The "I played for X in FC draft"

[Zinzan]

True that. Alternatively, you could always do a Hillary and just bribe everyone and then lie about it.

 

[Victor Ian]

John Murray (Middlesex).

rub it in why don't you

 

[Victor Ian]

True that. Alternatively, you could always do a Hillary and just bribe everyone and then lie about it.

In a move straight from the tome of politics I'm about to rubbish that whole table I produced, except where it suits me. Then I will refer to it without blinking. As it is my own work, I am the authority on it's interpretation.

Jimmy101 to pick and end round 10.

 

[jimmy101]

Martin Donnelly (Wellington)

 

[Victor Ian]

Bummer - I might be awol until Monday.

Something for the formula dudes out there......

I have always liked the very vague total batting average as a guide to how much a team might be expected to score.

How would I do this for total bowling average? Number of bowlers in a team affects this or total wickets on average affect this contrary to what one would like. For instance, If I took the average wickets taken by bowling average for each player in my team, I end up with a higher number than someone with a pathetic bowling line up of one bowler who takes 0 wickets per match. How do I fill up the shortfall of expected wickets, or how do I compensate for a team full of bowlers where the sum of their averages would skyrocket? Any ideas?

 

[Red]

Round 10

AndrewB - Sussex
Victor Ian - Yorkshire
anil1405 - Odisha
Watson - Canterbury
Zinzan - Jammu and Kashmir
mr_mister - Mumbai
The Battlers Prince - Durham
morgieb - Gujarat
J_C - Tasmania
AgentTBY - Punjab
stphndbsn - Services
jimmy101 - New South Wales


Round 11


AndrewB - Northern Districts
Victor Ian - Winward Islands
anil1405 - Western Province/Boland/Cobras
Watson - Assam
Zinzan - Eastern Province/Border/Warriors
mr_mister - Surrey
The Battlers Prince - Baroda
morgieb - Trinidad and Tobago
J_C - Northerns/Easterns/Titans
AgentTBY - Dehli
stphndbsn - Northhamptonshire
jimmy101 - Glamorgan

 

[anil1405]

In love with my pace attack.

Mike Procter - Western Province

1. Hanif Mohammad - Bahawalpur
2. Bob Simpson - Western Australia
3. Sir Don Bradman - South Australia
4. Colin Cowdrey - Kent
5.
6. M.S. Dhoni - Jharkhand
7. Alan Knott+ - Kent
8. Mike Procter - Western Province
9. Dennis Lillee - Western Australia
10. Waqar Younis - Karachi
11. Shane Bond - Canterbury


12. Narendra Hirwani - Madhya Pradesh

 

[jimmy101]

Keith Miller (NSW) & Matthew Maynard (Glamorgan)

1 Graham Gooch (Essex)
2 Martin Donnelly (Wellington)
3 Kane Williamson (Northern Districts)
4 Allan Border (Queensland)
5 Polly Umrigar (Saurashtra)
6 Ben Stokes (Durham)
7 Adam Gilchrist + (Western Australia)
8 Keith Miller (New South Wales)
9 Ray Lindwall (Queensland)
10 Ken Higgs (Leicestershire)
11 Don Shepherd (Glamorgan)

12th man: Matthew Maynard (Glamorgan)

 

[Agent TBY]

Mohammad Nissar (Punjab) and Bishan Singh Bedi (Delhi)

1. Phil Mead
2. Archie MacLaren
3. Viv Richards (c)
4. Wally Hammond (6)
5. Jacques Kallis (4)
6. Andrew Flintoff (3)
7. Roger Binny (6)
8. Syed Kirmani (wk)
9. Bishan Bedi (5)
10. Sydney Barnes (1)
11. Mohammad Nissar (2)

12. Mithun Manhas

 

[morgieb]

Rd 11 - Jasu Patel (Gujarat)
Rd 12 - Jeffrey Stollmeyer (Trinidad & Tobago)

1. Gordon Greenidge
2. Jeffrey Stollmeyer (7)
3. Ricky Ponting *
4. Patsy Hendren
5. Sandeep Patil (6)
6. Mohinder Amarnath (5)
7. Ajay Ratra +
8. Fred Trueman (1)
9. Jack Cowie (2)
10. Jasu Patel (4)
11. Umar Gul (3)

12. Amit Yadav

Not really happy about this, but options wise I didn't get a great deal. Mind you, there are some guns in there.

 

[Agent TBY]

I feel like the Indian teams destroyed this draft simply because there were so many of them, and the best one showed up like once. I think I escaped unscathed somewhat, but others weren't so lucky. We really should've gone with Duleep Trophy teams instead, but oh well.

Also, no Sri Lanka, what the ****.

 

[Red]

Also, no Sri Lanka, what the ****.

Bit late now, did ask early on for people to provide me with some names of teams. My knowledge of SC FC is virtually zero. Couldn't even tell you what FC team Tendulkar played for.

 

[mr_mister]

Sachin Tendulkar and Alec Bedser

 

[jimmy101]

There's your answer Red Hill!

 

[StephenZA]

Steve's (?!!!!!?) XI
01 Nari Contractor (Gujarat)
02 Vijay Hazare (Baroda)
03 Vijay Manjrekar (Uttar Prudesh)
04 Amol Muzumdar (Assam)
05 Martin Crowe* (Auckland)
06 Hemu Adhikari (5) (Services)
07 Ben Duckett+ (Northhamptonshire)
08 Malcolm Marshall (1) (Barbados)
09 Saeed Ajmal (4) (Faisalabad)
10 Zaheer Khan (2) (Baroda)
11 Varun Aaron (3) (Jharkhand)

12 Saurabh Tiwary (Jharkhand) (I`m not sure if I would use him as a sub fielder!)

Interesting....

 

[The Battlers Prince]

The Battlers
1. Virender Sehwag Haryana
2. Mushtaq Ali Madhaya Pradesh
3. Yashpal Singh Services
4. Greg Chappell Queensland
5. AB De Villiers Titans
6. Misbah Ul-Haq Islamabad
7. Brendon McCullum Canterbury NZ
8. Irfan Pathan Baroda
9. Jim Laker Surrey
10. Clarrie Grimmett South Australia
11. Steve Harmison Durham
12. Rishi Dhawan Himachal Pradesh

Honestly hate this teams makeup lol...a West Indian or Sri Lankan ld have made it a happier side

 

[watson]

Sourav Ganguly played for East Zone which is made up Assam and 3-4 other minor teams. If I can't select him then I'll go Rajesh Borah who never played an international match but is their leading run scorer (I think).


01. Majid Khan - Lahore
02. Stephen Fleming - Canterbury
03. Clem Hill - South Australia
04. Denis Compton - Middlesex
05. Virat Kohli - Delhi
06. Sourav Ganguly - East Zone (Assam)
07. Sarfraz Ahmed - Quetta
08. Richard Hadlee - Canterbury
09. Wasim Akram - Lahore
10. Michael Holding - Jamaica
11. Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan - Tamil Nadu

12th. Rajesh Borah - Assam / Parvez Rasool - Jammu and Kashmir

 

[anil1405]

1. Hanif Mohammad - Bahawalpur
2. Bob Simpson* - Western Australia
3. Sir Don Bradman - South Australia
4. Colin Cowdrey - Kent
5. Sanjay Raul - Odisha
6. M.S. Dhoni - Jharkhand
7. Mike Procter - Western Province
8. Alan Knott+ - Kent
9. Dennis Lillee - Western Australia
10. Waqar Younis - Karachi
11. Shane Bond - Canterbury


12. Narendra Hirwani - Madhya Pradesh

 

[J_C]

David Boon (Tasmania)
Dale Steyn (Titans)

Jack Hobbs (Surrey)
Mark Richardson (Auckland)
David Boon (Tasmania)
Younis Khan (Peshawar)
C.B. Fry (Hampshire) / 6 (c)
Vinoo Mankad (Rajasthan) / 5
John Murray + (Middlesex)
Anil Kumble (Karnataka) / 4
Dale Steyn (Titans) / 1
Jason Gillespie (South Australia) / 3
Joel Garner (Barbados) / 2

Not too bad I guess but in hindsight I would've been better off picking Dravid and Gupte from Karnataka and Rajasthan.

 

[Agent TBY]

Sourav Ganguly played for East Zone which is made up Assam and 3-4 other minor teams. If I can't select him then I'll go Rajesh Borah who never played an international match but is their leading run scorer (I think).

Like I said, we should have gone with Duleep Trophy teams from the start, but you can't do that now, not after we've spent this entire draft working with Ranji teams.

(Also, I wouldn't call Bengal minor...)