Expeditious Draft- real quick

[Saint Kopite]

Wasim and Miller to share the new ball with Garner the first change. Rhodes and Kallis as the fourth and fifth bowling options respectively. If needed Border could also chip in with some overs to give the fast bowlers some rest.

 

[watson]

Miller is ALWAYS the alpha male!!

I dunno. Akram's ego was also enormous.

 

[Spikey]

Shoaib Akhtar

Barry Richards
Victor Trumper
Kumar Sangakkara
Wally Hammond
Clyde Walcott
Ian Botham
Shane Warne
Jack Cowie
Curtly Ambrose
Shoaib Akhtar

not sure if he's the best pakistani bowler left but ive always wanted to include him in one of my drafts

 

[Saint Kopite]

Laxman batted a lot at No.3 and should have stayed there IMO. Dravid was a 'Rock', but first-drop demands someone more dynamic.

The issue was before Gambhir came into the team, there was only Viru along with some average opener. So, we generally lost the first wicket early due to some poor shot selection or Viru or the other opener being exposed for not being good enough. We needed Dravid's solidity there. Another factor is, Laxman was great at playing with the tail.

 

[ohnoitsyou]

Shoaib Akhtar

Barry Richards
Victor Trumper
Kumar Sangakkara
Wally Hammond
Clyde Walcott
Ian Botham
Shane Warne
Jack Cowie
Curtly Ambrose
Shoaib Akhtar

not sure if he's the best pakistani bowler left but ive always wanted to include him in one of my drafts

Fazal Mahmood imo but Ambrose and Akhtar together would be brutal

 

[Coronis]

Andy Flower and Charlie Turner.

Hobbs
Anwar
Headley*
Dravid
Weekes
Flower+
Procter
Steyn
Bond
Grimmett
Turner

 

[Red]

Charlie Turner.

 

[watson]

Yet another superlative bowling attack chock full of great bowlers. When the teams eventually get posted I'll be looking for batting lineups with some good technicians who can hold the side together and score decent runs. Counterpunchers are also important.

 

[watson]

One final call of the board Monk before we head into the homestretch?

 

[Saint Kopite]

Is it my turn now?

 

[watson]

Is it my turn now?

Yep.

R11
coronis - Terror Turner
saintkopite
kyear
ohno
aldo
watson
monk
spikey


BTW Feel like batting Ames at 6 instead of Faulkner just so I can keep up with the Jones's

 

[kyear2]

I am also ready and rearing to go.

 

[Saint Kopite]

BRENDON McCULLUM

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[kyear2]

John Waite

 

[kyear2]

01. Sunil Gavaskar^
02. Glenn Turner
03. Ricky Ponting[SUP]+[/SUP]^
04. Graeme Pollock
05. Inzamam ul-Haq^
06. Charles Macartney[SUP]5[/SUP]
07. John Waite*
08. Malcolm Marshall[SUP]1[/SUP]
09. Fred Trueman[SUP]2[/SUP]
10. Sir Anderson Roberts[SUP]3[/SUP]
11. William O'Reilly[SUP]4[/SUP]

 

[watson]

Marshall-Trueman-Roberts-O'Reilly-Macartney is a superb attack kyear. Plus you have one of my favourite keepers.

 

[kyear2]

Thanks Watson, may actually have a chance in this draft.

 

[AldoRaine18]

Graham Gooch

 

[AldoRaine18]

Final team :

1. WG Grace
2. Graham Gooch
3. Rohan Kanhai
4. Martin Crowe
5. Frank Worrell
6. Imran Khan (c)
7. Adam Gilchrist (wk)
8. Kapil Dev
9. Shaun Pollock
10. Allan Donald
11, Hedley Verity

Thoughts?

 

[ohnoitsyou]

Moyo.

Herbert Sutcliffe
Stewie Dempster
Hashim Amla
Garfield Sobers
Vijay Hazare
Mohammed Yousuf
Alan Knott
Harold Larwood
SF Barnes
Denis Lillee
Murali