Selectors Draft

[GIMH]

So we pick from our own original team but a player who fits that average? Am I right?

Really wish I'd left a bowler free...

Not from your original team (unless there are any left), but someone who could have played for your original team.

 

[GIMH]

What if you are after a bowler (Batting @ #8) with a bowling average of 31+but if they have a batting average in excess of 28.22?

As ‘as long as they feasibly fit into the gap’ just means it fits their normal role. So I’d probably veto Flintoff being picked to bat in the tail because he nearly always batted 6, later on 7. But someone like a Woakes (granted he’d be eligible anyway) is fine as he’s a bowler who’s generally also picked for his batting.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Not from your original team (unless there are any left), but someone who could have played for your original team.

Yeah, got that.

Is someone without an average (just got not outs or never took a wicket) eligible?

 

[GIMH]

You guys and your loopholes.

But sure.

 

[Line and Length]

Would Hardik Pandya qualify as a bowler/#8?

 

[GIMH]

Borderline but given he’s always batted 7/8 I think it’s okay.

 

[CricAddict]

Would Hardik Pandya qualify as a bowler/#8?

So you actually did the Kholi error?

 

[Fuller Pilch]

I had the modern era Australian team, so I will pick Stuart Law who scored 54 not out in his only test innings (no average), although would've had a long test career for any other country.

Bob Simpson (vc)
Marvin Attapattu
Kumar Sangakkara
Wally Hammond
Stuart Law
Hashmatullah Shahidi
Imran Khan (c)
Prasanna Jayawardene (wk)
Ray Lindwall
Charlie Turner
Lance Gibbs

Pretty happy with this side. It has been a fun draft.

 

[GIMH]

Cheers. A bit different and obviously unfair in all sorts of ways but been quite enjoyable to observe it unfolding as the field thinned

 

[Himannv]

01. Gordon Greenidge
02. Ed Joyce
03. Kane Williamson
04. Viv Richards
05. Allan Border*
06. Mohammed Ashraful
07. Wasim Bari+
08. Eddo Brandes
09. Hedley Verity
10. Curtly Ambrose
11. Sydney Barnes

I'm sure there are more consistent batters available but you only live once.

 

[CricAddict]

A team to entertain you all.

I will provide the captaincy to Campbell so that the lynchpins in my side, Brian Charles Lara and Shane Warne, can just focus on entertainment and victories. There was an error in the middle when I unknowingly picked two keepers but it is fine since Marsh is a good bat too.

A quality bowling attack and a flamboyant batting line-up backed up by 2 quality keepers.

Sanath Jayasuriya
Virender Sehwag
Alistair Campbell (c)
Brian Lara
Kevin O Brien
Rod Marsh
Deryck Murray (wk)
Shane Warne
Rangana Herath
Shane Bond
James Anderson

 

[CricAddict]

And on that note, just want to mention that I am taking a small break from the forum drafts and will be back for the mini-draft in September end.

 

[trundler]

Charlie Griffith

Sunil Gavaskar
Ibrahim Zadran
Younis Khan
Steve Smith
Martin Crowe*
Dave Houghton
Liton Das+
Richard Hadlee
Fred Spofforth
Charlie Griffith
Hugh Tayfield

 

[Teuton]

Graeme Smith

Tamim Iqbal

Ken Barrington

Graeme Pollock

Sean Williams

Mushtaq Mohammad

Sean Ervine

Shaun Pollock

Romesh Kaluwitharana

Saqlain Mushtaq

Dale Steyn

Kalu was my last pick. A great team i think, except i am definitely half a bowler short.

 

[Bitmap]

Harold Larwood

Matthew Hayden
Grant Flower
Ricky Ponting (C)
Dudley Nourse
Aravinda de Silva
Adam Gilchrist+
Mahmudullah
Wasim Akram
Harold Larwood
Anil Kumble
Jasprit Bumrah

 

[GIMH]

Harold Larwood

About as close as you could get to eligibility. Nice

 

[ataraxia]

I'll take the one, the only, Javed Ahmadi of Afghanistan.

1) Saeed Anwar /
2) Javed Ahmadi /
3) Stephen Fleming* /
4) Jacques Kallis / o (3)
5) Inzamam ul-Haq /
6) Mominul Haque /
7) Tatenda Taibu + /
8) Richie Benaud o / (5)
9) Pat Cummins o (2)
10) Neil Wagner o (4)
11) Joel Garner o (1)

 

[Line and Length]

Jack Hobbs /
Conrad Hunte /
Victor Trumper /
John F. Reid /
Mahela Jayawardene /
Ian Botham /o 2
Afsar Zazai / wkp
Hardik Pandya /o 5
Clarrie Grimmett o 4
Allan Donald o 1
Tim Murtagh o 3

Balanced side despite constraints.

 

[Bitmap]

About as close as you could get to eligibility. Nice

Initially applied the statsguru filter at 100+ wickets and was gutted that Stuart Broad missed the eligibility by 0.14 averaging 28.08. But then realised that there were quite a few good early era English bowlers with not too many wickets and was happy to see that Larwood qualified also by a similarly close margin.

 

[Jarquis]

Feel like a bowler averaging 28 is not the same as a batsman averaging 28