ICC Best-Ever Test Championship Rating Draft

[harsh.ag]

Final pick - Graham Manou + (83)

A Side of Ice & Cake

Gordon Greenidge (844)
Virender Sehwag (866)

Ken Barrington (914)
Sir Viv Richards (938)
Stan McCabe (854)
Stuart Law (314)

Graham Manou + (83)

Amar Singh (418)
Bill O'Reilly (901)
Sir Wes Hall (898)
Waqar Younis (909)

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Points used: 7939
Points unused: 36

 

[watson]

Thanks Harsh!


ROUND 11
1. Harsh - Graham Manou (83)
2. Honestbharani - Herbie Collins (750)
3. weldone - James Anderson (847)
4. AndyZaltzHair - Joe Hardstaff (735)
5. Red Hill - Ian Healy (597)
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

 

[harsh.ag]

Graham Manou - for whom Bumble once sang this eloquent melody

 

[NZTailender]

NZT's Harvey Globetrotters
1. A MacLaren (720)
2. V Trumper (801)
3. Sir C Walcott (938)
4. PA de Silva (794)
5. D Jardine* (587)
6. JR Reid (745)
7. J Waite+ (613)
8.
9. H Larwood (720)
10. M Henry (196)
11. B Reid (808)

Total so far: 6922
Total left: 1053

 

[harsh.ag]

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 - AB De Villiers (935)*
12. NZTailender - Clyde Walcott (938) & Matt Henry (196)*
13. Howe_zat - Shivnarine Chanderpaul (901)*
14. Chasingthedon - SF Barnes (932)*
15. Red Hill - Clyde Walcott (938), AB de Villiers (935) & Peter May (941)*
16. Days of Grace - Graham Thorpe (793)*
17. Watson - Allan Lamb (672)*

George Headley too! Before ABdV, after Walcott.

 

[honestbharani]

picking in the next 30 mins or so .

 

[honestbharani]

Herbie Collins - 750



Honest Hunks

Allan Rae	WI	565
Mudassar Nazar	Pak	668
Herbie Collins	Aus	750
Phil Mead	Eng	701
Dave Houghton	Zim	630
Gary Sobers (c)	WI	938
Les Ames (wk)	Eng	619
Alan Davidson	Aus	908
Jeff Thomson	Aus	806
Jerome Taylor	WI	707
Yasir Shah	Pak	667

Remaining Points

16

 

[weldone]

I am in a huge dilemma. I have 851 balance to purchase an opening bowling partner for Steyn. And there are 8 genuinely good bowlers in contention!

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

I am in a huge dilemma. I have 851 balance to purchase an opening bowling partner for Steyn. And there are 8 genuinely good bowlers in contention!

good situation to be in though

 

[weldone]

Have zeroed in between a bowling all-rounder from a famous South African family, and a current day English swingman.

Advise me guys Who will be better to complete this bowling attack? Steyn - *** - Hazlewood - Qadir - Moeen

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

Steyn and 'current day English swingman' should be mouthwatering. Throwing in Hazlewood in between will be n8mare. But good guy from famous SA family will also be a good choice as well.

 

[weldone]

It's actually 856. But that doesn't solve the problem. Thanks AZH.

 

[weldone]

I'll go with AZH's advice to complete my team.

1. Farokh Engineer+ (619)
2. Barry Richards (586)
3. Ricky Ponting (942)
4. Frank Worrell* (828)
5. Steve Waugh (895)
6. Ajinkya Rahane (666)
7. Moeen Ali [5] (458)
8. Abdul Qadir [4] (710)
9. Josh Hazlewood [3] (506)
10. Dale Steyn [1] (909)
11. James Anderson [2] (847)

Balance 9

I reckon this has been at least close to my best game in any draft so far. Thanks watson for organizing this - was a thoroughly enjoyable experience. HB called me the Rohit Sharma of drafts before this started. I now know how Rohit felt after scoring one of those ODI double tons.

 

[honestbharani]

I'll go with AZH's advice to complete my team.

1. Farokh Engineer+ (619)
2. Barry Richards (586)
3. Ricky Ponting (942)
4. Frank Worrell* (828)
5. Steve Waugh (895)
6. Ajinkya Rahane (666)
7. Moeen Ali [5] (458)
8. Abdul Qadir [4] (710)
9. Josh Hazlewood [3] (506)
10. Dale Steyn [1] (909)
11. James Anderson [2] (847)

Balance 9

I reckon this has been at least close to my best game in any draft so far. Thanks watson for organizing this - was a thoroughly enjoyable experience. HB called me the Rohit Sharma of drafts before this started. I now know how Rohit felt after scoring one of those ODI double tons.

I would say you are the Shikhar Dhawan of drafts now after that team...

Excellent team.. But I still maintain.. if you are the Rohit of drafts, you will come back to norm in overseas conditions very soon..

 

[Coronis]

Very, very good batting. Plus Steyn. Great team.

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

I'll round it off with the stylish Joe Hardstaff jr. (735)

1. Vijay Merchant
2. Sunil Gavaskar
3. Joe Hardstaff jr.
4. Graeme Pollock
5. AB de Villiers
6. Aubrey Faulkner[4]
7. Frank Woolley [5]
8. Learie Constantine [3]
9. Herbert Strudwick [+]
10. Jack Cowie [1]
11. Curtly Ambrose [2]

Points used :

[R1 JCowie 656 + R2 FWoolley 701 + R3 VMerchant 584 + R4 LConstantine 622 + R5 CAmbrose 912 + R6 HStrudwick 104 + R7 AFaulkner 877 + R8 GPollock 927 + R9 SGavaskar 916 + R10 AVilliers 935 + R11 JHardstaff 735] = Total = 7969 ; Left = 6

Maybe a bit of weakness in spin department but I think Aubrey Faulkner and Frank Woolley will form a good spin duo

 

[weldone]

Ambrose will throw the cricket ball targetting your sensitive area if you give Cowie the first over ahead of him.

 

[watson]

Reliance ICC Player Rankings

ROUND 11
1. Harsh - Graham Manou (83)
2. Honestbharani - Herbie Collins (750
3. weldone - James Anderson (847)
4. AndyZaltzHair - Joe Hardstaff Jr (735)
5. Red Hill - Ian Healy (597)
6. OverratedSanity - BJ Watling (644)
7. Coronis - Alan Fairfax (409)
8. Chasingthedon - Alec Bedser (904)
9. Days of Grace
10. WalkingWicket
11. Watson
12. NZTailender
13. Prince EWS
14. Zinzan
15. Howe_zat
16. longranger
17. Pothas

 

[weldone]

Didn't know that about our very own G.I. Joe

#hardstuff

 

[Red]

Ian Healy to finish my team. Best wicketkeeper I've seen live (which we'll need for MacGill), very handy batsman, and outstanding commentator post playing career.

All in all, very happy with this team. Highly potent and complimentary pace attack, with Pollock able to take the containing role while striking regularly, and Lindwall and Roberts providing highly skilled strike power. MacGill is a great spinner who can attack as he likes with the control of the others to back him. D'Oliveira is able to provide some steady and very economical medium pace, and was a good enough bowler to pick up a wicket per test. My batting is pure orgasm all the way down to 6, all stylish strokeplayers who were good in all conditions. And it's hard to see us getting bowled out cheaply with Healy, Pollock and Lindwall at 7,8 and 9. Bargain buys were Jackson, D'Oliveira and Love; and MacGill is probably cheap at how good he was.

Red Hill CC

Archie Jackson (502)
Sid Barnes (708)
Rohan Kanhai (875) *
Peter May (941)
Basil D’Oliveira (628) (5)
Martin Love (213)
Ian Healy (597) +
Shaun Pollock (909) (3)
Ray Lindwall (897) (1)
Andy Roberts (891) (2)
Stuart MacGill (728) (4)

Thanks for organizing this Watson, you're the master at keeping things ticking over, and it was a really fun and challenging idea for a draft.