Left Handers Draft Thread

[Somerset]

With so few wicket keepers remaining but about 3 of us still to pick one, I'll select mine and pick George Brown - I admit to knowing very little of him, but his Cricinfo profile seems to indicate that his wicket-keeping skills were excellent, even if he bowled enough to take 600+ FC wickets in his career; and with 37 FC hundreds hes a more than reasonable batsman.

-
-
-
Michael Hussey
-
Sir Richard Hadlee
Sir Frank Worrell
Charlie Macartney
George Brown
-
Bishan Bedi

 

[kingkallis]

Drafted Players So Far

Round 1

Blakus - Garry Sobers
Noble One - Adam Gilchrist
kingkallis - Wasim Akram
marc71178 - Brian Lara
fredfertang - Graeme Pollock
Somerset - Richard Hadlee
Himannv - Kumar Sangakarra
Michaelf7777777 - Andy Flower
Cevno - Alan Davidson
zinzan12 - Matthew Hayden
Hurricane - Allan Border
Shri - Wilfred Rhodes

Round 2

Shri - Mitchell Johnson
Hurricane - David Gower
zinzan12 - Charlie Blythe
Cevno - Hedley Verity
Michaelf7777777 - Bill Johnston
Himannv - Derek Underwood
Somerset - Bishan Bedi
fredfertang - Neil Harvey
Marc71178 - Chaminda Vaas
kingkallis - Graeme Smith
Noble One - Trevor Goddard
Blakus - Bruce Reid

Round 3

Shri - JJ Ferris
Noble One - Mohammad Aamir
Blakus - Rod Marsh
Hurricane - Zaheer Khan
Cevno - Vinoo Mankad
Himannv - Bill Voce
zinzan12 - Daniel Vettori
kingkallis - Brett Schultz
Michaelf7777777 - Jack Gregory
marc71178 - Jacob Oram
Somerset - Charles Macartney
fredfertang - Johnny Wardle

Round 4

fredfertang - Eddie Paynter
Somerset - Frank Worrell
marc 71178 - Shivnarine Chanderpaul
Michaelf7777777 - Ernie Toshack
kingkallis - Graham Thorpe
zinzan 12 - Richard Collinge
Himannv - Arthur Morris
cevno - Doug Bollinger
Hurricane - Jack Russell
Blakus - Bobby Peel
Noble One - John Lever
Shri - Gary Gilmour

Round 5

Michaelf7777777 - Johnny Briggs
marc71178 - Justin Langer
kingkallis - Ridley Jacobs
Somerset - Micheal Hussey
fredfertang - Frank Foster
Shri - Iqbal Qasim
Noble One - Tomy Lock
Himannv - Phil Mead
Hurricane - Gautham Gambhir
zinzan12 - Ryan Sidebottom
Blakus - Frank Woolley
Cevno - Hashan Tilakaratne

Round 6

Cevno - Lance Klusener
Blakus - George Hirst
zinzan12
Hurricane - Clive Lloyd
Himmanv - Bert Ironmonger
Noble One - Alvin Kalicharan
Shri - Parthiv Patel
fredfertang - John Edrich
Somerset - George Brown
KingKallis - Shakib Al Hasan
marc71178
Michealf7777777

 

[Himannv]

Suddenly very happy that I picked Sanga.

 

[kingkallis]

My choice for Round 6 is my No.6 Shakib Al Hasan

Lefties XI

1. Graeme Smith ( c )
2.
3.
4. Graham Thorpe
5.
6. Shakib Al Hasan
7. Ridley Jacobs
8. Wasim Akram
9.
10.
11. Brett Schultz

 

[Shri]

****, thats a great pick!

 

[kingkallis]

Yeah Shakib certainly is a great option as he can provide me with some depth in batting department as well.

 

[marc71178]

Wayne Phillips - best of a bad bunch!

 

[kingkallis]

Jeez...

 

[Michaelf7777777]

Bill Lawry for my next pick

Charter 77 so Far

1. Bill Lawry (*)
2.
3.
4.
5. Andy Flower (+)
6. Jack Gregory
7.
8.
9. Johnny Briggs
10. Bill Johnston
11. Ernie Toshack

 

[Michaelf7777777]

Round 7 Draft Order (Reverses for Round 8)

Michaelf7777777
zinzan12
marc71178
Somerset
Shri
Blakus
Cevno
fredfertang
Noble One
kingkallis
Himannv
Hurricane

 

[Michaelf7777777]

My first pick for Round 7 will therefore be Bert Sutcliffe

Charter 77 So Far

1. Bill Lawry (*)
2. Bert Sutcliffe
3.
4.
5. Andy Flower (+)
6. Jack Gregory
7.
8.
9. Johnny Briggs
10. Bill Johnston
11. Ernie Toshack

 

[Cevno]

Is Tillekerarne going to be your keeper? Interesting option.

I personally think your attack would work brilliantly together, very handy with the bat too. I'm looking forward to seeing which batsman you get.

That's the plan.

Was a decent keeper ,but gave it up to concentrate on his batting. And with Verity coming at 10 and Davidson coming at 9 ,batting should not be a problem for my side.

Besides the choice was between,him and Patel for me and he can't be any worse than Parthiv.


Pretty happy with my attack too. Got myself a Right arm seamer in Klusener to complement the other 2 left arm fast bowlers and 2 left arm spinners who can ball all day if required and were perhaps two of the best left arm spinners ever.
Davidson is second for me only to Akram in all time left arm fast bowling stakes too.

 

[Cevno]

Desperately hoping a certain player who has been very strangely ignored till now a bit strangely for me,keeps being ignored till my turn.

 

[Zinzan]

Gary Kristen

 

[Michaelf7777777]

zinzan up for another pick

 

[marc71178]

So do I assume I can't pick till 12 hours after your Sutcliffe pick then?

 

[Michaelf7777777]

Correct, so approximately two hours until you can pick

 

[Zinzan]

Mark Taylor (capt)

 

[Somerset]

Mark Taylor (capt)

Gah, had three picks in mind after selecting my wicket keeper and Sutcliffe and Taylor were two of them - betting on Marc to take the other...

 

[Hurricane]

I wanted Sutcliffe as well but I was a way away from picking so I wasn't holding my breath. He went earlier than I expected though.