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    Inclusivity draft

    In this draft, your XI must be inclusive and non-discriminatory in four ways: - Age: the team must represent each 20 year period from 1880-2020 (i.e. at least one player who played Tests in 1880-1900, another who played in 1900-1920, another from 1920-1940, and so on up to 2000-2020). -...
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    Peaks draft: Randomised results

    As semi-promised, this is a thread in which I extract random performances for the players in the "peaks" draft (from the range of matches stated) and apply the simplest method I could come up with to convert these into scores/bowling figures. (Bowling figures, incidentally, will just be...
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    Peaks draft voting thread

    Here's the poll for the "peaks" draft. As usual, pick your 3 favourites from the teams below of players at their peaks (or one of their peaks). Line and Length Alastair Cook..........26 Dec 2009 - 25 Jan 2012 (25)....2441 @ 64.23 Virender Sehwag........26 Dec 2003 - 17 Jan 2010 (55)....5157 @...
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    Draft idea - may need work...

    This is a bit more complicated than the usual draft... The basic idea here is that you'd be picking players at their (statistical) peak, so rather than just picking (say) "Ian Botham", you'd pick maybe "Ian Botham: 1978-1982". For the peaks, I thought maybe we could have one player for each of...
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    Voting thread: T20 bid for position

    Here are the final XIs from this draft - please pick your top 3 T20 XIs. weeman27bob Aaron Finch Adam Gilchrist Kumar Sangakkara Kevin Pietersen Yuvraj Singh Andrew Symonds Dwayne Bravo Shaun Pollock Alfonso Thomas Bret Lee Muttiah Muralitharan Honest Hunks Dawid Malan Jos Buttler+ Suresh...
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    Yet another "bid for position" draft

    We've done it for Test teams and for ODI teams: who's up for a T20 "bid for position" draft? Also, any views on whether picks should be restricted to people who've played T20s/T20Is? (Rules for a "bid for position" draft are: - Everyone taking part has $1,000,000 to bid with - You then use...
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    "Never met" draft (voting thread)

    Poll for the "Never met" draft. As usual, pick your three favourite teams (for Test cricket) from the following: Teuton Archie Jackson Tom Hayward Ricky Ponting Graeme Pollock Wally Hammond Frank Worrell Adam Gilchrist+ Mike Procter Hugh Trumble Waqar Younis Glenn McGrath Pothas Warren...
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    Draft suggestion: Never met

    Fairly simple draft idea - usual rules apply, plus: - In each round after the first, your pick must either have died before your previous pick was born, or have been born after your previous pick died (and so the two players can never have met). Your first pick can be anyone (other than Bradman).
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    "Bid for position" ODI draft (voting thread)

    This was a draft to pick an ODI XI. Vote for your top 3. ankitj Gordon Greenidge Shane Watson [5] Faf du Plesis Greg Chappell [6] (c) Aravinda de Silva [8] Andy Flower (wk) Yuvraj Singh [7] Chaminda Vaas [2] Dale Steyn [1] Muttiah Muralitharan [4] Jasprit Bumrah [3] Magrat Garlick David Warner...
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    Another "bid for position" draft?

    We had the "bid for position" draft a couple of months ago for Test teams. Anyone interested in a similar draft for ODI teams? Bids and draft order in post #48 State of play after 68 picks in post #152
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    Bid for position draft vote

    The "bid for position" draft can be found here. As usual, pick your top three from the following (teams picked for Test cricket) Line and Length: Graeme Smith (vc) / Matthew.Hayden / George Headley / Clyde Walcott / MS Dhoni (w/k) / Keith Miller /o Ian Botham /o Ravi Ashwin /o Richie Benaud...
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    How G is an ATG?

    I expect this has been discussed/decided before, but searching the forum for "ATG" doesn't work... When people refer to someone as an ATG, what level does this mean? So, for example, if you say "X is an ATG Test opener", does that mean you think X is in the all-time top... 5/10/20/50 Test openers?
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    Draft idea - bid for position

    The idea here would be: - Everyone taking part has $1,000,000 to bid with - You then use this to bid (in a silent auction - i.e. bids are e-mailed to me) for your positions in the draft. Just to illustrate, suppose we have 3 players (X, Y and Z) bidding for a 5-man team X is desperate to get...
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    "Born before Tests" draft - Vote for top 3

    Please vote for what you think are the best 3 teams from the "Born before Tests" draft: trundler: Archie MacLaren Arthur Shrewsbury Frank Worrell Martin Donnelly Joe Darling* George Ulyett Billy Bates Johnny Briggs George Lohmann Jack Blackham+ Khan Mohammed CricZo XI: (kingkallis) Vijay...
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    "Born before Tests" draft

    Simple draft: You can pick anyone who was born before the country they were born in* had played Test cricket. Anyone born in a country which has not played Test cricket is eligible. The team "England" is deemed to include both England and Wales (i.e. people born in Wales are only eligible if...
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    The 'A' team

    I expect this has been done before, but (as with the Fast Bowler Survival thread) people's answers can change with time: If you were picking a team of players whose names begin with A (using the "Cricinfo rules" where Pakistani, Bangladeshi and a few other players are listed by first name...
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    Silent Draft Vote

    Team picked in the Silent Draft With only 6 teams involved, please pick your top 2 only. Milenko47 H Sutcliffe WH Ponsford IVA Richards RG Pollock GS Sobers* AC Gilchrist + W Rhodes MH Mankad MW Tate RR Lindwall CV Grimmett Red Hill Sunil Gavaskar Barry Richards Brian Lara Stan McCabe Shakib...
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    Silent Draft

    It's a couple of years since I ran a silent draft - anyone up for another one? As before, each drafter starts with $1,000,000 to buy their XI. As a change from before, this time I name an XI for each round, and the entrants e-mail me their bids for as many or as few of those players as they...
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    "Back Draft" best 3

    For the Back Draft: pick your favourite three from the following: Milenko47: Hanif Mohammad Farokh Engineer + Vivian Richards Graeme Pollock Virat Kohli* Martin Crowe Chris Cairns - 5 Shaun Pollock - 1 Shane Warne - 4 Harold Larwood - 2 Muttiah Muralitharan - 3 NUFAN: Geoff Boycott Gordon...
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    Back Draft

    Simple rule: pick your players in reverse alphabetical order, as listed in Statsguru. (So "Zulqarnain Haider" or "Billy Zulch" would be a very flexible first pick; "Aamer Malik" or "Kyle Abbott" less so). Why reverse? Because I'm removing the usual "no Bradman" rule - you can pick him as soon...

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