Draft Thread- Randomised test playing nations

[watson]

Watson - Fazal Mahmood
HonestB - Brian Lara
BeeGee - Herbert Sutcliffe
AZH - Habibul Bashar
Pothas - Virender Sehwag
Justo - Chaminda Vaas
Marcuss - Graeme Hick
Morgieb - Ricky Ponting
Howe -
Cabinet -

 

[Red]

Graeme Hick

Did he actually play for Zimbabwe???

 

[watson]

Did he actually play for Zimbabwe???

You can check here: The Home of CricketArchive

Apparently he did play for 'Zimbabwe Colts' against 'Young Australia' in 1983. He was bowled by Mike Whitney for a duck as his team slumped to 43 all out - so obviously he didn't improve much against Australia during his career.

 

[morgieb]

He never played for them at Tests though. If Hick counts then why can't other Zimbabwean greats pre-Zimbabwe count?

 

[Red]

I hate having to be the arbiter in stuff like this, but I reckon he needs to have played a test for the nation you're selecting him for Marcuss. I know that wasn't explicitly stated, but yeh...

 

[watson]

BTW Does anyone know whether Cabinet and Howe are still particpating because Cabinet has 'wrists/' and Howe is 'scuppered'? Not sure what 'scuppered' actually means, but it doesn't sound very nice.

 

[Jarquis]

Guy Whittall then. Ugh.

 

[watson]

Seems unambiguous to me....

Each day I will put each participant's name in to a randomiser, and the order they come out in determines which nation each participant gets to choose from that particular day. Each participant chooses any player who has played at least one test for that nation. The round closes when I randomise the next round (at least 24 hours). If someone hasn't chosen by the time I post the next round, they must wait until the completion of the draft to choose from players unselected from the particular nation they missed.

England
Australia
South Africa
West Indies
New Zealand
India
Pakistan
Sri Lanka
Zimbabwe
Bangladesh


Note- It's obviously possible that you might choose multiple times from Bangladesh. Conversely, it's also possible you'll choose multiple times from Aust or Eng.

Draft will be completed in 12 days once participants are finalised. Participants only need to be able to log on and select once every 24 hours.

Post if keen.

 

[watson]

I assume that Cabinet and Howe are having problems coming to terms with their respective teams - time to move on Monk?

 

[Red]

There were 10 items in your list. Here they are in random order:
1. - Howezat
2.- Pothas
3. - Watson
4. - morgieb
5. - Bee Gee
6. - Cabinet
7. - honest bhirani
8. - Marcuss
9. - Justo
10. - AZH

Timestamp: 2013-06-24 00:15:49 UTC

R9
England- Howezat
Australia- Pothas
South Africa- Watson
West Indies- Morgieb
New Zealand- BeeGee
India- Cabinet
Pakistan- HonestBharini
Sri Lanka- Marcuss
Zimbabwe- Justo
Bangladesh- AZH

 

[Red]

Round 1
Howe_zat - Jack Hobbs
morgieb - Adam Gilchrist
Marcuss - Jacques Kallis
Cabinet - Garfield Sobers
Watson - Richard Hadlee
AZH - Sachin Tendulkar
Pothas - Imran Khan
Bee Gee - Muttiah Muralitharan
honestbharani - Andy Flower
Justo - Shakib Al Hasan

Round 2
Watson - Wally Hammond
BeeGee - Glenn McGrath
honestbharani - Aubrey Faulkner
Justo - Malcolm Marshall
Pothas - Martin Crowe
Howe_zat - Sunny Gavaskar
Marcuss - Waqar Younis *
Cabinet - Kumar Sangakkara
morgieb - Heath Streak
AZH - Tamim Iqbal

Round 3
Watson- John R Reid
Justo- Rahul Dravid
morgieb- Curtly Ambrose
Howe_zat- Shane Warne
AZH- Allan Donald
BeeGee- Wasim Akram
Pothas- Dave Houghton
Cabinet96- Mushfiqur Rahim
Honest Bharini- Jim Laker
Marcuss- Mahela Jayawardene

Round 4
Bee Gee - Len Hutton
Cabinet - Dennis Lillee
Justo - Graeme Pollock
Pothas - Viv Richards
Morgieb - Shane Bond
AZH - Anil Kumble
Marcuss - Javed Miandan
honest bharini- Sanath Jayasuriya
Howe_zat - Brendan Taylor
Watson - Mohammed Rafique

Round 5
Howezat - Fred Trueman
Marcuss - Bill O'Reilly
AZH - Mike Procter
BeeGee - Michael Holding
Morgieb - Stewie Dempster
Justo - VVS Laxman
Watson - Majid Khan
Pothas - Aravinda de Silva
Honest bharini - Murray Goodwin
Cabinet - Mahmudullah

Round 6
Pothas - Sydney Barnes
Honest Bharini - Keith Miller
Cabinet - Dale Steyn
BeeGee - Clyde Walcott
AZH - Martin Donnelly
Howezat - Kapil Dev
Watson - Hanif Mohammad
Marcuss - Marvin Atapattu
Morgieb - Grant Flower
Justo - Khalid Mashud

Round 7
Howe - Tatenda Taibu
Morgieb - Greg Chappell
Watson - Joel Garner
Pothas - Shaun Pollock
Marcus - Les Ames
AZH - Farokh Engineer
BeeGee - Younis Khan
Honest B - Nasir Hossain
Justo - Thilan Samaraweera
Cabinet – select at end of draft from NEW ZEALAND

Round 8
Watson - Fazal Mahmood
HonestB - Brian Lara
BeeGee - Herbert Sutcliffe
AZH - Habibul Bashar
Pothas - Virender Sehwag
Justo - Chaminda Vaas
Marcuss - Graeme Hick
Morgieb - Ricky Ponting
Howe – select at end of draft from SOUTH AFRICA
Cabinet – select at end of draft from NEW ZEALAND

 

[morgieb]

1. Grant Flower
2. Stewart Dempster
3. Ricky Ponting
4. Greg Chappell
5. George Headley
6.
7. Adam Gilchrist
8. Heath Streak
9.
10. Curtly Ambrose
11. Shane Bond

 

[watson]

Since Majid has scored centuries at No.3 & No.4 (158 against a younger Dennis Lillee) then Barry Richards can open with Hanif.

01. Hanif Mohammad
02. Barry Richards
03. Walter Hammond
04. Majid Khan
05.
06. John R Reid
07.
08. Richard Hadlee
09. Mohammad Rafique
10. Faisal Mahmood
11. Joel Garner

 

[honestbharani]

Shoaib Akhtar

 

[honestbharani]

Honest Hunks


Sanath Jayasuriya (SLA)
-
Brian Lara
Murray Goodwin
Nasir Hossain (damn)
Andy Flower (wk) (c)
Aubrey Faulkner (RLS)
Keith Miller (RF)
-
-
Shoaib Akhtar (RF)
Jim Laker (ROS)

 

[BeeGee]

01. Sir Len Hutton *
02. Herbert Sutcliffe
03. Younis Khan
04.
05.
06. Sir Clyde Walcott +
07. Chris Cairns
08. Wasim Akram
09. Michael Holding
10. Muttiah Muralitharan
11. Glenn McGrath

 

[Justo]

NFI with Zimbabwe at this stage so time to throw someone to the wolves.

01.
02. Alistair Campbell
03. Rahul Dravid
04. Graeme Pollock
05. VVS Laxman
06. Thilan Samaraweera
07. Shakib Al Hasan
08. Khaled Mashud +
09. Chaminda Vaas
10. Malcolm Marshall
11.

2 x Bangladesh, 2 x Sri Lanka and 1 x Zimbabwe really making a difference.

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

3 x Bangladesh now

Robiul Islam in hope to grab some votes from Official Robiul Islam fan club

 

[watson]

3 x Bangladesh now

Robiul Islam in hope to grab some votes from Official Robiul Islam fan club

That's what I'd call excessive.

 

[honestbharani]

Am I the only one to have had a different team to pick from, each round, almost? (except maybe Zim twice I think)