The Layer Cake Draft

Lucky Dip Player 35...

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:sco: :ar: Gavin Hamilton

Nominated by: @blockerdave

Rejected by: None

Test stats: 0 runs an 0 wickets in 1 match
First-class stats: 2,939 runs @ 26.24 (2 centuries, best 125) and 249 wickets @ 25.76 (9 5WI, best 7/50) in 95 matches

Of all the players England anointed as "Next Botham" in the '90s, Gavin Hamilton had the worst time of things. Plucked out of the Scottish World Cup side to tour South Africa, it like... really didn't work. Scores of 0 (6) and 0 (3) from number eight demonstrated that he wasn't as good at batting as Allan Donald was at bowling. There's no shame in that. Unfortunately, he also conceded none for 63 from his fifteen overs as England's fifth seamer, and that innings defeat would be his only experience of Test cricket.

And the player goes to... @Dutch
 
Lucky Dip Player 36 (of 36)...

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:eng: :bat: Jack Ikin

Nominated by: @Bevab

Rejected by: None

Test stats: 606 runs @ 20.89 (best 60) and 3 wickets @ 118.00 (best 1/38) in 18 matches
First-class stats: 17,968 runs @ 36.81 (27 centuries, best 192) and 339 wickets @ 30.27 (11 5WI, best 6/21) in 365 matches

And the final player is someone who just couldn't get the hang of Test cricket, despite a skillset that should have made him the perfect middle-order batsman and second spinner. He got plenty of starts throughout his time with England, but didn't convert a single one to a significant score.

And the player goes to... @CerealKiller
 
Aislabie said:
Lucky Dip Player 35...

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:sco: :ar: Gavin Hamilton

Nominated by: @blockerdave

Rejected by: None

Test stats: 0 runs an 0 wickets in 1 match
First-class stats: 2,939 runs @ 26.24 (2 centuries, best 125) and 249 wickets @ 25.76 (9 5WI, best 7/50) in 95 matches

Of all the players England anointed as "Next Botham" in the '90s, Gavin Hamilton had the worst time of things. Plucked out of the Scottish World Cup side to tour South Africa, it like... really didn't work. Scores of 0 (6) and 0 (3) from number eight demonstrated that he wasn't as good at batting as Allan Donald was at bowling. There's no shame in that. Unfortunately, he also conceded none for 63 from his fifteen overs as England's fifth seamer, and that innings defeat would be his only experience of Test cricket.

And the player goes to... @Dutch
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you’re welcome @Dutch - @Aislabie I’ll make any remaining picks once I’m back from my ban!
 
The teams so far

@ahmedleo414 (SEED 6)
:ire: :bat: Paul Stirling
:aus: :bat: Stuart Law
:saf: :ar: Jacques Kallis (P)
:zim: :wk: Andy Flower
:ban: :bwl: Rubel Hossain

@Aislabie (SEED 3)
:wi: :bat: Gordon Greenidge
:pak: :bat: Younis Khan
:eng: :bat: Douglas Jardine
:pak: :ar: Imran Khan (P)
:aus: :ar: Scott Kremerskothen

@Bevab (SEED 8)
:eng: :bat: Ranjitsinjhi
:ind: :bat: Sunil Gavaskar (P)
:eng: :bat: Andy Lloyd
:wi: :ar: Roston Chase
:eng: :bwl: Phil Tufnell

@blockerdave - (SEED 1)
:nzf: :bat: Ross Taylor
:saf: :ar: Clive Rice (P)
:aus: :ar: Keith Miller
:eng: :bwl: Graeme Swann
:sri: :bwl: Muttiah Muralitharan

@CerealKiller (SEED 7)
:eng: :bat: Ian Bell
:eng: :bat: Jack Ikin
:aus: :bwl: Shane Warne (P)
:aus: :bwl: Bill O'Reilly
:aus: :bwl: Dainty Ironmonger

@DalePlaysCricket (SEED 9)
:aus: :bat: Ricky Ponting
:eng: :ar: Denis Compton
:eng: :bwl: Steve Harmison (P)
:eng: :bwl: Les Taylor
:eng: :bat: Benjamin Aislabie

@Dutch (SEED 2)
:wi: :arwk: Clyde Walcott
:eng: :bat: David Gower (P)
:wi: :ar: Garry Sobers
:eng: :ar: Ian Botham
:sco: :ar: Gavin Hamilton

@El Loco (SEED 5)
:eng: :bat: Alastair Cook
:aus: :bat: Ken Meuleman
:eng: :ar: Andrew Flintoff
:eng: :bwl: Sydney Barnes (P)
:eng: :bwl: Monty Panesar

@Master Bates (SEED 4)
:ind: :bat: Sachin Tendulkar
:aus: :bat: Steve Smith
:aus: :wk: Adam Gilchrist (P)
:eng: :ar: Fred Grace
:eng: :bwl: Simon Kerrigan

Okay so what do I mean by seedings? Well, the random nature of the Lucky Dip means that some teams - @blockerdave and @Dutch - are looking rather stronger than others - @Bevab and @DalePlaysCricket - through no real fault of your own. So my solution to that is to create a set order for all six remaining rounds of the draft.

I shall post the draft order soon, but first there's the small matter of the rest of the rejected players...
 
Bevab said:
  1. Gavaskar:ind:
  2. Lloyd:eng:
  3. ?
  4. Ranji:eng:
  5. Chase:wi:
  6. ?
  7. ?
  8. ?
  9. ?
  10. Tufnell:eng:
  11. ?
Two world class players and three solid domestic performers, I'll take that although looking at the sides of @Aislabie and @blockerdave makes me quite jealous! That Panesar nomination and rejection was a proper good move, wonder why I hadn't simply thought of that.

@CerealKiller thanks for backing me up with that Rubel pick mate, was counting on ya. :spy
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:thumbs :p
 
Rejected Players

Obviously, some of the players you rejected have managed to escape exclusion through being either protected, or nominated for the Lucky Dip. These are the rest of them:

:aus: :bat: Don Bradman - @El Loco / @Master Bates
:aus: :bat: Marnus Labuschagne - @blockerdave
:aus: :bat: Justin Langer - @Aislabie / @Bevab
:aus: :bat: Rob Quiney - @CerealKiller
:aus: :bat: Victor Trumper - @Master Bates
:aus: :bat: David Warner - @Dutch
:aus: :bat: Steve Waugh - @ahmedleo414 / @blockerdave

:aus: :ar: Allan Border - @Aislabie
:aus: :ar: Trevor Chappell - @CerealKiller

:aus: :ar: Richie Benaud - @Dutch / @Master Bates
:aus: :ar: John Hastings - @CerealKiller
:aus: :ar: Mitchell Johnson - @blockerdave / @Master Bates

:aus: :bwl: Pat Cummins - @blockerdave
:aus: :bwl: Brett Lee - @DalePlaysCricket
:aus: :bwl: Dennis Lillee - @ahmedleo414 / @Aislabie / @El Loco
:aus: :bwl: Nathan Lyon - @blockerdave
:aus: :bwl: Bryce McGain - @CerealKiller
:aus: :bwl: Glenn McGrath - @Aislabie / @blockerdave / @DalePlaysCricket
:aus: :bwl: Peter Siddle - @blockerdave / @DalePlaysCricket
:aus: :bwl: Mitchell Starc - @blockerdave / @Dutch
:ban: :ar: Mushfiqur Rahman - @CerealKiller

:ban: :bwl: Anwar Hossain Monir - @CerealKiller
:eng: :bat: Joe Clarke - @Aislabie
:eng: :bat: Joe Denly - @Dutch
:eng: :bat: Graham Gooch - @ahmedleo414
:eng: :bat: Lord Hawke - @CerealKiller
:eng: :bat: Jack Hobbs - @Dutch / @El Loco
:eng: :bat: Len Hutton - @Bevab
:eng: :bat: Monkey Hornby - @CerealKiller
:eng: :bat: Kevin Pietersen - @Dutch
:eng: :bat: Joe Root - @Bevab / @blockerdave / @DalePlaysCricket
:eng: :bat: Andrew Strauss - @DalePlaysCricket / @Dutch
:eng: :bat: Herbert Sutcliffe - @Bevab

:eng: :ar: WG Grace - @Aislabie / @DalePlaysCricket / @Dutch / @Master Bates
:eng: :ar: Ben Stokes - @DalePlaysCricket / @Dutch / @Master Bates

:eng: :wk: Alan Knott - @Master Bates
:eng: :wk: Steve Rhodes - @Aislabie

:eng: :ar: Emile McMaster - @CerealKiller
:eng: :ar: Wilfred Rhodes - @Bevab / @Master Bates

:eng: :bwl: Jimmy Anderson - @ahmedleo414 / @Bevab / @DalePlaysCricket / @Dutch / @MasterBates
:eng: :bwl: Jofra Archer - @DalePlaysCricket
:eng: :bwl: Stuart Broad - @DalePlaysCricket
:eng: :bwl: Harold Larwood - @Bevab
:eng: :bwl: Ian Salisbury - @CerealKiller
:eng: :bwl: Fred Trueman - @Dutch
:eng: :bwl: Bob Willis - @Dutch
:ind: :bat: Aakash Chopra - @CerealKiller
:ind: :bat: Rahul Dravid - @Bevab
:ind: :bat: Gautam Gambhir - @Bevab
:ind: :bat: Virat Kohli - @ahmedleo414 / @blockerdave / @Master Bates
:ind: :bat: Nawab of Pataudi - @CerealKiller
:ind: :bat: Maharajah of Vizianagram - @CerealKiller

:ind: :wk: MS Dhoni - @ahmedleo414

:ind: :ar: Anil Kumble - @ahmedleo414 / @Aislabie / @Master Bates
:ind: :ar: CS Nayudu - @CerealKiller
:ind: :ar: Harbhajan Singh - @ahmedleo414

:ind: :bwl: Jasprit Bumrah - @blockerdave / @Master Bates
:ind: :bwl: Zaheer Khan - @Bevab
:ind: :bwl: Nilesh Kulkarni - @CerealKiller
:ind: :bwl: MSK Prasad - @CerealKiller
:nzf: :bat: Murray Chapple - @CerealKiller
:nzf: :bat: Martin Crowe - @El Loco
:nzf: :bat: Kane Williamson - @DalePlaysCricket

:nzf: :wkb: Tom Latham - @Bevab
:nzf: :wkb: Brendon McCullum - @ahmedleo414 / @DalePlaysCricket

:nzf: :ar: Richard Hadlee - @Dutch / @El Loco / @Master Bates
:nzf: :ar: Daniel Vettori - @Aislabie / @DalePlaysCricket

:nzf: :bwl: Shane Bond - @DalePlaysCricket / @El Loco
:nzf: :bwl: Neil Wagner - @Master Bates
:pak: :bat: Saeed Anwar - @Bevab / @El Loco
:pak: :bat: Babar Azam - @ahmedleo414
:pak: :bat: Saleem Malik - @blockerdave
:pak: :bat: Javed Miandad - @blockerdave
:pak: :bat: Inzamam ul-Haq - @ahmedleo414

:pak: :ar: Wasim Akram - @Aislabie / @blockerdave / @DalePlaysCricket / @El Loco

:pak: :bwl: Shoaib Akhtar - @Bevab
:pak: :bwl: Abdul Qadir - @Aislabie
:pak: :bwl: Waqar Younis - @El Loco
:saf: :bat: Hashim Amla - @Bevab
:saf: :bat: Graeme Smith - @Bevab / @Master Bates

:saf: :ar: Trevor Goddard - @Master Bates

:saf: :wk: Mark Boucher - @ahmedleo414

:saf: :ar: Shaun Pollock - @ahmedleo414

:saf: :bwl: Hugh Tayfield - @Aislabie
:saf: :bwl: Lonwabo Tsotsobe - @CerealKiller
:sri: :wkb: Kumar Sangakkara - @ahmedleo414 / @El Loco
:wi: :bat: Shiv Chanderpaul - @ahmedleo414
:wi: :bat: Rajendra Chandrika - @CerealKiller
:wi: :bat: George Headley - @Bevab / @El Loco
:wi: :bat: Brian Lara - @Aislabie / @DalePlaysCricket
:wi: :bat: Viv Richards - @DalePlaysCricket / @Dutch / @El Loco / @Master Bates

:wi: :bwl: Curtly Ambrose - @El Loco
:wi: :bwl: Lance Gibbs - @Aislabie / @Bevab
:wi: :bwl: Michael Holding - @El Loco

These players will all be ineligible for the remaining six rounds of the draft.
 
Recovery Draft Order

It's time to try to fix the chaos of the Lucky Dip layer of the draft. And to help you do that, this will be an ordered draft:
  1. @DalePlaysCricket
  2. @Bevab
  3. @CerealKiller
  4. @ahmedleo414
  5. @El Loco
  6. @Master Bates
  7. @Aislabie
  8. @Dutch
  9. @blockerdave
  10. @DalePlaysCricket
  11. @Bevab
  12. @CerealKiller
  13. @ahmedleo414
  14. @El Loco
  15. @Master Bates
  16. @Aislabie
  17. @Dutch
  18. @blockerdave
  19. @DalePlaysCricket
  20. @Bevab
  21. @CerealKiller
  22. @ahmedleo414
  23. @El Loco
  24. @Master Bates
  25. @Aislabie
  26. @Dutch
  27. @blockerdave
  28. @DalePlaysCricket
  29. @Bevab
  30. @CerealKiller
  31. @ahmedleo414
  32. @El Loco
  33. @Master Bates
  34. @Aislabie
  35. @Dutch
  36. @blockerdave
  37. @DalePlaysCricket
  38. @Bevab
  39. @CerealKiller
  40. @ahmedleo414
  41. @El Loco
  42. @Master Bates
  43. @Aislabie
  44. @Dutch
  45. @blockerdave
  46. @DalePlaysCricket
  47. @Bevab
  48. @CerealKiller
  49. @ahmedleo414
  50. @El Loco
  51. @Master Bates
  52. @Aislabie
  53. @Dutch
  54. @blockerdave
Good luck one and all!
 
This bloke was the first name on my lucky dip nomination list before I realised that it was actually a random lottery which would mean it would be unlikely for me to nab him especially if anyone else went for him. AbD is a fine pick but the very position @DalePlaysCricket wants to play him in is named after an entirely different legend in South African cricketing history, arguably the finest left-handed batsman of all time according to the Don himself. Welcome to this weird and wonderful side, :saf::bat:Graeme Pollock.

The top four is basically set in stone right now. Gavaskar's defence is pretty much impossible to get past and Lloyd is unlikely to be a massive downgrade on Chauhan, Gavaskar's regular opening partner in his Indian career. I would trust the only opener in test history to never have been dismissed to guard his wicket with all his life even at the cost of fewer runs, especially given that he played for eight more years after a devastating injury that would have caused forced retirement or a significant performance reduction in most other players.

Once the openers have done their job of tiring out the opposition, we have two of the most elegant batsmen in history at three and four who will go after the bowlers with aggression and keep our fans entertained alongside racking up those runs.

@CerealKiller is up now.
 
:ar:
Bevab said:
This bloke was the first name on my lucky dip nomination list before I realised that it was actually a random lottery which would mean it would be unlikely for me to nab him especially if anyone else went for him. AbD is a fine pick but the very position @DalePlaysCricket wants to play him in is named after an entirely different legend in South African cricketing history, arguably the finest left-handed batsman of all time according to the Don himself. Welcome to this weird and wonderful side, :saf::bat:Graeme Pollock.

The top four is basically set in stone right now. Gavaskar's defence is pretty much impossible to get past and Lloyd is unlikely to be a massive downgrade on Chauhan, Gavaskar's regular opening partner in his Indian career. I would trust the only opener in test history to never have been dismissed to guard his wicket with all his life even at the cost of fewer runs, especially given that he played for eight more years after a devastating injury that would have caused forced retirement or a significant performance reduction in most other players.

Once the openers have done their job of tiring out the opposition, we have two of the most elegant batsmen in history at three and four who will go after the bowlers with aggression and keep our fans entertained alongside racking up those runs.

@CerealKiller is up now.
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Didn’t get any alert

With 3 spinners in my XI already (4 counting Ikin), i need a world class pacer, and who better than Dale Steyn, the greatest bowler of a generation that, more than any other, has favoured batsmen?
Also, hopefully our home ground will be a rank turner :p
CerealKiller’s XI
1.
2.
3.
4. :eng: :bat: Ian Bell
5. :eng: :bat: Jack Ikin
6.
7.
8. :aus: :bwl: Shane Warne :c:
9. :saf: :bwl: Dale Steyn
10. :aus: :bwl: Bill O'Reilly
11. :aus: :bwl: Dainty Ironmonger

@ahmedleo414
 
I'm going to pick Courtney Walsh, hopefully to counteract Rubel Hossain... Walsh was also a part of my budget draft.

Here's my lineup

1.
2. :ire: :bat: Paul Stirling (might move him down the order)
3.
4. :saf: :ar: Jacques Kallis
5. :zim: :wkb: Andy Flower
6. :aus: :bat: Stuart Law (might move him up the order)
7.
8.
9.
10. :ban: :bwl: Rubel Hossain
11. :wi: :bwl: Courtney Walsh

@El Loco you are next
 
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1. Alastair Cook
2. Ken Meuleman
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4.
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7. Andrew Flintoff
8.
9. Malcolm Marshall
10. Sydney Barnes
11. Monty Panesar
 
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