Draft: The RNG Draft (Panesar Edition)

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Unlucky Dip Player 5
Sir Donald Bradman

Someone is taking the piss.

Nominated by: @pillowprocter
Goes to: @liveinasociety

 

[Supreme General]

Well someone got lucky

 

[ddrap14]

Unlucky Dip Player 6
Sanwar Hossain

Sanwar played internationally for five years, as a middle order batting allrounder, and made one fifty. His bowling was better... until he got pinged for an illegal action.

Nominated by: @Aislabie
Goes to: @Disharies

 

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Unlucky Dip Player 7
Graeme Aldridge

Another good domestic player who was completely incapable at the international level, which means he'll dominate the Brijal Patels. Not the worst ever Black Cap bowler though - thanks Scotty

Nominated by: @Ed Smith (not a 1990s Pom? Wow!)
Goes to: @mohsin7827

 

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Unlucky Dip Player 8
Nawaz Sharif

Cricket politician one

Nominated by: @CerealKiller
Received by: @Bevab

 

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Unlucky Dip Player 9
Raja Maharaj Singh

Cricket politician two

Nominated by: @Neo 7
Goes to: @pillowprocter (the curse of generosity)

 

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Unlucky Dip Player 10
Aakash Chopra

"Last in PE, first in being a legend" - not Aakash Chopra

Nominated by: @mohsin7827
Received by: @Till Valhalla

 

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Unlucky Dip Player 11
Zulqarnain Zaidi

I assume Bevab meant Zaidi, correct me mate if you meant Haider. Either way, a bog average Pakistani keeper.

Nominated by: @Bevab
Received by: @Neo 7

 

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Unlucky Dip Player 12
Suruj Ragoonath


Based on his advocacy for more ICC Full Members since retirement, Suruj Ragoonath has his head in the right place. Sadly for him and West Indies, his bat was very rarely in the right place too.

Nominated by: @ahmedleo414
Received by: @Supreme General

Post automatically merged: Jun 21, 2023

Unlucky Dip Player 13
Zak Crawley


I mean... this might be the second best player in the Unlucky Dip (after Bradman)?

Nominated by: @Disharies
Received by: @Ed Smith

Everyone's first RNG pool will be out this arvo

 

[Till Valhalla]

Unlucky Dip Player 10
Aakash Chopra
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"Last in PE, first in being a legend" - not Aakash Chopra

Nominated by: @mohsin7827
Received by: @Till Valhalla

We will be playing with 10 players.

 

[CerealKiller]

@pillowprocter are you kidding me? Bradman?

 

[Bevab]

We will be playing with 10 players.

Much better player than whatever the heck Sharif is supposed to be.

 

[CerealKiller]

Unlucky Dip Player 9
Raja Maharaj Singh
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Cricket politician two

Nominated by: @Neo 7
Goes to: @pillowprocter (the curse of generosity)

Reminds me of @Na Maloom Afraad giving away Shoaib Akhtar and Waqar Younis in an Unlucky Dip and getting Kwame Tucker and Josephat Ababu from me

Lucky Dip Player 29...

Josephat Ababu

Rejected by: @CerealKiller
Nominated by: @CerealKiller
"Panesar" counter: 12

ODI stats: 3 wickets @ 85.00 (best 1/26) in 9 matches
List A stats: 4 wickets @ 91.00 (best 1/25) in 13 matches

Ouch. Whoever gets him deserves a personal apology from the man who nominated him.

And the player goes to... @Na Maloom Afraad (Oh dear... this isn't going well)

 

[Bevab]

Unlucky Dip Player 11
Zulqarnain Zaidi

I assume Bevab meant Zaidi, correct me mate if you meant Haider. Either way, a bog average Pakistani keeper.

Nominated by: @Bevab
Received by: @Neo 7

Cricinfo didn’t give me a surname which is why I sent the profile link too, if it’s the one with three tests and sixteen ODIs then yep it is indeed him who I meant.

Post automatically merged: Jun 21, 2023

Reminds me of @Na Maloom Afraad giving away Shoaib Akhtar and Waqar Younis in an Unlucky Dip and getting Kwame Tucker and Josephat Ababu from me

At least the bloke has learnt the hard way now.

Or I’m not sure if he thinks this is a great decision because Bradman never played List A cricket.

 

[CerealKiller]

Much better player than whatever the heck Sharif is supposed to be.

He’s my favourite cricket trivia question, but not much else