A Draft By Nation: All Time XI

[kingkallis]

Give me 5 mins

 

[kingkallis]

Saqlain Mushtaq

 

[listento_me]

alright RedHill go for it

 

[Red]

Misbah ul Haq

 

[listento_me]

alright, Stace gets 12 hours, if he doesnt wana do it then I'll take my pick

 

[listento_me]

theres one player i thought would already have been picked

 

[listento_me]

My pick then, looks like Stace won't be playing.

It's Younus Khan.

 

[listento_me]

So, I thought I'd do a draft that hasn't been done on here...at least I think so. I had a quick look through search and didn't find anything like this, hopefully I haven't missed anything.

The premise is pretty simple, each test playing nation and one associate, has to be represented in your team. So that's a player each from the 10 test nations and one from any of the associates. I'm also going to restrict to cricketers who have played in the 21st century ONLY, thus restricting the obvious names that often pop up.

Rules:

1. Any player from a test playing nation, must have played a minimum of 15 tests AND 30 ODIs in this century, so that's beginning January 1st 2000.

2. Associate players have to have played a minimum of 20 ODIs AND/OR 15 first class matches in this century. Associates are defined as any country which can participate in an international 50 over match but does not have test status, e.g. Afghanistan. Players from associate countries that have played for test playing nations can also be included, as long as they meet the requirements.

3. You can ONLY pick one player from each country.

4. Batting line ups can be flexible, so you can promote someone up to open, if that's what your team requires. There is no limit on how many or how few matches a particular batsman has played at a particular position.

5. The first round will be in the order shown below. The second rounds will be reversed. The 3rd round will be randomised and we will alternate from then on.

6. Each round will be taking a pick from ONE country and we will go in order of the current test rankings (before the completion of the India/NZ test)

7. If you fail to make your pick, you can make up for it at the end of the round.

There you go. Nothing too complicated but hopefully a bit different.

I'll wait for 8 responses, so if you wana join in, just post here. More of you can join in if there's demand and the number can be upped.

In so far:
1. NZTailender - Inzamam Ul-Haq
2. morgieb - Sarfraz Ahmed
3. The Battlers Prince - Shoaib Akhtar
4. Shady Slim - Waqar Younis
5. AndrewB - Muhammad Yousuf
6. kingkalis - Saqlain Mushtaq
7. RedHill - Misbah Ul-Haq
8. listento_me (me) - Younus Khan, MS Dhoni

Rounds in order of Ranking:
1. Pakistan
2. India
3. Australia
4. England
5. South Africa
6. Sri Lanka
7. New Zealand
8. West Indies
9. Bangladesh
10. Zimbabwe
11. Associate of your choosing

shaping up well. Morgieb can pick his anytime but the rest of us will move onto India. This is now in reverse order so I'll go first: MS Dhoni (get a keeper in early)

RedHill you're up

 

[Red]

Gotta go Sachin.

 

[morgieb]

For Pakistan, Sarfraz Ahmed.

 

[listento_me]

kingkalis you're up, in fact you only have a couple hours left but since you might not have seen this you can get an hour more

 

[listento_me]

AndrewB you're up, kingkalis will have to pick up at the end of the round

 

[AndrewB]

Virender Sehwag

 

[kingkallis]

I will pick in few mins

 

[kingkallis]

At the end of the round??

 

[listento_me]

At the end of the round??

yes please

 

[listento_me]

shadyslim go for it

 

[Shady Slim]

rushing in to this pick without looking at stats etc so Rahul Dravid

 

[The Battlers Prince]

I think it's a bit rich to exclude someone from picking until the end of a round just because they miss a time slot that isn't predetermined. People get busy. KK and anyone else who misses their turn initially imo should simply choose a player when they are next online.

 

[listento_me]

I think it's a bit rich to exclude someone from picking until the end of a round just because they miss a time slot that isn't predetermined. People get busy. KK and anyone else who misses their turn initially imo should simply choose a player when they are next online.

I already stated that everyone will have a 12 hour time limit to pick. That should be long enough to pick someone and check if its your turn or not. Plus I'm continuously updating on here so can't be any excuses. Although I think the post where I stated the time limit got deleted while I was trying to edit from my phone but that was made days back, and most people probably read it.

And it wouldnt be right for someone to just jump in between someone elses pick to make their pick cos they missed out.

btw you're up, you have till 11.20pm.