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Vanilla draft – voting

Vote for the two top teams in a hypothetical, era-adjusted test match

  • Total voters
    18
  • Poll closed .
ataraxia

ataraxia

International Coach
Vote for the two best teams as picked in the Vanilla draft. Teams below:

Fuller Pilch

01. Gordon Greenidge
02. Bill Lawry
03. Ken Barrington
04. Steve Smith
05. Ted Dexter 6 (c)
06. Keith Miller
07. Aubrey Faulkner
08. Brendon McCullum (wk)
09. Ravi Ashwin
10. Kagiso Rabada
11. Curtley Ambrose

AndrewB

Jack Hobbs
Len Hutton
Greg Chappell
Kane Williamson
Clyde Walcott+
Doug Walters
Monty Noble*
Shaun Pollock
Hedley Verity
Harold Larwood
Jasprit Bumrah

Nikhil99.99

1)W.G Grace(C)(5)
2.Turner
3.Crowe
4.Kohli
5.Root
6.McCabe(6)
7.Engineer(wk)
8.Procter(4)
9.Cummins(2)
10.O’Reilly(3)
11.Barnes(1)

Pothas

Saeed Anwar
Justin Langer
Jacques Kallis
Dudley Nourse
Javed Miandad
Michael Clarke*
Alan Knott+
Wasim Akram
Clarrie Grimmett
Michael Holding
Courtney Walsh

Himannv

01. Arthur Morris /
02. Bruce Mitchell /
03. Neil Harvey /
04. Graeme Pollock /
05. Frank Worrell* /o
06. Les Ames+ /
07. Wilfred Rhodes /o
08. Ray Lindwall o/
09. Dale Steyn o
10. Fred Trueman o
11. Stuart MacGill o

Line and Length

1. S.Gavaskar
2. G.Boycott
3. P.May
4. W.Hammond 6
5. C.Lloyd (c)
6. MS Dhoni (wk)
7. C.Cairns 3
8. R.Jadeya 5
9. A.Kumble 4
10. I.Bishop 1
11. G.McGrath 2

shortpitched713

01. Matthew Hayden
02. David Warner
03. Kumar Sangakkara + *
04. Kevin Pietersen
05. Mohammad Yousuf
06. Michael Hussey
07. Ian Botham (3)
08. Jason Holder (4)
09. Wes Hall (2)
10. Muttiah Muralitharan (5)
11. James Anderson (1)

weeman27bob

1. Graeme Smith
2. Mark Taylor
3. Hashim Amla
4. Sachin Tendulkar
5. Denis Compton
6. Ben Stokes
7. Adam Gilchrist
8. Chaminda Vaas
9. Jim Laker
10. Dennis Lillee
11. Bob Willis

Bitmap

1)Herbert Sutcliffe
2)Graham Gooch
3)Charles Macartney
4)Younis Khan
5)Steve Waugh
6)BJ Watling+
7)Shakib Al Hasan
8)Imran Khan(C)
9)Alan Davidson
10)Hugh Tayfield
11)John Snow

trundler

Bob Simpson 6
Virendar Sehwag
Rahul Dravid
Brian Lara
Clem Hill*
Tony Greig 5
Quinton De Kick+
Malcolm Marshall
Joel Garner
Derek Underwood
Neil Adcock

JOJOXI

Victor Trumper
Desmond Haynes
Rohan Kanhai
Everton Weekes
Shivnarine Chanderpaul
Andy Flower (wk)
Clive Rice (3)
Kapil Dev (c) (5)
Vernon Philander (1)
Shane Warne (4)
Allan Donald (2)

ataraxia

1) Barry Richards /
2) Vijay Merchant /
3) George Headley /
4) Viv Richards /
5) Inzamam ul-Haq /
6) Garfield Sobers / o
7) John Waite + /
8) Richie Benaud o /
9) Brian Statham o
10) Waqar Younis o
11) Shoaib Akhtar o

Magrat Garlick

Alastair Cook
Bill Ponsford
Ricky Ponting*
Allan Border
Damien Martyn
+AB de Villiers
Warwick Armstrong
Richard Hadlee
Andy Roberts
Rangana Herath
Trent Boult
 
Line and Length

Line and Length

Cricketer Of The Year
This was a difficult task. I ended up allocating points (weighted for importance) for openers, middle order, bowling attack and 'keeper. Scores were so close ... an indication of the difficulty I perceived. In the end I had to eliminate one of 3 teams with identical scores. There were another 8 teams within 2 points. Not the ideal system, but I had to sort out 2 teams to vote for.
 
CricAddict

CricAddict

Cricketer Of The Year
Line and Length said:
This was a difficult task. I ended up allocating points (weighted for importance) for openers, middle order, bowling attack and 'keeper. Scores were so close ... an indication of the difficulty I perceived. In the end I had to eliminate one of 3 teams with identical scores. There were another 8 teams within 2 points. Not the ideal system, but I had to sort out 2 teams to vote for.
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Wow, that's so much dedication and time given. I just went by eye test and voted.
 
ataraxia

ataraxia

International Coach
It's so close, isn't it. Comes from such a draft, really; I do expect further iterations of this to have more interesting results. Though V2 might be an equally tough one to evaluate. Four days left to vote.
 
shortpitched713

shortpitched713

International Captain
Considering giving myself a self pity vote here. Gutted at not even a single vote for my team, but hey, it is what it is.
 
anil1405

anil1405

International Captain
shortpitched713 said:
Considering giving myself a self pity vote here. Gutted at not even a single vote for my team, but hey, it is what it is.
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Rule no.1 in drafts. Don't pick Sangakkara (the keeper) at no.3 in tests. A player who barely averages 40 as your no.3 doesn't give a good impression to the side.
 
Magrat Garlick

Magrat Garlick

Global Moderator
picking five Australians while being a noted hater of big boy macho cricketers was perhaps not the best move, either

(edit this was a moan about my own team :ph34r:)
 
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Himannv

Himannv

International Coach
I think shottpitched also broke the second rule in drafts - Don’t pick Matty Hayden.

Edit: Also the third rule (don’t pick David Warner).
 
shortpitched713

shortpitched713

International Captain
anil1405 said:
Rule no.1 in drafts. Don't pick Sangakkara (the keeper) at no.3 in tests. A player who barely averages 40 as your no.3 doesn't give a good impression to the side.
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I don't think anyone would bat an eye at Clyde Walcott up the middle order, with the gloves. But Sangakkara and Walcott have almost the EXACT same batting average splits between their batting and keeping between the two of them, with highly similar keeping frequency. You should look up their gloves on/off stats filter on cricinfo, it's honestly a bit freaky how much of a carbon copy it is.

But I do cede that giving him gloves + captaincy + batting at 3 is definitely on the unrealistic side. Should have gone with a Jayawardene pick for a captain instead of taking MoYo, and at least taken that responsibility from Sanga, but meh it is what it is.
 
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