Funky idea for a draft, XIs will only be made of players from 2 chosen decades

[Shri]

Ravi Ashwin

Something like this?

1. G Greenidge
2. D Haynes
3.
4. G Chappell
5. S Smith
6.
7. K Dev
8. R Ashwin
9. M Marshall
10. J Garner
11. A Roberts

 

[Red]

Gordon Greenidge
Desmond Haynes
Greg Chappell
Steve Smith
-
-
Ravi Ashwin
Kapil Dev
Malcolm Marshall
Andy Roberts
Joel Garner

 

[Shri]

1900s: morgieb
1920s: mr_mister
1930s: OverratedSanity
1940s: J_C, jimmy101
1950s: jimmy101, mr_mister, Johnners
1960s: J_C, anil1405
1970s: Red Hill, Zinzan, anil1405, honestbharani
1980s: morgieb, honestbharani, Zinzan
1990s: Shri, Samuel Vimes, Johnners
2000s: OverratedSanity, Samuel Vimes
2010s: Red Hill, Shri

Round 1:

Red Hill - Malcolm Marshall (70s)
jimmy101 - Gary Sobers (50s)
Zinzan - Imran Khan (70s)
mr_mister - Harold Larwood (20s)
Shri - Glen McGrath (90s)
Samuel Vimes - Brian Lara (90s)
mackembbhoy - Adam Gilchrist (90s)
anil1405 - Dennis Lillee (70s)
J_C - Keith Miller (40s)
honestbharani - Richard Hadlee (70s)
OverratedSanity - Dale Steyn (00s)
morgieb - Curtley Ambrose (80s)

Round 2:

morgieb - Jack Hobbs (1900s)
OverratedSanity - Bill O'Reilly (30s)
honestbharani - Wasim Akram (80s)
J_C - Graeme Pollock (60s)
anil1405 - Viv Richards (70s)
mackembbhoy - Muttiah Muralitharan (90s)
Samuel Vimes - Kumar Sangakkara (00s)
Shri - Shane Warne (90s)
mr_mister - Wally Hammond (20s)
Zinzan - Sachin Tendulkar (80s)
jimmy101 - Clyde Walcott (40s)
Red_hill - Greg Chappell (70s)

Round 3:

mackembbhoy - Ricky Ponting (90s)
Zinzan - Sunil Gavaskar (70s)
Shri - Jacques Kallis (90s)
honestbharani - Allan Border (70s)
jimmy101 - Frank Worrell (40s)
OverratedSanity - Shane Bond (2000s)
J_C - Ray Lindwall (40s)
mr_mister - Alan Davidson (50s)
Samuel Vimes - Shaun Pollock (90s)
anil1405 - Barry Richards (70s)
morgieb - Sydney Barnes (1900s)
Red_hill - Joel Garner (70s)

Round 4:

Red Hill - Kapil Dev (70s)
morgieb - Steve Waugh (80s)
anil1405 - Michael Holding (70s)
Samuel Vimes - Matthew Hayden (90s)
mr_mister - Herb Sutcliffe (20s)
J_C - Neil Harvey (40s)
OverratedSanity- George Headley (30s)
jimmy101- Fred Trueman (50s)
honestbharani - Martin Crowe (80s)
Shri - Andy Flower (90s)
Zinzan- Ian Botham (70s)
Johnners - Allan Donald (90s)

Round 5:

anil1405- Mike Procter (60s)
morgieb - Aubrey Faulkner (1900s)
jimmy101- Everton Weekes (40s)
OverratedSanity- Len Hutton (30s)
Zinzan- Waqar Younis (80s)
Red Hill - Gordon Greenidge (70s)
mr_mister - Peter May (50s)
honestbharani - Tony Greig (70s)
Johnners - Rahul Dravid (90s)
Shri - Andrew Flintoff (90s)
J_C - Jim Laker (40s)
Samuel Vimes - Shivnarine Chanderpaul (90s)


Round 6:

Samuel Vimes - Anil Kumble (90s)
J_C - Arthur Morris (40s)
Shri - Shoaib Akthar (90s)
Johnners - Trevor Goddard (50s)
honestbharani - Ian Bishop (80s)
mr_mister - Ken Barrington (50s)
Red Hill - Andy Roberts (70s)
Zinzan - Javed Miandad (70s)
OverratedSanity - Virender Sehwag (00s)
jimmy101 - Richie Benaud (50s)
morgieb - Courtney Walsh (80s)
anil1405- Peter Pollock (60s)

Round 7:

J_C - Clive Lloyd (60s)
Shri - Justin Langer (90s)
jimmy101 - Frank Tyson (50s)
honestbharani - Abdul Qadir (70s)
Zinzan - Jeff Thomson (70s)
anil1405 - Denis Lindsay (60s)
mr_mister - Clarrie Grimmett (20s)
Johnners - Inzamam-ul-Haq (90s)
Samuel Vimes - Jimmy Anderson (2000s)
Red Hill - Desmond Haynes (70s)
OverratedSanity - AB De Villiers (2000s)
morgieb - Charlie Macartnay (1900s)

Round 8:

morgieb - Ian Healy (80s)
OverratedSanity - Mitchell Johnson (2000s)
Red Hill - Steve Smith (2010s)
Samuel_Vimes - Younus Khan (2000s)
Johnners - Wes Hall (50s)
mr_mister - Rohan Kanhai (50s)
anil1405 - Geoff Boycott (60s)
ZinZan - David Gower (70s)
honestbharani - ​Brendon Kuruppu (80s)
jimmy101 - Neil Adock (50s)
Shri - Virat Kohli (2000s)
J_C - Doug Walters

Round 9:

Samuel_Vimes - Jason Gillespie (90s)
anil1405 - Dilip Vengsarkar (70s)
jimmy101 - Bobby Simpson (50s)
honestbharani - Aravinda de Silva (80s)
OverratedSanity - Hashim Amla (00s)
Johnners - Conrad Hunte (50s)
mr_mister - Les Ames (20s)
J_C - Alec Bedser (40s)
morgieb - Mark Taylor (80s)
Red Hill - Ravi Ashwin (2010s)
Shri - Joe Root (2010s)
ZinZan -

 

[Zinzan]

Mark Taylor (80s)

Well played. First time I've been really burnt so far. Really wanted him.

Well do my double pick in the next 30 mins or so.

 

[Zinzan]

Graham Gooch along with one of the most underrated spinners in Test history, Paksitan's Iqbal Qasim. 171 wickets @ 28, thanking you.

Spicy Pork & Fennel Meatballs XI

Sunil Gavaskar
Graham Gooch
David Gower
Sachin Tendulkar
Javed Miandad
Imran Khan* 1
Ian Botham 4

Iqbal Qasim 5
Waqar Younis 2
Jeff Thomson 3

 

[Shri]

Vernon Philander

-
J Langer
J Kallis
V Kohli *
J Root
A Flower +
A Flintoff [4]
V Philander [2]
S Warne [vc] [5]
S Akhtar [3]
G McGrath [1]

 

[Red]

I know he hasn't played heaps of tests but I need a keeper who can bat at 6 and I rate him so highly-

Quinton De Kock

 

[Red]

Gordon Greenidge
Desmond Haynes
Greg Chappell
Steve Smith
-
Quinton de Kock +
Kapil Dev
Ravi Ashwin
Malcolm Marshall
Andy Roberts
Joel Garner

 

[OverratedSanity]

Morgieb has timed out.

J_C>mr_mister>Johnners

In fact, can I just pick my last two players and finish now? My turn comes before Samuel_Vimes anyway and my last pick is from the 30s which no one else chos.

 

[morgieb]

Richie Richardson (80s)

Mark Taylor*
Jack Hobbs
Charlie Macartney (6)
Richie Richardson
Steve Waugh (7)
Aubrey Faulkner (5)
Ian Healy+

Curtly Ambrose (1)
Sydney Barnes (3)
Courtney Walsh (2)

 

[mr_mister]

Morgieb has timed out.

J_C>mr_mister>Johnners

In fact, can I just pick my last two players and finish now? My turn comes before Samuel_Vimes anyway and my last pick is from the 30s which no one else chos.

you have 2 picks left, but if both are from the 30s then sure go for it

 

[OverratedSanity]

One is from the 2000s but I'm going to pick ahead of the only other guy who has the decade (Samuel_Vimes) anyway.

No big deal though. I'll wait.

 

[Shri]

If Red and I work it out, can we just make our picks and get it over with?

 

[J_C]

Bill Lawry.

 

[mr_mister]

Bill Ponsford

 

[Johnners]

Fazal Mahmood.

Damn auto-correct took 3 goes to not post Fatal Mohammed ffs

 

[OverratedSanity]

Shakib Al-Hasan (2000s)

And since my last pick is from a decade no one else has chosen, I'll take Denis Compton (1930s)

OS XI:

Virender Sehwag (6)
Len Hutton
George Headley (c)
Hashim Amla
Denis Compton
AB de Villiers (wk)
Shakib Al-Hasan (5)
Mitchell Johnson (3)
Dale Steyn (1)
Shane Bond (2)
Bill O'Reilly (4)

 

[jimmy101]

Since my pick doesn't clash with HB I'll take Ted Dexter

 

[morgieb]

I'm the only person that can pick from the 1900's, so Frank Woolley.

Mark Taylor*
Jack Hobbs
Charlie Macartney (6)
Richie Richardson
Steve Waugh (7)
Frank Woolley (4)
Aubrey Faulkner (5)
Ian Healy+
Curtly Ambrose (1)
Sydney Barnes (3)
Courtney Walsh (2)

Strange balance, think I made a tactical error going for the 1980's. Having the last pick in the first round (because I was late to see the sign-up) doesn't help, though. Overall though there's enough stars here to make it look decent.

 

[mr_mister]

ill also take my last pick since nobody else has the 20s


Maurice Tate


Ponsford
Sutcliffe
Hammond
Barrington
May
Kanhai
Ames
Tate
Davidson
Larwood
Grimmett


Had Gregory, Constantine and Tate to choose from. My batting is already quite deep so thought I'd go with the best bowler(arguably)