Silent Auction Draft

[Red]

kyear with an absolute steal there. Toshack's a gun for $1000.


Dan's XI

Name [HR][/HR]	Value [HR][/HR]
Colin Milburn - Charlie Macartney (6) Zaheer Abbas - Stanley Jackson (5) Daniel Vettori (4) Ian Healy + Mitchell Johnson (2) Dominic Cork (3) Jack Cowie (1)	$600,000 - $2,000,000 $1,800,000 - $900,000 $1,600,000 $1,800,000 $1,700,000 $500,000 $1,800,000
TOTAL	$12,700,000

Going to be tight on my budget, tbh. 1.15mil per starting slot.

Decent team this. Love the #3 and middle/lower batting order, batting all the way to #10. Hard team to bowl out quickly. Think Cowie and Johnson would compliment each other nicely as a pace attack.

 

[Dan]

Problem is the last 2 spots -- all goes to **** if I end up with Imrul Kayes opening the batting and Habibul Bashar at 5

EDIT: This round's strategy could potentially ruin me, but all I have to say is #YOLO (as Monk has received in multiple emails now).

 

[ohnoitsyou]

wtf did i pay 450k for Harby Still, thats just over 1k per test wicket.

 

[ohnoitsyou]

Bill Ponsford-$1,835,000
-
Lindsay Hasset-$1,220,000
Greg Chappell-$3,210,000
Norm O'Neill-$600,000
Chandu Borde-$400,000
-
Freddie Flintoff-$2,100,000
Don Tallon $1,224,000
Harbhajhan Singh
-

Geriant Jones $1

Remaining: $3,960,999

 

[kyear2]

Kirksland XI

01. Victor Trumper: $2,800,000.00
02.
03.
04.
05. Mohammad Yousuf: $1,600,000.00
06.
07. Mark Boucher: $850,000.00
08. Hugh Tayfield: $2,600,000.00
09. Sir Andy Roberts: $2,400,000.00
10. Ernie Toshack: $1000.00
11. Chris Tremlett: $10,000.00

12. Bryan Strang: $1,000.00

 

[kyear2]

sent

Officially my worst draft.

 

[Dan]

wtf did i pay 450k for Harby Still, thats just over 1k per test wicket.

450k for Harbhajan
1.7mil for Vettori.

Case closed, IMO.

 

[Dan]

sent

Officially my worst draft.

Filling in the batting could be difficult, but IMO that's not a bad framework so far.

Guessing you went big for Kallis?

 

[weeman27bob]

Geoffry Boycott 2,100,500
-
-
Vijay Hazare 2,144,455
Arjuna Ranatunga 851,000
Brian Close 350,000
Allan Watkins 1
Kiran More 254,500
Ben Hilfenhaus 200,000
Wes Hall 2,775,000
Kyle Mills 80,000

Total - 8,755,456

Too many bits and pieces players so far and not enough stars.

 

[NUFAN]

Kind of hoping that the class players (Sanga, Wool and Tez) can lift the other guys to their level.

1.
2. Neil Johnson
3. Kumar Sangakkara
4. Frank Woolley
5. Sanjay Manjrekar
6.
7.
8. Dick Lilley
9. Steven Finn
10.
11. Terry Alderman

 

[Dan]

Sanga and Woolley standout stars there.

Let me guess, you've bid big for Kallis too? No chance my measly bid is going to secure the big gun IMO.

 

[watson]

In the ATG stakes your keeper Dick Lilley is on a par with Woolley and perhaps even Sangakkara. That has to be an added bonus.

 

[morgieb]

1. Roy Fredricks ($900,000)
2. Michael Slater ($1,250,000)
3.
4. Javed Miandad ($3,000,000)
5. Keith Fletcher ($300,000)
6. Greg Ritchie ($50,000)
7. Rod Marsh ($1,000,000)
8.
9.
10. Erine Jones ($100,000)
11. Ray Price ($70,000)

$8,330,000 left.

**** I need bowlers.

+ Allan Donald ($3,000,000)

Improving pretty rapidly. Even people like Fletcher and Ritchie were at least decent Test players.

 

[NUFAN]

I did put a few dollars on Kallis, yes.

I don't get how Lilley is at the same level of Sangers, Watson.

 

[watson]

I did put a few dollars on Kallis, yes.

I don't get how Lilley is at the same level of Sangers, Watson.

Lilley was one of the greatest keepers of his era. Sangers is one of the greatest batsman of his era. In terms of greatness in their respective disciplines they are roughly equal.

The great wicket-keepers

The greatest of them all? This can only be a matter of opinion; many England cricketers, from Arthur Gilligan to Colin Cowdrey give their votes for Oldfield; Blackham, Lilley, Strudwick, Ames, Evans, Tallon, Grout, cannot be far behind: Strudwick himself placed Evans, Oldfield, Cameron and Lilley as equal top. The world's best wicket-keeper today is probably the restless, muscle-flexing Alan Knott. In the 1970-71 series in Australia, says Alan Smith, Warwickshire captain and England Test selector, Knott achieved a personal pinnacle possibly never exceeded by any other wicket-keeper. His own team mates on their victorious return spoke in awe of some of his far flung catches, and above all of the general effect upon the side of his verve and vigour as the focal point in the field. The opinions of his colleagues were fully supported by seasoned judges in the other camp. There are many who believe that given a greater consistency he will ultimately rival Oldfield.

Wisden - The great wicket-keepers

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Sent.

 

[Red]

R10 Results

Samuel Vimes - Chris Cairns - $1,500,000

nufan - Jaques Kallis - $3,384,401

weeman - Scott Styris - $1,400,000

Kyear - Neil Hawke $1

ohno - Tubby Taylor: $1,732,000

morgieb - Michael Kasprowicz - $300,000

Dan - Butt — $700,000

Cammo - Gerry Gomez – $53,657

 

[Red]

R11 players

Jimmy Sinclair
Kepler Wessels
Maitland Hathorn
Navjot Singh Sidhu
Neil Harvey
Fred Titmus
Darren Bravo
Sylvester Clarke
James Franklin
Murray Goodwin
Mike Whitney
Richie Benaud

 

[NUFAN]

Should be round 10 results and round 11 players, yeah?

 

[ohnoitsyou]

Bill Ponsford-$1,835,000
Mark Taylor-$1,732,000
Lindsay Hasset-$1,220,000
Greg Chappell-$3,210,000
Norm O'Neill-$600,000
Chandu Borde-$400,000
Freddie Flintoff-$2,100,000
Don Tallon $1,224,000
Harbhajhan Singh-$450,000
-
-

Geriant Jones $1

Remaining: $2,228,999

The strength of the top 5 isn't going to mean anything if i can't get my hands on a couple of quicks.