The Eras Draft

[Saint Kopite]

PLEASE CHOOSE THREE OF THE BEST TEAMS FROM THE FOLLOWING & VOTE FOR THEM!​

weldone:-

01. Virender Sehwag
02. WG Grace (5)
03. Ken Barrington
04. Dudley Nourse
05. Allan Border (*)
06. CB Fry
07. Farokh Engineer (+)
08. Richard Hadlee (1)
09. Maurice Tate (3)
10. Clarrie Grimmett (4)
11. Courtney Walsh (2)


kingkallis:-

01. Victor Trumper
02. Arthur Morris
03. Neil Harvey
04. Jacques Kallis (4)
05. Stan McCabe
06. Frank Woolley (6)
07. Imran Khan (*) (1)
08. Jeff Dujon (+)
09. Johnny Briggs (5)
10. Dale Steyn (2)
11. John Snow (3)


bagapath:-

01. Geoffrey Boycott
02. Graeme Smith
03. Vivian Richards
04. Walter Hammond [*]
05. Stanley Jackson
06. Jack Gregory [5]
07. Ian Smith [+]
08. Ray Lindwall [2]
09. Wilfred Rhodes [4]
10. Fazal Mahmood [3]
11. Allan Donald [1]


Saint Kopite:-

01. Len Hutton [*]
02. Herbert Sutcliffe
03. Herbie Taylor
04. Sachin Tendulkar
05. Javed Miandad
06. Aubrey Faulkner [5]
07. Matt Prior [+]
08. Richie Benaud [4]
09. Malcolm Marshall [1]
10. Peter Pollock [2]
11. Charlie Turner [3]


Red Hill:-

01. Bill Lawry
02. Archie MaClaren
03. Don Bradman (*)
04. Lindsay Hassett
05. Colin Cowdrey
06. Dean Jones
07. Adam Gilchrist (+)
08. George Lohmann
09. Ishant Sharma
10. Arthur Mailey
11. Dennis Lillee


Camo999:-

01. CH Gayle (6)
02. W Bardsley
02. RB Richardson
04. RG Pollock
05. KS Ranjitsinhji
06. WW Armstrong (*) (5)
07. AK Davidson (1)
08. TG Evans (+)
09. MA Holding (3)
10. WJ O'Reilly (4)
11. Waqar Younis (2)


AldoRaine18:-

01. Arthur Shwresbury Snr
02. Herbie Collins
03. Ricky Ponting
04. Brian Lara
05. Greg Chappell
06. Frank Worrell (*)
07. Alan Knott (+)
08. Monty Noble
09. Wasim Akram
10. Alec Bedser
11. Hedley Verity


ankitj:-

01. Mark Taylor (*)
02. Tom Hayward
03. Younis Khan
04. Denis Compton
05. Patsy Hendren
06. Garry Sobers
07. Les Ames (+)
08. Hugh Trumble
09. Andy Roberts
10. Fred Trueman
11. Glenn McGrath


Coronis:-

01. Sunil Gavaskar (*)
02. Bruce Mitchell
03. Kumar Sangakkara
04. Everton Weekes
05. Clem Hill
06. Jack Ryder
07. Tony Grieg
08. Ian Healy (+)
09. Muttiah Muralitharan
10. Fred Spofforth
11. Neil Adcock


NUFAN:-

01. Bill Ponsford
02. Andrew Stoddart
03. Ian Chappell (*)
04. Martin Crowe
05. Steve Waugh
06. Keith Miller
07. Ian Botham
08. Mitchell Johnson
09. Jim Laker
10. Sydney Barnes
11. Bert Strudwick (+)


morgieb:-

01. Jack Hobbs
02. Bob Simpson (*)
03. David Boon
04. Clyde Walcott
05. Shivnarine Chanderpaul
06. Kapil Dev [3]
07. Johnny Douglas [5]
08. Jack Blackham (+)
09. Harold Larwood [2]
10. Curtly Ambrose [1]
11. Lance Gibbs [4]


kyear2:-

01. Graham Gooch
02. Eddie Barlow
03. George Headley (*)
04. Charles Macartney
05. AB De Villiers (+)
06. Billy Murdoch
07. Percy Chapman
08. Shane Warne
09. Joel Garner
10. Bill Johnston
11. Wes Hall

 

[NUFAN]

Its a shame that the players performances during the era were not listed to make it better for voting.

Ponsford, Crowe, Waugh, Botham and Laker were all players I chose specifically due to their brilliant performances during their specified era.

 

[ankitj]

Vote for the most deadly pace attack, everyone.

 

[watson]

KK and SK were straight forward choices for me - awesome bowling attacks with loads of batting. Then I ummed and ahhed a lot before choosing Cammo's team. Sure the batting could implode at any minute after rattling along at a great rate of knots. But with Holding, Waqar, Davo, and O'Reilly all likely to throw a hard counterpunch, this hardly seemed to matter.

 

[Red]

Yeh, Cammo's bowling attack is boss. Love it.

 

[kingkallis]

 

[kingkallis]

Thanks to kyear, got the chance to work on it

 

[weldone]

Thank you Bagapath. At least someone noticed my side!

 

[kingkallis]

Come on people vote!

weldone I was confused between you and Monk. Ishant must have made me vote for Monk

 

[weldone]

Seriously, all I need to beat Monk is to tell Hadlee not to let Bradman score centuries in both innings.

 

[harsh.ag]

Went for KK, SK, and Nuf.

Tough choices there, but all three are good teams. Nuf's batting an obvious weakness but I want to see that bowling unit in the field.

 

[harsh.ag]

Seriously, all I need to beat Monk is to tell Hadlee not to let Bradman score centuries in both innings.

To quote the wise philosopher Coronis from a few sunshines ago, "You don't allow Bradman to average 100. He averages 100 because nobody can control his scoring".

 

[weldone]

I'm not denying what Bradman did.

There was a post from SJS regarding the lack of quality pace bowlers Bradman faced.

 

[weldone]

I think one key reason for me not getting enough votes is people in CW severely underrating Walsh.

I personally objectively think that my team is very balanced. Sehwag-Grace is a unique opening combination. The middle-order of Barrington-Nourse-Border-Fry is rock-solid. Engineer's glovework is regarded among the very best, and he was no Strudwick with the bat either. Tate batting at 9 highlights the batting depth. Hadlee-Walsh-Tate-Grimmett-Grace is a super bowling attack with a range of variety (except Left arm).

 

[kingkallis]

I'm not denying what Bradman did.

There was a post from SJS regarding the lack of quality pace bowlers Bradman faced.

Everyone @ CW agrees that Don would have averaged around 55.36 had he played in this era

 

[Saint Kopite]

Voted for KK, Aldo and Ankit.

The only one I was sure of was KK's team. Rest, I couldn't decide. Went with Aldo because I would pay to watch that team bat and Ankit because he has got a very balanced team, with sensational bowling attack and a good batting unit. Though I feel Camo has the best bowling attack in this entire draft.

 

[NUFAN]

Went for KK, SK, and Nuf.

Tough choices there, but all three are good teams. Nuf's batting an obvious weakness but I want to see that bowling unit in the field.

Cheers for the vote. I do agree the bowling is better, but having 3 batsman averaging over 50+ ain't half bad.

 

[Saint Kopite]

Congrats KK!

 

[kingkallis]

Thanks mate. You came pretty close

Enjoyed playing this draft. Thanks once again bagapath and SK.

 

[weldone]

Congrat's kk.