Auction draft II - ODI

[weldone]

Jayawardene is another good middle-order bat.

Team so far:
Sanath Jayasuriya (Devastating Opener, 5th Bowler Spin)
Gary Kirsten (Opening Batsman)
Michael Bevan (Star Middle-order)
Steve Waugh (Middle-order, 5th Bowler Pace, Captain)
Mahela Jayawardene (Middle-order)
Mark Boucher (Star Wicketkeeper, Lower-order Hitter)
Shaun Pollock (Star Opening Bowler, Lower-order Hitter)
Chaminda Vaas (First Change Bowler)
Anil Kumble (Spin Bowler)

Drinks and Towels Carriers:
Hrishikesh Kanitkar ($1)
Prosper Utseya ($2)

 

[weldone]

How will the trading window work? Will it be swapping 1 player versus 1?

 

[Himannv]

Team so far:

1. Geoff Boycott
2. Sachin Tendulkar
3. Darren Lehmann
4. Jonty Rhodes
5.
6. Angelo Mathews
7. Shakib al Hasan
8. Romesh Kaluwitharana
9. Andy Roberts
10. Joel Garner
11. Muthiah Muralitharan

12. Robin Singh

Probably need a decent middle order batsman, that would be enough. Trading window is fine with me.

 

[Somerset]

Jayawardene is another good middle-order bat.

Team so far:
Sanath Jayasuriya (Devastating Opener, 5th Bowler Spin)
Gary Kirsten (Opening Batsman)
Michael Bevan (Star Middle-order)
Steve Waugh (Middle-order, 5th Bowler Pace, Captain)
Mahela Jayawardene (Middle-order)
Mark Boucher (Star Wicketkeeper, Lower-order Hitter)
Shaun Pollock (Star Opening Bowler, Lower-order Hitter)
Chaminda Vaas (First Change Bowler)
Anil Kumble (Spin Bowler)

Drinks and Towels Carriers:
Hrishikesh Kanitkar ($1)
Prosper Utseya ($2)

Highly impressive side, it must be said - could well be picked as a late 1990's-2000's all-star ODI team. With a second opening quick bowler of high enough quality, should be an extremely difficult outfit to beat.

 

[weldone]

Highly impressive side, it must be said - could well be picked as a late 1990's-2000's all-star ODI team. With a second opening quick bowler of high enough quality, should be an extremely difficult outfit to beat.

Thanks, I put a lot of thought and calculations behind my bids. Let's see if it ends well, as I seem to have a decent amount of cash balance (though I suspect there might be some here with better cash). Yeah, a good bowler and a good batsman, that's all I need. And, that too, needs good planning and excution in the last 2 rounds.

Also, happy with the fact that all my players except Bevan are/were good (or, great) in all forms of the game.

 

[weldone]

For the record, I added M Jayawardene, J Kallis, R Kaluwitharana and E Morgan

Good job, there.

 

[Himannv]

Really glad I got Kallis. I was in desperate need of a 5th bowling option. that he's scored over 10000 ODI runs at an average of 45 is just a bonus.

1.Matthew Hayden 6133 @ 43.80 SR 78.96
2.Saeed Anwar 8824 @ 39.21 SR 80.67
3.Zaheer Abbas 2572 @ 47.62 SR 84.80
4.Jacques Kallis 10838 @ 45.72 SR 72.72 , 254 @ 32.05 Eco 4.83
5.Mohinder Dhoni 5593 @ 51.31 SR 89.48
6.Graham Thorpe 2380 @ 37.18 SR 71.17
7.Kapil Dev 3783 @ 23.79 SR 95.07 , 253 @ 27.45 Eco 3.71
8.Adam Parore 3314 @ 25.68 SR 68.09 , 197 catches 7 Stumpings
9.Ajit Agarkar 1269 @ 14.58 SR 80.62 , 288 @ 27.85 Eco 5.07
10.
11.Allan Donald 95 @ 4.31 SR 34.05 , 272 @ 21.78 Eco 4.15

12.Hitesh Modi 1109 @ 23.59 SR 58.18
13.

Among the best teams at the moment for me. Dont think you need Parore so if you can dig up a quality spinner and fast bowler from somewhere, you're sorted. I'm guessing you have a decent bit of cash left too despite the huge bid on Dhoni so maybe you've got a shot in getting it.

hb has a brilliant middle/lower middle order I'd say. Joe obviously has one of the best batting lineups.

I think Cevno has a terrific team at the moment. Just needs a top notch fast bowler and perhaps a better bat than Amarnath.

 

[weldone]

round 12 bids and round 13 nomination sent...

 

[Cevno]

Bids and nomination sent.

Can u please confirm marc?

 

[Cevno]

I have taken a big gamble this round. Let's see if it pays off.

 

[marc71178]

6 received, Pothas, Blakus, Somerset and G.I.Joe to come.

 

[Somerset]

Just sent my bids in - like last round I'm not overly confident about my chances of picking up my first few choices though might well be able to steal the player I nominated for a reasonable enough price.

 

[Himannv]

Such a long lasting draft lol.. During this draft, I've:

- Received a promotion
- Also received a salary increment at work
- Met and dated a girl
- Made above mentioned girl my girlfriend
- Become an uncle
- Worked on 4 different projects in office
- Attended 7 different weddings (seems like its the season)
- Gone for 2 funerals
- Watched 2 rounds of the WC
- Turned down 3 job offers
- Watched a fair few cricket series'
- Changed the style and cut of my beard at least thrice.

Did it take us that long to simply select 11 players for a cricket team lol??

 

[honestbharani]

Such a long lasting draft lol.. During this draft, I've:

- Received a promotion
- Also received a salary increment at work
- Met and dated a girl
- Made above mentioned girl my girlfriend
- Become an uncle
- Worked on 4 different projects in office
- Attended 7 different weddings (seems like its the season)
- Gone for 2 funerals
- Watched 2 rounds of the WC
- Turned down 3 job offers
- Watched a fair few cricket series'
- Changed the style and cut of my beard at least thrice.

Did it take us that long to simply select 11 players for a cricket team lol??

I wish I had done this much during the past month and a half.. Unfortunately, I can say what has happened betwen then and now in my life in a single word: nothing..

 

[marc71178]

Ha ha love it!

Not long left now, and only Joe to enter his picks...

 

[G.I.Joe]

Such a long lasting draft lol.. During this draft, I've:

- Received a promotion
- Also received a salary increment at work
- Met and dated a girl
- Made above mentioned girl my girlfriend
- Become an uncle
- Worked on 4 different projects in office
- Attended 7 different weddings (seems like its the season)
- Gone for 2 funerals
- Watched 2 rounds of the WC
- Turned down 3 job offers
- Watched a fair few cricket series'
- Changed the style and cut of my beard at least thrice.

Did it take us that long to simply select 11 players for a cricket team lol??

Mail sent, not that it'll make a difference given the budget I have left

 

[marc71178]

The following have been drafted in round 12:

T Alderman - Cevno
D Boon - honestbharani
A Border - Himannv
S Ganguly - Noble One
Inzamam-Ul-Haq - weldone
N Kulusekera - G.I.Joe
C Lloyd - Pskov
M Ntini - Somerset
G Swann - Blakus
M Trescothick - Pothas

For the record, I added D Boon and G Swann

The winning bids were (from lowest to highest) - $2, $10,163, $411,111, $600,111, $741,000, $909,020, $926,987.50, $1,000,000, $1,228,296, $1,407,000.


The final round is open with the following players available:

C Ambrose
G Blewett
S Chanderpaul
P Collingwood
H Cronje
C Harris
C Hooper
C McDermott
A Qadir
Y Singh


Slightly different this round in that you just need to list the 10 in order of desirability, all your money is deemed to being bid for each player and I will go down the list in order of bids.

Deadline of 3pm Sunday please.

 

[pskov]

Tilakaratne Dilshan
Alec Stewart+
Brian Lara
Rohan Kanhai
Clive Lloyd*
Andrew Symonds
Justin Kemp
Wasim Akram
Saqlain Mushtaq
Bob Willis
Dennis Lillee

Noor Ali

Lloyd was my top bid so delighted to get him, scored a match winning hundred in the first World Cup final and completes a very powerful 5, 6, 7, 8 in my batting line-up. He also provides the bonus of being a top captain and a tremendous cover fielder. In fact more by accident than design my team looks very strong in the field with Stewart a solid keeper and Dilshan, Symonds, Lloyd and Kanhai all top quality ground fielders.

 

[Cevno]

My team -

Sunil Gavaskar
Chris Gayle
Michael Clarke
Kevin Pietersen
Greg Chappell
Mohinder Amarnath
Brad Haddin
Andrew Flintoff
Daniel Vettori
Terry Alderman
Malcolm Marshall

Reserves

1) T Chappell
2)


Very happy with Alderman given he was my highest bid in the round. A average of 23.36 with a economy of 3.65 and a strike rate of 38 shows he was a very good ODI bowler.

 

[Blakus]

Very happy with this round. I was in desperate need of a spinner and so far, Swann has been a very good one. Handy bat too.

1.Matthew Hayden 6133 @ 43.80 SR 78.96
2.Saeed Anwar 8824 @ 39.21 SR 80.67
3.Zaheer Abbas 2572 @ 47.62 SR 84.80
4.Jacques Kallis 10838 @ 45.72 SR 72.72 , 254 @ 32.05 Eco 4.83
5.Mohinder Dhoni 5593 @ 51.31 SR 89.48
6.Graham Thorpe 2380 @ 37.18 SR 71.17
7.Kapil Dev 3783 @ 23.79 SR 95.07 , 253 @ 27.45 Eco 3.71
8.Adam Parore 3314 @ 25.68 SR 68.09 , 197 catches 7 Stumpings
9.Ajit Agarkar 1269 @ 14.58 SR 80.62 , 288 @ 27.85 Eco 5.07
10.Graeme Swann 250 @ 12.5 SR 76.21 , 45 @ 26.55 Eco 4.56
11.Allan Donald 95 @ 4.31 SR 34.05 , 272 @ 21.78 Eco 4.15

12.Hitesh Modi 1109 @ 23.59 SR 58.18
13.