Auction draft

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Has this ever been on time?

 

[marc71178]

Because it's so easy to go through 17 lots of emails, working out who has bid the highest, then take that one out and look at the highest bid not by a person who's already won a bid and not on a player already taken?!

3 non-submissions, flyonthewall and Michael7777777 have now missed 3 rounds in a row so I am removing them from the game, meaning we're down to 15 and the following are now available again for nomination:

D Compton
V Mankad
D Martyn
WG Grace
P Mead
D Vengsarkar
T Alderman
M Ealham
P Symcox
J Gregory

slowfinger also missed, so ends up paying $1,404,000 for his player.

The following were drafted.

M Atapattu - slowfinger (default pick)
S Chanderpaul - silentstriker
A Flintoff - Eds
T Goddard - Simon
C Hooper - honestbharani
D Jardine - Marcuss
M Jayawardene - G.I.Joe
B Lawry - Pothas
H Mohammad - Blakus
D Nourse - NUFAN
K Ranjitsinhji - Somerset
V Sehwag - Himannv
M Slater - Nnanden
F Worrell - Noble One
M Yousuf - pskov

I added in 6 players this time: A Flintoff, T Goddard, M Jayawardene, H Mohammad, V Sehwag and M Yousuf.

The following winning bids were made: $1, $135,011, $299,900, $300,000, $300,002, $550,000, $600,003, $635,000, $820,000, $860,100, $1,000,400, $1,100,005, $1,150,000, $1,404,000.

Round 8 is for the 3rd bowler and the following are up for auction:

W Akram (Wasim)
S Bond (Shane)
A Caddick (Andy)
H Davis (Heath)
A Fraser (Angus)
D Gough (Darren)
C Grimmett (Clarrie)
A Kumble (Anil)
H Larwood (Harold)
S Pollock (Shaun)
M Sami (Muppet)
H Streak (Heath)
H Tayfield (Hugh)
H Verity (Hedley)
D Vettori (Daniel)

Will aim for a 6pm deadline on Wednesday again - hopefully I'll be able to get the results up as soon as possible so I don't get more criticism

Will also need the nomination for round 9 - the 5th batsman.

As usual, anyone who wants to know their budget contact me.

 

[Jarquis]

Appreciate the work you're putting into this Marc, can imagine that it takes a little while to sort it all out.

Very happy with Jardine, was one of a few players that I would've been happy in getting. Quite a few names there that I didn't fancy last round.
Don't tell me SS got Chanders for $1?!

 

[marc71178]

The amount bid for each player remains a secret - but have fun trying to guess!

 

[Jarquis]

If sure if he did we'll find out soon enough anyway

 

[pskov]

Marc, could you email me my budget left? I think I know, I just want to confirm that I have it correct however.

 

[G.I.Joe]

Can't believe you guys can afford to throw around 1 million plus on players at this point. I'm almost broke.

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Mahela Jayawardene (RHB, 53.96, RM, 48.66)
Sachin Tendulkar (RHB, 55.37, LGB, OS, RM, 52.22)
Vijay Hazare (RHB, 47.65, RM, 61)
Clyde Walcott + (RHB, 56.68, 53 ct, 11 st)
Aubrey Faulkner (RHB, 40.79, LBG, 26.58)
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Jason Gillespie (RHB, 18.73, RF, 26.13)
Frank Tyson (RHB, 10.95, RF, 18.56)
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I was only joking Marc. It's fantastic, the amount of effort you put in to this.

 

[Simon]

Getting Goddard means I now get to have the 5 bowlers I wanted, was either him or Flintoff I wanted that round to bat 7. Excellent for my team.

edit: also apologies, I think I accidently nominated a batsman.

 

[G.I.Joe]

1) Greg Blewett
2)
3) Don Bradman
4)
5) Bert Sutcliffe
6)
7) Brad Haddin
8)
9) Brad Williams
10)
11) Makhaya Ntini

Does it hurt, guys? Does it hurt?

haha, just spotted this. Why would it hurt us that you'll be 99.94 + spare change all out both innings?

 

[silentstriker]

Hutton
Chanderpaul
Richardson
Gilchirst
Miller
Gibbs
McGrath

Can't say I am unhappy with my team .

 

[slowfinger]

LOL Attapatu I would have probably bid that much for him anyway (not) so Please tell me how much I have left as I think I'm broke:

1.Lara
2.Jaya
3.Attapattu
4.Sanga
5.A de Silva
6.
7.Swanneh
8.Vaas.
9
10
11.

Can't complain but I really need a no.6!

 

[Himannv]

M Sami (Muppet)

LOL, good one..!!

Chanderpaul for possibly $1 seems like an incredible deal though..

Sehwag was my number one pick that round. Been needing an opener of that sort of calibre for a while now. Covered quite a few nationalities. Team looks like this for now:

1. V Sehwag
2.
3. W Hammond
4. G Pollock
5. G Chappell
6.
7. J Russell
8.
9.
10. W Hall
11. M Muralitharan

marc, would be great if you could mail me how much cash I have left.

 

[silentstriker]

My weakest player so far is Lance Gibbs, so looking at some of the other teams, I am really liking where I am at . Obviously, still a while to go.

 

[slowfinger]

Sent, nice and early

 

[Jarquis]

1. Victor Trumper - 3163@39.04
2.
3. Rahul Dravid - 11395@53.75
4. Stan McCabe - 2748@48.21; 36@42.86
5. Douglas Jardine - 1296@48.00
6.
7. Imran Khan - 3807@37.69; 362@22.81
8. Ian Healy - 4356@27.39; 395 dismissals.
9.
10.
11. Bert Ironmonger - 74@17.97

 

[Simon]

1 Matthew Hayden (103 tests - 8625 runs @ 50.73) 30x100 29x50 - HS 380
2 John Edrich (77 tests - 5138 runs @ 43.54) 12x100 24x50 - HS 310*
3 Graham Gooch 118 tests - 8900 runs @ 42.58) 20x100 46x50 - HS 333
4
5
6 Andy Flower+ (63 tests - 4794 runs @ 51.54) 12x100 27x50 - HS 232* Dismissals: 160
7 Trevor Goddard (41 tests - 2516 runs @ 34.46) 1x100 18x50 - (123 wickets @ 26.22) BB 6/53
8 Kapil Dev (131 tests - 5248 runs @ 31.05) 8x100 27x50 - (434 wickets @ 29.64) - BB 9/83
9 Malcolm Marshall (81 tests - 1810 runs @ 18.85) (376 wickets @ 20.94) - BB 7/22
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11

Have pretty good batting depth

 

[Jarquis]

My bowling attack is looking a little light

 

[Pothas]

Yet another Australian for me but liking this side.

1. Bill Lawry (5234 runs @ 47.15)
2.
3. Ricky Ponting (11859 runs @55.67)
4.
5. Ken Barrington (6806 runs @ 58.67)
6. Doug Walters (5357 runs @ 48.26, 49 wickets at 29.08 )
7. Jeff Dujon (3322 runs @ 31.94, 267 Catches, 5 stumpings)
8. Alan Davidson (1328 runs @ 24.59, 186 wickets @ 20.53)
9.
10.
11. Bill O'Reilly (144 wickets @22.59)

 

[Somerset]

Very pleased to get Ranji but at some cost I probably could've avoided. My budget's going to be stretched in the last few rounds thats for sure!