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Birthday Chronology Draft
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Thala_0710
International Regular
capt_Luffy
Hall of Fame Member
Your policy to wait played out quite well in the end.
Thala_0710
International Regular
It did, was quite nervous though that Bumrah might get picked. But he wasn't thankfully.
capt_Luffy
Hall of Fame Member
Be happy JOJO timed out. Though there's another borderline ATG bowler still available. If to criticize anything, it will be Brook, but think he's going to be fine.
Thala_0710
International Regular
Yeah, but the other guy ain't Bumrah. Also I'm just happy I got 2 of my all time favts in the xi.
capt_Luffy
Hall of Fame Member
Man, I must say I love all 4 bowlers but Barnes, Holding, Murali and Grum is certainly a very interesting attack...... Murali was too hard to pass on by then.
It is really fun, always like to accentuate a strength.
trundler
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Langer was such an annoying pick as I could've gotten Smith at that point
I was pretty close to going DeVilliers option instead.
Very almost went for Gavaskar as well
Costly timeout for me with Bumrah - initially had my eyes set out on Jadeja but Trundler got him.
I'll go with Mitchell Starc
Victor Trumper
Alastair Cook
Ricky Ponting
Dudley Nourse
Michael Clarke
Andy Flower (wk)
Imran Khan
Wasim Akram
Mitchell Starc
Shoaib Akhtar
Saqlain Mushtaq
I'll go with Mitchell Starc
Victor Trumper
Alastair Cook
Ricky Ponting
Dudley Nourse
Michael Clarke
Andy Flower (wk)
Imran Khan
Wasim Akram
Mitchell Starc
Shoaib Akhtar
Saqlain Mushtaq
Thala_0710
International Regular
Could have gone with rabada
capt_Luffy
Hall of Fame Member
A pretty Good XI can be made from just the remaining players:
Graham Gooch
Conrad Hunte
Colin Cowdrey
Martin Crowe
Inzamam-ul-Haq
Clive Rice*
BJ Watling+
Anil Kumble
Alec Bedser
Kagiso Rabada
Brian Statham
The bowling and keeping is legit Great, and Gooch and Crowe are too good for this team. Rabada no doubt the biggest WTF.
Graham Gooch
Conrad Hunte
Colin Cowdrey
Martin Crowe
Inzamam-ul-Haq
Clive Rice*
BJ Watling+
Anil Kumble
Alec Bedser
Kagiso Rabada
Brian Statham
The bowling and keeping is legit Great, and Gooch and Crowe are too good for this team. Rabada no doubt the biggest WTF.
To answer the question on Rabada - maybe I underestimated how highly he is rated on here. I actually considered Wagner over him but eventually settled on Starc. In part because I wanted a tiny bit extra batting given Imran Khan at 7, Wasim Akram at 8 - in an ideal world I'd have gone Jadeja at 7, 2 spin options or Bumrah with the gap between him and a Starc seeming to be large. The other reason for Starc/Wagner was considering the old ball. Having a Wagner who could bowl bouncers all day and get scalps with the old ball if necessary was tempting as a proposition once Jadeja/Bumrah were gone - Starc with left arm angle and seeing him used in short bursts with the hope he could produce magic to break a stand made me go in that direction where he could stiffen up the tail a bit.
I didn't actually know Clive Rice was eligible - nothing mentioned about players needing to have played Tests in the OP though I see. Wouldn't mind having him in my team right now instead of say a Starc!
I didn't actually know Clive Rice was eligible - nothing mentioned about players needing to have played Tests in the OP though I see. Wouldn't mind having him in my team right now instead of say a Starc!
capt_Luffy
Hall of Fame Member
Sorry but Rice was born in 1949. Your last player was Cook, born in 1984. You can't take someone older than Cook any longer. Rice became unavailable for you the moment you took Imran. I actually clarified uncapped players were fair game, and both Fuller Pilch (Fuller Pilch) and Sayon Basak (Vintcent Van der Bijl) took uncapped players. Apologies, I should had stated that in the OP.
Sorry for confusion caused I was just thinking aloud that I wouldn't mind having a Clive Rice instead of say a Starc rather than formally requesting a change to the team. My fault for not thinking outside the box enough in terms of whether uncapped players were allowed or not. I'd actually searched up Fuller Pilch when he was picked but didn't note his lack of a Test cap for some reason.
ataraxia
International Coach
Herbert Sutcliffe* /
Matthew Hayden /
Rahul Dravid /
Denis Compton /
VVS Laxman /
Shakib Al Hasan / o
Quinton de Kock + /
Jack Gregory o /
Malcolm Marshall o /
Jim Laker o
Courtney Walsh o
I haven't done a 2 all-rounder + 3 bowler side in a while. Normally those sides have the likes of Botham/Kapil/Imran, but this is a little different with a bit more batting. I think 3 pace + 2 spin is probably better reflective of cricket history than 4 pace + 1 spin. Could've been improved, but I'm pretty happy with it in the end.
Matthew Hayden /
Rahul Dravid /
Denis Compton /
VVS Laxman /
Shakib Al Hasan / o
Quinton de Kock + /
Jack Gregory o /
Malcolm Marshall o /
Jim Laker o
Courtney Walsh o
I haven't done a 2 all-rounder + 3 bowler side in a while. Normally those sides have the likes of Botham/Kapil/Imran, but this is a little different with a bit more batting. I think 3 pace + 2 spin is probably better reflective of cricket history than 4 pace + 1 spin. Could've been improved, but I'm pretty happy with it in the end.
capt_Luffy
Hall of Fame Member
Tomorrow I think.
Yeah, not running a reverse will be a waste. Anyone else can run that as well.