Monk's Real Time Draft #2 - VOTING THREAD

[watson]

From 8pm till 10:30pm (Sydney Time) 6 of us participated in a Real Time Draft kindly organised by Monk because his wife was out.

The only rule was that each team must contain a representative from each of the major Test playing nations. No Bradman:

India
Pakistan
West Indies
Australia
England
Sri Lanka OR New Zealand OR Zimbabwe

SO PLEASE VOTE FOR THE STRONGEST TEST TEAM !

WATSON’s XI
01. Gordon Greenidge
02. Bob Simpson
03. Viv Richards *
04. Brian Lara
05. Greg Chappell
06. Martin Crowe
07. Alan Knott +
08. Malcolm Marshall
09. Waqar Younis
10. Allan Donald
11. Bhagwat Chandrasekhar

PEW’s XI
01. Jack Hobbs
02. Bruce Mitchell
03. George Headley
04. Sachin Tendulkar
05. Allan Border
06. Aubrey Faulkner
07. Clyde Walcott +
08. Imran Khan *
09. Alan Davidson
10. Bill O’Reilly
11. Jack Cowie

ABBOTT's XI
01. Sunil Gavaskar ^
02. Mark Taylor * ^
03. Rohan Kanhai
04. Dudley Nourse
05. Stan McCabe
06. Garry Sobers ^
07. Les Ames +
08. Wasim Akram
09. Shane Warne ^
10. Dennis Lillee
11. Shane Bond

HEATHDAVISSPEED’s XI
01. Saeed Anwar
02. Stewart Dempster
03. Graeme Pollock
04. Jacques Kallis *
05. Aravinda de Silva
06. Colin Bland
07. Andy Flower +
08. Kapil Dev
09. Curtley Ambrose
10. Sydney Barnes
11. Glenn McGrath

BLAKUS’ XI
01. Barry Richards
02. Virender Sehwag
03. Ricky Ponting
04. Walter Hammond
05. Kumar Sangakkara
06. Keith Miller*
07. Adam Gilchrist+
08. Ray Lindwall
09. Joel Garner
10. Clarrie Grimmett
11. Shoaib Akhtar

CORONIS’ XI
01. Herbert Sutcliffe
02. Len Hutton
03. Rahul Dravid
04. Everton Weekes
05. Ken Barrington
06. Frank Worrell*
07. Mike Procter
08. Richard Hadlee
09. Don Tallon+
10. Fazal Mahmood
11. Muttiah Muralitharan


Cheers and thanks - Watson

[Jager]

Coronis's team is heavenly

[Monk]

Originally Posted by Jager

Coronis's team is heavenly

I reckon your vote can be bought with Procter and/or Tallon. And I reckon you can buy Fred's with Larwood and/or McCabe!

[Monk]

Watson has too many of my personal favourites to ignore.

Blakus a close second.

[watson]

Choice between;

McGrath
Ambrose
Barnes
Dev
Kallis

AND

Lindwall
Miller
Garner
Akhtar
Grimmett
Hammond

I love both, but Team Blakus has too many options. However, watching SF Barnes bowling in tandem with McGrath and Ambrose would be awesome.

Monk has Rohan Kanhai, plus Lillee and Akram bowling together. It's all too hard..........

Team Blakus probably too tough in a pitched battle going into Day 5. Other than for Team Watson of course which has way too much attitide.

[morgieb]

I voted PEWS's XI. All of them however are really good, suppose this is what happens in a 6 team draft.

Who's Abbott?

[Daemon]

Either watson or blakus imo

[HeathDavisSpeed]

Definitely Watson. And definitely not Ashwell.

[Howe_zat]

I like Blakus' lot.

[8ankitj]

Coronis easily for mine. He robbed you all by picking both Hadlee and Murali, didn't he?

The way I vote on draft teams is by looking at bowling first. Abott, Heath and Coronis seriously strong bowling (Cowie, Chandrashekar, Akhtar etc don't win much favor from me compared to some others). Of those 3, Coronis has the best batting.

[Prince EWS]

Originally Posted by 8ankitj

Coronis easily for mine. He robbed you all by picking both Hadlee and Murali, didn't he?

The way I vote on draft teams is by looking at bowling first. Abott, Heath and Coronis seriously strong bowling (Cowie, Chandrashekar, Akhtar etc don't win much favor from me compared to some others). Of those 3, Coronis has the best batting.

Yeah he had the Round 1/Round 2 double pick. Marshall, Imran, Sobers, Ambrose and Miller got picked first.

[Spikey]

my late entry team

s barnes
g smith
v hazare
j miandad
KP
b sutcliffe
d lindsey
r benaud
s pollock
d steyn
c walsh


get around me

[watson]

Originally Posted by 8ankitj

Coronis easily for mine. He robbed you all by picking both Hadlee and Murali, didn't he?

The way I vote on draft teams is by looking at bowling first. Abott, Heath and Coronis seriously strong bowling (Cowie, Chandrashekar, Akhtar etc don't win much favor from me compared to some others). Of those 3, Coronis has the best batting.

It's also interesting that Coronis selected Fazal Mahmood as his Pakistan rep. when Javed Miandad was available. Fazal was a very good bowler, but considering the enormous pool that he could draw from (Holding, Roberts, Bedser etc) I did consider his selection slightly obscure at the time.

With my last double pick in Rounds 10 + 11 I had to make the choice between Greenidge and Chandra OR Merchant and Verity. In the end I decided that the Merchant + Simpson opening combo lacked 'something' so chose Greenidge instead. I also like the X-factor that Chandra brings to the team, so for me it became a 'no brainer' after several minutes of thought

[Prensel]

I vote spikey

[Jager]

Originally Posted by Monk

I reckon your vote can be bought with Procter and/or Tallon. And I reckon you can buy Fred's with Larwood and/or McCabe!

Procter, Fazal, Tallon, Dravid and Worrell - who could resist?