Below are the squads to consider. Just a disclaimer this was an auction rather than a traditional draft so bear that in mind - some squads as a result have incredible depth in some areas and not so much in others (there was no limit the amount of players you could buy before pruning your squad to a final XI). Not suggesting lack of balance should be ignored in any way but just some context behind the setup of auction.
Weldone XI:
1. Geoffrey Boycott
2. Alastair Cook
3. Rahul Dravid *
4. Sachin Tendulkar
5. Kumar Sangakkara
6. Adam Gilchrist+
7. Ravindra Jadeja (5)
8. Michael Holding (2)
9. Joel Garner (3)
10. Glenn McGrath (1)
11. Bhagwath Chandrasekhar (4)
Andrew B XI
Graham Gooch
Justin Langer
Ricky Ponting
Martin Crowe
Mahela Jayawardene
Garfield Sobers
Farokh Engineer+
Imran Khan*
Chris Cairns
Shane Warne
Brian Statham
ataraXIa:
1. ML Hayden /
2. EJ Barlow / o (test batting ave 45.74, FC bowling ave 24.14... what more to hope for? )
3. KS Williamson /
4. SPD Smith /
5. A Flower /
6. SR Waugh /
7. IA Healy + /
8. MD Marshall o
9. DW Steyn o
10. FS Trueman o
11. M Muralitharan o
CricZo XI
Sunil Gavaskar /
Barry Richards /
Viv Richards / o
Jacques Kallis / o
Graeme Pollock /
Allan Border / (c)
Denis Lindsay + /
Shaun Pollock o /
Alan Davidson o /
Ravi Ashwin o /
Allan Donald o
Dynamo Morpork
Graeme Smith
Bob Simpson
Bill Lawry
Hanif Mohammed
Dennis Amiss
MS Dhoni (+)
Ian Botham
Kapil Dev
Dennis Lillee
Andy Roberts
Bishen Bedi
Trundler XI
Conrad Hunte
Glenn Turner
Ken Barrington
Greg Chappell
Brian Lara
Shiv Chanderpaul
Alan Knott
Richard Hadlee
Wes Hall
Curtly Ambrose
Alf Valentine
HonestBharani XI
For sake of balance will remove 1 vote from participants who don't vote (in tallying up process) just to ensure we don't end up with a scenario where someone wins because they didn't vote but 2nd place did. The poll is set to end in 9 days time. The person with the most votes win, in the event of a tie will host a seperate vote including those 2 to determine the winner.
Many thanks to the participants and there is in my opinion an interesting array of teams all pretty evenly matched. Intrigued who goes on to win as could see a case for all the sides.
Weldone XI:
1. Geoffrey Boycott
2. Alastair Cook
3. Rahul Dravid *
4. Sachin Tendulkar
5. Kumar Sangakkara
6. Adam Gilchrist+
7. Ravindra Jadeja (5)
8. Michael Holding (2)
9. Joel Garner (3)
10. Glenn McGrath (1)
11. Bhagwath Chandrasekhar (4)
Andrew B XI
Graham Gooch
Justin Langer
Ricky Ponting
Martin Crowe
Mahela Jayawardene
Garfield Sobers
Farokh Engineer+
Imran Khan*
Chris Cairns
Shane Warne
Brian Statham
ataraXIa:
1. ML Hayden /
2. EJ Barlow / o (test batting ave 45.74, FC bowling ave 24.14... what more to hope for? )
3. KS Williamson /
4. SPD Smith /
5. A Flower /
6. SR Waugh /
7. IA Healy + /
8. MD Marshall o
9. DW Steyn o
10. FS Trueman o
11. M Muralitharan o
CricZo XI
Sunil Gavaskar /
Barry Richards /
Viv Richards / o
Jacques Kallis / o
Graeme Pollock /
Allan Border / (c)
Denis Lindsay + /
Shaun Pollock o /
Alan Davidson o /
Ravi Ashwin o /
Allan Donald o
Dynamo Morpork
Graeme Smith
Bob Simpson
Bill Lawry
Hanif Mohammed
Dennis Amiss
MS Dhoni (+)
Ian Botham
Kapil Dev
Dennis Lillee
Andy Roberts
Bishen Bedi
Trundler XI
Conrad Hunte
Glenn Turner
Ken Barrington
Greg Chappell
Brian Lara
Shiv Chanderpaul
Alan Knott
Richard Hadlee
Wes Hall
Curtly Ambrose
Alf Valentine
HonestBharani XI
Gordon Greenidge |
Gary Kirsten |
Hashim Amla |
Virat Kohli (vc) |
Kevin Pietersen |
AB De Villiers (wk) |
Richie Benaud (c) |
Mike Proctor |
Wasim Akram |
Waqar Younis |
Derek Underwood |
For sake of balance will remove 1 vote from participants who don't vote (in tallying up process) just to ensure we don't end up with a scenario where someone wins because they didn't vote but 2nd place did. The poll is set to end in 9 days time. The person with the most votes win, in the event of a tie will host a seperate vote including those 2 to determine the winner.
Many thanks to the participants and there is in my opinion an interesting array of teams all pretty evenly matched. Intrigued who goes on to win as could see a case for all the sides.