Draft - your selection must have a batting average close to the previous player's selection

[stephen]

No I do not want to pick Ravi Shastri, go away.

(I saw Trumper too but I would actually have picked Shakib before him.)

Make that two (I didn't see Trumper either, but there was a much better all rounder than Shakib on offer).

 

[srbhkshk]

Ah ****, I missed him, I filtered only for the top 50 guys by runs. Yeah, definitely would have taken him.

 

[JOJOXI]

Yeah. Maybe I'm a bit cautious but I wouldn't have used my wildcard at any point that one has been used so far. ATG players within range!

Share that caution wouldn't want to be too handicapped on other people's selections later in draft if avoidable - having said that such caution means likes of Hadlee and Imran Khan aren't available. Will be interesting how things develop later on when those with bowling options might want an extra batsman and those with batting options an extra bowler.

 

[stephen]

Ah ****, I missed him, I filtered only for the top 50 guys by runs. Yeah, definitely would have taken him.

Should have sorted by wickets .

There was also a gun historical keeper available too. And you were a bees dick away from another all rounder who goes pretty early in drafts as well. But the 20s and 30s are probably the hardest two areas to find good players IMO. Tons of great bowlers <20, tons of great batters >45. Not a huge number between.

 

[stephen]

But the jump to Imran sacrificed another ATG bowler as well. So don't feel too bad

 

[srbhkshk]

Nah, I would have picked him of course but using it on Gilly is nothing bad in any way + I had the second last turn in the next round anyway, so I am not sacrificing much positioning either.

 

[stephen]

R1
michaelf7777777 - WG Grace (32.29)
kingkallis - Gary Sobers (57.78) **wildcard**
andrewb - Jack Hobbs (56.94)
ataraxia - Len Hutton (56.67)
teuton - Jacques Kallis (55.37)
weeman27bob - Kumar Sangakkara (57.40)
srbhkshk – Wally Hammond (58.45)
honestbharani – Ken Barrington (58.57)
Stephen – Herb Sutcliffe (60.73)
pothas – Steve Smith (62.84)
jojoXI – George Headley (60.83)
trundle – Graeme Pollock (60.97)
fuller pilch – Everton Weekes (58.61)
red hill - KS Duleepsinhji (58.52)

R2
red hill - Clyde Walcott (56.68)
fuller pilch - Sachin Tendulkar (53.78)
trundler - Brian Lara (52.89)
jojoXI - Sunil Gavaskar (51.12)
pothas - AB de Villiers (50.66)
stephen - Ricky Ponting (51.85)
honestbharani - Greg Chappell (53.86)
srbhkshk - Virat Kohli (53.62)
weeman27bob - Rahul Dravid (52.31)
teuton - Viv Richards (50.23)
ataraxia - Richard Hadlee (27.16) **wildcard**
andrewb - Alan Davidson (24.59)
michaelf7777777 - Mike Procter (25.11)
kingkallis - Richie Benaud (24.45)

R3
fuller pilch - Imran Khan (37.69) **wildcard**
srbhkshk - Adam Gilchrist (47.60) **wildcard**
andrewb - Frank Worrell (49.48)
pothas - Allan Border (50.56)
kingkallis - Matthew Hayden (50.73)
jojoXI - Andy Flower (51.54)
weeman27bob
trundler
stephen
honestbharani
michaelf7777777
red hill
teuton
ataraxia

Wildcard deployed: kingkallis, ataraxia, fuller pilch, srbhkshk

 

[_00_deathscar]

This is fun! Just observing...

 

[AndrewB]

Frank Worrell (49.48)

 

[Pothas]

Allan Border (50.56)

 

[trundler]

@kingkallis can pick

 

[AndrewB]

Allan Border (50.56)

Yeah, I thought of picking Border (just I thought of picking Hutton in R1 and Procter in R2).
Also, why does the person before me always go for a wild card pick? All those hours of planning down the drain :-D

 

[Pothas]

As I already had the other AB I felt it was a compulsory pick. Also quite enjoy that we had a whole bunch of wild cards and I still ended up with two guys who have an almost identical average.

 

[kingkallis]

Matthew Hayden (50.73)

 

[ataraxia]

@JOJOXI up.

 

[JOJOXI]

Andy Flower - 51.54

 

[stephen]

@weeman27bob

 

[Red]

R1
michaelf7777777 - WG Grace (32.29)
kingkallis - Gary Sobers (57.78) **wildcard**
andrewb - Jack Hobbs (56.94)
ataraxia - Len Hutton (56.67)
teuton - Jacques Kallis (55.37)
weeman27bob - Kumar Sangakkara (57.40)
srbhkshk – Wally Hammond (58.45)
honestbharani – Ken Barrington (58.57)
Stephen – Herb Sutcliffe (60.73)
pothas – Steve Smith (62.84)
jojoXI – George Headley (60.83)
trundle – Graeme Pollock (60.97)
fuller pilch – Everton Weekes (58.61)
red hill - KS Duleepsinhji (58.52)

R2
red hill - Clyde Walcott (56.68)
fuller pilch - Sachin Tendulkar (53.78)
trundler - Brian Lara (52.89)
jojoXI - Sunil Gavaskar (51.12)
pothas - AB de Villiers (50.66)
stephen - Ricky Ponting (51.85)
honestbharani - Greg Chappell (53.86)
srbhkshk - Virat Kohli (53.62)
weeman27bob - Rahul Dravid (52.31)
teuton - Viv Richards (50.23)
ataraxia - Richard Hadlee (27.16) **wildcard**
andrewb - Alan Davidson (24.59)
michaelf7777777 - Mike Procter (25.11)
kingkallis - Richie Benaud (24.45)

R3
fuller pilch - Imran Khan (37.69) **wildcard**
srbhkshk - Adam Gilchrist (47.60) **wildcard**
andrewb - Frank Worrell (49.48)
pothas - Allan Border (50.56)
kingkallis - Matthew Hayden (50.73)
jojoXI - Andy Flower (51.54)
weeman27bob
trundler
stephen
honestbharani
michaelf7777777
red hill
teuton
ataraxia

R4
teuton
red hill
michaelf7777777
honestbharani
stephen
trundler
weeman27bob
jojoXI
kingkallis
ataraxia
pothas
andrewb
srbhkshk
fuller pilch

Wildcard deployed: kingkallis, ataraxia, fuller pilch, srbhkshk

Clever use of the wildcards by fuller and srbhkshk to not actually lose a position!

 

[Red]

@weeman27bob >> @trundler >> @stephen

 

[weeman27bob]

Sorry, fell asleep really early last night

Dennis Compton 50.06

@trundler up