As the IPL is going on, and as I go back into lockdown starting from tomorrow, I thought it might be time to get some draft action going again. Welcome to the All-Time IPL Draft!
The rules are pretty simple; it will be a standard ordered draft, where the goal will be to select the best eleven you can. The usual rules apply whereby if 24 hours pass, you can skip a person's pick, and if they miss two consecutive picks then you can pass over them in the draft order until they return.
The interesting bit, as always, is the line-up rules.
Overseas players - Like in the real-life IPL, your playing XI may only contain up to four non-Indian players. The rest must be Indians. Pakistani players are allowed.
Pre-Twenty20 players - The additional rule here is that five of your players must have retired without playing Twenty20 cricket.
Participants
The rules are pretty simple; it will be a standard ordered draft, where the goal will be to select the best eleven you can. The usual rules apply whereby if 24 hours pass, you can skip a person's pick, and if they miss two consecutive picks then you can pass over them in the draft order until they return.
The interesting bit, as always, is the line-up rules.
Overseas players - Like in the real-life IPL, your playing XI may only contain up to four non-Indian players. The rest must be Indians. Pakistani players are allowed.
Pre-Twenty20 players - The additional rule here is that five of your players must have retired without playing Twenty20 cricket.
There are selected instances where a retired player may have appeared for one or two exhibition Twenty20 matches; in those instances, I shall pass judgement - but I will usually be fine with that so long as they did not play any other format after 2004.
Now this is not an especially good team, but it shows the right balance:
Sunil Gavaskar
Virat Kohli
Cameron White
Ian Botham
Farokh Engineer
Irfan Pathan
Lance Cairns
Erapalli Prasanna
Ishant Sharma
Munaf Patel
- Seven Indians and four overseas players
- Six Twenty20 players and five pre-Twenty20 players
Sunil Gavaskar
Virat Kohli
Cameron White
Ian Botham
Farokh Engineer
Irfan Pathan
Lance Cairns
Erapalli Prasanna
Ishant Sharma
Munaf Patel
Participants
- @Aislabie - ( 4 of 4, 5 of 5)
- @The Real Modi - ( 1 of 4, 1 of 5) (Hope he's okay)
- @Yash. - ( 4 of 4, 5 of 5)
- @Parth D - ( 4 of 4, 4 of 5)
- @CerealKiller - ( 4 of 4, 5 of 5)
- @NePtuNe Gaming ( 4 of 4, 4 of 5)
- @Bevab - ( 3 of 4, 5 of 5)
- @mohsin7827 ( 4 of 4, 4 of 5)
- @mohsin7827 - Viv Richards
- @NePtuNe Gaming - Kapil Dev
- @Parth D - Garry Sobers
- @Bevab - Don Bradman
- @CerealKiller - Zaheer Abbas
- @The Real Modi - Keith Miller
- @Yash. - Andre Russell
- @Aislabie - Chris Gayle
- @Aislabie - AB de Villiers
- @Yash. - Mike Procter
- @The Real Modi - LATE
- @CerealKiller - Virat Kohli
- @Bevab - MS Dhoni
- @Parth D - Wasim Akram
- @NePtuNe Gaming - Waqar Younis
- @mohsin7827 - Imran Khan
- @Aislabie - Joel Garner
- @mohsin7827 - Jasprit Bumrah
- @NePtuNe Gaming - Suresh Raina
- @Parth D - Javagal Srinath
- @Bevab - Amar Singh
- @CerealKiller - Farokh Engineer
- @The Real Modi - LATE
- @Yash. - Lokesh Rahul
- @Yash. - Virender Sehwag
- @The Real Modi - LATE
- @CerealKiller - Rohit Sharma
- @Bevab - David Warner
- @Parth D - Bhuvneshwar Kumar
- @NePtuNe Gaming - Yuvraj Singh
- @mohsin7827 - Rashid Khan
- @Aislabie - Charlie Macartney
- @Yash. - Erapalli Prasanna
- @Aislabie - Hardik Pandya
- @mohsin7827 - Ravindra Jadeja
- @NePtuNe Gaming - Yuzvendra Chahal
- @Parth D - Kieron Pollard
- @Bevab - Lasith Malinga
- @CerealKiller - Curtly Ambrose
- @The Real Modi - LATE
- @The Real Modi - LATE
- @CerealKiller - Abdul Qadir
- @Bevab - Harbhajan Singh
- @Parth D - Sunil Narine
- @NePtuNe Gaming - Brendon McCullum
- @mohsin7827 - Shane Watson
- @Aislabie - Kris Srikkanth
- @Yash. - Bapu Nadkarni
- @The Real Modi - LATE
- @Yash. - Sachin Tendulkar
- @Aislabie - Vinod Kambli
- @mohsin7827- Rishabh Pant
- @NePtuNe Gaming - Syed Mushtaq Ali
- @Parth D - Ambati Rayudu
- @Bevab - Mohammad Azharuddin
- @CerealKiller - Kuldeep Yadav
- @CerealKiller - Ian Botham
- @Bevab - Yusuf Pathan
- @Parth D - Ajay Jadeja
- @NePtuNe Gaming - Brian Lara
- @mohsin7827 - Zaheer Khan
- @Aislabie - Chetan Sharma
- @Yash. - Deepak Chahar
- @The Real Modi - LATE
- @CerealKiller - Ashish Nehra
- @The Real Modi - LATE
- @Yash. - Jimmy Sinclair
- @Aislabie - Amit Mishra
- @mohsin7827 - Navjot Sidhu
- @NePtuNe Gaming - Ravichandran Ashwin
- @Parth D - Anil Kumble
- @Bevab - Subhash Gupte
- @Bevab - CK Nayudu
- @Parth D - Gautam Gambhir
- @NePtuNe Gaming - Lance Klusener
- @mohsin7827 - Vijay Merchant
- @Aislabie - Irfan Pathan
- @Yash. - Ishan Kishan
- @The Real Modi - LATE
- @CerealKiller - Krunal Pandya
- @Bevab - LATE
- @CerealKiller - Dinesh Karthik
- @The Real Modi - LATE
- @Yash. - Frank Tyson
- @Aislabie - Mohammad Kaif
- @mohsin7827
- @NePtuNe Gaming
- @Parth D
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