Sheep Draft Version 3.0

[Jarquis]

You might actually have a worse team than me Joe?

 

[G.I.Joe]

Everyone's a winner here, Marcuss.

 

[Eds]

Amazing side although Reg Sinfield ruins it a bit. With Lindwall, Ambrose, Botham and Swann, you wouldn't need his bowling and definitely not his batting either. Lindwall can arguably bat higher than him. Waste of a spot though.

Funny story - I actually picked Sobers for 12a instead of Sangakkara, and I would have got Sobers. Top 7 of Gavaskar, Sutcliffe, Lara, Pollock, Sobers, Waugh and Irvine in that case. So much better balanced. Ah well, happy with the side. Sinfield's 1100 FC wickets suggests he wasn't too bad.

 

[Jarquis]

1. Sid Barnes
2. Gary Kristen
3. Tom Hayward
4. Ranji
5. Ian Bell
6. Aubrey Faulkner
7. Kapil
8. Mike Procter
9. Benaud
10. Willis
11. Lohmann

Keen?

I'm pretty sure I can do better tbh



(but if not I'll come crawling back)

1. Sid Barnes (AUS) See: http://www.cricketweb.net/forum/cricket-chat/55056-sid-barnes-turnstile-hurdler-other-stories.html FC HS: 234
2. Gary Kristen (SA) All Time Great Opener. Will double as coach which he just so happens to be just as great at. He managed to make India number 1 in the world ffs. FC HS: 275
3. Tom Hayward (ENG) According to Wisden, 'was one of the greatest batsmen of all time'. High praise indeed. When has Wisden been wrong. FC HS: 315*
4. Allan Border (C) (AUS) Doubles as back up spinner too. Does your number 2 spinner have an 11 wicket haul in a test match? FC HS: 205
5. Ian Bell (ENG) Best batsman in the world currently. FC HS: 262*
6. Aubrey Faulkner (SA) A leg spinner with a bowling average below 30 and batting average above 40. Suck it. FC HS: 204
7. Denis Lindsay (+) (SA) Scored 8000 runs in a series once. Would have doubled it if he ever got to play in more than one series again. FC HS: 216
8. Kapil Dev (IND) It's frickin Kapil Dev. FC HS: 193
9. Mike Procter (SA) 41 test wickets in 7 matches. 1417 FC wickets at 19. FC HS: 254
10. Azhar Mahmood (Pak) Played a top 10 innings of all time. Not a bad little seamer. Obviously he won't have to do much with Dev and Procter in the team. FC HS: 204*
11. Dodger Whysall (ENG) Scored 24 FC tons in his last 3 seasons before dying from dancing too hard. Could also keep. FC HS: 248

12th man. Hamilton Masakadza (ZIM) By all reports a good drinks carrier. FC HS: 208*

Good luck bowling me out ****ers. Bowling may seem to be lacking but it's not.

Hmm, close but Richards/Worrell/Benaud/Willis would definitely improve you

 

[smash84]

Imran and KP to open the bowling.

Prabhakar opened the bowling for India for some time.

Imran and Prabhakar to open

Saqlain and Viv and KP to share the 3rd, 4th, and 5th spinners spot

That is a VERY good batting lineup though

 

[Agent Nationaux]

Smali you completely forgot the bowling, but still a very powerful batting line up.

 

[smash84]

yeah man.....whenever I tried getting good bowlers some other idiot had also picked the same guy

 

[Agent Nationaux]

Imran to bowl half the overs.

 

[smash84]

Actually with such a strong batting line up Imran can only bowl and not worry about the batting.

Saqlain and Imran as opposed to Abdul Qadir and Imran.

 

[Neil Pickup]

1 Justin Langer - the man the word gritty was invented for; also doubles as batting coach
2 Jimmy Cook - ignore the Test record - he debuted far too late; look at the FC career
3 Ricky Ponting - I've always loved the guy, really; extra role as sledging co-ordinator
4 Clive Lloyd - one of the greatest captains to play the game and a member of the batting pantheon
5 Colin Bland - the first great fielder; managed to average 50 in Test cricket too.
6 David Houghton - the best batsman to come out of Zimbabwe without passing through Mrs Flower
7 Trevor Goddard - people don't appreciate just how good this guy was: FC stats of 40 & 21
8 Brian McMillan - fast, powerful, angry; also team enforcer and keeper of keys and guns
9 Jack Blackham - the greatest wicketkeeper ever to have lived - period
10 Hugh Tayfield - once bowled 137 consecutive dots; one of the greatest non-Murali offies ever
11 Charlie Parker - 3000 career wickets; six hat-tricks; eight 9-fors; no time for the establishment
12 Graham Onions

The weakest point is the seam attack, but Onions could come in on a greener wicket (and Clive and Ricky can bowl a bit if required), while the combination of Tayfield and Parker with Blackham up to the stumps is as good as anything else out there. Pretty pleased with that combination all-told.

 

[Eds]

1. Sunil Gavaskar* (10122 runs @ 51.12) (25834 runs @ 51.46)
2. Herbert Sutcliffe (4555 runs @ 60.73) (50670 runs @ 52.02)
3. Brian Lara (11953 runs @ 52.88) (22156 runs @ 51.88)
4. Graeme Pollock (2256 runs @ 60.97) (20940 runs @ 54.67)
5. Mark Waugh (8029 runs @ 41.81 and 59 wickets @ 41.16) (26855 runs @ 52.04 and 208 wickets @ 40.98)
6. Kumar Sangakkara+ (9347 runs @ 55.97 and 167 catches, 20 stumpings) (13936 runs @ 48.22 and 328 catches, 33 stumpings)
7. Ian Botham (5200 runs @ 33.54 and 383 wickets @ 28.40) (19399 runs @ 33.97 and 1172 wickets @ 27.22)
8. Reg Sinfield (6 runs @ 6.00 and 2 wickets @ 61.50) (15674 runs @ 25.69 and 1173 wickets @ 24.49)
9. Graeme Swann (800 runs @ 23.52 and 153 wickets @ 28.82) (6991 runs @ 26.18 and 605 wickets @ 32.04)
10. Ray Lindwall (1502 runs @ 21.15 and 228 wickets @ 23.03) (5042 runs @ 21.82 and 794 wickets @ 21.35)
11. Curtly Ambrose (1439 runs @ 12.40 and 405 wickets @ 20.99) (3448 runs @ 13.95 and 941 wickets @ 20.24)

Test and First Class stats.

Over 110 games of captaincy, 55k runs, 150+ centuries, 70+ 5-fers, over 850 catches, almost 1250 wickets, and a knighthood.

 

[Jarquis]

Meh.

 

[Howe_zat]

I'm not really sure there's a way to play this game well, other than researching just carefully enough to make sure your picks are legal. Needless to say it became a lot more fun when I changed to trying to pick favourites.

 

[Spikey]

1 Justin Langer - the man the word gritty was invented for; also doubles as batting coach

this is a bad thing

 

[Burgey]

I'd have enjoyed playing this had I had access to a PC over the holidays instead of just this phone, which is a pain in the arse to research stats on.

Apologies Nufan for not kicking on. Looks decent fun and all.

 

[smash84]

it was a lot of fun NUFAN. Great work dude. Sorry to piss you guys off at times by taking 23 hours and 40 minutes to post. I loved every moment of it

 

[Himannv]

Needless to say it became a lot more fun when I changed to trying to pick favourites.

I recall you blocked me off Hutton twice by doing this.

 

[NUFAN]

Thanks for the write ups everyone. I have just put the teams minus the write ups but feel free to read them too when judging. Have I got everyone's team?

Himannv
01 Eddie Barlow
02. Martin Guptill
03. Runako Morton
04. Dudley Nourse
05. Mahela Jayawardena
06. Charles Bannerman*
07. Ian Healy+
08. Gubby Allen
09. Alan Davidson
10. Bill O'Reilly
11. Tich Freeman


Eds
1. Sunil Gavaskar*
2. Herbert Sutcliffe
3. Brian Lara
4. Graeme Pollock
5. Mark Waugh
6. Kumar Sangakkara+
7. Ian Botham
8. Graeme Swann
9. Reg Sinfield
10. Ray Lindwall
11. Curtly Ambrose


G.I.Joe
1 Graeme Smith
2 Daren Ganga
3 Majural Islam
4 Hathurusinghe
5 Steve Waugh (c)
6 Chris Cairns
7 Patel +
8 Walter Hadlee
9 Shane Warne
10 Wasim Akram
11 Anthony McGrath


Howe_zat
1 Gordon Greenidge
2. WG Grace
3 Denis Compton
4 Maurice Leyland
5 Lord Hawke*
6 Colin McCool (5)
7 Adam Gilchrist+
8 Azhar Khan (6)
9 Tim Bresnan (2)
10 Johnny Briggs (4)
11 Alec Bedser (1)
11 Frank Nicholson


Marcuss
1.Imran Nasir
2.Barry Richards
3.Waqar Hasan
4.Frank Worrell
5.Ranji
6.Richie Benaud
7. Herb McGirr
8. Darren Sammy
9.Anil Kumble
10.Bob Willis
11.George Lohmann


weldone
1 Michael Atherton*
2 Virender Sehwag
3 Rahul Dravid
4 Greg Chappell
5 Ernest Tyldesley
6 Scott Styris
7 Jim Parks+
8 Malcolm Marshall
9 Hedley Verity
10 Neil Adcock
11 Norman Gordon


Blakus
1.Conrad Hunte
2.Bruce Mitchell
3.George Headley
4.Walter Hammond
5.Charles Fry*
6.Clairmonte Depeiaza
7.Mark Boucher+
8.Gary Gilmour
9.Dennis Lillee
10.Jim Laker
11.Courtney Walsh



fredfertang
1. Douglas Jardine*
2. Archie Jackson
3. George Challenor
4. Kenny Barrington
5. Graham Thorpe
6. John Reid
7. Jock Cameron+
8. Frank Foster
9. Bruce Taylor
10. Harold Larwood
11. Muttiah Muralitharan


Spikey
1. Sid Barnes
2. Gary Kristen
3. Tom Hayward
4. Allan Border (C)
5. Ian Bell
6. Aubrey Faulkner
7. Denis Lindsay (+)
8. Kapil Dev
9. Mike Procter
10. Azhar Mahmood
11. Dodger Whysall


Pothas
1.Jack Hobbs
2.Arthur Shrewsbury
3.Hashim Amla
4.Everton Weekes
5.Stephen Fleming*
6.Ted Dexter
7.Wayne Phillips +
8.Chaminda Vaas
9.Peter Pollock
10.Fred Trueman
11.Jack Iverson



Cabinet
1. Alastair Cook*
2. David Warner
3. Jonathan Trott
4. Thilan Samaraweera
5. Ravi Bopara
6. Matt Prior +
7. Stuart Broad
8. Shaun Udal
9. Joel Garner
10. James Anderson
11. Makhaya Ntini



smalishah
1 Amir Sohail
2 Marvin Attapattu
3 Viv Richards
4 Javed Miandad +
5 David Gower
6 Martin Crowe
7 Kevin Pietersen
8 Imran Khan*
9 Manoj Prabhakar
10 Saqlain Mushtaq
11 A Dolphin

Neil Pickup
1 Justin Langer
2 Jimmy Cook
3 Ricky Ponting
4 Clive Lloyd
5 Colin Bland
6 David Houghton
7 Trevor Goddard
8 Brian McMillan
9 Jack Blackham
10 Hugh Tayfield
11 Charlie Parker

So I think voting should be top 3, and everyone email me their top 3 in the next 48 hours or would you rather just vote on here? Let me know..

 

[Howe_zat]

We'll do some emailing, be a bit different.

My XI has Grace opening and first change, with Nicholson carrying the drinks, NUFAN.

 

[Himannv]

Have Barlow as my opening batsman instead of Himannv.