Cricket Draft - Tests

Red-Indian said:
Twat. He was my first choice for the next pick to bring back together the Marshall-Garner partnership that devastated so many in the eighties.

You cnuts really need to stick to the players you've watched and leave the eighties players to me.
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I've seen enough from the 80s. It's the 70s that give me trouble - hence the PM.

The Man Himself said:
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:lol: no chance he was coming to you
 
Actually, Marshall and Holding were better than Garner. Garner was awkward due to his height. I'd wager that if you ask people who saw them play, you'd come up with a majority who'd place him third.

Still a darn good pick, mind you.
 
Interval Level said:
Actually, Marshall and Holding were better than Garner. Garner was awkward due to his height. I'd wager that if you ask people who saw them play, you'd come up with a majority who'd place him third.

Still a darn good pick, mind you.
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Well he did go third - after Marshall and Holding - correct place to pick him IMO
 
Interval Level said:
Actually, Marshall and Holding were better than Garner. Garner was awkward due to his height. I'd wager that if you ask people who saw them play, you'd come up with a majority who'd place him third.

Still a darn good pick, mind you.
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I'd say that's right. What a pack it was though!

Me and a few friends were coming out of the night club at the Taj back in 2002 when we saw Michael Holding stepping out a cab coming back from somewhere. Obviously we were all slightly sozzled but I couldn't pass up the opportunity so I went up to him (trying not to look too awestruck) and asked "Is the entire West Indies team staying here?" He turns to me and in that brilliant Jamaican accent of his says, "young man, you may not have noticed, but i'm not playing for the West Indies any more." He had a drink with us and chatted for nearly 15-20 minutes about why West Indies doesn't produce quality fast bowlers any more and various other shit though it was about 2 in the morning. Brilliant character.
 
We should probably give him a couple of hours and if he doesn't come on, get someone else to take over management of the team. Missing two picks would be a disaster for a team. He already missed a fair few players.
 
Red-Indian said:
We should probably give him a couple of hours and if he doesn't come on, get someone else to take over management of the team. Missing two picks would be a disaster for a team. He already missed a fair few players.
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agreed
 
Just talked to a newbie(The Regulator) and he's ready to take MJJ's place.

I think we should let him pick and when MJJ comes back they both can play in a team. The game moves on.
 
KM said:
Just talked to a newbie(The Regulator) and he's ready to take MJJ's place.

I think we should let him pick and when MJJ comes back they both can play in a team. The game moves on.
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OMG Reg! I hope he doesn't have a specific draft lingo like he uses in WW games and which only he understands :D
 
KM said:
Just talked to a newbie(The Regulator) and he's ready to take MJJ's place.

I think we should let him pick and when MJJ comes back they both can play in a team. The game moves on.
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Well.. why hasn't he picked then?
 
He picks Graham Gooch and Saqlain Mushtaq.
 
Interval Level - Viv Richards, Allan Donald, Dennis Lillee
The Man himself - Kallis, Courtney Walsh, Anil Kumble.
Akash / manikandan nair - Botham, Waqar, Greenidge
Aldo - Shane Warne, Glenn McGrath, Ricky Ponting
NM - Imran Khan, Greg Chappell, Joel Garner
MJJ/The Regulator - Wasim Akram, Gooch and Saqlain Mushtaq
Donaldol - Hadlee, Dravid
ghaliboy - Tendulkar, Pollock
Red Indian - Marshall, Lara
Varun_Utd - Gavaskar, Murali
KM- Ambrose, Kapil
crappy - Holding, Gilchrist
 
Interval Level - Viv Richards, Allan Donald, Lillee
The Man himself - Kallis, Walsh, Kumble.
Akash / manikandan nair - Botham, Waqar, Greenidge
Aldo - Warne, McGrath, Ponting
NM - Imran Khan, Greg Chappell, Garner
MJJ/The Regulator - Akram, Gooch, Saqlain
Donaldol - Hadlee, Dravid, Andy Roberts
ghaliboy - Tendulkar, Pollock
Red Indian - Marshall, Lara
Varun_Utd - Gavaskar, Murali
KM- Ambrose, Kapil
crappy - Holding, Gilchrist
 
That's only theoretical. In practice though, the four of them terrorised world cricket for a decade. The fifth had injury issues, apartheid tours and other shit which in my book excludes him from being considered part of the pack.
 
I do talk with a few people more than others. I missed one pick as was flying home yesterday. And seeing as nm only picked four hours ago I had plenty of time for my third pick. So am out.
 
Fair enough up to you I guess. People get a little impatient in these games. If you'd messaged your choices or even let people in the thread know that you'd be unavailable for a while, we wouldn't have assumed you'd lost interest.

Hope you stay interested enough to vote in any case.
 
MJJ: If too much damage hasn't been done, would you be fine if you got to repick your two? Or has donaldo's pick really fecked you over?
 
If it's ok with the others you could pick your two players again. I wouldn't have expected the two picked by regulator to go in this round in any case, so shouldn't affect any immediate choices.
 
Think it should be ok since you were the original player. He can of course still give you his opinions via PM.

You'd also have one new poster you speak with more than others. ;)
 
:lol: In that case I will stick with saqlain but replace gooch with akhtar. Only if he is fine with it though. If he doesnt want to be an AM for IL I dont mind not playing.
 
We can all apologise to TR. I'm sure he'd understand. Plus, I wasn't kidding when I said I need players to bounce ideas off of.

Update the list please, MJJ.
 
Interval Level - Viv Richards, Allan Donald, Lillee​
The Man himself - Kallis, Walsh, Kumble.​
Akash / manikandan nair - Botham, Waqar, Greenidge​
Aldo - Warne, McGrath, Ponting​
NM - Imran Khan, Greg Chappell, Garner​
MJJ - Akram, Akhtar, Saqlain​
Donaldol - Hadlee, Dravid, Andy Roberts​
ghaliboy - Tendulkar, Pollock​
Red Indian - Marshall, Lara​
Varun_Utd - Gavaskar, Murali​
KM- Ambrose, Kapil​
crappy - Holding, Gilchrist​
 
Good picks MJJ. Maybe my memory is off but weren't you totally batting focussed the last test draft? You've gone in the opposite direction this time for sure. That's a formidable bowling attack.
 
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