Matt79
Global Moderator
A poll as to who's XI from the Random Country Draft is the best. People were asked to compile their XI, with each round the player being drawn from a country at random. Participants did not get advanced notification of which countries would be drawn, so had to balance selecting the best available player in each round with hedging against an unfavourable country, in terms of a weak playing pool or a country with lots of better options for a specific role, coming up in future. Once the eleven selection were made, it was open to participants to make any swaps amongst themselves that were mutually agreeable.
There were ten players - some have indicated they will post a blurb regarding their team.
Zinzan
1 Herbert Sutcliffe 4500+ runs @ 60
2 Virander Sehwag 6500+ runs @ 52
3 Zaheer Abbas 5000+ runs @ 45
4 Brian Lara 10000+ runs @ 52
5 Jacques Kallis 10000+ runs @ 55, 261 wickets @ 31
6 Tillakaratne Dilshan (WK) 3500+ runs @ 43
7 Andrew Flintoff 3500 + runs @ 31 200+ wickets @32
8 Shane Warne 3000+ runs @ 17, 708 wickets @ 25
9 Anil Kumble 2500+ runs @ 17, 619 wickets @ 29
10 Jack Cowie 45 wickets @ 21
11 Courtney Walsh 519 wickets @ 24
Himannv
Jack Hobbs (5410 @ 56.94)
Barry Richards (508 @ 72.57)
Viv Richards* (8540 @ 50.23)
Javed Miandad (8832 @ 52.57)
Inzamam-ul-Haq (8829 @ 50.16)
Bert Sutcliffe (2727 @ 40.10)
Chaminda Vaas (3089 @ 24.32 | 355 @ 29.58)
Wasim Bari+ (1366 @ 15.88 | 201 ct, 27 st)
Andy Roberts (202 @ 25.61)
Jim Laker (193 @ 21.24)
Glenn McGrath (563 @ 21.64)
Cevno
1)Sir Leonard Hutton
2)Marvan Attapatu
3)Greg Chappell
4)Sachin Tendulkar
5)Dudley Nourse
6)Jeffrey Dujon
7)Abdul Razzaq
8)Hedley Verity
9)Joel Garner
10)Shoaib Akhtar
11)Shane Bond
Matt79
Gordan Greenidge (7558 @ 44.72)
Geoff Boycott (8114 @ 47.72)
Everton Weekes (4455 @ 58.61)
Mahela Jayawardene (9120 @ 53.96)
Martin Donnelly (582 @ 52.90)
Imran Khan (3807 @ 37.69, 362w @ 22.81)
Kapil Dev (5248 @ 31.05, 434w @ 29.61)
Rashid Latif + (1381 @ 28.77, 119cts, 11 stumpings)
Allan Donald (330w @ 22.25)
Bill O'Reilly (144w @ 22.57)
SF Barnes (189w @ 16.43)
Somerset
Glenn Turner
Vijay Hazare
Graeme Pollock
Mohammad Yousuf
Sir Frank Worrell
Sir Garfield Sobers
Thilan Samaraweera
Adam Gilchrist
Wilfred Rhodes
George Lohmann
Mohammad Asif
G.I.Joe
Conrad Hunte (45.06)
Stewie Dempster (65.72)
Kumar Sangakkara (55.10)
Kevin Pietersen (49.26)
Younis Khan (50.09)
MS Dhoni (42.59, 113c, 20st) +
Aubrey Faulkner (40.79, 26.58)
Ray Lindwall (21.15, 23.03)
Michael Holding (13.78, 23.68)
Fred Trueman (13.81, 21.57)
Waqar Younis (10.2, 23.56)
99*
G. Smith (RSA) 6799 @ 49.99
H. Mohammed (PAK) 3915 @ 43.98
D. Bradman (AUS) 6996 @ 99.94
M. Azharuddin (IND) 6215 @ 45.03
H. Tillakaratne (SRI) 4545 @ 42.87
B. McCullum (NZ) 2678 @ 34.33
I. Botham (ENG) 5200 @ 33.54 / 383 @ 28.40
M. Marshall (WI) 1,810 @ 18.85 / 376 @ 20.94
S. Nawaz (PAK) 1,045 @ 17.71 / 177 @ 32.75
A. Bedser (ENG) 714 @ 12.75 / 236 @ 24.89
L. Gibbs (WI) - 488 @ 6.97 / 309 @ 29.09
BoyBrumby
1) SM Gavaskar RHB (10122 runs @ 51.12)
2) EJ Barlow RHB; RMF (2516 runs @ 45.74; 40 wickets @ 34.05)
3) WR Hammond RHB; RMF (7249 runs @ 58.45; 83 wickets @ 37.80)
4) Saleem Malik RHB (5758 runs @ 43.69)
5) CH Lloyd* RHB; RM (7515 runs @ 46.68; 10 wickets @ 62.20)
6) LEG Ames+ RHB (2434 runs @ 40.56; 76 catches, 23 stumpings)
7) CL Cairns RHB; RFM (3320 runs @ 33.53; 218 wickets @ 29.40)
8) AK Davidson LFM; LHB (186 wickets @ 20.53; 1328 runs @ 24.59)
9) Fazal Mahmood RFM; RHB (139 wickets @ 24.70; 620 runs @ 14.09)
10) CEL Ambrose RF; LHB (405 wickets @ 20.99; 1439 runs @ 12.40)
11) M Muralitharan OS; RHB (792 wickets @ 22.71; 1256 runs @ 11.62)
Blakus
1.W.G.Grace 1098 @ 32.29, 9 @ 26.22
2.Saeed Anwar 4052 @ 45.52
3.George Headley 2190 @ 60.83
4.Rahul Dravid 11395 @ 53.75
5.Aravinda De Silva 6361 @ 42.97, 29 @ 41.65
6.Kieth Miller 2958 @ 36.97, 170 @ 22.97
7.Alan Knott 4389 @ 32.75, 250 catches 19 stumpings
8.Mike Procter 226 @ 25.11, 41 @ 15.02
9.Richard Hadlee 3124 @ 27.16, 431 @ 22.29
10.Wasim Akram 2898 @ 22.64, 414 @ 23.62
11.Sonny Ramadhin 361 @ 8.20, 158 @ 28.98
Honestbharani
Sanath Jayasuriya
Mudassar Nazar
Martin Crowe*
Mushtaq Mohammed
Ken Barrington
Clyde Walcott +
Tony Greig
Shaun Pollock
Ian Bishop
Dennis Lillee
Bhagwat Chandrasekhar
There were ten players - some have indicated they will post a blurb regarding their team.
Zinzan
1 Herbert Sutcliffe 4500+ runs @ 60
2 Virander Sehwag 6500+ runs @ 52
3 Zaheer Abbas 5000+ runs @ 45
4 Brian Lara 10000+ runs @ 52
5 Jacques Kallis 10000+ runs @ 55, 261 wickets @ 31
6 Tillakaratne Dilshan (WK) 3500+ runs @ 43
7 Andrew Flintoff 3500 + runs @ 31 200+ wickets @32
8 Shane Warne 3000+ runs @ 17, 708 wickets @ 25
9 Anil Kumble 2500+ runs @ 17, 619 wickets @ 29
10 Jack Cowie 45 wickets @ 21
11 Courtney Walsh 519 wickets @ 24
Himannv
Jack Hobbs (5410 @ 56.94)
Barry Richards (508 @ 72.57)
Viv Richards* (8540 @ 50.23)
Javed Miandad (8832 @ 52.57)
Inzamam-ul-Haq (8829 @ 50.16)
Bert Sutcliffe (2727 @ 40.10)
Chaminda Vaas (3089 @ 24.32 | 355 @ 29.58)
Wasim Bari+ (1366 @ 15.88 | 201 ct, 27 st)
Andy Roberts (202 @ 25.61)
Jim Laker (193 @ 21.24)
Glenn McGrath (563 @ 21.64)
Cevno
1)Sir Leonard Hutton
2)Marvan Attapatu
3)Greg Chappell
4)Sachin Tendulkar
5)Dudley Nourse
6)Jeffrey Dujon
7)Abdul Razzaq
8)Hedley Verity
9)Joel Garner
10)Shoaib Akhtar
11)Shane Bond
Matt79
Gordan Greenidge (7558 @ 44.72)
Geoff Boycott (8114 @ 47.72)
Everton Weekes (4455 @ 58.61)
Mahela Jayawardene (9120 @ 53.96)
Martin Donnelly (582 @ 52.90)
Imran Khan (3807 @ 37.69, 362w @ 22.81)
Kapil Dev (5248 @ 31.05, 434w @ 29.61)
Rashid Latif + (1381 @ 28.77, 119cts, 11 stumpings)
Allan Donald (330w @ 22.25)
Bill O'Reilly (144w @ 22.57)
SF Barnes (189w @ 16.43)
Somerset
Glenn Turner
Vijay Hazare
Graeme Pollock
Mohammad Yousuf
Sir Frank Worrell
Sir Garfield Sobers
Thilan Samaraweera
Adam Gilchrist
Wilfred Rhodes
George Lohmann
Mohammad Asif
G.I.Joe
Conrad Hunte (45.06)
Stewie Dempster (65.72)
Kumar Sangakkara (55.10)
Kevin Pietersen (49.26)
Younis Khan (50.09)
MS Dhoni (42.59, 113c, 20st) +
Aubrey Faulkner (40.79, 26.58)
Ray Lindwall (21.15, 23.03)
Michael Holding (13.78, 23.68)
Fred Trueman (13.81, 21.57)
Waqar Younis (10.2, 23.56)
99*
G. Smith (RSA) 6799 @ 49.99
H. Mohammed (PAK) 3915 @ 43.98
D. Bradman (AUS) 6996 @ 99.94
M. Azharuddin (IND) 6215 @ 45.03
H. Tillakaratne (SRI) 4545 @ 42.87
B. McCullum (NZ) 2678 @ 34.33
I. Botham (ENG) 5200 @ 33.54 / 383 @ 28.40
M. Marshall (WI) 1,810 @ 18.85 / 376 @ 20.94
S. Nawaz (PAK) 1,045 @ 17.71 / 177 @ 32.75
A. Bedser (ENG) 714 @ 12.75 / 236 @ 24.89
L. Gibbs (WI) - 488 @ 6.97 / 309 @ 29.09
BoyBrumby
1) SM Gavaskar RHB (10122 runs @ 51.12)
2) EJ Barlow RHB; RMF (2516 runs @ 45.74; 40 wickets @ 34.05)
3) WR Hammond RHB; RMF (7249 runs @ 58.45; 83 wickets @ 37.80)
4) Saleem Malik RHB (5758 runs @ 43.69)
5) CH Lloyd* RHB; RM (7515 runs @ 46.68; 10 wickets @ 62.20)
6) LEG Ames+ RHB (2434 runs @ 40.56; 76 catches, 23 stumpings)
7) CL Cairns RHB; RFM (3320 runs @ 33.53; 218 wickets @ 29.40)
8) AK Davidson LFM; LHB (186 wickets @ 20.53; 1328 runs @ 24.59)
9) Fazal Mahmood RFM; RHB (139 wickets @ 24.70; 620 runs @ 14.09)
10) CEL Ambrose RF; LHB (405 wickets @ 20.99; 1439 runs @ 12.40)
11) M Muralitharan OS; RHB (792 wickets @ 22.71; 1256 runs @ 11.62)
Blakus
1.W.G.Grace 1098 @ 32.29, 9 @ 26.22
2.Saeed Anwar 4052 @ 45.52
3.George Headley 2190 @ 60.83
4.Rahul Dravid 11395 @ 53.75
5.Aravinda De Silva 6361 @ 42.97, 29 @ 41.65
6.Kieth Miller 2958 @ 36.97, 170 @ 22.97
7.Alan Knott 4389 @ 32.75, 250 catches 19 stumpings
8.Mike Procter 226 @ 25.11, 41 @ 15.02
9.Richard Hadlee 3124 @ 27.16, 431 @ 22.29
10.Wasim Akram 2898 @ 22.64, 414 @ 23.62
11.Sonny Ramadhin 361 @ 8.20, 158 @ 28.98
Honestbharani
Sanath Jayasuriya
Mudassar Nazar
Martin Crowe*
Mushtaq Mohammed
Ken Barrington
Clyde Walcott +
Tony Greig
Shaun Pollock
Ian Bishop
Dennis Lillee
Bhagwat Chandrasekhar