Slightly Wacky Draft

[JOJOXI]

To further clarify @AndyZaltzHair - as Ataraxia says above you'd need one 1960s debutant and 4 normal picks - was a fault of mine was hoping to use 2010s Debutant to apply to you when making my pick but I messed up there when typing pick doing McCabe, Lloyd then Philander. Should have been McCabe, Philander, Lloyd but yeah that was my fault when typing out my pick so I will update table accordingly with that and most recent picks.

So simple answer 5 Picks - one of which is a 1960s debutant and 4 normal picks.

 

[JOJOXI]

Round 1	Player Selected	Trump Cards Status
AndrewB	Garfield Sobers	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
Himannv	Glenn McGrath	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
AndyZaltzHair	Shakib Al Hasan	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
Michaelf7777777	W.G. Grace	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
Ataraxia	Imran Khan	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
Trundler	Malcolm Marshall	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
Pothas	Richard Hadlee	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
JOJOXI	Joel Garner	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
Honestbharani	Sunil Gavaskar	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
Line and Length	Viv Richards	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
SillyCowCorner1	Lawrence Rowe	STEAL SKIP DICTATE

Round 2	Player Selected	Trump Cards Status
SillyCowCorner1	Sonny Ramadhin	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
Line and Length	Jack Hobbs	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
honestbharani	Alan Davidson	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
JOJOXI	Curtly Ambrose	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
Pothas	Shane Warne	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
Trundler	Dale Steyn	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
Ataraxia	Jacques Kallis	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
Michaelf7777777	Greg Chappell	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
AndyZaltzHair	Dennis Lillee	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
Himannv	Michael Holding	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
AndrewB	Barry Richards	STEAL SKIP DICTATE

Round 3	Player Selected	Trump Cards Status
AndyZaltzHair	Keith Miller	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
Michaelf7777777	Muttiah Muralitharan	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
Himannv	Fred Trueman	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
Trundler	Wasim Akram	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
JOJOXI	Adam Gilchrist	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
AndrewB	Sydney Barnes	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
SillyCowCorner1	Wes Hall	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
Pothas	Allan Donald	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
Line and Length	Waqar Younis	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
honestbharani	Richie Benaud	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
Ataraxia	Shaun Pollock	STEAL SKIP DICTATE

Round 4	Player Selected	Trump Cards Status
Ataraxia	Ray Lindwall	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
honestbharani	Wally Hammond	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
Line and Length	Sachin Tendulkar	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
Pothas	Len Hutton	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
SillyCowCorner1	Kumar Sangakkara	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
AndrewB	Steve Smith	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
JOJOXI	Brian Lara	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
Trundler	Skipped	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
Himannv	Graeme Pollock	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
Michaelf7777777	Mike Procter	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
AndyZaltzHair	George Headley	STEAL SKIP DICTATE

Round 5	Player Selected	Trump Cards Status
JOJOXI	Herbert Sutcliffe	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
honestbharani	Denis Compton	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
Trundler	Ricky Ponting	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
Pothas	Pat Cummins	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
Himannv	Allan Border	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
Line and Length	Ian Botham	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
SillyCowCorner1	Jeffrey Dujon	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
Michaelf7777777	Courtney Walsh	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
Ataraxia	Bill O'Reilly	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
AndyZaltzHair	Andy Flower	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
AndrewB	Clyde Walcott	STEAL SKIP DICTATE

Round 6	Player Selected	Trump Cards Status
AndrewB	Ian Bishop	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
AndyZaltzHair	Don Bradman	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
Ataraxia	Steve Waugh	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
Michaelf7777777	Les Ames	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
SillyCowCorner1	Abdul Qadir	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
Line and Length	Andy Roberts	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
Himannv	Ken Barrington	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
Pothas	Rahul Dravid	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
Trundler	Everton Weekes & Geoffrey Boycott	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
honestbharani	Tony Greig	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
JOJOXI	Aubrey Faulkner	STEAL SKIP DICTATE

Round 7	Player Selected	Trump Cards Status
Himannv	Bob Simpson	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
Ataraxia	Dudley Nourse	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
honestbharani	Shoaib Akhtar	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
AndrewB	Kane Williamson	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
AndyZaltzHair	Skipped	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
Michaelf7777777	Arthur Morris	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
Pothas	Joe Root	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
JOJOXI	Skipped	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
SillyCowCorner1	Rangana Herath	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
Line and Length	Graeme Smith	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
Trundler	Matthew Hayden	STEAL SKIP DICTATE

Round 8	Player Selected	Trump Cards Status
Trundler	Jim Laker	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
Line and Length	Frank Worrell	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
SillyCowCorner1	Herbie Collins	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
JOJOXI	Clarrie Grimmett	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
Pothas	AB de Villiers	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
Michaelf7777777	Peter Pollock	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
AndyZaltzHair	Skipped	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
AndrewB	Hedley Verity	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
honestbharani	Saeed Anwar	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
Ataraxia	Virender Sehwag	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
Himannv	Skipped	STEAL SKIP DICTATE

Round 9	Player Selected	Trump Cards Status
SillyCowCorner1	Geoffrey Pullar	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
AndrewB	Bob Willis	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
Michaelf7777777	Rohan Kanhai	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
Pothas	Alan Knott	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
HonestBharani	Mitchell Starc	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
Trundler	Younis Khan	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
Himannv	Javed Miandad	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
Line and Length	Derek Underwood	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
Ataraxia	Neil Harvey	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
JOJOXI	Stan McCabe and Clive Lloyd	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
AndyZaltzHair	Skipped	STEAL SKIP DICTATE

Round 10	Player Selected	Trump Cards Status
AndyZaltzHair	Skipped	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
JOJOXI	Vernon Philander	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
Ataraxia	Quinton de Kock	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
Line and Length	Mark Boucher	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
Himannv	Hugh Tayfield and Bruce Mitchell	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
Trundler	BJ Watling	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
honestbharani	Bob Cowper	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
Pothas	Doug Walters	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
Michaelf7777777	Seymour Nurse	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
AndrewB	Farokh Engineer	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
SillyCowCorner1	Roy Fredericks	STEAL SKIP DICTATE

Round 11	Player Selected	Trump Cards Status
Line and Length	John Snow	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
Ataraxia	Bill Lawry	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
SillyCowCorner1	Lance Gibbs	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
JOJOXI	Glenn Turner	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
Pothas	Gordon Greenidge	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
Trundler	Ian Chappell	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
AndyZaltzHair	Skipped	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
HonestBharani	MS Dhoni	STEAL SKIP DICTATE
AndrewB		STEAL SKIP DICTATE
Michaelf7777777		STEAL SKIP DICTATE
Himannv	1960s Debutant Required	STEAL SKIP DICTATE

Round 13	Player Selected	Trump Card Status
AndyZaltzHair	4 Catchup Picks + Normal Pick (Of which 1 is 1960s Debutant) at end of draft	STEAL SKIP DICTATE

 

[JOJOXI]

@honestbharani next

 

[honestbharani]

MS Dhoni

 

[ataraxia]

@AndrewB

 

[AndrewB]

Shivnarine Chanderpaul

 

[JOJOXI]

@Michaelf7777777

 

[Michaelf7777777]

Ravindra Jadeja

 

[JOJOXI]

@Himannv with a 1960s Debutant Pick required

And then AZH to round things off after

 

[Himannv]

Godfrey Evans

Using my Nationality Dictate thing to pick him. So England player.

@AndyZaltzHair

 

[Himannv]

01. Bob Simpson** /o
02. Bruce Mitchell /
03. Ken Barrington /
04. Graeme Pollock /
05. Javed Miandad /
06. Allan Border* /o
07. Godfrey Evans+ /
08. Hugh Tayfield o
09. Fred Trueman o
10. Michael Holding o
11. Glenn McGrath o

Beautiful.

 

[AndrewB]

Barry Richards
Farokh Engineer+
Kane Williamson
Steve Smith
Clyde Walcott
Shivnarine Chanderpaul
Gary Sobers*
Hedley Verity
Ian Bishop
Bob Willis
Sydney Barnes

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

1960s pick - Bishan Bedi

Kapil Dev
Graham Gooch
Harold Larwood
Victor Trumper


1. Graham Gooch
2. Victor Trumper
3. Donald Bradman
4. George Headley
5. Andy Flower
6. Shakib Al Hasan
7. Keith Miller
8. Kapil Dev
9. Harold Larwood
10. Bishan Bedi
11. Dennis Lillee

 

[JOJOXI]

If you haven't already although I know most, if not all already have please post your XIs

Thanks all for taking part, I'll set up a voting thread in the next day or 2.

 

[AndrewB]

I feel a bit bad about not using any of my wildcards - I was expecting to near the end but didn't have access to the forum for long periods so had some catch-up picks late on, making the wildcards fairly uselss. I was tempted in Round 5 to steal Andy Flower, skip AndyZaltzHair (who could otherwise have stolen him back) and then dictate "Zimbabwean" in one exciting manoeuvre, but was convinced I'd regret it later on if I did (besides being happy enough to pick Walcott at this point).

 

[ataraxia]

I feel a bit bad about not using any of my wildcards - I was expecting to near the end but didn't have access to the forum for long periods so had some catch-up picks late on, making the wildcards fairly uselss. I was tempted in Round 5 to steal Andy Flower, skip AndyZaltzHair (who could otherwise have stolen him back) and then dictate "Zimbabwean" in one exciting manoeuvre, but was convinced I'd regret it later on if I did (besides being happy enough to pick Walcott at this point).

Well thanks for not doing it I guess... otherwise I'd be left with Tatenda Taibu!

 

[Line and Length]

I didn't make full use of my wildcards. I actually used one then changed when it was pointed out another wild card could foil my plot.

 

[Pothas]

Yeah there was just not much incentive to use the dictate, you wanted to hold it back in case you needed it later. Steal suffered from the Bradman problem.

 

[Himannv]

I think the snake order also had an impact. I mean, if I stole someone's pick at the top of the snake, I was concerned I might have had a pick stolen off me when the order reversed. Considering that and not being particularly interested in ruining anyone else's team, it seemed a better approach to use them as defensive options. The dictate card in particular could get me out of a tight spot.

 

[JOJOXI]

I think the snake order also had an impact. I mean, if I stole someone's pick at the top of the snake, I was concerned I might have had a pick stolen off me when the order reversed. Considering that and not being particularly interested in ruining anyone else's team, it seemed a better approach to use them as defensive options. The dictate card in particular could get me out of a tight spot.

If I was to run this again - certainly things to keep in mind. The snake format was mostly used as it is 'the default' and I guess the 'state of play' when it comes to draft order for whole game being transparent from the get go.

Might just have no Bradman - envisaged it would lead to some being very aggressive stealing at the start and banking on the skip option with others being much more careful. But yeah agree that they ended up being more defensive options.