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    Same Name Draft

    Apologies - I've edited the post and you are now first to pick.
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    Same Name Draft

    Round 1 draw: trundler Michaelf7777777 Teuton Red Hill jimmy101 The Battlers Prince Himannv fredfertang Good Areas Shane mr_mister kingkallis AndrewB SillyCowCorner1 12 hours for Round 1 picks; 8 hours for every later round. As usual, Rounds 2, 4 and 6 will follow the reverse order from...
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    Draft - XIs will be made up of players from 2 chosen countries

    Ian Healy Barry Richards Arthur Morris Jacques Kallis Stan McCabe Allan Border Aubrey Faulkner Monty Noble* Shaun Pollock Ian Healy+ Ray Lindwall Kagiso Rabada
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    England’s best-ever Test XI – ECB survey

    Are you allowed to specify that you want "early-career Botham" (say 1977-81), when he was a terrific swing bowler (200 wickets at 21) but less consistent as a batsman? If so. you could bring in Stanley Jackson for Larwood, open the bowling with Trueman and Barnes, and have Botham and...
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    Same Name Draft

    No.
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    Worst Player to Play 100 Tests?

    Yes, he had some decent series against West Indies - he averaged 56 in 1993-4, 40 in 1995 and 34 in a very low-scoring series in 2000 (while failing in 1991 and 1997-8) Against the Aussies with McGrath, he barely had a decent match.
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    ICC Sim League VI

    My switch to Olonga seems to have badly misfired. Team for next round: Alistair Campbell Neil Johnson Brendan Taylor Andy Flower+ Sean Williams Sikandar Raza Grant Flower Heath Streak Andy Blignaut Paul Strang Ray Price
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    Same Name Draft

    In an attempt to make the rules unambiguous: A player's Cricinfo "Player Profile" page will generally refer to them by a two-word name; e.g. Viv Richards or Jack Russell (ignoring any title such as "Sir"). Either of these names may be used. Often a player's first name is clearly a shortened...
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    Centuries draft: XI's combined total test centuries can't exceed 50

    I'm now less annoyed that I've used up 49 centuries already.
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    Same Name Draft

    No to both.
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    Same Name Draft

    Yes.
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    Worst Player to Play 100 Tests?

    The trouble with this type of argument (and I've done it myself) is you can end up comparing the peak of player X with the whole career of players Y and Z. Yes, Hooper had a 50+ match spell where his average was 45; but Bell had a similar spell with an average of 52.
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    Same Name Draft

    That's the spirit...
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    Same Name Draft

    This would be a six-round draft: in each round you pick 2 players who have a name in common, to give your final XI plus a substitute. My suggestion for how the rule works would be: - Stick to the names a player is usually known by, so no picking (say) Robert Simpson along with Robert Neil...
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    The 50 or less draft

    Saqlain Mushtaq - so I do have one living player in my team... Final XI: Stewie Dempster Vijay Merchant CB Fry* Maurice Leyland Aubrey Faulkner (5) Basil D'Oliveira (6) Gerry Alexander+ Maurice Tate (3) Saqlain Mushtaq (4) Frank Tyson (2) Tom Richardson (1) I think just Slifer and...
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    Draft - XIs will be made up of players from 2 chosen countries

    Monty Noble
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    Degrees of Separation - test teams

    For Pakistan: Hanif Mohammad Zaheer Abbas Wasim Akram Younis Khan gets you pretty close to date.
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    Degrees of Separation - test teams

    Simpson played in the 1977-8 Tests against India and West Indies; Border's debut was in the 1978-9 Ashes.
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    Centuries draft: XI's combined total test centuries can't exceed 50

    Ted Dexter (9)
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    The ATG Teams General arguing/discussing thread

    Tuppy Owen-Smith played a Test series for SA and captained England at rugby union.

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