Alphabet draft - the first letter of your XIs first/last names need to be 22 unique -

[MrPrez]

Sorry, didn't realise I was up.

Dale Steyn

1.
2.
3. Brian Lara
4. Ranji
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10. Dale Steyn
11. Muttiah Muralitharan

 

[mr_mister]

Round 1:

AndrewB: Imran Khan
Mr Prez: Muttiah Muralitharan
trundler: Garfield Sobers
Red Hill: Viv Richards
morgieb: Richard Hadlee
Test_Fan_Only: Malcolm Marshall
Teuton: Waqar Younis
mr_mister: Sachin Tendulkar
ankitj: Fred Trueman
Michaelf777777: WG Grace
Sillycowcorner1: Wes Hall

Round 2

Sillycowcorner1: Rohan Kanhai
Michaelf777777: Steve Smith
ankitj: Jacques Kallis
mr_mister: Bill O'Reilly
Teuton: Virat Kohli
Test_Fan_Only: Colin Cowdrey
morgieb: Graeme Pollock
Red Hill: Glen McGrath
trundler: Jack Hobbs
Mr Prez: Ranji
AndrewB: Zaheer Abbas

Round 3:

SillyCowCorner1: Justin Langer
ankitj: Richie Richardson
Teuton: Gordon Greenidge
morgieb: Shane Warne
mr_mister: Len Hutton
Test_Fan_Only: Herbert Sutcliffe
Michaelf77777: Peter Pollock
trundler: Victor Trumper
Red Hill: Bishen Bedi
Mr Prez: Brian Lara
AndrewB: Quinton De Kock

Round 4:

AndrewB: Graham Gooch
MrPrez: Dale Steyn
Red Hill: Chris Cairns
trundler: Wasim Akram
Michaelf77777: Mustaq Mohammed
Test_Fan_Only:
mr_mister:
morgieb:
Teuton:
ankitj:
SillyCowCorner1:

 

[Test_Fan_Only]

Inzamam-Ul-Haq

1. Herbert Sutcliffe
2.
3.
4.Colin Cowdrey
5. Inzamam-ul-Haq
6.
7.
8. Malcolm Marshall
9.
10.
11

 

[mr_mister]

Vince Van Der Bijl

 

[trundler]

Vince Van Der Bijl

I suspected he's the reason the minimum tests played requirement was lifted.

 

[mr_mister]

I suspected he's the reason the minimum tests played requirement was lifted.

No, not particularly. I'm anticipating total chaos in round 11 so itl be good to have FC legends available

 

[Test_Fan_Only]

Never heard of this Vince character, but isn't it handy the rules were specifically specified so that he counts as a VV, not a VB.

 

[mr_mister]

I mean, his surname is Van der Bilj. Like Fleetwood-smith and De Villiers. It'd be weird otherwise..

 

[morgieb]

Allan Border

 

[Teuton]

Ian Botham

 

[ankitj]

Derek Underwood

 

[trundler]

Derek Underwood

****

 

[mr_mister]

Round 1:

AndrewB: Imran Khan
Mr Prez: Muttiah Muralitharan
trundler: Garfield Sobers
Red Hill: Viv Richards
morgieb: Richard Hadlee
Test_Fan_Only: Malcolm Marshall
Teuton: Waqar Younis
mr_mister: Sachin Tendulkar
ankitj: Fred Trueman
Michaelf777777: WG Grace
Sillycowcorner1: Wes Hall

Round 2

Sillycowcorner1: Rohan Kanhai
Michaelf777777: Steve Smith
ankitj: Jacques Kallis
mr_mister: Bill O'Reilly
Teuton: Virat Kohli
Test_Fan_Only: Colin Cowdrey
morgieb: Graeme Pollock
Red Hill: Glen McGrath
trundler: Jack Hobbs
Mr Prez: Ranji
AndrewB: Zaheer Abbas

Round 3:

SillyCowCorner1: Justin Langer
ankitj: Richie Richardson
Teuton: Gordon Greenidge
morgieb: Shane Warne
mr_mister: Len Hutton
Test_Fan_Only: Herbert Sutcliffe
Michaelf77777: Peter Pollock
trundler: Victor Trumper
Red Hill: Bishen Bedi
Mr Prez: Brian Lara
AndrewB: Quinton De Kock

Round 4:

AndrewB: Graham Gooch
MrPrez: Dale Steyn
Red Hill: Chris Cairns
trundler: Wasim Akram
Michaelf77777: Mustaq Mohammed
Test_Fan_Only: Inzamam-ul-Haq
mr_mister: Vince van der Bijl
morgieb: Allan Border
Teuton: Ian Botham
ankitj: Derek Underwood
SillyCowCorner1:

 

[mr_mister]

Round 5:

MrPrez:
ankitj:
Teuton:
trundler:
SillyCowCorner1:
AndrewB:
Red Hill:
Michaelf77777:
mr_mister:
Test_Fan_Only:
morgieb:

 

[Test_Fan_Only]

mr_mister,
I see you have written Inzamam-ul-Haq,the cricinfo way of writing it, which we are following, as Izamam Ul Haq as though it is three names not the one name as written by cricinfo. It means Inzamam-ul-Haq should only count as using one letter, the i at the start of the name. His full name is actually Syed Inzamam-ul-Haq according to his wikipedia page although cricinfo does not have Syed mentioned at all.

 

[mr_mister]

Oh okay, slipped my mind. I thought you were grabbing him to use up a 'U' as well, since that appears to be a hard letter to fill..

So he will count as just an 'I' then.

 

[Test_Fan_Only]

Oh okay, slipped my mind. I thought you were grabbing him to use up a 'U' as well, since that appears to be a hard letter to fill..

So he will count as just an 'I' then.

Okay, thank you. As for the U you will have to wait and see on that one.

 

[Red]

mr_mister,
I see you have written Inzamam-ul-Haq,the cricinfo way of writing it, which we are following, as Izamam Ul Haq as though it is three names not the one name as written by cricinfo. It means Inzamam-ul-Haq should only count as using one letter, the i at the start of the name. His full name is actually Syed Inzamam-ul-Haq according to his wikipedia page although cricinfo does not have Syed mentioned at all.

Nah.

"Inzamam" is listed as a boy's name (as in a first/given name or "Christian" (in the western world) sense) everywhere on-line, and Ul Haq is listed as a "surname" meaning "the truth".

Inzamam-ul-Haq uses both "I" and "U". "Inzamam Ul Haq" (as one word) is not his surname or family name.

 

[Test_Fan_Only]

I think we are now on 8 hours per pick and SillyCowCorner1 and MrPrez have timed out. That means it is ankitj's turn. Sorry if this is wrong.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

How many picks am I missing guys?

I will make up within the next 24 hours.