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    Boundaries

    I was reading "Wisden on Grace" recently, and it notes that in Grace's early career there were no boundary 4s and 6s, with everything being run out. Does anyone know when this changed? The 1884 Laws say the umpires will "arrange boundaries where necessary, and the allowances to be made for...
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    Poll: Birthplace Draft

    Poll for the Birthplace Draft - as usual, pick your three favourite teams from the ones listed. ankitj Virender Sehwag Roy Fredericks Viv Richards Greg Chappell Mahela Jayawardene Ian Botham [5] Jeff Dujon + Shane Bond [3] Joel Garner [2] Yasir Shah [4] Dale Steyn [1] mr_mister Gordon...
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    Birthplace Draft

    Pick 11 players for a Test team such that no two players in your team were born in the same country. For the purposes of this draft: - West Indies is *not* a country: the country of birth for a West Indian player might be Barbados/Jamaica/Trinidad & Tobago (etc). - Conversely, England...
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    Specialists draft: Vote for top 3

    Vote for the 3 best teams from the Specialists Draft. mr_mister Herb Sutcliffe Matt Hayden Clem Hill Stephen Fleming * Mohammed Azharuddin Tom Moody 5 Farokh Engineer + Chris Harris 4 Lance Gibbs 3 Allan Donald 1 Bruce Reid 2 trundler Bill Brown Justin Langer Brian Lara Peter May* Joe...
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    Specialists draft

    The criteria for this draft are simple: each player you pick must have: - played at least one Test, - have a Test batting average which is less than half their Test bowling average, or have taken no Test wickets. So no all-rounders (or, at least, none who were successful in Tests). No Bradman...
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    Initials Draft Voting

    Poll for the Initials Draft. As usual, pick your top three teams: Battlers Sunil Gavaskar WG Grace Hashim Amla Dudley Nourse Patsy Hendren Aubrey Faulkner Adam Gilchrist+ Joel Garner Curtly Ambrose Clarrie Grimmett James Anderson Coronis Virender Sehwag Victor Trumper Ricky Ponting* Graeme...
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    Initials Draft

    In Round 1, each player picks a letter and names an XI whose names all start with that letter. For simplicity's sake, we'll go by the name under which they're sorted by Cricinfo - so Imtiaz Ali, Ted a'Beckett, Abdul Qadir and Zafar Ansari are all valid 'A' picks but Wasim Akram and Andy Caddick...
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    Same Name Draft voting

    Pick your top 3 from the following teams (it's up to you whether or not you take into account the strength or otherwise of the 12th man): CricZo XI (kingkallis): Len Hutton / Dennis Amiss / George Headley / Douglas Jardine / (c) Douglas Walters / o Aubrey Faulkner / o Ray Lindwall o / Ray...
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    Same Name Draft

    This would be a six-round draft: in each round you pick 2 players who have a name in common, to give your final XI plus a substitute. My suggestion for how the rule works would be: - Stick to the names a player is usually known by, so no picking (say) Robert Simpson along with Robert Neil...
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    Best series for each batting position

    Having posted about this in the thread about Arthur Mailey, I got curious... The most runs scored in a series batting at... #1 - is surprisingly topped by a batsman from a 3-match series: 752: Graham Gooch, Eng v Ind 1990 732: Sunil Gavaskar, Ind v WI 1978-9 714: Graeme Smith, SA v Eng 2003...
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    We're not #1 draft vote

    Vote for the top 3 teams from the We're not #1 draft: srbhkshk Graeme Smith (*) Justin Langer Shane Watson(5) Virat Kohli VVS Laxman Polly Umrigar(6) Jonny Bairstow (+) Mitchell Johnson(3) Trent Boult(1) Josh Hazlewood(2) Subhash Gupte(4) CricZo XI (kingkallis) Bobby Simpson / o (c) (6) Vijay...
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    The top all-rounders (by rating)

    While working out who had been ranked #1 all-rounder in the world for the "We're not #1" draft, I noticed that the list of highest ever rated all-rounders doesn't seem to be given anywhere; so in case anyone else is interested, here it is. (The figures below are peak value for batting rating x...
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    Draft: "We're not #1"

    Following on from the "best in the world title belt history" thread, how about a draft in which all players who've ever been ranked #1 (at batting or bowling*) in the official ICC player rankings are excluded? *Not sure whether #1 all-rounders should also be excluded - any views?
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    Poll: Silent Auction draft

    Poll for the Silent Auction draft. Since there were only 7 entries, please vote for your top 2 teams. oblongballs Sanath Jayasuriya (5) Rahul Dravid Ricky Ponting Viv Richards (6) Kevin Pietersen Mohammad Yousuf Shakib Al Hasan (3) Mark Boucher+ Wasim Akram (1) Simon Jones (4) Matthew Hoggard...
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    Draft idea: Silent auction

    This may have been done before as it's basically a cross between the early Sheep Drafts and an Auction Draft... Each drafter starts with $1,000,000 to buy their XI. In Round 1 you pick 11 players and an amount to bid for each player so that the total of your bids is $1,000,000, and e-mail me...
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    "Never met" XI vote

    Poll for the "Never met" draft. Vote as usual for your top 3 from the following: ankitj Bruce Mitchell Michael Slater Steven Smith (c) Jacques Kallis (5) Clyde Walcott Dean Jones Mike Procter (2) John Waite (+) Hugh Trumble (4) Dennis Lillee (1) Ian Bishop (3) OverratedSanity WG Grace (6)...
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    Draft suggestion: "Never met" XI

    Simple idea (so simple it may well have been done here before) - pick a (Test) XI such that no two of them have played in the same Test (either in the same team or in opposing teams).
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    Passengers XI Voting Thread

    From the Passengers' XI draft: pick the 3 worst teams among the following: jimmy101: Terry Duffin Xavier Marshall Aftab Habib Owas Shah Matthew Wade + Maharajkumar of Vizianagram * Trevor Hohns Ottis Gibson Scott Muller Gavin Robertson Harvinder Singh HoweZat: 1. Craig Cumming 2. Stuart...
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    Draft suggestion: Passengers XI

    Following on from last year's "Losers Draft" (pick an XI with more losses than wins), I wondered about having a "Passengers Draft" - pick the worst possible XI with more wins than losses. Obviously, you'd need an extra rule that all teams must have a reasonable balanced line-up. There's two...
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    AusWI XIs draft vote

    Teams from the Aus/WI draft. Please vote for your top 3. Teuton Bill Lawry* Matthew Hayden George Headley Clyde Walcott Andy Flower+ Darren Bravo Franklyn Stephenson Alan Davidson Curtly Ambrose Colin Croft Stuart MacGill mr_mister Conrad Hunte Roy Fredericks Ricky Ponting Clem Hill Steve...

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