Budget Draft: Bargain Hunt

[icyman]

Ah! Hughes was going to be my next pick! Good for you though!

 

[Perfect Square]

My next pick is bald legend, Adam Lyth. That's it. He's a legend in my eyes.

1. Adam Lyth (0)
2. Imran Butt (0)
3. Grant Flower (9)
4. Mohammad Ashraful (4)
5. Fawad Alam (18)
6. MS Dhoni (18)
7.
8. Pat Cummins (28)
9. Noman Ali (23)
10. Mohammad Akram (0)
11.

Total: 100 pts

@Paranoid Kendroid with the double pick.

 

[Paranoid Kendroid]

01. Kraigg Brathwaite (13)
02. Dodger Whysall (9)
03. Shan Masood (9)
04. James Taylor (6)
06. Adam Gilchrist (27)
07. Ian Cromb (0)
08. Karn Sharma (0)
09. Dale Steyn (28)
10. Pat Pocock (6)
11. Lonwabo Tsotsobe (1)

Remaining = 1 point

Back to @Perfect Square

 

[blockerdave]

01. Kraigg Brathwaite (13)
02. Dodger Whysall (9)
03. Shan Masood (9)
04. James Taylor (6)
06. Adam Gilchrist (27)
07. Ian Cromb (0)
08. Karn Sharma (0)
09. Dale Steyn (28)
10. Pat Pocock (6)
11. Lonwabo Tsotsobe (1)

Remaining = 1 point

Back to @Perfect Square

James Taylor is an excellent pick.

 

[Paranoid Kendroid]

James Taylor is an excellent pick.

Was surprised to see him not being picked till now.

 

[icyman]

Yep, Taylor is a great pick. I guess he was forgotten post the CWC 2015- good batsman and could have done wonders for England had it not been for his unfortunate premature retirement.

 

[Perfect Square]

My next pick is Shahadat Hossain from Bangladesh.

A tall right armer that sparked injection in the team's fast bowling stock then. Promising U19 career but being given the responsibility to carry his team during that era wasn't easy. A not so great bowling average but he did picked up wickets and a had decent FC record considering the home pitches of his country.

1. Adam Lyth (0)
2. Imran Butt (0)
3. Grant Flower (9)
4. Mohammad Ashraful (4)
5. Fawad Alam (18)
6. MS Dhoni (18)
7.
8. Pat Cummins (28)
9. Noman Ali (23)
10. Mohammad Akram (0)
11. Shahadat Hossain (0)

Total: 100 pts

@Yash. is next.

 

[Yash.]

Will take all my picks together by tomorrow night. Please go ahead @Aislabie

 

[Aislabie]

Callum Ferguson

4 runs @ 2.00 (best 3) in 1 Test match
9,386 runs @ 37.09 (20 centuries, best 213) in 147 first-class matches

There are other players out there with more impressive first-class records, but Callum Ferguson is already on my mind after I picked him about two minutes ago in my Aussie ODI team, and I think his ODI average of 41 demonstrates his ability to deal with Test quality bowling. He also bats six in my team, which should give him the role of playing positive, dynamic innings.

Aislabie's XI so far:
1. KC Ibrahim (1)
2. Ajay Jadeja (6)
3. Don Bradman (50)
4. "Stork" Hendry (10)
5.
6. Callum Ferguson (0)
7. Godfrey Evans (0)
8. Ashley Giles (10)
9. Brett Lee (20)
10. Jeetan Patel (3)
11. Mohammad Sami (0)
0 points remaining

@icyman

 

[icyman]

I am going with Mark Waugh (21 points, 16 remain)

1. Waugh
2. Roy
3. Darling
4. Lamb
5. Ranatunga
6. Cheetham
7.
8. Richardson
9. Agarkar
10. L Sivaramakrishnan
11. Bracken

@pillowprocter

 

[blockerdave]

@pillowprocter is late @Till Valhalla is up

 

[Till Valhalla]

Sachitra Senayake
@Neptune

 

[Aravind.]

Index update please @Aislabie when you've time.

 

[Neptune]

For my next pick I'll select someone who had the most baffling and unexpected career arcs in recent memory. Adrian Barath was the batting wonderkid with Brian Lara adding to the hype; and a century at the Gabba on debut definitely did not slow down the talk. He never scored another 100 in his 15 tests though; and shockingly completely left the game at the age of 24 to become a Jehovah's witness with a test batting average of 23.46 which is so far from what could have been but perfect for this draft.

1. Mike Brearley
2. Adrian Barath
3. Subramaniam Badrinath
4. Clem Hill
5. Johnny Tyldesley
6. Imran Khan
7. Mark Boucher
8. Gareth Batty
9. Derek Shackleton
10. Prasidh Krishna
11.

(98/100)

@Aravind.

 

[Aravind.]

Abhinav Mukund for 2 points, not a big success in Test cricket with only 7 matches without any long run and filling as opener when there is injury to viru/dhawan/vijay/gauti, but great opener in FC for Tamil Nadu with 10258 runs @ 47.93.

Abhinav Mukund
2.
Ricky Ponting
Mark Ramprakash
Travis Head
Robin Singh
Ian Healy
Walter Mead
Zaheer Khan
Javed Akhtar
Pankaj Singh

@ddrap14