A "bid for position" draft: categories

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IG apart from the Lara pick, @HookShot's Rohan Kanhai as a category 5 pick might also not be a valid one since Kanhai didn't pick any test wicket(s).

 

[HookShot]

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IG apart from the Lara pick, @HookShot's Rohan Kanhai as a category 5 pick might also not be a valid one since Kanhai didn't pick any test wicket(s).

Looks like you’re right. Must have been staring at the wrong StatsGuru page.

In that case Tillakaratne Dilshan

 

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KS Ranjitsinhji (1)

Barry Richards
Archie Jackson
KS Ranjitsinhji
Allan Border (C)
Shivnarine Chanderpaul
AB de Villiers +
Aubrey Faulkner
Harold Larwood
Peter Pollock
Ryan Harris
Bill O'Reilly

 

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@JOJOXI

 

[HookShot]

Just sat down on my tea break…..awesome team Bitmap. Richards and Archie batting together, then Ranji….

Now interested to see the rest of the teams.

 

[AndrewB]

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.

Yes, that's valid: by "abandoned" I meant "abandoned without a ball being bowled" (sorry for not being clear).

 

[JOJOXI]

Apologies for the delay - I think I've got categories 1, 9, 10 and 11 as well as category 2 from a previous pick I've yet to make.

C1 - Hugh Trumble
C2 - Bill Ponsford
C9 - Kumar Sangakkara
C10 - Clive Lloyd
C11 - Adam Gilchrist - (if I'm not mistaken he's played T20 cricket at Middlesex but no FC cricket for an English county)


Herbie Collins
Bill Ponsford
Kumar Sangakkara
Ted Dexter
Clyde Walcott
Clive Lloyd (c)
Adam Gilchrist (wk)
Hugh Trumble
Malcolm Marshall
James Anderson
Roy Gilchrist

 

[JOJOXI]

@Pothas

 

[Pothas]

Bill Woodfull
Stanley Jackson

Bill Woodfull
Mike Denness
Don Bradman
Steve Smith
Patsy Hendren
Stanley Jackson
Imran Khan
Mike Procter
Syed Kirmani+
Richie Benaud
Colin Croft

Who the hell would be captain?

 

[trundler]

Well I bombed this

 

[HookShot]

Bill Woodfull
Stanley Jackson

Bill Woodfull
Mike Denness
Don Bradman
Steve Smith
Patsy Hendren
Stanley Jackson
Imran Khan
Mike Procter
Syed Kirmani+
Richie Benaud
Colin Croft

Who the hell would be captain?

Has to be Richie Benaud for that team.

 

[HookShot]

Completely stuffed up the bidding. But I still don’t mind this team; plenty of pace and would be entertaining to watch even when they lose.

AC MacLaren to crack the whip and cement the middle-order with all those attacking batsman.....

01. John Edrich
02. Tillakaratne Dilshan
03. George Headley
04. Brian Lara
05. AC MacLaren *
06. Lee Irvine +
07. Freddie Flintoff
08. Jack Gregory
09. Clarrie Grimmett
10. Wes Hall
11. Patrick Patterson

 

[ataraxia]

1) Herbert Sutcliffe /
2) Gordon Greenidge /
3) Vijay Hazare* / o
4) Victor Trumper /
5) Everton Weekes /
6) Jim Parks + /
7) Frank Foster o /
8) Freddie Brown o /
9) Wasim Akram o /
10) Curtly Ambrose o
11) Waqar Younis o

A very CW side this: bumping Trumper down to 4, going with two bowling all-rounders, and having a stupidly good pace attack.

 

[AndrewB]

Think we just need batting orders from @weeman27bob and @Michaelf7777777 to complete the draft.

 

[weeman27bob]

In order by category - let me know if any of my picks don't count

1. Monty Noble
2. Hedley Verity
3. Graham Gooch
4. Inzamam Ul Haq
5. Brendon McCullum
6. Shaun Tait
7. Mike Hussey
8. Geraint Jones
9. Jack Hobbs
10. Michael Holding
11. Pat Cummins

I think this probably becomes:

1. Graham Gooch
2. Jack Hobbs
3. Inzamam-ul-Haq
4. Monty Noble
5. Mike Hussey
6. Brendon McCullum
7. Geraint Jones
8. Hedley Verity
9. Pat Cummins
10. Michael Holding
11. Shaun Tait

 

[Michaelf7777777]

W.G. Grace (c)
Hanif Mohammad
Hashim Amla
Sachin Tendulkar
Qasim Umar
Les Ames (wk)
Chris Cairns
Wilfred Rhodes
Alan Davidson
Amar Singh
Sydney Barnes

 

[AndrewB]

Thanks all. Voting thread now up.