Last Letter Draft - Voting thread

[CricAddict]

Draft concept: You can only pick the player whose first name starts with the last letter of the last name of the previous player you picked.
The teams

Cricaddict	JOJOXI	Teuton	sayon basak	capt Luffy	trundler
Arthur Morris	Sid Barnes	Alastair Cook	Sunil Gavaskar	Graeme Smith*	Simpson 5
Sanath Jayasuriya	Dennis Amiss	Rohit Sharma c	Stan McCabe	Hanif Mohammad	H Taylor
Everton Weekes	Neil Harvey	Brian Lara	Greg Chappell	KS Ranjitsinhji	Sangakkara
Denis Compton	Younis Khan	Ross Taylor	Ricky Ponting	Steve Smith	Allan Border
Steve Waugh (c)	Norm O'Neill	Eddie Paynter	Shakib Al Hasan	Ted Dexter	Inzamamul Haq
AB De Villiers	Stanley Jackson (4)	Aubrey Faulkner	Tiger Smith (WK)	Garry Sobers	Rohan Kanhai
Nayan Mongia (wk)	Lee Irvine (wk)	Niroshan Dickwella	Pat Cummins	Ian Botham	Quinton De Kock+
Richard Hadlee	Wasim Akram (1)	Anil Kumble	Lance Gibbs	Denis Lindsay+	Imran Khan* 1
Harold Larwood	Eric Hollies (5)	Dale Steyn	Ian Bishop	Hugh Tayfield	Keshav Maharaj 4
Len Pascoe	Shane Bond (2)	Kagiso Rabada	Nouman Ali	Dennis Lillee	Jasprit Bumrah 2
Stuart Macgill	Muttiah Muralitharan (3)	Allan Donald	Sydney Barnes	Michael Holding	Neil Adcock 3
Silver Silva	Honest Hunks	Thala	Bitmap	Pothas	ataraxia
Geoffrey Boycott	Nari Contractor	Len Hutton (c)	Desmond Haynes	Herbert Sutcliffe	Jack Hobbs /
Trevor Goddard (2)	Shoaib Malik	Roy Fredericks	Rahul Dravid	Tom Latham	Eddie Barlow / o
Viv Richards (7) (C)	Ken Barrington	Kane Williamson	George Headley	Nkrumah Bonner	Wally Hammond / o
Lindsay Hassett	Graeme Pollock	Hashim Amla	Sachin Tendulkar	Dudley Nourse	Jacques Kallis / o
Doug Walters (6)	Aravinda De Silva	Andy Flower (wk)	Stephen Fleming*	Patsy Hendren	Ian Chappell* /
Shivnarine Chanderpaul	Adam Gilchrist (wk) (c)	Saleem Malik	Herschelle Gibbs	Michael Clarke	David Gower /
Keith Miller (5)	Tony Greig	Ravindra Jadeja	Les Ames+	Rishabh Pant	Kapil Dev o /
Shaun Pollock (1)	Alan Davidson	Malcolm Marshall	Ray Lindwall	Stuart Broad	Syed Kirmani + /
Richie Benaud (4) (VC)	Ryan Harris	Alec Bedser	Yasir Shah	Andy Roberts	Shane Warne o
Godfrey Evans (WK)	Kuldeep Yadav	Neil Wagner	Shoaib Akhtar	Erapalli Prasanna	Stuart Clark o
Damien Fleming (3)	Prabath Jayasuriya	Rangana Herath	Derek Underwood	Glenn Mcgrath	Bob Willis o

 

[capt_Luffy]

Been over a week so bump

 

[CricAddict]

Can all the players vote please?

 

[honestbharani]

cricaddict - class middle order, decent bowling attack with an ATG in there but Mongia as keeper is possibly a worse bat than Hadlee. Brings down the team a few notches.

Jojo - Good bowling attack but the batting seems a bit hit or miss. Still early contender for my top 3.

Teuton - Absolutely love that top 6 but Dickwella is unproven at best as kepper and while the RSA fast bowling trio seems good, except Steyn, its not exactly ATG and I am very unsure about 2 legspinners in most conditions. Still in my contenders list.


Sayon - Uncle Ali brings the side down several notches and I am very unsure about the keeper. The top 5 is all class though.

Luffy - Perhaps the best side so far IMO and it may or may not be due to that 5-8 of allrounders.

trundler - I would bat Inzy 4 and Borer 5 in that side but the backup bowling outside of the 3 seamers is shocking in this side.

Silver Silva - Its what one may call a very hb side but when Richards is your second spinner, its not looking too good, is it?

HH - For once, I dont think mine is among the top 3 in this draft as I recognize having Tony Greig as the 3rd seamer is not gonna be great in SENA at least.

Thala - Just does not feel right reading through.. seems to a lot of similarity in that bowling attack and the batting doesn't really stand out.

Bitmap - Not a fan of Dravid out of position. Rather open with Fleming who was pretty successful at 3 too. Just seems like a whole bunch of top order batsmen and no 3rd seamer. Not very balanced, even worse than my side.

Pothas - Pretty decent side but Bonner kinda brings it down several levels and nothing screams out about that side except McGrath at 11 maybe.

ataraxia - Can well be called the medium pace 11. Good depth but the bowling just seems to be quantity over quality.


I guess this turns out pretty easy in the end. None of the last 6 sides seem that interesting. So I guess I will go with

1. Luffy
2. Jojo
3. Teuton