CW Draft League

[Monk]

R1

Michaelf7777777 - Garry Sobers (shares a name with a USA President)
watson - Wally Hammond (bowled Bradman)
kyear2 - Malcolm Marshall (Aus, Eng & WI)
Jager - Imran Khan (Aus Eng & WI)
Cevno - Richard Hadlee (batting avg between 25-40)
Himannv - Viv Richards (boxing day 100)
Eds - Keith Miller (Aus, Eng and WI)
Blakus - Joel Garner (shares a name with a USA president)
AndyZaltzHair - Glenn McGrath (Aus, Eng and WI)
Marcuss - Adam Gilchrist (shares a name with a USA president)
Monk - Fred Trueman (shares a name with a USA president)
kingkallis - Jack Hobbs (debut before WW2)

R2

kingkallis- Curtly Ambrose (Aus, Eng and WI)
Monk- Waqar Younis (FC for a team beginning with G)
Marcuss- Shane Warne (part of a hat trick)
AndyZaltzHair - Mike Procter (FC cricket for a team beginning with G)
Blakus- Hedley Verity (bowled Bradman)
Eds- Jaques Kallis (boxing day 100)
Himmanv- Harold Larwood (bowled Bradman)
Cevno- Alec Bedser (bowled Bradman)
Jager- Sachin Tendulkar (boxing day 100)
kyear2- Brian Lara (dismissed as part of a hat trick)
watson- Dennis Lillee (Aus, Eng and WI)
MichaelF7777- WG Grace (FC cricket for team beginning with G)

R3

Blakus- Ray Lindwall (Aus, Eng and WI)
Jager- Maurice Tate (bowled Bradman)
Monk- Vijay Hazare (bowled Bradman)
Marcuss- Graham Pollock (FC cricket for a team beginning with G)
Himmanv- Muttiah Muralitharan (part of a hat trick)
kingkallis- Barry Richards (FC cricket for a team beginning with G)
kyear2- Bill O'Reilly (debut before WW2)
MichaelF7777- Bill Edrich (bowled Bradman)
Eds- SF Barnes (part of a hat trick)
AndyZaltzHair- George Headley (debut before WW2)
Cevno- Ricky Ponting (part of a hat trick)
watson- Len Hutton (debut before WW2)

R4

watson- Andy Roberts (debut post WW2)
Cevno- Aubrey Faulkner (debut before WW2)
AndyZaltzHair- Javed Miandad (part of a hat trick)
Eds- Clyde Walcott (FC for a team starting with G)
MichaelF7777- Ian Botham (average between 25-40)
kyear2- Greg Chappell (debut post WW2)
kingkallis- Alan Davidson (debut post WW2)
Himmanv- Allan Border (FC cricket for a team starting with G)
Marcuss- Wasim Akram (Aus, WI and Eng)
Monk- Gordon Greenidge (part of a hat trick)
Jager- Allan Donald (debut post WW2)
Blakus- Rahul Dravid (Warne & Murali)

R5

Himmanv- Shaun Pollock (avg between 25-40)
MichaelF7777- Sunil Gavaskar (Aus, Eng & WI)
Cevno- Dale Steyn (Aus, Eng & WI)
Jager- Victor Trumper (avg between 25-40)
kingkallis- Hugh Tayfield (part of a hat trick)
Monk- Frank Worrell (Aus, Eng & WI)
kyear2- Arthur Morris (shares a name with a USA president)
AndyZaltzHair- Steve Waugh (boxing day century scorer)
Eds- Kapil Dev (batting avg between 25-40)
Marcuss- Herb Sutcliffe (pre WW2)
watson- (Arthur) Dudley Nourse (shares a name with a USA president)
Blakus- Neil Adcock (part of a hat trick)

R6

Blakus- Dennis Compton (pre WW2)
watson- Courtney Walsh (FC cricket for a team beginning with G)
Marcuss- Colin Cowdrey (not selected in previous drafts)
Eds- Michael Holding (post WW2)
AndyZaltzHair- Gubby Allen (bowled Bradman)
kyear2- Colin Croft (FC cricket for a team beginning with G)
Monk- AB De Villiers (Warne and Murali)
kingkallis-
Jager-
Cevno-
MichaelF7777-
Himmanv-

R7

Cevno
Blakus
kyear2
Michaelf7777777
watson
Eds
Himannv
Marcuss
kingkallis
AndyZaltzHair
Jager
Monk


Clauses Used

1. Boxing day century scorer (MCG)
-Eds
-Himmanv
-Jager
-AZH


2. Played FC cricket with a team starting with G (test player)
-Monk
-AndyZaltzHair
-MichaelF77777
-Marcuss
-KK
-Eds
-Himmanv
-kyear2
-watson

3. Select a player who has not been selected in both previous drafts
-Marcuss


4. Someone who clean bowled Bradman in tests
-watson
-Blakus
-Himmanv
-Cevno
-Jager
-Monk
-MichaelF777777
-AZH


5. Test debut before WWII
-KK
-kyear2
-watson
-AndyZaltzHair
-Cevno
-Marcuss
-Blakus


6. Played test cricket in WI, England and Australia (other countries permitted too)
-Kyear2
-Jager
-AndyZaltzHair
-Eds
-KK
-watson
-Blakus
-Marcuss
-Cevno
-MichaelF7777
-Monk

7. Select a player with a test batting average of between 25 and 40
-Cevno
-MichaelF7777
-Jager
-Himmanv
-Eds


8. Select a player to debut post-WWII
-watson
-kyear2
-KK
-Jager
-Eds



9.Shares a surname with a US president/vice president
-Michaelf7777
-Monk
-Marcuss
-Blakus
-kyear2
-watson

10. Select a female test cricketer


11. Select a player dismissed as part of a test cricket hat-trick
-AZH
-Marcuss
-kyear2
-Himmanv
-Eds
-Cevno
-Monk
-Blakus


12. Select a batsman who played his highest amount of innings in a spot from 1-6 who was dismissed by Warne/Muralitharan
-Blakus
-Monk

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[kingkallis]

Screw you sir Monk for grabbing ABdV! I need some time to pick now..

[Monk]

Originally Posted by kingkallis

Screw you sir Monk for grabbing ABdV! I need some time to pick now..

Thinking he was clutch for me. Not confident with my team at all, but I think that clause could be a hassle later. And I can play him as a keeper if I need to.

Sorry man.

[kingkallis]

With 2-3 bad options ( due to clauses!! ) I too considered to play him as a keeper...

[AndyZaltzHair]

Originally Posted by watson

Allen's overall SR was 54.1 and 64.7 against Australia. A lot lower than I had assumed.

Appears to be an under-rated player, especially as he bowled against some pretty powerful Aussie batsman - Bradman, McCabe etc,

yeah Gubby Allen has good overall FC record as well with 10 wickets in an innings and was a hard hitting lower order batsman too

[kingkallis]

I'll go with a decent wicket keeper and a good batsman ( So so under-rated ) Alec Stewart

Dismissed by Murali : 3rd Test: England v Sri Lanka at Manchester, Jun 13-17, 2002 | Cricket Scorecard | ESPN Cricinfo
Dismissed by Warne : 5th Test: England v Australia at Birmingham, Aug 5-9, 1993 | Cricket Scorecard | ESPN Cricinfo

CricZo XI

1. Jack Hobbs ( Debut before WW2 )
2. Barry Richards ( Played for Gloucestershire )
3. Alec Stewart ( Dismissed by Murali & Warne )
4.
5.
6.
7.
8. Alan Davidson ( Debut after WW2 )
9. Hugh Tayfield ( Part of hat-trick )
10. Curtly Ambrose ( Played in WI, Eng, Aus )
11.

[NUFAN]

Have to say, this is the best draft idea I've seen for a while!

Only slight issue is the female cricketer pick, they are definitely going to be 12th (wo)man.

[Jager]

Originally Posted by NUFAN

Have to say, this is the best draft idea I've seen for a while!

Only slight issue is the female cricketer pick, they are definitely going to be 12th (wo)man.

True, but I do think it exposes poor choices in the first eleven rounds as they can't hide as 12th man.

[NUFAN]

Originally Posted by Jager

True, but I do think it exposes poor choices in the first eleven rounds as they can't hide as 12th man.

Yeah, that's the only plus. I guess the person who picked it, didn't realize how hard/easy the other choices would be.

Is the best female cricketer of all time anywhere close to the worst male cricketer of all time to play Tests? Hmm..

[kingkallis]

Naah, some of them were/are really good looking

[Jager]

Martin Crowe (dismissed by Warne/Murali)
Warne: 3rd Test: New Zealand v Australia at Auckland, Mar 12-16, 1993 | Cricket Scorecard | ESPN Cricinfo
Muralitharan: 2nd Test: Sri Lanka v New Zealand at Colombo (SSC), Dec 6-9, 1992 | Cricket Scorecard | ESPN Cricinfo

Jager's XI

1. -
2. -
3. Victor Trumper
4. Sachin Tendulkar
5. Martin Crowe
6. -
7. -
8. Imran Khan
9. Maurice Tate
10. -
11. Allan Donald

[Jager]

Some of us are going to struggle without the pre-post WWII clauses - such broad selections are going to be godsends at the end of the draft

[Monk]

Originally Posted by NUFAN

Yeah, that's the only plus. I guess the person who picked it, didn't realize how hard/easy the other choices would be.

Is the best female cricketer of all time anywhere close to the worst male cricketer of all time to play Tests? Hmm..

If I get the one I have in mind, she will be a part of my XI.

Probably not for 2-3 more rds though.

[kingkallis]

Monk, same goes for me! If I get 'her' - she will be mine! I mean she will be in my playing XI!

[Monk]

Originally Posted by kingkallis

Monk, same goes for me! If I get 'her' - she will be mine! I mean she will be in my playing XI!

???



I'm actually thinking of someone much older school!