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the having to lose to win draft

harsh.ag

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
I'm disappointed that none of you picked Siddle. One of the poor teams should have included him, might have won you the game.
Please. Would have gone straight into your "too good to be in the running" coloumn. We ain't muppets.
 

NUFAN

Y no Afghanistan flag
Results cont..

morgie Australian Bitter XI
Langer
Blewett
Boon
Chappell G
Walters
Watson
Marsh
Lee
Gillespie
Mailey
MacGill

Verdict Fairly lame reason but being an Aussie it just feels too safe to select this team as the winner.
 

The Battlers Prince

International Vice-Captain
Haha during the rounds I didn't even notice you were choosing only Aussies morgie!
Some great players, I'd love to see the Mailey MacGill combination
 

NUFAN

Y no Afghanistan flag
7 left now

continuation of results

jimmy The 'Give me sixth or give me death' XI
1 Herbert Sutcliffe
2 Nathan Astle (7)
3 Roy Dias
4 Mohammad Yousuf
5 Ravi Shastri (6)
6 Richie Benaud c (5)
7 Gilbert Jessop (4)
8 Jack Russell +
9 Curtly Ambrose (1)
10 Brett Schultz (2)
11 Nantie Hayward (3)

Verdict I've spent a bit of time working out some likely scenarios from the remaining teams and unfortunately this team just didn't have enough brilliance to be the sixth best team. Sure, Sutcliffe, Ambrose, Benaud and I guess Yousuf are world class and there are reasonable players throughout but yeah sorry Jimmy, your team has passed away.
 

jimmy101

Cricketer Of The Year
Good fun NUFAN cheers. Tbh I was surprised that such great players were even selected in the first place. Some of these teams are outstanding, not what I expected from a 6th to win draft.
 

The Battlers Prince

International Vice-Captain
I think these are the teams that remain. I may be wrong though, I'm sure N00fers has it sorted

Dan
1. S Afridi
2. B McCullum
3. I Chappell
4. M Lanning
5. M Clarke
6. I Botham
7. A Gilchrist
8. M Procter
9. Rikki Clarke
10. S Warne
11. R Gilchrist

HonestBharani
Faaroq Engineer (wk)
Trevor Goddard
Mohinder Amarnath
Michael Bevan
Carl Hooper
Shakib Al Hasan
Keith Miller (c)
Aubrey Faulkner
Shaun Pollock
Wasim Akram
Mitchell Johnson

NZTailender
1. M Slater
2. S Katich*
3. K Sangakkara+
4. D Bradman
5. P Collingwood
6. DJ Bravo
7. C Cairns
8. D Fleming
9. D Mohammed
10. M Su'a
11. G McGrath 1

Schearzie
Vijay Merchant
2.Virender Sehwag
3. Stuart Law
4. Allan Border*
5. Inzamam Ul Haq
6. Imtiaz Ahmed+
7. James Faulkner
8. Bruce Dooland
9. Wes Hall
10. Craig McDermott
11. Andre Nel

OverratedSanity
Ed Cowan
Murali Vijay
Sachin Tendulkar
Brian Lara
Ajinkya Rahane
Prasanna Jayawardene
Dale Steyn
Shoaib Akhtar
Aaqib Javed
Stuart Binny (c)
Mpumelelo Mbanwga

Camo
*Jackie McGlew
Victor Trumper
Mark Vermeulen
Everton Weekes
Basil D'Oliveira
Marlon Samuels
+Bert Oldfield
Merv Hughes
Venkatapathy Raju
Sydney Barnes
Jack Iverson

Harsh
Barry Richards
ML Jaisimha
David Gower
Mark Waugh
Damien Martyn
Bob Taylor
Erapalli Prasanna
Abdul Qadir
Derek Underwood
Jeff Thomson
Shane Bond
 
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NUFAN

Y no Afghanistan flag
Draft continuation.

NZTailender
1. M Slater
2. S Katich*
3. K Sangakkara+
4. D Bradman
5. P Collingwood
6. DJ Bravo
7. C Cairns
8. D Fleming
9. D Mohammed
10. M Su'a
11. G McGrath

Verdict - close but no cigar


Schearzie
Vijay Merchant
2.Virender Sehwag
3. Stuart Law
4. Allan Border*
5. Inzamam Ul Haq
6. Imtiaz Ahmed+
7. James Faulkner
8. Bruce Dooland
9. Wes Hall
10. Craig McDermott
11. Andre Nel

Verdict - Dooland, Faulkner and Law didn't play enough. Solid but not quite there.


OverratedSanity
Ed Cowan
Murali Vijay
Sachin Tendulkar
Brian Lara
Ajinkya Rahane
Prasanna Jayawardene
Dale Steyn
Shoaib Akhtar
Aaqib Javed
Stuart Binny (c)
Mpumelelo Mbanwga

Verdict - no real spinner hurts this team


Dan, Harsh, Camo and Honest left. The second best team out of the 4 remaining is the sixth best overall and winner..
 
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NUFAN

Y no Afghanistan flag
WINNER

After careful analysis I have determined that this team fits the criteria the best and is therefore the winner of the first and definitely last draft that I create like this.

Harsh
Barry Richards
ML Jaisimha
David Gower
Mark Waugh
Damien Martyn
Bob Taylor
Erapalli Prasanna
Abdul Qadir
Derek Underwood
Jeff Thomson
Shane Bond


Bad luck to all of the quality teams on paper who weren't good enough.
 

honestbharani

Whatever it takes!!!
Congrats Harsh.. too bad the definite mediocrity of my time did not help me get to #6. Out of curiosity, what number was my team Noof?
 

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