ICC Best-Ever Test Championship Rating Draft

[harsh.ag]

At no. 5, let me pick the best no. 5 I have seen in Steve Waugh (895). How does my batting line-up look now?

1. Farokh Engineer+
2. Barry Richards
3. Ricky Ponting
4. Frank Worrell*
5. Steve Waugh
6. Ajinkya Rahane
7. Moeen Ali

Top notch

 

[NZTailender]

Funny I thought Waugh had been taken (I know Mark had for certain). Had been out of my calculations.

 

[Prince EWS]

Total Budget = 7975 ratings points at an average of 725 per player.

Reliance ICC Player Rankings

ROUND 10
1. Coronis - Courtney Walsh (867)
2. Zinzan - Hashim Amla (907)
3. WalkingWicket - Tim Southee (799)
4. Prince EWS - Hanif Mohammad (819)
5. Harsh - Stan McCabe (854)
6. OverratedSanity - VVS Laxman (781)
7. Pothas - Justin Langer (780)
8. Honestbharani - Phil Mead (701)
9. Longranger - Desmond Haynes (785)
10. Weldone - Steve Waugh (895)
11. AndyZaltzHair
12. NZTailender (double-pick)
13. Howe_zat
14. Chasingthedon
15. Red Hill
16. Days of Grace
17. Watson

ROUND 1
1.    weldone - Barry Richards (586)*
2.    OverratedSanity - Mike Procter (672)*
3. NZTailender - Harold Larwood (720)*
4.    Howe_zat - Keith Miller (862)*
5.    Days of Grace - Richard Hadlee (909)*
6.    Prince EWS - Imran Khan (922)*
7.    WalkingWicket - Shane Warne (905)*
8.    Honestbharani - Garry Sobers (938)*
9.    Pothas - Malcolm Marshall (910)*4
10. Harsh - Viv Richards (938)*
11.    Zinzan - Martin Crowe (776)*
12.    Watson - Dennis Lillee (884)*
13.    Coronis - Sachin Tendulkar (898)*
14.    longranger - Wasim Akram (830)*
15.    Chasingthedon - WG Grace (679)*
16.    AndyZaltzHair - Jack Cowie (656)*
17.    Red Hill - Archie Jackson (502)*


ROUND 2
1.    Red Hill - Sid Barnes (708)*
2.    AndyZaltHair - Frank Woolley (701)*
3.    Chasingthedon - Martin Donnelly (492)*
4.    Longranger - Brian Lara (911)*
5.    Coronis - Shane Bond (778)*
6.    Watson - Greg Chappell (883)*
7.    Zinzan - Michael Holding (860)*
8. Harsh - Bill O'Reilly (901)*
9.    Pothas - Glenn McGrath (914)*
10.    HonestbHarani - Alan Davidson (908)*
11.    WalkingWicket - Stephen Fleming (725)*
12.    Prince EWS - Muttiah Muralitheran (920)*
13.    Days of Grace - Jacques Kallis (935)*
14.    Howe_zat - Adam Gilchrist (874)*
15. NZTailender - Victor Trumper (801)*
16.    OverratedSanity - Kumar Sangakkara (938)*
17.    Weldone - Josh Hazlewood (506)*


ROUND 3
1.    Red Hill - Ray Lindwall (897)*
2.    weldone - Dale Steyn (909)*
3.    Prince EWS - Bruce Mitchell (781)*
4.    longranger - Mark Waugh (788)*
5.    Coronis - Jack Gregory (744)*
6.    Honestbharani - Les Ames (619)*
7.    Chasingthedon - Colin Milburn (510)*
8. NZTailender - Douglas Jardine (587)*
9.    OverratedSanity - Bhagwhat Chandrasekhar (730)*
10.    Days of Grace - Patrick Patterson (558)*
11.    Pothas - Sylvester Clarke (544)*
12.    Zinzan - Stewart Dempster (546)*
13.    Watson - Allan Donald (895)*
14.    WalkingWicket - Daniel Vettori (681)*
15.    AndyZaltzHair - Vijay Merchant (584)*
16. Harsh - Gordon Greenidge (844) 
17.    Howe_zat - Kumar Ranjitsinhji (689)*


ROUND 4
1.    Howe-zat - Fred Trueman (898)*
2. Harsh - Sir Wes Hall (898) 
3.    AndyZaltHair - Learie Constantine (622)*
4.    Walking Wicket - Alan Knott (650)*
5.    Watson - Don Tallon (230)*
6.    Zinzan - Joel Garner (890)*
7.    Pothas - Patsy Hendren (696)*
8.    Days of Grace - Wasim Bari (303)*
9.    OverratedSanity - Brett Schultz (517)*
10. NZTailender - Archie Maclaren (720)*
11.    Chasingthedon - Jack Iverson (457)*
12.    Honestbharani - Yasir Shah (667)*
13.    Coronis - Kumar Shri Duleepsinhji (549)*
14.    Longranger - Brendon McCullum (760)*
15.    Prince EWS - Manny Martindale (577)*
16.    weldone - Abdul Qadir (710)*
17.    Red Hill - Stuart MacGill (728)*


ROUND 5
1. NZTailender - 
2.    longranger - Mohinder Armanath (720)*
3.    Red Hill - Andy Roberts (891)*
4.    weldone - Frank Worrell (828)*
5.    Days of Grace - Trent Boult (825)*
6.    AndyZaltzHair - Curtly Ambrose (912)*
7.    OverratedSanity - Walter Hammond (897)*
8.    Prince EWS - George Headley (915)*
9.    Chasingthedon - Chaminda Vaas (800)*
10.    Pothas - Tony Greig (750)*
11.    Coronis - Bert Oldfield (432)* 
12.    Zinzan - Mitchell Starc (545)*
13.    WalkingWicket - Andrew Flintoff (810)*
14.    Watson - Geoff Boycott (764)*
15.    Howe_zat - Herbert Sutcliffe (888)*
16. Harsh - Stuart Law (314)*
17.    Honestbharani - Jeff Thomson (806)*


ROUND 6
1.    Honestbharani - Jerome Taylor (707)*
2. Harsh - Amar Singh (418)*
3.    Howe_zat - Hedley Verity (853)*
4.    Watson - Richie Benaud (863)*
5.    WalkingWicket - Rahul Dravid (892)*
6.    Zinzan - Mark Boucher (566)*
7.    Coronis - Bill Ponsford (761)*
8.    Pothas - Javed Miandad (885)*
9.    Chasingthedon - Godfrey Evans (442)*
10.    Prince EWS - Eddie Paynter (746)*
11.    OverratedSanity - Wayne Daniel (388)*
12.    AndyZaltzhair - Herbert Strudwick (104)*
13.    Days of Grace - Wilfred Rhodes (823)*
14.    Weldone - Ajinkya Rahane (666)*
15.    Red Hill - Rohan Kanhai (875)*
16.    Longranger - David Boon (775)*
17. NZTailender - 


ROUND 7
1.    Zinzan - Jack Hobbs (942)
2.    Days of Grace - Saeed Anwar (824)
3.    longranger - Hansie Cronje (733)
4.    Pothas - Shakib Al Hasan (700)
5.    WalkingWicket - Simon Jones for (631)
6. Harsh - Waqar Younis (909)
7.    Prince EWS - Warwick Armstrong (703)
8.    weldone - Ricky Ponting (942)
9.    Chasingthedon - Ian Botham (911)
10.    OverratedSanity - Len Hutton (945)
11.    AndyZaltzHair - Aubrey Faulkner (877)
12.    Howe_zat - Darren Lehmann (693)
13.    Coronis - Charlie Macartney (800)
14.    Red Hill - Martin Love (213)
15.    Watson - Tom Graveney (672)
16. NZTailender - John R. Reid (745)
17.    Honestbharani - Allan Rae (575)


ROUND 8
1.    Honestbharani - David Houghton (630)
2. NZTailender - Bruce Reid (808)
3.    Watson - Chris Cairns (734)
4.    Red Hill - Basil D'Oliveira (682)
5.    Coronis - Bill Woodfull (820)
6.    Howe_zat - Mohammad Nisser (364) & Darren Lehmann (693)
7.    AndyZalthair - Graeme Pollock (927)
8.    Overrated Sanity - Billy Murdoch (554)
9.    Chasingthedon - Neil Harvey (923)
10.    Weldone - Farokh Engineer (619)
11.    Prince EWS - Michael Bevan (510)
12. Harsh - Gordon Greenidge (844) & Virender Sehwag (867)
13.    WalkingWicket - Brad Hodge (518)
14.    Pothas - Dean Jones (694)
15.    Longranger - Lasith Malinga (546)
16.    Days of Grace - Denis Compton (917)
17.    zinzan - Kapil Dev (877)


ROUND 9
1.    Watson - Ravi Shastri (608)
2.    Days of Grace - Jonty Rhodes (586)
3.    Red Hill - Shaun Pollock (909)
4.    Chasingthedon - Everton Weekes (927)
5.    Howe_zat - Charles Bannerman (466)
6. NZTailender - John Waite (613) & Aravinda de Silva (794)
7.    AndyZaltzHair - Sunil Gavasksr (916)
8.    weldone - Moeen Ali (458)
9.    longranger - Damien Fleming (738)
10.    Honestbharani - Mudassar Nazar (668)
11.    Pothas - Phil Jacques (631)
12.    OverratedSanity - Allan Border (877)
13. Harsh - Ken Barrington (914)
14.    Prince EWS - Gary Gilmour (659)
15.    WalkingWicket - Faf du Plessis (710)
16.    Zinzan - Ray Illingworth (647)
17.    Coronis - Clarrie Grimmett (901)

ROUND 10
1.    Coronis - Courtney Walsh (867)
2.    Zinzan - Hashim Amla (907)
3.    WalkingWicket - Tim Southee (799)
4.    Prince EWS - Hanif Mohammad (819)
5. Harsh - Stan McCabe (854)
6.    OverratedSanity - VVS Laxman (781)
7.    Pothas - Justin Langer (780)
8.    Honestbharani - Phil Mead (701)
9.    Longranger - Desmond Haynes (785)
10.    Weldone - Steve Waugh (895)
11.    AndyZaltzHair
12. NZTailender (double-pick)
13.    Howe_zat
14.    Chasingthedon
15.    Red Hill
16.    Days of Grace
17.    Watson


ROUND 11
1. Harsh
2.    Honestbharani
3.    weldone
4.    AndyZaltzHair
5.    Red Hill
6.    OverratedSanity
7.    Coronis
8.    Chasingthedon
9.    Days of Grace
10.    WalkingWicket
11.    Watson
12. NZTailender
13.    Prince EWS
14.    Zinzan 
15.    Howe_zat
16.    longranger
17.    Pothas

 

[OverratedSanity]

At no. 5, let me pick the best no. 5 I have seen in Steve Waugh (895). How does my batting line-up look now?
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1. Farokh Engineer+
2. Barry Richards
3. Ricky Ponting
4. Frank Worrell*
5. Steve Waugh
6. Ajinkya Rahane
7. Moeen Ali
8. Abdul Qadir
9. Josh Hazlewood
10. Dale Steyn
11.

Your team's a bit like mine tbh. Incredibly strong batting but slightly light on the bowling.

 

[NZTailender]

 

[weldone]

Batting line-up looks absolutely top drawer, bowling not so much outside Steyn tbh, do you have enough for a big fish at no 11?

Yes just about I think - let's see (hoping the bowler I want stays till my next pick)

 

[Howe_zat]

Waugh's who I'd have picked next.

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

AB de Villiers (935)

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

Since weldone dismissed my master plan by taking Swaugh, I have a gift for him

 

[NZTailender]

Clyde Walcott (938) and Matt Henry (196)

 

[Howe_zat]

Shiv Chanderpaul (901) then

 

[Howe_zat]

1. Sutcliffe
2. Bannerman
3. Ranji
4. Lehamnn
5. Chanderpaul
6. Miller
7. Gilchrist
8. Verity
9. Trueman

11. Nissar

 

[harsh.ag]

Chasing --> Red Hill --> DoG --> Watson (end of round)

 

[NZTailender]

NZT's Harvey Globetrotters
1. A MacLaren
2. V Trumper
3. Sir C Walcott
4. PA de Silva
5. D Jardine*
6. JR Reid
7. J Waite+
8.
9. H Larwood
10. M Henry
11. B Reid

Total so far: 6922
Total left: 1053

Oh man gotta love bad maths gonna have quite a bit of change that could've gone towards a slightly better pick round before last perhaps...

 

[harsh.ag]

NZT's Harvey Globetrotters
1. A MacLaren
2. V Trumper
3. Sir C Walcott
4. PA de Silva
5. D Jardine*
6. JR Reid
7. J Waite+
8.
9. H Larwood
10. M Henry
11. B Reid

Total so far: 6922
Total left: 1053

Oh man gotta love bad maths gonna have quite a bit of change that could've gone towards a slightly better pick round before last perhaps...

Haha, you can afford the SF and then some

 

[chasingthedon]

For my penultimate pick, I'll take the highest rated bowler of all time, SF Barnes (932)

 

[chasingthedon]

Reliance Robin's XI

1. WG Grace*
2. Colin Milburn
3. Neil Harvey
4. Everton Weekes
5. Martin Donnelly
6. Ian Botham
7. Godfrey Evans+
8. Chaminda Vaas
9.
10. SF Barnes
11. Jack Iverson

Total:7071, balance: 904

 

[Red]

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[Red]

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[harsh.ag]

Clyde Walcott, a great player to break my bank with one round to go.

NZT got him just a couple of picks ago, Red.