Auction draft

[slowfinger]

2 muppets in the group and apparently exactly 2 participants decide not to send in their bids. Great.

... No comment. I was just trying to fit in.

 

[silentstriker]

Marc! Where art thou? I need to go study.

 

[marc71178]

2 muppets in the group and apparently exactly 2 participants decide not to send in their bids. Great.

Indeed, but some bids meant people nearly got the muppets!

2 fails end up paying $1,700,199 for the muppets, Eds and Marcuss, with the following drafted:

W Akram - honestbharani
S Bond - Noble One
A Caddick - Nnanden
H Davis - Eds (default)
A Fraser - Pothas
D Gough - silentstriker
C Grimmett - Blakus
A Kumble - NUFAN
H Larwood - Himannv
S Pollock - G.I.Joe
M Sami - Marcuss (default)
H Streak - pskov
H Tayfield - Somerset
H Verity - Simon
D Vettori - slowfinger

I had to add 7 players this time: W Akram, S Bond, A Kumble, S Pollock, H Streak, H Verity and D Vettori.

The winning bids were (in order): $1, $9, $75,000, $100,002, $220,000, $500,040, $703,000, $814,000, $815,000, $1,050,100, $1,155,011, $1,500,003, $1,700,199.

Entering round 9 we have the 5th batsman, and the following are available for drafting:

Z Abbas (Zaheer)
U Akmal (Umar)
G Boycott (Geoff)
S Dempster (Stewie)
WG Grace (WG)
N Harvey (Neil)
P Hendren (Patsy)
R Kanhai (Rohan)
G Kirsten (Gary)
V Merchant (Vijay)
A Prince (Ashwell)
C Rogers (Chris)
B Simpson (Bobby)
E Weekes (Everton)

Deadline of 2pm Sunday for this and the 4th and final bowler please.

 

[G.I.Joe]

yus yus yus!

 

[silentstriker]

$9...I'll take it.

 

[silentstriker]

Marc, is it possible to post a list of all players taken? That way it's easier to nominate without going back and trying to figure out.

 

[G.I.Joe]

*
*
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)
Shaun Pollock (RHB, 32.31, RFM, 23.11)
Jason Gillespie (RHB, 18.73, RF, 26.13)
Frank Tyson (RHB, 10.95, RF, 18.56)
*

 

[marc71178]

Marc, is it possible to post a list of all players taken? That way it's easier to nominate without going back and trying to figure out.

Batsmen:

Z Abbas
U Akmal
M Atapattu
S Barnes
K Barrington
G Blewett
A Border
I Botham
G Boycott
D Bradman
M Butcher
S Chanderpaul
G Chappell
A de Silva
S Dempster
R Dravid
J Edrich
A Faulkner
A Flintoff
S Gavaskar
T Goddard
G Gooch
WG Grace
G Greenidge
W Hammond
N Harvey
M Hayden
V Hazare
P Hendren
J Hobbs
C Hooper
L Hutton
Inzamam-ul-Haq
D Jardine
S Jayasuriya
M Jayawardene
J Kallis
R Kanhai
A Kapali
G Kirsten
B Lara
B Lawry
P May
S McCabe
V Merchant
J Miandad
K Miller
H Mohammad
A Morris
D Nourse
G Pollock
R Ponting
A Prince
K Ranjitsinhji
V Richards
B Richards
R Richardson
C Rogers
V Sehwag
A Shrewsbury
B Simpson
M Slater
G Smith
G Sobers
B Sutcliffe
S Tendulkar
V Trumper
D Walters
S Watson
M Waugh
S Waugh
E Weekes
F Worrell
M Yousuf

Keepers:

K Akmal
L Ames
M Boucher
MS Dhoni
J Dujon
F Engineer
G Evans
A Flower
A Gilchrist
B Haddin
I Healy
A Knott
J Russell
K Sangakarra
C Walcott

Bowlers:

N Adcock
W Akram
R Benaud
S Bond
A Caddick
C Croft
A Davidson
H Davis
K Dev
A Fraser
J Garner
L Gibbs
J Gillespie
D Gough
C Grimmett
R Hadlee
W Hall
M Holding
B Ironmonger
I Khan
A Kumble
J Laker
H Larwood
R Lindwall
G Lohmann
M Marshall
C McDermott
G McGrath
M Muralitharan
M Ntini
B O'Reilly
S Pollock
M Sami
J Snow
H Streak
G Swann
H Tayfield
C Turner
F Tyson
C Vaas
H Verity
D Vettori
S Warne
B Williams
W Younis

 

[slowfinger]

Vettori, and a nice one too. Ching Ching

 

[Jarquis]

Very disappointed with that. My fault for not nominating sooner but other things took priority this evening.

 

[Himannv]

Got exactly who I wanted in that round. Larwood was the bowler I nominated and my number one bid as well. Needed a bowler of that calibre in my lineup.

Hall and Larwood is some serious fire and brimstone, plus they have Murali to back them up. On the whole rather over the moon with the way this round turned out.

 

[Simon]

Will take Verity I guess, would have prefered one of the top choices, also not that impressed with the ammount of openers in the next round though.

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
10 Hedley Verity (40 tests - 669 runs @ 20.90) (144 wickets @ 24.37) - BB 8/43
11

 

[NUFAN]

Spin twins of Kumble and Laker, I like it, I like it a lot.

1 Hobbs
2 Greenidge
3
4 Nourse
5
6 Botham
7 Knott
8 Kumble
9
10 Laker
11 Adcock

 

[Blakus]

First time in the draft I got my primary bid. Grimmett is a fantastic addition to my side.

1.Sunil Gavaskar
2.Hanif Mohammad
3.
4.Inzamam ul Haq
5.Steve Waugh
6.
7.Farokh Engineer
8.Ray Lindwall
9.Joel Garner
10.Clarrie Grimmett
11.

 

[Noble One]

1. Graeme Smith
2. Arthur Morris
3.
4. Javed Miandad
5. Frank Worrell C
6.
7. Mark Boucher WK
8. Richie Benaud
9. Shane Bond
10. Craig McDermott
11.

Very happy to grab Bond, was close to my highest bid for the round. Still have some money to burn, so I can keep my options open going into the last 3 rounds.

 

[Pothas]

He might be the weakest player in my side but I always loved Angus Fraser and am pretty happy with the price, a lot depends on getting a good fast bowler but still liking the look of this side.

1. Bill Lawry
2. ?
3. Ricky Ponting
4. ?
5. Ken Barrington
6. Doug Walters
7. Jeff Dujon
8. Alan Davidson
9. ?
10. Bill O'Reilly
11. Angus Fraser

 

[Somerset]

Very pleased to get Hugh Tayfield for a pretty good price, as that gives me a spinner of quality, even if I believe hes somewhat under-rated when compared to other great spinners in the history of the game.

Barry Richards
-
K.S.Ranjitsinhji
Allan Border
-
Sir Garfield Sobers
Godfrey Evans
Hugh Tayfield
-
George Lohmann
John Snow

 

[gwo]

First time in the draft I got my primary bid. Grimmett is a fantastic addition to my side.

1.Sunil Gavaskar
2.Hanif Mohammad
3.
4.Inzamam ul Haq
5.Steve Waugh
6.
7.Farokh Engineer
8.Ray Lindwall
9.Joel Garner
10.Clarrie Grimmett
11.

Easily the best team at the moment.

 

[Himannv]

Three more players left.

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

 

[honestbharani]

Stoked to have gotten Wasim.. My #1 pick this time


Team:

1. Sid Barnes
2.
3.
4. Shane Watson
5. Carl Hooper
6. MS Dhoni (c) (wk)
7. Alok Kapali
8. Wasim Akram
9. Michael Holding
10. Waqar Younis
11.