Test Country/Average Combo Draft Voting

[JOJOXI]

Below are all the teams that completed the Test Country/Average Combo Draft. To summarise, teams had to have 10 nationalities represented in their XI, They also had to pick a player each from 6 batting average categories, 4 bowling average categories and 1 free category. Those picked on batting had to bat in the top 7 and those on bowling had to bat at 7-11.


If you would like to see more regarding the rules of the draft here is a link to the draft.



Please vote for the teams you deem to be the 4 best sides

Krypto​	Jarquis	Line and Length	Teuton	mr_mister	Bitmap	Pothas
Alastair Cook	Arthur Morris	Jack Hobbs /	Victor Trumper	Hanif Mohammed	Geoffrey Boycott	Trevor Goddard
Matthew Hayden	Gordon Greenidge	Virender Sehwag /	Bill Lawry	Sanath Jayasuriya	Gary Ballance	Tilakaratne Dilshan
Kumar Sangakkara	Monimul Haque	Ricky Ponting (c) /	Kane Williamson	Gary Sobers	George Headley	Viv Richards*
Jacques Kallis	Mushtaq Mohammad	Martin Crowe /	Frank Worrell (c)	Allan Border *	Brian Lara	Steve Smith
Mark Waugh	Andy Flower	Shakib Al Hasan /o	Sikandar Raza	Brendon McCullum+	Asghar Afghan	Javed Miandad
Hamilton Masakadza	Adam Gilchrist (WK)	Shahid Afridi /o	Rishabh Pant (WK)	Mahmudullah	Denis Lindsay+	Craig Ervine
Mahendra Singh Dhoni (WK)	Ian Botham	Tatenda Taibu (WK)	Andrew Flintoff	Grant Flower	Chris Cairns	Lorcan Tucker+
Tim Southee	Ravindra Jadeja	Ravi Ratnayeke o	Wasim Akram	Maurice Tate	Imran Khan*	Richard Hadlee
Sarfraz Nawaz	Mike Procter	Peter Pollock o	Rangana Herath	Curtly Ambrose	Dennis Lillee	Stuart Broad
Rashid Khan	Daniel Vettori	Joel Garner o	Dale Steyn	Allan Donald	Anil Kumble	Harbhajan Singh
Courtney Walsh	Chaminda Vaas	Jeff Thomson o	Taijul Islam	Bhagwat Chandrasekhar	Lasith Malinga	Michael Holding
Patience and Accuracy+Gut	AndrewB	JOJOXI	trundler	Fuller Pilch	Silver Silva	Archer6K
Len Hutton	Graham Gooch	Barry Richards	Hashim Amla	WG Grace	1. Sunil Gavaskar	1) Herbert Sutcliffe
Bert Sutcliffe	Vijay Merchant	Tamim Iqbal	Vinoo Mankad	Bob Simpson	2. Graeme Smith	2) Inzamam-ul-Haq
Kevin Arnott	Clyde Walcott	Neil Harvey	Walter Hammond	Azhar Ali	3. Glenn Turner	3) Sachin Tendulkar
A.B De Villiers	Angelo Matthews	Greg Chappell	Clem Hill	Mahela Jayawardene	4. Everton Weekes	4) Harry Tector
Arjuna Ranatunga*	Dave Houghton	Ross Taylor	Thilan Samaraweera	Shivnarine Chanderpaul	5. Aravinda De Silva	5) Dinesh Chandimal
Kamran Akmal+	Sarfaraz Ahmed+	Mohammad Rizwan (wk)	Brendon Taylor	Mushfiqur Rahim (wk)	6. Rahmat Shah	6) Jeff Dujon (WK)
Mohammad Nabi	Shaun Pollock	Kapil Dev (c)	Khaled Mashud+	Daryl Mitchell	7. Litton Das (WK)	7) Keith Miller (3)
Ray Lindwall	Shane Warne	Paul Strang	Malcolm Marshall	Ravi Ashwin	8. Brian McMillan	8) Aubrey Faulkner (4)
Sylvester Clarke	Trent Boult	Harold Larwood	Waqar Younis	Heath Streak	9. Saqlain Mushtaq	9) Mehidy Hasan Miraz (5)
Tiger O’Reilly	Boyd Rankin	Andy Roberts	Neil Wagner	Fred Trueman	10. Bill Johnston	10) Alan Davidson (1)
Jasprit Bumrah	Glenn McGrath	Muttiah Muralitharan	Nathan Lyon	Kagiso Rabada	11. Sydney Barnes	11) Richard Collinge (2)

 

[Krypto]

Look I don't care much for voting and it's not a reflection of anything however this is the weakest general batting lineups I've seen in a test draft, barring I haven't done many however it seems there was genuine struggle getting bats in position and build cohesiveness in batting lineup.Seems the keeper rule caused some chaos, really enjoyed this draft.

There are a few incredibly balanced teams and solid builds also one or two that has betting cohesion and depth.

 

[mr_mister]

Some solid teams

 

[Jarquis]

You all hate fun.

 

[Pothas]

Yeah tough splitting these. @JOJOXI and @Teuton the two that immediately stood out.

 

[Pothas]

You all hate fun.

Haha I did actually almost vote for it. Just needed one better player at 3 or 4.

 

[mr_mister]

Haha I did actually almost vote for it. Just needed one better player at 3 or 4.

I actually think his batting is fine. Needs an ATG bowler

 

[Jarquis]

Yeah, I’d lean to mr_m’s criticism. I mean, I know Monimul isn’t Headley but the batting really is fine/more than very good outside of the 3-4 spots

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Yeah, I’d lean to mr_m’s criticism. I mean, I know Monimul isn’t Headley but the batting really is fine/more than very good outside of the 3-4 spots

Batting fine, although a 3-7 of Mominul-Flower-Mushtaq-Botham-Gilchrist looks a better structure.

 

[Jarquis]

Batting fine, although a 3-7 of Mominul-Flower-Mushtaq-Botham-Gilchrist looks a better structure.

Nah, Mushtaq batted 4 and Flower batted 5.

Swap Gilchrist and Botham if you’d like…

 

[Jarquis]

I also think ‘batting fine’ is huge undersell when you look at my 8-11 ffs

 

[Pothas]

Maybe it is just the way I look at a team. The 3-4 stands out massively.

 

[Jarquis]

Maybe it is just the way I look at a team. The 3-4 stands out massively.

Convenient when that’s where you have your two ATGs. How’s that 6 and 7 doing?

 

[kingkallis]

@mr_mister
@Line and Length
@Teuton
@Pothas

In that order!

 

[trundler]

Not me that's for sure.

 

[Pothas]

Convenient when that’s where you have your two ATGs. How’s that 6 and 7 doing?

Haha that is exactly why they are at 6 and 7.

 

[Archer6K]

You all hate fun.

I would've voted for your team as the fifth best

 

[Jarquis]

Haha that is exactly why they are at 6 and 7.

I don’t think I should actually win this or anything but I do think people tend to look at the ‘best combination of best players’ which is why often a team of Bradman an ATG bowler and 9 numpties will do well

 

[mr_mister]

I don’t think I should actually win this or anything but I do think people tend to look at the ‘best combination of best players’ which is why often a team of Bradman an ATG bowler and 9 numpties will do well

Yeah I noticed that years ago. I used to go out of my way to have no passengers in my team while sacrificing one or two less ATGs and it often burnt me

I knew with this draft as soon as I got Ambrose/Donald and Sobers/Border I'd be in good stead

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Yeah I noticed that years ago. I used to go out of my way to have no passengers in my team while sacrificing one or two less ATGs and it often burnt me

Yeah, I did that in this draft and have been cooked a bit in voting.