CW50 Draft

[ankitj]

Not enough love for my bowling attack of Lillee-Roberts-Kapil-Grimmett-Mankad

I think it is gun. Second best after mine

 

[weldone]

I think it is gun. Second best after mine

Objectively, I think we are about equal in the bowling department.

Lillee ~= Trueman
Roberts > Statham
Kapil ~= Fazal
Grimmett < O'Reilly
Mankad ~= Rhodes

Hazare doesn't matter.

 

[kingkallis]

Not enough love for my bowling attack of Lillee-Roberts-Kapil-Grimmett-Mankad

Its not that 'bruising'

 

[kingkallis]

Told you, less bruising

Lillee ~= Trueman < Marshall
Roberts > Statham < Procter
Kapil ~= Fazal < Croft
Grimmett < O'Reilly > Benaud
Mankad ~= Rhodes ~= Macartny

 

[ankitj]

Drafter	Player	Points	Balance
Round 9
Howe_zat	[Timed Out]		3
Round 10
Howe_zat	[Timed Out]		3
Round 11
Pratters	Darryl Cullinan	0	2
Cabinet96	Ryan Harris	0	17
Howe_zat	[Timed Out]		3
Saint Kopite	Shane Bond	0	7
Watson	Subhash Gupte	0	0
morgieb	Bill Ponsford	0	2
Red Hill	Ricky Ponting	26	0
anil1405	Rashid Latif	0	2
Kingkallis	Rod Marsh	0	2
ankitj	Wilfred Rhodes	0	5
weldone	Dennis Lillee	35	3
AldoRaine18	Mark Boucher	0	2
Pothas	Matt Prior	0	1

Full CW50 draft

 

[AldoRaine18]

Mark Boucher

Victor Trumper
Roy Fredericks
Vivian Richards
Everton Weekes
Frank Worrell*
Aubrey Faulkner[5]
Mark Boucher+
Maurice Tate[1]
Bob Willis[3]
Peter Pollock[2]
Hugh Tayfield[4]

 

[Pothas]

The Big Cheese

 

[kingkallis]

lol

 

[Pothas]

Graham Gooch
Justin Langer
Hashim Amla
Stan McCabe
Shvinarine Chanderpaul
Allan Border
Matt Prior
Dale Steyn
Waqar Younis
Bishan Bedi
Glenn McGrath

Bowling speaks for itself really, they should give the batsmen plenty of time to bat, which they all like doing.

 

[ankitj]

So let's give some time for howe_zat to pick his 3 players. We can start the poll over the weekend. In the meantime, Can everyone post their XIs in batting order so I can easily copy paste for the poll?

 

[ankitj]

CW50 Discards:

Rank	Player	Points
3	W.G. Grace	48
4	Shane Warne	47
5	Jack Hobbs	46
6	Sachin Tendulkar	45
7	Imran Khan	44
10	Richard Hadlee	41
11	Sydney Barnes	40
14	Keith Miller	37
17	Wally Hammond	34
20	Ian Botham	31
22	George Headley	29
24	Greg Chappel	27
41	Fred Spofforth	10

Total worth of players not picked = 479
Total unused budget by drafters = 46

 

[weldone]

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)

 

[Pothas]

Khan and Miller not being picked surprises me a little.

 

[weldone]

I got Kapil for less than half the cost. I considered Miller even after that - but (Miller+any other available bowler for zero cost) was less lucrative than (Lillee + Wilfred/Mankad) at that stage.

 

[watson]

01. Bill Woodfull
02. Eddie Barlow 6
03. Donald Bradman
04. Peter May
05. Ted Dexter 5
06. Clive Lloyd *
07. Denis Lindsay +
08. Alan Davidson 3
09. Wes Hall 2
10. John Snow 1
11. Subhash Gupte 4


Warne not being picked means that I have the best classical leg-spinner (sorry Clarrie and Richie) to complement a pace attack that is about as good as any if you think about it. The batting begins with two openers that would rather die than give their wicket away (Woodfull almost quite literally) and the middle order is pure silk all the way down to Alan Davidson. With 5 Test match captains it also has the IQ of Albert Einstein. In short, a team for the connoisseurs that happens to be perfectly balanced right down to the microgram.

Seriously though, why weren't Headley and Chappell picked as both were relative bargains? Headley could have been combined with Miller, and Chappell with McGrath, for example.

 

[dogwalker]

Steyn, McGrath, Waqar is amazing.

 

[Pothas]

Seriously though, why weren't Headley and Chappell picked as both were relative bargains? Headley could have been combined with Miller, and Chappell with McGrath, for example.

I was going to go with Chappell but Waqar and Border was the better deal, just got lucky that nobody picked Border that round.

 

[watson]

I was going to go with Chappell but Waqar and Border was the better deal, just got lucky that nobody picked Border that round.

I think that you're right. McCabe at No.4 is none to shabby anyway.

 

[watson]

Howe has been on-line several times during the last couple of days and hasn't bothered to pick his remaining players. In my experience it's rarely a good idea to pamper to a 'passive-aggressive'. So if you want to post your voting thread ankitj then go ahead when you want to because it's your show not Howe's.

Superb job by-the-way!

 

[ankitj]

CW50 Combos: Interesting to see how drafters used their budgets to grab elite players in the cw50 list. Some picked as many as four players, some were content with just one.

Drafter	Player	Points
AldoRaine18	Viv Richards	43
AldoRaine18	Victor Trumper	21
anil1405	Ray Lindwall	9
anil1405	George Lohmann	3
anil1405	Graeme Pollock	24
anil1405	Wasim Akram	28
ankitj	Fred Trueman	20
ankitj	Herbert Sutcliffe	18
ankitj	Bill O'Reilly	23
Cabinet96	Curtly Ambrose	32
Cabinet96	Michael Holding	17
Howe_zat	Len Hutton	30
Howe_zat	Jacques Kallis	25
Howe_zat	Jim Laker	7
Howe_zat	Douglas Jardine	1
Kingkallis	Sunil Gavaskar	22
Kingkallis	Malcolm Marshall	42
morgieb	Muttiah Muralitharan	39
morgieb	Steve Waugh	19
morgieb	Andrew Flintoff	6
Pothas	Glenn McGrath	38
Pothas	Waqar Younis	14
Pothas	Allan Border	13
Pratters	Adam Gilchrist	33
Pratters	Allan Donald	5
Pratters	Harold Larwood	11
Pratters	Shaun Pollock	15
Red Hill	Joel Garner	4
Red Hill	Brian Lara	36
Red Hill	Ricky Ponting	26
Saint Kopite	Garry Sobers	49
Saint Kopite	Barry Richards	8
Saint Kopite	Hedley Verity	2
Watson	Don Bradman	66
weldone	Kapil Dev	16
weldone	Denis Compton	12
weldone	Dennis Lillee	35