Diminishing Draft

[CricAddict]

@CricAddict with 16 teams, I suggest a knock out tournament to choose the winner, like latter stages of FIFA World Cup

Yes we can do that. But how do we define the groups? There are chances that two or 3 preferred teams get into one group and no preferred teams in another.

 

[ataraxia]

Don't you need a keeper with less runs than Barlow?

Oh haha I didn't realise I couldn't select a keeper as a bowler. That was well-indicated earlier in the draft; I just missed it or forgot, my bad. Jock Cameron then.

 

[shortpitched713]

Nourse and Younis were the most frustrating near misses for me. I was on plan Z towards the end and one more near miss away from an existential crisis.

Absolutely the same for me. If I missed Philander, or even McDonald and Gregory towards the end I was pretty much SOL and might have had to (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ .

 

[shortpitched713]

So writeup

G Gooch
V Merchant
K Barrington
S Tendulkar
Y Khan
Ranjitsinhji
Q De Kock +
K Rabada
D Underwood
W Younis
M Asif

This is basically an anti-hb side at it's finest, these guys don't care about secondary **** but they are some of the best at the primary skill sets of bowling, batting, fielding (? I have no clue), ball tampering, fixing etc. Also this is one rad middle order (I think )

Minus points for no Hansie Cronje then.

 

[kingkallis]

Finally playing draft game after ages and it feels good. I missed First 2 rounds but pretty happy with the team I ended up drafting. Thank you for managing this lovely draft @CricAddict.

CricZo XI

Gordon Greenidge/
Geoffrey Boycott /
Neil Harvey /
Viv Richards / o
Doug Walters / o
BJ Watling / +
Chris Cairns / o
Richie Benaud o / (c)
Wes Hall o
Fred Trueman o
Colin Croft o



This team will be led by Richie Benaud.

Sir Geoffrey Boycott and Sir Gordon Greenidge will open the inning and these 2 contrasting style players are perfect to compliment each other. Boycs will do the job of holding the inning and tiring the bowlers while Greenidge will take the attack to play with the morales of the opponents.

Neil Harvey and Sir Viv Richards are going to do what Boycs and Greenidge started! If wickets tumble, Harvey will play the anchor and will let v Viv play his natural game. The top order is equipped with patience and aggression which is required to set a decent total.

Doug Walters, who has scored big daddy hundreds at No.5 and No.6 (242 and 250 respectively) along with Watling, Cairns and Benaud will try and add 150-200 runs in the middle - lower middle order.

That top and middle order has experience of piling 40,000 Test runs and well over 150,000 first class runs. BJ Watling is one the finest and safest gloveman of recent times with over 250 dismissals and bowlers will safe if Watling is standing behind the wickets!



I'd have preferred to have Marshall or Hadlee toleadmy bowling unit but I am not too unhappy with Fred Trueman, Sir Wes Hall & Fred Goodall's good friend Colin Croft. These 3 forms a fiery pace attack along with Chris Cairns who takes 3-4 wickets each game to help Trueman manage the workload of the pace battery. Richie Benaud is frequently found in the TOP 5 leggies in cricket forums and discussions among cricket experts and fans.

This formiddable bowling unit has over 1100 test wickets under their belt and have well over 6000 first class wickets to their names.



Thank you for reading!

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Finally playing draft game after ages and it feels good. I missed First 2 rounds but pretty happy with the team I ended up drafting. Thank you for managing this lovely draft @CricAddict.

CricZo XI

Gordon Greenidge/
Geoffrey Boycott /
Neil Harvey /
Viv Richards / o
Doug Walters / o
BJ Watling / +
Chris Cairns / o
Richie Benaud o / (c)
Wes Hall o
Fred Trueman o
Colin Croft o

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This team will be led by Richie Benaud.

Sir Geoffrey Boycott and Sir Gordon Greenidge will open the inning and these 2 contrasting style players are perfect to compliment each other. Boycs will do the job of holding the inning and tiring the bowlers while Greenidge will take the attack to play with the morales of the opponents.

Neil Harvey and Sir Viv Richards are going to do what Boycs and Greenidge started! If wickets tumble, Harvey will play the anchor and will let v Viv play his natural game. The top order is equipped with patience and aggression which is required to set a decent total.

Doug Walters, who has scored big daddy hundreds at No.5 and No.6 (242 and 250 respectively) along with Watling, Cairns and Benaud will try and add 150-200 runs in the middle - lower middle order.

That top and middle order has experience of piling 40,000 Test runs and well over 150,000 first class runs. BJ Watling is one the finest and safest gloveman of recent times with over 250 dismissals and bowlers will safe if Watling is standing behind the wickets!

View attachment 34349

I'd have preferred to have Marshall or Hadlee toleadmy bowling unit but I am not too unhappy with Fred Trueman, Sir Wes Hall & Fred Goodall's good friend Colin Croft. These 3 forms a fiery pace attack along with Chris Cairns who takes 3-4 wickets each game to help Trueman manage the workload of the pace battery. Richie Benaud is frequently found in the TOP 5 leggies in cricket forums and discussions among cricket experts and fans.

This formiddable bowling unit has over 1100 test wickets under their belt and have well over 6000 first class wickets to their names.

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Thank you for reading!

Forget about voting. KK wins it for his photos!

 

[shortpitched713]

Big thanks to @CricAddict for running this, and putting together all of the orders ahead of time, updating the picks, and even providing the useful restrictions table.

And wow, those are some pretty cool pictures @kingkallis !

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Yeah massive thanks to @CricAddict

 

[shortpitched713]

Oh yeah, I'll probably end up doing a sim with these teams as well, so look out for that thread. It's just for fun obviously, and after the voting concludes so as to not influence people's selections. Just put in too much time on this draft already to not also do a sim, lol.

 

[kingkallis]

Oh yeah, I'll probably end up doing a sim with these teams as well, so look out for that thread. It's just for fun obviously, and after the voting concludes so as to not influence people's selections. Just put in too much time on this draft already to not also do a sim, lol.

Simming would be totally amazing. We have not done it for so long. I think last time we did it for ATG World XI teams?

 

[ankitj]

Yes we can do that. But how do we define the groups? There are chances that two or 3 preferred teams get into one group and no preferred teams in another.

No groups. Start with pre-quarters. All knockout. Seeding is a problem, yes. Don't know how you solve that.

 

[CricAddict]

A bit tight for me till Sunday guys. So will put up the vote on Monday or Tuesday.

As of now, I just plan to put up the usual format of all 16 teams for voting and ask to choose 3 teams. But I understand that could be challenging for the voters.

Please discuss and let me know by Sunday if there is a better solution.

 

[honestbharani]

Great work @CricAddict and excellent effort writeup @kingkallis . Thanks for the shoutout and love your team, @shortpitched713 .


And suck it @srbhkshk


Honest Hunks


Alastair Cook
Michael Slater
Trevor Goddard (4)
Aravinda De Silva (8)
Michael Clarke (c) (7)
Jonny Bairstow (wk)
Kapil Dev (vc) (2)
Yasir Shah (6)
Mitchell Johnson (3)
Muttiah Muralitharan (5)
Jimmy Anderson (1)


A very modern-ish team but full of exciting and quality test match players through and through.

Batting - The right mix of fire and ice.

• Cook and Slater will provide solid yet aggressive starts irrespective of conditions.
• Goddard will be the anchor and provide control with both bat and ball.
• 4-7 will all be quality batsmen who can all Bazball before it became cool (yes YJB had that knock in RSA way before Bazball).
• 8 and 9 have test 100s and can support the batsmen or score freely with their stubborn lower order mates.
• Murali and Anderson have both been considered proper #11s but can hang around and have test 50s to their names.

Bowling - A true all conditions attack

• Johnson will be in beast mode in bouncy conditions like Aus and RSA.
• Anderson will be the king of swing in England, NZ, Windies - esp. if they use the Dukes.
• Kapil will lead us to glory with the new ball in all SC and turning conditions.
• Yasir and Murali can attack and defend based on how the other is going and at least one of them will always find conditions to their liking.
• Goddard, De Silva, Clarke can all provide quality part time support where needed.

 

[Pothas]

Bruce Mitchell
Arthur Morris
Wally Hammond
Greg Chappel
Everton Weekes
Garry Sobers*
Alan Knott+
Anil Kumble
John Snow
Shane Bond
Bob Willis

Quite fun picking all the batters first for once.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

A bit tight for me till Sunday guys. So will put up the vote on Monday or Tuesday.

As of now, I just plan to put up the usual format of all 16 teams for voting and ask to choose 3 teams. But I understand that could be challenging for the voters.

Please discuss and let me know by Sunday if there is a better solution.

Perhaps as a compromise you could do the 16 teams together, but make it 5 votes each. That won't give you any extra work and will probably make voting easier (I know I'd find it easier picking 5 rather than 3).

 

[AndrewB]

Len Hutton
Barry Richards
George Headley
Brian Lara
Graeme Pollock
Steve Waugh
Clyde Walcott+
Monty Noble*
Maurice Tate
Brian Statham
Jack Cowie

 

[Line and Length]

@CricAddict - Many thanks for an excellent draft conducted well.

@kingkallis - You have set new standards in presenting teams.

 

[CricAddict]

My team's strength lies in my 5 ATG bowlers.. Led by the best bowler of all-time, Marshall, he has 4 other best of the ATG bowlers to support with Thomson providing the pace, Bedser bowling the hard overs, Verity and Faulkner then combining to strangle the teams with their quality left-arm spin and leg spin combination. To me, this attack has it all to succeed in all conditions. Plus, they can all hold a bat too.

Having said that, the batting is no slouch either. It will be led by one of the best batsmen of all-time, Steve Smith and unarguably best keeper-bat, Adam Gilchrist. Anwar and Turner are the best openers of their respective countries and Duleepsinghji with a test average of 58 providing solid base at 3.

Last but not the least, Aubrey Faulkner is arguably among the top 5 all-rounders in history and they will all be ably led by Douglas Jardine who can conjure strategies to defeat the greatest of the greats.

The team has good left-right combinations, all-round bowling variety, representation from 7 test countries, decent number of ATGs and a team to succeed in all conditions.

The addicts

1. Glenn Turner
2. Saeed Anwar
3. Duleepsinghji
4. Steve Smith (vc)
5. Douglas Jardine (c)
6. Adam Gilchrist (wk)
7. Aubrey Faulkner (5)
8. Hedley Verity (4)
9. Malcolm Marshall (1)
10. Alec Bedser (3)
11. Jeff Thomson (2)

Lastly, thanks to all for participating in the draft so eagerly and playing by the rules throughout the draft, thus making my job a whole lot easier. I thoroughly enjoyed running it. Good fun!

 

[CricAddict]

The addicts	Fuller Pilch	CricZO XI	srbhkshk	Line and Length	trundler	Bitmap	ataraxia
1. Glenn Turner	01 WG Grace (c) 4	Gordon Greenidge/	G Gooch	M.Hayden /	Sunil Gavaskar	Graeme Smith	1) Virender Sehwag /
2. Saeed Anwar	02 Bob Simpson 7	Geoffrey Boycott /	V Merchant	G.Kirsten /	Hanif Mohammad	Victor Trumper	2) Eddie Barlow / o
3. Duleepsinghji	03 Kane Williamson	Neil Harvey /	K Barrington	K.Sangakarra /	Rohan Kanhai	Devon Conway	3) Lindsay Hassett* /
4. Steve Smith (vc)	04 Marnus Labuschagne	Viv Richards / o	S Tendulkar	V.Kohli /	Javed Miandad	Jacques Kallis	4) Martin Crowe /
5. Douglas Jardine (c)	05 Martin Donnelly	Doug Walters / o	Y Khan	M.Hussey /	Clem Hill*	Denis Compton	5) Vijay Hazare /
6. Adam Gilchrist (wk)	06 AB De Villiers (wk)	BJ Watling / +	Ranjitsinhji	A.Stewart (wk) /	Warwick Armstrong 5	Allan Border*	6) Mohammad Yousuf /
7. Aubrey Faulkner (5)	07 Shakib Al Hasan 6	Chris Cairns / o	Q De Kock +	A.Flintoff /o	Denis Lindsay+	John Waite+	7) Jock Cameron + /
8. Hedley Verity (4)	08 Wasim Akram 1	Richie Benaud o / (c)	K Rabada	I.Botham o/	Pat Cummins 3	Peter Pollock	8) Clarrie Grimmett o
9. Malcolm Marshall (1)	09 Ryan Harris 3	Wes Hall o	D Underwood	D.Steyn o	Hugh Tayfield 4	Hugh Trumble	9) Andy Roberts o
10. Alec Bedser (3)	10 Jim Laker 5	Fred Trueman o	W Younis	F.Tyson o	Curtly Ambrose 1	Michael Holding	10) Allan Donald o
11. Jeff Thomson (2)	11 Dennis Lillee 2	Colin Croft o	M Asif	L.Gibbs o	Neil Adcock 2	Shoaib Akhtar	11) Glenn McGrath o
ankitj	The All Conditions All-Rounders	Honest Hunks	Pothas	AndrewB	Teuton	Patience	JOJOXI
Jack Hobbs	01. Colin McDonald	Alastair Cook	Bruce Mitchell	Len Hutton	Justin Langer
Bill Ponsford	02. Herbert Sutcliffe	Michael Slater	Arthur Morris	Barry Richards	Sid G Barnes
Frank Worrell (5) (c)	03. Peter May *	Trevor Goddard (4)	Wally Hammond	George Headley	Ricky Ponting c
Dudley Nourse	04. Joe Root	Aravinda De Silva (8)	Greg Chappel	Brian Lara	Babar Azam
Stan McCabe (6)	05. Andy Flower +	Michael Clarke (c) (7)	Everton Weekes	Graeme Pollock	Mahela Jayawardene
Les Ames (wk)	06. Tony Greig (6)	Jonny Bairstow (wk)	Garry Sobers*	Steve Waugh	Ted Dexter
VVS Laxman	07. Jack Gregory (5)	Kapil Dev (vc) (2)	Alan Knott+	Clyde Walcott+	Jeff Dujon
Richard Hadlee (2)	08. Shaun Pollock (2)	Yasir Shah (6)	Anil Kumble	Monty Noble*	Ravichandran Ashwin
Joel Garner (3)	09. Ravindra Jadeja (4)	Mitchell Johnson (3)	John Snow	Maurice Tate	Alan Davidson
Sydney Barnes (1)	10. Vernon Philander (1)	Muttiah Muralitharan (5)	Shane Bond	Brian Statham	Jasprit Bumrah
Subhash Gupte (4)	11. Bill Johnston (3)	Jimmy Anderson (1)	Bob Willis	Jack Cowie	Courtney Walsh

 

[CricAddict]

Above are the teams so far. I am yet to receive 3 more teams here. Will edit them in once received.