CW Random Player Auction Draft - VOTING THREAD

[watson]

As a reminder, here are the rules of the Random Player Auction Draft:

This is a random player auction draft thread. I'm planning to run it similar to Marc's silent auction drafts in the past ($15 million budget, 1 player per participant in each round).

The process for each round will be as follows:

1. I put every player who has played test cricket into random.org and the first 12 (or however many participants we have) will be the players available for that round

2. Each player sends in a list of bids within the allocated period (I'm thinking either 24 or 48 hours) to cwdrafts@gmail.com. Bids must be in whole dollar amounts ranging from $1 up to the amount of budget you have left.

3. Players are allocated to each team. Each team gets 1 player per round. Players are allocated in order of bid size, highest first. Ties either due to the same contestant bidding the same amount for two different players or two contestants bidding the same amount for the same player are settled by random.org. If a player doesn't win any auction (remembering contestants who have won an auction are excluded from all cheaper auctions in that round), either due to not sending picks or not submitting bids for all players, they are allocated a player not won by someone else at random for the same price as the highest legitimate bid in that round. This means that it is good strategy to submit bids for all players

4. All bids and penalty costs which would leave a contestant with less than $1 for each subsequent round will be lowered to the amount where the contestant will have $1 for each subsequent round.

5. If you bid the same amount for two or more players, you can send a personal order of preference in which you get them which will be used instead of random.org (which will be used if no such list is sent)

There will be 12 rounds in this draft. Players chosen are restricted to players I have heard of. You will have a minimum of 48 hours for bidding in each round.

I am looking for a minimum of 12 contestants although more are certainly welcome

Please sign up if interested.

THE TEAMS!

Blakus
01. Roshan Mahanama
02. John Morrison
03. Saleem Elahi
04. Jeff Crowe (*)
05. Alan Butcher
06. Sammy Carter (+)
07. Pat Symcox
08. Robin Hobbs
09. Alan Hurst
10. Alan Connolly
11. Graham Onions

12th Man: Keith Andrew

Spikey
01. Jimmy Cook (*)
02. Mark Richardson
03. Usman Khawaja
04. Sadagoppan Ramesh
05. Lou Vincent
06. Azhar Mahmood
07. Harry Cave
08. Eddie Hemmings
09. Dick Motz
10. Tony Dodemaide
11. Bert Strudwick (+)

12th Man: Nayan Mongia

Watson
01. David Sheppard
02. Trevor Bailey
03. Billy Murdoch
04. Lindsay Hassett
05. Clive Lloyd (*)
06. Colin Bland
07. Gary Gilmour
08. Harold Larwood
09. Wasim Bari (+)
10. Charlie Griffith
11. Ashley Mallet

12th Man: Ken Rutherford

Cabinet96
01. Paul Gibb
02. Vincent Tancred
03. EM Grace
04. Brian Hastings
05. Kerry O'Keeffe (*)
06. George Duckworth (+)
07. Dilhara Fernando
08. Tom Cartwright
09. John Ferris
10. Nuwan Zoysa
11. Colin Miller

12th Man: Upul Chandana

AndyZaltHair
01. Arthur Richardson
02. Darren Ganga
03. Don Bradman (*)
04. Tatenda Taibu
05. Lee Germon (+)
06. Nuwan Kulasekara
07. Alex Tudor
08. Ryan Harris
09. Bill Bowes
10. Tim Wall
11. Paul Adams

12th Man: Jo Angel

Johnners
01. Brendon Kuruppu (+)
02. Michael Hussey
03. Roy McLean
04. Syd Gregory
05. Roger Twose
06. Zin Harris
07. Albert Trott
08. George Giffen (*)
09. Peter Heine
10. Sreesanth
11. Pervez Sajjad

12th Man: Peter Petherick

Kyear
01. Tom Moody
02. Dermot Reeve
03. Viv Richards (*)
04. Ted Dexter
05. Bill Lockwood
06. Jack Blackham (+)
07. Bill O'Reilly
08. Mushtaq Ahmed
09. Andy Roberts
10. Steve Harmison
11. Geoff Allott

12th Man: Jimmy Matthews

Pothas
01. Herschelle Gibbs
02. Abdul Razzaq
03. Hashim Amla
04. Sachin Tendulkar
05. Shivnarine Chanderpaul
06. Doug Walters
07. Tony Greig (*)
08. Kiran More (+)
09. Simon Jones
10. Erapali Prasanna
11. Courtney Walsh

12th Man: JP Duminy

Morgieb
01. David Warner
02. Phil Hughes
03. Andy Flower (+)
04. Inzamam-ul-Haq
05. Keith Miller (*)
06. Aubrey Faulkner
07. Graeme Hick
08. Lala Amarnath
09. Garth McKenzie
10. Bishen Bedi
11. Fidel Edwards

12th Man: Neil Johnson

Daemon
01. Aamer Sohail (*)
02. Chris Rogers
03. Keith Arthurton
04. Marlon Samuels
05. Vernon Philander
06. Mohammad Nissar
07. Chris Old
08. Ken James (+)
09. Lance Gibbs
10. Hugh Tayfield
11. Jeff Thomson

12th Man: Hamish Bennett

Monk
01. Sanath Jayasuriya
02. Raman Subba Row
03. David Gower
04. Martin Crowe (*)
05. Frank Woolley
06. Matthew Prior (+)
07. Hedley Verity
08. Dennis Lillee
09. Damien Fleming
10. John Lever
11. Arthur Mailey

12th Man: Phil Horne

smalishah84
01. Archie MacLaren
02. Wilfred Rhodes
03. Seymour Nurse
04. Plum Warner (*)
05. Aaron Redmond
06. Ben Barnett (+)
07. Lance Cairns
08. Ray Price
09. Pat Cummins
10. Bob Massie
11. Danish Kaneria

12th Man: Jeetan Patel

Weldone
01. John Edrich
02. Micky Stewart
03. Robin Smith
04. Mahela Jayawardene (*)
05. Patsy Hendren
06. Darren Lehmann
07. Denis Lindsay (+)
08. Rangana Herath
09. Zaheer Khan
10. Colin Croft
11. Chris Martin

12th Man: Verdun Scott

PLEASE VOTE FOR THE STRONGEST TEST MATCH TEAM.

[Daemon]

Ended up with 6 genuine top class bowlers I see.

[watson]

I have no idea how this appeared without the Voting bit. Please see the real thread.

Thread needs to be deleted.

[HeathDavisSpeed]

I vote for the team with Neil Johnson in it.

Then scoff at the fact he's been placed as 12th man. Pshaw!