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    Silent Draft

    Round 5 XI to pick from: Virender Sehwag WG Grace Ricky Ponting Graeme Pollock Clyde Walcott Andy Flower Shaun Pollock Wasim Akram Dale Steyn Curtly Ambrose Allan Donald
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    Silent Draft

    A quick round 4 there, and yet again 4 out of the 6 bidders made at least one successful bid. Also, all players so far have been bought by someone; and everyone now has a different number of picks. Round 4 successful bids: mr_mister: Charles Macartney ($42,000), Jack Gregory ($42,000)...
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    Silent Draft

    You're right - I've edited the post to replace him with Charles Macartney.
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    Silent Draft

    Round 4 "between the wars" XI to pick from: Herbert Sutcliffe Bill Ponsford George Headley Charles Macartney Stan McCabe Les Ames Jack Gregory Maurice Tate Wilfred Rhodes Harold Larwood Clarrie Grimmett
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    Silent Draft

    Successful 3rd round bids: mr_mister: Wally Hammond ($88,000), Kumar Sangakkara ($88,000), Dennis Lillee ($88,000) ankitj: Alan Knott ($19,109), Bill O'Reilly ($67,009), Muttiah Muralitharan ($100,018) milenko47: Viv Richards ($126,008), Ray Lindwall ($50,002) Red Hill: Barry Richards...
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    Silent Draft

    I don't want to give away people's strategies at this point, but will publish all the bids at the end. Round 3 bids received from stephen, ankitj, honestbharani and Red Hill.
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    Silent Draft

    In theory it gives people a chance to point out any mistakes I've made, but let's assume I haven't... Round 3 XI to pick from: Barry Richards Sunil Gavaskar Viv Richards Wally Hammond Brian Lara Kumar Sangakkara Alan Knott Ray Lindwall Bill O'Reilly Dennis Lillee Muttiah Muralitharan
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    Silent Draft

    Successful second round bids: stephen: Farokh Engineer ($30,000), Jacques Kallis ($166,000), Keith Miller ($172,000), Ian Botham ($82,000), Imran Khan ($171,000), Richard Hadlee ($186,000) honestbharani: Aubrey Faulkner ($100,000) milenko47: Vinoo Mankad ($10,811) Red Hill: Shakib Al Hasan...
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    Bowling speeds

    It doesn't increase that much: if you model the path travelled by straight lines, the difference in distance between a bouncer and a beamer is about 3%. According to http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/~cross/cricket.html: "Regardless of the speed of the ball when it leaves the bowler's hand, air...
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    Silent Draft

    5 sets of picks received, just mr_mister left.
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    Silent Draft

    OK, here's the Round 2 XI - there weren't many all-rounders available in Round 1, so to make up for it: Vinoo Mankad Farokh Engineer+ Jacques Kallis Aubrey Faulkner Keith Miller Shakib Al Hasan Ian Botham Imran Khan Mike Procter Kapil Dev Richard Hadlee
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    Silent Draft

    I think that makes sense. Successful first round bids: honestbharani: Don Bradman ($300,000), Shane Warne ($100,000). mr_mister: Jack Hobbs ($213,000), Len Hutton ($213,000), Sydney Barnes ($122,000) milenko47: Garry Sobers ($210,000), Adam Gilchrist ($190,000) ankitj: Sachin Tendulkar...
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    Silent Draft

    Yes, from now on please go by the rule (which I should have stated at the start) that all bids must be a whole number of dollars. We can either have a rule that you must leave yourself at least $1 for each gap in your team; or I could just assign unimpressive free players to anyone who bids...
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    Silent Draft

    Received (also milenko47's picks).
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    Novelty XIs Compendium

    Using East Asian currencies (and going back a few years), there's Baht King and Dong Bradman (and Alan Kip-pax). I'm struggling to get anything from the Bhutanese ngultrum.
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    Silent Draft

    Confirm receipt of mr_mister's bids. And I've just noticed (thank you Excel) that honestbharani's bids total more than $1,000,000 - please change your bids!
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    The ATG Teams General arguing/discussing thread (white ball edition)

    Hard to argue against Greenidge and Haynes as openers, but Gooch and Turner had better averages and strike-rates (though in far fewer games). I'd like to get Zaheer into the team, though again it's hard to argue against any of Richards/Chappell/Lloyd. And I'd pick Hadlee ahead of Lillee.
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    Silent Draft

    Can confirm it arrived, so I've put the right e-mail address :)
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    Silent Draft

    OK, 6 drafters should be enough - if anyone else wants to join in before Round 1 is complete, please feel free. The XI to pick from in Round 1 is as follows: Jack Hobbs Len Hutton Don Bradman Sachin Tendulkar Steve Smith Garry Sobers Adam Gilchrist Shane Warne Malcolm Marshall Sydney Barnes...
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    The ATG Teams General arguing/discussing thread (white ball edition)

    The flip side of this argument is that on average Symonds batted for 34 balls and scored 32, while Flintoff batted for 32 balls and scored 28. And batting at 7, they'd face fewer balls than that, so the difference between them as #7 batsmen is about 2 or 3 runs per innings.

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