This is not a draft named after a man. This is a draft named after a thing named after a man.
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And so the thought came to me. How would you base an entire draft around Panesars?
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Welcome to The Panesar Draft
“If something seems completely doomed, just give it a little more time. Worst case scenario, you get to be right. Just find out for sure.” - Jon Bois
“If something seems completely doomed, just give it a little more time. Worst case scenario, you get to be right. Just find out for sure.” - Jon Bois
This draft will happen in two phases. The first phase will be The Unlucky Dip. Ahead of the Unlucky Dip, you will nominate five players: they will all be Panesars. That is to say, you will be nominating players that you have absolutely no chance of getting back. There is nothing to stop you being as harsh as you want... except for Rule 3 (we'll get to that in a moment).
How did the Unlucky Dip go?
@ahmedleo414
Wally Edwards
Nawaz Sharif
Brian Vitori
Wilbur Slabber
Ajit de Silva
@Aislabie
Sabbir Rahman
George Codrington
Susantha Karunaratne
Alamgir Kabir
Seymour Clark
@Bevab
Virat Kohli
Rolland Beaumont
Darren Pattinson
Anwar Hossain Monir
Krishna Kumar
@blockerdave
Roland Pope
Clive Rose
Shanthakumaran Sreesanth
Mohammad Khalil
George Gladstone Marais
@CerealKiller
Wasim Haider
Sanaullah Khan
Jack Blatherwick
Pommie Mbangwa
Raja Maharaj Singh
@DalePlaysCricket
Mehrab Hossain
Philip Hutchinson
Aijaz Ali
Mason Crane
Rubel Hossain
@deleted member
Terryn Fray
Shawn Findlay
Jamie Dalrymple
Hemantha Devapriya
Sailung Zorinliana
@El Loco
Ajay Sharma
Brijal Patel
Pankaj Singh
Alfred Luseno
Chris Martin
@Master Bates
Dion Ebrahim
Walter Giffen
Sajedul Islam
Euan McIntyre
Monty Panesar
@Na Maloom Afraad
Robert Whyte
Kyle Mills
Rony Stanyforth
Sridharan Jeganathan
Mark Lawrence
@Nilay_60
Monkey Hornby
Aakash Chopra
Alec Douglas-Home
Bill Bell
Ranjan Das
@Yash.
Francis Otieno
Maharajah of Vizianagram
Barney Gibson
Michael Beer
Anurag Thakur
Once every team has five probably terrible cricketers, we will hold The Recovery Draft. Seeing as all of our teams will be horrendous at this point, it will be your usual snake draft (in which we pick in a 1-2-3, 3-2-1 kind of order). In this phase, you can pick almost anyone to try to fix your team. I say "almost" because there is Rule 4.
RECOVERY DRAFT ORDER
Please remember when selecting your players that your six remaining players have a total limit of 50 Test caps. There is no rule against uncapped players.
- @Yash. - Franklyn Stephenson (0 caps)
- @Master Bates - Mike Procter (7 caps)
- @blockerdave - Barry Richards (4 caps)
- @DalePlaysCricket - Clive Rice (0 caps)
- @ahmedleo414 - Don Shepherd (0 caps)
- @Aislabie - Frank Tarrant (0 caps)
- @deleted member - Manoj Tiwary (0 caps)
- @CerealKiller - Garth le Roux (0 caps)
- @Na Maloom Afraad - Bart King (0 caps)
- @El Loco - Phil Mead (17 caps)
- @Nilay_60 - Amol Muzumdar (0 caps)
- @Bevab - Vince van der Bijl (0 caps)
- @Bevab - Lee Irvine (4 caps)
- @Nilay_60 - Harold Larwood (21 caps)
- @El Loco - John Langridge (0 caps)
- @Na Maloom Afraad - Graeme Pollock (23 caps)
- @CerealKiller - Stuart Law (1 cap)
- @deleted member - Michael Di Venuto (0 caps)
- @Aislabie - George Headley (22 caps)
- @ahmedleo414 - Allan Jones (0 caps)
- @DalePlaysCricket - Glen Chapple (0 caps)
- @blockerdave - Ollie Pope (7 caps)
- @Master Bates - Allan Steel (13 caps)
- @Yash. - Brad Hodge (6 caps)
- @Yash. - Jimmy Cook (3 caps)
- @Master Bates - Sid Barnes (13 caps)
- @blockerdave - Eddie Paynter (20 caps)
- @DalePlaysCricket - Prithvi Shaw (4 caps)
- @ahmedleo414 - Jack Russell (10 caps)
- @Aislabie - Bill Alley (0 caps)
- @deleted member - Ryan ten Doeschate (0 caps)
- @CerealKiller - Bill O'Reilly (27 caps)
- @Na Maloom Afraad - Jim Parks (1 cap)
- @El Loco - Vinod Kambli (17 caps)
- @Nilay_60 - Shreyas Iyer (0 caps)
- @Bevab - Vijay Merchant (10 caps)
- @Bevab - Stewie Dempster (10 caps)
- @Nilay_60 - Rajinder Goel (0 caps)
- @El Loco - KS Ranjitsinhji (15 caps)
- @Na Maloom Afraad - Aubrey Faulkner (25 caps)
- @CerealKiller - KS Duleepsinhji (12 caps)
- @deleted member - Charles Kortright (0 caps)
- @Aislabie - Marnus Labuschagne (14 caps)
- @ahmedleo414 - WG Grace (22 caps)
- @DalePlaysCricket - Desmond Lewis (3 caps)
- @blockerdave - Shantanu Sugwekar (0 caps)
- @Master Bates - Saba Karim (1 cap)
- @Yash. - George Pope (1 cap)
- @Yash. - Saait Magiet (0 caps)
- @Master Bates - Jack Crawford (12 caps)
- @blockerdave - Stephen Jefferies (0 caps)
- @DalePlaysCricket - Pick delayed
- @ahmedleo414 - Billy Wade (11 caps)
- @Aislabie - Alan Melville (11 caps)
- @deleted member - Lasith Malinga (30 caps)
- @CerealKiller - Archie Jackson (8 caps)
- @Na Maloom Afraad - Charlie Parker (1 cap)
- @El Loco - Peter Sainsbury (0 caps)
- @Nilay_60 - Ben Foakes (5 caps)
- @Bevab - Babar Azam (26 caps)
- @Bevab - Cec Pepper (0 caps)
- @Nilay_60 - Colin de Grandhomme (21 caps)
- @El Loco - Geoff Humpage (0 caps)
- @Na Maloom Afraad - Alan Jones (0 caps)
- @CerealKiller - Jamie Siddons (0 caps)
- @deleted member - LATE
- @Aislabie - John Wisden (0 caps)
- @ahmedleo414
- @DalePlaysCricket
- @blockerdave
- @Master Bates
- @Yash.
The Rules
- You are trying to select the best possible Test team of 11 players.
- Your first 5 players will be assigned to you in the Unlucky Dip; the last 6 players you will then select in the Recovery Draft.
- You can nominate any player, so long as they have played at least one first-class match.
- If two or more people nominate the same player for the Unlucky Dip, then the player will go to one of those who nominated him (and the extra nomination will be given to someone from the reserve list).
- Your six players from the Recovery Draft may only have a maximum of 50 Test caps in total. Why 50? Because that's how many Tests the man himself played.
- As in all drafts, if 24 hours pass without the next person making their pick then the next person can go ahead and pick.
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Would you like to participate?
If so, please sign up in this thread and PM me your list of Unlucky Dip nominations. As always, I will PM one of you my own list of nominations and the reserve list so that you can verify that I'm not cheating in any way. Have fun! (And it really will be enjoyable, even as you watch your team fill up with terrible players.)
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