And so ends the Lucky Dip! Let's see how the teams look after all that carnage...
@ahmedleo414
Ricky Ponting
(P)
Imran Khan
(L)
James Celestine
(L)
Mluleki Nkala
(L)
Mustafizur Rahman
(L)
All in all, that could have gone far worse for you. You've got a couple of proper legends in there, as well as a very good deceptive seamer, but you do have to work around a couple of Panesars.
@Aislabie
Rahul Dravid
(L)
Ryan ten Doeschate
(L)
Andrew Flintoff
(P)
Waqar Younis
(L)
Pommie Mbangwa
(L)
I've really done well out of this. I've got myself four legends and only one Panesar to show for it. I'm really very happy with how this has all turned out.
@Bevab
Jonny Bairstow
(P)
Viv Richards
(L)
Naimur Rahman
(L)
Moneeb Iqbal
(L)
Monty Panesar
(L)
On the one hand you've got Richards and Bairstow and that's huge, but on the other you've got two non-batting non-bowlers in there and no proper seamers yet.
@blockerdave
Michael Bevan
(L)
Steve Tikolo
(L)
Andre Botha
(L)
Omer Hussain
(L)
Joel Garner
(P)
It is fast becoming a tradition that you do well out of these lotteries; you did pick up a Panesar in Omer Hussain, but it looks like you'll have a good enough team to hide him in.
@CerealKiller
Sam Hain
(L)
Tim Ambrose
(L)
Wasim Akram
(P)
John Bracewell
(L)
Chris Martin
(L)
This is a weird one, because you picked up three Panesars and an uncapped player, yet your team looks pretty okay. With a little bit of role clarity here, you can make this work.
@DalePlaysCricket
Romesh Kaluwitharana
(L)
Kevin Pietersen
(P)
Gavin Hamilton
(L)
Chris Simpson
(L)
Srinivas Venkataraghavan
(L)
If we were scoring teams simply in Scrabble points, then you'd be lapping the field right now. But we're not and you didn't do that well out of the Lucky Dip.
@deleted member
Inzamam ul-Haq
(L)
Ajay Sharma
(P)
Tim de Leede
(L)
Adam Huckle
(L)
Ray Julian
(L)
The Ajay Sharma pick still confuses me a bit, but if the Lucky Dip played out differently you could have been doing really well right now. Unfortunately this team lacks both batting and bowling.
@El Loco
Mike Brearley
(L)
AB de Villiers
(P)
JP Duminy
(L)
Malcolm Waller
(L)
Shoaib Akhtar
(L)
So you did cop two Panesars, but you've come out of it okay with two proper middle-order hitters, a keeping option and the fastest bowler of all time.
@Na Maloom Afraad
Sachin Tendulkar
(P)
Kwame Tucker
(L)
Dwayne Leverock
(L)
Narendra Hirwani
(L)
Josephat Ababu
(L)
Oh. Oh dear. That's four Panesars. Two of them are pretty good but that's still four Panesars. Well at least you had Sachin?
@Yash.
Shubman Gill
(L)
Zaheer Abbas
(P)
Garry Sobers
(L)
Jamie Dalrymple
(L)
Yuzvendra Chahal
(L)
Well Zaheer and Sobers in the same team is pretty intimidating. This is definitely one of the healthier units after a brutal Lucky Dip.
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So those of you who were around for the Layer Cake Draft will remember that for the Recovery Draft layer, it is an ordered draft where whoever has the best team after the Lucky Dip goes last. Granted it didn't stop
@blockerdave destroying that draft anyway, but still. It's designed to redress the balance a little bit. Therefore...
SEED 10 -
@Na Maloom Afraad - It had to be didn't it. Four Panesars.
SEED 9 -
@deleted member - Yeah that's a pretty shaky side too, but I'm putting NMA before you because his was completely out of his control.
SEED 8 -
@DalePlaysCricket - I feel like your team is the next-struggliest. Not quite as outstandingly threadbare, but not exactly what you'd have hoped for either.
SEED 7 -
@Bevab - Yes you have Bairstow and Richards, but you're still carrying two or three passengers in your side and that's not easy.
SEED 6 -
@ahmedleo414 - There's a lot to like here, but you're still having to work around Celestine and Mluleki Nkala.
SEED 5 -
@CerealKiller - It's very much a side built around Wasim Akram, but I mean... if you're going to build a side around someone.
SEED 4 -
@El Loco - There are three sides that are really very close here, but you do still have to work around Mike Brearley's batting.
SEED 3 -
@Yash. - Have fun with Jamie Dalrymple! In fairness it's really close between this team and the next one, but Gill is still pretty unproven as of yet.
SEED 2 -
@blockerdave - Dave always does well on Lucky Dips. He just happened not to be able to avoid Omer Hussain this time, which happens.
SEED 1 -
@Aislabie - Yeah, I've done horribly well here. To the extent that it probably looks a little suspicious really, but I couldn't go fixing it to make it look less fixed.
So yeah - that ^^^ will be our draft order shortly.
But first we've got to see who else we all rejected!
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