Silent Draft

[honestbharani]

Coz we don't know who is gonna come up? And there is a chance that you get to fill your boots in with some ATGs next round when we are all basically done with our XIs...

 

[ankitj]

AndrewB is going progressively down from top tiers to next. If it was bit randomized, would have been fun. The inter-war round was good fun. Some of you ended up with players that you would rather give up for others in subsequent rounds.

 

[AndrewB]

Round 6 successful bids:
honestbharani: Alan Davidson ($80,000), Fred Trueman ($80,000)
stephen: Arthur Morris ($9,000), Everton Weekes ($9,000), Richie Benaud ($45,000)
mr_mister: Hugh Tayfield ($27,000)
ankitj: Frank Worrell ($2,536)

Nobody bid for Hanif Mohammad, Neil Harvey, John Waite, or Jim Laker.

Picks to date:
honestbharani: (10): Don Bradman, Shane Warne, Aubrey Faulkner, George Headley, Virender Sehwag, WG Grace, Clyde Walcott, Shaun Pollock, Alan Davidson, Fred Trueman : $105,000 remaining
mr_mister: (11): Jack Hobbs, Len Hutton, Sydney Barnes, Wally Hammond, Kumar Sangakkara, Dennis Lillee, Charles Macartney, Jack Gregory, Andy Flower, Allan Donald, Hugh Tayfield
milenko47: (11): Garry Sobers, Adam Gilchrist, Vinoo Mankad, Viv Richards, Ray Lindwall, Herbert Sutcliffe, Bill Ponsford, Maurice Tate, Wilfred Rhodes, Clarrie Grimmett, Graeme Pollock
ankitj : (8): Sachin Tendulkar, Steve Smith, Malcolm Marshall, Glenn McGrath, Alan Knott, Bill O'Reilly, Muttiah Muralitharan, Frank Worrell : $6,112 remaining
Red Hill: (12): Shakib Al Hasan, Mike Procter, Kapil Dev, Barry Richards, Sunil Gavaskar, Brian Lara, Stan McCabe, Les Ames, Harold Larwood, Wasim Akram, Dale Steyn, Curtly Ambrose
stephen: (9): Farokh Engineer, Jacques Kallis, Keith Miller, Ian Botham, Imran Khan, Richard Hadlee, Arthur Morris, Everton Weekes, Richie Benaud : $130,000 remaining

 

[AndrewB]

Round 7 Xi to pick from:

Matthew Hayden
Stewie Dempster
Rahul Dravid
Ken Barrington
Younis Khan
AB de Villiers
Ravi Ashwin
George Lohmann
Fazal Mahmood
Joel Garner
Waqar Younis

 

[Red]

Then I wouldn't have bid all mine for Pollock. A bit late.

I think we should stick with the original rules. Choose once of the ones just picked to discard.

That won't be fair

Fair enough. I'll drop Steyn purely because I think he's more similar to both Procter and Larwood than Ambrose and Wasim, and those two will give me more variety.

Sunil Gavaskar
Barry Richards
Brian Lara
Stan McCabe
Shakib Al Hasan
Les Ames +
Mike Procter
Kapil Dev
Wasim Akram
Harold Larwood
Curtly Ambrose

That's a hell of a 5 man pace battery with good support from spinning Shakib and med pace McCabe. Strong batting with the all-rounders. Good fun draft, thanks Andrew.

 

[stephen]

Stephen's superstars:


Morris
.
Weekes
Kallis
.
Miller
Botham
Imran
Engineer+
Benaud
Hadlee

 

[stephen]

Sent

 

[mr_mister]

Jack Hobbs
Len Hutton *
Wally Hammond 7
Kumar Sangakkarra +
Andy Flower
Charlie McCartney 6
Jack Gregory 4
Hugh Tayfield 5
Dennis Lillee 1
Sydney Barnes 3
Allan Donald 2



First time I've ever nailed the 3 Hs

 

[ankitj]

Overpriced XI:

–
–
Steven Smith
Sachin Tendulkar
Frank Worrell [5] *
–
Allan Knott +
Malcolm Marshall [1]
Bill O'Reilly [3]
Muttiah Muralitharan [4]
Glenn McGrath [2]

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

What a smack dang team so far.

 

[stephen]

Jack Hobbs
Len Hutton *
Wally Hammond 7
Kumar Sangakkarra +
Andy Flower
Charlie McCartney 6
Jack Gregory 4
Hugh Tayfield 5
Dennis Lillee 1
Sydney Barnes 3
Allan Donald 2



First time I've ever nailed the 3 Hs

I really like your top 4.

 

[stephen]

Overpriced XI:

–
–
Steven Smith
Sachin Tendulkar
Frank Worrell [5] +
–
Allan Knott +
Malcolm Marshall [1]
Bill O'Reilly [3]
Muttiah Muralitharan [4[
Glenn McGrath [2]

Ain't nobody gonna beat your bowling attack.

 

[stephen]

Fair enough. I'll drop Steyn purely because I think he's more similar to both Procter and Larwood than Ambrose and Wasim, and those two will give me more variety.

Sunil Gavaskar
Barry Richards
Brian Lara
Stan McCabe
Shakib Al Hasan
Les Ames +
Mike Procter
Kapil Dev
Wasim Akram
Harold Larwood
Curtly Ambrose

That's a hell of a 5 man pace battery with good support from spinning Shakib and med pace McCabe. Strong batting with the all-rounders. Good fun draft, thanks Andrew.

Not the most balanced side but outside the subcontinent that bowling attack would be lethal.

 

[stephen]

Sent.

 

[stephen]

Honestly I can't see anyone beating hb in this.

 

[honestbharani]

Honest Hunks


WG Grace (vc)
Virender Sehwag
Don Bradman (c)
George Headley
Clyde Walcott (wk)
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Aubrey Faulkner
Shaun Pollock
Alan Davidson
Shane Warne
Fred Trueman

 

[honestbharani]

Honestly I can't see anyone beating hb in this.

Thanks. Definitely one of the strongest sides I have ever drafted. I like the amount of bowling options I will have too.

 

[stephen]

Thanks. Definitely one of the strongest sides I have ever drafted. I like the amount of bowling options I will have too.

Grabbing the best batsman and best leg spinner in history for the price of roughly 4 players helped a lot.

But we all have strong sides in this simply due to the lack of players.

 

[ankitj]

Yeah, HB is running away with it. Although I am happy too with my team so far especially how I was strapped for money. Funny thing that happened with me is that when I bid to grab at least one of 2 players, I got both. Happened thrice. Wanted one of McGrath or Marshall, got both. Wanted one of Smith and Tendulkar, got both. Wanted one of Murali and O'Reilly, got both!

 

[stephen]

Yeah well I ended up with 5 bowling all rounders when I only intended to get two. I got my sixth (Benaud) over Laker because I felt it reflected the team better.