Another draft!-Test players of the 90s and later - FINISHED!

[sifter132]

OK lets have another go. Just a reminder of the basic rules, which I'll pilfer from the last thread

Test match requirement: 10 (lowered from 20 in the Richie draft)
Maximum players from one country: 4
Left Hander requirement: 2 players who can bowl/bat left handed (can only be the weaker one of the two if they are an all rounder). In other words, right handed #3 batsman who bowls left handed doesn't count, but an all rounder who does the same does count. You can imagine that the same would be true for bowlers (e.g. James Anderson isn't a leftie).
Wicket-Keeper Requirement: Only his stats as a wicket-keeping batsman will be taken into account. For example, whatever runs or catches Sanga has taken after he gave up the gloves will be discounted and cannot be used in your argument that you have the best team because we do not know whether he would have scored that same mammoth amount of runs if he was still WK.
Time limit: 24 hours
Player must have debuted in Test cricket from 1 January 1990 until now. No players from the 80s allowed...

Here's the format:
1st 2 rounds - no restriction by country. We pick the best players - 16 of them if we get 8 drafters.
The last 9 rounds - one round for each country with Bangladesh and Zimbabwe combining for the 9th one.

Round 1 - Any country

1. Yudi - Virender Sehwag
2. User2010 - Jacques Kallis
3. sifter132 - Shane Warne
4. mohit_dude10 - Adam Gilchrist
5. cricket_icon - Ricky Ponting
6. aditya - Glenn McGrath
7. send2yaari - Allan Donald
8. shravi - Brian Lara

Round 2 - Any country

1. shravi - Dale Steyn
2. send2yaari - Matthew Hayden
3. aditya - Sourav Ganguly
4. cricket_icon - Shoaib Akhtar
5. mohit_dude10 - Muttiah Muralitharan
6. sifter132 - Andy Flower
7. User2010 - Mohammad Yousuf
8. Yudi - Kumar Sangakkara

Round 3 - Pakistan

1. aditya - Inzamam-ul-Haq
2. cricket_icon - Saqlain Mushtaq
3. User2010 - Saeed Anwar
4. send2yaari - Mohammad Asif
5. sifter132 - Younis Khan
6. shravi - Mushtaq Ahmed
7. Yudi - Danish Kaneria
8. mohit_dude10 - Mohammad Amir

Round 4 - West Indies

1. send2yaari - Chris Gayle
2. aditya - Shivnarine Chanderpaul
3. Yudi - Jimmy Adams
4. mohit_dude10 - Ramnaresh Sarwan
5. shravi - Ridley Jacobs
6. sifter132 - Merv Dillon
7. User2010 - Dwayne Bravo
8. cricket_icon - Wavell Hinds

Round 5 - New Zealand

1. shravi - Shane Bond
2. sifter132 - Daniel Vettori
3. aditya - Chris Martin
4. Yudi - Stephen Fleming
5. send2yaari - Brendon McCullum
6. mohit_dude10 - Craig McMillan
7. cricket_icon - Jesse Ryder
8. User2010 - Mark Richardson

Round 6 - Bangladesh/Zimbabwe

1. send2yaari - Heath Streak
2. shravi - Tamim Iqbal
3. aditya - Shakib Al Hasan
4. cricket_icon - Tatenda Taibu
5. sifter132 - Murray Goodwin
6. mohit_dude10 - Dave Houghton
7. Yudi - Mashrafe Mortaza
8. User2010 - Mohammad Rafique

Round 7 - England

1. sifter132 - Andrew Flintoff
2. mohit_dude10 - James Anderson
3. send2yaari - Graham Thorpe
4. User2010 - Matt Prior
5. aditya - Graeme Swann
6. cricket_icon - Kevin Pietersen
7. shravi - Ian Bell
8. Yudi - Alastair Cook

Round 8 - India

1. mohit_dude10 - Rahul Dravid
2. Yudi - Javagal Srinath
3. shravi - VVS Laxman
4. sifter132 - Gautam Gambhir
5. send2yaari - Anil Kumble
6. User2010 - Zaheer Khan
7. cricket_icon - Ishant Sharma
8. aditya - MS Dhoni

Round 9 - South Africa

1. cricket_icon - Shaun Pollock
2. User2010 - Makhaya Ntini
3. sifter132 - Graeme Smith
4. shravi - Gary Kirsten
5. mohit_dude10 - AB De Villiers
6. Yudi - Mark Boucher
7. aditya - Hashim Amla
8. send2yaari - Lance Klusener

Round 10 - Sri Lanka

1. User2010 - Mahela Jayawardene
2. cricket_icon - Thilan Samaraweera
3. mohit_dude10 - Sanath Jayasuriya
4. send2yaari - Tillakaratne Dilshan
5. Yudi - Prasanna Jayawardene
6. aditya - Marvan Atapattu
7. sifter132 - Chaminda Vaas
8. shravi - Lasith Malinga

Round 11 - Australia

1. Yudi - Brett Lee
2. shravi - Michael Clarke
3. aditya - Jason Gillespie
4. cricket_icon - Shane Watson
5. User2010 - Stuart MacGill
6. send2yaari - Michael Hussey
7. mohit_dude10 - Michael Kasprowicz
8. sifter132 - Mark Waugh

 

[Aoun13]

Count me in. Its actually a very good medium to learn about the cricket history.

 

[AbhishekS]

I was thinking of a less regimented format this time ie. you can choose any player from any country in any position in any round. Towards the end, I say we all get 2 picks a round since the quality gap between players is smaller by then and we'll be keen to start wrapping up our teams. So something like this:
1 player per turn in rounds 1,2,3
2 players per turn in rounds 4,5,6,7
That gives 11 players in 7 rounds of drafting.

Sounds good, but I'll prefer a regimented draft like the previous one.

 

[sifter132]

OK, so send2yaari I'll add you to the list

The other format option is to do one country per round, like the World Cup draft at the beginning of the year. So you could have 1 round each for the main Test nations (making 8), maybe a combined Bangladesh and Zimbabwe round, leaving you with 2 left. Both could be unrestricted rounds or there could be a 2nd Australian round since they have been the dominant team over the period. I quite like that format too since it makes you research and pick players from all the countries. I'm pretty easy actually, whatever you guys feel like doing...

Reading over that bid/list idea I was talking about again sounds a bit complex, an easier way to do that would be just to automatically 'charge' for the early picks ie. whoever gets 1st overall pick doesn't get a 4th round choice, 2nd overall misses his 5th round choice etc. just to help make it a bit fairer because whoever picks 1st gets an advantage.

 

[Gaurav_7]

I'd love a country draft, the sort of we had in WC draft. I enjoyed that.

 

[cricket_icon]

Yes Sifter, the country draft does sound like a lot of fun. And it is something different from earlier.

 

[sifter132]

OK, thanks for the feedback guys. Here's how it's going to go:
1st 2 rounds - no restriction by country. We pick the best players - 16 of them if we get 8 drafters.
The last 9 rounds - one round for each country with Bangladesh and Zimbabwe combining for the 9th one.
That'll give us an XI each

Reason for picking the best players first is to take out some of the obvious picks. If we started straight into the rounds for each country then there would be a greater advantage to be had by getting one of the first picks in a round - like West Indies for example.

 

[Gaurav_7]

That sounds alright. Let's go for it!

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Oops, we still need a few people.

 

[lewissaffin]

How long does it take to complete the entire process?

 

[Aoun13]

It will be much more realistic if we have first 3 rounds with no country restriction. We can omit Bangladesh/Zimbabwe.

 

[Gaurav_7]

How long does it take to complete the entire process?

Depends. It can go on and on if people don't come on and pick otherwise it is a smooth sailing.

It will be much more realistic if we have first 3 rounds with no country restriction. We can omit Bangladesh/Zimbabwe.

I surely won't omit these two nations. The current state is good enough, I suppose.

 

[lewissaffin]

If it is more than a week then I shan't put my name forward since I'm going on holiday on August 6..

 

[shravi]

sign me up

 

[Aditya]

I'm in. Haven't been part of many drafts in the past but this sounds fun.

 

[Gaurav_7]

If it is more than a week then I shan't put my name forward since I'm going on holiday on August 6..

Surely more than a week.

We have 7 now, 1 more needed.