Alphabetic draft

[Pothas]

Muttiah Muralitharan

 

[stephen]

I might be taking drafting too seriously if I'm up at 5 to make my pick as soon as possible

Haha. I'm glad people are having fun. The thing I like about this draft is that you can't just draft Sobers, Gilchrist, Marshall, Murali, Warne, Hobbs, Hutton etc in the first round. You also can't really just wait until the last round to draft a non-Gilchrist keeper either. You have to manage team balance with getting the names you want with making sure you're in a good position to have good players everywhere in your team.

 

[stephen]

Muttiah Muralitharan

From now on I'm calling this move the Inzi slingshot. Beautiful drafting.

 

[stephen]

Teuton - James Anderson, Bishan Bedi, Denis Compton, MS Dhoni, Richard Hadlee, Javed Miandad
Honestbharani - ​Neil Adcock, ​Eddie Barlow, AB de Villiers, Joel Garner, Jacques Kallis
Milenko47 - Abdul Qadir, Allan Border, Michael Clarke, Sunil Gavaskar, Wally Hammond, Allan Knott
Stephen - Ken Barrington, Rahul Dravid, Clarrie Grimmett, Michael Holding, Virat Kohli
AndrewB - Curtly Ambrose, Richie Benaud, Alan Davidson, Jack Hobbs, Brian Lara
Michaelf7777777 - Les Ames, Greg Chappell, Aubrey Faulkner, WG Grace, George Headley, Dennis Lillee
Red Hill - Ian Botham, Adam Gilchrist, Wes Hall, Glenn McGrath
AndyZaltzHair - Don Bradman, Mahmudullah
Trundler - Warwick Armstrong, Geoff Boycott, Jock Cameron, Andy Flower, Imran Khan, Malcolm Marshall
Pothas - SF Barnes, Allan Donald, Len Hutton, Inzamam-ul-Haq, Muttiah Muralitharan

 

[ataraxia]

From now on I'm calling this move the Inzi slingshot. Beautiful drafting.

I'd love using this with Lee Irvine.

 

[Teuton]

Keith Miller

 

[stephen]

Keith Miller

Damn

 

[stephen]

Hb -> Milenko -> Stephen

 

[ataraxia]

Damn

Same lol.

 

[ataraxia]

I'm surprised that Kumble went untaken.

 

[stephen]

I'm surprised that Kumble went untaken.

People may have been hanging out to try and snag Murali. There's a few other spinner options which are on letters that have little other great players as well, so they're potentially targets. Myself, I took Grimmett, who is probably top 5 overall so I'm happy.

 

[stephen]

There were some other early names that didn't go which I was a little surprised about. Hayden. Greenidge. Healy. Chanderpaul. Crowe. Greig. Harvey. Haynes. Hussey.

 

[ataraxia]

There were some other early names that didn't go which I was a little surprised about. Hayden. Greenidge. Healy. Chanderpaul. Crowe. Greig. Harvey. Haynes. Hussey.

I probably should have taken Chanders instead of Clarke. I'm annoyed I took Qadir now.

 

[stephen]

I probably should have taken Chanders instead of Clarke. I'm annoyed I took Qadir now.

I went with Dravid but I could have picked up Cummins or Croft before that at no extra cost really.

 

[stephen]

I really like that we can be discussing missed opportunities or mistakes part way through a draft because nobody can take those players now.

 

[honestbharani]

​Jim Laker

 

[stephen]

Milenko47 - Abdul Qadir, Allan Border, Michael Clarke, Sunil Gavaskar, Wally Hammond, Allan Knott
Stephen - Ken Barrington, Rahul Dravid, Clarrie Grimmett, Michael Holding, Virat Kohli
Honestbharani - ​Neil Adcock, ​Eddie Barlow, AB de Villiers, Joel Garner, Jacques Kallis, ​Jim Laker
AndrewB - Curtly Ambrose, Richie Benaud, Alan Davidson, Jack Hobbs, Brian Lara
Michaelf7777777 - Les Ames, Greg Chappell, Aubrey Faulkner, WG Grace, George Headley, Dennis Lillee
Red Hill - Ian Botham, Adam Gilchrist, Wes Hall, Glenn McGrath
AndyZaltzHair - Don Bradman, Mahmudullah
Trundler - Warwick Armstrong, Geoff Boycott, Jock Cameron, Andy Flower, Imran Khan, Malcolm Marshall
Teuton - James Anderson, Bishan Bedi, Denis Compton, MS Dhoni, Richard Hadlee, Javed Miandad, Keith Miller
Pothas - SF Barnes, Allan Donald, Len Hutton, Inzamam-ul-Haq, Muttiah Muralitharan

 

[ataraxia]

Ray Lindwall

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1. SM Gavaskar /
2.
3. WR Hammond / pt
4. AR Border* / pt
5. MJ Clarke / pt
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7. APE Knott + /
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9. RR Lindwall o /
10. AQ Khan o
11.

 

[stephen]

Ray Lindwall

You take that back. He was mine damn it!

 

[ataraxia]

You take that back. He was mine damn it!

Yeah he's the only good player for a long while in the draft, sorry.