The "What Is He Smoking" Draft

[weeman27bob]

Just @trundler to finish things off I think?

 

[trundler]

Walsh

 

[stephen]

Round 8:

I have decided that you were all getting a little too comfortable selecting players from the same few countries.

Select a player from a country you've not got any players from. Ineligible selections will be replaced with the first player after your selection in alphabetical order who meets the requirements and has played 10 tests or more.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
kingkallis	Curtly Ambrose	George Headley	*Jimmy Binks	*Reg Simpson	*Geoff Lawson	Graeme Smith	*Budhi Kunderan	*Shabbir Ahmed
Himmanv	Dale Steyn	Joel Garner	*Ollie Pope	*Everton Weekes	*Morne Morkel	*Matt Poore	*Wahab Riaz	Mike Hussey
srbhkshk	*Gordon Greenidge	Courtney Walsh	*George Duckworth	*Bert Vogler	Pat Cummins	Inzamam-ul-Haq	Anil Kumble	*BJ Watling
Ataraxia	*Qasim Umar	Alan Davidson	*Wasim Bari	Alec Bedser	Jack Gregory	Vinoo Mankad	Peter May	*Cuan McCarthy
weeman27bob	*Corey Anderson	Andy Flower	*Dick Spooner	*George Geary	*Graeme Swann	*Seymour Nurse	*Mushtaq Ali	Ellyse Perry
Jojoxi	Kapil Dev	Virat Kohli	*Wally Grout	Frank Worrell	Mitchell Starc	Charles Macartney	*Shoaib Malik	Hugh Tayfield
MorgieB	*Virender Sehwag	Wasim Akram	*Roy Swetman	*Harry Boyle	*Daniel Vettori	*Nafeez Iqbal	*Bob Woolmer	*Shanthakumaran Sreesanth
HonestBharani	*Ross Edwards	Mike Procter	*James Kelly	*Bill Bowes	Ben Stokes	Shane Watson	*Haseeb Ahsan	*Ruwan Kalpage
AndrewB	*Sunil Gavaskar	Ray Lindwall	Clyde Walcott	Maurice Tate	Tony Greig	*Craig Wishart	*Frank Woolley	*Shane Thomson
Trundler	*John Snow	Allan Donald	*Gil Langley	*Billy Zulch	*Taijul Islam	*Kerry O'Keefe	Mustaq Ahmed	*Malinda Warnapura
Pothas	*Rohan Kanhai	Michael Holding	*Warren Lees	*Ivan Barrow	*Roy Gilchrist	*Cheteshwar Pujara	*Larry Gomes	*Eddo Brandes
Michaelf7777777	*Neville Quinn	Shaun Pollock	Les Ames	Victor Trumper	Wilfred Rhodes	*Daryll Cullinan	Neil Wagner	*Basit Ali
Marcuss	Muttiah Muralitharan	Dennis Lillee	Kumar Sangakkara	*Tommy Andrews	Andy Roberts	Geoffrey Boycott	Trevor Goddard	*Rusi Modi
ankitj	Bill O'Reilly	Denis Compton	*John Ward	Herbert Sutcliffe	Neil Adcock	AB de Villiers	Shoaib Ahktar	*Vijay Hazare

I love that Ellyse Perry got through.

srbhkshk now has two wicket keepers. He'll need to decide who takes the gloves. I'm not sure why he wants two keepers :P

Ban list:

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, David Boon, Allan Border, Ken Barrington, Bob Simpson, Steve Waugh, Younis Khan, James Anderson, Adam Voges, Arthur Morris, Greg Chappell, Tamim Iqbal, Javed Miandad, Bill Ponsford, Ravi Bopara,
Ricky Ponting, Marcus North, Mushtaq Mohammad, Kane Williamson, Dudley Nourse, Derek Pringle, Martin Crowe,
Stuart Binny, Neil Harvey, Sam Curran, Michael Clarke, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Virender Sehwag, Dave Warner, Stan McCabe, Fred Spofforth, Jeff Thomson, Bruce Mitchell, Matthew Hayden, Sid Barnes

Round 9 is a free for all round.

Trundler - Bill Woodfull
Himannv - Conrad Hunte
Jojoxi - Bill Brown
weeman27bob - Andre Nel
HonestBharani - Neil Johnson
Pothas - Don Bradman
Kingkallis - Hedley Verity
Ataraxia - Mahela Jayawardene
AndrewB - Jasprit Bumrah
Michaelf7777777 - George Hirst
srbhkshk - Clive Lloyd
morgieb - Mark Taylor
ankitj - Andrew Flintoff
@Marcuss -

 

[trundler]

I don't even know how to balance that team

 

[trundler]

Bill Woodfull

 

[stephen]

I don't even know how to balance that team

You've got a gun bowling attack.

And you actually picked Walsh this time, so you've only really got yourself to blame

 

[JOJOXI]

Courtney Walsh in 2 teams?

 

[stephen]

Courtney Walsh in 2 teams?

Good pickup. Sorry, I'll have to fix Trundler's team.

Walsh being invalid, Trundler's next valid player is Malinda Warnapura. At least he's a batter.

 

[Himannv]

Conrad Hunte

 

[JOJOXI]

Bill Brown

 

[weeman27bob]

Andre Nel

Given the lack of quality in my team, I need to cram as many players in as possible so I'm going to get him and his alter-ego Gunther

 

[honestbharani]

Neil Johnson

 

[Pothas]

Don Bradman

 

[kingkallis]

Hedley Verity

 

[ataraxia]

lol at morgieb's horrible streak... the only time he followed the rules was when it was impossible not to...

 

[ataraxia]

Mahela Jayawardene

1)
2) Vinoo Mankad o /
3) Qasim Umar /
4) Peter May* /
5)
6)
7) Jack Gregory o /
8) Alan Davidson o /
9) Wasim Bari + /
10) Alec Bedser o
11) Cuan McCarthy o

I need three batsmen... this isn't going to go well...

 

[AndrewB]

Jasprit Bumrah

 

[stephen]

lol at morgieb's horrible streak... the only time he followed the rules was when it was impossible not to...

The funniest thing is that many of the rounds have basically been a 50/50 shot. Dreadfully unlucky.

 

[stephen]

I need three batsmen... this isn't going to go well...

You might be surprised. You probably won't, but you might be.

 

[stephen]

I've been compiling the results. I expect some eyebrows to be raised when they're revealed.