Sheep Draft 2022

[AndrewB]

Vijay Merchant
Arthur Morris
Viv Richards
Kane Williamson
Kevin Pietersen
Gary Sobers
Alan Knott+
Richie Benaud*
Shane Bond
Frank Tyson
Waqar Younis

 

[Line and Length]

Herbert Sutcliffe
Graham Gooch
Usman Khawaja
Everton Weekes
Javed Miandad
Ian Botham
Ian Healy
Hedley Verity
Dennis Lillee
Sydney Barnes
Brian Statham

I'm more than happy to have an attack which includes 4 bowlers who have held the 'most test wickets' title at some stage.

 

[trundler]

Gah, only 2 for me. They did so in succession, in fact.

 

[weeman27bob]

Trundler	-
Bitmap	Conrad Hunte
Himannv	-
Teuton	-
honestbharani	-
RIS	Mahela Jayawardene
AndrewB	-
Fuller Pilch	Martin Donnelly
JOJOXI	Desmond Haynes
L&L	Conrad Hunte
Ataraxia	John Waite

 

[weeman27bob]

• Australia: Richie Benaud, Allan Border, Don Bradman, Greg Chappell, Michael Clarke, Pat Cummins, Alan Davidson, Adam Gilchrist, Clarrie Grimmett, Neil Harvey, Matthew Hayden, Ian Healy, Michael Hussey, Simon Katich, Usman Khawaja, Justin Langer, Bill Lawry, Dennis Lillee, Ray Lindwall, Charlie Macartney, Stan McCabe Glenn McGrath, Keith Miller, Arthur Morris, Bill O'Reilly, Ricky Ponting, Bill Ponsford, Bob Simpson, Steve Smith, Victor Trumper, Shane Warne, Shane Watson, Steve Waugh
• Bangladesh: Shakib al-Hasan
• England: Les Ames, James Anderson, Sydney Barnes, Ken Barrington, Alec Bedser, Ian Botham, Geoffrey Boycott, Denis Compton, Alastair Cook , Ted Dexter, Andrew Flintoff, WG Grace, Graham Gooch, Wally Hammond, Jack Hobbs, Len Hutton, Stanley Jackson Alan Knott,Jim Laker, Harold Larwood, Peter May, Kevin Pietersen, KS Ranjitsinhji,Joe Root, Brian Statham, Ben Stokes, Herbert Sutcliffe, Maurice Tate, Fred Trueman, Frank Tyson, Derek Underwood, Hedley Verity
• India: Ravi Ashwin, Jasprit Bumrah, Kapil Dev, MS Dhoni, Rahul Dravid, Sunil Gavaskar, Ravindra Jadeja, Virat Kohli, Vinoo Mankad, Vijay Merchant, Rishabh Pant, Virender Sehwag, Sachin Tendulkar
• New Zealand: Shane Bond, Martin Crowe, Martin Donnelly, Richard Hadlee, Kyle Jamieson, Glenn Turner Neil Wagner, BJ Watling, Kane Williamson
• Pakistan: Shoaib Ahktar ,Wasim Akram, Saeed Anwar, Mohammed Asif, Imran Khan, Younis Khan, Javed Miandad, Hanif Mohammad, Inzamam ul Haq, Waqar Younis
• South Africa: Neil Adcock, Quinton de Kock, AB de Villiers, Allan Donald, Aubrey Faulkner, Trevor Goddard, Jacques Kallis, Denis Lindsay, Bruce Mitchell, Dudley Nourse, Vernon Philander, Graeme Pollock, Peter Pollock, Shaun Pollock, Mike Procter, Kagiso Rabada, Barry Richards, Graeme Smith Dale Steyn, Hugh Tayfield, John Waite
• Sri Lanka: Mahela Jayawardene, Muttiah Muralitharan, Kumar Sangakarra
• West Indies: Curtly Ambrose, Ian Bishop, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Joel Garner, Gordon Greenidge, Wes Hall, Desmond Haynes, George Headley, Jason Holder, Michael Holding, Conrad Hunte, Rohan Kanhai, Brian Lara, Clive Lloyd, Malcolm Marshall, Andy Roberts, Viv Richards, Garry Sobers, Clyde Walcott, Courtny Walsh, Everton Weekes, Frank Worrell
• Zimbabwe: Andy Flower

 

[weeman27bob]

Just Bitmap and Fuler Pilch to complete teams I think

 

[Red_Ink_Squid]

WG Grace
Victor Trumper
Ted Dexter
Mahela Jayawardene
Clive Lloyd
AB de Villiers+
Freddie Flintoff
Sir Jadeja
Ian Bishop
Wes Hall
Shoaib Ahktar


After selflessly foregoing the first four rounds of the draft, I suppose it could have ended up worse.

 

[ataraxia]

1) Glenn Turner /
2) Bill Lawry* /
3) Rohan Kanhai /
4) Dudley Nourse /
5) Shivnarine Chanderpaul /
6) Shakib Al Hasan / o
7) John Waite + /
8) Richard Hadlee o /
9) Wasim Akram o /
10) Hugh Tayfield o
11) Michael Holding o

 

[weeman27bob]

Trundler	-
Bitmap	David Warner
Himannv	-
Teuton	-
honestbharani	-
RIS	Gary Ballance
AndrewB	-
Fuller Pilch	Stewie Dempster
JOJOXI	-
L&L	Bob Willis
Ataraxia	-

 

[weeman27bob]

And that's all she wrote for the draft.

I'll let people compile their teams and then I guess we can have a voting thread?

 

[Bitmap]

David Warner
Eddie Barlow
Kumar Sangakarra
Peter May(C)
Joe Root
Michael Hussey
Denis Lindsay+
Peter Pollock
Clarrie Grimmett
Neil Adcock
Allan Donald

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Stewie Dempster
Bill Ponsford
Charles Macartney 6
Wally Hammond 5
K S Ranjitsinhji
Martin Donnelly
BJ Watling
Mike Procter 3
Ravi Ashwin 4
Harold Larwood 2
Kagiso Rabada 1