ATG 'Mixed Experience' Test XI - Draft

[NUFAN]

I've spent quite a long time working out who exactly to pick this round and In the end I'm picking the Cricketer who I think compliments my side the most. I wanted a number 3 and I wanted one who's best is devastating and I doubt I have ever picked him in a draft before, Brian Lara.

• V. Sehwag
• B. Lawry*
• B. Lara
• Y. Khan
• D. Nourse
• A. Flintoff
• + + + + +
• R. Lindwall
• H. Tayfield
• I. Bishop
• B. Reid

 

[The Battlers Prince]

That's my favourite, Lara.

 

[Zinzan]

Round 1 (randomised order)

25-29 Test range (105 players fit this criteria).

1 AndyZaltzHair - Bill O'Reilly
2 King Kallis - Sydney Barnes
3 weldone - Aubrey Faulkner
4 Bagapath - Bill Ponsford
5 Zinzan - Joe Root
6 Camo999 - Colin Croft
7 schearzie - Steve Smith
8 mr_mister - Darren Lehmann
9 Agent TBY - Vernon Philander
10 WalkingWicket - Ryan Harris
11 J_C - Peter Pollock
12 Red Hill - Andrew Symonds
13 Nufan - Bruce Reid
14 honestbharani - George Ulyett
15 Coronis - Neil Adcock

Round 2 (Reversed order)

30-36 Test range (91 players fit this criteria)

1 Coronis - Eddie Barlow
2 honestbharani - Charles McCartney
3 Nufan - Dudley Nourse
4 Red Hill - Virat Kohli
5 J_C - Vijay Hazare
6 WalkingWicket - Bill Woodfull
7 Agent TBY - Tom Hayward
8 mr_mister - Lasith Malinga
9 schearzie - Paul Reifel
10 Camo999 - Jack Blackham
11 Zinzan - Johnny Briggs
12 Bagapath - B J Watling
13 weldone - Trent Boult
14 King Kallis - Fazal Mahmood
15 AndyZaltzHair - Archie MacLaren

Round 3

37-41 test range (76 to choose from)

1 WalkingWicket - Clarrie Grimmett
2 Nufan - Hugh Tayfield
3 schearzie - Maurice Tate
4 weldone - Stan McCabe
5 King Kallis - Hedley Verity
6 Bagapath - David Warner
7 Agent TBY - Maurice Leyland
8 Coronis - Glenn Turner
9 mr_mister - Shakib Al Hasan
10 AndyZaltzHair - Kane Williamson
11 honestbharani - William Johnston
12 Red Hill - Terry Alderman
13 Zinzan - Trevor Goddard
14 J_C - Brian McMillan
15 Camo999 - Warren Bardsley

Round 4 (reversed)

42-48 Test range - (64 to choose from)

1 Camo999 - Alan Davidson
2 J_C - Clyde Walcott
3 Zinzan - Everton Weekes
4 Red Hill - Victor Trumper
5 honestbharani - Jim Laker
6 AndyZaltzHair - Les Ames
7 mr_mister - Andy Roberts
8 Coronis - Arthur Morris
9 Agent TBY - Bruce Mitchell
10 Bagapath- Shoaib Akhtar
11 King Kallis - Lindsay Hassett
12 weldone - missed
13 schearzie - Mankad Vinoo
14 Nufan - Ian Bishop
15 WalkingWicket - Wes Hall

Round 5 Range 49-56 (55)

1 schearzie - Keith MIller
2 King Kallis - Herbert Sutcliffe
3 Agent TBY - Frank Worrell
4 Camo999 - Hanif Mohammad
5 Zinzan - Alec Bedser
6 mr_mister - Saeed Anwar
7 J_C - John Snow
8 Bagapath - Jeff Thomson
9 Coronis - Tony Lock
10 Nufan - Warwick Armstrong
11 WalkingWicket - Dennis Amiss
12 honestbharani - Simon Katich
13 AndyZaltzHair - Patsy Hendren
14 Red Hill - Bert Oldfield
15 weldone - to pick

Round 6 Range 57-64 (52)

1 weldone -to pick
2 Red Hill - Joel Garner
3 AndyZaltzHair - Michael Holding
4 honestbharani - Jack Hobbs
5 WalkingWicket - Andy Flower
6 Nufan - Ray Lindwall
7 Coronis - Bob Simpson
8 Bagapath - Richie Benaud
9 J_C - Bhagwath Chandrasekhar
10 mr_mister - Tony Greig
11 Zinzan - Chris Cairns
12 Camo999 - Wilfred Rhodes
13 Agent TBY - Mushtaq Mohammad
14 King Kallis - Ted Dexter
15 schearzie - Ian Smith

Round 7 Range 65-78 (43)

1 Coronis - Fred Trueman
2 mr_mister - Dennis Lillee
3 weldone - Scratched
4 Agent TBY - Allan Donald
5 Camo999 - Martin Crowe
6 Nufan - Bill Lawry
7 WalkingWicket - Denis Compton
8 schearzie - Bishop Bedi
9 AndyZaltzHair - Peter May
10 King Kallis – Doug Walters
11 honestbharani- Brian Statham
12 J_C- Michael Slater
13 Bagapath- Damian Martyn
14 Zinzan - Jason Gillespie
15 Red Hill - Ian Chappell


Round 8 Round 79-87 (30)

1 Red Hill - Malcolm Marshall
2 Zinzan - Richard Hadlee
3 Bagapath - Wally Hammond
4 J_C - Dale Steyn
5 Honestbharani - Ken Barrington
6 King Kallis - Len Hutton
7 AndyZaltzHair - Neil Harvey
8 schearzie - Greg Chappell
9 Walking Wicket - Hashim Amla
10 Nufan - Andrew Flintoff
11 Camo999 - Waqar Younis
12 Agent TBY - Matt Prior
13 mr_mister - Rohan Kanhai
14 Coronis - Mike Hussey

Round 9 (88-102) (29 to pick from)


1 Agent TBY - Garry Sobers
2 mr_mister - Adam Gilchrist
3 Zinzan - AB de Villiers
4 AndyZaltzHair- Imran Khan
5 King Kallis- Curtly Ambrose
6 Nufan- Younis Khan
7 Honestbharani- Ian Botham
8 Camo999- Mohammed Yousuf
9 Red Hill- Graham Thorpe
10 Walking Wicket- Brendon McCullum
11 J_C- Gary Kirsten
12 Bagapath- Aravinda de Silva
13 schearzie- Herschelle Gibbs
14 Coronis- MS Dhoni



Round 10 (103-118) (28 to choose from)

1 Coronis- Wasim Akram
2 schearzie- Matthew Hayden
3 Bagapath- Shaun Pollock
4 J_C- Micheal Clarke
5 Walking Wicket- Chaminda Vaas
6 Red Hill- Gordon Greenidge
7 Camo999- Sanath Jayasuriya
8 Honestbharani - Kevin Pietersen
9 Nufan - Virender Sehwag
10 King Kallis - Clive Lloyd
11 AndyZaltzHair - to pick
12 Zinzan - Graeme Smith
13 mr_mister - Geoff Boycott
14 Agent TBY - Alastair Cook.

Round 11 Range >=119 Tests (25 players to pick from)

Red Hill - Shane Warne
schearzie - Viv Richards
Nufan- Brian Lara
Zinzan -
Walking Wicket
Bagapath
Honestbharani
J_C
Agent TBY
Coronis
King Kallis
AndyZaltzHair
mr_mister
Camo999

Round 12 Range <25

Camo999
mr_mister
AndyZaltzHair
King Kallis
Coronis
Agent TBY
J_C
Honestbharani
Bagapath
Walking Wicket
Zinzan
Nufan
schearzie
Red Hill

 

[Zinzan]

Sachin Tendulkar

Hard to imagine any <25 range players will displace one of the below, but you never know. Just have a bad feeling a few may not know what a legend spinner Johnny Briggs was. Will also confirm my skipper at the end, likely to be Smith or Goddard,

Eggs Benedict XI

Trevor Goddard (6)
Graeme Smith
Everton Weekes
Sachin Tendulkar
Joe Root
AB de Villiers +
Chris Cairns (5)
Richard Hadlee (1)
Johnny Briggs (4)
Jason Gillespie (3)
Alec Bedser (2)

 

[WalkingWicket]

To round off my team as both a number three and a fourth seamer, I'll take Jacques Kallis. Fits perfectly into my side.

1. Bill Woodfull
2. Dennis Amiss
3. Jacques Kallis (4)
4. Denis Compton
5. Hashim Amla
6. Andy Flower (+)
7. Brendon McCullum
8. Chaminda Vaas (1)
9. Ryan Harris (3)
10. Wes Hall (2)
11. Clarrie Grimmett (5)

12.

 

[Zinzan]

To round off my team as both a number three and a fourth seamer, I'll take Jacques Kallis. Fits perfectly into my side.

1. Bill Woodfull
2. Dennis Amiss
3. Jacques Kallis (4)
4. Denis Compton
5. Hashim Amla
6. Andy Flower (+)
7. Brendon McCullum
8. Chaminda Vaas (1)
9. Ryan Harris (3)
10. Wes Hall (2)
11. Clarrie Grimmett (5)

12.

Interesting you have Amla at 5.

 

[harsh.ag]

Yeah, Amla, Kallis, Compton is how I would have it

 

[WalkingWicket]

Yeah, Amla, Kallis, Compton is how I would have it

Well, you almost certainly know better than I do - that's what I'll do. Thanks for the advice

1. Woodfull*
2. Amiss
3. Amla
4. Kallis (4)
5. Compton
6. Flower (+)
7. McCullum
8. Vaas (1)
9. Harris (3)
10. Hall (2)
11. Grimmett (5)

I like my middle order - lots of quality, stoical batsmen, then one of my favourites at six, then McCullum to come in and blow away the tiring bowling attack.

 

[bagapath]

Zinzan. I have found time to login. So will pick my player right now. Thanks for offering to step in if I could not.

Bill Ponsford
David Warner
Kumar Sangakara
Walter Hammond
Aravinda de Silva
BJ Watling +
Shaun Pollock
Richie Benaud *
Jeff Thomson
Shoaib Akhthar

12th man: Damien Martyn
I need the last round pick to complete my XI

 

[WalkingWicket]

Zinzan. I have found time to login. So will pick my player right now. Thanks for offering to step in if I could not.

Bill Ponsford
David Warner
Kumar Sangakara
Walter Hammond
Aravinda de Silva
Brian Watling +
Shaun Pollock
Richie Benaud *
Jeff Thomson
Shoaib Akhthar

12th man: Damien Martyn
I need the last round pick to complete my XI

Isn't it Bradley-John Watling?

 

[bagapath]

Thanks. Fixed.
Changed my pick in the very last second. Sanga at 3 is always better.
Gives my batting order a more fixed look.

 

[honestbharani]

I have enough bowlers but this is just too good a player to pass up on...


​Glenn McGrath

 

[honestbharani]

Thanks. Fixed.
Changed my pick in the very last second. Sanga at 3 is always better.
Gives my batting order a more fixed look.

Damn you Bag..Damn you..

 

[J_C]

Ricky Ponting.

 

[Agent TBY]

No idea how he fell to me, but I'm not going to complain.

Muttiah Muralitharan.

 

[Agent TBY]

Bruce Mitchell
Alastair Cook
Frank Worrell (*)
Garry Sobers
Maurice Leyland
Mushtaq Mohammad
Matt Prior (+)
Vernon Philander
Allan Donald
Muttiah Muralitharan

12. Tom Hayward

Team composition and middle order subject to change.

 

[kingkallis]

This round is actually flying...

 

[kingkallis]

Round 1 (randomised order)

25-29 Test range (105 players fit this criteria).

1 AndyZaltzHair - Bill O'Reilly
2 King Kallis - Sydney Barnes
3 weldone - Aubrey Faulkner
4 Bagapath - Bill Ponsford
5 Zinzan - Joe Root
6 Camo999 - Colin Croft
7 schearzie - Steve Smith
8 mr_mister - Darren Lehmann
9 Agent TBY - Vernon Philander
10 WalkingWicket - Ryan Harris
11 J_C - Peter Pollock
12 Red Hill - Andrew Symonds
13 Nufan - Bruce Reid
14 honestbharani - George Ulyett
15 Coronis - Neil Adcock

Round 2 (Reversed order)

30-36 Test range (91 players fit this criteria)

1 Coronis - Eddie Barlow
2 honestbharani - Charles McCartney
3 Nufan - Dudley Nourse
4 Red Hill - Virat Kohli
5 J_C - Vijay Hazare
6 WalkingWicket - Bill Woodfull
7 Agent TBY - Tom Hayward
8 mr_mister - Lasith Malinga
9 schearzie - Paul Reifel
10 Camo999 - Jack Blackham
11 Zinzan - Johnny Briggs
12 Bagapath - B J Watling
13 weldone - Trent Boult
14 King Kallis - Fazal Mahmood
15 AndyZaltzHair - Archie MacLaren

Round 3

37-41 test range (76 to choose from)

1 WalkingWicket - Clarrie Grimmett
2 Nufan - Hugh Tayfield
3 schearzie - Maurice Tate
4 weldone - Stan McCabe
5 King Kallis - Hedley Verity
6 Bagapath - David Warner
7 Agent TBY - Maurice Leyland
8 Coronis - Glenn Turner
9 mr_mister - Shakib Al Hasan
10 AndyZaltzHair - Kane Williamson
11 honestbharani - William Johnston
12 Red Hill - Terry Alderman
13 Zinzan - Trevor Goddard
14 J_C - Brian McMillan
15 Camo999 - Warren Bardsley

Round 4 (reversed)

42-48 Test range - (64 to choose from)

1 Camo999 - Alan Davidson
2 J_C - Clyde Walcott
3 Zinzan - Everton Weekes
4 Red Hill - Victor Trumper
5 honestbharani - Jim Laker
6 AndyZaltzHair - Les Ames
7 mr_mister - Andy Roberts
8 Coronis - Arthur Morris
9 Agent TBY - Bruce Mitchell
10 Bagapath- Shoaib Akhtar
11 King Kallis - Lindsay Hassett
12 weldone - missed
13 schearzie - Mankad Vinoo
14 Nufan - Ian Bishop
15 WalkingWicket - Wes Hall

Round 5 Range 49-56 (55)

1 schearzie - Keith MIller
2 King Kallis - Herbert Sutcliffe
3 Agent TBY - Frank Worrell
4 Camo999 - Hanif Mohammad
5 Zinzan - Alec Bedser
6 mr_mister - Saeed Anwar
7 J_C - John Snow
8 Bagapath - Jeff Thomson
9 Coronis - Tony Lock
10 Nufan - Warwick Armstrong
11 WalkingWicket - Dennis Amiss
12 honestbharani - Simon Katich
13 AndyZaltzHair - Patsy Hendren
14 Red Hill - Bert Oldfield
15 weldone - to pick

Round 6 Range 57-64 (52)

1 weldone -to pick
2 Red Hill - Joel Garner
3 AndyZaltzHair - Michael Holding
4 honestbharani - Jack Hobbs
5 WalkingWicket - Andy Flower
6 Nufan - Ray Lindwall
7 Coronis - Bob Simpson
8 Bagapath - Richie Benaud
9 J_C - Bhagwath Chandrasekhar
10 mr_mister - Tony Greig
11 Zinzan - Chris Cairns
12 Camo999 - Wilfred Rhodes
13 Agent TBY - Mushtaq Mohammad
14 King Kallis - Ted Dexter
15 schearzie - Ian Smith

Round 7 Range 65-78 (43)

1 Coronis - Fred Trueman
2 mr_mister - Dennis Lillee
3 weldone - Scratched
4 Agent TBY - Allan Donald
5 Camo999 - Martin Crowe
6 Nufan - Bill Lawry
7 WalkingWicket - Denis Compton
8 schearzie - Bishop Bedi
9 AndyZaltzHair - Peter May
10 King Kallis – Doug Walters
11 honestbharani- Brian Statham
12 J_C- Michael Slater
13 Bagapath- Damian Martyn
14 Zinzan - Jason Gillespie
15 Red Hill - Ian Chappell


Round 8 Round 79-87 (30)

1 Red Hill - Malcolm Marshall
2 Zinzan - Richard Hadlee
3 Bagapath - Wally Hammond
4 J_C - Dale Steyn
5 Honestbharani - Ken Barrington
6 King Kallis - Len Hutton
7 AndyZaltzHair - Neil Harvey
8 schearzie - Greg Chappell
9 Walking Wicket - Hashim Amla
10 Nufan - Andrew Flintoff
11 Camo999 - Waqar Younis
12 Agent TBY - Matt Prior
13 mr_mister - Rohan Kanhai
14 Coronis - Mike Hussey

Round 9 (88-102) (29 to pick from)


1 Agent TBY - Garry Sobers
2 mr_mister - Adam Gilchrist
3 Zinzan - AB de Villiers
4 AndyZaltzHair- Imran Khan
5 King Kallis- Curtly Ambrose
6 Nufan- Younis Khan
7 Honestbharani- Ian Botham
8 Camo999- Mohammed Yousuf
9 Red Hill- Graham Thorpe
10 Walking Wicket- Brendon McCullum
11 J_C- Gary Kirsten
12 Bagapath- Aravinda de Silva
13 schearzie- Herschelle Gibbs
14 Coronis- MS Dhoni



Round 10 (103-118) (28 to choose from)

1 Coronis- Wasim Akram
2 schearzie- Matthew Hayden
3 Bagapath- Shaun Pollock
4 J_C- Micheal Clarke
5 Walking Wicket- Chaminda Vaas
6 Red Hill- Gordon Greenidge
7 Camo999- Sanath Jayasuriya
8 Honestbharani - Kevin Pietersen
9 Nufan - Virender Sehwag
10 King Kallis - Clive Lloyd
11 AndyZaltzHair - to pick
12 Zinzan - Graeme Smith
13 mr_mister - Geoff Boycott
14 Agent TBY - Alastair Cook.

Round 11 Range >=119 Tests (25 players to pick from)

Red Hill - Shane Warne
schearzie - Viv Richards
Nufan- Brian Lara
Zinzan- Sachin Tendulkar
Walking Wicket- Jacques Kallis
Bagapath- Kumar Sangakkara
Honestbharani- Glenn McGrath
J_C- Ricky Ponting
Agent TBY- Muttiah Muralitharan
Coronis
King Kallis
AndyZaltzHair
mr_mister
Camo999

Round 12 Range <25

Camo999
mr_mister
AndyZaltzHair
King Kallis
Coronis
Agent TBY
J_C
Honestbharani
Bagapath
Walking Wicket
Zinzan
Nufan
schearzie
Red Hill

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

Graham Gooch for Round 10

 

[Red]

No idea how he fell to me, but I'm not going to complain.

Muttiah Muralitharan.

Spinners and when they were selected:

R1
O'Reilly
Faulkner

R2
Briggs

R3
Grimmett
Tayfield
Shakib
Johnston *

R4
Laker
Mankad

R5
Lock
Armstrong

R6
Benaud
Chandra
Greig *
Rhodes

R7
Bedi

R11
Warne
Murali



Sixteen spinners (if we include Johnston and Greig) were selected prior to R11.

Guess that's an example of what made this draft interesting. Once I knew I had first pick in R11 I decided I'd take Warne which made my R9 and R10 selections a bit easier, but sitting lower in R11 makes it a bit harder to plan.