CW50 Draft

[ankitj]

Drafter	Player	Points	Balance
Round 9
Cabinet96	VVS Laxman	0	17
Pothas	Shiv Chanderpaul	0	1
anil1405	Tony Greig	0	2
Saint Kopite	David Gower	0	7
morgieb	Vernon Philander	0	8
weldone	Vinoo Mankad	0	38
Red Hill	Brian Lara	36	26
ankitj	Vijay Hazare	0	5
Pratters	Faf due Plesis	0	2
AldoRaine18	Roy Fredricks	0	2
Watson	Yes Dexter	0	0
Kingkallis	Doug Walters	0	2
Howe_zat	(Timed Out)		3
Round 10
Howe_zat	(Timed Out)		3
Kingkallis	Graham Thorpe	0	2
Watson	Eddie Barlow	0	0
AldoRaine18	Bob Willis	0	2
Pratters	Dilip Vengsarkar	0	2
ankitj	Mohammad Yousuf	0	5
Red Hill	Mark Waugh	0	26
weldone	Clem Hill	0	38
morgieb	Andrew Flintoff	6	2
Saint Kopite	Ian Healy	0	7
anil1405	Conrad Hunte	0	2
Pothas	Bishen Bedi	0	1
Cabinet96			17

Full CW50 draft

 

[Red]

Geoff Boycott
Vinoo Mankad (5)
-
Denis Compton
Kumar Ranjitsinhji
Mahela Jayawardene *
Kapil Dev (3)
Alan Knott +
Andy Roberts (2)
Dennis Lillee (1) [Round 11 pick]
Clarrie Grimmett (4)

So, seeing weldone has declared his R11 pick and can't steal Ponting off me, and considering no one else can afford Ponting, I can finish my team. My final two choices are Mark Waugh (R10) and Ricky Ponting (R11)

 

[Red]

Red Hill First XI

Gordon Greenidge
Mark Taylor *
Ricky Ponting
Brian Lara
Kevin Pietersen
Mark Waugh (5)
Les Ames +
Mitchell Johnson (3)
Shoaib Akhtar (2)
Joel Garner (1)
Derek Underwood (4)



With Taylor, Waugh, Greenidge, Ponting and Lara, plus Garner in the gully, I have the greatest cordon ever drafted!

 

[ankitj]

Unless weldone cuts you short, you have Ponting.

 

[Red]

Unless weldone cuts you short, you have Ponting.

He can't can he? He's got no points left after Lillee...

Something I've enjoyed in this draft is seeing Watson methodically put together a very strong side after burning all his points on Bradman in R1.

In the end the players I paid for were Ponting, Lara and Garner. I think I ****ed up a bit getting Akhtar, but I do like the idea of Akhtar, Garner and Johnson together. Can't imagine many batsmen would enjoy facing those three.

 

[dogwalker]

Red Hill First XI

Gordon Greenidge
Mark Taylor *
Ricky Ponting
Brian Lara
Kevin Pietersen
Mark Waugh (5)
Les Ames +
Mitchell Johnson (3)
Shoaib Akhtar (2)
Joel Garner (1)
Derek Underwood (4)

Fantastic top 6. Wildly unpredictable bowling attack. Would definitely pay to watch this team.

 

[watson]

Fantastic top 6. Wildly unpredictable bowling attack. Would definitely pay to watch this team.

Agreed! But I'm wondering who the 'work-horse' of the attack is? Can't really be Akhtar, Johnson or Garner, so fortunately Underwood is an accurate methodical kind of spinner who can bowl all day. He's going to get a lot of overs, as is Waugh - provided that the 3 quicks don't blow the opposition away in the opening sessions of course.

 

[dogwalker]

Agreed! But I'm wondering who the 'work-horse' of the attack is? Can't really be Akhtar, Johnson or Garner, so fortunately Underwood is an accurate methodical kind of spinner who can bowl all day. He's going to get a lot of overs, as is Waugh - provided that the 3 quicks don't blow the opposition away in the opening sessions of course.

That's what's great about this team - box office, but could potentially have the worst bowling attack of all time: relentless leg-side wides, crying and fights with spectators on the boundary.

And the combined egos in this team could sell 1 trillion million autobiographies. I love this team.

 

[weldone]

I'll take Clem Hill to complete my team.

Geoff Boycott
Vinoo Mankad (5)
Clem Hill
Denis Compton
Kumar Ranjitsinhji
Mahela Jayawardene *
Kapil Dev (3)
Alan Knott +
Andy Roberts (2)
Dennis Lillee (1)
Clarrie Grimmett (4)

After a long time I decided to play a draft on my own terms (i.e. took a conscious decision not to worry about votes at all). I enjoyed it a lot. Thanks for the great work Ankit.

 

[morgieb]

Andrew Flintoff

 

[Red]

Agreed! But I'm wondering who the 'work-horse' of the attack is? Can't really be Akhtar, Johnson or Garner, so fortunately Underwood is an accurate methodical kind of spinner who can bowl all day. He's going to get a lot of overs, as is Waugh - provided that the 3 quicks don't blow the opposition away in the opening sessions of course.

Garner played the stock bowler role for the WIs for years before Walsh came along. Garner could bowl very long accurate spells (taking wickets regularly) while the other two quicks attacked in 4 or 5 over bursts. Underwood is miserly too, so I think it'd work.

 

[Red]

That's what's great about this team - box office, but could potentially have the worst bowling attack of all time: relentless leg-side wides, crying and fights with spectators on the boundary.

And the combined egos in this team could sell 1 trillion million autobiographies. I love this team.

Haha! Tubby Taylor is there to keep everything under control, so don't worry!

 

[watson]

Garner played the stock bowler role for the WIs for years before Walsh came along. Garner could bowl very long accurate spells (taking wickets regularly) while the other two quicks attacked in 4 or 5 over bursts. Underwood is miserly too, so I think it'd work.

Yeah fair enough. It's hard to visualise a 6 foot 8 fast bowler bowling 'long accurate spells', but of course that doesn't mean that it didn't happen.

 

[ankitj]

Saint Kopite > anil1405 > Pothas

 

[Saint Kopite]

IAN HEALY

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[anil1405]

Conrad Hunte

 

[watson]

Looks like the batsman is gone for all money SK. Nice photo as usual.

 

[kingkallis]

Looks like the batsman is gone for all money SK. Nice photo as usual.

Must be Ramprakash with all those GM love.

 

[Red]

Gawd Healy was a good keeper.

 

[ankitj]

Pothas > Cabinet96.

Howe_zat still has to pick for both 9th and 10th round.