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Recent content by AndrewB

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    Bid for position draft vote

    The "bid for position" draft can be found here. As usual, pick your top three from the following (teams picked for Test cricket) Line and Length: Graeme Smith (vc) / Matthew.Hayden / George Headley / Clyde Walcott / MS Dhoni (w/k) / Keith Miller /o Ian Botham /o Ravi Ashwin /o Richie Benaud...
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    How G is an ATG?

    I expect this has been discussed/decided before, but searching the forum for "ATG" doesn't work... When people refer to someone as an ATG, what level does this mean? So, for example, if you say "X is an ATG Test opener", does that mean you think X is in the all-time top... 5/10/20/50 Test openers?
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    Draft idea - bid for position

    The idea here would be: - Everyone taking part has $1,000,000 to bid with - You then use this to bid (in a silent auction - i.e. bids are e-mailed to me) for your positions in the draft. Just to illustrate, suppose we have 3 players (X, Y and Z) bidding for a 5-man team X is desperate to get...
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    "Born before Tests" draft - Vote for top 3

    Please vote for what you think are the best 3 teams from the "Born before Tests" draft: trundler: Archie MacLaren Arthur Shrewsbury Frank Worrell Martin Donnelly Joe Darling* George Ulyett Billy Bates Johnny Briggs George Lohmann Jack Blackham+ Khan Mohammed CricZo XI: (kingkallis) Vijay...
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    "Born before Tests" draft

    Simple draft: You can pick anyone who was born before the country they were born in* had played Test cricket. Anyone born in a country which has not played Test cricket is eligible. The team "England" is deemed to include both England and Wales (i.e. people born in Wales are only eligible if...
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    The 'A' team

    I expect this has been done before, but (as with the Fast Bowler Survival thread) people's answers can change with time: If you were picking a team of players whose names begin with A (using the "Cricinfo rules" where Pakistani, Bangladeshi and a few other players are listed by first name...
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    Silent Draft Vote

    Team picked in the Silent Draft With only 6 teams involved, please pick your top 2 only. Milenko47 H Sutcliffe WH Ponsford IVA Richards RG Pollock GS Sobers* AC Gilchrist + W Rhodes MH Mankad MW Tate RR Lindwall CV Grimmett Red Hill Sunil Gavaskar Barry Richards Brian Lara Stan McCabe Shakib...
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    Silent Draft

    It's a couple of years since I ran a silent draft - anyone up for another one? As before, each drafter starts with $1,000,000 to buy their XI. As a change from before, this time I name an XI for each round, and the entrants e-mail me their bids for as many or as few of those players as they...
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    "Back Draft" best 3

    For the Back Draft: pick your favourite three from the following: Milenko47: Hanif Mohammad Farokh Engineer + Vivian Richards Graeme Pollock Virat Kohli* Martin Crowe Chris Cairns - 5 Shaun Pollock - 1 Shane Warne - 4 Harold Larwood - 2 Muttiah Muralitharan - 3 NUFAN: Geoff Boycott Gordon...
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    Back Draft

    Simple rule: pick your players in reverse alphabetical order, as listed in Statsguru. (So "Zulqarnain Haider" or "Billy Zulch" would be a very flexible first pick; "Aamer Malik" or "Kyle Abbott" less so). Why reverse? Because I'm removing the usual "no Bradman" rule - you can pick him as soon...
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    Boundaries

    I was reading "Wisden on Grace" recently, and it notes that in Grace's early career there were no boundary 4s and 6s, with everything being run out. Does anyone know when this changed? The 1884 Laws say the umpires will "arrange boundaries where necessary, and the allowances to be made for...
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    Poll: Birthplace Draft

    Poll for the Birthplace Draft - as usual, pick your three favourite teams from the ones listed. ankitj Virender Sehwag Roy Fredericks Viv Richards Greg Chappell Mahela Jayawardene Ian Botham [5] Jeff Dujon + Shane Bond [3] Joel Garner [2] Yasir Shah [4] Dale Steyn [1] mr_mister Gordon...
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    Birthplace Draft

    Pick 11 players for a Test team such that no two players in your team were born in the same country. For the purposes of this draft: - West Indies is *not* a country: the country of birth for a West Indian player might be Barbados/Jamaica/Trinidad & Tobago (etc). - Conversely, England...
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    Specialists draft: Vote for top 3

    Vote for the 3 best teams from the Specialists Draft. mr_mister Herb Sutcliffe Matt Hayden Clem Hill Stephen Fleming * Mohammed Azharuddin Tom Moody 5 Farokh Engineer + Chris Harris 4 Lance Gibbs 3 Allan Donald 1 Bruce Reid 2 trundler Bill Brown Justin Langer Brian Lara Peter May* Joe...
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    Specialists draft

    The criteria for this draft are simple: each player you pick must have: - played at least one Test, - have a Test batting average which is less than half their Test bowling average, or have taken no Test wickets. So no all-rounders (or, at least, none who were successful in Tests). No Bradman...
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