Clause-Mystery-Choice Draft Thread 2014

[harsh.ag]

ohno and morgieb haven't posted their teams yet.

In any event, would somebody else like to set up the poll? I will be gone for the next 12 hours or so.

 

[morgieb]

ohno and morgieb haven't posted their teams yet.

In any event, would somebody else like to set up the poll? I will be gone for the next 12 hours or so.

Umm.....

Michael Slater
Marvan Atapattu
Viv Richards*
Javed Miandad
Dudley Nourse
Brian McMillan (4)
Billy Barnes (3)
Ken Wadsworth+
Fred Trueman (2)
Muttiah Muralitharan (5)
Glenn McGrath (1)

A lot of stars but also quite a few average players. Interesting.

 

[NUFAN]

I would have classified Shaun Pollock as allrounder as he averages 32, and has hit 2 centuries, plus 16 fifties. Sure he was primarily a bowler because of his great partnership with Allan Donald, but anyone who averages more than 30 with the bat is a competent batsman. Therefore, perhaps there should be two categories of allrounder for future 'mystery' picks - 'bowling allrounder' and 'batting allrounder'.

However, that's all by-the-by as I'm sure no one minds Monk scoring Shaun Pollock anyway.

Wouldn't it be too obvious and not a mystery at all?

 

[ohnoitsyou]

ohno's XI:

Geoff Boycott*
Sunil Gavaskar
Ricky Ponting
Denis Compton (5)
Arthur Shrewsbury
Kris Srikkanth
Chris Cairns (3)
Budhi Kunderan+
Wasim Akram (1)
Shane Warne (4)
Khan Mohammad (2)

Kind of meh.
I have Warne, and Akram, with two decent supporting bowlers. Gavaskar and Boycott are near as good an opening partnership as ever drafted, Ponting, Compton and Shrewsbury is a punishing middle order and 7-11 should contribute a fair share of runs. But i didn't put much effort into the categories and boxes, and it shows. Some of you have drafted immense teams, so well played to you three who i'll be voting for.