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Cricket Budget Draft

Spikey

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Good day guys. We basically got through a full round.

Bill Woodfull
Lindsay Hassett
Everton Weekes
Andy Flower
Darren Lehmann
Clarrie Grimmet
Alec Bedser
Colin Croft

Lehmann taken because I thought he was more or less the best sub 30 test batsman left and I didn't expect him to be there in 20 picks time
 

smash84

The Tiger King
wow......thanks Watson for posting the article on Fazal,

Didn't know he was a DSP back then.

What a legend Fazal. RIP
 

watson

Banned
wow......thanks Watson for posting the article on Fazal,

Didn't know he was a DSP back then.

What a legend Fazal. RIP
No worries Smali.

Back to Barnes for a minute - by his own admission Derek Underwood 'cut' the ball rather than spun it, and yet we don't mind classifying him as a 'spinner' despite bowling at medium pace as well,

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Sydney Barnes put a lot more work on the ball than Underwood because mid-on and mid-off could apparently hear the crack of his fingers. If Underwood is a spinner then so is Barnes IMO. Just a deal faster when he needed to be.
 
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kyear2

Cricketer Of The Year
01. Arthur Morris
02.
03. Ted Dexter
04. Greg Chappell
05.
06. Charlie Macartney
07. Mike Procter
08. Hugh Tayfield
09. Andy Roberts
10. Dennis Lillee
11.

Budget = -31
I take KS Ranjitsinhji

Team so far

1Len Hutton
2
3KS Ranjitsinhji
4Denis Compton
5Vijay Hazare
6
7Denis Lindsay +
8
9Fazal Mahmoood
10Dale Steyn
11Sydney Barnes
Balance: 149 matches, 11094 runs, 273 wicket
Two excellent teams.
 

Red

The normal awards that everyone else has
- Bill Ponsford
- Archie Jackson
- Brian Lara
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- Farohk Engineer +
- Alan Davidson
- Ray Lindwall
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- Arthur Mailey
 

watson

Banned
Round 8
106. Cabinet96- Gonski
107. Watson- Hugh Tayfield
108. ankitj- Ranji
109. Spikey - Darren Lehman
110. smalishah84
111. Johnners
112. BackFootPunch
113. Monk
114. morgieb
115. Garson007
116. Marcuss
117. Michaelf7777777
118. GIMH
119. kyear2
120. ohnoitsyou
 
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watson

Banned
You just sunk my battleship.
Sorry about that, but we are down the pointy end of the Draft. How Macartney lasted into the 7th Round is a mystery to me. Actually "ummd & arrd" over him and Dexter for quite a while. Now I have both :cool:

BTW Just hope that Cabinet doesn't return, take several players in one hit, and really stuff everyone up.
 
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watson

Banned
Ummed and aahed over Wasim and Macartney for ages. He'd suit my team so well :(
Which just goes to show that Drafting is half-judgement and half-luck. It's a very unpredictable thing.

On the bright side, Wasim does suit your attack, and it would have been a shame to miss out on him. You weren't to know.
 

ohnoitsyou

International Regular
I had actually done my full write up with Macartney selected, and then changed to Beefy and had to redo everything.
 
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ankitj

Hall of Fame Member
Sorry about that, but we are down the pointy end of the Draft. How Macartney lasted into the 7th Round is a mystery to me. Actually "ummd & arrd" over him and Dexter for quite a while. Now I have both :cool:

BTW Just hope that Cabinet doesn't return, take several players in one hit, and really stuff everyone up.
More surprising was that Tayfield was still available. I'd have picked him instead of Ranji if he you didn't snap him up. Last great affordable spinner IMO.
 

watson

Banned
Round 8
106. Cabinet96- Gonski
107. Watson- Hugh Tayfield
108. ankitj- Ranji
109. Spikey - Darren Lehman
110. smalishah84- Damien Martyn
111. Johnners- Bill Brown
112. BackFootPunch- Mohd Asif
113. Monk- Bart King
114. morgieb
115. Garson007
116. Marcuss
117. Michaelf7777777
118. GIMH
119. kyear2
120. ohnoitsyou
 
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smash84

The Tiger King
Saeed Anwar
Eddie Barlow

Damien Martyn


Mushtaq Mohammad
Aubrey Faulkner
Jack Russell
Wes Hall
Allan Donald
 

Johnners

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Bill Brown

1. Sid Barnes
2. Bill Brown
3. Eddie Paynter
4.
5. Clyde Walcott
6.
7. Lee Irvine+
8. Richie Benaud*
9. Malcolm Marshall
10.
11. Frank Tyson
 

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