Cricket Draft - Tests

Evidently not. Can we PLEASE finish this today before our match. I can't understand why it has to drag so much for the 12th man.
 
Interval Level/ The Regulator - Viv Richards, Donald, Lillee, Gooch, Yousuf, Cairns, Greig, T. Dilshan, Salim Malik, Caddick, Parore​
The Man himself - Kallis, Walsh, Kumble, Kirsten, McDermott, Boon, Thorpe, Vengsarkar, Brian McMillan, Mudassar Nazar, Iqbal Qasim​
Akash / manikandan nair - Botham, Waqar, Greenidge, Mushtaq, Haynes, Gough, Richardson, Kirmani, Hooper, Ranatunga, Aldermann​
Aldo - Warne, McGrath, Ponting, Bishop, Crowe, Boucher, Jayasuriya, Merv Hughes, Gibbs, Lehmann, Kim Hughes, Wasim Raja​
NM - Imran, Greg Chappell, Garner, MacGill, Inzamam, Stewart, Anwar, Kallicharran, Srinath, Adams, Bruce Yardley, Coney​
MJJ - Akram, Akhtar, Saqlain, Lee, Flintoff, M Waugh, Fleming, Cullinan,S.Mohammad,Sohail,Ahmed, Latif​
Donaldo - Hadlee, Dravid, Andy Roberts,Hayden, Vettori, Langer, Dujon, De Silva, Reid, Cronje, Lamb, Tillakaratne​
ghaliboy/Kazi - Tendulkar, Pollock, Border, Harbhajan, Chanderpaul, Atherton, Wright, Streak, Ridley Jacobs, Damien Fleming, Afridi, Moin Khan​
Red Indian- Marshall, Lara, Steve Waugh, Croft, Taylor, Vaas, Healy, Shastri, Atapattu, N Hussain, Patterson, Rhodes​
Varun_Utd - Gavaskar, Murali, Thomson, Laxman, Gower, Gillespie, Martyn, Rod Marsh, Wessels, Reiffel, Gatting, Larry Gomes​
KM- Ambrose, Kapil, Bob Willis, Flower, Herath, Azharuddin, Jones, Ganguly, G Marsh, Mohsin Khan, Fraser, Razzaq​
crappy/SammersHammer - Holding, Gilchrist, Qadir, Miandad, Ntini, Jayawardene, Vaughan, Slater, Robin Smith, N. Astle, G.Lawson, Greg Mathews​
 
Graham Yallop.​
Interval Level/ The Regulator - Viv Richards, Donald, Lillee, Gooch, Yousuf, Cairns, Greig, T. Dilshan, Salim Malik, Caddick, Parore​
The Man himself - Kallis, Walsh, Kumble, Kirsten, McDermott, Boon, Thorpe, Vengsarkar, Brian McMillan, Mudassar Nazar, Iqbal Qasim​
Akash / manikandan nair - Botham, Waqar, Greenidge, Mushtaq, Haynes, Gough, Richardson, Kirmani, Hooper, Ranatunga, Aldermann, Yallop​
Aldo - Warne, McGrath, Ponting, Bishop, Crowe, Boucher, Jayasuriya, Merv Hughes, Gibbs, Lehmann, Kim Hughes, Wasim Raja​
NM - Imran, Greg Chappell, Garner, MacGill, Inzamam, Stewart, Anwar, Kallicharran, Srinath, Adams, Bruce Yardley, Coney​
MJJ - Akram, Akhtar, Saqlain, Lee, Flintoff, M Waugh, Fleming, Cullinan,S.Mohammad,Sohail,Ahmed, Latif​
Donaldo - Hadlee, Dravid, Andy Roberts,Hayden, Vettori, Langer, Dujon, De Silva, Reid, Cronje, Lamb, Tillakaratne​
ghaliboy/Kazi - Tendulkar, Pollock, Border, Harbhajan, Chanderpaul, Atherton, Wright, Streak, Ridley Jacobs, Damien Fleming, Afridi, Moin Khan​
Red Indian- Marshall, Lara, Steve Waugh, Croft, Taylor, Vaas, Healy, Shastri, Atapattu, N Hussain, Patterson, Rhodes​
Varun_Utd - Gavaskar, Murali, Thomson, Laxman, Gower, Gillespie, Martyn, Rod Marsh, Wessels, Reiffel, Gatting, Larry Gomes​
KM- Ambrose, Kapil, Bob Willis, Flower, Herath, Azharuddin, Jones, Ganguly, G Marsh, Mohsin Khan, Fraser, Razzaq​
crappy/SammersHammer - Holding, Gilchrist, Qadir, Miandad, Ntini, Jayawardene, Vaughan, Slater, Robin Smith, N. Astle, G.Lawson, Greg Mathews​
 
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The list I PMed KM - (Check with him for timestamp as confirmation that this was done before IL posted his )

1) Aldo
2) Varun_Utd
3) Interval Level
4) ghaliboy/Kazi
5) Red Indian
6) MJJ
7) crappy
8) Akash / manikandan nair
9) Donaldol
10) The Man himself
11) KM
12) NM

which makes the groups as following

Group A

8) Akash / manikandan nair
9) Donaldol
5) Red Indian

Group B

1) Aldo
2) Varun_Utd
4) ghaliboy/Kazi

Group C

10) The Man himself
6) MJJ
3) Interval Level

Group D

11) KM
12) NM
7) crappy
 
I will post the rules for the upcoming matches tonight. Also the rules regarding the picks once the round robins are over.

And we will have our first match on tuesday so that people have Monday for their write ups.
 
So Kiran More or Romesh Kalu is the choice. I will go with Kiran More. Rate him highly as WK and though he never scored century, was a dogged batsman whose overseas average was admirable.
 
Dilip Doshi: Spectacles donning, post 30-debuting, Kapil Dev partnering spinman and rather dour Gujarati looking man

PS: Sells mont blanc pens now, apparently
Interval Level/ The Regulator - Viv Richards, Donald, Lillee, Gooch, Yousuf, Cairns, Greig, T. Dilshan, Salim Malik, Caddick, Parore, Doshi​
The Man himself - Kallis, Walsh, Kumble, Kirsten, McDermott, Boon, Thorpe, Vengsarkar, Brian McMillan, Mudassar Nazar, Iqbal Qasim, More​
Akash / manikandan nair - Botham, Waqar, Greenidge, Mushtaq, Haynes, Gough, Richardson, Kirmani, Hooper, Ranatunga, Aldermann, Yallop​
Aldo - Warne, McGrath, Ponting, Bishop, Crowe, Boucher, Jayasuriya, Merv Hughes, Gibbs, Lehmann, Kim Hughes, Wasim Raja​
NM - Imran, Greg Chappell, Garner, MacGill, Inzamam, Stewart, Anwar, Kallicharran, Srinath, Adams, Bruce Yardley, Coney​
MJJ - Akram, Akhtar, Saqlain, Lee, Flintoff, M Waugh, Fleming, Cullinan,S.Mohammad,Sohail,Ahmed, Latif​
Donaldo - Hadlee, Dravid, Andy Roberts,Hayden, Vettori, Langer, Dujon, De Silva, Reid, Cronje, Lamb, Tillakaratne​
ghaliboy/Kazi - Tendulkar, Pollock, Border, Harbhajan, Chanderpaul, Atherton, Wright, Streak, Ridley Jacobs, Damien Fleming, Afridi, Moin Khan​
Red Indian- Marshall, Lara, Steve Waugh, Croft, Taylor, Vaas, Healy, Shastri, Atapattu, N Hussain, Patterson, Rhodes​
Varun_Utd - Gavaskar, Murali, Thomson, Laxman, Gower, Gillespie, Martyn, Rod Marsh, Wessels, Reiffel, Gatting, Larry Gomes​
KM- Ambrose, Kapil, Bob Willis, Flower, Herath, Azharuddin, Jones, Ganguly, G Marsh, Mohsin Khan, Fraser, Razzaq​
crappy/SammersHammer - Holding, Gilchrist, Qadir, Miandad, Ntini, Jayawardene, Vaughan, Slater, Robin Smith, N. Astle, G.Lawson, Greg Mathews​
 
crappycraperson said:
I will post the rules for the upcoming matches tonight. Also the rules regarding the picks once the round robins are over.

And we will have our first match on tuesday so that people have Monday for their write ups.
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Will all groups be playing simultenously? If not, I request to schedule my match on thursday at earliest as I will not be having much access to internet on wednesday and thursday first half.
 
The Man Himself said:
Will all groups be playing simultenously? If not, I request to schedule my match on thursday at earliest as I will not be having much access to internet on wednesday and thursday first half.
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1 game a day so your match can be scheduled accordingly.
 
So this is my final team. Thoughts:

Anwar
Stewart
Kallicharran
Chappel
Inzamam
Adams
Imran
Yardley/Coney
Srinath
Garner
MacGill

Only change might be dropping Yardley and playing Coney, if the other tea has a weak bowling buy strong batting. Thoughts?
 
NM said:
So this is my final team. Thoughts:

Anwar
Stewart
Kallicharran
Chappel
Inzamam
Adams
Imran
Yardley/Coney
Srinath
Garner
MacGill

Only change might be dropping Yardley and playing Coney, if the other tea has a weak bowling buy strong batting. Thoughts?
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Love your middle order, think you are a bit weak bowling wise but thats it.
 
Like the look of your team NM..openers are decent and the middle order is quite excellent. Imran and Garner are quality but I'm not convinced by Srinath as a third bowler, and I never rated McGill as high as some of the Aussies used to.
 
Donaldo said:
Like the look of your team NM..openers are decent and the middle order is quite excellent. Imran and Garner are quality but I'm not convinced by Srinath as a third bowler, and I never rated McGill as high as some of the Aussies used to.
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Srinath is quality in the subcontintent and I always felt that he was let down by the other crap bowlers around him. I thought he was decent value at the time. He's one of my childhood favorites, so I had to pick him!

MacGill IMO was good - not great. But there are only 3 (maybe 4 with Qadir) great spinners in the draft.
 
I Anal Doer 18 said:
Jayasuriya
Gibbs
Ponting
Crowe
Lehmann
Kim Hughes/Wasim Raja
Boucher
Warne
Merv Hughes
Bishop
McGrath

Thoughts?
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Bowling looks very good. Openers you have, haven't been that great in tests. 3rd and 4th are fantastic but then again 5th and 6th, not so much. Will kind of depend on venue you play.
 
I will put my final team as well for thoughts.

Kirsten
Nazar
Boon
Kallis
Vengsarkar
Thorpe
McMillan
More
Mcdermott/Qasim
Kumble
Walsh

2000+ test wickets in there.
 
I'd say the openers were better in ODIs yes but could handle tests as well. They're no Gavaskar or anything obviously but still Sanath has a 340 to his name and if he gets going he's hard to stop.

The fact that they're followed by Ponting who would stay on the pitch for ages sorta of balances that. Surely the weakest area of the team but think it can do a job. Just think that since they were so good in ODIs kinda makes people overlook their test performances.
 
I Anal Doer 18 said:
I'd say the openers were better in ODIs yes but could handle tests as well. They're no Gavaskar or anything obviously but still Sanath has a 340 to his name and if he gets going he's hard to stop.

The fact that they're followed by Ponting who would stay on the pitch for ages sorta of balances that. Surely the weakest area of the team but think it can do a job. Just think that since they were so good in ODIs kinda makes people overlook their test performances.
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If it is subcontinent, Jayasuriya would be great asset, both with bat and ball. Not sure how his away record reads. As I said, not bad pair of openers by any means, but some of the other areas look stronger in your team and this can be a weak area which you will have to defend.
 
The Man Himself said:
If it is subcontinent, Jayasuriya would be great asset, both with bat and ball. Not sure how his away record reads. As I said, not bad pair of openers by any means, but some of the other areas look stronger in your team and this can be a weak area which you will have to defend.
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True, not denying that.

I think I should sell Kim Hughes a bit. Not sure if everyone watched the video I posted when I picked him but not many thrashed that great WI attack like that, and that too when the whole team was falling around him like a pack of cards. He captained Australia for some time, was pretty strong mentally and good to have in tough situations. Stats won't do justice to his talent, though.
 
NM said:
And here I thought I had my bowling sorted!
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I dont rate srinath that highly and feel macgill is a poor spinner as well. Imran and Garner are ofcourse quality and dont know anything about your last two options so that is why I feel its a bit weak.
 
Macgill is hardly a poor spinner though. He just comes of looking badly because he's inevitably compared to Warne.
 
MJJ said:
I dont rate srinath that highly and feel macgill is a poor spinner as well. Imran and Garner are ofcourse quality and dont know anything about your last two options so that is why I feel its a bit weak.
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akash02 said:
Macgill is hardly a poor spinner though. He just comes of looking badly because he's inevitably compared to Warne.
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akash answers the question on MacGill pretty well. He compares favorably with most spinners, but lives in Warne's shadow. I won't comment on Srinath - let's agree to disagree there.
 
when are we starting the games? Need to keep this moving or it will die.
 
Group A

8) Akash / manikandan nair
9) Donaldol
5) Red Indian

Group B

1) Aldo
2) Varun_Utd
4) ghaliboy/Kazi

Group C

10) The Man himself
6) MJJ
3) Interval Level

Group D

11) KM
12) NM
7) crappy


Fixtures

12/11/2013 - Donaldol vs Red Indian
13/11/2013 - Aldo vs ghaliboy/Kazi
13/11/2013 - MJJ vs Interval Level
14/11/2013 - KM vs NM
14/11/2013 - Donaldol vs akash/nair
15/11/2013 - Aldo vs Varun_Utd
18/11/2013 - The Man himself vs Interval Level
18/11/2013 - KM vs crappy
19/11/2013 - Red Indian vs akash/nair
20/11/2013 - ghaliboy/Kazi vs Varun_Utd
21/11/2013 - The Man himself vs MJJ
22/11/2013 - crappy vs NM

25/11/2013 - Semi final 1
26/11/2013 - Semi final 2

28/11/2013 - Final


Rules regarding venues and picks after round robins shortly
 
Can't we have two matches on a day and matches on weekends?
 
MJJ, IL can you two play your fixture on 14th instead of 20th? I won't be available for most of the day on 14th, so a fixture swap for 14th and 20th will be helpful.
 
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