Random Country Test Draft -- DONE. Time for comments/discussion

[King Pietersen]

An idea shamelessly stolen from CW. I missed out on the sign-up over there, so thought I'd start one up here.

As opposed to the normal, conventional draft where you're open to pick anyone from any country, this draft involves picking a player from 1 specific country per round. So as a basic example, the first Country randomly selected (we'll do just the Top 8 Test countries, no Bangladesh or Zimbabwe), are New Zealand. You then go through the whole round of picks picking players from that 1 country. At the end of the round the country changes and you continue until everyone has a team of 11 players.

Who's up for it? Looking at about 8 active, knowledgable posters =] So give a shout if you're interested, and I'll pick 8 posters to take part.

South Africa

Pick # 1: ZoraxDoom - Jacques Kallis
Pick # 2: Dutchad - Graeme Smith
Pick # 3: Cricketman - Shaun Pollock
Pick # 4: King Pietersen - Barry Richards
Pick # 5: Dare - Allan Donald
Pick # 6: Hmarka - Dale Steyn
Pick # 7: Shravi - Graeme Pollock

Sri Lanka

Pick # 1: Shravi - Muttiah Muralitharan
Pick # 2: Hmarka - Kumar Sangakkara
Pick # 3: Dare - Mahela Jayawardene
Pick # 4: King Pietersen - Chaminda Vaas
Pick # 5: Cricketman - Aravinda De Silva
Pick # 6: Dutchad - Sanath Jayasuriya
Pick # 7: ZoraxDoom - Prasanna Jayawardene

England

Pick # 1: Hmarka Len Hutton
Pick # 2: Cricketman Jack Hobbs
Pick # 3: Dare - Wally Hammond
Pick # 4: Shravi - Sydney Barnes
Pick # 5: Dutchad - Ian Botham
Pick # 6: ZoraxDoom - Headley Verity
Pick # 7: King Pietersen - George Lohmann

West Indies

Pick # 1: King Pietersen - Garfield Sobers
Pick # 2: ZoraxDoom - Malcolm Marshall
Pick # 3: Dutchad - Curtley Ambrose
Pick # 4: Shravi - Viv Richards
Pick # 5: Dare - Courtney Walsh
Pick # 6: Cricketman - Brian Lara
Pick # 7: Hmarka - Everton Weekes

New Zealand

Pick # 1: Dare - Richard Hadlee
Pick # 2: Cricketman - Shane Bond
Pick # 3: King Pietersen - Martin Crowe
Pick # 4: ZoraxDoom - Stewie Dempster
Pick # 5: Hmarka - Nathan Astle
Pick # 6: Shravi - Brendon McCullum
Pick # 7: Dutchad - Daniel Vettori

India

Pick # 1: Dutchad - Sachin Tendulkar
Pick # 2: Shravi - Sunil Gavaskar
Pick # 3: Hmarka - Anil Kumble
Pick # 4: ZoraxDoom - Kapil Dev
Pick # 5: King Pietersen - Subhash Gupte
Pick # 6: Cricketman - Vinoo Mankad
Pick # 7: Dare - Rahul Dravid

Australia

Pick # 1: Hmarka - Greg Chappell
Pick # 2: Dutchad - Ricky Ponting
Pick # 3: Shravi - Dennis Lillee
Pick # 4: ZoraxDoom - Keith Miller
Pick # 5: Cricketman - Shane Warne
Pick # 6: Dare - Matthew Hayden
Pick # 7: King Pietersen - Adam Gilchrist

Pakistan

Pick # 1: King Pietersen - Imran Khan
Pick # 2: Dare - Waqar Younis
Pick # 3: Cricketman - Wasim Akram
Pick # 4: ZoraxDoom - Fazal Mahmood
Pick # 5: Shravi - Javed Miandad
Pick # 6: Dutchad - Shoaib Akhtar
Pick # 7: Hmarka - Hanif Mohammad

West Indies

Pick # 1: ZoraxDoom - George Headley
Pick # 2: Dare - Clyde Walcott
Pick # 3: Dutchad - Andy Roberts
Pick # 4: King Pietersen - Joel Garner
Pick # 5: Cricketman - Rohan Kanhai
Pick # 6: Shravi - Gordon Greenidge
Pick # 7: Hmarka - Frank Worrell

Australia

Pick # 1: Hmarka - Glenn McGrath
Pick # 2: Shravi - Allan Border
Pick # 3: Cricketman - Steve Waugh
Pick # 4: King Pietersen - Neil Harvey
Pick # 5: Dutchad - Rodney Marsh
Pick # 6: Dare - Clarrie Grimmett
Pick # 7: ZoraxDoom - Archie Jackson

England

Pick # 1: Dutchad - David Gower
Pick # 2: ZoraxDoom - Herbert Sutcliffe
Pick # 3: King Pietersen - Ken Barrington
Pick # 4: Hmarka
Pick # 5: Dare
Pick # 6: Shravi
Pick # 7: Cricketman

 

[shravi]

Sounds interesting. Will we have done all the nations by round 8 or is it all to chance? I'm just hoping we don't have two rounds of Sri Lanka. They only have Sangakkara and Muralitharan that would make a World XI.

Is this all time or time specific? All time could work in this type of draft where each country has an entire round.

 

[King Pietersen]

We'll have done all 8 Countries by Round 8, and yeah, it'll be all-time.

 

[ZoraxDoom]

Sure, I'm in.

 

[rahuldravidfan]

Count me in

 

[King Cricket]

I'm in as well.

 

[TheGreemSim]

Im in

 

[Kiko_97]

In.

 

[ZoraxDoom]

Someone's going to have to tell me who RDF picks - I can't see his posts.

 

[shravi]

Someone's going to have to tell me who RDF picks - I can't see his posts.

If more people sign up, we won't have to .

 

[Dare]

If Zorax misses one of his turns that you might as well count him out. He gave up in the subcontinent draft after that happened.

 

[King Pietersen]

Will keep sign-ups open until midnight, after that I'll pick the 8 guys who'll take part, set up the draft order and we'll be off. Looking forward to seeing how this plays out, it's something a little different to the normal, and over-done all-time 'Test/ODI' drafts.

 

[Cricketman]

Sounds interesting. Definitely would like to take part.

 

[SciD]

If posting time is 24 hours count my name in contenders.

 

[ZoraxDoom]

If Zorax misses one of his turns that you might as well count him out. He gave up in the subcontinent draft after that happened.

Well, it was more than that. I was far behind after a pick and I didn't have them time to continue with it properly.

I'll be able to keep up with this. I think