Budget Draft II

[mr_mister]

Yeah. Don Tallon is one of my most useful picks imo. Scored less than 400 test runs but still looks an okay 7 imo

 

[ankitj]

SillyCowCorner1 timed out. How are we doing R11?

 

[trundler]

Highest balance gets to pick first.

 

[ankitj]

Highest balance gets to pick first.

Good idea. But who is tracking and checking balances?

 

[trundler]

I only said that because I have 104 tests left.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

R10: Charles Russell--10 tests, 910 runs, 0 wickets

Previous picks:
R1: F. Worrell--51 tests, 3860 runs, 69 wickets
R2: E. Rowan-- 26 tests, 1965 runs, 0 wickets
R3: B. Sutcliffe-- 42 tests, 2727 runs, 4 wickets
R4: J. Edrich-- 77 tests, 5138 runs, 0 wickets
R5: M. Ntini-- 101 tests, 699 runs, 390 wickets
R6: M. Trescothick-- 76 tests, 5825 runs, 1 wicket
R7: Neil Foster-- 29 tests, 446 runs, 88 wickets
R8: Bill Lawry-- 67 tests, 5234 runs, 0 wickets
R9: Lindsay Kline-- 13 tests, 58 runs, 34 wickets


Balance: 8 tests, 5638 runs, 414 wickets

 

[Jarquis]

Michaelf777777
ankitj
Red Hill
SillyCowCorner1
mr_mister
Himannv
AndrewB
kingkallis
Samuel_Vimes
GoodAreasShane
trundler

 

[Jarquis]

Highest balance gets to pick first.

I actually did have the idea to work out every round on this basis - to try and encourage the picking of ‘expensive’ players and people taking a risk with their budgets.

Also thought about a ‘half price’ round along with a ‘double price’ one too.

Happy to take feedback on the ideas for down the line.

Apologies I’ve been an absent draft organiser. Had an awful lot go on these past few weeks.

 

[Himannv]

I actually did have the idea to work out every round on this basis - to try and encourage the picking of ‘expensive’ players and people taking a risk with their budgets.

Also thought about a ‘half price’ round along with a ‘double price’ one too.

Both excellent ideas IMO, particularly the first one. It encourages people to play conservatively at first and then chase the expensive players later. However, someone might just pick all the best expensive players early and still end up with a better team. Either way, it's a good way for drafters to be more strategic with their picks so it'll be more fun.

 

[kingkallis]

Balance: 15, 5556, 82

CricZo XI

1. Victor Trumper /
2. Bill Ponsford /
3. Wally Hammond /
4. Denis Compton /
5. Douglas Jardine / (c)
6. Aubrey Faulkner / o
7. Quinton de Kock / +
8. Jack Gregory / o
9. Malcolm Marshall o /
10. Joel Garner o
11.

 

[ankitj]

Michaelf7777777 timed out. I will swap 75 wickets for 2500 runs and pick Vijay Hazare

	Tests	Runs	Wickets
Budget	500	35,000	925
Spent	499	32,559	923
Balance	1	2,441	2
Sydney Barnes	27	242	189
Imran Khan	88	3,807	362
Clarrie Grimmett	37	557	216
Vijay Merchant	10	859	0
Peter Pollock	28	607	116
Len Hutton	79	6,971	3
Steven Smith	64	6,199	17
Andy Flower+	63	4,794	0
Virat Kohli	73	6,331	0
Garth Le Roux	0	0	0
Vijay Hazare	30	2,192	20

 

[ankitj]

In the batting order, below is the XI at the cost of 499 tests, 32559 runs and 923 wickets.

1. Len Hutton
2. Vijay Merchant
3. Steven Smith
4. Virat Kohli
5. Vijay Hazare
6. Andy Flower (+)
7. Imran Khan (c)
8. Garth Le Roux
9. Peter Pollock
10. Clarrie Grimmett
11. Sydney Barnes

Pretty happy with the XI. Lot of champions in there.

 

[Red]

Tim Zoehrer

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

R11: Thomas Goddard-- 8 tests, 13 runs, 22 wickets

Previous picks:
R1: F. Worrell--51 tests, 3860 runs, 69 wickets
R2: E. Rowan-- 26 tests, 1965 runs, 0 wickets
R3: B. Sutcliffe-- 42 tests, 2727 runs, 4 wickets
R4: J. Edrich-- 77 tests, 5138 runs, 0 wickets
R5: M. Ntini-- 101 tests, 699 runs, 390 wickets
R6: M. Trescothick-- 76 tests, 5825 runs, 1 wicket
R7: Neil Foster-- 29 tests, 446 runs, 88 wickets
R8: Bill Lawry-- 67 tests, 5234 runs, 0 wickets
R9: Lindsay Kline-- 13 tests, 58 runs, 34 wickets
R10: Charles Russell--10 tests, 910 runs, 0 wickets


Balance: 0 tests, 5625 runs, 392 wickets

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

1. Bill Lawry
2. B. Sutcliffe
3. F. Worrell (c)
4. Eric Rowan
5. J. Edrich
6. M. Trescothick(+)
7. Charles Russell
8. Neil Foster
9. Thomas Goddard
10. Lindsay Kline
11. M. Ntini

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

This obviously played a part in selecting him as my keeper:

 

[mr_mister]

Fazal Mahmood


Arthur Morris
Sid Barnes
Greg Chappell 6
Brian Lara *
Stan McCabe 5
KS Ranji
Don Tallon +
Harold Larwood 2
Michael Holding 1
Bill O'Reilly 4
Fazal Mahmood 3

 

[Red]

RED HILL CC XI

Bill Woodfull (35 tests, 2300 runs, 0 wickets) *
Archie Jackson (8 tests, 474 runs, 0 wickets)
Ricky Ponting (168 tests, 13378 runs, 5 wickets)
Graeme Pollock (23 tests, 2256 runs, 4 wickets)
Martin Donnelly (7 tests, 582 runs, 0 wickets)
Mike Hussey (79 tests, 6235 runs, 7 wickets)
Tim Zoehrer (10 tests, 246 runs, 0 wickets) +
Ravi Jadeja (39 tests, 1395 runs, 185 wickets)
CTB Turner (17 tests, 323 runs, 101 wickets)
Ian Bishop (43 tests, 632 runs, 161 wickets)
Dennis Lillee (70 tests, 905 runs, 355 wickets)


Not unhappy with this effort. No passengers in the team at all, every player is more than capable of holding his own. Perhaps lacking a fifth bowling option but I'm comfortable that Lillee, Bishop, CTB and Jadeja can do the job. Batting top six is elite talent, and Zoehrer and Jadeja (and CTB) are capable of hanging around and scoring a few at 7-9.

 

[GoodAreasShane]

My team so far:

Matches - 313
Runs - 14866
Wickets - 346

Not going to get anywhere near my budget, I was probably too stingy early

 

[ankitj]

My team so far:

Matches - 313
Runs - 14866
Wickets - 346

Not going to get anywhere near my budget, I was probably too stingy early

There is one of the greatest all rounders of all time that you can buy with that money.