Birthday draft. An XI made up of 11 different months

[honestbharani]

Saeed Anwar (September)
Maurice Leyland (January)

 

[The Battlers Prince]

Erapalli Prasanna (May)

 

[The Battlers Prince]

Asia/Africa Battlers
1. Sunil Gavaskar
2. Hanif Mohammad
3. Eddie Barlow
4. Jacques Kallis
5.
6. Andy Flower+
7. Kapil Dev*
8. Wasim Akram
9. Abdul Qadir
10. Waqar Younis
11. Erapalli Prasanna

 

[AndrewB]

Godfrey Evans (August)

 

[mr_mister]

Frank Woolley (May)

 

[mr_mister]

Round 1:

kingkallis - Wally Hammond (June)
AndrewB - Viv Richards (March)
weeman27bob - Sir Garfield Sobers (July)
Samuel Vimes - Brian Lara (May)
morgieb - Malcolm Marshall (April)
OJWA - Gone missing
Teuton - Richard Hadlee (July)
mr_mister - Imran Khan (October)
Battler's Prince - Wasim Akram (June)
honestbharani - Keith Miller (November)
Red Hill - Glenn McGrath (February)
OverratedSanity - Curtly Ambrose (September)

Round 2:

OverratedSanity - Greg Chappell (August)
Red Hill - Joel Garner (December)
honestbharani - Alan Davidson (June)
The Battler's Prince - Jacques Kallis (October)
mr_mister - Adam Gilchrist (November)
Teuton - Shane Warne (September)
OWJA - Absent Without Leave
morgieb- Jack Hobbs (December)
Samuel_Vimes - Murali (April)
weeman27bob - Ian Botham (November)
AndrewB - Mike Procter (September)
kingkallis - Dennis Lillee (July)


Round 3:

weeman27bob - Dale Steyn (June)
kingkallis - Fred Trueman (February)
morgieb - Allan Donald (October)
honestbharani - Aubrey Faulkner (December)
mr_mister - Len Hutton (June)
AndrewB – SF Barnes (Apr)
Battler's Prince – Sunil Gavaskar (July)
Teuton – Graeme Pollock (Feb)
OverratedSanity – George Headley (May)
OJWA
Red Hill – Kumar Sangakkara (Oct)
Samuel Vimes- James Anderson (July)


Round 4:

Sanuel Vimes – Matt Hayden (Oct)
Red Hill – Sachin Tendulkar (Apr)
Overrated Sanity – Bill OReilly (Dec)
Teuton – Clyde Walcott (Jan)
Battlers Prince – Waqar Younis (Nov)
AndrewB – Barry Richards (July)
Mr_Mister - Shaun Pollock (July)
honestbharani - Michael Holding (February)
morgieb - Everton Weeks (February)
kingkallis - Herbert Sutcliffe (November)
weeman27bob - Ricky Ponting (December)

Round 5

1. honestbharani - Shakib Al Hasan (March)
2. weeman27bob - Allan Knott (April)
3. Red Hill - Gordon Greenidge (May)
4. Overrated Sanity - Ray Lindwall (October)
5. Samuel Vimes - Steve Waugh (June)
6. AndrewB - Steve Smith (June)
7. The Battler's Prince - Andy Flower (April)
8. kingkallis - Frank Worrell (August)
9. mr_mister - Rahul Dravid (Janurary)
10. morgieb - Ken Barrington (November)
11. Teuton - Victor Trumper (November)

Round 6:

Teuton - Courtney Walsh (October)
morgieb - Brian Statham (June)
mr_mister - Clarrie Grimmett (December)
king kallis - Richie Benaud (October)
The Battler's Prince - Kapil Dev (January)
Andrewb - Jim Laker (February)
Samuel Vimes - Les Ames (December)
OverratedSanity - Andy Roberts (January)
Red Hill - Allan Border (July)
weeman27bob - Mohammad Yousuf (August)
honestbharani - Sarfaz Ahmed (may)



Round 7:


Teuton - Ted Dexter (May)
honestbharani - Virender Sehwag (October)
Andrewb - Harold Larwood (November)
mr_mister - Martin Crowe (September)
The Battler's Prince - Hanif Mohammad (December)
Red Hill - Jack Gregory (August)
OverratedSanity - AB De Villiers (February)
morgieb - Bruce Mitchell (January)
king kallis - Denis Compton (May)
Samuel Vimes - Neil Adcock (March)
weeman27bob - Graeme Smith (February)



Round 8:


weeman27bob - Headley Verity (May)
Samuel Vimes - Desmond Haynes (February)
King Kallis - Colin Croft (March)
morgieb - Rangana Herath (March)
OverratedSanity - Javed Miandad (June)
Red Hill - Hugh Tayfield (January)
The Battler's Prince - Abdul Qadir (September)
Mr_Mister - Vinoo Mankad (April)
AndrewB - Arthur Morris (January)
Honest Bharani - Kane Williamson (August)
Teuton - Alistair Cook (December)

Round 9:

weeman27bob - Wes Hall (September)
morgieb - Herbie Taylor (May)
Mr_Mister - Clive Lloyd (August)
AndrewB - Tony Greig (October)
The Battler's Prince - Eddie Barlow (August)
Samuel Vimes - KS Ranji (September)
OverratedSanity - WG Grace (July)
Teuton - Ian Healy (April)
King Kallis Archie Jackson (September)
Red Hill - SId Barnes (June)
Honest Bharani - Maurice Leyland (January)


Round 10:

Honestbarani - Saeed Anwar (September)
Red Hill - CTB Turner (November)
King Kallis - Quinton de Kock (December)
Teuton - Younis Khan (March)
OverratedSanity - Arthur Shrewsbury (April)
Samuel Vimes - Merv Hughes (August)
The Battlers Prince - Erapalli Prasanna (May)
AndrewB - Godfrey Evans (August)
mr_mister - Frank Woolley (May)
morgieb
weeman27bob

 

[morgieb]

Trevor Goddard (August)

 

[weeman27bob]

Bill Ponsford (October)

 

[AndrewB]

I think October's the first month to be picked by everyone:

Virender Sehwag
Matthew Hayden
Kumar Sangakkara+
Jacques Kallis
Bill Ponsford
Tony Greig
Imran Khan
Richie Benaud
Ray Lindwall
Allan Donald
Courtney Walsh

 

[kingkallis]

Round 11

The Battlers Prince
morgieb
Red Hill
King Kallis
Teuton
mr_mister
weeman27bob
OverratedSanity
Honestbarani
Samuel Vimes

 

[AndrewB]

I don't seem to be listed, but everyone else has already made their December pick, so I'll finish off with Joe Root.

Barry Richards
Arthur Morris
Viv Richards
Steve Smith
Joe Root
Tony Greig* (5)
Mike Procter (2)
Godfrey Evans+
Harold Larwood (1)
Jim Laker (4)
Sydney Barnes (3)

 

[The Battlers Prince]

A few options left but I'm going with Hashim Amla. (March)

Which gives me

Asia/Africa Battlers
1. Sunil Gavaskar
2. Hanif Mohammad
3. Hashim Amla
4. Jacques Kallis (6)
5. Eddie Barlow
6. Andy Flower+
7. Kapil Dev (3)*
8. Wasim Akram (2)
9. Abdul Kadir (4)
10. Waqar Younis (1)
11. Erapalli Prasanna (5)

I gave myself a little challenge of choosing nobody from the traditional powerhouses of Australia, England or West Indies.
Had plenty of fun in this draft. Thanks MM and others for organising the draft.

 

[morgieb]

Jock Cameron (July)

Jack Hobbs (December)
Bruce Mitchell (January)
Ken Barrington (November)
Everton Weekes (Feburary)
Herbie Taylor (May)
Trevor Goddard (August)
Jock Cameron (July)
Malcolm Marshall (April)
Rangana Herath (March)
Brian Statham (June)
Allan Donald (October)

Not sure on how well balanced that is, but am reasonably happy with that.

 

[Teuton]

Everyone else is June'd up so i will finish off with George Lohmann.

Red Hill > King Kallis > Mr mister

 

[Teuton]

Elfmonaten

Victor Trumper
Alastair Cook
Younis Khan
Graeme Pollock
Clyde Walcott
Ted Dexter
Ian Healy
Richard Hadlee
Shane Warne
George Lohmann
Courtney Walsh

Very happy with this well-balanced team. I have 4 outstanding strokeplayers in Pollock, Walcott, Trumper & Dexter to bat around 2 rocks in the top 6. Good batting depth in the lower order and an awesome bowling line-up of Hadlee, Warne, Walsh & Lohmann who will take wickets all day every day.

 

[mr_mister]

Last to pick from February

Fazal Mahmood


Len Hutton
Vinoo Mankad (5)
Rahul Dravid
Martin Crowe
Clive Lloyd (c)
Frank Woolley (6)
Adam Gilchrist +
Imran Khan (2)
Shaun Pollock (1)
Fazal Mahmood (3)
Carrie Grimmett (4)

 

[kingkallis]

Monty Noble ( January ) to complete my team.

CricZo XI

1. Herbert Sutcliffe /
2. Archie Jackson /
3. Wally Hammond /
4. Denis Compton /
5. Frank Worrell / o - 6
6. Quinton de Kock / +
7. Monty Noble o / - 5
8. Richie Benaud o / (c) - 4
9. Dennis Lillee o - 1
10. Fred Trueman o - 2
11. Colin Croft o - 3

Are we going to have the 12th round?

 

[Teuton]

For those who are left, with 1 pick in 24 hrs, I can't see much point waiting. Chances are you all want completely different months/players anyway

 

[OverratedSanity]

George Giffen (March)

OS XI:

WG Grace
Arthur Shrewsbury
George Headley (c)
Greg Chappell (6)
Javed Miandad
AB de Villiers (wk)
George Giffen (5)
Ray Lindwall (2)
Curtly Ambrose (1)
Andy Roberts (3)
Bill O'Reilly (4)

Very pleased with how that went... Kick-ass bowling lineup, great middle order, and an iconic opening pair.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Shivnarine Chanderpaul (16 August 1974)

hayden (oct)
haynes (feb)
ranji (sep)
lara (may)
waugh (jun)
chanderpaul (aug)
+ames (dec)
hughes (nov)
anderson (jul)
adcock (mar)
muralitharan (apr)