Draft: The Role-Reversal Draft

[Aislabie]

@ahmedleo414

1. Paul Strang
2. Vernon Philander
3. Shane Warne
4. Paul Reiffel
5. Ravindra Jadeja
6. Sir Richard Hadlee
7. Hanif Mohammad
8. Allan Border
9. Kane Williamson
10. Paul Collingwood
11. Bert Hopkins

Your middle order is absolutely stacked with talent - being able to get hold of someone with first-class triple-centuries and a Test average of 35 as a non-batsman is a steal.
Paul Strang is a particularly clever selection here, as is Bert Hopkins to bolster your bowling attack.
The rest of your bowling attack does leave a bit to be desired though - the other three combine for 357 first-class wickets at 39.91 apiece.

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@Aislabie
1. Syed Kirmani
2. Bapu Nadkarni
3. Jason Gillespie
4. Shaun Pollock
5. Jason Holder
6. Bernard Julien
7. Clyde Walcott
8. Sanath Jayasuriya
9. Shane Watson
10. Stanley Jackson
11. Brian Close

This is as good a bowling attack as I could have hoped for really - it's well balanced and my five guys have 2,860 first-class wickets at 24.32 apiece, which is absurd.
I stumbled across a couple of loopholes to make the most of both Syed Kirmani and Bapu Nadkarni.
I probably didn't make the most of my early picks; Jayasuriya certainly isn't the strongest link in my team.

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@CerealKiller
1. Wasim Bari
2. Ian Smith
3. Chris Woakes
4. Chaminda Vaas
5. Mitchell Johnson
6. Mitchell Starc
7. Javed Miandad
8. Steve Waugh
9. Shahid Afridi
10. Hansie Cronje
11. Ravi Shastri

This team has an excellent spin attack - both Afridi and Shastri played as genuine Test-class spinners.
The keeper loophole has given you an able opening partnership in Bari and Smith.
The trio of left-handers at four, five and six probably lacks someone with a really good technique like Woakes has.

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@Na Maloom Afraad

1. Irfan Pathan
2. Rashid Khan
3. Ravichandran Ashwin
4. Andre Russell
5. Ashton Agar
6. Yasir Shah
7. Tillakaratne Dilshan
8. Aravinda de Silva
9. Steven Smith
10. Colin Munro
11. Jim Parks

At his best, Ravichandran Ashwin was a man who could hold down a place in the Indian top six and score Test centuries. That's a very valuable pick.
Against some questionable bowling, Andre Russell could prove exceptionally destructive.
Steve Smith isn't a great spin option, but my biggest gripe is that you've picked the wrong Sri Lankan keeper given that Sangakkara was available.

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@Yash.

1. Kiran More
2. Eric Dalton
3. Daniel Vettori
4. Anil Kumble
5. Ben Foakes
6. Adil Rashid
7. AB de Villiers
8. Nathan Astle
9. George Brown
10. Frank Woolley
11. Carl Hooper

Finding a good quality all-rounder really does add an extra dimension to most of these teams; Eric Dalton is another example of that.
Using the keeper loophole to pick up Ben Foakes right at the very end was a huge steal; that's someone who's been talked about as a possible Test number three.
I think we all have a couple of weak links in our teams, and here I'd say they are Rashid and Astle; not that they're bad, but they're not exactly going to turn a game around.

 

[Na Maloom Afraad]

but my biggest gripe is that you've picked the wrong Sri Lankan keeper given that Sangakkara was available.

To be fair, I never even thought of him let alone check whether he was eligible or not. In my mind, he had kept wickets for Sri Lanka a lot more than he actually did.