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[stephen]

5 players are left with one pick to make - Michael, Milenko47, Stephen, Teuton and Trundler.

AZH still has 5, Red Hill 4, Pothas 3.

All others have 2 picks left.

 

[Pothas]

I needed a bowler and I also had two picks to make. Rather than roll the dice on my W pick and hope for sometime half decent on Y or Z, I took Tate

One of those that I had planned that I really thought was pretty safe. Obviously not.

 

[stephen]

One of those that I had planned that I really thought was pretty safe. Obviously not.

Yeah. At this point in the draft I don't think anyone is safe.

I had always known he was a fine bowler. I never realised he averaged 25 with the bat and had a hundred and several 50s as well.

 

[Red]

Man, I went to work overnight and every elite batsman disappeared before I logged back on! Should have checked and got Smith or Sachin, **** it!

Michael Slater I guess

 

[Red]

Bill Ponsford /
Michael Slater /
-
-
Monty Noble /o
Adam Gilchrist /+
Ian Botham /o
Wilfred Rhodes /o
-
Wes Hall o
Glenn McGrath o

 

[stephen]

Man, I went to work overnight and every elite batsman disappeared before I logged back on! Should have checked and got Smith or Sachin, **** it!

Michael Slater I guess

That puts you in first place. Pick someone else.

 

[Red]

Awesome. I'll take Ross Taylor.

 

[Red]

Bill Ponsford /
Michael Slater /
-
Ross Taylor
Monty Noble /o
Adam Gilchrist /+
Ian Botham /o
Wilfred Rhodes /o
-
Wes Hall o
Glenn McGrath o

 

[stephen]

Bill Ponsford /
Michael Slater /
-
Ross Taylor
Monty Noble /o
Adam Gilchrist /+
Ian Botham /o
Wilfred Rhodes /o
-
Wes Hall o
Glenn McGrath o

Rhodes and Noble give you a huge amount of flexibility for your next picks.

 

[stephen]

And Beefy for that matter.

 

[ataraxia]

Michael > Pothas > Andrew > AZH > hb

 

[Michaelf7777777]

Wasim Akram will be my final selection please

Charter 77 Final XI

WG Grace
Graeme Smith (*)
George Headley
Greg Chappell
Charles Macartney
Aubrey Faulkner
Les Ames (+)
Wasim Akram
Vernon Philander
Dennis Lillee
Bill O'Reilly

 

[ataraxia]

Darn.

 

[honestbharani]

Wasim Akram will be my final selection please

Charter 77 Final XI

WG Grace
Graeme Smith (*)
George Headley
Greg Chappell
Charles Macartney
Aubrey Faulkner
Les Ames (+)
Wasim Akram
Vernon Philander
Dennis Lillee
Bill O'Reilly

Aw crap.. had it all perfectly lined up but for you to come and screw up the plan.

 

[Pothas]

Frank Tyson

 

[AndrewB]

Jeff Thomson

 

[stephen]

AndyZaltzHair - Don Bradman, Mahmudullah, Dudley Nourse, Matt Prior, Sonny Ramadhin, Dale Steyn
Honestbharani - ​Neil Adcock, ​Eddie Barlow, AB de Villiers, Joel Garner, Jacques Kallis, ​Jim Laker, ​Stan McCabe, ​Graeme Pollock, ​Herbert Sutcliffe
Stephen - Ken Barrington, Rahul Dravid, Clarrie Grimmett, Michael Holding, Virat Kohli, Bill Lawry, Brendon McCullum, Shaun Pollock, Bob Simpson, Maurice Tate
Red Hill - Ian Botham, Adam Gilchrist, Wes Hall, Glenn McGrath, Monty Noble, Bill Ponsford, Wilfred Rhodes, Michael Slater, Ross Taylor
Trundler - Warwick Armstrong, Geoff Boycott, Jock Cameron, Andy Flower, Imran Khan, Malcolm Marshall, Ricky Ponting, Andy Roberts, Saeed Anwar, Sachin Tendulkar
AndrewB - Curtly Ambrose, Richie Benaud, Alan Davidson, Jack Hobbs, Brian Lara, Arthur Morris, Bert Oldfield, Eddie Paynter, Garry Sobers, Jeff Thomson
Milenko47 - Abdul Qadir, Allan Border, Michael Clarke, Sunil Gavaskar, Wally Hammond, Allan Knott, Ray Lindwall, Peter May, Barry Richards, Fred Trueman.
Teuton - James Anderson, Bishan Bedi, Denis Compton, MS Dhoni, Richard Hadlee, Javed Miandad, Keith Miller, Mike Procter, Kumar Sangakkara, Victor Trumper
Pothas - SF Barnes, Allan Donald, Len Hutton, Inzamam-ul-Haq, Muttiah Muralitharan, Kevin Pietersen, Viv Richards, Steve Smith, Frank Tyson

Complete:
Michaelf7777777 - Les Ames, Greg Chappell, Aubrey Faulkner, WG Grace, George Headley, Dennis Lillee, Charles Macartney, Bill O'Reilly, Vernon Philander, Graeme Smith, Wasim Akram

 

[trundler]

Mahmudullah aside, AZH doesn't look so bad

 

[AndrewB]

Mahmudullah aside, AZH doesn't look so bad

No, but most of the top T picks have gone and he’ll need at least 2 from U, Y and Z. Which isn’t disastrous but there aren’t so many ATG options there.

 

[stephen]

Coming up with the Bradman rule I wanted something that a) punished him enough to make other sides competitive, b) wasn't too punitive, c) felt thematic for the draft and d) still gave an interesting drafting experience.