2017 TEST DRAFT (50 cap limit)

Verity · Postby **Verity** » Thu Jan 26, 2017 2:17 am

TedWard wrote:
Verity wrote:
Teds plan was to get us to review eachothers, person under each person on the table...

Thanks guys for running with this whilst I've been away.

I'm writing up a review of Rajas team just now. I'm thinking we do another review thread maybe? I'll post something in the next couple days that hopefully gives everyone an idea of the format we could do.

You may as well delete the presentation thread GS put up if we are still going with this.

Leo · Postby **Leo** » Thu Jan 26, 2017 4:12 am

Edgar John Barlow (South Africa)

raja · Postby **raja** » Thu Jan 26, 2017 1:52 pm

	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th
Raja	Syd Barnes	Victor Trumper	Vijay Merchant	Aubrey Faulkner	Ryan Harris	Ian Bishop	Monty Noble	Charles Macartney	Bill Edrich	Phil Mead	Dennis Lindsay (wk)
Ted	Andy Roberts	Stuart MacGill	Les Ames (wk)	Arthur Morris	Mitchell Starc	Colin Miller	Keith Stackpole	Brad Hodge	Stuart Law	Tom Moody	11
Afghankhan	Barry Richards	Shoaib Akhtar	Bill O'Reilly	Mike Procter	Ben Stokes	Vijay Hazare	Clem Hill	Ranji	Bill Johnston	Bill Brown	Johnny Bairstow
BoyCaught30	Glenn Turner	Jim Laker	Farokh Engineer (wk)	Sid Barnes	Fred Spofforth	Fazal Mahmood	Angus Fraser	Murray Goodwin	Warwick Armstrong	Darren Lehmann	Basil Butcher
Misty	Everton Weekes	Clarrie Grimmett	Vinoo Mankad	Saeed Ajmal	Trevor Goddard	Conrad Hunte	Charlie Turner	John Waite (wk)	Colin Bland	Maurice Tate	Andrew Jones
Verity	Clyde Walcott(wk)	Steve Smith	Hedley Verity	Bill Ponsford	Andrew Symonds	Wesley Hall	Charlie Griffith	Harold Larwood	Greg Matthews	Martin Donnelly	Martin Love
Louie_db9	George Headley	Vernon Philander	Johnny Briggs	Colin Croft	Stan McCabe	Bruce Mitchell	Sarfaraz Ahmed (wk)	Bill Woodfull	Jack Gregory	Sonny Ramadhin	Ajinkya Rahane
GoingSouth	R Ashwin	John Snow	Kiran More(wk)	Saqlain Mushtaq	Maurice Leyland	Lindsay Hassett	Tamim Iqbal	Warren Bardsley	Terry Alderman	Dareen Bravo	Trent Boult
Super	Graeme Pollock	Alan Davidson	Quinton de Kock(wk)	Frank Tyson	Bob Cowper	Kagiso Rabada	Cheteshwar Pujara	Colin Blythe	Dennis Amiss	Mominul Haq	Seymour Nurse
Leo	A D Nourse	G A Lohmann	Shane Bond	Shakib Al Hasan	Eddie Paynter	BJ Watling (wk)	Neil Adcock	David Houghton	Douglas Jardine	Bruce Reid	Eddie Barlow

raja · Postby **raja** » Thu Jan 26, 2017 1:53 pm

Both Seymour Nurse and Eddie Barlow are very good picks, especially for this 11th round.

Ted, everyone else is done with his picks. Could you please pick your 11th player now? Thanks.

Misty · Postby **Misty** » Thu Jan 26, 2017 3:35 pm

raja wrote:Both Seymour Nurse and Eddie Barlow are very good picks, especially for this 11th round.

Ted, everyone else is done with his picks. Could you please pick your 11th player now? Thanks.

SMN and Ajmal had one thing common
Tell me what?

But yes 258 in last test great

Going South · Postby **Going South** » Thu Jan 26, 2017 3:42 pm

Retiring after hitting 258?
Man. Many cricketers could learn from that, retiring on a high. 1967 belongs to him.

SuperGLS · Postby **SuperGLS** » Fri Jan 27, 2017 10:19 pm

So that's it? We're done?

raja · Postby **raja** » Sat Jan 28, 2017 8:12 am

Not yet. Ted still has to pick his last player.

Boycs · Postby **Boycs** » Sat Jan 28, 2017 10:30 am

We should pick it for him

Boycs · Postby **Boycs** » Sat Jan 28, 2017 10:31 am

I'd also like to know, once Ted has picked, which cricketers raja was expecting to be selected who were not.

Boycs · Postby **Boycs** » Sun Jan 29, 2017 12:08 pm

So what's happening with this? Ted?

Going South · Postby **Going South** » Sun Jan 29, 2017 5:06 pm

Let's start the reviews.
Ted would catch up later.

Boycs · Postby **Boycs** » Sun Jan 29, 2017 5:47 pm

Agreed. On a new thread? Or.....?

I'm going to enjoy only having to review one team. Can give full attention to it

Going South · Postby **Going South** » Sun Jan 29, 2017 8:20 pm

We can use presentation thread itself

Verity · Postby **Verity** » Mon Jan 30, 2017 9:41 am

This happens at the end of every one :lmao:

Leo · Postby **Leo** » Thu Feb 02, 2017 4:21 am

So, is it the end of the draft???? Pathetic Finishing

Boycs · Postby **Boycs** » Thu Feb 02, 2017 11:01 am

I'm just going to go ahead and review aks team in the presentation thread

raja · Postby **raja** » Thu Feb 02, 2017 1:48 pm

Yes, I think we could just go ahead and review the teams as per Ted's proposal of reviewing the team before you in the list.

Only the one supposed to review Ted (AK) might need to wait till Ted picks.

Going South · Postby **Going South** » Thu Feb 02, 2017 4:06 pm

I second that.
I also suggest everyone list 2 other teams on what they like.
Whoever get more votes is the winner.

Verity · Postby **Verity** » Thu Feb 02, 2017 8:26 pm

My Votes

1st (3 Points) - Rajas Team

2nd (2 Points) - Afghan (ruined his team with his last selection but still the 2nd best IMO)

3rd (1 Point) - Misty

Verity · Postby **Verity** » Sat Feb 04, 2017 1:26 am

hurry up and vote, not rocket science, no need for presentations most you boring people picked current players anyway we all know who they are.

Leo · Postby **Leo** » Sat Feb 04, 2017 6:08 am

Can anyone vote for himself? :popcorn:

raja · Postby **raja** » Sat Feb 04, 2017 8:47 am

My top3
---------

AK (Stokes & Bairstow)
Misty (clean)
Louie_db9 (Philander & Rahane)

Normally, in my head, I should be deduting marks for current players who are quite likely to get to 50 Tests. :-)
But since this was allowed as per the rules, I have let it be.

I like that Misty's team is clean; no current players.

Verity · Postby **Verity** » Sun Feb 05, 2017 1:43 am

Come on people vote!

Misty · Postby **Misty** » Sun Feb 05, 2017 9:50 am

Verity wrote:Come on people vote!

I noticed you vote for 6 point but raja just selected 3 names without number of points, so what is maximum and minimum points suppose to be given per voting?

Misty · Postby **Misty** » Sun Feb 05, 2017 9:53 am

raja wrote:My top3
---------

AK (Stokes & Bairstow)
Misty (clean)
Louie_db9 (Philander & Rahane)

Normally, in my head, I should be deduting marks for current players who are quite likely to get to 50 Tests. :-)
But since this was allowed as per the rules, I have let it be.

I like that Misty's team is clean; no current players.

So how many points I earns from you? You not mention.

raja · Postby **raja** » Sun Feb 05, 2017 10:05 am

I just followed Verity's example.

Voted for top-3 teams in my opinion:
AK: 3
Misty: 2
Louie_db9: 1

Misty · Postby **Misty** » Sun Feb 05, 2017 10:19 am

Frankly speaking, my team, is best so I would love to vote my team First
Second team I selected Rajas team because he selected some Rare and Iconic players, so I vote for raja.
My 3rd pick will be Boycaught30 so I vote for his team ( 4 of his team member I selected but hey its luck, first come first serves but he could selects at least one English player instead MG)

Sorry ted and Verity because both of you selected at least 3 players rank below par excellence, really, you should pick ''good test players''.

I will vote for first place team if ONLY OUR HEAD (TED) not allows me to vote for myself, my team.he should come out from Closet, much sonner now.

Misty · Postby **Misty** » Sun Feb 05, 2017 10:49 am

Leo and Db_09 team also great but together they selected 5 players from new players list, well our Leader told us on first place try to avoid selecting players such as Smith, Ashwin,Root etc.but hey its too late, next we will play draft for t20.

Misty · Postby **Misty** » Sun Feb 05, 2017 10:59 am

Rf: vote

Well different member has different taste on voting but there is not certain rules need to follows in order to vote for teams performances which I think not good,

For example raja thinks Barry Richards and Mike Proctor outstanding but me and Going south thinks not because what are their combined test score?

Under 735 career (test) runs may be.we run 2017 draft for test matches than FIRST CLASS CRICKET but voter not really care much.

raja · Postby **raja** » Sun Feb 05, 2017 4:54 pm

Thanks for your vote of confidence, Misty.
You picked your own team first, then mine second, Boycaught30 as third.

But since you're not allowed to pick your own team, that means mine moves to first, Boycs30 to second...

You need to pick a team as third.

I can explain my voting, but I thought I'll wait till everyone has done his voting. I don't want to influence others' thinking. Already this public voting might affect others. Let's see. In the past, we voted privately.

Ted, where are you? You still need to pick your 11th player.

Boycs · Postby **Boycs** » Sun Feb 05, 2017 6:02 pm

1 verity
2 raja
3 GS

Going South · Postby **Going South** » Sun Feb 05, 2017 9:47 pm

My picks

1. Misty
2. Boycaught30
3. Verity

Misty · Postby **Misty** » Mon Feb 06, 2017 12:18 am

raja wrote:Thanks for your vote of confidence, Misty.
You picked your own team first, then mine second, Boycaught30 as third.

But since you're not allowed to pick your own team, that means mine moves to first, Boycs30 to second...

You need to pick a team as third.

I can explain my voting, but I thought I'll wait till everyone has done his voting. I don't want to influence others' thinking. Already this public voting might affect others. Let's see. In the past, we voted privately.

Ted, where are you? You still need to pick your 11th player.

No raja,it's not work that way.Going south just selected me as first so naturally I gain 3 points but I RE-vote because I suppose to not allow to vote myself so I selected as Follows

1 Going south
2 Raja Pai
3 Boycaught 30

Misty · Postby **Misty** » Mon Feb 06, 2017 2:01 am

Raja and Boycaught
Pleas pick one from the 11 for ted boss

C.MCdonald (3100 test runs )
K. weseels
Imtiaaz.Ahmed (keeper)(2500+ near 90 dismissal)
Bert Sutcliffe (NZ)
D.'Olivera
L.Klusner
Peter Pollack
Bobby Peel ( 100 wickets @ 16.98)
G.Blewett (2500 +) (46catches)
Collins (opener /captain)
Bill Voce (98 test wks.in 38 test innings)

raja · Postby **raja** » Mon Feb 06, 2017 4:37 am

Haha...what's this, Eurovision Song Contest? :grin:

GS wasn't in your top-3 first time round, but the moment he votes you are his top team, you return the compliment. Suddenly he becomes your no.1 team? :-)

Anyway, it doesn't matter. It's all for fun. :grin:

raja · Postby **raja** » Mon Feb 06, 2017 4:59 am

Ok, on Misty's request, I am going to make a suggestion for Ted's 11th player.

I think his team has decent players but could do with some bolstering both in batting and bowling.

And there's only one player left to pick.

If I were to pick from Misty's list, it would be Peter Pollock. He would be a good foil for Roberts and Starc, while being a handy lower-order batsman.

But there's ONE player I wanted to pick - and almost picked - but went with Ian Bishop at the very last moment. Surprisingly he has gone under the radar for everyone. Well, maybe not so surprisingly, because his stats don't look that great - and everyone here looks first at stats.

His Test stats do him NO justice at all. He was a LEGEND - one of the greats, especially in the formative years of the game for his team.

No, I'm not talking about WG Grace (I stay away from cheats :-)).

I'm talking about the one and only Learie Constantine.

He could bowl furiously fast.

He could turn a match in a matter of a few deliveries - whether bowled BY him, or TO him.

In fact, he was such an outstanding fielder that before Colin Bland (and later Jonty Rhodes) became household names for outfielding, the name the world knew was Constantine.

Ted's team needs a true character - let's face it, Stackpole, Brad Hodge, Law and Moody, decent blokes all, aren't exactly going to bring in the crowds.

My man Learie Constantine will.

Arthur Morris (opener-lhb)
Keith Stackpole (opener)
Brad Hodge
Stuart Law
Tom Moody
Les Ames (wk)
Learie Constantine(all-rounder / fast)
Mitchell Starc (all-rounder / fast-leftarm)
Colin Miller (medium pace & spin-off)
Andy Roberts (fast)
Stuart MacGill (spin-legbreak)

louie_db9 · Postby **louie_db9** » Mon Feb 06, 2017 5:21 pm

My top 3

1st Verity
2nd Misty
3rd Raja

raja · Postby **raja** » Mon Feb 06, 2017 5:59 pm

Points:
1st choice=3 points
2nd choice= 2points
3rd choice= 1 point

	\|Raja	\|AK	\|Boycs30	\|Misty	\|Verity	\|Louie	\|GS
Raja		3		2		1
Ted
AK
Boycs30	2				3		1
Misty	2		1				3
Verity	3	2		1
Louie	1			2	3
GS			2	3	1
Super
Leo

raja · Postby **raja** » Mon Feb 06, 2017 6:07 pm

I've put the votes so far in a sheet.
3 = 3 points, not 3rd pick.

Still to vote -> Ted, AK, Super, Leo.

Verity · Postby **Verity** » Tue Feb 07, 2017 4:55 pm

Mistys team very popular.

Leo · Postby **Leo** » Wed Feb 08, 2017 4:59 am

1. LD
2. Misty
3. Raja

raja · Postby **raja** » Wed Feb 08, 2017 5:15 am

Points:
1st choice=3 points
2nd choice= 2points
3rd choice= 1 point

	\|Raja	\|AK	\|Boycs30	\|Misty	\|Verity	\|Louie	\|GS
Raja		3		2		1
Ted
AK
Boycs30	2				3		1
Misty	2		1				3
Verity	3	2		1
Louie	1			2	3
GS			2	3	1
Super
Leo	1			2		3

raja · Postby **raja** » Wed Feb 08, 2017 5:17 am

Thanks, Leo. Table updated.

Ted, AK and Super still to vote.

Verity · Postby **Verity** » Mon Feb 13, 2017 12:03 am

Ted, AK and Suoer yous have 48 hours to vote or yous miss out. Its a 5 minute process.

Verity · Postby **Verity** » Thu Feb 16, 2017 5:50 pm

Is that it :lol:

Boycs · Postby **Boycs** » Thu Feb 16, 2017 7:08 pm

I suggest that any unsubmitted votes are allocated to my team.