Mystery Box Draft

[Howe_zat]

Gimh.

 

[Spikey]

gimh made the right call when he decided to sleep with howey imo

 

[Howe_zat]

He made it very special.

 

[Howe_zat]

Round 1

1. GingerFurball - Clarrie Grimmett
2. honestbharani - Justin Langer
3. Coronis - Wasim Akram
4. kingkallis - Len Hutton
5. uvelocity - Colin McCool
6. Monk - Mike Brearley
7. BackFootPunch - Matthew Bell
8. morgieb - Russell Arnold
9. Cabinet96 - Chaminda Vaas
10. Garson007 - Barry Jarman
11. Spikey - Alf Valentine
12. fredfertang - Intikhab Alam
13. GIMH - Angus Fraser
14. Marcuss - Ravi Shastri

Unpicked: Mushtaq Ahmed, Upul Tharanga, Abdur Rehman, Len Braund, Andrew Hall, John Emburey

Round 2

1. Marcuss - Harold Larwood
2. GIMH - Nuwan Kulasekera
3. fredfertang - Douglas Jardine
4. Spikey - Clive Lloyd
5. Garson007 - John F Reid
6. Cabinet96 - Mohammed Amir
7. morgieb - Tom Graveny
8. BackFootPunch - Frank Worrell
9. Monk - MJK Smith
10. uvelocity - WG Grace
11. kingkallis - Mitchell Johnson
12. Coronis - Hansie Cronje
13. honestbharani - Paul Collingwood
14. GingerFurball - Learie Constantine

Unpicked: Pragyan Ojha, Faisal Iqbal, Roger Harper, Simon Doull, Craig McMillan, Jonty Rhodes

Round 3

1. uvelocity - Michael Clarke
2. Spikey - Sid Barnes
3. Cabinet96 - Derek Pringle
4. Coronis - Dennis Lillee
5. Kingkallis - Ian Redpath
6. Marcuss - Greg Blewett
7. honestbharani - Merv Hughes
8. Monk - Wilfred Rhodes
9. GIMH - Nathan Astle
10. GingerFurball - Jock Cameron
11. fredfertang - Jack Mason
12. BackFootPunch - Mohinder Amarnath
13. morgieb - Doug Bollinger
14. Garson007 - Suilemann Benn

Unpicked: Dilhara Fernando, CB Fry, Mohammed Hafeez, Chandu Borde, Nayan Mongia, Polly Umrigar

Round 4

1. Garson007 - Shane Bond
2. morgieb - Allan Border
3. BackFootPunch - Graeme Swann
4. fredfertang - Bob Taylor
5. GingerFurball - Bill Bowes
6. GIMH - Saeed Anwar
7. Monk - George Giffen
8. honestbharani - Mohammed Azharuddin
9. Marcuss - Lawrence Rowe
10. kingkallis - Lance Cairns
11. Coronis - Stephen Fleming
12. Cabinet96 - Andre Nel
13. Spikey - Saleem Malik
14. uvelocity - Romesh Kaluwitharana

Umpicked - Eric Hollies, Tino Best, Lou Vincent, Brun Smith, Dipak Patel, Adam Bacher

Round 5

1. Cabinet96 - Hashim Amla
2. morgieb - Allan Donald
3. Spikey - George Lohmann
4. Marcuss - Stan McCabe
5. GIMH - Ian Bell
6. fredfertang - Lindsay Hassett
7. uvelocity - Stuart Broad
8. kingkallis - Colin Cowdrey
9. honestbharani - Bert Vogler
10. Monk - Roy Tattershall
11. BackFootPunch - Bruce Mitchell
12. GingerFurball - Abdul Qadir
13. Garson007 - Scott Styris
14. Coronis - Kamran Akmal

Unpicked - Alex Tudor, Haseeb Ashan, James Franklin, Tim Zoehrer, Phil Edmonds, Len Pascoe

Round 6

1. Coronis - Lisle Nagel
2. Garson007 - Waqar Younis
3. GingerFurball - Neil Harvey
4. BackFootPunch - Mark Boucher
5. Monk - Victor Trumper
6. honestbharani - Bill Johnson
7. kingkallis - Bill Edrich
8. uvelocity - Andy Bichel
9. fredfertang - Frank Foster
10. GIMH - Bapu Nadkarni
11. Marcuss - Bruce Edgar
12. Spikey - Moin Khan
13. morgieb - Michael Vandort
14. Cabinet96 - Brendan Nash

Unpicked - Wayne Larkins, Farveez Maharoof, Tony Dodemaide, Winston Davis, Andrew Stoddart, Lasith Malinga

Round 7

1. BackFootPunch - Charles Macartney
2. GingerFurball - Everton Weekes
3. honestbharani - Jack Hobbs
4. Cabinet96 - Harry Trott
5. GIMH - Martyn Moxon
6. Monk - Barry Richards
7. kingkallis - Hugh Tayfield
8. morgieb - Sarfraz Nawax
9. Spikey - Stuart Clark
10. Garson007 - Peter Burge
11. uvelocity - Chris Martin
12. Coronis - Kris Srikkanth
13. fredfertang - Archie Maclaren
14. Marcuss - Ryan Sidebottom

Unpicked - Wallis Mathias, Nigel Haig, Mohammed Sami, Blair Pocock, Percy Mansell, Cameron Cuffy

Round 8

1. Marcuss - Johnny Wardle
2. fredfertang - Joel Garner
3. Coronis - Bob Simpson
4. uvelocity - Ashwell Prince
5. Garson007 - David Gower
6. Spikey - Mike Gatting
7. morgieb - Jim Parks
8. kingkallis - Trevor Bailey
9. Monk - Dinesh Karthik
10. GIMH - Phil Tufnell
11. Cabinet96 - Shahid Afridi
12. honestbharani - Carl Hooper
13. Gingerfurball - Johnny Bairstow
14. BackFootPunch - Ewan Chatfield

Unpicked - Mick Commallie, Jerome Taylor, Alec Bannerman, Pramyoda Wickramasinghe, Vernon Ransford

Round 9

1. BackFootPunch - Ian Botham
2. fredfertang - Gary Kirsten
3. Garson007 - Conrad Hunt
4. Marcuss - Allan Steel
5. honestbharani - Bobby Peel
6. morgieb - Alviro Petersen
7. GIMH - Eric Petrie
8. Coronis - Roy Fredricks
9. kingkallis - Eknath Solkar
10. Cabinet96 - Bobby Abel
11. Monk - Devon Malcolm
12. Spikey - Chris Tremlett
13. GingerFurball - Ted McDonald
14. uvelocity - Nathan Lyon

Unpicked - Ashley Mallet, Zaheer Khan, Martin Guptill, Stephen Boock, Darren Sammy, Hanumant Singh

Round 10

1. uvelocity - Mark Taylor
2. GingerFurball - Peter May
3. Spikey - Younis Khan
4. Monk - Jack Robertson
5. Cabinet96 - Mervyn Dillon
6. kingkallis - Andrew Flintoff
7. Coronis - Brian Hastings
8. GIMH - Wavell Hinds
9. morgieb - Ernie Toshack
10. honestbharani - Asif Iqbal
11. Marcuss - Garth McKenzie
12. Garson007 - Ajit Whadekar
13. fredfertang - Simon Jones
14. BackFootPunch - Bishan Bedi

Unpicked - Parthiv Patel, Munaf Patel, Lee Germon, John Price, Jack Russell, Roy Swetman

Round 11

1. Spikey - Billy Brown
2. morgieb - Dennis Amiss
3. Cabinet96 - Jeff Stollmeyer (J)
4. Marcuss - Colin Blythe
5. honestbharani - Dinesh Ramdin
6. kingkallis - Steve Rhodes
7. BackFootPunch - Ian Bishop
8. Coronis - Dilip Vengsarker
9. fredfertang - Derek Randall
10. GIMH - Nasser Hussain
11. GingerFurball - Shahid Nazir (R)
12. uvelocity - Dan Vettori
13. Garson007 - Brian McMillan
14. Monk - Faf du Plessis

Unpicked - Chanaka Welegedera, Tommy Ward, Barry Knight, Haseeb Ahsan, Eddie Hemmings, Subhash Gupte

Round 12

1. Monk - Brett Schultz
2. Garson007 - Percy Chapman
3. uvelocity - Virender Sehwag
4. GingerFurball - Mathew Sinclair (P)
5. GIMH - Nantie Hayward
6. fredfertang - Chris Harris
7. Coronis - Dale Steyn
8. BackFootPunch - Daryl Cullinan
9. kingkallis - Patsy Hendren
10. honestbharani - Umar Gul
11. Marcuss - Misbah Ul-Haq (I)
12. Cabinet96 - Mohammed Kaif (J)
13. morgieb - Roy Dias
14. Spikey - Bernard Julien

Unpicked - Jackie Hendriks, Arthur Shrewsbury, Frank Iredale, Bryan Young, Phil DeFreitas, Lakshmipathy Balaji

 

[Howe_zat]

Arthur Shrewsbury
Andrew Stoddart
Frank Iredale
Polly Umrigar
CB Fry
Jonty Rhodes
Jack Russell
Zaheer Khan
Len Pascoe
Subhash Gupte
Mushtaq Ahmed

Not bad for a team of rejects

 

[Jarquis]

Lawrence Rowe
Ravi Shastri
Stan McCabe
Misbah Ul-Haq
Alan Steel
Greg Blewett
Bruce Edgar
Harold Larwood
Garth McKenzie
Johnny Wardle
Ryan Sidebottom

Colin Blythe

 

[Red]

Brett Schultz FFS.

Where's my Allan Donald!

 

[morgieb]

Brett Schultz FFS.

Where's my Allan Donald!

I took him in Rd 5. Unlucky.

 

[morgieb]

Alviro Petersen
Dennis Amiss
Roy Dias
Tom Graveney
Allan Border
Russell Arnold
Jim Parks
Sarfraz Nawaz
Allan Donald
Doug Bollinger
Ernie Toshack

Michael Vandort

Yeah....

 

[Coronis]

Roy Fredericks
Bob Simpson*
Stephen Fleming
Dilip Vengsarkar
Kris Srikkanth
Brian Hastings
Hansie Cronje
Kamran Akmal+
Wasim Akram
Dennis Lillee
Dale Steyn

Lisle Nagel

 

[BackFootPunch]

1. Bruce Mitchell
2. Mohinder Amarnath
3. Charles Macartney
4. Daryll Cullinan
5. Sir Frank Worrell (c)
6. Sir Ian Botham
7. Mark Boucher
8. Graeme Swann
9. Ian Bishop
10. Bishan Bedi
11. Ewen Chatfield

12. Matthew Bell

Pretty happy with that team actually, especially considering my first pick. These blokes would go good in the subcontinent.

 

[Red]

That's a real decent team BFP.

 

[kingkallis]

CricZo XI

1. Len Hutton / ( c )
2. Ian Redpath /
3. Bill Edrich / o
4. Patsy Hendren /
5. Colin Cowdrey /
6. Andrew Flintoff o /
7. Trevor Bailey / o
8. Steve Rhodes +
9. Lance Cairns o /
10. Mitchell Johnson o /
11. Hugh Tayfield o

12. Eknath Solkar @

 

[Red]

Monk's XI

Barry Richards (test batting average 72)
Wilfred Rhodes (He was a great player, one of the greatest of cricket's history- cricinfo)
Victor Trumper (dove like)
Faf Du Plessis (test batting average 70)
Jack Robertson (Polished and stylish, wristy and effortless: these were the words used time and again to describe innings played by Jack Robertson- cricinfo)
Mike Brearley (Brearley was without doubt the best captain I ever played under, a man with a billion dollar cricketing brain- Beefy)
MJK Smith (His leadership qualities, which included fielding at forward short leg before helmets and shin-guards were in vogue, were possibly the biggest factor in his captaining England in half his 50 Tests- cricinfo)
Dinesh Kathik (but his wicketkeeping wasn't up to scratch- cricinfo)
George Giffen (used to be referred to as the W. G. Grace of Australia- cricinfo)
Roy Tattersall- (A tall man- cricinfo)
Devon Malcolm (Devon Malcolm was all about raw pace -cricinfo)

12th- Shultzy


- Great openers
- Vic at #3
- Decent all rounders in Giffen and Rhodes. Good spinners in Rhodes and Tattershall
- Young gun Faf
- Excellent captain with Brearley
- Pretty **** middle order
- Devon Malcolm at least LOOKS intimidating

 

[Spikey]

1. Spikey - Bill Brown
2. Spikey - Sid Barnes
3. Spikey - Younis Khan
13. Spikey - Saleem Malik
4. Spikey - Clive Lloyd *
6. Spikey - Mike Gatting
12. Spikey - Moin Khan (+)
3. Spikey - George Lohmann
9. Spikey - Stuart Clark
12. Spikey - Chris Tremlett
11. Spikey - Alf Valentine

14. Spikey - Bernard Julien

- no **** players
- a lotta good players but maybe no superstars (lloyd, lohmann closest)
- big fat tail
- lot of my players were picked in the same draft position as their batting spot
-

 

[GIMH]

Govinda Isn't Mad Hatter XI

Saeed Anwar
Nathan Astle
Nasser Hussain*
Ian Bell
Martyn Moxon
Wavell Hinds
Bapu Nadkarni
Eric Petrie+
Nantie Hayward
Angus Fraser
Phil Tuffnell

Nuwan Kulasekara

I love my top four
Hayward and Fraser is a seam pairing I'm happy with, just a shame that I either have to have Hinds bowl first change or play ****ing Kulasakera, which realistically I should instead of Tuffers except on sharp turning decks, but whatever...
Holy tail. Keeper can't bat but still winds up at 8

 

[kingkallis]

Monk, I wouldnt make Brett Schultz my 12th man. He was way better than some of your fast bowling options.

 

[fredfertang]

Fred's Fertangs

Archie MacLaren
Gary Kirsten
Darryl Cullinan
*Douglas Jardine
Derek Randall
Frank Foster
Chris Harris
Intikhab Alam
+Bob Taylor
Joel Garner
Simon Jones

twelfthers Jack Mason

A tad underwhelming I have to accept - was hoping to get Dion Nash, George Hirst and Mushtaq Mohammad rather than Harris, Mason and Inti, but my pace attack of Jones, Garner and Foster is going to trouble all-comers

 

[harsh.ag]

BFP has Cullinan too, Fred!

 

[Red]

Monk, I wouldnt make Brett Schultz my 12th man. He was way better than some of your fast bowling options.

Might give him a run instead of MJK. Schultz seems to have been a gun.