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[stephen]

If one other person had taken the 'just pick the best guys and hope everyone drops out before you' approach my thing wouldn't have worked. I'm proud of 'letting' Stephen pick Davidson though.

I had to. Dravid didn't work for my team composition. G Chappell would have worked but you took him. I could have gone straight to a B pick but then I'd be taking a huge risk on my A pick given with any B pick that would have made sense I was behind weldone, who would take the premium A fast bowling option (unless he takes a C fast bowler). I could potentially have been competing with AndrewB, weldone and Trundler for an A pick. I was basically forced into picking Davidson with your Chappell pick.

 

[stephen]

• Teuton: Younis Khan, Bob Willis, Gary Sobers, Andy Roberts, Bill O'Reilly, Arthur Morris, Imran Khan, Michael Hussey, WG Grace, Andy Flower
• AndrewB: Kane Williamson, Hedley Verity, Steve Smith, Mike Procter, Keith Miller, George Lohmann, Alan Knott, Matthew Hayden, Aubrey Faulkner
• pothas: Waqar Younis, Hugh Tayfield, Graeme Smith, Shaun Pollock, Dennis Lillee, Virat Kohli, Mahela Jayawardene, Sunil Gavaskar, Rahul Dravid
• ataraxia: Steve Waugh, Derek Underwood, Glenn Turner, Viv Richards, Bill Ponsford, Bert Oldfield, Ray Lindwall, Richard Hadlee, Allan Donald
• kingkallis: Clyde Walcott, Herbert Sutcliffe, Barry Richards, Glenn McGrath, Harold Larwood, Rohan Kanhai, Michael Holding, Clarrie Grimmett, MS Dhoni
• honestbharani: Everton Weekes, Chaminda Vaas, Frank Tyson, Shakib Al Hasan, ​Kagiso Rabada, Eddie Paynter, Mushtaq Mohammed, Brian Lara, Wally Hammond, AB De Villiers
• weldone: Wasim Akram, Dale Steyn, Joe Root, Graeme Pollock, Mahmudullah, Jack Hobbs, Gordon Greenidge, Quinton de Kock
• stephen: Zaheer Abbas, Bill Woodfull, Sachin Tendulkar, Shoaib Akhtar, Ricky Ponting, Dudley Nourse, Jim Laker, Kapil Dev, Adam Gilchrist, Alan Davidson
• ankitj: Fred Trueman, Brian Statham, KS Ranjitsinhji, Muttiah Muralitharan, Clive Lloyd, Len Hutton, Joel Garner, Roy Fredericks, Denis Compton
• trundler: Shane Warne, Victor Trumper, Bob Simpson, Jack Russell, Malcolm Marshall, Jacques Kallis, George Headley, Graham Gooch, Greg Chappell

Complete:

• SillyCowCorner1: Frank Worrell, Dan Vettori, Kumar Sangakkara, Ian Redpath, Bobby Peel, Makhaya Ntini, Mudassar Nazar, Javed Miandad, Wes Hall, Trevor Goddard, John Edrich

Teuton is up for his final pick.

 

[weldone]

You must now pick a player from every remaining letter (on your turn of course).

Yes I figured that out while skipping E and F intentionally

Oh and weldone, your team selections have downright infuriated me haha. I'll explain why later.

haha ok

 

[weldone]

premium B fast bowler

lol @ "fast" though

 

[honestbharani]

Tino Best was faaast maaann

 

[weldone]

It's funny how your entire draft can hinge on whether someone takes a single player. If weldone took Davidson (which should have been a relatively strong option for him) then my entire last few rounds would have looked very different.

I wanted a strong number 6 in de kock given I have dullah at 7. I may still get someone better than Davidson who knows.

 

[trundler]

Could've aimed for a certain Englishman

 

[weldone]

Could've aimed for a certain Englishman

..in place of de Kock behind the wicket? I don't think so, given I still want the guy better than Davidson

 

[trundler]

This is tense.

 

[ataraxia]

I thought Kallis to Hadlee would've been a safe enough jump. After that I thought I had a shot at Donald so blame ataraxia basically

I played a bit of a weird draft. The Turner/Underwood duo set me up for big jumps and IMO T/U aren't bad players to pick generally. AndrewB taking Faulkner probably messed me up a lot.

I don't think Kallis to Hadlee was a feasibly going to happen tbh. Kallis is the end of the Ks and there's not much in I and J, then you've got H and Hadlee's the end of those. In fact, I wrote off going to Kohli then Hadlee because I didn't think I'd get Hadlee. Can be a weird game.

 

[Teuton]

Ken Barrington

 

[Teuton]

Final xi

Arthur Morris
WG Grace
Younis Khan
Ken Barrington
Mike Hussey
Gary Sobers
Andy Flower
Imran Khan
Andy Roberts
Bill O'Reilly
Bob Willis

 

[stephen]

AndrewB -> (probably) Pothas -> ataraxia

 

[stephen]

That's a great side Teuton.

 

[AndrewB]

Sydney (SF) Barnes

 

[marc71178]

I wanted a strong number 6 in de kock given I have dullah at 7. I may still get someone better than Davidson who knows.

I wouldn't call de Kock a strong number 6.

 

[stephen]

Sydney (SF) Barnes

You just broke trundler.

 

[stephen]

• ataraxia: Steve Waugh, Derek Underwood, Glenn Turner, Viv Richards, Bill Ponsford, Bert Oldfield, Ray Lindwall, Richard Hadlee, Allan Donald
• kingkallis: Clyde Walcott, Herbert Sutcliffe, Barry Richards, Glenn McGrath, Harold Larwood, Rohan Kanhai, Michael Holding, Clarrie Grimmett, MS Dhoni
• honestbharani: Everton Weekes, Chaminda Vaas, Frank Tyson, Shakib Al Hasan, ​Kagiso Rabada, Eddie Paynter, Mushtaq Mohammed, Brian Lara, Wally Hammond, AB De Villiers
• weldone: Wasim Akram, Dale Steyn, Joe Root, Graeme Pollock, Mahmudullah, Jack Hobbs, Gordon Greenidge, Quinton de Kock
• stephen: Zaheer Abbas, Bill Woodfull, Sachin Tendulkar, Shoaib Akhtar, Ricky Ponting, Dudley Nourse, Jim Laker, Kapil Dev, Adam Gilchrist, Alan Davidson
• ankitj: Fred Trueman, Brian Statham, KS Ranjitsinhji, Muttiah Muralitharan, Clive Lloyd, Len Hutton, Joel Garner, Roy Fredericks, Denis Compton
• pothas: Waqar Younis, Hugh Tayfield, Graeme Smith, Shaun Pollock, Dennis Lillee, Virat Kohli, Mahela Jayawardene, Sunil Gavaskar, Rahul Dravid, Michael Clarke
• trundler: Shane Warne, Victor Trumper, Bob Simpson, Jack Russell, Malcolm Marshall, Jacques Kallis, George Headley, Graham Gooch, Greg Chappell
• AndrewB: Kane Williamson, Hedley Verity, Steve Smith, Mike Procter, Keith Miller, George Lohmann, Alan Knott, Matthew Hayden, Aubrey Faulkner, Sydney (SF) Barnes

Complete:

• SillyCowCorner1: Frank Worrell, Dan Vettori, Kumar Sangakkara, Ian Redpath, Bobby Peel, Makhaya Ntini, Mudassar Nazar, Javed Miandad, Wes Hall, Trevor Goddard, John Edrich
• Teuton: Younis Khan, Bob Willis, Gary Sobers, Andy Roberts, Bill O'Reilly, Arthur Morris, Imran Khan, Michael Hussey, WG Grace, Andy Flower, Ken Barrington

 

[AndrewB]

You just broke trundler.

I was planning to pick another bowler before all the comments, FWIW.
I mean, if I picked two more batsmen I'd have Procter and Knott batting at 8 and 9, which just seems ridiculous.

 

[Pothas]

Michael Clarke