An Orderly Test Draft

[Pothas]

There are enough good spinners to go around that you can generally afford to pick them later. You could go for players like Trumble, Wardle, Tayfield, or Gupte who are quite good IMO and are usually available to pick later on.

Yeah I think Warne and Murali are clearly ahead of everyone else and then O'Reilly. Once those 3 are gone you are best just waiting for later on. Would have said Grimmett as well but his ashes record is not all that great (still took loads of wickets obviously.)

 

[ataraxia]

@Line and Length

 

[Line and Length]

Hedley Verity

 

[Line and Length]

@ataraxia and then @JOJOXI to complete Round 7

Then
ROUND 8
ataraxia
Line and Length
kingkallis
CricAddict
Himannv
Michaelf7777777
Trundler
honestbharani
Pothas
JOJOXI (Bradman penalty)

	ORDERLY SELECTIONS
	JOJOXI	Himannv	CricAddict	kingkallis	Line & Length
1​	J.Hobbs	L.Hutton	H.Sutcliffe	S.Gavaskar	M.Haydn
2​	B.Ponsford	B.Mitchell	D.Amiss	A.Morris	A.Cook
3​	D.Bradman	R.Ponting	C.Walcott	V.Richards	R.Dravid
4​	G.Chappell	G.Pollock	B.Lara	D.Compton	S.Tendulkar
5​	M.Hussey	F.Worrell	A.Flower	S.McCabe	G.Thorpe
6​	A.Faulkner	D.Walters	I.Botham	B.Stokes	G.Sobers
7​	A.Knott			R.Benaud	M.Boucher
8​
9​		W.O'Reilly	C.Grimmett		H.Verity
10​
11​
	ataraxia	Pothas	honesbharani	Trundler	Michaelf7777777
1​	B.Simpson	V. Sehwag	G.Smith	G.Boycott	W.G.Grace
2​	B.Lawry	G.Greenidge	S.Watson	V.Trumper	B.Richards
3​	J.Kallis	W.Hammond	K.Sangakarra	K.Barrington	G.Headley
4​	D.Nourse	E.Weekes	J.Root	S.Smith	A.Border
5​	S.Chanderpaul	M.Clarke	Shakib al Hasan	A.B. de Villiers	C.Lloyd
6​	S.Waugh	K.Miller	T. Greig	Mushtaq Mohammad	Imran Khan
7​	J.Waite		A.Gilchrist		L.Ames
8​		S.Warne
9​	J.Laker
10​				M. Muralitharan
11​
	Positions 6-11 to be finalised

 

[ataraxia]

Jim Laker

@JOJOXI

 

[Line and Length]

Jim Laker

@JOJOXI

I tossed up between him and Verity. Couldn't split them.

 

[JOJOXI]

@Line and Length - what is Sydney Barnes status in this draft, if he can be picked as a spinner I'll pick him if not I'll mull other players over.

 

[ataraxia]

@Line and Length - what is Sydney Barnes status in this draft, if he can be picked as a spinner I'll pick him if not I'll mull other players over.

My immediate thought is that he's a pacer. However, maybe a better idea is that if you pick Barnes you have to explicitly play him as a spinner.

 

[Line and Length]

I believe he is regarded as a pace bowler. Most sources describe him as right arm medium fast.

 

[Himannv]

I've won a draft by picking him as a sort of spinner and having three great pace bowlers to back him up. I think there was more mystery around him back then compared to now where people have a more defined idea of what he might be able to do.

EDIT: Looks like it was this one: http://www.cricketweb.net/forum/thr...ck-atg-xi-draft-no-bradman-with-a-poll.57263/

Seems I also had Sobers in there so I got away with it more. I'm surprised by how much discussion was there in the voting thread - the ones we have right now barely have any posts at all.

 

[JOJOXI]

I believe he is regarded as a pace bowler. Most sources describe him as right arm medium fast.

Will have another pick in next 5/10 mins - I did see some sources talk about him and his ability to spin the ball although I know he's often picked as a seamer but thought if you don't ask, you don't get

 

[JOJOXI]

I'll go with Alan Knott

@ataraxia

 

[ataraxia]

I guess John Waite's next off the cab.

@Line and Length

 

[Line and Length]

I'll take Mark Boucher

@kingkallis

 

[kingkallis]

Denis Lindsay

 

[kingkallis]

CricZo XI

Sunil Gavaskar /
Arthur Morris /
Viv Richards / o (c)
Denis Compton /
Stan McCabe / o
Ben Stokes / o
Denis Lindsay + /
Richie Benaud o /
.
.
.

 

[Himannv]

@CricAddict

 

[CricAddict]

AB De Villiers

 

[Himannv]

AB De Villiers

Pretty sure someone picked him already as a number 5 batsman.

 

[Himannv]

Denis Lindsay

Saw that pick coming a mile away. Can you predict who I'm going for here though?