The first Cricket sheep thread

@Aldo , I think you won that round buddy. I mean some top notch picks there, but yours was a class apart.
 
Genuinely surprised no one went for Keith Miller, I thought All rounders would be all the rage. Kapil Dev, Gavaskar ...damn shame that they are not a part of this.
 
Completed Teams:

Mani: 1. Holding 2. Ian Smith 3. Adam Bacher 4. J. Garner 5. Michael Clarke 6. Kanhai 7. K. Wessels 8. Gupte 9. Kallicharan 10. Hanif Mohammad 11. Frank Tyson 12. Darren Ganga (Sheep)

Akshay: 1. Ambrose 2. Harshan Tillakratne 3. Inzamam 4. Chanderpaul 5. Herbert Sutcliffe 6. Graeme Smith 7. Younis Khan 8. Phil Tufnell 9.Darren Gough 10. Darren Powell 11. Bill Johnston 12. Sydney Barnes

Ijazz17: 1. McGrath 2. Rod Marsh 3. Trescothick 4. F. Trueman 5. Wally Hammond 6. Sir Frank Worrell 7. SPD Smith 8. Jeff Thomson 9.Misbah ul Haq 10. Shakib Al Hasan 11. Bruce Mitchell 12. Anil Kumble

Samid: 1. Waqar Younis 2. Moin Khan 3. Michael Hussey 4. P. Collins 5. Kane Williamson 6.M. Vaughan 7. Ravi Shastri 8. Gillespie 9. Chris Gayle 10.Mohammad Amir 11.Wasim Raja 12. Sachin Tendulkar

PaulScholes18: 1. Botham 2. Prior 3. Mohammed Yousuf 4. Sehwag 5. Kevin Pietersen 6. Shervin Campbell 7. Ravi Ashwin 8. Philander 9. Gambhir 10. Ryan Harris 11. Jonathan Trott 12. Mitch Johnson

RedTiger: 1. Hirwani 2. Mushfiqur Rahim 3. Klusener 4. Kallis 5. Miandad 6. Mark Taylor 7. M. Slater 8. Bishan Singh Bedi 9. Ganguly 10. Merv Hughes 11.Shane Watson 12. Saqlain Mushtaq

Skills: 1. Steyn 2. Carlton Baugh 3. Justin Langer 4. Border 5. Greg Chappell 6. Swann 7. Chris Cairns 8. Mohd. Asif 9.Bill Lawry 10. Damien Martyn 11.Denis Amiss 12. Clyde Walcott

Crappy: 1. Mendis 2. Alan Knott 3. Nick Knight 4. S. Sreesanth 5. Alviro Petersen 6. M. Waugh 7. Chatfield 8. Ian Bishop 9. Arthur Morris 10.Zaheer Abbas 11.Mohinder Amarnath 12. Viv Richards

NM: 1. Donald 2. Les Ames 3. Roger Twose 4. Lance Gibbs 5. Martin Crowe 6. Clive Lloyd 7. C. Hooper 8. Sir Wes Hall 9. Sir Conrad Hunte 10. John Edrich 11.Fazal Mahmood 12. Lara

VanGaalEra: 1. Shillingford 2. Junior Murray 3. Ajay Jadeja 4. Vettori 5. Amla 6. J. Root 7. S. Akhtar 8. Bob Willis 9. Herschelle Gibbs 10. Rahane 11.Dilshan 12. Gilchrist

Boycott: 1. Chetan Sharma 2. Khaled Mashud 3. Blair Pocock 4.Boycott 5. Gooch 6. R. Benaud 7. J. Srinath 8. Alderman 9. Richie Richardson 10. Ian Chappell 11. Nathan Astle 12. Shaun Pollock

Kazi: 1. Bond 2. Dhoni 3. Craig Spearman 4. Greenidge 5. Haynes 6. Tony Greig 7. Mahela Jayawardene 8. Mohammad Rafique 9. Herath 10. McDermott 11. Angus Fraser 12. S. Waugh

Aldo: 1. Andy Roberts 2. Don Tallon 3. Basit Ali 4. D. Malcolm 5. George Headley 6. Stan McCabe 7. Abdul Qadir 8. Bedser 9. Barry Richards 10. Mike Procter 11. Ted Dexter 12. Jack Hobbs

Harshad: 1. Marshall 2. McCullum 3. Vaas 4. D. Compton 5. Graeme Pollock 6. Bobby Simpson 7. Azharuddin 8. Nicky Boje 9.John Snow 10. Wilfred Rhodes 11. Hugh Trumble 12. Dravid

Prath: 1. Harbhajan 2. Andy Flower 3. Stephen Fleming 4.Stuart Broad 5. Kohli 6. Jayasuriya 7. John Wright 8. Prassanna 9. Sarfaraz Nawaz 10. Heath Streak 11. Saleem Malik 12. Hayden

Skizzo: 1. Mushtaq Ahmed 2. Jeff Dujon 3. Laxman 4. D. Boon 5. Colin Cowdrey 6. Neil Harvey 7. David Warner 8. George Lohmann 9. Lindsay Hassett 10. Clarrie Grimmett 11. Tony Lock 12. Murali
 
1. Hunte
2. Edrich
3. Lara
4. Crowe
5. Lloyd
6. Ames
7. Hooper
8. Gibbs
9. Hall
10. Donald.
11. Mahmood.

I'm happy with my lot. 3 quicks a spinner and a part timer, and I bat deep.

Edit: Gibbs and Lloyd are related too!
 
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Crappy wins this round and no one come close to Viv Richards.
 
1. Sanath Jayasuriya
2. Mathew Hayden
3. Virat Kohli
4. Stephen Fleming(c)
5. Andy flower
6. Saleem Malik
7. Heath streak
8. Stuart Broad
9. Harbhajan Singh
10. Sarfraz Nawaz
11. E Prasanna

12. John Wright (player/coach)

Decent I guess
 
prath92 said:
1. Sanath Jayasuriya
2. Mathew Hayden
3. Virat Kohli
4. Stephen Fleming(c)
5. Andy flower
6. Saleem Malik
7. Heath streak
8. Stuart Broad
9. Harbhajan Singh
10. Sarfraz Nawaz
11. E Prasanna

12. John Wright (player/coach)

Decent I guess
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:lol:
 
  1. Boycott
  2. Gooch
  3. Chappell
  4. Richardson
  5. Astle
  6. Pollock
  7. Benaud (c)
  8. Mashud (wk)
  9. Srinath
  10. Sharma
  11. Alderman
Everyone in the top 8 has at least one test century. Even Mashud the sheep.

Pollock, Alderman, Srinath, Sharma (sheep). No out and out great but the first three were very good in their era.

Benaud bowling all rounder. Provides good spin.
Astle batting all rounder. Can throw down medium pace or occasionally off breaks

I'd loved to have had more flair in the top order but with the bowling attack I figured I need guys who bat big.

Boycott - at one stage was the leading run scorer in test history
Gooch - highest FC run scorer ever
Chappell - proper old school Aussie
Richardson - is quite a flair player. Fantastic vs the pacers.

I've got six former captains in my side. I'm not expecting to do well but after the first 3 rounds I'm satisfied with team.
 
1. Bob Simpson (c)
2. Wilfred Rhodes
3. Rahul Dravid
4. Graeme Pollock
5. Denis Compton
6. Mohd. Azharuddin
7. Brendon McCullum (wk)
8. Chaminda Vaas
9. Malcolm Marshall
10.John Snow
11. Hugh Trumble

Water bottle carrier : Nicky Boje
 
Next stage rules:

1) ONLY Players in the completed 12 men teams above will be available henceforth in next round and subsequent rounds.
2) All 16 teams will be randomly drawn against each other in 8 match ups, knockout.
3) 8 grounds across the world will be selected for round 1. One each from India, Pak, SL, WI, Aus, Eng, NZ and SA.
4) 8 grounds will be randomly allocated to the 8 match ups in first round. You may choose your 11 based on the ground.
5) Grounds for quarters (4) will be declared before start of next round. You may choose to use players from replenish pool accordingly. Although which match up will get which ground won't be declared beforehand. So you choose your 12 as best as you can and then final 11 to match ground.
6) Each day will have 2 matchups. Poll will be open for voting for 24 hours and will open around 13:30 IST (8AM GMT).
7. Toss will be virtual and will be done before start of every match. Playing 11 needs to be finalized before this.
8. For grounds, it is recommended that use the usual 'type of wicket' on that ground, not the very recent type. Also, grounds are indicative of certain condition not players' records on those grounds.

Grounds and match up info shortly.
 
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The Man Himself said:
Next stage rules:

1) ONLY Players in the completed 12 men teams above will be available henceforth in next round and subsequent rounds.
2) All 16 teams will be randomly drawn against each other in 8 match ups, knockout.
3) 8 grounds across the world will be selected for round 1. One each from India, Pak, SL, WI, Aus, Eng, NZ and SA.
4) 8 grounds will be randomly allocated to the 8 match ups in first round. You may choose your 11 based on the ground.
5) Grounds for quarters (4) will be declared before start of next round. You may choose to use players from replenish pool accordingly. Although which match up will get which ground won't be declared beforehand. So you choose your 12 as best as you can and then final 11 to match ground.
6) Each day will have 2 matchups. Poll will be open for voting for 24 hours and will open around 13:30 IST (8AM GMT).

Grounds and match up info shortly.
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Will we get some time to do our write up's ?
 
@NM

When are you travelling? So that we can move your match according to that..
 
Boycott said:
  1. Boycott
  2. Gooch
  3. Chappell
  4. Richardson
  5. Astle
  6. Pollock
  7. Benaud (c)
  8. Mashud (wk)
  9. Srinath
  10. Sharma
  11. Alderman
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You have three good to great allrounders. If you can make it to the quarters and replenish that squad a bit, you'd have a good chance I'd say.
 
harshad said:
Can someone explain the replenish pool?
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If it is similar to the Football drafts, then you are allowed to pick a player from the knocked out teams from the Round of 16.

Edit: Exactly how many picks are allowed, I'm not sure about though.
 
Ijazz17 said:
Will we get some time to do our write up's ?
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I will be announcing who plays on first day very soon. The ones playing first let me know if tomorrow start is OK. Rest will get at least 1 day which is good enough for write up I guess.
 
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