Draft suggestion: "Never met" XI

[jimmy101]

Barry Richards
Archie Jackson
Vivian Richards
Rahul Dravid
Vinod Kambli
Frank Woolley
-
Vernon Philander
Bobby Peel
-
Neil Adcock

 

[mr_mister]

Can we auto skip Howe? He hasnt made a pick since round 6 and this draft is hardly moving quickly

 

[kingkallis]

JJ Ferris ( 1887-1892 )

 

[Red]

Can we auto skip Howe? He hasnt made a pick since round 6 and this draft is hardly moving quickly

Howe does this in drafts sometimes.

 

[kingkallis]

CricZo XI

1. Glenn Turner / ( 1969-1983 )
2. -
3. Brian Lara / ( 1990-2006 )
4. Joe Root / ( 2012-2017 )
5. -
6. Denis Lindsay + / ( 1963-1970 )
7. Monty Noble o / ( 1898-1909 )
8. Kapil Dev o / ( 1976-1994 )
9. Bill O’Reilly o ( 1932-1946 )
10. Fred Truman o ( 1952-1965 )
11. JJ Ferris o ( 1887-1892 )

 

[ankitj]

Assuming Howe is auto skipped: randycricfreak > ankitj > mr_mister

 

[randycricfreak]

Daryll Cullinan.

Realised that he never played with Langer

 

[randycricfreak]

Langer
Sutcliffe
Everton Weekes
Cullinan

Shai Hope

Malcolm Marshall
Dale Steyn
Derek Underwood
George Lohmann

 

[ankitj]

Michael Slater who somehow missed meeting both Kallis and Bishop.

Team:

Bruce Mitchell
Michael Slater
Steven Smith (c)
Jacques Kallis (5)
-
Clyde Walcott (+)
-
Mike Procter (2)
Hugh Trumble (4)
Dennis Lillee (1)
Ian Bishop (3)

 

[Red]

Waclott averaged 65 without the gloves and 40 with the gloves.

With Kallis already in your team as a legit fifth bowling option, as well as Smith and Mitchell as PTers, I'd throw Walcott up to four or five and draft a keeper to bat at 7.

 

[ankitj]

Waclott averaged 65 without the gloves and 40 with the gloves.

With Kallis already in your team as a legit fifth bowling option, as well as Smith and Mitchell as PTers, I'd throw Walcott up to four or five and draft a keeper to bat at 7.

At the same time there is temptation to give insane depth to batting (There is Procter as well). I can basically pick anyone as 11th player - batsman, bowler, all-rounder, wicket-keeper. But options are limited given the span of players I have picked already.

 

[mr_mister]

Vinoo Mankad

 

[ankitj]

Vinoo Mankad

Mankad has played with Merchant.

1st Test, India tour of England at London, Jun 22-25 1946 | Match Summary | ESPNCricinfo

 

[mr_mister]

That's annoying. Oh well. Sonny Ramadhin

 

[OverratedSanity]

Younis Khan

 

[AndrewB]

Round 9 order/picks to date:
Red_Hill: Charles Bannerman
Himannv: Arthur Shrewsbury
Slifer: Bob Cowper
JC: Bill Ponsford
AndrewB: Colin Blythe
jimmy101: Frank Woolley
kingkallis: Jack Ferris
Howe_zat
randycricfreak: Daryl Cullinan
ankitj: Michael Slater
mr_mister: Sonny Ramadhin
OverratedSanity: Younis Khan
SillyCowCorner1: Phil Mead
bagapath
vitalogy83

(I'm assuming SillyCowCorner1 is still happy to pick Phil Mead).

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Round 9 order/picks to date:
Red_Hill: Charles Bannerman
Himannv: Arthur Shrewsbury
Slifer: Bob Cowper
JC: Bill Ponsford
AndrewB: Colin Blythe
jimmy101: Frank Woolley
kingkallis: Jack Ferris
Howe_zat
randycricfreak: Daryl Cullinan
ankitj: Michael Slater
mr_mister: Sonny Ramadhin
OverratedSanity: Younis Khan
SillyCowCorner1: Phil Mead
bagapath
vitalogy83

(I'm assuming SillyCowCorner1 is still happy to pick Phil Mead).

Yes sir, Mead is my guy

 

[ankitj]

Bagapath timed out long ago. Vitalogy83 has a double pick.

 

[vitalogy83]

OK I will go with
Zaheer Abbas
Robin Smith

Was surprised to see Abbas had not met Holding.

Jack Hobbs
Stewie Dempster
Vijay Hazare
Zaheer Abbas
Robin Smith
Andy Flower
-
Fred Spofforth
Michael Holding
Rangana Herath
Wes Hall

 

[AndrewB]

Picks to date:
AndrewB: Keith Miller, Shane Warne, Richard Hadlee, Roy Fredericks, Jack Gregory, Ken Barrington, Les Ames, Tom Richardson, Colin Blythe
ankitj: Mike Procter, Dennis Lillee, Jacques Kallis, Steve Smith, Clyde Walcott, Ian Bishop, Bruce Mitchell, Hugh Trumble, Michael Slater
bagapath: George Headley, Aubrey Faulkner, Hugh Tayfield, Frank Worrell, Peter Pollock, Hanif Mohammad, Ryan Harris, Andy Roberts
Himannv: Garry Sobers, Imran Khan, Frank Tyson, Kagiso Rabada, Ricky Ponting, Eddie Barlow, Stan McCabe, Wilfred Rhodes, Arthur Shrewsbury
Howe_zat: Sydney Barnes, Len Hutton, Kumar Sangakkara, Ian Botham, Ranjitsinhji, Maurice Tate
JC: Graeme Pollock, Alan Davidson, Greg Chappell, Wasim Akram, Virender Sehwag, Quinton de Kock, Charlie Turner, Erapalli Prasanna, Bill Ponsford
jimmy101: Barry Richards, Archie Jackson, Viv Richards, Neil Adcock, Rahul Dravid, Bobby Peel, Vinod Kambli, Vernon Philander, Frank Woolley
kingkallis: Bill O'Reilly, Fred Trueman, Brian Lara, Joe Root, Kapil Dev, Glenn Turner, Monty Noble, Denis Lindsay, Jack Ferris
mr_mister: Victor Trumper, Harold Larwood, Ted McDonald, Jack Cowie, Vijay Merchant, Dudley Nourse, Kevin Pietersen, Farokh Engineer, Sonny Ramadhin
OverratedSanity: WG Grace, Clarrie Grimmett, Ray Lindwall, Allan Donald, Javed Miandad, Warwick Armstrong, Martin Donnelly, Herbie Taylor, Younis Khan
randycricfreak: Malcolm Marshall, Dale Steyn, Herbert Sutcliffe, George Lohmann, Derek Underwood, Everton Weekes, Justin Langer, Shai Hope, Darryl Cullinan
Red Hill: Wally Hammond, Glenn McGrath, Joel Garner, David Warner, Richie Benaud, Charlie Macartney, Stanley Jackson, Tim Zoehrer, Charles Bannerman
SillyCowCorner1: Lawrence Rowe, Phil Hughes, Richie Richardson, Marlon Black, Upul Tharanga, Denis Atkinson, Robert Cunis, Billy Barnes, Phil Mead
Slifer: Adam Gilchrist, Curtly Ambrose, Sunil Gavaskar, Arthur Morris, Virat Kohli, Fazal Mahmood, Colin Croft, Hedley Verity, Bob Cowper
vitalogy83: Jack Hobbs, Fred Spofforth, Michael Holding, Rangana Herath, Wes Hall, Vijay Hazare, Stewie Dempster, Andy Flower, Zaheer Abbas

Round 10:
vitalogy83: Robin Smith
bagapath
SillyCowCorner1
OverratedSanity
mr_mister
ankitj
randycricfreak
Howe_zat
kingkallis
jimmy101
AndrewB
JC
Slifer
Himannv
Red_Hill

bagapath missed his Round 9 pick so has a double pick now. Howe_zat is now 3 picks behind (and is auto-skipped until he catches up).