Back Draft

[AndrewB]

Earlier picks (sorted alphabetically by picker):

AndrewB: Imran Khan, Len Hutton, Michael Holding, George Headley, Sunil Gavaskar, Andy Flower, Aubrey Faulkner, Jack Cowie
Coronis: Waqar Younis, Herbert Sutcliffe, Virender Sehwag, Wilfred Rhodes, Cheteshwar Pujara, Vernon Philander, Rodney Marsh, Stan McCabe
jimmy101: Frank Worrell, Hedley Verity, Barry Richards, Keith Miller, Ray Lindwall, Dennis Lillee, Bill Lawry, WG Grace
Michaelf7777777: Don Bradman, Ian Botham, Allan Border, Jack Blackham, Richie Benaud, Ken Barrington, Sid Barnes, Sydney Barnes
Milenko47: Shane Warne, Viv Richards, Shaun Pollock, Graeme Pollock, Muttiah Muralitharan, Harold Larwood, Virat Kohli, Hanif Mohammad
mr_mister: Younis Khan, Bob Willis, Everton Weekes, Steve Waugh, Johnny Wardle, Courtney Walsh, Frank Tyson, Victor Trumper
MrPrez: Sachin Tendulkar, Dale Steyn, Fred Spofforth, Ranjitsinhji, Bert Oldfield, Dudley Nourse, Monty Noble, Matthew Hayden
NUFAN: Glenn McGrath, Brian Lara, Alan Knott, Kapil Dev, Jacques Kallis, Javed Miandad, Ravindra Jadeja, Gordon Greenidge
Red Hill: Gary Sobers, Steve Smith, Richard Hadlee, Clarrie Grimmett, Joel Garner, Rahul Dravid, Quinton de Kock, Alan Davidson
SillyCowCorner1: Clyde Walcott, Fred Trueman, Bob Simpson, Kemar Roach, Sonny Ramadhin, Hashim Amla, Dennis Amiss, Les Ames
Teuton: Wasim Akram, Kumar Sangakkara, Mike Procter, Ricky Ponting, Bruce Mitchell, Vinoo Mankad, Jim Laker, Neil Harvey
The Battlers Prince: Bill O'Reilly, Malcolm Marshall, Jack Hobbs, Wally Hammond, Adam Gilchrist, Allan Donald, AB de Villiers, Pat Cummins

Round 9:
SillyCowCorner1: Curtly Ambrose
jimmy101: Jeff Dujon
Teuton: Fazal Mahmood
mr_mister: Herbie Taylor
The Battlers Prince: Alastair Cook
Coronis: Tony Lock
Milenko47
Michaelf7777777
MrPrez
AndrewB
NUFAN
Red Hill

 

[ataraxia]

Farokh Engineer

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Hanif Mohammad
Vivian Richards
Graeme Pollock
Virat Kohli
Farokh Engineer +
Shaun Pollock
Shane Warne
Harold Larwood
Muttiah Muralitharan

 

[ankitj]

Nah michael didnt put off Ambrose for too long. Obviously he would like Ambrose (probably planned hed be 10 or 11th pick) but had to grab the B's.

We can agree that SCC made it interesting at least. Else Michaelf7 was running away with it.

 

[NUFAN]

Well Bradman did fail in a quarter of his Tests.

 

[a massive zebra]

What is your definition of failure?

 

[Michaelf7777777]

Eddie Barlow will be my next selection please

Charter 77 so Far

SG Barnes
Eddie Barlow
Don Bradman
Ken Barrington
Allan Border
Ian Botham
Richie Benaud (*)
Jack Blackham (+)
SF Barnes

 

[The Battlers Prince]

What is your definition of failure?

Lol so true. For Bradman it’s like 80?

 

[NUFAN]

What is your definition of failure?

Same as most people. Go through his 52 Tests, I think he did well to amazing in 75% of his Tests. I dont mean much by the comment though, thats a terrific percentage, just trying to think logically that having Bradman does not mean theyd be unbeatable.

 

[AndrewB]

He had 14 Tests where he didn’t make a 50/100.

 

[mr_mister]

Bradman has a surprising amount of single figure scores near his hundreds, a lot the inning before or after one too

His ability to turn 20/30s into 100s and then of course 100s into 200s a big reason for his average

 

[Jarquis]

Not hindsight if you call it at the time though:

I literally only tried to join the draft to do the same thing...

 

[NUFAN]

HBMrPrez has timed out, now its up to former buck, warrior and now King AndrewB to pick.

 

[AndrewB]

Denis Compton

 

[Teuton]

nufan > red (2) > nufan
prez has a catch up pick to make

 

[NUFAN]

Geoffrey Boycott

 

[ataraxia]

Thanks NUFAN, will help me a fair bit.

 

[Red]

Was particularly hoping Boycott would slip to me this round. Oh well.

I'll take Colin Cowdrey and David Boon.

 

[Red]

Colin Cowdrey
David Boon
Rahul Dravid
Steve Smith
-
Garry Sobers
Quinton de Kock +
Richard Hadlee
Alan Davidson
Clarrie Grimmett
Joel Garner

 

[NUFAN]

Thanks NUFAN, will help me a fair bit.

No worries, I thought about which path I wanted to go down. I was going to Gs for both opener and fast bowler but I think my Sir B combo is better.

Ill go Alec Bedser.

01 G. BOYCOTT
02 G. GREENIDGE
03 B. LARA
04 J. MIANDAD
05 J. KALLIS
06 R. JADEJA
07 A. KNOTT
08 K. DEV
09 A. BEDSER
10
11. G. MCGRATH

 

[AndrewB]

Greg Chappell