DRAFT! Ashes history...

[sifter132]

While the Ashes is going on it seems an appropriate time to roll out another PlanetCricket draft, focusing on the legendary Australia-England rivalry.

You may remember a World Cup draft back in 2011 (http://www.planetcricket.org/forums/cricket-discussion/draft-time-world-cup-history-all-finished-71902.html), this will be a similar story - players to be picked for your team based on their Ashes performances only.

Note: This isn't a draft for simming (although I guess it could be done...), we're primarily here to honour and highlight Ashes legends.

If you're interested in participating, make a post here stating your interest! Bear in mind you'll need to be committed to being fairly active on the forum to keep up with it.

Rules?
*7 rounds - no restriction on what type of player gets picked in what rounds. First 3 rounds we pick 1 player each, in the last 4 rounds we pick 2 players at a time (to speed up the process). That will get us our 11 players each.
*Team that includes Bradman is to pick last in all subsequent rounds as compensation.
*Once it's your turn, you have a 24 hour window to post your selection (but try not to take that long!). Please include a description of your player and why you like him, maybe some stats and a pic or two.
*In your final XI, you must have at least 3 players who played before World War 2.
*Players are to be selected based on their performances in Australia-England Tests only! In this draft, no one cares if Matthew Hayden made 380 vs Zimbabwe, or Devon Malcolm took 9 wickets vs South Africa. Anything outside the Ashes is irrelevant!


Round 1 - 1 player only
Sifter132 - Sir Donald Bradman
War - John Snow
Fenil - Herbert Sutcliffe
Cricket_icon - Sir Jack Hobbs
Aalay - Shane Warne
KrishnamurthiN - Arthur Mailey
User2010 - Adam Gilchrist
The_Author - Billy Murdoch
Umair2000 - John Ferris
Samuels - Glenn McGrath
Sulaiman7 - Allan Border

Round 2 - 1 player only
Sulaiman7 - Dennis Lillee
Samuels - Wally Hammond
Umair2000 - Charles "Terror" Turner
The_Author - Andrew Flintoff
User2010 - Sir Len Hutton
KrishnamurthiN - Ricky Ponting
Aalay - Sir Ian Botham
Cricket_icon - Richie Benaud
Fenil - Steve Waugh
War - Johnny Wardle
Sifter132 - Ken Barrington

Round 3 - 1 player only
KrishnamurthiN - Sir George "Gubby" Allen
Cricket_icon - David Gower
The_Author - Jeff Thomson
Umair2000 - Matthew Hayden
Fenil - Keith Miller
Sulaiman7 - George Lohmann
War - Michael Slater
Samuels - Terry Alderman
User2010 - Bill O'Reilly
Aalay - Harold Larwood
Sifter132 - Jim Laker

Round 4 - 2 players in this round
Aalay - Greg Chappell & Kevin Pietersen
User2010 - Hedley Verity & Clarrie Grimmett
Samuels - Arthur Morris & Maurice Leyland
War - Denis Compton & Trevor Bailey
Sulaiman7 - Sydney Barnes & Geoffrey Boycott
Fenil - Bob Willis & Fred Trueman
Umair2000 - Bill Ponsford & Ian Chappell
The_Author - Stan McCabe & Mike Brearley
Cricket_icon - Fred Spofforth & Frank Tyson
KrishnamurthiN - Ray Lindwall & Cyril Washbrook
Sifter132 - Monty Noble & Wilfred Rhodes

Round 5 - 2 players
cricket_icon - Alastair Cook & Alec Stewart
Umair2000 - Michael Hussey & Michael Clarke
Samuels - John Edrich & Johnny Briggs
Sulaiman7 - Bob Cowper & Bob Simpson
KrishnamurthiN - absent
Fenil - Bill Lawry & Ranjitsinhji
The_Author - Derek Underwood & Mark Taylor
Aalay - Justin Langer & Les Ames
War - Neil Harvey & Charlie Macartney
User2010 - absent
Sifter132 - Archie Jackson & Sir Alec Bedser

Round 6 - 2 players
User2010 - absent
War - Alan Davidson & Jack Gregory
Aalay - Mark Waugh & Ryan Harris
The_Author - Simon Jones & WG Grace
Fenil - Stanley Jackson & Brad Haddin
KrishnamurthiN - absent
Sulaiman7 - Eddie Paynter & David Boon
Samuels - Rodney Hogg & Ian Healy
Umair2000 - Alan Knott & Michael Vaughan
cricket_icon - Tom Richardson & Jonathon Trott
Sifter132 - Dean Jones & Bruce Reid

Round 7 - 2 players
KrishnamurthiN - absent
User2010 - absent
The_Author - Sid Barnes & Stuart Clark
War - Colin McDonald & Godfrey Evans
Umair2000 - Craig McDermott & Bobby Peel
cricket_icon - Victor Trumper & Warwick Armstrong
Aalay - Jack Russel & James Anderson
Samuels - Bill Woodfull & Peter May
Fenil - Hugh Trumble & Clem Hill
Sulaiman7 - Wayne Phillips & Bert Ironmonger
Sifter132 - Jack Blackham & Charles Bannerman

COMPLETED XIs
The_Author
MA Taylor
WG Grace
WL Murdoch
SG Barnes
SJ McCabe
A Flintoff
JM Brearley
JR Thomson
DL Underwood
SP Jones
SR Clark

War
Michael Slater
Colin McDonald
Charles Macartney
Neil Harvey
Denis Compton
Trevor Bailey
Jack Gregory
Alan Davidson
Godfrey Evans
Johnny Wardle
John Snow

Aalay
(1) Justin Langer
(2) Jack Russel
(3) Mark Waugh
(4) Kevin Pietersen
(5) Greg Chappell
(6) Ian Botham
(7) Les Ames
(8) Shane Warne
(9) Ryan Harris
(10) Harold Larwood
(11) James Anderson

Samuels
Arthur Morris
John Edrich
Maurice Leyland
Wally Hammond (c)
Peter May
Bill Woodfull
Ian Healy (wk)
Johnny Briggs
Rodney Hogg
Glenn McGrath
Terry Alderman

Cricket_icon
1. J Hobbs (Eng)
2. A Cook (Eng)
3. J Trott (Eng)
4. DI Gower (Eng)
5. V Trumper (Aus)
6. W Armstrong (Aus)
7. A Stewart WK (Eng)
8. R Benaud (C) (Aus)
9. F Tyson (Eng)
10. F Spofforth (Aus)
11. T Richardson (Eng)

Umair2000
Matthew Hayden
Bill Ponsford
Michael Vaughan
Michael Clarke
Ian Chappell :vc:
Michael Hussey
Alan Knott
Bobby Peel
Charles "Terror" Turner
John James Ferris
Craig McDermott

Fenil
Herbert Sutcliffe (
Bill Lawry
Clem Hill
Steve Waugh
KS Ranji
Stanley Jackson
Keith Miller
Brad Haddin
Hugh Trumble
Fred Trueman
Bob Willis

Sulaiman7
1. Geoff Boycott
2. Bob Simpson
3. Allan Border
4. David Boon
5. Eddie Paynter
6. Bob Cowper
7. Wayne Phillips
8. Bert Ironmonger
9. Sydney Barnes
10. Dennis Lillee
11. George Lohmann

Sifter132
1 Charles Bannerman
2 Archie Jackson
3 Sir Donald Bradman
4 Ken Barrington
5 Dean Jones
6 Monty Noble
7 Wilfred Rhodes
8 Jack Blackham
9 Jim Laker
10 Sir Alec Bedser
11 Bruce Reid

 

[Gaurav_7]

In.

 

[Fenil]

Count me in.

 

[Aislabie]

I'll give it a go. Just drop me a VM or something if I get lax, which I don't expect to do but you never know

 

[sifter132]

^Will do

That's 4! Still spots available...haven't got a concrete player limit as yet, so feel free to sign up.

 

[Umair7]

I am in

 

[Aalay]

I will try this out.

 

[Samuels]

Sounds interesting. I will put forward my name for this.

 

[KrishnamurthiN]

I am in.

 

[Sulaiman7]

I'd like to take part here .

 

[sifter132]

That's 9 potential participants! I'll check the thread again tonight and then draw a line in the sand. We can't have too many guys in it anyway, it would take too long!

Rules?
*I'm thinking 7 rounds, no restriction on who gets picked in what rounds. In the first 3 rounds we pick 1 player each, in the last 4 rounds we pick 2 players at a time (to speed up the process). That will get us our 11 players each.
*Bradman to be included! We usually exclude the Don in drafts because it unbalances the teams, but I think he should be here, as he is a crucial figure in Ashes history. The catch is that whoever goes first and picks Bradman has to pick last in every other round (is this a fair enough handicap? Too lenient?). The other rule relating to Bradman? You can't be over the top in your bragging about having him in your team
*Once it's your turn, you have a 24 hour window to post your selection (but try not to take that long!). Please include a description of your player and why you like him, maybe some stats and a pic or two.
EDIT:
*The other rule. In your final XI, you must have at least 3 players who played before World War 2.

Everyone clear on what we're doing? Any questions? If you're not sure, check out the draft I linked in the first post to see roughly how it works.

Start researching about who you might want to pick!

Once we get a final head count, I will post up the randomised draft order and we can probably get started by tomorrow!

 

[War]

Count me in..

 

[sifter132]

OK that's 10 players. Seems like a pretty good number to me.

First thing to decide: does anyone particularly want Bradman and the #1 pick? As a price you'll have to pick last in all the other rounds. If you want him, make a post and say so below! If more than one person says they want Bradman, then he'll go to the man with the most persuasive case If no one wants him, then I'll take him.

After that's decided we can get this thing rolling!

 

[Fenil]

If no one wants him, then I'll take him.

Yes, take him and pick last in all the other rounds.

 

[sifter132]

^Of course! No cheating