Draft: 22 Degrees of David Gower

[blockerdave]

Hello all. Not been in these parts for a while - busy at work!

love me a draft, and to celebrate David Gower being added to the commentary roster for the upcoming cricket 22, I have me a draft idea.

simple really - pick a Test XI having no more than 2 degrees of separation from David Gower. All XI must have played with or against David Gower in a match of at least first class status (1 degree) or with or against someone who did (2 degrees).

And David Gower himself unfortunately is not eligible.

who’s in?

---- Round 1 ----

1. @ddrap14 - Graham Gooch
2. @Ed Smith's Basement - Waqar Younis
3. @blockerdave - Viv Richards
4. @ahmedleo414 - Imran Khan
5. @Mittal2002 - Muttiah Muralitharan
6. @qpeedore - Allan Border
7. @Yash. - Jacques Kallis
8. @sanchitgarg - Brian Lara
9. @Aislabie - Glenn McGrath

---- Round 2 ----

1. @blockerdave - Mike Procter
2. @Yash. - Gary Sobers
3. @Aislabie - Richard Hadlee
4. @Mittal2002 - Wasim Akram
5. @sanchitgarg - Kapil Dev
6. @Ed Smith's Basement - Curtly Ambrose
7. @ddrap14 - Courtney Walsh
8. @ahmedleo414 - Sachin Tendulkar
9. @qpeedore - Dennis Lillee

---- Round 3 ----

1. @sanchitgarg - Shane Warne
2. @Yash. - Ravi Ashwin
3. @blockerdave - Aravinda DaSilva
4. @Mittal2002 - Javed Miandad
5. @ddrap14 - Ricky Ponting
6. @Ed Smith's Basement - Ian "Choker" Bell
7. @qpeedore - VVS Laxman
8. @ahmedleo414 - Kumar Sangakarra
9. @Aislabie - Malcolm Marshall

---- Round 4 ----

1. @Yash. - Bob Simpson
2. @Aislabie - Richie Benaud
3. @Mittal2002 - Rahul Dravid
4. @ahmedleo414 - Bob Willis
5. @qpeedore - Shivnarine Chanderpaul
6. @sanchitgarg - Sunil Gavaskar
7. @ddrap14 - Michael Holding
8. @Ed Smith's Basement - Gladstone Small
9. @blockerdave - Ian Botham

---- Round 5 ----

1. @ddrap14 - Ian Healy
2. @Ed Smith's Basement - Alec Stewart
3. @Aislabie - Bob Appleyard
4. @blockerdave - Barry Richards
5. @qpeedore - Jeff Dujon
6. @sanchitgarg - Adam Gilchrist
7. @Yash. -
8. @ahmedleo414 - Zaheer Abbas
9. @Mittal2002 - Joel Garner

---- Round 6 ----

1. @Yash. - Sanath Jayasuriya
2. @ahmedleo414 - Alastair Cook
3. @qpeedore - Stephen Fleming
4. @blockerdave - Gordon Greenidge
5. @Aislabie - Ken Barrington
6. @Ed Smith's Basement - Andrew Strauss
7. @ddrap14 - Graeme Pollock
8. @sanchitgarg - Dale Steyn
9. @Mittal2002

---- Round 7 ----

1. @blockerdave - Clive Rice
2. @ddrap14 - Anil Kumble
3. @Ed Smith's Basement
4. @qpeedore
5. @sanchitgarg
6. @Mittal2002
7. @Yash.
8. @Aislabie
9. @ahmedleo414

---- Round 8 ----

1. @Aislabie
2. @ddrap14
3. @qpeedore
4. @Mittal2002
5. @Ed Smith's Basement
6. @ahmedleo414
7. @sanchitgarg
8. @blockerdave
9. @Yash.

---- Round 9 ----

1. @ahmedleo414
2. @sanchitgarg
3. @Yash.
4. @Mittal2002
5. @qpeedore
6. @blockerdave
7. @ddrap14
8. @Ed Smith's Basement
9. @Aislabie

---- Round 10 ----

1. @ahmedleo414
2. @Aislabie
3. @ddrap14
4. @Ed Smith's Basement
5. @Mittal2002
6. @sanchitgarg
7. @blockerdave
8. @qpeedore
9. @Yash.

---- Round 11 ----

1. @sanchitgarg
2. @Mittal2002
3. @blockerdave
4. @Ed Smith's Basement
5. @qpeedore
6. @ahmedleo414
7. @ddrap14
8. @Aislabie
9. @Yash.

 

[ahmedleo414]

I'm in

 

[ddrap14]

In please

 

[Ed Smith]

In. I think I get it

 

[qpeedore]

Yep. I'm gonna be cheating so hard at this by using people he was on commentary with too. Agnew? Bishop? Warne?

 

[blockerdave]

Yep. I'm gonna be cheating so hard at this by using people he was on commentary with too. Agnew? Bishop? Warne?

tbf I’m pretty sure they’d all be valid picks anyway!!

 

[Yash.]

Completely in.

 

[sanchitgarg]

In

 

[blockerdave]

Ok cool I think we got enough now so I’ll sort out the order and we can get started.

 

[blockerdave]

I’ll post a full order tomorrow, but in the interests of kicking this off, let’s proceed with round1 in this order:

1. @ddrap14
2. @Ed Smith's Basement
3. @blockerdave
4. @ahmedleo414
5. @Mittal2002
6. @qpeedore
7. @Yash.
8. @sanchitgarg
9. @Aislabie

SO - @ddrap14 you are up first!

 

[ddrap14]

Graham Gooch, I'll go. Hated Gower as far as I'm aware, but opening and captaining 1990-91 Gooch is the smartest thing I can do I think.

@Ed Smith's Basement sorry

 

[Ed Smith]

Waqar Younis for me. Trying to resist picking a team full of absolute meme players for now . @blockerdave next

 

[Aislabie]

I’ll post a full order tomorrow

Am I too late to try to jump on the bandwagon as last in the order?

 

[blockerdave]

Am I too late to try to jump on the bandwagon as last in the order?

yeah, why not, especially as I haven't sorted the full order out anyway yet!

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in terms of my go, I'm absolutely taking King Viv without a shadow of a doubt.

@ahmedleo414 is next.

I'll get the full order posted above asap.

 

[blockerdave]

full order now posted, completely random each round.