Initials Draft

[AndrewB]

Picks so far (in alphabetical order):

A: Curtly Ambrose, Hashim Amla, James Anderson
B: Sid Barnes, Sydney Barnes, Ken Barrington, Alec Bedser, Richie Benaud, Ian Bishop, Jack Blackham, David Boon, Allan Border, Ian Botham, Geoff Boycott, Mark Boucher, Bill Brown
C: Jock Cameron, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Bhagwat Chandrasekhar, Greg Chappell. Sylvester Clarke, Denis Compton, Learie Constantine, Alastair Cook, Jimmy Cook, Colin Croft, Martin Crowe
D: Alan Davidson, AB de Villiers, Stewie Dempster, Allan Donald, Rahul Dravid
E: Farokh Engineer
F: Aubrey Faulkner, Fazal Mahmood, Andy Flower
G: Joel Garner, Sunil Gavaskar, Lance Gibbs, Adam Gilchrist, Jason Gillespie, Trevor Goddard, Graham Gooch, WG Grace, Jack Gregory, Clarrie Grimmett
H: Richard Hadlee, Wes Hall. Wally Hammond, Neil Harvey, Matthew Hayden, Vijay Hazare, George Headley, Ian Healy, Rangana Herath, Jack Hobbs, Michael Holding, Len Hutton
I: Imran Khan
J: Archie Jackson, Javed Miandad, Mitchell Johnson, Bill Johnston
K: Jacques Kallis, Gary Kirsten, Alan Knott, Virat Kohli
L: Jim Laker, Justin Langer, Brian Lara, Harold Larwood, Bill Lawry, Geoff Lawson, VVS Laxman, Dennis Lillee, Denis Lindsay, Ray Lindwall, Clive Lloyd, Tony Lock, Gus Logie, George Lohmann, Nathan Lyon
M: Charles Macartney, Malcolm Marshall, Peter May, Stan McCabe, Ted McDonald, Glenn McGrath, Keith Miller, Bruce Mitchell, Arthur Morris, Billy Murdoch, Muttiah Muralitharan
N: Monty Noble
O: Bill O'Reilly
P: Adam Parore, Eddie Paynter, Vernon Philander, Kevin Pietersen, Graeme Pollock, Peter Pollock, Shaun Pollock, Bill Ponsford, Ricky Ponting, Erapalli Prasanna, Mike Procter
R: Wilfred Rhodes, Clive Rice, Barry Richards, Viv Richards, Andy Roberts
S: Kumar Sangakkara, Saqlain Mushtaq, Shakib Al Hasan, Bob Simpson, Graeme Smith, Steve Smith, John Snow, Garry Sobers, Brian Statham, Dale Steyn, Herbert Sutcliffe
T: Hugh Tayfield, Mark Taylor, Sachin Tendulkar, Fred Trueman, Victor Trumper, Frank Tyson
V: Hedley Verity
W: John Waite, Clyde Walcott, Courtney Walsh, Doug Walters, Waqar Younis, Shane Warne, David Warner, Wasim Akram, Steve Waugh, Everton Weekes, Frank Worrell

SillyCowCorner1 still has his 2nd, 3rd and 4th round picks
jimmy101, AndrewB and mr_mister have passed.

Round 5 order:
morgieb - F
SillyCowCorner1
Michaelf7777777
The Battlers Prince
trundler
Coronis

 

[morgieb]

Alastair Cook
Mark Taylor
Greg Chappell
Denis Compton
Martin Crowe
Javed Miandad
Andy Flower
Fazal Mahmood
George Lohmann
Frank Tyson
Bhagat Chandrasekhar

 

[The Battlers Prince]

You’re up Michael7777777

 

[The Battlers Prince]

Ok so I’ve had many beers, but still we aren’t waiting for SCC?

 

[AndrewB]

He's timed out now anyway.

 

[Coronis]

Ok so I’ve had many beers, but still we aren’t waiting for SCC?

Best not to draft drunk either way.

 

[The Battlers Prince]

He's timed out now anyway.

In other drafts we’ve not waited for repeat offenders of timeouts. I’m not sure what Sillycow is up to but might as well not wait for his turn each time. As surely when he does return he’ll do his catchup picks at that stage and we will be able to know to wait for his turn then. Saves a lot of waiting around

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

The Cattle Chute XI:

BC Lara
J Laker
VVS Laxman
D Lillee
CH Lloyd
Jeff Dujon
A Logie
N Lyon
M. Starc
J Langer
B Lawry

OUT: Lock, G Lawson
IN: M. Starc, Jeff Dujon

 

[The Battlers Prince]

I think I have too much bowling and not enough batting, so as much as it pains me, I’m going to replace Jack Gregory with Patsy Hendren.

 

[trundler]

I think I have too much bowling and not enough batting, so as much as it pains me, I’m going to replace Jack Gregory with Patsy Hendren.

I did think 2 all rounders at 5 and 6 weakened the batting a bit. Great pick.

 

[Coronis]

So... when my turn?

 

[AndrewB]

Anyone can now pick for Round 5, and Coronis can make a double pick as the first picker for Round 6.

 

[trundler]

I'm passing.

 

[Michaelf7777777]

T will be my final letter please. Don Tallon will replace Jack Blackham

Charter 77 Final XI


Arthur Morris
Sid Barnes
Charles Macartney
Stan McCabe
AB de Villiers
Keith Miller
Imran Khan (*)
Don Tallon (+)
Malcolm Marshall
Muttiah Muralitharan
Glenn McGrath

 

[Coronis]

Virender Sehwag
Victor Trumper
Ricky Ponting*
Graeme Pollock
Virat Kohli
Jacques Kallis
Alan Knott+
Mike Procter
Shaun Pollock
Frank Spofforth
Hedley Verity

S is for Sehwag and Spofforth. Final letter.

 

[AndrewB]

Picks so far (in alphabetical order):

A: Curtly Ambrose, Hashim Amla, James Anderson
B: Sid Barnes, Sydney Barnes, Ken Barrington, Alec Bedser, Richie Benaud, Ian Bishop, Jack Blackham, David Boon, Allan Border, Ian Botham, Geoff Boycott, Mark Boucher, Bill Brown
C: Jock Cameron, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Bhagwat Chandrasekhar, Greg Chappell. Sylvester Clarke, Denis Compton, Learie Constantine, Alastair Cook, Jimmy Cook, Colin Croft, Martin Crowe
D: Alan Davidson, AB de Villiers, Stewie Dempster, Allan Donald, Rahul Dravid, Jeff Dujon
E: Farokh Engineer
F: Aubrey Faulkner, Fazal Mahmood, Andy Flower
G: Joel Garner, Sunil Gavaskar, Lance Gibbs, Adam Gilchrist, Jason Gillespie, Trevor Goddard, Graham Gooch, WG Grace, Jack Gregory, Clarrie Grimmett
H: Richard Hadlee, Wes Hall. Wally Hammond, Neil Harvey, Matthew Hayden, Vijay Hazare, George Headley, Ian Healy, Patsy Hendren, Rangana Herath, Jack Hobbs, Michael Holding, Len Hutton
I: Imran Khan
J: Archie Jackson, Javed Miandad, Mitchell Johnson, Bill Johnston
K: Jacques Kallis, Gary Kirsten, Alan Knott, Virat Kohli
L: Jim Laker, Justin Langer, Brian Lara, Harold Larwood, Bill Lawry, Geoff Lawson, VVS Laxman, Dennis Lillee, Denis Lindsay, Ray Lindwall, Clive Lloyd, Tony Lock, Gus Logie, George Lohmann, Nathan Lyon
M: Charles Macartney, Malcolm Marshall, Peter May, Stan McCabe, Ted McDonald, Glenn McGrath, Keith Miller, Bruce Mitchell, Arthur Morris, Billy Murdoch, Muttiah Muralitharan
N: Monty Noble
O: Bill O'Reilly
P: Adam Parore, Eddie Paynter, Vernon Philander, Kevin Pietersen, Graeme Pollock, Peter Pollock, Shaun Pollock, Bill Ponsford, Ricky Ponting, Erapalli Prasanna, Mike Procter
R: Wilfred Rhodes, Clive Rice, Barry Richards, Viv Richards, Andy Roberts
S: Kumar Sangakkara, Saqlain Mushtaq, Virender Sehwag, Shakib Al Hasan, Bob Simpson, Graeme Smith, Steve Smith, John Snow, Garry Sobers, Fred Spofforth, Mitchell Starc, Brian Statham, Dale Steyn, Herbert Sutcliffe
T: Don Tallon, Hugh Tayfield, Mark Taylor, Sachin Tendulkar, Fred Trueman, Victor Trumper, Frank Tyson
V: Hedley Verity
W: John Waite, Clyde Walcott, Courtney Walsh, Doug Walters, Waqar Younis, Shane Warne, David Warner, Wasim Akram, Steve Waugh, Everton Weekes, Frank Worrell

jimmy101, AndrewB, mr_mister, Michaelf7777777, trundler and Coronis have passed.

Round 6 order:
The Battlers Prince
SillyCowCorner1
morgieb

 

[The Battlers Prince]

Battlers

1. Sunil Gavaskar
2. WG Grace
3. Hashim Amla
4. Dudley Nourse
5. Patsy Hendren
6. Aubrey Faulkner
7. Adam Gilchrist+
8. Joel Garner
9. Curtly Ambrose
10. Clarrie Grimmett
11. James Anderson

I’ll pass

 

[AndrewB]

Any more changes? If not, I'll start the voting thread some time tomorrow evening (UK time).

 

[jimmy101]

Thanks for running the draft Andrew, great job as always.