A Restricted Draft

[trundler]

Fanie De Villiers

 

[trundler]

Bill Brown
Jack Hobbs
Kane Williamson
Younis Khan
Vijay Hazare
Jack Gregory
Alan Knott+
Learie Constantine
Fanie De Villiers
Courtney Walsh
Bhagwat Chandrasekhar

Will do a write up later. Decent side

 

[Line and Length]

Kevin Pietersen

 

[Line and Length]

Graeme Smith (C) / 9265 runs @ 48.3
Conrad Hunte / 3245 @ 45.1
Ken Barrington /o 6806 @ 58.7; 29 wickets @ 44.8
Steve Smith (VC) / 7227 @ 62.8
Kevin Pietersen / 8181 @ 47.3
Hashan Tillakaratne (WK) / 4545 @ 42.8
Brian McMillan /o 1968 @ 39.4; 75w @ 33.8
Kapil Dev /o 5248 @ 31.1; 434w @ 29.6
Trent Boult o 267w @ 27.6
Shane Bond o 87w @ 22.1
Bert Ironmonger 74 w @ 18.0

Two of the ATG openers followed by a trio of talented batsmen all capable of making big scores. The 'keeper is a proven batsmen and he is followed by two fine all-rounders. The top 8 have all scored multiple Test centuries with a total of 126 among them.
Dev, Boult, Bond and McMillan make up a strong pace attack with Ironmonger the front line-spinner. Barrington offers spin support while the remainder of the top 5 batsmen have all taken Test wickets.
Led by Graeme Smith, the only man to have captained in 100 Tests with Steve Smith a more than useful deputy.

 

[Line and Length]

Kingkallis - Weldone - Andrew B to finish the final round of selections.

Voting will be set up after all teams, details and summaries are provided.

 

[kingkallis]

Khan Mohammad to complete the bowling attack

CricZo XI

Graeme Gooch / (1)
Desmond Haynes / (1)
Charles Macartney / o (3+)
Martin Crowe / (1)
Mahela Jayawardene / © (3+)
John Reid / o (1)
Syed Kirmani + / (3+)
Alan Davidson o / (3+)
Khan Mohammad o (3+)
Lance Gibbs o (1)
Sydney Barnes o (1)

 

[trundler]

Khan Mohammad to complete the bowling attack

CricZo XI

Graeme Gooch / (1)
Desmond Haynes / (1)
Charles Macartney / o (3+)
Martin Crowe / (1)
Mahela Jayawardene / © (3+)
John Reid / o (1)
Syed Kirmani + / (3+)
Alan Davidson o / (3+)
Khan Mohammad o (3+)
Lance Gibbs o (1)
Sydney Barnes o (1)

Haha it was between him and Fanie for me too

 

[kingkallis]

Haha it was between him and Fanie for me too

I too had Fanie and Khan in my list. You picked Fanie so it made life easier for me.

 

[weldone]

Herschelle Gibbs

 

[AndrewB]

Jock Cameron.

Sanath Jayasuriya   6973 @ 40.07 :  98 @ 34.34   78/0
Sid Barnes          1072 @ 63.05 :   4 @ 54.50   14/0
Javed Miandad       8832 @ 52.57 :  17 @ 40.11   93/1
Everton Weekes      4455 @ 58.61 :   1 @ 77.00   49/0
Martin Donnelly      582 @ 52.90 :                7/0
Tony Greig*         3599 @ 40.43 : 141 @ 32.20   87/0
Jock Cameron+       1239 @ 30.21 :               39/12
Heath Streak        1990 @ 22.35 : 216 @ 28.14   17/0
Vernon Philander    1779 @ 24.04 : 224 @ 22.32   17/0
Shane Warne         3154 @ 17.32 : 708 @ 25.41  125/0
Tom Richardson       177 @ 11.06 :  88 @ 25.22    5/0

 

[Line and Length]

Selection is complete and, when everyone has posted full teams with stats and (optional) comments, I will post them together for peer judgement.

ataraxia commented:

I hope that sides aren't judged on averages alone

He's quite right. As a prime example, my final selection came down to Kevin Pietersen (104 Tests, 8181 runs @ 47.28) or Kumar Duleepsinhji (12 Tests, 993 runs @ 58.5). Purely on averages Duleepsinhji would be selected. However, 7 of his 12 tests were against New Zealand and 8 of his 12 played in England. These are factors to consider when looking at players with relatively short careers.

Thanks to all of the participants and my apologies for making life difficult for those uncertain about syllables. I'll look at conducting another draft in the future and I'll try to avoid anything controversial.

 

[ataraxia]

Wait - did Ranji seriously not get chosen by anyone? Wow, that's interesting.

 

[JOJOXI]

Selection is complete and, when everyone has posted full teams with stats and (optional) comments, I will post them together for peer judgement.

ataraxia commented:


He's quite right. As a prime example, my final selection came down to Kevin Pietersen (104 Tests, 8181 runs @ 47.28) or Kumar Duleepsinhji (12 Tests, 993 runs @ 58.5). Purely on averages Duleepsinhji would be selected. However, 7 of his 12 tests were against New Zealand and 8 of his 12 played in England. These are factors to consider when looking at players with relatively short careers.

Thanks to all of the participants and my apologies for making life difficult for those uncertain about syllables. I'll look at conducting another draft in the future and I'll try to avoid anything controversial.

Thankyou for making the draft Line and Length and whilst there were a few clarifications needed on syllables I thought it made for an interesting dynamic not being able to pick many of the leading players and having some more niche players, a few I'm hearing for the first time (everyday a learning day!). Also deciding whether to prioritise multi-syllable names or 1 syllable names added to the draft in my opinion.

EDIT - Also agreed about averages not being the sole selecting point. Almost went for Samaraweera as my final pick - he has a very good average but most of his success came in Sri Lanka and he had a good innings or 2 in South Africa.

 

[honestbharani]

Yeah a very fun and tough draft. Very well run L&L. Thoroughly enjoyed it. And as I pointed out earlier, nice touch with the R11 twist.

 

[Teuton]

Restricted Draft


Honest Hunks

Jeff Stollmeyer - 2159 runs @ 42
Pieter Van Der Bijl – 460 runs @ 51, backup keeper
Joe Root – 7599 runs @ 48, 28 wickets @ 50
Aravinda De Silva (vc) – 6361 runs @ 43, 29 wickets @ 42
Shakib Al Hasan – 3862 runs @ 39, 210 wickets @ 31
Mushtaq Mohammed – 3643 runs @ 39, 79 wickets @ 29
Imran Khan © - 3807 runs @ 38, 362 wickets @ 23
Les Ames (wk) – 2434 runs @ 41, 74 catches and 23 stumpings
James Pattinson – 417 runs @ 26, 81 wickets @ 26
Jason Gillespie – 1218 runs @ 19, 259 wickets @ 26
Bruce Reid – 113 wickets @ 25


Very happy with the side overall, choice of new ball pairing between Reid and either Imran/Pattinson depending on Imran’s batting workload, excellent 4 seamer attack for all conditions, bounce, swing, pace, reverse swing all available in plenty. Excellent allrounders for the spin attack in Shakib and Mushtaq, covering both wrist and finger spin with plenty of back up from Aravinda and Joe Root. Batting wise, batsmen who average 40 or there abouts till 8 and 9 and 10 are no mugs either, so will never be easy to run through this side, whatever be the attack facing them. Think its one of my better efforts in recent drafts.

You have 3 Australians.

 

[honestbharani]

You have 3 Australians.

Oh crap. have to change my Pattinson pick then.. gimme some time. Thought I was done.

 

[Line and Length]

Thanks for picking that up Teuton

 

[honestbharani]

Ken Higgs to be my 3rd seamer then.

 

[honestbharani]

Honest Hunks

Jeff Stollmeyer - 2159 runs @ 42
Pieter Van Der Bijl – 460 runs @ 51, backup keeper
Joe Root – 7599 runs @ 48, 28 wickets @ 50
Aravinda De Silva (vc) – 6361 runs @ 43, 29 wickets @ 42
Shakib Al Hasan – 3862 runs @ 39, 210 wickets @ 31
Mushtaq Mohammed – 3643 runs @ 39, 79 wickets @ 29
Imran Khan © - 3807 runs @ 38, 362 wickets @ 23
Les Ames (wk) – 2434 runs @ 41, 74 catches and 23 stumpings
Jason Gillespie – 1218 runs @ 19, 259 wickets @ 26
Ken Higgs – 185 runs @ 12, 71 wickets @ 21
Bruce Reid – 113 wickets @ 25


Very happy with the side overall, choice of new ball pairing between Reid and either Imran/Higgs depending on Imran’s batting workload, excellent 4 seamer attack for all conditions, bounce, swing, pace, reverse swing all available in plenty. Excellent allrounders for the spin attack in Shakib and Mushtaq, covering both wrist and finger spin with plenty of back up from Aravinda and Joe Root. Batting wise, batsmen who average 40 or there abouts till 8 and 9 and 10 are no mugs either, so will never be easy to run through this side, whatever be the attack facing them. Think its one of my better efforts in recent drafts.

 

[kingkallis]

Honest Hunks

Jeff Stollmeyer - 2159 runs @ 42
Pieter Van Der Bijl – 460 runs @ 51, backup keeper
Joe Root – 7599 runs @ 48, 28 wickets @ 50
Aravinda De Silva (vc) – 6361 runs @ 43, 29 wickets @ 42
Shakib Al Hasan – 3862 runs @ 39, 210 wickets @ 31
Mushtaq Mohammed – 3643 runs @ 39, 79 wickets @ 29
Imran Khan © - 3807 runs @ 38, 362 wickets @ 23
Les Ames (wk) – 2434 runs @ 41, 74 catches and 23 stumpings
Jason Gillespie – 1218 runs @ 19, 259 wickets @ 26
Ken Higgs – 185 runs @ 12, 71 wickets @ 21
Bruce Reid – 113 wickets @ 25


Very happy with the side overall, choice of new ball pairing between Reid and either Imran/Higgs depending on Imran’s batting workload, excellent 4 seamer attack for all conditions, bounce, swing, pace, reverse swing all available in plenty. Excellent allrounders for the spin attack in Shakib and Mushtaq, covering both wrist and finger spin with plenty of back up from Aravinda and Joe Root. Batting wise, batsmen who average 40 or there abouts till 8 and 9 and 10 are no mugs either, so will never be easy to run through this side, whatever be the attack facing them. Think its one of my better efforts in recent drafts.

Root, Ames and Higgs?