Families Draft - Voting Thread

[Michaelf7777777]

Just realised through a forum search that we didn't have a vote to finish this families draft off. which to refresh people's memories involved picking 7 combinations of 2 people relatedto eachother and a 15th player related to no other 1st class cricketer. Entries are to be judged just on the final XI's found here for Test matches, if people are interested in the family links, visit the original thread at Cricket Families Draft

Anyways here are the teams to vote on.

BoyBrumby XI

1) GR Marsh
2) ME Waugh
3) DG Bradman
4) RT Ponting
5) GSA Sobers
6) SR Waugh*
7) CL Cairns
8) RW Marsh+
9) DAJ Holford
10) PM Pollock
11) BL Cairns

NUFAN XI

1 Len Hutton
2 Walter Hadlee
3 George Headley
4 Neil Harvey
5 Duleepsinhji
6 Ranjitsinhji
7 Ian Healy
8 Richard Hadlee
9 Richie Benaud
10 Malcolm Marshall
11 Dean Headley

stumpski XI

Hanif Mohammad
Micky Stewart
Walter Hammond
Denis Compton
Alec Stewart (wk)
Mushtaq Mohammad
Sid Martin
Albert Trott
Hugh Tayfield
Ryan Sidebottom
Fidel Edwards

Noble One XI

1 Gary Kirsten
2 Peter Kirsten
3 Viv Richards
4 Sachin Tendulkar
5 Clive Lloyd (C)
6 Andy Flower (WK)
7 John F Reid
8 Brett Lee
9 Alec Bedser
10 Lance Gibbs
11 Bruce Reid

Jamee999/ Archie mac XI

1 CC Hunte
2 VT Trumper
3 GS Chappell
4 AD Nourse
5 AW Nourse
6 Imran Khan
7 IT Botham
8 SK Warne
9 S Carter+
10 Abdul Qadir
11 CEH Croft

fredfertang XI

WG Grace
John Edrich
Ernest Tyldesley
Brian Lara
JT Tyldesley
Bill Edrich
Alan Knott
Maurice Tate
Simon Jones
Jeff Jones
Sonny Ramadhin

Michaelf7777777 XI

1. Sunil Gavaskar
2. Vinoo Mankad
3. Everton Weekes
4. Graeme Pollock
5. Keith Miller (*)
6. Lala Amarath
7. Gudappa Viswanath
8. Mike Procter
9. Jack Gregory
10. Shaun Pollock
11. David Murray (+)

[Noble One]

Enjoyable and well thought out draft.

Can't go past NUFAN's team as the best. Any attack lead by Marshall and Hadlee is worthy of number one. Just to top it off probably has the strongest batting lineup too, quality and quantity of bats.

[Athlai]

Two horse race for me between Boybrumbys brilliant top 6 and NUFAN's all round strength.

[Samuel_Vimes]

Some fine squads.

Jamee/archie mac's gets my vote; a weak middle order more than made up for by a very fine opening pair and acceptable batting down to nine. Add a decent wickie and a bowling line-up which could be named as an all-time XI in its own right.

NUFAN's batting line-up might contribute 60 runs more over the match - both have weak fives - but has three bowlers + a crock. Benaud not quite in the class of Warne, either.

Brumby's XI would draw a lot. Had his bowling as the weakest before realising Sobers will take the spin duties, which at least draws it up to respectability. Would win a County Championship with plenty of English rain and bonus points.

Notable mention also to the thread starter, with perhaps the strongest batting outside Bradman, but a lack of a threatening spin option hurts.

[BoyBrumby]

Originally Posted by Samuel_Vimes

Brumby's XI would draw a lot. Had his bowling as the weakest before realising Sobers will take the spin duties, which at least draws it up to respectability. Would win a County Championship with plenty of English rain and bonus points.

Have Holford as my specialist spinner, tbf with Sir Gaz & Junior Waugh as back up if necessary.

Clearly my bowling much weaker than my batting, but I do at least have plenty of options: 5 credible seamers and 3 spinners.

[Samuel_Vimes]

Originally Posted by BoyBrumby

Have Holford as my specialist spinner, tbf with Sir Gaz & Junior Waugh as back up if necessary.

I'd probably back Waugh over Holford "look, I average more than el Rey of Spin" with the ball, tbh...

[archie mac]

M777

Bat to 11 + 5 front line bowlers. If they had one more spinner that would make them unbeatable for my money

[Somerset]

Would go with Michael's team also. Like the look of Brumby's side too but Michael's depth to his team ensures my vote.

[Michaelf7777777]

Congrats to NUFAN for winning this draft

[NUFAN]

Woot! Very lucky I feel, but will take the win