The Building Blocks Draft

[Teuton]

Final XI

Graeme Smith

Alastair Cook

David Gower

Patsy Hendren

Dean Jones

Les Ames

Andrew Flintoff

Johnny Wardle

Wes Hall

John Snow

Emanul Haque

I decided to compensate for my worst player by making him 5th bowler/2nd spinner/11th batsman using Ames and Flintoff.
Great opening bats, good middle order, good pace attack, and a legit spinner without any of the the elite ATGs.

 

[ataraxia]

Final XI

Graeme Smith

Alastair Cook

David Gower

Patsy Hendren

Dean Jones

Les Ames

Andrew Flintoff

Johnny Wardle

Wes Hall

John Snow

Emanul Haque

I decided to compensate for my worst player by making him 5th bowler/2nd spinner/11th batsman using Ames and Flintoff.
Great opening bats, good middle order, good pace attack, and a legit spinner without any of the the elite ATGs.

Which Enamul Haque is it anyway lol

 

[kingkallis]

Gutsy Graham Thorpe to complete my team

Spinners XI

Arthur Morris /
Graham Gooch / (c)
Frank Woolley / o (4)
Graham Thorpe /
Doug Walters / o (7)
Brendon McCullum + /
Kapil Dev o / (2)
Mitchell Santner / o (5)
Ian Salisbury o / (6)
Ray Lindwall o / (1)
Bill O'Reilly o (3)

McCullum is one spot higher but thats because I was gifted Salisbury & Santner. 2 additional spinners to my champion O'Reilly.

Despite that, I am happy to have strong openers, fantastic middle order, decent pace attack and pretty solid spinners. I doubt anyone comes closer to this team in the sub-continent.

 

[Teuton]

Which Enamul Haque is it anyway lol

Haha - would have to ask the person that nominated him. I think they are both spinners? Fair to say i (like most teams) am more or less playing with 10.

 

[CricAddict]

Haha - would have to ask the person that nominated him. I think they are both spinners? Fair to say i (like most teams) am more or less playing with 10.

Enamul Haque sr. You are welcome

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[Pothas]

Thorpe another one i missed

 

[Pothas]

Sunil Gavaskar
Usman Khawaja
Kane Williamson
Aravinda de Silva
Clive Lloyd*
Mushtaq Muhammad
Kamran Akmal+
Graeme Swann
Andy Roberts
Dale Steyn
Alec Bedser

May have one or two issues behind the stumps but apart from that it worked out alright I guess.

 

[Himannv]

Thorpe another one i missed

I wanted to pick him and totally forgot due to how long it took for my turn to come up.

 

[trundler]

I'd have picked Mankad to open instead of Cowie if I'd remembered that I have Wasim. Oh well.

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

Hi all, thanks for participating in the draft. I will post a voting thread. Think @Patience and Accuracy+Gut couldn’t finish the draft so will post the thread without his team. If he completes then I will add him in the poll later. Cheers.

 

[Patience and Accuracy+Gut]

Hi all, thanks for participating in the draft. I will post a voting thread. Think @Patience and Accuracy+Gut couldn’t finish the draft so will post the thread without his team. If he completes then I will add him in the poll later. Cheers.

Completely forgot about this draft I think I have 2 players to pick,will be really helpful if anyone can confirm.Will pick in a hour.

 

[Patience and Accuracy+Gut]

Herbie Taylor to complete the team

Herbert Sutcliffe
Vinoo Mankad (5)
Charlie McCartney
Shivnarine Chanderpaul
Herbie Taylor
Norm O’Neill
Keith Miller (2)
Ian Healy+
Trevor Goddard (4)
Frank Foster (1)
Shoaib Akhtar (3)

 

[ataraxia]

1 Bill Lawry /
2 Gary Kirsten /
3 Zaheer Abbas /
4 Ross Taylor* /
5 Mohammad Yousuf /
6 Rishabh Pant + /
7 Jack Gregory o /
8 Peter Pollock o /
9 Shane Warne o
10 Ashley Mallett o
11 Allan Donald o

Not awful, but peppered with ATVGs.

 

[Krypto]

My best attempt so far , not saying much as only my second completed draft . Solid batting , great fielding , top strike bowling , wide range of bowling to suite conditions , can play anywhere in the world , strong in their specialization within team not out of place , left hand right hand options , Propper cricketing minds and leaders, great stories and characters etc Ticks all the right boxes for me personally . Had a lot of fun, thank you AndyZatlzHair for hosting and all your effort , also thank you to those who jumped in and helped . Really appreciate it .

1)	Barry Richards
2)	Herschelle Gibbs
3)	Ted Dexter (A/R)
4)	Mahela Jayawardene
5)	Michael Clarke
6)	Adam Gilchrist (W/K)
7)	Brian McMillan(A/R)
8)	Mitchell Johnson
9)	Lasith Malinga
10)	Colin Croft
11)	Bert Ironmonger

 

[Line and Length]

@AndyZaltzHair This was a challenging and interesting draft. Many thanks. Can we have the voting stage soon?