A Draft by Nation: The Poll

[listento_me]

This is your chance to vote on the teams chosen in what is quite possibly, the single greatest draft in the history of cricketweb, so don't be shy.

These are the much vaunted teams:

morgieb's XI:

1. Shahriar Nafees
2. Brendan Taylor
3. Darren Bravo
4. Michael Clarke* (6)
5. VVS Laxman
6. Ryan ten Doeschate (3)
7. Chris Cairns (2)
8. Sarfraz Ahmed +
9. Graeme Swann (5)
10. Muttiah Muralitharan (4)
11. Makhaya Ntini (1)

NZTailender's XI:

1. Grant Flower (6)
2. Habibul Bashar
3. Kumar Sangakkara
4. Inzamam-ul-Haq*
5. AB de Villiers+
6. Shivnarine Chanderpaul
7. Ravichandran Ashwin (4)
8. Mohammad Nabi (5)
9. Stuart Broad (2)
10. Tim Southee (3)
11. Ryan Harris (1)

kingkallis' CricZo XI:

1. Matthew Hayden / ( AUS )
2. Brendon McCullum + / ( NZL )
3. Brian Lara / ( WI )
4. Mahela Jayawardene / ( SL )
5. Shakib Al Hasan / o ( BNG ) - 6
6. Steve Tikolo / o ( KEN ) - 7
7. Shaun Pollock o / ( SA ) - 1
8. Andy Blignaut o / ( ZIM ) - 3
9. Saqlain Mushtaq o / ( PAK ) - 5
10. Anil Kumble o / ( IND ) - 4
11. James Anderson o ( ENG ) - 2

Shady Slim's slimternational love XI:

1. Stuart Carlisle
2. Mohammad Shahzad
3. Hashim Amla
4. Rahul Dravid*
5. Carl Hooper(6)
6. Andrew Flintoff(3)
7. Adam Gilchrist+
8. Daniel Vettori(4)
9. Chaminda Vaas(2)
10. Mashrafe Mortaza(5)
11. Waqar Younis(1)

AndrewB's XI:

Virender Sehwag (6)
Sanath Jayasuriya (5)
Mohammad Yousuf
Joe Root
Ross Taylor
Mominul Haque
Andy Flower+
Vernon Philander (1)
Shane Warne (4)
Kemar Roach (2)
Hamid Hassan (3)

The Battlers Prince's Battlers XI:

1 Graeme Smith*
2 Ed Joyce
3 Jonathan Trott
4 Virat Kohli
5 Mahmadullah
6 Dwayne Bravo (5)
7 Tatenda Taibu+
8 Rangana Herath (4)
9 Shane Bond (2)
10 Shoaib Akhtar (3)
11 Glenn McGrath (1)

Listento_me's Listeners XI:

1. Cook ENG
2. Tamim Iqbal BANG
3. Ponting c AUS
4. Khan PAK
5. Kallis (2) SA
6. Samuels (5) WI
7. Dhoni wk IND
8. Masakadza (6) ZIMB
9. Boult (1) NZ
10. Malinga (3) SL
11. Varaiya (4) Kenya

RedHills XI:

Chris Gayle (6)
Kane Williamson
Misbah ul Haq
Sachin Tendulkar
Kevin Pietersen
Angelo Matthews (5)
John Davison (4)
Mushfiqur Rahim +
Heath Streak (3)
Mitchell Johnson (2)
Dale Steyn (1)

 

[listento_me]

Ok, I'm gonna vote here now and I'm torn between RedHill, NZ and myself but I can't vote for myself so I'm going to go for what is the best balanced team imo. That's RedHill.

 

[NZTailender]

Draft Polls are traditionally multiple choice, fyi, with people choosing their top 3.

Thanks for running the draft, though. Was good.

 

[AndrewB]

Yes, don't think I'd want every draft having the "fixed team per round" sort of set-up but it made an interesting change.

 

[Himannv]

morgieb's XI: I read through the draft thread the other day and it looks like this side was affected badly by some ridiculous inactivity rule. I can't vote for this side; it's crap.

NZTailender's XI: Probably the best side with excellent batting and decent bowling. I dislike the look of that opening combination and I can't remember who the **** Mohammad Nabi is, but besides that this is a very good side.

kingkallis' CricZo XI: Another good side. I don't rate the bowling as highly as some of the other sides and that middle order is a bit questionable, but kingkallis has some top players picked. Not a contender due to the Matthew Hayden rule.

Shady Slim's slimternational love XI: Full marks for making the coolest pick of the draft; Stuart Carlisle. I'm a big Carlisle fan so I like this side quite a bit. I dislike seeing Amla batting at 3 ahead of Dravid and the bowling is a bit weak, but apart from that this is a decent team.

AndrewB's XI: That top 3 will boss a flat track like no other. Roach, Hassan and Haque don't impress me all that much and I feel Andy Flower is wasted a bit as a keeper.

The Battlers Prince's Battlers XI: Fanastic bowling attack but ordinary batting. I like how well structured this team is in comparison with most of the others. Players are mostly playing in their right positions and not shoehorned into unfamiliar roles. Definitely a contender for the best side on the strength of how the side is composed.

Listento_me's Listeners XI: Good batting side but woeful bowling.

RedHills XI: Another good batting lineup with ordinary bowling.

I had to choose between The Battlers Prince's Battlers XI and NZTailender's XI and I went with the former after some deliberation.

 

[Red]

RedHills XI: Another good batting lineup with ordinary bowling.

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Steyn, Johnson and Streak?

 

[NZTailender]

Steyn, Johnson and Streak?

Lack of a 4th bowler the only reason I didn't vote for your tbf.

 

[Himannv]

Steyn, Johnson and Streak?

Steyn is top draw. Mitch is only good on Fridays. Streak played for Zimbabwe so he can't be good. Seriously, do I have to spell this stuff out?

 

[Zinzan]

Yup, Red Hill's is the strongest.

 

[Zinzan]

RedHills XI: Another good batting lineup with ordinary bowling.

Was that an attempt at irony?

 

[Zinzan]

TBP a close 2nd.

 

[kingkallis]

I picked my XI by keeping both ODI and tests in mind and my top order has wonderful record in tests as well as ODIs. Same goes for the bowling unit as well.

My vote though goes to TBP for having a well composed team.

RedHill doesnt have a good spinner hence I avoided voting for his team.

 

[listento_me]

morgieb's XI: I read through the draft thread the other day and it looks like this side was affected badly by some ridiculous inactivity rule. I can't vote for this side; it's crap.

NZTailender's XI: Probably the best side with excellent batting and decent bowling. I dislike the look of that opening combination and I can't remember who the **** Mohammad Nabi is, but besides that this is a very good side.

kingkallis' CricZo XI: Another good side. I don't rate the bowling as highly as some of the other sides and that middle order is a bit questionable, but kingkallis has some top players picked. Not a contender due to the Matthew Hayden rule.

Shady Slim's slimternational love XI: Full marks for making the coolest pick of the draft; Stuart Carlisle. I'm a big Carlisle fan so I like this side quite a bit. I dislike seeing Amla batting at 3 ahead of Dravid and the bowling is a bit weak, but apart from that this is a decent team.

AndrewB's XI: That top 3 will boss a flat track like no other. Roach, Hassan and Haque don't impress me all that much and I feel Andy Flower is wasted a bit as a keeper.

The Battlers Prince's Battlers XI: Fanastic bowling attack but ordinary batting. I like how well structured this team is in comparison with most of the others. Players are mostly playing in their right positions and not shoehorned into unfamiliar roles. Definitely a contender for the best side on the strength of how the side is composed.

Listento_me's Listeners XI: Good batting side but woeful bowling.

RedHills XI: Another good batting lineup with ordinary bowling.

I had to choose between The Battlers Prince's Battlers XI and NZTailender's XI and I went with the former after some deliberation.

Thanks for taking the time to read through it and yeah, he was unlucky with being timed out. Although 12 hours is a pretty long limit and having no limits isn't productive to the draft.

I disagree with my team having woeful bowling. Malinga, Boult and Kallis are far from that. There is a lack of depth though with bowlers 4th, 5th and 6th not being particularly good.

I feel RedHill was probably the most balanced team and NZ/BP both had good teams. Almost voted NZ myself.

Draft Polls are traditionally multiple choice, fyi, with people choosing their top 3.

Thanks for running the draft, though. Was good.

Ooops, but we can just figure out which position the teams rank with the number of votes.

 

[smash84]

the battler's prince for their bowling attack

 

[smash84]

Red Hill a very close 2nd for mine

 

[NZTailender]

Ooops, but we can just figure out which position the teams rank with the number of votes.

It's not really about where they rank, but a better way of finding out the best team. For instance, if 10 people vote, and the winner has 3 votes, that's 7 people who think the winning side isn't deserving. Multiple votes give a better indication of which is the strongest side because they might be someones second or third choice, and accumulate more votes as such.

 

[Zinzan]

Lol give the poor lad a break ... jeez, it's not the end of the world if it's a single vote for a change even if the multi vote probably does work better

 

[NZTailender]

Lol give the poor lad a break ... jeez, it's not the end of the world if it's a single vote for a change even if the multi vote probably does work better

Explaining why most of the drafts here are multi format. Also avoids deadlocks.

For future reference.

 

[Zinzan]

If it's just for future ref, that's fair enough then.

 

[NZTailender]

If it's just for future ref, that's fair enough then.

Yeah it's not the end of the world.