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The single time I'll use a serious image in this thread Welcome to the latest twisted Ddrap draft! This one is named in honour of cricket writer and Surrey legend Percy Fender, who has zero bearing on the rest of the draft, but I needed an alliterative name and Fender worked the best. The...

Well. I'm back again. And for the first time since (checks notes) December 2022, it's not an RNG draft! Well, mostly. One of the flaws of the Panesar draft to some was that there was an obviously OP strategy - stacking the deck with absolute manure such as Vizzy. Well, you can do that here. If...

Ddrap's summer project 2023: what if a league was entirely scripted? It's 40* years in the future. We haven't run out of petrol (yet), I probably STILL haven't changed my PFP from January, and Jonathan Agnew is still commentating whenever the Ashes comes around. More importantly, the T20 World...

I'm baaaaaaack (again)! My final exam for this semester is Wednesday, so I now have time to run another of ye ole RNG Drafts. I wanted to retry the RLG Draft here, but I realised I might have an even better idea: what about a rerun of @Aislabie's Panesar Draft, but mixed with a RNG Draft? I'll...

Welcome to another RNG draft! In this one, it's a standard Test RNG draft, where you can pick any player for any position. But pick carefully. This draft, you must submit the position in the batting order the player will occupy with your pick. This is simple in early situations - put Kohli at 4...

Like Aislabie, I've had interest in doing a long-term, history revising Cricket Captain series. Unlike him, I was more fortunate to be born in Australia, a land where cricket success (except in India) is fairly regular, and where I don't have to undo the work of a bunch of selectors on...

I promised I'd run another RNG draft after the Bazball draft was done. Here's said draft. There's no big twist this time, but it isn't just another of the originals: for the first time in RNG Draft history, we're doing an ODI format. RULES: 1. I'll filter Cricinfo's search to include all...

Copied from General Cricket Discussion; if you've seen this first post before, it was there For a little bit of fun, and in the Aislabiean tradition, I'm going to try and put together all-time squads with all players sharing the same first letter of a surname. I'll be picking with all formats...

The term 'bazball' has been thrown around a lot in cricket in recent times. Everyone has an opinion on it - some love it, some hate it, some think it's 'not cricket'. But there's no denying that it's produced good results for England, with a pretty ordinary player pool and an awful track record...

I've got no clue how any of this actually works, full warning. Please LMK if I'm messing something up! Posts to be created/edited throughout the day

So, I recently had to reset my computer, meaning I can no longer play the Aussie save file. Now, I do apologise to the one or two other Aussies here, but I decided to switch things up for my new one. The Poms were dismal during my save - they didn't win the Ashes in thirty years. I'm going to...

Says it all on the tin. First game soon!

Guess who's baaaaack... turns out it's a lot easier to be active when your computer isn't deleting all your cookies every day just for the C drive to function. (Seriously, how'd I miss that for two whole months?) Anyway, with uni having wound down for the year (and completely stopping after an...

The Australian media are reporting the death of Andrew Symonds at age 46 following a car crash outside Townsville. https://www.news.com.au/sport/cricket/andrew-symonds-dead-at-46-after-tragic-car-accident/news-story/8238e8c8496eabe316bb691a73718619...

Australia: An Alternative Universe The Competition The idea of this new league is to create an intriguing ongoing competition between managers of various states. I realise that beyond an introductory sentence explaining the idea, I don’t need a mission statement for a PC league, so I’ll jump...

mods, if you want this to be part of the BBL discussion thread, can you please DM me so I can copy this post off? There's 24 hours to go until the start of a brand new season of Big Bash cricket! It's always an exciting time for me as, due to the unique way Australian TV works, it's the only...

Okay, hello everyone! I'll start by getting a couple things cleared up: I have no clue how to change the tag (don't think I've ever done it before) but the RLG draft is officially dead. Quite frankly, taking on such a big draft during a time in my life when I was incredibly busy was a really...

So I've made a new thread as I don't want to clog the transfer thread with my writings that may or may not be related to transfers. If there's a better place for this do please let me know but for now I've put it here. First up, an evaluation of the windows for the Premier League clubs! I'll do...

A while ago I had an idea for a completely different kind of RNG draft. With some other drafts winding down, it's time for me to introduce the Random List Generator Draft! This draft will be more similar to some drafts run in the past by @Aislable (there may be others I have missed, if so, many...

Figured a thread for Tokyo 2021 Olympic Games wouldn't go amiss. Looking forward to it- even if it's going to be different due to the virus, it's always a good time