Descending Test High Score Draft

[trundler]

1 Mark Richardson /
2 Jack Fingleton /
3 Don Bradman /
4 Mohinder Amarnath /
5 Douglas Jardine* /
6 Keith Miller o /
7 Monty Noble o /
8 Quinton de Kock + /
9 Curtly Ambrose o
10 Bishan Bedi o
11 Neil Adcock o

I'm pleasantly surprised how that bowling attack turned out, and well the batting isn't shall we say balanced, but...

I do love me a funkily balanced XI. Bonus points for the Miller + Noble combo.

 

[Bitmap]

Ian Bishop

Geoffrey Boycott
Gordon Greenidge
Kumar Sangakkara
Peter May
Martin Crowe*
Ben Stokes
Les Ames+
Richard Hadlee
Ian Bishop
Clarrie Grimmett
Glenn McGrath

 

[Line and Length]

Have any of these already finished their selections?

56 CricAddict
48 ankitj
47 Fuller Pilch
45 Pothas
39 Line and Length (I need 1 more)
37 trundler

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Have any of these already finished their selections?

56 CricAddict
48 ankitj
47 Fuller Pilch
45 Pothas
39 Line and Length (I need 1 more)
37 trundler

From what I can work out from checking back the last 2-3 pages, I think all have picked 10.

 

[CricAddict]

Colin Croft to complete my XI.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

@ankitj

 

[Line and Length]

Colin Croft to complete my XI.

 

[ankitj]

Brian Statham to complete the XI

 

[ankitj]

Bruce Mitchell
Herbie Collins
Younis Khan
Sachin Tendulkar
Mahela Jayawardene (c)
Adam Gilchrist (wk)
Mushtaq Mohammad (5)
Mike Procter (1)
Ray Lindwall (2)
Brian Statham (3)
Muttiah Muralitharan (4)

 

[Line and Length]

Brian Statham to complete the XI

x 2

 

[Line and Length]

@Fuller Pilch

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Am absolutely thrilled no one picked Bill Johnston, so I will. Great to get an ATG left-arm seamer and he can also bowl SLAs as 2nd spinner to Ashwin when required.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Final XI

Arthur Morris
Devon Conway
Viv Richards (c)
Jacques Kallis
Everton Weekes
Ross Taylor
Hashan Tillakaratne (wk)
Ravi Ashwin
Pat Cummins
Kagiso Rabada
Bill Johnston

@Pothas

 

[CricAddict]

My final team. This is my first draft team ever without an Aussie in it.

Herbert Sutcliffe
Graeme Smith
Ken Barrington
Brian Lara
Inzamam Ul Haq
Clive Lloyd
Alan Knott
Anil Kumble
Andy Roberts
Wes Hall
Colin Croft

 

[kingkallis]

My final team. This is my first draft team ever without an Aussie in it.

Herbert Sutcliffe
Graeme Smith
Ken Barrington
Brian Lara
Inzamam Ul Haq
Clive Lloyd
Alan Knott
Anil Kumble
Andy Roberts
Wes Hall
Colin Croft

And I have 6 Aussies in my team despite my best efforts to keep it to 4.

 

[Pothas]

Lance Gibbs

Mark Taylor*
Barry Richards
George Headley
Wally Hammond
Joe Root
Andy Flower+
Aubrey Faulkner
Kapil Dev
Alan Davidson
Waqar Younis
Lance Gibbs

 

[Fuller Pilch]

@Line and Length

trundler is after L & L and then we're finished.

 

[trundler]

It's been 8 hours so I'll take Bhagwat Chandrasekhar.

Final XI:

Hanif Mohammad
Victor Trumper
Stan McCabe
Steven Smith
AB De Villiers
Brendon McCullum+*
Ravindra Jadeja
Peter Pollock
Dale Steyn
Allan Donald
Bhagwat Chandrasekhar

 

[Line and Length]

I'll complete my team with Frank Tyson (37). Having shut down my PC late in the afternoon I woke up in the middle of the night thinking, if Pothas has picked, I'd be timed out and be struggling for my third quick. Fortunately Pothas and trundler were after spinners.

Given I missed the start and rushed my first pick, I'm reasonably happy with my team:

Sunil Gavaskar
Graham Gooch
Hashim Amla
Javed Miandad (c)
Kevin Pietersen
Mohammad Yousuf
B.J.Watling (w/k)
Shane Warne
Fred Trueman
Frank Tyson
James Anderson

 

[ankitj]

No one took Shoaib Akhtar? I was tossing between him, Statham and Croft in the late stages.