Taboo Draft

[Spikey]

you're lucky i'm such a great fella

So I'm picking another player who is a great, but not quite All Time XI great, who happens to be the best batsman I can pick - Alec Stewart (Wicket Keeper)


He kept in 82 of his 133 matches ftr.

Jacques Kallis
Alec Stewart
Kapil Dev
Anil Kumble
Alec Bedser

Round 1
marc71178 - Garfield Sobers (All Rounder)
Uvelocity - Shane Warne (Spinner)
Cabinet96 - Adam Gilchrist (Wicket Keeper)
Spikey - Jacques Kallis (Batsman)
Cevno - Imran Khan (All Rounder)
Pothas - Malcolm Marshall (Pacer)
G.I.Joe - Muttiah Muralitharan (Spinner)
kyear2 - Viv Richards (Batsman)
kingkallis - Richard Hadlee (All Rounder)
Himannv - Sydney Barnes (Pacer)
weeman27bob - Jack Hobbs (Batsman)
Jager - Keith Miller (All Rounder)
8ankitj - Curtly Ambrose (Pacer)
morgieb - Sachin Tendulkar (Batsman)

Eds - Ian Botham (All Rounder)
Blakus - Bill O'Reilly (Spinner)
NUFAN - Fred Trueman (Pacer)
Valer -Walter Hammond (Batsman)
Marcuss -Clarrie Grimmett (Spinner)
Zaremba - Glenn McGrath (Pacer)
weldone - Brian Lara (Batsman)
Michaelf7777777 - Andy Flower (Wicket Keeper)

Round 2
weldone - Alan Davidson (Pacer)
Michaelf7777777 - Shaun Pollock (Allrounder)
Zaremba - Jim Laker (Spinner)
Marcuss - Wasim Akram (Pacer)
Valer - Georger Headley (Batsman)
NUFAN - Wilfred Rhodes (All Rounder)
Blakus - Dennis Lillee (Pacer)

Eds - Victor Trumper (Batsman)
morgieb - Les Ames (Wicket Keeper)
8ankitj - Graeme Pollock (Batsman)
Jager - Richie Benaud (Spinner)

weeman27bob - Alan Knott (Wicket Keeper)
Himannv - Allan Donald (Pacer)
kingkallis - Len Hutton (Batsman)

kyear2 - Denis Lindsay (Wicket Keeper)
G.I.Joe - Aubrey Faulkner (All Rounder)
Pothas - Ray Lindwall (Pacer)
Cevno - Sunil Gavaskar (Batsman)
Spikey - Kapil Dev (All Rounder)
Cabinet96 - Waqar Younis (Pacer)
uvelocity - Rodney Marsh (Wicket Keeper)
marc71178 - Kumar Sangakkara (Batsman)

Round 3
kingkallis - Micheal Holding (Seamer)
weeman27bob - Hedley Verity (Spinner)
Zaremba Ricky Ponting (Batsman)
Himannv - Joel Garner (Pacer)
Eds - Trevor Goddard (All Rounder)
Valer - Herbert Sutcliffe (Batsman)
weldone - Courtney Walsh (Pacer)
Jager - Andy Roberts (Pacer)
Spikey - Anil Kumble (Spinner)
NUFAN - Greg Chappell (Batsman)
G.I.Joe - Dale Steyn (Pacer)
Michaelf7777777 - Chris Cairns (All Rounder)
Blakus - Barry Richards (Batsman)
8ankitj - John Waite (Wicket Keeper)
morgieb - Bob Willis (Pacer)
Marcuss - Steve Waugh (Batsman)
Cabinet96 - Tony Grieg (All Rounder)
Uvelocity - Shoaib Akhtar (Pacer)
Cevno - Sir Clyde Walcott (Batsman)
kyear2 - Derek Underwood (Spinner)
Pothas - Monty Noble (All Rounder)
marc71178 - Matt Prior (Keeper)

Round 4
Pothas - Everton Weekes (Batsman)
marc71178 - Jack Gregory (All Rounder)
kyear2 - Frank Tyson (Pacer)
Cevno - Ken Barrington (Batsman)
Uvelocity - Vinoo Mankad (All Rounder)
Cabinet96 - John Briggs (Spinner)
Marcuss - Geoff Boycott (Batsman)
morgieb - Brian Statham (Pacer)
8ankitj - Hugh Tayfield (Spinner)
Blakus - Allan Border (Batsman)
Michaelf7777777 - Mike Procter (Pacer)
G.I.Joe - Andrew Flintoff (All Rounder)
NUFAN - Frank Worrell (Batsman)
Spikey - Alec Bedser (Pacer)
Jager - Ian Healy (Keeper)
weldone - Rahul Dravid (Batsman)
Valer - Charlie Turner (Pacer)
Eds - Hugh Trumble (Spinner)
Himannv - Denis Compton (Batsman)
Zaremba - Jeff Thompson (Pacer)
weeman27bob - Lance Gibbs (Spinner)
kingkallis - Javed Miandad (Batsman)

Round 5
Valer - George Lohmann (Pacer)
marc71178 - Abdul Qadir (Spinner)
weldone - Neil Harvey (Batsman)
Blakus - Harold Larwood (Pacer)
Himannv - Subash Gupte (Spinner)
Zaremba - Mahela Jayawardene (Batsman)
weeman27bob - Wes Hall (Pacer)
Spikey - Alec Stewart (Wicket Keeper)
Cevno
8ankitj
NUFAN
Eds
G.I.Joe
Cabinet96
Jager
kyear2
kingkallis
Pothas
Uvelocity
Marcuss
morgieb
Michaelf7777777

Round 6
morgieb
Michaelf7777777
Marcuss
Uvelocity
Pothas
kingkallis
kyear2
Jager
Cabinet96
G.I.Joe
Eds
NUFAN
8ankitj
Cevno
Spikey
weeman27bob
Zaremba
Himannv
Blakus
weldone
marc71178
Valer

 

[weldone]

I love my middle-order!

Weldone's Taboo XI:
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Rahul Dravid
Brian Lara
Neil Harvey
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Alan Davidson
Courtney Walsh*
-
-

 

[G.I.Joe]

Was hoping I'd get Stewart!

 

[Cevno]

W.G Grace (Batsman, well by the criteria atleast)

How the hell has he survived till now ?

 

[Eds]

I hate you Cevno.

Have wanted Grace since Round 3 but haven't been able to pick him. FFS.

 

[Himannv]

How the hell has he survived till now ?

Because I had no way of picking him this round and wanted Compton in the previous one.

Swore a bit when weldone picked Harvery and screwed up my plan.

 

[ankitj]

Fred Spofforth (pacer)

Team so far:

Greame Pollock
John Waite
Curtly Ambrose
Hugh Tayfield
Fred Spofforth

 

[NUFAN]

Farokh Engineer picked due to his chiselled features and rugged good looks.


Tatenda Taboo's
Greg Chappell
Frank Worrell
Farokh Engineer
Wilfred Rhodes
Fred Trueman

 

[G.I.Joe]

Eds up > G.I.Joe > Cabinet96.

 

[Eds]

1. Gordon Greenidge [batsman]
2. Trevor Goddard [all-rounder]
3. Victor Trumper [batsman]
4.
5.
6.
7.
8. Ian Botham [all-rounder]
9. Hugh Trumble [spinner]
10.
11.

 

[marc71178]

We really need someone to drop out of this or it's completely ****ed up.

I've just realised that with the reversing order the same people get to pick a batsman each round in each order.

 

[Cabinet96]

We really need someone to drop out of this or it's completely ****ed up.

I've just realised that with the reversing order the same people get to pick a batsman each round in each order.

I haven't been able to pick a batsmen since the first round, and still can't

 

[weldone]

We really need someone to drop out of this or it's completely ****ed up.

I've just realised that with the reversing order the same people get to pick a batsman each round in each order.

I nominate Joe

 

[Cevno]

Order is randomised after a couple of rounds though.

 

[Spikey]

of all the things in this draft that have turned out to be a bit of a problem, this is really something one of us should have noticed before the draft started

 

[marc71178]

Yes, it is dependent on the numbers entering unfortunately, only noticed it when looking through to see if I could get a batsman next time.

Of course, if someone misses their 12 hours it does then change things.

 

[weldone]

Of course, if someone misses their 12 hours it does then change things.

Or if someone doesn't select a batsman purposefully...

 

[Cevno]

Team so far -

1)W.G Grace
2)Sunil Gavakar
3)Ken Barrington
4)
5)Clyde Walcott
6)
7)Imran Khan
8)
9)
10)
11)

 

[marc71178]

Or if someone doesn't select a batsman purposefully...

Nobody would do that though, it's so hard to get batsmen as it is without restricting opportunities.

 

[Cabinet96]

Team so far -

1)W.G Grace
2)Sunil Gavakar
3)Ken Barrington
4)
5)Clyde Walcott
6)
7)Imran Khan
8)
9)
10)
11)

That's an insanely good line up so far.