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Vanilla draft

ataraxia

International Coach
Batter, bowler, other
Round 1 – 2Round 3 – 4Round 5 – 6
  1. Magrat Garlick – Richard Hadlee
  2. ataraxia – Garfield Sobers
  3. JOJOXI – Shane Warne
  4. trundler – Malcolm Marshall
  5. Bitmap – Imran Khan
  6. weeman27bob – Adam Gilchrist
  7. shortpitched713 – Muttiah Muralitharan
  8. Line and Length – Glenn McGrath
  9. Himannv – Dale Steyn
  10. Pothas – Jacques Kallis
  11. Nikhil99.99 – Bill O'Reilly
  12. AndrewB – Jack Hobbs
  13. Fuller Pilch – Keith Miller
  14. Fuller Pilch – Curtly Ambrose
  15. AndrewB – Len Hutton
  16. Nikhil99.99 – Sydney Barnes
  17. Pothas – Wasim Akram
  18. Himannv – Fred Trueman
  19. Line and Length – Sunil Gavaskar
  20. shortpitched713 – Ian Botham
  21. weeman27bob – Sachin Tendulkar
  22. Bitmap – Herbert Sutcliffe
  23. trundler – Brian Lara
  24. JOJOXI – Kapil Dev
  25. ataraxia – Viv Richards
  26. Magrat Garlick – Ricky Ponting
  1. JOJOXI – Allan Donald
  2. weeman27bob – Dennis Lillee
  3. Fuller Pilch – Steve Smith
  4. Line and Length – Wally Hammond
  5. trundler – Joel Garner
  6. Bitmap – Alan Davidson
  7. Pothas – Michael Holding
  8. AndrewB – Shaun Pollock
  9. Himannv – Ray Lindwall
  10. Nikhil99.99 – Pat Cummins
  11. ataraxia – Waqar Younis
  12. shortpitched713 – Kumar Sangakkara
  13. Magrat Garlick – Andy Roberts
  14. Magrat Garlick – Allan Border
  15. shortpitched713 – Wes Hall
  16. ataraxia – George Headley
  17. Nikhil99.99 – Mike Procter
  18. Himannv – Graeme Pollock
  19. AndrewB – Greg Chappell
  20. Pothas – Courtney Walsh
  21. Bitmap – Steve Waugh
  22. trundler – Rahul Dravid
  23. Line and Length – Geoffrey Boycott
  24. Fuller Pilch – Ken Barrington
  25. weeman27bob – Graeme Smith
  26. JOJOXI – Everton Weekes
  1. JOJOXI – Andy Flower
  2. Himannv – Frank Worrell
  3. Line and Length – Ian Bishop
  4. Magrat Garlick – AB de Villiers
  5. Pothas – Clarrie Grimmett
  6. Bitmap – Younis Khan
  7. ataraxia – Richie Benaud
  8. Nikhil99.99 – WG Grace
  9. trundler – Virender Sehwag
  10. shortpitched713 – James Anderson
  11. Fuller Pilch – Aubrey Faulkner
  12. weeman27bob – Jim Laker
  13. AndrewB – Clyde Walcott
  14. AndrewB – Hedley Verity
  15. weeman27bob – Denis Compton
  16. Fuller Pilch – Ravichandran Ashwin
  17. shortpitched713 – Matthew Hayden
  18. trundler – Neil Adcock
  19. Nikhil99.99 – Joe Root
  20. ataraxia – Barry Richards
  21. Bitmap – Hugh Tayfield
  22. Pothas – Javed Miandad
  23. Magrat Garlick – Rangana Herath
  24. Line and Length – Anil Kumble
  25. Himannv – Neil Harvey
  26. JOJOXI – Clive Rice
Round 7 – 8Round 9 – 10Round 11
  1. Pothas – Dudley Nourse
  2. Bitmap – Shakib Al Hasan
  3. Fuller Pilch – Gordon Greenidge
  4. Magrat Garlick – Alastair Cook
  5. trundler – Bob Simpson
  6. shortpitched713 – David Warner
  7. Himannv – Les Ames
  8. ataraxia – Shoaib Akhtar
  9. Nikhil99.99 – Stan McCabe
  10. JOJOXI – Rohan Kanhai
  11. AndrewB – Harold Larwood
  12. weeman27bob – Mark Taylor
  13. Line and Length – Peter May
  14. Line and Length – Clive Lloyd
  15. weeman27bob – Bob Willis
  16. AndrewB – Kane Williamson
  17. JOJOXI – Victor Trumper
  18. Nikhil99.99 – Virat Kohli
  19. ataraxia – Brian Statham
  20. Himannv – Arthur Morris
  21. shortpitched713 – Michael Hussey
  22. trundler – Derek Underwood
  23. Magrat Garlick – Trent Boult
  24. Fuller Pilch – Bill Lawry
  25. Bitmap – Graham Gooch
  26. Pothas – Alan Knott
  1. AndrewB – Jasprit Bumrah
  2. JOJOXI – Shivnarine Chanderpaul
  3. weeman27bob – Ben Stokes
  4. ataraxia – Inzamam ul-Haq
  5. Fuller Pilch – Kagiso Rabada
  6. Line and Length – Ravindra Jadeja
  7. Bitmap – John Snow
  8. Pothas – Michael Clarke
  9. trundler – Tony Greig
  10. Magrat Garlick – Bill Ponsford
  11. Himannv – Bruce Mitchell
  12. Nikhil99.99 – Martin Crowe
  13. shortpitched713 – Kevin Pietersen
  14. shortpitched713 – Jason Holder
  15. Nikhil99.99 – Glenn Turner
  16. Himannv – Wilfred Rhodes
  17. Magrat Garlick – timed out
  18. trundler – Clem Hill
  19. Pothas – Saeed Anwar
  20. Bitmap – BJ Watling
  21. Line and Length – Chris Cairns
  22. Fuller Pilch – Ted Dexter
  23. ataraxia – Vijay Merchant
  24. weeman27bob – Chaminda Vaas
  25. JOJOXI – Vernon Philander
  26. AndrewB – Monty Noble
  1. trundler – Quinton de Kock
  2. JOJOXI – Desmond Haynes
  3. Line and Length – MS Dhoni
  4. Magrat Garlick – timed out
  5. ataraxia – John Waite
  6. AndrewB – Doug Walters
  7. weeman27bob – Hashim Amla
  8. Himannv – Stuart MacGill
  9. Bitmap – Charles Macartney
  10. Pothas – Justin Langer
  11. shortpitched713 – Mohammad Yousuf
  12. Nikhil99.99 – Farokh Engineer
  13. Fuller Pilch – Brendon McCullum












We'll just wait for @Magrat Garlick to pick two and @weeman27bob to finalise his team, and then we'll get on to voting, and simming (thanks @shortpitched713)! And thanks for an enjoyable draft, to everyone. :)

It was very interesting to see how there were patterns in this very simple draft - for the first 18 picks, the top ATGs were picked. Then the focus shifted to batters, then to tier two seamers, then to batters again. I think that area is very gameable; if one knows the order beforehand they can plan very strategically. There were patterns later on also, but they weren't as noticeable. I'm kind of surprised that only 5 keepers were picked in R11 tbh.

I'd like to keep going with this. To have a Vanilla draft II with all players picked in this draft ineligible. Is there interest?
 

Fuller Pilch

Hall of Fame Member
This has been a fun draft and voting is going to be a nightmare as all the teams are incredibly strong. Thanks @ataraxia
It also took my mind off NZ's nightmare test series thrashing, so much appreciated for that.
 

Line and Length

Cricketer Of The Year
I thoroughly enjoyed this draft ... Thanks @ataraxia

I didn't add comments to my team, so hear goes.

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

Two great openers followed by an impressive middle and lower order. Century makers right down to number 9 with flexibility in the order between 6 and 8. ATG great McGrath is supported by the often under-rated Bishop and Cairns. Twin spinners Kumble and Jadeya would appreciate having a golveman with an impressive number of Test stumpings to his name. Hammond adds variety. The team is led by one of the great captains of the modern era.
 

Line and Length

Cricketer Of The Year
"I'd like to keep going with this. To have a Vanilla draft II with all players picked in this draft ineligible. Is there interest?"

I'll be interested but might be out of action with my hip replacement op (re-scheduled to July 15 and 3-4 days away from the net).

Perhaps we could have the voting for this draft first.
 

shortpitched713

International Captain
"I'd like to keep going with this. To have a Vanilla draft II with all players picked in this draft ineligible. Is there interest?"

I'll be interested but might be out of action with my hip replacement op (re-scheduled to July 15 and 3-4 days away from the net).

Perhaps we could have the voting for this draft first.
Here's to a speedy recovery! :)
 

weeman27bob

International Regular
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
 

Magrat Garlick

Global Moderator
thanks for the reminders!

Warwick Armstrong
Damien Martyn

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

might have made a mistake picking five captains but we'll see
 

shortpitched713

International Captain
Struggled between him and a particular other batsman, both of whom I'm amazed are still available at this point but I will go with:

Mohammad Yousuf

Final Team

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)

Overall pretty happy. Especially like the depth on both batting and bowling sides. 6 spec bats, 2 allrounders, and even Hall being a surprisingly decent contributor at 9 give it a short tail. Bowling side have 5 world class bowlers, and the relatively less juice of the change seamers is in my mind more than made up for by having a GOAT spinner.

After the remaining member's picks are done, I'm planning on doing a sim of these teams planned for next weekend. Excited to see how all these teams go, and also looking forward to this vote, which I've yet to participate in one yet!
The other player that I can't believe wasn't picked was Mahela Jayawardene. Just a rock for the Sri Lankan middle order for many years, although never got to the highs of some other players of his era. I think MoYo is slightly better as a batsman, although a good argument for Jayawardene pick based on a better "fit" for this side, but I wasn't trying to pick my team based on less "tangible" factors, and instead picked the best batsmen/bowlers etc.
 

shortpitched713

International Captain
Strong modern cricket bias to your side tbh.
Found it very hard to pick players I hadn't seen. Even picking Wes Hall, I had to go down a rabbit hole of 50s/60s black and white footage before I felt comfortable taking him.

I know no one's going to call me on a pick based on "fraudulent" knowledge, but still lol don't want to pick some dude I've never seen or even read about just based on their average on their cricinfo profile page.
 

Magrat Garlick

Global Moderator
Found it very hard to pick players I hadn't seen. Even picking Wes Hall, I had to go down a rabbit hole of 50s/60s black and white footage before I felt comfortable taking him.

I know no one's going to call me on a pick based on "fraudulent" knowledge, but still lol don't want to pick some dude I've never seen or even read about just based on their average on their cricinfo profile page.
very valid tactic, not that all of us had easy access to footage :ph34r:
 

ataraxia

International Coach
Batter, bowler, other
Round 1 – 2Round 3 – 4Round 5 – 6
  1. Magrat Garlick – Richard Hadlee
  2. ataraxia – Garfield Sobers
  3. JOJOXI – Shane Warne
  4. trundler – Malcolm Marshall
  5. Bitmap – Imran Khan
  6. weeman27bob – Adam Gilchrist
  7. shortpitched713 – Muttiah Muralitharan
  8. Line and Length – Glenn McGrath
  9. Himannv – Dale Steyn
  10. Pothas – Jacques Kallis
  11. Nikhil99.99 – Bill O'Reilly
  12. AndrewB – Jack Hobbs
  13. Fuller Pilch – Keith Miller
  14. Fuller Pilch – Curtly Ambrose
  15. AndrewB – Len Hutton
  16. Nikhil99.99 – Sydney Barnes
  17. Pothas – Wasim Akram
  18. Himannv – Fred Trueman
  19. Line and Length – Sunil Gavaskar
  20. shortpitched713 – Ian Botham
  21. weeman27bob – Sachin Tendulkar
  22. Bitmap – Herbert Sutcliffe
  23. trundler – Brian Lara
  24. JOJOXI – Kapil Dev
  25. ataraxia – Viv Richards
  26. Magrat Garlick – Ricky Ponting
  1. JOJOXI – Allan Donald
  2. weeman27bob – Dennis Lillee
  3. Fuller Pilch – Steve Smith
  4. Line and Length – Wally Hammond
  5. trundler – Joel Garner
  6. Bitmap – Alan Davidson
  7. Pothas – Michael Holding
  8. AndrewB – Shaun Pollock
  9. Himannv – Ray Lindwall
  10. Nikhil99.99 – Pat Cummins
  11. ataraxia – Waqar Younis
  12. shortpitched713 – Kumar Sangakkara
  13. Magrat Garlick – Andy Roberts
  14. Magrat Garlick – Allan Border
  15. shortpitched713 – Wes Hall
  16. ataraxia – George Headley
  17. Nikhil99.99 – Mike Procter
  18. Himannv – Graeme Pollock
  19. AndrewB – Greg Chappell
  20. Pothas – Courtney Walsh
  21. Bitmap – Steve Waugh
  22. trundler – Rahul Dravid
  23. Line and Length – Geoffrey Boycott
  24. Fuller Pilch – Ken Barrington
  25. weeman27bob – Graeme Smith
  26. JOJOXI – Everton Weekes
  1. JOJOXI – Andy Flower
  2. Himannv – Frank Worrell
  3. Line and Length – Ian Bishop
  4. Magrat Garlick – AB de Villiers
  5. Pothas – Clarrie Grimmett
  6. Bitmap – Younis Khan
  7. ataraxia – Richie Benaud
  8. Nikhil99.99 – WG Grace
  9. trundler – Virender Sehwag
  10. shortpitched713 – James Anderson
  11. Fuller Pilch – Aubrey Faulkner
  12. weeman27bob – Jim Laker
  13. AndrewB – Clyde Walcott
  14. AndrewB – Hedley Verity
  15. weeman27bob – Denis Compton
  16. Fuller Pilch – Ravichandran Ashwin
  17. shortpitched713 – Matthew Hayden
  18. trundler – Neil Adcock
  19. Nikhil99.99 – Joe Root
  20. ataraxia – Barry Richards
  21. Bitmap – Hugh Tayfield
  22. Pothas – Javed Miandad
  23. Magrat Garlick – Rangana Herath
  24. Line and Length – Anil Kumble
  25. Himannv – Neil Harvey
  26. JOJOXI – Clive Rice
Round 7 – 8Round 9 – 10Round 11
  1. Pothas – Dudley Nourse
  2. Bitmap – Shakib Al Hasan
  3. Fuller Pilch – Gordon Greenidge
  4. Magrat Garlick – Alastair Cook
  5. trundler – Bob Simpson
  6. shortpitched713 – David Warner
  7. Himannv – Les Ames
  8. ataraxia – Shoaib Akhtar
  9. Nikhil99.99 – Stan McCabe
  10. JOJOXI – Rohan Kanhai
  11. AndrewB – Harold Larwood
  12. weeman27bob – Mark Taylor
  13. Line and Length – Peter May
  14. Line and Length – Clive Lloyd
  15. weeman27bob – Bob Willis
  16. AndrewB – Kane Williamson
  17. JOJOXI – Victor Trumper
  18. Nikhil99.99 – Virat Kohli
  19. ataraxia – Brian Statham
  20. Himannv – Arthur Morris
  21. shortpitched713 – Michael Hussey
  22. trundler – Derek Underwood
  23. Magrat Garlick – Trent Boult
  24. Fuller Pilch – Bill Lawry
  25. Bitmap – Graham Gooch
  26. Pothas – Alan Knott
  1. AndrewB – Jasprit Bumrah
  2. JOJOXI – Shivnarine Chanderpaul
  3. weeman27bob – Ben Stokes
  4. ataraxia – Inzamam ul-Haq
  5. Fuller Pilch – Kagiso Rabada
  6. Line and Length – Ravindra Jadeja
  7. Bitmap – John Snow
  8. Pothas – Michael Clarke
  9. trundler – Tony Greig
  10. Magrat Garlick – Bill Ponsford
  11. Himannv – Bruce Mitchell
  12. Nikhil99.99 – Martin Crowe
  13. shortpitched713 – Kevin Pietersen
  14. shortpitched713 – Jason Holder
  15. Nikhil99.99 – Glenn Turner
  16. Himannv – Wilfred Rhodes
  17. Magrat Garlick – Warwick Armstrong
  18. trundler – Clem Hill
  19. Pothas – Saeed Anwar
  20. Bitmap – BJ Watling
  21. Line and Length – Chris Cairns
  22. Fuller Pilch – Ted Dexter
  23. ataraxia – Vijay Merchant
  24. weeman27bob – Chaminda Vaas
  25. JOJOXI – Vernon Philander
  26. AndrewB – Monty Noble
  1. trundler – Quinton de Kock
  2. JOJOXI – Desmond Haynes
  3. Line and Length – MS Dhoni
  4. Magrat Garlick – Damien Martyn
  5. ataraxia – John Waite
  6. AndrewB – Doug Walters
  7. weeman27bob – Hashim Amla
  8. Himannv – Stuart MacGill
  9. Bitmap – Charles Macartney
  10. Pothas – Justin Langer
  11. shortpitched713 – Mohammad Yousuf
  12. Nikhil99.99 – Farokh Engineer
  13. Fuller Pilch – Brendon McCullum













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