Taboo Draft

[kyear2]

Marcusshas already picked Ramadhine. Only a few posts ago. The timing amused me

Bloddy hell. I give up.

Sure no onw has picked Roger Harper. (spinner)

 

[zaremba]

Sorry but he counts as a batsman

 

[kyear2]

With a batting average of 18?

He was selected as a spin bowler. Not a very good one, but a spin bowler and and exceptional fielder.

 

[G.I.Joe]

Sorry kyear2, Zaremba's right. Harper has a WPM < 2, which means he doesn't count as a bowler here.

 

[kyear2]

And he averages less than 27, so he doesn't count or qualifies as a batsman either.

So since he was selected to play as a bowler, he is a bowler.

 

[Valer]

And he averages less than 27, so he doesn't count or qualifies as a batsman either.

So since he was selected to play as a bowler, he is a bowler.

There will be five categories of players:

All-rounders - At least 2 wickets per match AND batting average of 27 and above.

Pace-bowlers - At least 2 wickets per match AND batting average below 27.

Spin-bowlers - At least 2 wickets per match AND batting average below 27.

Wicket-keepers - Should have kept wicket for at least half the number matches they have played.

Batsmen - Should not fit into any of the above categories.

Sadly yes a "Batsman". G.I.Joe and zaremba are correct.

(As mentioned earlier all non-test players fit in here too).

 

[kyear2]

Alfred Valentine (spinner)

 

[G.I.Joe]

Round 1
marc71178 - Garfield Sobers (All Rounder)
Uvelocity - Shane Warne (Spinner)
Cabinet96 - Adam Gilchrist (Wicket Keeper)
Spikey - Jacques Kallis (Batsman)
Cevno - Imran Khan (All Rounder)
Pothas - Malcolm Marshall (Pacer)
G.I.Joe - Muttiah Muralitharan (Spinner)
kyear2 - Viv Richards (Batsman)
kingkallis - Richard Hadlee (All Rounder)
Himannv - Sydney Barnes (Pacer)
weeman27bob - Jack Hobbs (Batsman)
Jager - Keith Miller (All Rounder)
8ankitj - Curtly Ambrose (Pacer)
morgieb - Sachin Tendulkar (Batsman)
Eds - Ian Botham (All Rounder)
Blakus - Bill O'Reilly (Spinner)
NUFAN - Fred Trueman (Pacer)
Valer -Walter Hammond (Batsman)
Marcuss -Clarrie Grimmett (Spinner)
Zaremba - Glenn McGrath (Pacer)
weldone - Brian Lara (Batsman)
Michaelf7777777 - Andy Flower (Wicket Keeper)

Round 2
weldone - Alan Davidson (Pacer)
Michaelf7777777 - Shaun Pollock (Allrounder)
Zaremba - Jim Laker (Spinner)
Marcuss - Wasim Akram (Pacer)
Valer - Georger Headley (Batsman)
NUFAN - Wilfred Rhodes (All Rounder)
Blakus - Dennis Lillee (Pacer)
Eds - Victor Trumper (Batsman)
morgieb - Les Ames (Wicket Keeper)
8ankitj - Graeme Pollock (Batsman)
Jager - Richie Benaud (Spinner)
weeman27bob - Alan Knott (Wicket Keeper)
Himannv - Allan Donald (Pacer)
kingkallis - Len Hutton (Batsman)
kyear2 - Denis Lindsay (Wicket Keeper)
G.I.Joe - Aubrey Faulkner (All Rounder)
Pothas - Ray Lindwall (Pacer)
Cevno - Sunil Gavaskar (Batsman)
Spikey - Kapil Dev (All Rounder)
Cabinet96 - Waqar Younis (Pacer)
uvelocity - Rodney Marsh (Wicket Keeper)
marc71178 - Kumar Sangakkara (Batsman)

Round 3
kingkallis - Micheal Holding (Seamer)
weeman27bob - Hedley Verity (Spinner)
Zaremba Ricky Ponting (Batsman)
Himannv - Joel Garner (Pacer)
Eds - Trevor Goddard (All Rounder)
Valer - Herbert Sutcliffe (Batsman)
weldone - Courtney Walsh (Pacer)
Jager - Andy Roberts (Pacer)
Spikey - Anil Kumble (Spinner)
NUFAN - Greg Chappell (Batsman)
G.I.Joe - Dale Steyn (Pacer)
Michaelf7777777 - Chris Cairns (All Rounder)
Blakus - Barry Richards (Batsman)
8ankitj - John Waite (Wicket Keeper)
morgieb - Bob Willis (Pacer)
Marcuss - Steve Waugh (Batsman)
Cabinet96 - Tony Grieg (All Rounder)
Uvelocity - Shoaib Akhtar (Pacer)
Cevno - Sir Clyde Walcott (Batsman)
kyear2 - Derek Underwood (Spinner)
Pothas - Monty Noble (All Rounder)
marc71178 - Matt Prior (Keeper)

Round 4
Pothas - Everton Weekes (Batsman)
marc71178 - Jack Gregory (All Rounder)
kyear2 - Frank Tyson (Pacer)
Cevno - Ken Barrington (Batsman)
Uvelocity - Vinoo Mankad (All Rounder)
Cabinet96 - John Briggs (Spinner)
Marcuss - Geoff Boycott (Batsman)
morgieb - Brian Statham (Pacer)
8ankitj - Hugh Tayfield (Spinner)
Blakus - Allan Border (Batsman)
Michaelf7777777 - Mike Procter (Pacer)
G.I.Joe - Andrew Flintoff (All Rounder)
NUFAN - Frank Worrell (Batsman)
Spikey - Alec Bedser (Pacer)
Jager - Ian Healy (Keeper)
weldone - Rahul Dravid (Batsman)
Valer - Charlie Turner (Pacer)
Eds - Hugh Trumble (Spinner)
Himannv - Denis Compton (Batsman)
Zaremba - Jeff Thompson (Pacer)
weeman27bob - Lance Gibbs (Spinner)
kingkallis - Javed Miandad (Batsman)

Round 5
Valer - George Lohmann (Pacer)
marc71178 - Abdul Qadir (Spinner)
weldone - Neil Harvey (Batsman)
Blakus - Harold Larwood (Pacer)
Himannv - Subash Gupte (Spinner)
Zaremba - Mahela Jayawardene (Batsman)
weeman27bob - Wes Hall (Pacer)
Spikey - Alec Stewart (Wicket Keeper)
Cevno - WG Grace (Batsman)
8ankitj - Fred Spofforth (Pacer)
NUFAN - Farokh Engineer (Wicket Keeper)
Eds - Gordon Greenidge (Batsman)
G.I.Joe - Neil Adcock (Pacer)
Cabinet96 - Greame Swann (Spinner)
Jager - Peter May (Batsman)
kyear2 - Colin Croft (Pacer)
kingkallis - Bhagawath Chandrasekhar (Spinner)
Pothas - Stan McCabe (Batsman)
Uvelocity - Mohammad Asif (Pacer)
Marcuss - Jack Russel (Wicket Keeper)
morgieb - Matthew Hayden (Batsman)
Michaelf7777777 - Peter Pollock (Pacer)

Round 6
morgieb - Tony Lock (Spinner)
Michaelf7777777 - MS Dhoni (Wicketkeeper)
Marcuss - Dudley Nourse (Batsman)
Uvelocity - Chris Lewis (Pacer)
Pothas - Bishan Bedi (Spinner)
kingkallis - John Snow (Pacer)
kyear2 - Arthur Morris (Batsman)
Jager - Jeffrey Dujon (Wicket Keeper)
Cabinet96 - Jason Gillespie (Pacer)
G.I.Joe - Shakib Al Hasan (All Rounder)
Eds - Fazal Mahmood (Pacer)
NUFAN - Erapalli Prasanna (Spinner)
8ankitj - Virender Sehwag (Batsman)
Cevno - Ian Bishop (Pacer)
Spikey - Brad Haddin (Wicket Keeper)
weeman27bob - Bill Ponsford (Batsman)
Zaremba - Maurice Tate (Pacer)
Himannv - Godfrey Evans (Wicket Keeper)
Blakus - Rohan Kanhai (Batsman)
weldone - Kumar Ranjitsinhji (Batsman)
Valer - Bill Johnston (Pacer, Spinner)

Round 7
G.I.Joe - Mark Boucher (Wicket Keeper)
Marcuss - Jock Cameron (Wicket Keeper)
weldone - Vijay Merchant (Batsman)
NUFAN - Bruce Reid (Pacer)
Eds - Charlie Blythe (Spinner)
weeman27bob - Frank Woolley (Batsman)
morgieb - Shane Bond (Pacer)
Michaelf7777777 - Brendon McCullum (Wicket Keeper)
8ankitj - Craig Mcdermott (Pacer)
Cevno - Chaminda Vaas (Pacer)
kyear2 - Kevin Pietersen (Batsman)
Valer - Budhi Kunderan (Wicket Keeper)
Blakus - Bobby Peel (Spinner)
Jager - James Anderson (Pacer)
Himannv - Daniel Vettori (All Rounder)
Spikey - Stuart Broad (All Rounder)
kingkallis - David Gower (Batsman)
Uvelocity - Saeed Ajmal (Spinner)
Zaremba - Jim Parks (Wicket Keeper)
Cabinet96 - Tim Bresnan (All Rounder)
Pothas - Frank Foster (Pacer)

Round 8
Cabinet96 - Graeme Smith (Batsman)
Pothas - George Brown (Wicket Keeper)
Zaremba - Johnny Wardle (Spinner)
Uvelocity - Stephen Fleming (Batsman)
kingkallis - Dave Richardson (Wicket Keeper)
Spikey - Charles Kelleway (All Rounder)
Himannv - Charles Macartney (Batsman)
Jager - Saqlain Mushtaq (Spinner)
Blakus - Syed Kirmani (Wicket Keeper)
Valer - Bill Lockwood (Pacer)
kyear2 - Gerry Gomez (All Rounder)
Cevno - Moin Khan (Wicket Keeper)
8ankitj - Bruce Mitchell (Batsman)
Michaelf7777777 - George Giffen (Pacer)
morgieb - Prassana Jayawardene (Wicket Keeper)
weeman27bob - Inzamam Ul Haq (Batsman)
Eds - Graham McKenzie (Pacer)
NUFAN - Jack Cowie (Pacer)
weldone - Bert Ironmonger (Spinner)
Marcuss - Hanif Mohammad (Batsman)
G.I.Joe - Adam Parore (Wicket Keeper)

Round 9
kyear2 - Makhaya Ntini (Pacer)
Spikey - Shivnarine Chanderpaul (Batsman)
Cevno - Mushtaq Ahmed (Spinner)
Zaremba - Graham Gooch (Batsman)
NUFAN - Gubby Allen (Pacer)
Cabinet96 - Irfan Pathan (All rounder)
Eds
kingkallis - Billy Bates (All Rounder)
morgieb - Colin Cowdrey (Batsman)
8ankitj - Clive Lloyd (Batsman)
weldone - Vernon Philander (Pacer)
Jager - Don Tallon (Wicket Keeper)
Pothas - Bob Simpson (Batsman)
Valer - Bill Woodfull (Batsman)
Uvelocity - Harbhajan Singh (Spinner)
Himannv - Romesh Kaluwitharana (Wicket Keeper)
Blakus - Doug Walters (Batsman)
Michaelf7777777 - Stuart MacGill (Spinner)
G.I.Joe - Tatenda Taibu (Wicket Keeper)
weeman27bob - Merv Hughes (Pacer)
Marcuss - Bill Lawry (Batsman)

Round 10
weeman27bob - Colin McCool (All Rounder)
Marcuss - Heath Streak (Pacer)
G.I.Joe - Ridley Jacobs (Wicket Keeper)
Michaelf7777777 - Sid Barnes (Batsman)
Blakus - Albert Trott (All Rounder)
Himannv - Dick Barlow (All Rounder)
Uvelocity - Phil Tufnell (Spinner)
Valer - Bapu Nadkarni (Spinner)
Pothas - George Hirst (Pacer)
Jager - Gerry Alexander (Wicket Keeper)
weldone - Gary Kirsten (Batsman)
8ankitj - Jimmy Sinclair (Pacer)
morgieb - Walter Robins (Spinner)
kingkallis - Martin Crowe (Batsman)
Cabinet96 - Andrew Caddick (Pacer)
NUFAN - Trevor Bailey (All Rounder)
Zaremba - AB de Villiers (Batsman)
Cevno - Javagal Srinath (Pacer)
Spikey
kyear2 - Alfred Valentine (Spinner)

Round 11

Spikey
Zaremba - Matthew Wade (Wicket Keeper)

kingkallis - Ray Illingworth (Spinner)
Himannv - Allan Steel (All Rounder)
weeman27bob - Zaheer Abbas (Batsman)
Valer - Brett Lee (Pacer)

Cabinet96 - Dinesh Ramdhin (Wicket Keeper)

Jager - Rashid Latif (Wicket Keeper)
Marcuss - Sonny Ramadhin (Spinner)

Cevno - Mohammad Yousuf (Batsman)

NUFAN - Conrad Hunte (Batsman)
kyear2 - Justin Langer (Batsman)
weldone - Wasim Bari (Wicket Keeper)
Michaelf7777777 - Manoj Prabhakar (All Rounder)
G.I.Joe - VVS Laxman (Batsman)
Blakus
Uvelocity
Pothas
morgieb
8ankitj

Round 12 (non-taboo round)
morgieb 8ankitj Pothas Uvelocity Blakus G.I.Joe Michaelf7777777 weldone kyear2 NUFAN Cevno Marcuss Jager Cabinet96 Valer weeman27bob Himannv kingkallis Zaremba Spikey

 

[G.I.Joe]

Cevno timed out.

NUFAN up, has 4.5 hours to go. Followed by kyear2 > weldone.

NUFAN's taboos are spinner and pacer.

kyear2's taboos will be spinner and whatever NUFAN picks. If NUFAN times out, kyear2's taboos will be spinner and pacer.

 

[Cabinet96]

Denish Ramdin (WK)

 

[Cevno]

Mohammad Yousuf (batsman)

 

[Cevno]

Team -

1)W.G Grace
2)Sunil Gavakar
3)Ken Barrington
4)Mohammad Yousuf
5)Clyde Walcott
6)Moin Khan
7)Imran Khan
8)Chaminda Vaas
9)Javagal Srinath
10)Mushtaq Ahmed
11)Ian Bishop

Decent balance that.

 

[NUFAN]

Okay I'm picking a batsman, give me 2 minutes..

Conrad Hunte (batsman)

1. W Rhodes
2. C. Hunte
3. G Chappell
4. F Worrell
5. T Bailey
6. F Engineer
7. G Allen
8. F Trueman
9. E Prasanna
10. J Cowie
11. B Reid

 

[kyear2]

Nufan had timed out, so that still gave me the chance of a batsman?

Justin Langer?

 

[NUFAN]

In fairness, I only timed out as I waiting to stop laughing at your decision to pick Ramadin straight after the Cameron pick.

This draft has been torture. I'm not going to bother doing another one for ages when we have to wait in order for a pick.

 

[uvelocity]

only 2 months itbt :o

 

[kyear2]

In fairness, I only timed out as I waiting to stop laughing at your decision to pick Ramadin straight after the Cameron pick.

This draft has been torture. I'm not going to bother doing another one for ages when we have to wait in order for a pick.

Lol.

was looking at the long list and the Ramadin pick hadn't been updated.

 

[weldone]

Wasim Bari (Wicket keeper)

 

[weldone]

Weldone's Taboo XI:
Gary Kirsten
Vijay Merchant
Rahul Dravid
Brian Lara
Neil Harvey
Kumar Ranjitsinhji
Alan Davidson
Wasim Bari+
Vernon Philander
Courtney Walsh*
Bert Ironmonger

 

[Jager]

In fairness, I only timed out as I waiting to stop laughing at your decision to pick Ramadin straight after the Cameron pick.

This draft has been torture. I'm not going to bother doing another one for ages when we have to wait in order for a pick.

I think the huge amount of players has also affected the draft, because by now it's nearly impossible to find players worth a mention in any sort of ATG discussion since so many have been taken and because of the huge waits between picks. People might not want to spend time trying to remember a vaguely decent player, especially since the categories are often so limited.