The "I played for X in FC draft"

[Zinzan]

Slim-pickings, Suppose I'll go for Nick Knight- (Warwickshire)

Try not to give me Warwickshire for a 5th time :P

1. Nick Knight - (Warwickshire)
2.
3. Ian Bell - (Warwickshire)
4.
5. Sourav Ganguly - (Bengal CC)
6. Garry Sobers - (Barbados)
7.
8. Ray Illingworth - (Leicestershire)
9. Ian Bishop - (T & T)
10. Curtly Ambrose - (Leeward Islands)
11. Bob Willis - ( Warwickshire)

 

[Agent TBY]

Oh ****. Uh...

Walter Hammond - Gloucestershire

1.
2. Archie MacLaren
3. Viv Richards
4. Wally Hammond (5)
5. Jacques Kallis (3)
6. Andrew Flintoff (2)
7. Roger Binny (4)
8. Syed Kirmani (wk)
9.
10.
11. Sydney Barnes (1)

 

[Victor Ian]

A pleasure to have left you so much quality after my original gloucs pick. I'm curious who you would have taken, given both of Grace and Hammond.

 

[anil1405]

Colin Cowdrey - Kent

1. Hanif Mohammad - Bahawalpur
2.
3. Sir Don Bradman - South Australia
4. Colin Cowdrey - Kent
5.
6. M.S. Dhoni - Jharkhand
7. Alan Knott+ - Kent
8. Dennis Lillee - Western Australia
9. Waqar Younis - Karachi
10. Shane Bond - Canterbury
11.

 

[Agent TBY]

A pleasure to have left you so much quality after my original gloucs pick. I'm curious who you would have taken, given both of Grace and Hammond.

Grace if I was picking this round, and Hammond if I didn't have Kallis in my team already, if that makes any sense.

 

[StephenZA]

stphndbsn - real apologies - I willed the computer for a better result but it backfired. At least it's not a 3rd Jharkand or Baroda
stphndbsn - I just had a look at Assam - Really really really sorry

You are not forgiven...


Amol Muzumdar - Assam

Steve's (?!!!!!?) XI
01
02 Vijay Hazare (Baroda)
03 Vijay Manjrekar (Uttar Prudesh)
04 Amol Muzumdar (Assam)
05 Martin Crowe (Auckland)
06 Saurabh Tiwary (Jharkhand)
07
08
09 Malcolm Marshall (Barbados)
10 Zaheer Khan (Baroda)
11 Varun Aaron (Jharkhand)


Hazare will just have to open... at this stage I would like to just get a team on the field. I can just see poor Malcolm's face walking out onto the field with this lot. Maybe it would make him angry and he could bowl the opposition out in under 5 overs....
(In all honestly the team is not that bad.... its just not that great either. Oh and I`m learning lots more about Indian cricket)

 

[Victor Ian]

@anil - lol, Bradman averages OVER 4 runs less in first class - deal with it!

 

[The Battlers Prince]

To be honest I hadn't heard much of the Services club, but I'm taking Yashpal Singh as my number 3. Looks a decent bat.

 

[anil1405]

@anil - lol, Bradman averages OVER 4 runs less in first class - deal with it!

Its still greater than the combined FC average of one of your opener and your no.3. Plus if he has to face bowlers like your no.11 he would average 150.

 

[Victor Ian]

pick	jimmy101	team	/o+	class	value	span	matches	/ avg	o avg	wkts	wkts/m	100	5w	10w	%100	%5w	%10w
1	Kane Williamson	Northern Districts	/	mtg	2	2007-2016	110	47.66	42.41	85	0.7	23	1	0	20	0	0
2	Don Shepherd	Glamorgan	o	jgt	5	1950-1972	668	9.67	21.32	2218	3.3	0	123	28	0	18	4
3	Graham Gooch	Essex	/	mtg	2	1973-2000	581	49.01	34.37	246	0.4	128	3	0	22	0	0
4	Ben Stokes	Durham	/o	gok	4	2010-2016	96	34.29	30.01	217	2.2	11	4	1	11	4	1
5	Polly Umrigar	Saurashtra	/o	ays	6	1944-1962	243	52.28	25.68	325	1.3	49	14	2	20	5	0
6	Ray Lindwall	Queensland	o/	atg	1	1941-1961	228	21.82	21.35	794	3.4	5	34	2	2	14	0
7	Allan Border	Queensland	/	atg	1	1976-1995	385	51.38	39.25	106	0.2	70	3	1	18	0	0
8	Ken Higgs	Leicestershire	o	gok	4	1963-1982	511	11.29	23.61	1536	3	0	50	5	0	9	0
					25		2822	277.4		5527	14.5				93	50	5
pick	Zinzan	team	/o+	class	value	span	matches	/ avg	o avg	wkts	wkts/m	100	5w	10w	%100	%5w	%10w
1	Sourav Ganguly	Bengal	/	sta	3	1989-2011	254	41.02	36.52	167	0.6	33	4	0	12	1	0
2	Garry Sobers	Barbados	/o	atg	1	1952-1974	383	54.87	27.74	1043	2.7	86	36	1	22	9	0
3	Curtly Ambrose	Leeward Islands	o	atg	1	1985-2000	239	13.95	20.24	941	3.9	0	50	8	0	20	3
4	Bob Willis	Warwickshire	o	mtg	2	1969-1984	308	14.3	24.99	899	2.9	0	34	2	0	11	0
5	Ray Illingworth	Leicestershire	/o	sta	3	1951-1983	787	28.06	20.27	2072	2.6	22	104	11	2	13	1
6	Ian Bishop	Trinidad & Tobago	o	sta	3	1986-1998	159	15.52	23.06	549	3.4	2	23	1	1	14	0
7	Ian Bell	Warwickshire	/	mtg	2	1999-2016	272	44.87	0	0	0	51	0	0	18	0	0
8	Nick Knight	Warwickshire	o	gok	4	1991-2006	240	44.18	0	0	0	40	0	0	16	0	0
					19		2642	256.77		5671	16.1				71	68	4
pick	The Battlers Prince	team	/o+	class	value	span	matches	/ avg	o avg	wkts	wkts/m	100	5w	10w	%100	%5w	%10w
1	Greg Chappell	Queensland	/	atg	1	1966-1983	321	40.18	29.95	291	0.9	74	5	0	23	1	0
2	Virender Sehwag	Haryana	/	mtg	2	1997-2015	194	47.36	42.57	105	0.5	42	1	0	21	0	0
3	AB De Villiers	Titans	/+	mtg	2	2003-2016	132	49.8	0	0	0	24	0	0	18	0	0
4	Mushtaq Ali	Madhaya Pradesh	/o	gok	4	1930-1963	226	35.9	29.34	162	0.7	30	6	2	13	2	0
5	Brendon McCullum	Canterbury NZ	/+	sta	3	1999-2016	150	37.13	0	0	0	17	0	0	11	0	0
6	Clarrie Grimmett	South Australia	o	mtg	2	1911-1940	248	17.67	22.28	1424	5.7	0	127	33	0	51	13
7	Misbah Ul Haq	Islamabad	/	sta	3	1998-2016	216	50.79	0	0	0	43	0	0	19	0	0
8	Yashpal Singh	Services	/	jgt	5	2001-2015	103	51.27	34.52	61	0.5	18	2	0	17	1	0
					22		1487	278.83		1982	7.8				105	54	13
pick	J_C	team	/o+	class	value	span	matches	/ avg	o avg	wkts	wkts/m	100	5w	10w	%100	%5w	%10w
1	Younis Khan	Peshawar	/	mtg	2	1998-2016	214	50.92	0	0	0	53	0	0	24	0	0
2	Anil Kumble	Karnataka	o	mtg	2	1989-2008	244	21.68	25.83	1136	4.6	7	72	19	2	29	7
3	Simon Jones	Glamorgan	o	sta	3	1998-2012	91	11.89	30.49	267	2.9	0	15	1	0	16	1
4	Mark Richardson	Auckland	/	sta	3	1989-2004	157	42.89	0	0	0	20	0	0	12	0	0
5	Jack Hobbs	Surrey	/	atg	1	1905-1934	834	50.7	0	0	0	199	0	0	23	0	0
6	Vinoo Mankad	Rajasthan	/o	sta	3	1935-1961	233	34.7	24.53	782	3.3	26	38	9	11	16	3
7	Joel Garner	Barbados	o	mtg	2	1975-1987	214	16.74	18.53	881	4.1	1	48	7	0	22	3
8	Jason Gillespie	South Australia	o	mtg	2	1994-2008	189	19.59	26.98	613	3.2	3	22	2	1	11	1
					18		2176	249.11		3679	18.1				73	94	15
pick	stphndbsn	team	/o+	class	value	span	matches	/ avg	o avg	wkts	wkts/m	100	5w	10w	%100	%5w	%10w
1	Martin Crowe	Auckland	/	atg	1	1975-1995	247	56.02	33.69	119	0.4	71	4	0	28	1	0
2	Vijay Manjrekar	Uttar Prudesh	/	sta	3	1949-1972	198	49.92	0	0	0	38	0	0	19	0	0
3	Malcolm Marshall	Barbados	o/	atg	1	1977-1995	408	24.83	19.1	1651	4	7	85	13	1	20	3
4	Varun Aaron	Jharkhand	o	jgt	5	2008-2015	38	13.37	33.63	98	2.5	0	4	0	0	10	0
5	Vijay Hazare	Baroda	/	sta	3	1934-1967	238	58.38	24.61	595	2.5	7	27	3	2	11	1
6	Saurabh Tiwary	Jharkhand	/	ays	6	2006-2016	65	49.14	0	0	0	15	0	0	23	0	0
7	Zaheer Khan	Baroda	o	sta	3	1999-2014	169	13.6	29.97	672	3.9	0	35	8	0	20	4
8	Amol Muzumdar	Assam	/	jgt	5	1993-2013	171	48.13	0	0	0	30	0	0	17	0	0
					27		1534	313.39		3135	13.3				90	62	8
pick	morgieb	team	/o+	class	value	span	matches	/ avg	o avg	wkts	wkts/m	100	5w	10w	%100	%5w	%10w
1	Ricky Ponting	Tasmania	/	atg	1	1992-2013	289	55.9	0	0	0	82	0	0	28	0	0
2	Jack Cowie	Auckland	o	sta	3	1933-1949	84	10.16	22.28	359	4.2	0	20	1	0	23	1
3	Mohinder Amarnath	Punjab	/o	gok	4	1966-1989	248	30.53	32.87	277	1.1	2	8	1	0	3	0
4	Patsy Hendren	Middlesex	/	sta	3	1907-1937	833	50.8	0	0	0	170	0	0	20	0	0
5	Fred Trueman	Yorkshire	o	atg	1	1963-1972	603	13	18.29	2304	3.8	3	126	25	0	20	4
6	Ajay Ratra	Goa	/+	jgt	5	1999-2012	99	30.29	0	0	0	8	0	0	8	0	0
7	Sandeep Patil	Madhya Pradesh	/	sta	3	1975-1992	130	43.28	33.12	86	0.6	4	4	0	3	3	0
8	Umar Gul	Peshawar	o	gok	4	2001-2015	99	10.16	26.1	398	4	0	21	2	0	21	2
					24		2385	244.12		3424	13.7				59	70	7
pick	Agent TBY	team	/o+	class	value	span	matches	/ avg	o avg	wkts	wkts/m	100	5w	10w	%100	%5w	%10w
1	Sydney Barnes	Warwickshire	o	atg	1	1894-1930	133	12.78	17.09	719	5.4	0	24	7	0	18	5
2	Archie MacLaren	Lancashire	/	sta	3	1890-1922	424	34.15	0	0	0	47	0	0	11	0	0
3	Andrew Flintoff	Lancashire	/o	sta	3	1995-2009	183	33.8	31.59	350	1.9	15	4	0	8	2	0
4	Roger Binny	Goa	/o	gok	4	1975-1991	136	34.08	36.02	205	1.5	14	5	0	10	3	0
5	Viv Richards	Combined Islands	/	atg	1	1971-1993	507	49.4	45.15	223	0.4	114	1	0	22	0	0
6	Jacques Kallis	Warriors	/o	atg	1	1993-2013	257	54.1	31.69	427	1.6	62	8	0	24	3	0
7	Syed Kirmini	Railways	+	gok	4	1967-1993	275	30.15	0	0	0	13	0	0	4	0	0
8	Wally Hammond	Gloucestershire	/	atg	1	1920-1951	634	56.1	30.58	732	1.1	167	22	3	26	3	0
					18		2549	304.56		2656	11.9				105	29	5
pick	anil1405	team	/o+	class	value	span	matches	/ avg	o avg	wkts	wkts/m	100	5w	10w	%100	%5w	%10w
1	Alan Knott	Kent	+/	atg	1	1964-1985	511	29.63	0	0	0	17	0	0	3	0	0
2	M.S. Dhoni	Jharkhand	+/	mtg	2	1999-2016	131	36.84	0	0	0	9	0	0	6	0	0
3	Shane Bond	Canterbury	o	sta	3	1996-2009	60	16.6	24.34	225	3.7	1	12	1	1	20	1
4	Sir Don Bradman	South Australia	/	iby	-1	1927-1948	234	95.14	0	0	0	117	0	0	50	0	0
5	Hanif Mohammad	Bahawalpur	/	sta	3	1951-1976	238	52.32	0	0	0	55	0	0	23	0	0
6	Waqar Younis	Karachi	o	mtg	2	1987-2004	228	13.38	22.33	956	4.1	0	63	14	0	27	6
7	Dennis Lillee	Western Australia	o	atg	1	1969-1988	198	13.9	23.46	882	4.4	0	50	13	0	25	6
8	Colin Cowdry	Kent	/	mtg	2	1950-1976	692	42.89	0	0	0	107	0	0	15	0	0
					13		2292	300.7		2063	12.2				98	72	13
pick	AndrewB	team	/o+	class	value	span	matches	/ avg	o avg	wkts	wkts/m	100	5w	10w	%100	%5w	%10w
1	Kapil Dev	Haryana	/o	atg	1	1975-1993	275	32.91	27.09	835	3	18	39	3	6	14	1
2	Graeme Pollock	Eastern Province	/	atg	1	1960-1986	262	54.67	0	0	0	64	0	0	24	0	0
3	Chris Cairns	Northern Districts	/o	sta	3	1988-2007	217	35.32	28.31	647	2.9	13	30	6	5	13	2
4	Manvinder Bisla	Jammu & Kashmir	/	ays	6	2002-2016	49	30.23	0	0	0	4	0	0	8	0	0
5	Ian Dev Singh	Jammu and Kashmir	/	ays	6	2007-2016	55	39.66	0	0	0	12	0	0	21	0	0
6	Andy Roberts	Leeward Islands	/	mtg	2	1969-1984	228	15.69	21.01	889	3.8	0	47	7	0	20	3
7	Khan Mohammad	Bahawalpur	o	sta	3	1946-1960	54	11.57	23.22	214	3.9	0	16	1	0	29	1
8	Bill Lawry	Victoria	/	mtg	2	1964-1971	249	50.9	0	0	0	50	0	0	20	0	0
					24		1389	270.95		2585	13.6				84	76	7
pick	mr_mister	team	/o+	class	value	span	matches	/ avg	o avg	wkts	wkts/m	100	5w	10w	%100	%5w	%10w
1	David Gower	Hampshire	/	mtg	2	1975-1993	448	40.08	0	0	0	53	0	0	11	0	0
2	Ravi Ashwin	Tamil Nadu	/o	mtg	2	2006-2016	68	34.54	26.38	317	4.6	5	28	7	7	41	10
3	Sadagoppen Ramesh	Kerala	/	jgt	5	1995-2007	116	42.23	0	0	0	20	0	0	17	0	0
4	Jesse Ryder	Central District	/o	gok	4	2002-2016	120	44.02	29.24	152	1.2	22	7	2	18	5	1
5	Ajay Jadeja	Haryana	/	jgt	5	1988-2013	111	54	0	0	0	20	0	0	18	0	0
6	Shoaib Akhtar	Rawalpindi	o	sta	3	1994-2010	133	12.27	26.26	467	3.5	0	28	2	0	21	1
7	Mohammad Kaif	Andhra	/	jgt	5	1997-2015	177	39.89	0	0	0	19	0	0	10	0	0
8	Rahul Dravid	Karnataka	/	atg	1	1991-2012	298	55.33	0	0	0	68	0	0	22	0	0
					27		1471	322.36		936	9.3				103	67	12
pick	Watson	team	/o+	class	value	span	matches	/ avg	o avg	wkts	wkts/m	100	5w	10w	%100	%5w	%10w
1	Richard Hadlee	Canterbury	o/	atg	1	1972-1990	342	31.71	18.11	1490	4.3	14	102	18	4	29	5
2	Denis Compton	Middlesex	/	atg	1	1936-1964	515	51.85	32.27	622	1.2	123	19	3	23	3	0
3	Parvez Rasool	Jammu and Kashmir	/o	ays	6	2008-2016	46	39.94	37.71	115	2.5	8	6	0	17	13	0
4	Michael Holding	Jamaica	o	atg	1	1972-1989	222	15	23.43	778	3.5	0	39	5	0	17	2
5	Virat Kohli	Delhi	/	mtg	2	2006-2016	74	49.48	0	0	0	19	0	0	25	0	0
6	Sarfraz Ahmed	Quetta	/	sta	3	2006-2016	118	42.76	0	0	0	10	0	0	8	0	0
7	Clem Hill	South Australia	/	mtg	2	1892-1922	252	43.57	0	0	0	45	0	0	17	0	0
8	Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan	Tamil Nadu*	o	mtg	2	1963-1984	341	17.73	24.14	1390	4	1	85	21	0	24	6
					18		1910	292.04		4395	15.5				94	86	13
pick	Victor Ian	team	/o+	class	value	span	matches	/ avg	o avg	wkts	wkts/m	100	5w	10w	%100	%5w	%10w
1	Kevin Pietersen	Natal	/	sta	3	1997-2015	217	49.76	0	0	0	50	0	0	23	0	0
2	Shanthakumaran Sreesanth	Kerala	o	gok	4	2002-2013	73	9.57	35.8	211	2.8	0	6	0	0	8	0
3	Len Hutton	Yorkshire	/	atg	1	1934-1955	513	55.51	0	0	0	129	0	0	25	0	0
4	Brian Lara	Trinidad and Tobago	/	atg	1	1987-2008	261	51.88	0	0	0	65	0	0	24	0	0
5	Shane Warne	Victoria	o	atg	1	1991-2007	301	19.43	26.11	1319	4.3	2	69	12	0	22	3
6	W.G Grace	Gloucestershire	/o	atg	1	1865-1908	870	39.45	18.14	2809	3.2	124	240	64	14	27	7
7	Imran Khan	Lahore	/o	atg	1	1973-1991	382	36.79	22.32	1287	3.3	30	70	13	7	18	3
8	Ian Botham	Worcestershire	/o	atg	1	1974-1993	402	33.97	27.22	1172	2.9	38	59	8	9	14	1
					13		3019	296.36		6798	16.5				102	89	14

 

[Victor Ian]

they are all first class, rather than test stats.

andrewb and watson to pick.

 

[StephenZA]

Amol Muzumdar probably deserves better than a 6.....

 

[watson]

01.
02.
03. Clem Hill - South Australia
04. Denis Compton - Middlesex
05. Virat Kohli - Delhi
06.
07. Sarfraz Ahmed - Quetta
08. Richard Hadlee - Canterbury
09.
10. Michael Holding - Jamaica
11. Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan ("Venkat") - Tamil Nadu

12th - Parvez Rasool - Jammu and Kashmir

 

[AndrewB]

Bill Lawry (Victoria)

 

[Victor Ian]

Amol Muzumdar probably deserves better than a 6.....

Indeed. After compiling those first class stats, I realised those rankings I gave, based on Test performances, are not even remotely right anymore. Look at Clarrie Grimmet. I guess they are representative of the highest level. Some players are much better at first class than test level but they may have been playing against weaker opponents more often. I was going to alter it for first class rankings, but, to be honest, I'm over this obsession for the moment.

 

[Victor Ian]

All done for this round - We need someone else to randomise a new round - best for Red Hill - I could do it again, but how are you going to feel when I draw NSW (McGrath) or Victoria (Miller)

 

[watson]

All done for this round - We need someone else to randomise a new round - I could do it again, but how are you going to feel when I draw NSW (McGrath) or Victoria (Miller)

We trust you Victor Ian. And if you get NSW/VIC then nice.

 

[mr_mister]

Victor Ian I'm loving the effort you're throwing into this

 

[The Battlers Prince]

Yeah, all good VI, randomiser the begeeses out of it

 

[Victor Ian]

ok - i've been talked into it - didn't take much

Round 9

jimmy101 - Western Australia
Zinzan - Multan
The Battlers Prince - Surrey County Cricket Club
J_C - Hampshire County Cricket Club
stphndbsn - Faisalabad
morgieb - Goa
AgentTBY - Jammu & Kashmir
anil1405 - Madhya Pradesh
AndrewB - Haryana
mr_mister - Sussex County Cricket Club
Watson - Lahore*
Victor Ian - Middlesex County Cricket Club

now to see what riches are available in middlesex - i think they've had a few picks already - might be my first challenge.