Draft: Budget Draft: Bargain Hunt

[CerealKiller]

Shane Warne for 25 points
@Paranoid Kendroid

 

[Yash.]

I'll take George Pope into my team

 

[Paranoid Kendroid]

Dale Steyn (28 tariff points)

 

[Aravind.]

@Aislabie your turn.

 

[Aislabie]

Don Bradman (50 points)
6,996 runs @ 99.94 (29 centuries, best 334) in 52 Test matches
28,067 runs @ 95.14 (117 centuries, best 452*) in 234 first-class matches

It's a big swing to spend half my budget on one player, but come on - it's the Don. No cricketer has ever been more dominant than Bradman: my VARP calculations showed that he was worth three players to his team, and there's a very strong argument that he is the greatest ever player of any major sport. For nearly 100 years since he arrived on the Test scene we have been debating the "best since Bradman", but there has never been anyone close to the man himself and likely never will be.

Aislabie's XI so far:
3. Don Bradman (50)

50 points remaining

@pillowprocter

 

[Perfect Square]

I will take Don Bradman for 50 points.

@pillowprocter

Somebody took the knife. Hope it was worth it

 

[pillowprocter]

Alec Stewart for 20

double pick for @Aravind.

 

[Aravind.]

Ricky Ponting - 31
Ian Healy - 7
(38/100)

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Ricky Ponting
4
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Ian Healy
8
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11

Back to @pillowprocter

 

[pillowprocter]

Zak Crawley for 12, @Aislabie again

 

[Aislabie]

Godfrey Evans (0 points)
2,439 runs @ 20.49 (2 centuries, best 104) and 219 dismissals (173 caught, 46 stumped) in 91 Test matches
14,882 runs @ 21.22 (7 centuries, best 114) and 1,066 dismissals (816 caught, 250 stumped) in 465 first-class matches

Considered by Alan Knott to be the greatest wicket-keeper ever to play cricket, the only thing that would have stopped Godfrey Evans being the second name on my teamsheet would have been if someone else had picked Bradman before me. @ddrap14 has noticed that a wicket-keeper is almost always one of my first picks, and the same is true here: Evans' inconsistent batting has also had the wonderful side-effect of making him absolutely free of charge, which makes him an automatic pick here.

Aislabie's XI so far:
3. Don Bradman (50)
7. Godfrey Evans (0)

50 points remaining

@Paranoid Kendroid

 

[Aislabie]

@Paranoid Kendroid is late

@CerealKiller it's your go again

Currently updating the index

 

[CerealKiller]

Ed Joyce, 3 points
Unfortunately played just one Test, but averaged 47 in FC, mainly in County Cricket

@Yash.

 

[Paranoid Kendroid]

Adam Gilchrist (27)
Dale Steyn (28)

Remaining = 45 points

 

[blockerdave]

@Yash. is late it’s @mohsin7827 up now

 

[mohsin7827]

Alan Knott (12, 69)

Victor Trumper
Alan Knott

@Perfect Square