Aislabie
Test Cricket is Best Cricket
The draft named after a thing named after a man is back, and
This draft will happen in two phases. The first phase will be The Unlucky Dip. Ahead of the Unlucky Dip, you will nominate a record-smashing six players: they will all be Panesars. That is to say, you will be nominating players that you have almost 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).
Once every team has six 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.
The Rules
- You are trying to select the best possible Test team of 11 players.
- Your first 6 players will be assigned to you in the Unlucky Dip; the last 5 players you will then select in the Recovery Draft.
- You can nominate any player, so long as they have played at least one Test 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 mentioned previously, all of your Unlucky Dip nominations and Recovery Draft picks must have played at least one Test match. However, every player is entitled to one Rob Key Selection Bonus which will let them nominate or pick one player with no Test caps when they use it.
- If you use this bonus during the Unlucky Dip, it creates the possibility of forcing a player like Reynold Aravinda on your enemies; if you use it during the Unlucky Dip then someone like Adam Zampa could make your 50-cap budget stretch a little bit further.
- As in all drafts, if 24 hours pass without the next person making their pick then the next person can go ahead and pick.
@ahmedleo414
Sonny Moloney Akram Khan Karim Janat Brooke Walker Ian Salisbury Harry Musgrove@Aislabie
Shadab Khan Percy Twentyman-Jones Rajagopalan Shyamsunder Dave Gilbert Charles Coventry Asma Farzand@Aravind.
Roy Park Abdul Hafeez Kardar Khershed Meherhomji Roland Pope Yograj Singh Trevor McMahon@CerealKiller
Kevin Kasuza Gary Crocker Niaz Ahmed Ujesh Ranchod Tapash Baisya 
Emile McMaster@ddrap14
AB de Villiers Scott Kuggeleijn Tinu Yohannan William Solomon Mohammad Sami Flooi du Toit@icyman
Blair Hartland Garry Sobers Oscar da Costa Mohammad Salim Blessing Mahwire Barry Milburn@mohsin7827
Asif Mujtaba Charles Coventry Zafar Gohar Baqa Jilani Moeez Ghani Arthur Dolphin@Neptune
John Morris Chamika Karunaratne Iqbal Siddiqui Usman Khan Shinwari Tabish Khan Pud Thurlow@Paranoid Kendroid
Jeremy Solozano Vijay Rajindernath Roger Wijesuriya Simon Kerrigan Rubel Hossain Billy Frank@Perfect Square
Devang Gandhi Chris Cowdrey Glen Bruk-Jackson Tom Groube Tshepo Moreki Vivek Razdan@Supreme General
Stuart Williams Scott Borthwick Dwayne Smith Lee Germon Robert Stewart David Johnson@Till Valhalla
Kenia Jayantilal Travis Dowlin Imran Khan Richard Blakey Fionn Hand George Gladstone Marais@Yash.
Vikram Rathour Jacques Kallis Ricardo Powell Aashish Kapoor Josh Hull Doug FreemanRecovery Draft Order
- @CerealKiller - Mike Procter (7 caps, 43 remaining)
- @Paranoid Kendroid - George Headley (22 caps, 28 remaining)
- @Aislabie - WG Grace (22 caps, 28 remaining)
- @Aravind. - Yashasvi Jaiswal (11 caps, 39 remaining)
- @Perfect Square - Barry Richards (4 caps, 46 remaining)
- @ahmedleo414 - JJ Ferris (9 caps, 41 remaining)
- @Supreme General - Gus Atkinson (6 caps, 44 remaining)
- @ddrap14 - Kamindu Mendis (8 caps, 42 remaining)
- @mohsin7827 - Graeme Pollock (23 caps, 27 remaining)
- @Neptune - Aubrey Faulkner (25 caps, 25 remaining)
- @icyman - Brad Hodge (6 caps, 44 remaining)
- @Till Valhalla - Shamar Joseph (6 caps, 44 remaining)
- @Yash. - Sid Barnes (13 caps, 37 remaining)
- @Yash. - Bart King (Rob Key Selection Bonus)
- @Till Valhalla - Shahid Afridi (27 caps, 17 remaining)
- @icyman - Ellyse Perry (13 caps, 31 remaining)
- @Neptune - Mahadevan Sathasivam (Rob Key Selection Bonus)
- @mohsin7827 - Tim Murtagh (3 caps, 24 remaining)
- @ddrap14 - Jimmy Cook (3 caps, 39 remaining)
- @Supreme General - Clive Rice (Rob Key Selection Bonus)
- @ahmedleo414 - Vijay Merchant (10 caps, 31 remaining)
- @Perfect Square - Mohammad Abbas (25 caps, 21 remaining)
- @Aravind. - Axar Patel (14 caps, 25 remaining)
- @Aislabie - Ajay Sharma (1 cap, 27 remaining)
- @Paranoid Kendroid - KS Duleepsinhji (12 caps, 16 remaining)
- @CerealKiller - Frank Tarrant (Rob Key Selection Bonus)
- @CerealKiller - Stuart Law (1 cap, 42 remaining)
- @Paranoid Kendroid - Sarfaraz Khan (3 caps, 13 remaining)
- @Aislabie - Bill Alley (Rob Key Selection Bonus)
- @Aravind. - Harry Brook (19 caps, 6 remaining)
- @Perfect Square - Jamie Smith (7 caps, 14 remaining)
- @ahmedleo414 - Ed Joyce (1 cap, 30 remaining)
- @Supreme General - Rashid Khan (5 caps, 39 remaining)
- @ddrap14 - Alan Melville (11 caps, 28 remaining)
- @mohsin7827 - George Lohmann (18 caps, 6 remaining)
- @Neptune - Denis Lindsay (19 caps, 6 remaining)
- @icyman - George Bailey (5 caps, 26 remaining)
- @Till Valhalla - Abhishek Sharma (Rob Key Selection Bonus)
- @Yash. - Vinod Kambli (17 caps, 20 remaining)
- @Yash. - Saba Karim (1 cap, 19 remaining)
- @Till Valhalla - Rahmanullah Gurbaz (1 cap, 16 remaining)
- @icyman - Jofra Archer (13 caps, 13 remaining)
- @Neptune - Will Pucovski (1 cap, 5 remaining)
- @mohsin7827 - Charles Passailaigue (1 cap, 5 remaining)
- @ddrap14 - Bob Cowper (27 caps, 1 remaining)
- @Supreme General - Chris Rogers (25 caps, 14 remaining)
- @ahmedleo414 - Peter Pollock (28 caps, 2 remaining)
- @Perfect Square - Aamer Jamal (5 caps, 9 remaining)
- @Aravind. - Ryan ten Doeschate (Rob Key Selection Bonus)
- @Aislabie - Stanley Jackson (20 caps, 7 remaining)
- @Paranoid Kendroid - Jack Crawford (12 caps, 1 remaining)
- @CerealKiller - Mohammad Rizwan (34 caps, 8 remaining)
- @CerealKiller - Archie Jackson (8 caps, 0 remaining)
- @Paranoid Kendroid - Jim Parks Sr (1 cap, 0 remaining)
- @Aislabie - Martin Donnelly (7 caps, 0 remaining)
- @Aravind. - Goofy Lawrence (5 caps, 1 remaining)
- @Perfect Square - Sajid Khan (9 caps, 0 remaining)
- @ahmedleo414 - Nic Pothas (Rob Key Selection Bonus)
- @Supreme General - Ernest Tyldesley (14 caps, 0 remaining)
- @ddrap14 - Vince van der Bijl (Rob Key Selection Bonus)
- @mohsin7827 - KC Ibrahim (4 caps, 1 remaining)
- @Neptune - Ted Bowley (5 caps, 0 remaining)
- @icyman - Yuzvendra Chahal (Rob Key Selection Bonus)
- @Till Valhalla - Stewie Dempster (10 caps, 6 remaining)
- @Yash. - INVALID
In So Far
Good luck!
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