A "bid for position" draft: categories

[AndrewB]

Picks to date
HookShot: George Headley
JOJOXI: Ted Dexter
Bitmap: Archie Jackson
JOJOXI: Malcolm Marshall
Pothas: Steve Smith
Bitmap: Barry Richards
Pothas: Mike Procter, Mike Denness, Don Bradman
ataraxia: Victor Trumper, Herbert Sutcliffe, Curtly Ambrose, Frank Foster, Freddie Brown, Wasim Akram
JOJOXI: Clyde Walcott, Roy Gilchrist
HookShot: Lee Irvine, Clarrie Grimmett
trunder: Muttiah Muralitharan, Clem Hill, Ray Lindwall
Pothas: Imran Khan
Bitmap: Peter Pollock, Bill O'Reilly, AB de Villiers, Ryan Harris
trundler: Javed Miandad
Michaelf7777777: Qasim Umar, W.G. Grace, Amar Singh, Wilfred Rhodes, Les Ames, Hanif Mohammad, Sydney Barnes, Chris Cairns, Sachin Tendulkar, Hashim Amla
weeman27bob: Monty Noble, Hedley Verity, Graham Gooch, Inzamam Ul Haq, Brendon McCullum, Shaun Tait, Mike Hussey, Geraint Jones, Jack Hobbs, Michael Holding, Pat Cummins
Michaelf7777777: Alan Davidson
trundler: Stan McCabe, Bobby Abel, Tim Zoehrer, Stuart Clark, Steve O'Keefe, Sunil Gavaskar, AG Steel
JOJOXI: James Anderson, Herbie Collins
Bitmap: Harold Larwood, Allan Border, Shivnarine Chanderpaul
ataraxia: categories 3, 5, 7, 9, 11
JOJOXI: category 2
Pothas: categories 5, 7, 10, 11
Bitmap: category 11
HookShot: categories 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 10, 11
Bitmap: category 1
JOJOXI: categories 1, 9, 10, 11
Pothas: categories 1, 2

 

[Bitmap]

Harold Larwood (2)
Allan Border (9)
Shiv Chanderpaul(10)

 

[Bitmap]

@ataraxia

 

[ataraxia]

Javed Miandad profile and biography, stats, records, averages, photos and videos

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My bad. Javed Miandad is accredited with one stumping so I'll take him .

I don't think he's eligible - didn't start a match keeping wicket.

 

[ataraxia]

Gordon Greenidge (3)
Jim Parks (5)
Vijay Hazare (7)
Waqar Younis (9)
Everton Weekes (11)

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[ataraxia]

@JOJOXI (C2)

 

[JOJOXI]

Skip me and I'll catchup later

 

[ataraxia]

@Pothas

 

[AndrewB]

I don't think he's eligible - didn't start a match keeping wicket.

Oh, that's correct, and I did specify that that was the rule.
@trundler - you need to pick a replacement Category 5 player (here's the valid list). (If you want to change a later pick as well to fit with the replacement, that's OK).

 

[Pothas]

Syed Kirmani (5)
Patsy Hendren (7)
Colin Croft (10)
Richie Benaud (11)

@Bitmap

 

[trundler]

Oh, that's correct, and I did specify that that was the rule.
@trundler - you need to pick a replacement Category 5 player (here's the valid list). (If you want to change a later pick as well to fit with the replacement, that's OK).

Ah yikes. I'll take John R Reid and change my Lancashire pick to Chanderpaul.

 

[Bitmap]

Aubrey Faulkner (11)

@HookShot

 

[Bitmap]

Ah yikes. I'll take John R Reid and change my Lancashire pick to Chanderpaul.

Chanderpaul is already picked

 

[HookShot]

Having a really busy shift at work which I can’t see slowing down till around 11pm

I just need a good middle-order batsman from Category 9 (the ‘did nothing’ category) if someone could find me one.

Obviously not every batsman on that list of 256 players is allowed to be picked.

 

[ataraxia]

Just get Lara lol

 

[HookShot]

Or if people are happy are to wait till tomorrow....

 

[HookShot]

Just get Lara lol

OK

01. John Edrich - Vowel
02. AC McLaren * - 19 & 20
03. Rohan Kanhai - wicket wicketkeeper
04. Brian Lara - did nothing
05. George Headley - non country
06. Lee Irvine + - 25
07. Freddie Flintoff - Lancashire
08. Jack Gregory - 1919 to 1939
09. Clarrie Grimmett - 30
10. Wes Hall - no county
11. Patrick Patterson - same letter

 

[trundler]

Mohammad Yousuf then.

 

[HookShot]

Andrew, let me know whether Lara is OK as the match was abandoned after several overs due to rubbish pitch - apparently.

Happy to pick someone else if need be.

 

[trundler]

Sunil Gavaskar
Bobby Abel
Stan McCabe 6
Clem Hill*
Mohammad Yousuf
John R Reid 3
Tim Zoehrer+
Ray Lindwall 1
Stuart Clark 2
Steve O'Keefe 5
Muttiah Muralitharan 4

Can't not have weaknesses in this one but give me Hill and I'll be a happy man.