20 votes with discussion are better than a 100 votes from lurkers.
The first Cricket sheep thread
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But those 20 votes are going to come from the 16 participants and AM's and the likes of TMH, Kotha and KM etc.
I know lurkers will skew the polls, and it is very likely they will vote for names familiar to them, but some middle ground needs to be there is my feeling.
I doubt modmins will agree to sticky a cricket draft thread. Not required actually as there are cricket matches going on and 'other sports' enthusiast will visit this sub forum. It will depend if they want to vote or not though.
I view all football drafts but rarely vote because I don't know half of the older players well enough to have an informed judgement. Given this is an all time draft, it'll be the same. I'd rather the ones voting do so because they know the players rather than throwing in a vote for the well known names. We can have around 25 voters I believe, that's good enough
Alright, let's see how Day 1 goes and take that as a barometer.
Exactly. Football drafts can be very intimidating. I think cricket is a little easier because the pool of players is smaller, and some of the teams that have been drafted are made up of mostly modern players. Plus, worst come to worst, you always have the hard numbers to go by.
I also have a question on this replenishing pool. Are we allowed to pick players from all the losing teams of R16 or just the team we beat ?And how many picks do we get ?
Not decided yet.
So when the first match starts ?
I'm a bit fecked for time, leaving work at like 9ish every night. How long does the right up have to be?
Better to keep it short and add rest during the match hour.
sorry i'm late. here is my draft, have settled on the batting line up yet. who do i have in round 1?
jack hobbs
len hutton
don bradman
sachin tendulkar
gary sobers
viv richards
adam gilchrist
malcolm marshall
shane warne
wasim akram
dennis lillee
jack hobbs
len hutton
don bradman
sachin tendulkar
gary sobers
viv richards
adam gilchrist
malcolm marshall
shane warne
wasim akram
dennis lillee
Good team.
Decent team but absence of likes of Shillingford, Jr. Murray and Darren Powell will hurt you.
Cheers Nasser. It's a cracking pitch, we are going to bat first. Recent history shows that it won't do much for the first couple of days, the last 6 results have all gone in favour of the team batting first. Looking at the opposition batting hopefully we only need to bat big once.
Plan to bat big and make the 4th innings chase a big ask.
Carlton Baugh
When is my match?
Is the write up format supposed to be all in one post?
If you want people to actually read, yeah.
Would have thought a few short posts would be better than one long post.
I'm going to keep it really short, been working 12/13 hour days this week.
Saturday
And Day 1 kicks off.....
Apparenty not :|
*Knock knock* 
Starts at 8am GMT doesn't it? That's still 3 hours away.*Knock knock*
Is that so ?? I thought 8 IST for some reason...
Well that makes sense now. But the Caf is very quiet today. Busy people with lives !
So is this an open vote ? Like people that don't vote get to know what the current status is? Or is it like one of those cases where only people who post are eligible to vote?
I'll send mine in shortly.
a fellow stick cricket player..
Open vote. We will have to tell mod who adds poll that.
*waves*