Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...HWk/edit#gid=0

Order:

There were 11 items in your list. Here they are in random order:

1. PeteBlow
2. ashley
3. No Lynches
4. feel wrath
5. Eric Clipperton
6. DonkDonkDonkDonk
7. bundy5
8. xander biscuits
9. AllBlackDan
10. sixfour
11. tchaz

The aim is to draft a test XI.

Eligible players: anyone who played a test after 1969.

However, you only get the post-1969 portion of a player's career.

To use Ashley's example - if the cut-off date had been 1945 you would only get his preformance on the 1948 tour of England if you chose Bradman with a pick.

Undrafteds: no mention of as yet undrafted players itt.

Pick order: standard snake .. ABBAABBAABB ..so in the first round #1 goes first, int the second and third rounds #11 goes first and so on.

Clock: you have four hours from the previous pick to make a pick (however, see night immediately below). If you are going to be AFK and anticipate the draft may reach you please send a pick (or alternative picks dependent on picks still to be made before yours) in advance to someone after you.

Night: important - everyone please pick your own 6 (six) hour night period and fill this in on the spreadsheet.

Explanation: We have many different time zones represented so no single down-period makes sense. Instead you have the grace period of your personal six hours (plus the usual four hours for the pick) if you become 'up' during your night time. If people could confirm they understand this, eg, when they make their first pick that would be great.


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The simulator No Lynches found for future reference

200 Tests? 15,000 test runs? 100 international hundreds? Regarded as a god in his native India?

Sachin Tendulkar.

He's decent I suppose

Sachin would have been #1 on my list

Meant to say. I requested access to the spreadsheet. Night for me as 1am - 7am GMT

Mine too but I'm glad I wasn't up first. I'd rather have 8th and 15th pick than Tendulkar and 22nd pick. I think that around about pick 20 we'll be not getting our first choices for any position.

Tendulkar is the obvious goat but he's never really excited me.

Sorry - I think I have opened access to the spreadsheet now. Can someone check they can edit it?

Overrated by literally billions of people.

sleep hours 9pm - 3am est

I can't

8pm to 2am EST for me please

I can now

No write up as I am about to head to bed but I will take Brian Lara.

Two of the top three highest Test scores of all time including the only 400* ever made.

Will make my dead hours 1am-7am Perth time rest of the way (which is now for six hours pretty much).

My favourite moment watching cricket live was Lara being bowled for a duck by [undrafted] in 2004

Yeah Lara's great if you like watching someone bat for days just to get a record and then draw the match

My dead hours is 12am to 6am Brisbane time.

Also I think Sachin and Brian for batsmen anyway are automatic number 1 and 2 picks. Brian was the more inconsistent but on his day could hit some huge scores and not look like getting out despite the shots he was playing. Sachin very much followed the mould of a Gavaskar but obviously much more attacking and had the flare of a modern day batsman. And the longevity of his career should not be forgotten - over 4 decades at the top.

I’d agree with most of that, but ‘over 4 decades at the top’ is pushing it a bit.
He made his first class debut at 14 in 1987 and retired from all cricket in 2013, 26 years later.

I do remember reading about his ridiculous partnership with Kambli when I was at school.

Malcolm Marshall

ETA: I'll do a write-up when I get up for real

Yeah that on top for 4 decades was a bit of an exaggeration - meant 3 of the 4 decades.

Ok, just woke up. Give me 10 mins

4.

67 5 wicket innings
22 10 wicket matches
800 test wickets at 22.49 at a strike rate of 55 and an economy rate of 2.49

the little chucker himself

Muttiah Muralitharan

Murali wasn't who I thought would be the second bowler off the board

It wasn’t who I was gonna pick until about ten mins before I picked him (this has come round far quicker than I expected and I haven’t done any planning yet)

I must admit that he wasn’t my favourite bowler so I might regret it but i got swayed by the Sachin and Lara picks and just went with the volume of excellence which is too hard to ignore.

Think it's a bit high for Murali. Poor stats in Australia and India.

Great bowler obviously, but 89 wickets @ 13 a clip versus Bangladesh inflates his stats a small amount, though obviously you have to beat whoever they put in front of you.

that being said I think there is a large VORP in the spin bowling category