Test Cricket Draft

[AldoRaine18]

And what do you need to bowl them out for under 150?

 

[Red]

There are two players I am considering, and I really want one or the other. There are two people who are due to select before me.

What's the chance I'll miss both?

Surely not.

 

[Himannv]

Aww, give poor Somerset his double pick. It isn't that much of a big deal ffs.

Greg Chappell

 

[Jager]

It's much better randomised every odd numbered round IMO, keeps things fresh and the people who are at the ends of the list don't have to wait two or three days between picks

 

[Himannv]

It's much better randomised every odd numbered round IMO, keeps things fresh and the people who are at the ends of the list don't have to wait two or three days between picks

I'm closer to the end of the list and you don't see me complaining itbt. It's the same thing anyway. If you're first in one round, you'll be last in the next one. Re-randomizing changes the odds and makes it more uneven imo.

 

[Jager]

No big deal regardless.

 

[AldoRaine18]

I thought everyone agreed on randomizing every odd numbered round.

There is still time for the 3rd round to start so if someone has an issue with randomizing every odd numbered round, say it now. The other option is ofcourse just to keep reversing the existing order.

 

[Jager]

We did agree to randomise, it's the usual CW style from what I've observed

 

[Red]

It's been about 9 hours and Somerset hasn't selected. I'm not sure whether we were using 6 hours or 12 hours as the time-frame. I think I'm going to be offline for the rest of the day.


I'm going to take Andy Roberts.

And if Somerset really wanted Andy Roberts, I'll take Dale Steyn instead.

 

[Agent TBY]

More than 12 hours have passed so I'll take Andy Flower.

01. Gavaskar
02.
03.
04. Lara
05.
06. Flower (+)
07.
08.
09.
10.
11.

 

[Red]

Abbott's Post 1970 XI

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* Sachin Tendulkar
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* Wasim Akram
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* Andy Roberts
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[AldoRaine18]

Thankfully I took Waqar, else I am sure you would have gone for the Wasim and Waqar combo.

 

[AldoRaine18]

Round 1
Somerset - Viv Richards
Himannv - Imran Khan
AldoRaine18 - Malcolm Marshall
Marcuss - Muttiah Muralitharan
Agent TBY - Brian Lara
AndyZaltzHair - Richard Hadlee
Saint Kopite - Shane Warne
Jager - Glenn McGrath
kingkallis - Curtley Ambrose
Michaelf7777777 - Jacques Kallis
Blakus - Adam Gilchrist
Monk - Sachin Tendulkar

Round 2
Monk - Wasim Akram
Blakus - Dennis Lillee
Michaelf7777777 - Shaun Pollock
kingkallis - Ricky Ponting
Jager - Allan Donald
Saint Kopite - Michael Holding
AndyZaltzHair - Joel Garner
Agent TBY - Sunil Gavaskar
Marcuss - Kumar Sangakkara
AldoRaine18 - Waqar Younis
Himmanv - Greg Chappell
Somerset -

Round 3
Monk - Andy Roberts
Agent TBY - Andy Flower
Jader -
kingkallis -
Marcuss -
Himmanv -
Somerset -
Saint Kopite -
Blakus -
AndyZaltzHair -
Michaelf7777777 -
AldoRaine18 -

 

[watson]

And what do you need to bowl them out for under 150?

Balance is the key.

While it is true that there is no point in having a line-up of the best ATG batsman if you have to choose a pair of Dwarfs with arthritis to open the bowling; it is also true that there is little point in having a bowling attack of the best ATGs if you have little choice but to select a couple of blind amputees to open the batting.

 

[AldoRaine18]

Fair enough.

Balance is the key.

While it is true that there is no point in having a line-up of the best ATG batsman if you have to choose a pair of Dwarfs with arthritis to open the bowling; it is also true that there is little point in having a bowling attack of the best ATGs if you have little choice but to select a couple of blind amputees to open the batting.

That's true and well, obvious. And that brings us to the depth of both bowlers and batsmen in thi draft. All the top bowlers have gone think and fast and rightly so, coz after a few names the drop in quality is enormous. While even of you don't get Sachin or Lara, with a great bowling line up you can still have really good batsmen to make more than enough score that will be defended by your bowlers.

Right now almost all the top names I can think of are over. After a couple of names people will really struggle to get quality pacemen.

 

[Red]

Right now almost all the top names I can think of are over. After a couple of names people will really struggle to get quality pacemen.

Yeh, the small pool means most of the high quality quicks will be gone at the end of this round.

 

[Jager]

Allan Border

1.
2.
3.
4.
5. Allan Border
6.
7.
8.
9.
10. Allan Donald
11. Glenn McGrath

 

[Somerset]

Barry Richards

 

[kingkallis]

ARGH! You had to ruin my plan like this mate....

 

[AldoRaine18]

It's your turn KK