The BigFooty Cricket Forum Fantasy Draft

[happy_eagle]

And your other pick ?

 

[RickSanchez]

http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/28763.html


Gautam Gambhir

 

[Kyptastic]

Round 13
1. thorne89 - Dinesh Chandimal
2. courtjester - Simon O'Donnell
3. Glinn McGraw - Mitchell Johnson
4. Gak Attack - Lasith Malinga
5. saintkildaman - Cameron White
6. happy_eagle - Dale Steyn
7. Surkin - Colin Croft
8. FreoFanMundy - Jonathon Trott

Round 14
1. FreoFanMundy - Gautam Gambhir
2. Surkin - On the clock
3. happy_eagle
4. saintkildaman
5. Gak Attack
6. Glinn McGraw
7. courtjester
8. thorne89

Still looking for a final judge - Post/PM if interested.

 

[Surkin]

My last pick is Shoaib Malik.

Has batted in all positions and his off spin is very economical. Will be a versatile back-up for my side.

http://www.espncricinfo.com/pakistan/content/player/42657.html

 

[happy_eagle]

Last addition to my side

Alastair Cook
http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/11728.html

Average over 40, strike rate over 80

Could have easily gone for Yousuf, Dilshan or Jayawardene

 

[saintkildaman]

Scott Styris

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Scott Styris

I think he's been taken.

 

[Kyptastic]

Draft Order

Round 12
1. FreoFanMundy - Chris Cairns
2. Surkin - Clive Lloyd
3. happy_eagle - Heath Streak
4. saintkildaman - Stephen Fleming
5. Gak Attack - Scott Styris
6. Glinn McGraw - Paul Collingwood
7. courtjester - Nathan Bracken
8. thorne89 - Damien Martyn

Styris was taken by Gak in round 12, you need to pick again SKM.

 

[saintkildaman]

Brad Haddin

 

[Gak Attack]

Derek Underwood

http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/22149.html

 

[The Speaker]

Gak just stole my last selection.

Hold on.

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Brad Haddin

Automatic disqualification?

 

[Kyptastic]

Everyone who needs to draft still is online, we should hopefully be able to get the drafting finished tonight.

 

[The Speaker]

My final pick is a another Australian. Perhaps surprisingly though, he is another Australian spinner. As happens from time, he was plucked from obscurity to play for his country, and though his debut was in Tests, he found regularity in the one day team as an economical player, though not at the expense of rarely taking wickets - his average is 28, and even better in Australia. He was also a more than useful batsman, with a good strike rate for the time.

Peter Taylor.

http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/7926.html

 

[Magpies2010]

Oi boys while your waiting to finish the draft and find out the winner. Got a little trade game that someone put up, if we can get everyone in and get this game going.

http://www.bigfooty.com/forum/showthread.php?t=917126

 

[The Speaker]

PRESS ALERT

News conference for GLINN MGRAW'S as yet UNNAMED TEAM

SOONISH

PRESS ALERT​

 

[Kyptastic]

Round 14
1. FreoFanMundy - Gautam Gambhir
2. Surkin - Shoaib Malik
3. happy_eagle - Alastair Cook
4. saintkildaman - Brad Haddin
5. Gak Attack - Derek Underwood
6. Glinn McGraw - Peter Taylor
7. courtjester - On the Clock
8. thorne89

 

[The Speaker]

BREAKING NEWS

The FIRST pictures are emerging of Glinn Mgraw, expert selector and coach, and his team.

This picture was taken within the past half hour as the team made their way to the upcoming press conference.

(Right click and view image for a clearer picture)

Right to left, top to bottom: Michael Hussey, Adam Gilchrist, Brad Hogg, Paul Collingwood, Darren Lehmann, Peter Taylor, Jaques Kallis, Gordon Greenidge
Ewen Chatfield, Zaheer Abbas, Shane Bond, Hansie Cronje, apparently Glinn Mgraw, Mitchell Johnson, Brett Lee
​

 

[Gak Attack]

BREAKING NEWS

The FIRST pictures are emerging of Glinn Mgraw, expert selector and coach, and his team.

This picture was taken within the past half hour as the team made their way to the upcoming press conference.

(Right click and view image for a clearer picture)

Right to left, top to bottom: Michael Hussey, Adam Gilchrist, Brad Hogg, Paul Collingwood, Darren Lehmann, Peter Taylor, Jaques Kallis, Gordon Greenidge
Ewen Chatfield, Zaheer Abbas, Shane Bond, Hansie Cronje, apparently Glinn Mgraw, Mitchell Johnson, Brett Lee
​

Haha. Very nicely done!

P.S. Sorry about Underwood, was a steal this late though.

 

[The Speaker]

PRESS CONFERENCE

Glinn Mgraw and his team have just completed a completely ungruelling press conference in which they were asked some supposedly tough questions which were handled with ease.

Mgraw began the conference by giving the team name - Glinn Mgraw's Invitational XIV - and naming the captain and vice captain - Hansie Cronje and Adam Gilchrist respectively.

Mgraw then explained the composition of his team briefly: "My team has been devised by selecting players which aren't necessarily the most renowned or famous, though there are some exceptions to that, but which will add greatly to the team. This team is greater than the sum of its parts. It's a team designed to be brutally effective in every aspect of the game. This a group of tough competitors who greatly compliment one another."

Questions were then opened to the assorted press. The first questions were about the appointment of Cronje as captain. Cronje responded by saying that, firstly, he would never deliberately throw a match, and secondly, he was dead, so payments to him would be pointless. When asked how he could play considering his lack of life, Cronje simply said "Watch me."

Some questions were asked about the selection of certain players, especially Chatfield and Taylor. Mgraw responded by pointing to their impressive economy rates and records in Australia, and states "We expect them to provide a complementary role to our strike bowlers. They were not simply picked out a hat. I don't even have a hat."

Some journalists questioned the name of the team. Mgraw reply was that "It's simply stating a fact. These fourteen players have been invited by me to play for me. They aren't getting paid, there's little in it for them, but they accepted my invitation. Hence, Glinn Mgraw's Invitational XIV."

When asked about what was going on between Chatfield and Zaheer in the earlier picture, Mgraw laughed and replied "Chatfield keeps tapping Zaheer on the opposite shoulder to the side he is standing on. Zaheer has fallen for it four times today."

Chatfield promptly tapped Mgraw on the shoulder (which Mgraw guessed correctly), indicating the end of the press conference. Some people have reported that Cronje floated out of the room, though this is an unconfirmed rumour.
​

 

[courtjester]

Sorry all, I'll take Roger Harper...

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Last selection of the draft, how exciting! I'm going for some X Factor...

Ajantha Mendis

This guy had an amazing start to his ODI career; his bowling average of 20 puts him right up there with the best.

He began to fade when teams were exposed to his methods; but his major advantage in this competition is that many players have never faced him before. His variations are sure to spin out many a player...if he gets a chance to play.

 

[Kyptastic]

Full Draft Order

Round 1
1. thorne89 - Sachin Tendulkar
2. courtjester - Joel Garner
3. Glinn McGraw - Adam Gilchrist
4. Gak Attack - Ricky Ponting
5. saintkildaman - Brian Lara
6. happy_eagle - Vivian Richards
7. Surkin - Wasim Akram
8. FreoFanMundy - Muttiah Muralidaran

Round 2
1. FreoFanMundy - Michael Bevan
2. Surkin- Glenn McGrath
3. happy_eagle - Richard Hadlee
4. saintkildaman - Shane Warne
5. Gak Attack - Shaun Pollock
6. Glinn McGraw - Jacques Kallis
7. courtjester - MS Dhoni
8. thorne89 - Imran Khan

Round 3
1. thorne89 - Curtly Ambrose
2. courtjester - AB de Villiers
3. Glinn McGraw - Michael Hussey
4. Gak Attack- Waqar Younis
5. saintkildaman - Andrew Flintoff
6. happy_eagle - Kumar Sangakarra
7. Surkin - Andrew Symonds
8. FreoFanMundy - Dennis Lillee

Round 4
1. FreoFanMundy - Lance Klusener
2. Surkin - Sanath Jayasuriya
3. happy_eagle - Shahid Afridi
4. saintkildaman - Mark Boucher
5. Gak Attack - Saqlain Mushtaq
6. Glinn McGraw - Shane Bond
7. courtjester - Matthew Hayden
8. thorne89 - Michael Holding

Round 5
1. thorne89 - Garfield Sobers
2. courtjester - Allan Donald
3. Glinn McGraw - Brett Lee
4. Gak Attack - Hashim Amla
5. saintkildaman - Kevin Pieterson
6. happy_eagle - Chaminda Vass
7. Surkin - Andy Roberts
8. FreoFanMundy - Sourav Ganguly

Round 6
1. FreoFanMundy - Shane Watson
2. Surkin - Mark Waugh
3. happy_eagle - Chris Gayle
4. saintkildaman - Andy Flower
5. Gak Attack - Kapil Dev
6. Glinn McGraw - Zaheer Abbas
7. courtjester - Ian Botham
8. thorne89 - Greg Chappell

Round7
1. thorne89 - Rahul Dravid
2. courtjester - Dean Jones
3. Glinn McGraw - Brad Hogg
4. Gak Attack - Virender Sehwag
5. saintkildaman - Makhaya Ntini
6. happy_eagle - Daniel Vettori
7. Surkin - Jonty Rhodes
8. FreoFanMundy - Craig McDermott

Round 8
1. FreoFanMundy - Michael Clarke
2. Surkin - Abdul Qadir
3. happy_eagle - Herschelle Gibbs
4. saintkildaman - Jason Gillespie
5. Gak Attack - Steve Waugh
6. Glinn McGraw - Hansie Cronje
7. courtjester - Graham Swann
8. thorne89 - Saeed Anwar

Round 9
1. thorne89 - Saeed Ajmal
2. courtjester - Shoaib Akhtar
3. Glinn McGraw - Ewen Chatfield
4. Gak Attack - Shivanrine Chanderpaul
5. saintkildaman - David Warner
6. happy_eagle - Aravinda de Silva
7. Surkin - Javed Miandad
8. FreoFanMundy - Virat Kohli

Round 10
1. FreoFanMundy - Brendan McCullum
2. Surkin - Martin Crowe
3. happy_eagle - Darren Gough
4. saintkildaman - Harbhajan Singh
5. Gak Attack - Alec Stewart
6. Glinn McGraw - Gordon Greenidge
7. courtjester - Desmond Haynes
8. thorne89 - Malcolm Marshall

Round 11
1. thorne89 - Yuvraj Singh
2. courtjester - Allan Border
3. Glinn McGraw - Darren Lehmann
4. Gak Attack - JP Duminy
5. saintkildaman - David Hussey
6. happy_eagle - Inzamam-ul-Huq
7. Surkin - Ian Healy
8. FreoFanMundy - Shakib al Hasan

Round 12
1. FreoFanMundy - Chris Cairns
2. Surkin - Clive Lloyd
3. happy_eagle - Heath Streak
4. saintkildaman - Stephen Fleming
5. Gak Attack - Scott Styris
6. Glinn McGraw - Paul Collingwood
7. courtjester - Nathan Bracken
8. thorne89 - Damien Martyn

Round 13
1. thorne89 - Dinesh Chandimal
2. courtjester - Simon O'Donnell
3. Glinn McGraw - Mitchell Johnson
4. Gak Attack - Lasith Malinga
5. saintkildaman - Cameron White
6. happy_eagle - Dale Steyn
7. Surkin - Colin Croft
8. FreoFanMundy - Jonathon Trott

Round 14
1. FreoFanMundy - Gautam Gambhir
2. Surkin - Shoaib Malik
3. happy_eagle - Alastair Cook
4. saintkildaman - Brad Haddin
5. Gak Attack - Derek Underwood
6. Glinn McGraw - Peter Taylor
7. courtjester - Roger Harper
8. thorne89 - Ajantha Mendis

Coaches now have 24 hours to finalise their squads. Any eligible player who has not been picked may be done so - simply announce in the thread who you are dropping and replacing. Once a player is dropped from a squad, any team may pick him up.

Coaches must also post a final list of their squad in the thread by this time tomorrow. This should also include the name of their squad, which will be used in their matchups.

First round match-ups will be posted around 4 pm EST tomorrow.

 

[Surkin]

Team Name: The Silver Sphinx
Captain: Clive Lloyd
Vice-Captain: Ian Healy

Final Squad with allocated shirt numbers:

1 - Clive Lloyd
2 - Ian Healy
3 - Wasim Akram
6 - Mark Waugh
7 - Sanath Jayasuria
8 - Jonty Rhodes
11 - Glenn McGrath
17 - Javed Miandad
18 - Shoaib Malik
21 - Colin Croft
39 - Andrew Symonds
69 - Martin Crowe
99 - Andy Roberts
00 - Abdul Qadir

 

[RickSanchez]

The Ginyu Force

Captain: Michael Clarke
Vice Captain: Shane Watson

1. Sourav Ganguly
2. Brendan McCullum
3. Virat Kohli
4. Shane Watson
5. Michael Clarke
6. Michael Bevan
7. Lance Klusener
8. Shakib Al Hasan
9. Dennis Lillee
10. Craig McDermott
11. Muttiah Muralidaran
Subs
12. Chris Cairns
13. Jonathan Trott
14. Gautam Gambhir