserves: Irfan Pathan, Paul Harris, Junaid Siddique, Darren Pattinson

 

[weldone]

Think I made a mistake getting so many players at the beginning, the prices seem to have gone down now a few people aren't submitting.

The richest people on earth are those who can predict well.

 

[four_or_six]

You should have tried a batsman. Your bowling attack was already awesome, even without Tate. But some of the batsmen in your side is not quite that great. Don't get me wrong, you have a good side. But if I was at your place, I would have tried to make my batting look better with whatever money is left - rather than spending a penny on a bowler.

I'm going for "bowlers win matches" as the biggest philosophy in constructing my team... and I think on the bench you need at least one decent quick bowler, as the bowlers are most likely to get injored. Tbh I think the only batsman I'm not 100% happy with is Trott, and I think he isn't too bad. Maybe I'll be lucky enough to get someone to replace him in the next two rounds.

 

[smash84]

Pretty happy to get Len hutton

The team will be built around 3 core ATGest bowlers going by the bowlers win matches theory as stated earlier by 4o6