The "What Is He Smoking" Draft

[Jarquis]

Andy Roberts

 

[trundler]

Bill Ponsford

 

[ankitj]

Neil Adcock

 

[stephen]

Hold up

Did you spot something I did wrong?

 

[weeman27bob]

Tamin Iqbal

 

[AndrewB]

Tony Greig

 

[kingkallis]

Arthur Morris

 

[honestbharani]

Ben Stokes

 

[Pothas]

Ravi Bopara

 

[stephen]

4h between the start of that round and everyone selecting. That must be some kind of record. Hold on and I'll compile the results.

 

[stephen]

Round 5, pick a bowler round:

Pick a player who has taken more wickets than they have played tests. Invalid picks will be replaced by the eligible player with the most wickets who has played the same number of tests, or the eligible player who has played the nearest number of tests.

Most of you followed the rules this time. Well done. Of course a few of you decided to expand the ban list instead.

kingkallis	Curtly Ambrose	George Headley	*Jimmy Binks	*Reg Simpson	*Geoff Lawson
Himmanv	Dale Steyn	Joel Garner	*Ollie Pope	*Everton Weekes	*Morne Morkel
srbhkshk	*Gordon Greenidge	Courtney Walsh	*George Duckworth	*Bert Vogler	Pat Cummins
Ataraxia	*Qasim Umar	Alan Davidson	*Wasim Bari	Alec Bedser	Jack Gregory
weeman27bob	*Corey Anderson	Andy Flower	*Dick Spooner	*George Geary	Graeme Swann
Jojoxi	Kapil Dev	Virat Kohli	*Wally Grout	Frank Worrell	Mitchell Starc
MorgieB	*Virender Sehwag	Wasim Akram	*Roy Swetman	*Harry Boyle	*Daniel Vettori
HonestBharani	*Ross Edwards	Mike Procter	*James Kelly	*Bill Bowes	Ben Stokes
AndrewB	*Sunil Gavaskar	Ray Lindwall	Clyde Walcott	Maurice Tate	Tony Greig
Trundler	*John Snow	Allan Donald	*Gil Langley	*Billy Zulch	*Taijul Islam
Pothas	*Rohan Kanhai	Michael Holding	*Warren Lees	*Ivan Barrow	*Roy Gilchrist
Michaelf7777777	*Neville Quinn	Shaun Pollock	Les Ames	Victor Trumper	Wilfred Rhodes
Marcuss	Muttiah Muralitharan	Dennis Lillee	Kumar Sangakkara	*Tommy Andrews	Andy Roberts
ankitj	Bill O'Reilly	Denis Compton	*John Ward	Herbert Sutcliffe	Neil Adcock

Ban list:

Glenn McGrath, Don Bradman, Imran Khan, Garfield Sobers, Steve Smith, Adam Gilchrist, Malcolm Marshall, Shakib Al Hasan, Richard Hadlee, Keith Miller, Jack Hobbs, W. G. Grace, Jacques Kallis, Sydney Barnes, Brian Lara, Len Hutton, Aubrey Faulkner, Fred Trueman, Sachin Tendulkar, Barry Richards, Ian Botham, Wally Hammond, Viv Richards, Richie Benaud, Graeme Pollock, Rahul Dravid, Shane Warne, Clarrie Grimmett, Jim Laker, Waqar Younis, Harold Larwood, Simon Katich, David Boon, Allan Border, Ken Barrington, Bob Simpson, Steve Waugh, Younis Khan, James Anderson, Adam Voges, Arthur Morris, Greg Chappell, Tamim Iqbal, Javed Miandad, Bill Ponsford, Ravi Bopara

Round 6 is the reverse of last round, but we'll have two active players at once.

Pothas - Derek Pringle
honestbharani - Shane Watson
@kingkallis
@AndrewB
weeman27bob
Ankitj
Trundler
Marcuss
morgieb
srbhkshk
Michaelf7777777
Himannv
ataraxia
JOJOXI

 

[stephen]

@stephen... sure hope it's a bowlers-only round...

You were one round off. I was laughing when I saw this comment.

 

[JOJOXI]

Cummins and Roberts are very good picks, wasn't expecting a bowlers-only round but thought it might be to do with handedness with bowling hand only counting if they've bowled a delivery or something

 

[Pothas]

Oh man I did not even get Ravi.

 

[Pothas]

Derek Pringle

 

[ataraxia]

Jack Gregory (the obvious pick, given the parameters of this round)

I stand by this statement.

 

[ataraxia]

7) Jack Gregory o /
8) Alan Davidson o /
9) Wasim Bari + /
10) Qasim Umar /
11) Alec Bedser o

feel this is the right batting order.

 

[ataraxia]

@kingkallis up with hb.

 

[honestbharani]

Shane Watson

 

[JOJOXI]

@AndrewB