All Formats Draft

[harsh.ag]

Weirdly, Blakus was right on this thread when Kopite made his selection. Dunno why he didn't make his pick then and there.

 

[watson]

Whenever you see watson update the running order after only 2 more picks have been made, you know he's antsy about the next bloke on the list having not come online to pick yet

I noticed in the last Draft that I ran that people tended to like updated tables so they don't have to go scroll back and see who was picked. So I was trying to be helpful.

But yes, I prefer Drafts to be fast and smooth. But then again, who doesn't prefer things fast and smooth?

 

[harsh.ag]

We could try having the next raft with a 4 hour deadline, and then stack up people from the same region together so picks can be made fairly.

 

[watson]

We could try having the next raft with a 4 hour deadline, and then stack up people from the same region together so picks can be made fairly.

Not really practical harsh.

 

[harsh.ag]

Because ..... ?

 

[ohnoitsyou]

imo just run it normally with say 6 hour deadlines. Would work perfectly fine, it just wouldn't be the fairest system every implemented.

 

[watson]

Because ..... ?

Randomising the order of the various regions, followed by randomising the order of contestants within the regions may work. However, if you are the lone person in the region like kyear then potentially you would going either first or rank last about half of the time. In other words, the order is always skewed unless you have equal amounts of contestants in each region.

Plus 4 hours is not enough time even if you pick by region. The farest amount of time IMO is what we have now - 12 hours. Especially as I'm heading up to the beautiful Tweed Valley soonish to sun myself on the beach

 

[harsh.ag]

Enjoy the holiday. Hope you don't go fertang on your missus (if you are married i.e.)

 

[Blakus]

Sorry for the delay. The curse of shift work.
Ray Lindwall, one of the finest exponents of the yorker, would of made a wonderful LO cricketer

 

[harsh.ag]

Good call. Lindwall was also a solid bat down the order.

 

[watson]

Enjoy the holiday. Hope you don't go fertang on your missus (if you are married i.e.)

Cheers harsh No missus. Just me and a bunch of kids.

 

[G.I.Joe]

I noticed in the last Draft that I ran that people tended to like updated tables so they don't have to go scroll back and see who was picked. So I was trying to be helpful.

But yes, I prefer Drafts to be fast and smooth. But then again, who doesn't prefer things fast and smooth?

The ladies

 

[Saint Kopite]

Enjoy the holidays, Sheldon!

 

[Camo999]

Victor Trumper

 

[harsh.ag]

I am going with Graeme Pollock - One of the most accomplished, attacking "see-the-ball-hit-the-ball" batsmen ever. He held the record for the highest List A score of 222 from 1974-2002. At the age of 50, in 1994/95 playing in a memorial one-day game for the World XI vs Bradman XI, he scored 89 off 71 deliveries. Slots in at number 4.


Expialidocious XI

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- Viv Richards
- Graeme Pollock
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- Dale Steyn
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[harsh.ag]

Watch this innings from the 43 year old Pollock against an Australian side featuring Terry Alderman and Rodney Hogg

 

[ankitj]

I am going with Graeme Pollock - One of the most accomplished, attacking "see-the-ball-hit-the-ball" batsmen ever. He held the record for the highest List A score of 222 from 1974-2002. At the age of 50, in 1994/95 playing in a memorial one-day game for the World XI vs Bradman XI, he scored 89 off 71 deliveries. Slots in at number 4.


Expialidocious XI

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- Viv Richards
- Graeme Pollock
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- Dale Steyn
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You have my vote

 

[watson]

After looking at 37 Drafts In recent years it is apparent that Blakus has been the unoffocial 'Draft King' of Crickweb with 5 wins all up. His nearest rival is Pothas with 4 wins.

So far in this Draft Blakus has selected Bradman and SF Barnes, while Pothas has selected Sobers and Dhoni, making them about even.

No pressure

 

[Dan]

Torn between two picks here, but arguably the first facilitates the second so I'll grab Mike Procter please.

21k runs at 36 in FC cricket stack up favourably with many a Test #7, or makes him a seriously gun #8, while he took 1400 wickets at less than 20 each.

Regarded as a very quick scorer in List A cricket, and had an economy rate of just over 3, which is impressive even considering the era in which he played. His unorthodox bowling would apply very well to T20 IMO. Like a far, far better version of Sohail Tanvir.

 

[OverratedSanity]

I'm honestly very surprised that one of the very best all format cricketers of recent times hasn't been picked yet. Don't know whether people don't rate him as highly as I do or he's just slipped under the radar in this thread somehow but he'd have been one of my early picks, maybe second. Actually performed and proved himself in all three formats, so deserves a pick over some of the old timers who might or might not have succeeded in the shorter format.