Cheers Magrat Garlick and Andrew B, will give it another 48 hours give or take and start then or when we have a couple more competitiors whichever comes first. Below is Nathan Astle's position moved to middle order.
As said before each round will be bidding for an opener, middle order bat, keeper, all rounder, pacer and spinner with them being drafted in the order they come in below.
So Round 1 players are Hayden, Tendulkar, Imran Khan, Sangakkara, M Marshall, Warne
Round 2 players are Boycott, Barrington, Hadlee, Dhoni, Steyn, Muralitharan and so on through the rounds.
A $100m budget and you can bid for all players in each round, no players in that round or anything in between - highest bid wins.
If highest bids are tied, player who has gone longest since getting their last player wins (if that is equal then winner of a tie will be chosen at random)
No rush to send in opening bids as waiting for a couple more players but when you are ready to feel free to email bids to
cricketdraftcw@gmail.com
Minus inclusion of Nathan Astle as middle order instead of as an opener the player order remains unchanged
OPENERS
Matthew Hayden (AUS)
Geoffrey Boycott (ENG)
Graeme Smith (SA)
Mark Taylor (AUS)
Gordon Greenidge (WI)
Sunil Gavaskar (IND)
Bill Lawry (AUS)
Alastair Cook (ENG)
Justin Langer (AUS)
Barry Richards (SA)
Graham Gooch (ENG)
Virender Sehwag (IND)
Gary Kirsten (SA)
Hanif Mohammed (PAK)
Desmond Haynes (WI)
David Warner (AUS)
Roy Fredricks (WI)
Glenn Turner (NZ)
Dennis Amiss (ENG)
Eddie Barlow (SA)
Conrad Hunte (WI)
John Wright (NZ)
Sanath Jayasuria (SL)
Saeed Anwar (PAK)
John Edrich (ENG)
Michael Slater (AUS)
Chris Gayle (WI)
Marvan Attapatu (SL)
Jackie McGlew (SA)
Mike Atherton (ENG)
Chris Rogers (AUS)
Tillakaratne Dilshan (SL)
Herschelle Gibbs (SA)
Andrew Strauss (ENG)
Dean Elgar (SA)
Tom Latham (NZ)
Gautam Gambhir (IND)
Phil Jaques (AUS)
Tamim Iqbal (BAN)
Michael Vaughan (ENG)
Marcus Trescothick (ENG)
Ian Redpath (AUS)
Grant Flower (ZIM)
Pankaj Roy (IND)
MIDDLE ORDER
Sachin Tendulkar (IND)
Ken Barrington (ENG)
Ricky Ponting (AUS)
Brian Lara (WI)
Virat Kohli (IND)
Greg Chappell (AUS)
Sir Viv Richards (WI)
Javed Miandad (PAK)
Steve Waugh (AUS)
Rahul Dravid (IND)
Kane Williamson (NZ)
AB de Villiers (SA)
Steve Smith (AUS)
Joe Root (ENG)
Allan Border (AUS)
Martin Crowe (NZ)
Shivnarine Chanderpaul (WI)
Mahela Jayawardene (SL)
Younis Khan (PAK)
Peter May (ENG)
Graeme Pollock (SA)
Michael Clarke (AUS)
Hashim Amla (SA)
Aravinda da Silva (SL)
Ted Dexter (ENG)
Inzamam-ul-Haq (PAK)
Cheteshwar Pujara (IND)
Clive Lloyd (WI)
David Gower (ENG)
Mohammad Yousuf (PAK)
Rohan Kanhai (WI)
VVS Laxman (IND)
Kevin Pietersen (ENG)
Ross Taylor (NZ)
Michael Hussey (AUS)
Richie Richardson (WI)
David Boon (AUS)
Zaheer Abbas (PAK)
Misbah-ul-Haq (PAK)
Tom Graveney (ENG)
Azhar Ali (PAK)
Ian Chappell (AUS)
John F Reid (NZ)
Angelo Mathews (SL)
Nathan Astle (NZ)
Alvin Kallicharan (WI)
Marnus Labuschange (AUS)
Basil Butcher (WI)
Dean Jones (AUS)
Ian Bell (ENG)
Norm O’Neill (AUS)
Babar Azam (PAK)
Gundappa Viswanath (IND)
Jonathan Trott (ENG)
Mark Waugh (AUS)
Sourav Ganguly (IND)
Colin Bland (SA)
Stephen Fleming (NZ)
Mohammad Azharuddin (IND)
Seymour Nurse (WI)
Daryll Cullinan (SA)
Dilip Vengsarkar (IND)
Larry Gomes (WI)
Andrew Jones (NZ)
Mohinder Armanath (IND)
Jimmy Adams (WI)
Faf du Plessis (SA)
Saeed Ahmed (PAK)
ALL-ROUNDER
Imran Khan (PAK)
Sir Richard Hadlee (NZ)
Sir Ian Botham (ENG)
Jacques Kallis (SA)
Sir Garfield Sobers (WI)
Kapil Dev (IND)
Bob Simpson (AUS)
Shaun Pollock (SA)
Richie Benaud (AUS)
Mike Proctor (SA)
Chris Cairns (NZ)
Tony Greig (ENG)
Trevor Goddard (SA)
Daniel Vettori (NZ)
Lance Klusener (SA)
Andrew Flintoff (ENG)
Brian McMillan (SA)
Shakib Al Hasan (BAN)
Ravindra Jadeja (IND)
Bruce Taylor (NZ)
Ben Stokes (ENG)
Mushtaq Mohammad (PAK)
Jason Holder (WI)
Shahid Afridi (PAK)
Shane Watson (AUS)
Carl Hooper (WI)
Hansie Cronje (SA)
Colin de Grandhomme (NZ)
Geoff Miller (ENG)
Paul Reiffel (AUS)
Andrew Symonds (AUS)
Ravi Shastri (IND)
WICKETKEEPER
Kumar Sangakkara (SL)
MS Dhoni (IND)
Adam Gilchrist (AUS)
Alan Knott (ENG)
Farokh Engineer (IND)
Mark Boucher (SA)
Alec Stewart (ENG)
Ian Healy (AUS)
Brendon McCullum (NZ)
Andy Flower (ZIM)
Jeff Dujon (WI)
BJ Watling (NZ)
Brad Haddin (AUS)
Hashan Tillakaratne (SL)
Rod Marsh (AUS)
Dave Houghton (ZIM)
Lee Irvine (SA)
Mushfiqur Rahim (BAN)
John Waite (SA)
Bruce Edgar (NZ)
Quinton de Kock (SA)
Moin Khan (PAK)
Brendan Taylor (ZIM)
Denis Lindsay (SA)
Rashid Latif (PAK)
Wriddhiman Saha (IND)
Prasanna Jayawardene (SL)
Tim Paine (AUS)
Gerry Alexander (WI)
Wasim Bari (PAK)
Wally Grout (AUS)
Sarfraz Ahmed (PAK)
Derryck Murray (WI)
Matt Prior (ENG)
Ian Smith (NZ)
Jim Parks (ENG)
Ridley Jacobs (WI)
Jackie Hendriks (WI)
Bob Taylor (ENG)
PACE BOWLERS
Malcolm Marshall (WI)
Dale Steyn (SA)
Dennis Lillee (AUS)
Sir Curtly Ambrose (WI)
Allan Donald (SA)
Alan Davidson (AUS)
Wasim Akram (PAK)
Andy Roberts (WI)
Fred Trueman (ENG)
Waqar Younis (PAK)
Joel Garner (WI)
Glenn McGrath (AUS)
Michael Holding (WI)
Brian Statham (ENG)
Wes Hall (WI)
Bruce Reid (AUS)
Jeff Thomson (AUS)
Bob Willis (ENG)
Courtney Walsh (WI)
Pat Cummins (AUS)
Ian Bishop (WI)
Vernon Philander (SA)
Mitchell Johnson (AUS)
Colin Croft (WI)
Frank Tyson (ENG)
Shane Bond (NZ)
Kagiso Rabada (SA)
Graham McKenzie (AUS)
James Anderson (ENG)
Charlie Griffith (WI)
Jason Gillespie (AUS)
John Snow (ENG)
Mitchell Starc (AUS)
Neil Adcock (SA)
Ryan Harris (AUS)
Trent Boult (NZ)
Brett Lee (AUS)
Jasprit Bumrah (IND)
Neil Wagner (NZ)
Stuart Broad (ENG)
FanIe de Villiers (SA)
Josh Hazlewood (AUS)
Chaminda Vaas (SL)
Craig McDermott (AUS)
Makhaya Ntini (SA)
Heath Streak (ZIM)
Peter Pollock (SA)
Tim Southee (NZ)
Merv Hughes (AUS)
Shoaib Akhtar (PAK)
Steve Harmison (ENG)
Morne Morkel (SA)
Geoff Lawson (AUS)
Patrick Patterson (WI)
Fazal Mahmood (PAK)
Zaheer Khan (IND)
Darren Gough (ENG)
Khan Mohammad (PAK)
Javgal Srinath (IND)
Kemar Roach (WI)
Mohammad Abbas (PAK)
Mohammad Shami (IND)
Ishant Sharma (IND)
Dominic Cork (ENG)
Simon Doull (NZ)
Damien Fleming (AUS)
Devon Malcolm (ENG)
SPINNERS
Shane Warne (AUS)
Muttiah Muralitharan (SL)
Anil Kumble (IND)
Ray Illingworth (ENG)
Saqlain Mushtaq (PAK)
Bishan Bedi (IND)
Stuart MacGill (AUS)
Rangana Herath (SL)
Abdul Qadir (PAK)
Derek Underwood (ENG)
Lance Gibbs (WI)
Mushtaq Ahmed (PAK)
Bhagwath Chandrasekhar (IND)
Sonny Ramadhin (WI)
Tony Lock (ENG)
Graeme Swann (ENG)
Ravichandran Ashwin (IND)
Nathan Lyon (AUS)
Pat Symcox (SA)
John Emburey (ENG)
Alf Valentine (WI)
Yasir Shah (PAK)
Keshav Maharaj (SA)
Fred Titmus (ENG)
Erapalli Prasanna (IND)
Danish Kaneria (PAK)
Paul Adams (SA)
Harbhajan Singh (IND)
Saeed Ajmal (PAK)
Hedley Howarth (NZ)
Ray Price (ZIM)
Ashley Giles (ENG)
Roger Harper (WI)
John Bracewell (NZ)