The "What Is He Smoking" Draft

[kingkallis]

Len Hutton is in the banned list so I am changing my pick to Richie Benaud.

 

[stephen]

Round 4:
ankitj - Waqar Younis
JOJOXI - Clarrie Grimmett
ataraxia - Shane Warne
srbhkshk - Rahul Dravid
weeman27bob - Garfield Sobers
Michaelf7777777 - Les Ames
Marcuss - Kumar Sangakkara
trundler - Jim Laker
Himannv - Graeme Pollock
AndrewB - Clyde Walcott
kingkallis - Richie Benaud
Pothas - Harold Larwood
Morgieb - Herb Sutcliffe
honestbharani - Simon Katich

Banned players:

Glenn McGrath, Don Bradman, Imran Khan, Garfield Sobers, Steve Smith, Adam Gilchrist, Malcolm Marshall, Shakib Al Hasan, Richard Hadlee, Keith Miller, Jack Hobbs, W. G. Grace, Jacques Kallis, Sydney Barnes, Brian Lara, Len Hutton, Aubrey Faulkner, Fred Trueman, Sachin Tendulkar, Barry Richards, Ian Botham, Wally Hammond, Viv Richards

 

[stephen]

The teams so far:

kingkallis

Himmanv

srbhkshk

Ataraxia

weeman27bob

Jojoxi

MorgieB

HonestBharani

AndrewB

Trundler

Pothas

Michaelf7777777

Marcuss

ankitj

Curtly Ambrose

Dale Steyn

*Gordon Greenidge

*Qasim Umar

*Corey Anderson

Kapil Dev

*Virender Sehwag

*Ross Edwards

*Sunil Gavaskar

*John Snow

*Rohan Kanhai

*Neville Quinn

Murali

Bill O'Reilly

George Headley

Joel Garner

Courtney Walsh

Alan Davidson

Andy Flower

Virat Kohli

Wasim Akram

Mike Procter

Ray Lindwall

Allan Donald

Michael Holding

Shaun Pollock

Dennis Lillee

Denis Compton

 

[Pothas]

Harold Larwood

 

[stephen]

Just waiting for @morgieb and @honestbharani for this round.

 

[morgieb]

Herb Sutcliffe

 

[honestbharani]

Simon Katich

 

[stephen]

Round 4 (3rd actual selection - and it'll be referred to by this number from now on) rules:

It's time to pick wicket keepers. Players picked must have at least one wicket keeping dismissal in tests. Incorrect selections will get substituted for the first eligible player in alphabetical order after the player selected.

Some of you really got into the spirit of the round. Thank you Michaelf7777777, Marcuss and AndrewB. To the rest, better luck next time.

Here are the teams after round 3:

	1	2	3
kingkallis	Curtly Ambrose	George Headley	*Jimmy Binks
Himmanv	Dale Steyn	Joel Garner	*Ollie Pope
srbhkshk	*Gordon Greenidge	Courtney Walsh	*George Duckworth
Ataraxia	*Qasim Umar	Alan Davidson	*Wasim Bari
weeman27bob	*Corey Anderson	Andy Flower	*Dick Spooner
Jojoxi	Kapil Dev	Virat Kohli	*Wally Grout
MorgieB	*Virender Sehwag	Wasim Akram	*Roy Swetman
HonestBharani	*Ross Edwards	Mike Procter	*James Kelly
AndrewB	*Sunil Gavaskar	Ray Lindwall	Clyde Walcott
Trundler	*John Snow	Allan Donald	*Gil Langley
Pothas	*Rohan Kanhai	Michael Holding	*Warren Lees
Michaelf7777777	*Neville Quinn	Shaun Pollock	Les Ames
Marcuss	Muttiah Muralitharan	Dennis Lillee	Kumar Sangakkara
ankitj	Bill O'Reilly	Denis Compton	*John Ward

Weeman obviously with the pick of the round.
Marcuss the only player so far not to have picked an invalid player.

The new banlist:

Glenn McGrath, Don Bradman, Imran Khan, Garfield Sobers, Steve Smith, Adam Gilchrist, Malcolm Marshall, Shakib Al Hasan, Richard Hadlee, Keith Miller, Jack Hobbs, W. G. Grace, Jacques Kallis, Sydney Barnes, Brian Lara, Len Hutton, Aubrey Faulkner, Fred Trueman, Sachin Tendulkar, Barry Richards, Ian Botham, Wally Hammond, Viv Richards, Richie Benaud, Graeme Pollock, Rahul Dravid, Shane Warne, Clarrie Grimmett, Jim Laker, Waqar Younis, Harold Larwood, Simon Katich

Round 4 order:

honestbharani - David Boon
@morgieb
Pothas - Ken Barrington
@kingkallis
AndrewB
Himannv
trundler
Marcuss
Michaelf7777777
weeman27bob
srbhkshk
ataraxia
JOJOXI
ankitj

 

[honestbharani]

David Boon

 

[srbhkshk]

Let it be known to people that Duckworth is no bad selection -

George Duckworth, who died on January 5, aged 64, was an outstanding character in first-class cricket in the period between the two World Wars, a time when the game possessed far more players of popular personality than at the present time. Small of stature, but big of heart and voice, Duckworth used an "Owzat" shout of such piercing quality and volume that his appeal alone would have made him a figure to be remembered.

 

[trundler]

Langley was an able stumper too. Wasn't noticed much, which for a keeper is a good quality.

 

[weeman27bob]

Dick Spooner doesn't sound horrendous. Also has the bonus of getting me kudos for the comedy name. What's not to love.

 

[honestbharani]

James Kelly.. WTF? Jake Smelly more like..........

 

[ankitj]

Gonna vote of for team that has Dick Spooner

 

[kingkallis]

To be honest, I had never heard about Binks before but the guy has over 1000 FC dismissals, cant be that bad. Infact he did very well in those 2 games he played.

 

[stephen]

Dick Spooner doesn't sound horrendous. Also has the bonus of getting me kudos for the comedy name. What's not to love.

I was laughing out loud when I saw you were getting Dick Spooner. It's such a delightfully hilarious name.

 

[stephen]

James Kelly.. WTF? Jake Smelly more like..........

You have been royally screwed by your replacements so far.

 

[ataraxia]

another Pakistani, ffs. One's enough, surely...

 

[stephen]

another Pakistani, ffs. One's enough, surely...

At least Wasim Bari was an excellent gloveman.

 

[stephen]

@morgieb has timed out, @Pothas is up.