Voting thread - number of tests draft

[Fuller Pilch]

Apologies for the long delay, but life interrupted CW and it has been impossible to get this sorted until now. Thanks for your patience.

For those not in the draft, the rules were as follows:

Each XI needs

One player who (has) played 0 - 9 tests. Thus players who never played a test/are yet to debut are eligible. Players from countries which have never played tests or countries that weren't at the time are eligible.

Three players who (have) played 10-49 tests

Three players who (have) played 50-89 tests.

Three players who (have) played 90-129 tests.

One player who (has) played 130-200 tests.

No Bradman.

It was interesting to see how drafters apportioned player resources from the different test bands (especially the 0-9 one). There were still some pretty decent players left unpicked as well.


I decided to allow FIVE votes as it can be hard restricting to just 3 picks.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Teams:

Honest Hunks S Jayasuriya (vc) S Watson D Compton (c) H Brook R Pant (wk) S Jackson A Faulkner H Singh M Johnson S Broad B Willis	CricAddict Sunil Gavaskar Arthur Morris Rahul Dravid Kevin Pietersen Michael Clarke Imran Khan (c) 1 Denis Lindsay (wk) Richie Benaud 5 Andy Roberts 3 Scott Boland 4 Waqar Younis 2	trundler Gordon Greenidge Eddie Barlow 6 Kumar Sangakarra Javed Miandad Clem Hill* Tony Greig 5 Taslim Arif+ Wasim Akram 1 Ray Lindwall 2 Brian Statham 3 Bill O'Reilly 4
Bitmap Geoffrey Boycott Justin Langer Ricky Ponting Rohan Kanhai Frank Worrell* Chris Cairns Mike Procter Alan Knott+ Pat Cummins Clarrie Grimmett Colin Croft	CricZo XI Virender Sehwag / Matthew Hayden / Babar Azam / Graeme Pollock / Allan Border / o (c) Lee Irvine / MS Dhoni + / Peter Pollock o / Derek Underwood o Michael Holding o Allan Donald o	Fuller Pilch Bob Simpson 6 (c) Usman Khawaja Kane Williamson Jacques Kallis 4 Dudley Nourse Martin Donnelly Tom Blundell (wk) Shaun Pollock 1 Ravi Ashwin 5 Kagiso Rabada 3 Neil Adcock 2
Red Hill CC Len Hutton Victor Trumper Viv Richards Mike Hussey David Gower Brad Hodge Kapil Dev Rod Marsh + Harold Larwood Dennis Lillee Stuart MacGill	ataraxia Barry Richards / Bill Lawry / Neil Harvey / Sachin Tendulkar / Younis Khan / Charles Macartney / o Adam Gilchrist + / Maurice Tate o / Tim Southee o Jim Laker o Alec Bedser o	ankijt Garry Kirsten Vinoo Mankad [5] Greg Chappell (c) Virat Kohli Everton Weekes Arvinda de Silva Andy Flower (wk) Richard Hadlee [1] Jack Cowie [3] Muttiah Muralitharan [4] Jasprit Bumrah [2]
Pothas Archie Jackson Glenn Turner Peter May* Steve Smith Stan McCabe Keith Miller Quinton de Kock+ Ian Botham Hedley Verity Dale Steyn James Anderson	Line and Length Sir Jack Hobbs / Herbert Sutcliffe / Marnus Labuschagne /o Sir Clive Lloyd (c) /o Sir Garfield Sobers /o Ben Stokes /o Ryan ten Doeschate /o Matt Prior (w/k) Hugh Tayfield o Shoaib Akhtar o Courtney Walsh o	Teuton Graeme Smith c WG Grace Wally Hammond Inzamam-ul-Haq Mohammad Yousuf Ted Dexter BJ Watling Alan Davidson Shane Warne Vintcent van der Bijl John Snow
JOJOXI Bill Ponsford Desmond Haynes George Headley Martin Crowe Steve Waugh (c) (6) AB de Villiers (wk) Clive Rice (4) Shakib Al Hasan (5) Curtly Ambrose (1) Joel Garner (3) Wes Hall (2)	Patience and Accuracy + Gut Graham Gooch Vijay Merchant Hashim Amla Joe root Shivnarine Chanderpaul Clyde Walcott+ Ravindra Jadeja (4) Andrew Flintoff (5) Bart King (3) Malcolm Marshall (2) Sydney Barnes (1)	Himannv 01. Bruce Mitchell / 02. David Boon / 03. Ken Barrington / 04. Brian Lara* / 05. Stuart Law / 06. Doug Walters /o 07. Les Ames+ / 08. Fred Trueman o 09. Ian Bishop o 10. Rangana Herath o 11. Glenn McGrath o

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Some great sides and it was hard choosing 5. Voted for

ankitj - batting is a bit light despite Flower's inclusion, but that bowling attack! I'd probably prefer Cowie with the new ball and Bumrah 1st change though.

I quite like Teuton's attack and the selection of big Vint along with the 3 great English batting allrounders.

PAG with Barnes and Marshall along with Bart King was a nice touch.

L & L - went a bit over the top with the allrounders at 5, 6, 7 but to have Sobers and those openers is very handy.

Despite the interesting wicketkeeping selection of Taslim Arif (instead of perhaps someone like Ray Jennings, Luke Ronchi, or Brendon Kuruppu) trundler's side is nicely balanced, so got my last vote.

I also really liked ataraxia's team amongst others. It would be fantastic in many conditions, but possibly needs a bit more pace, so missed out on a vote. Also am not sure about MacCartney at 6. A lot of other very good sides just missed out, but I don't have time to comment further.

 

[Pothas]

Surprised CricAddict and Trundler haven't got more votes.

 

[Himannv]

Surprised CricAddict and Trundler haven't got more votes.

I've somehow missed CA's team. I need to reevaluate the teams and perhaps change my vote. Love trundler's bowling but his batting is quite weak in comparison to some other sides.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Bump.

Only 9 voters so far

 

[ankitj]

I will vote. Need 5-10 minutes to closely look at all the sides

 

[Teuton]

I've added mine

 

[kingkallis]

Participating drafters must vote or else there is no point of such polls, IMHO.

 

[Patience and Accuracy+Gut]

My top 5 would be-

L and L-Slightly weak bowling attack but an unbreakable opening partnership and Sir Gary should do well regardless.

CricAddict-Imo the best team in the poll.

Red Hill CC-Would be a sight to see that team.

JOJOXI -Ambrose,Garner in bowling with Headley in batting should be good enough.

Himannv-A complete team in all aspects.

 

[CricAddict]

Had a re-look at the teams. Red Hill's team is so good and surprised that it has not got many votes. Even I didn't but I don't want to change my votes now. Quite tough picking 5.

 

[HookShot]

I like the team of Patience and Accuracy + Gut because its attack of Marshall/Barnes/King is basically the cricketing equivalent of an Aston Martin V8 with a super model draped over it.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

We have 2 teams with 7 votes and 4 with 6.

I'll give it another 48 hours to see if there is a clear winner.

 

[trundler]

Probably shouldn't have picked Greig if I was going to go with Barlow as an opener but I do like having centurions down to #9.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

That was extremely close.

Congrats to Pothas and L & L who both got 7 votes.

Just behind were CricAddict, Bitmap, JOJO, and PAG with 6 votes.

 

[Line and Length]

@Fuller Pilch Thanks for an enjoyable draft made all the more enjoyable by my best showing in voting. Broken free from my usual mid-field.

 

[Pothas]

Yeah this was pretty much a draw all round wasn't it.

 

[JOJOXI]

Congrats @Pothas and @Line and Length, and thank you @Fuller Pilch for an enjoyable draft.

Not sure I've been a part of a draft with voting as tight as this!

 

[Line and Length]

@Fuller Pilch Are you going to post the results on the Draft Honour Board thread? It may be the only mention I get.

 

[CricAddict]

That honours board has not been updated since August 2022. Quite a few drafts have happened since.