The RLG Draft

[ddrap14]

HOW THE HELL DID THAT HAPPEN

The list generated generated you at 12th... unfortunately that happens to be your number. Better luck next time!

 

[Till Valhalla]

HOW THE HELL DID THAT HAPPEN

Karma

 

[Aislabie]

I'll do the full draft when I get home from school, but for now, the first pick- the retainer.

I've added numbers to everyone's team - these will be the numbers used for the RNG'ing.

So who keeps their pick?
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@Aislabie
Pick 1: Jack Leach
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I predict this will be the last time Aislabie attempts to screw someone else's team balance. I mean at least he has a more than serviceable bowler?
FYI, the justification for this pick:

You love to see it

 

[Ed Smith]

HOW THE HELL DID THAT HAPPEN

 

[Aislabie]

Have put in my nomination for my second pick. He makes Jack Leach look like Steve Smith.

 

[ddrap14]

Have put in my nomination for my second pick. He makes Jack Leach look like Steve Smith.

my eyes are scarred

 

[Mittal2002]

Pick 4: Nawaz Sharif
Nominated by: @CerealKiller
Received by: @Mittal2002
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One of the few FC players to have served more years in office (13) than scored runs (0), you have here a three-time Pakistani president who also made a single first class appearance. A high class nomination from CerealKiller. That said, this portion of the draft does get worse... somehow

I asked God for the Prime Minister, he gave me the President. Hard luck, but still happy that I was not the retainer.

 

[sanchitgarg]

Karma

Then why did I get Javed Omar

 

[ddrap14]

@Parth D
pick reminder

 

[ddrap14]

Will do the next round this afternoon - busy this morning

 

[ddrap14]

While I wait for my business teacher, I'll quickly do the retained pick.


@ahmedleo414
Pick 12: Sunil Gavaskar

Well this is a drastically different outcome to the first retainment pick. Ahmed put in Sunny Gavaskar, one of the all-time greatest batsmen, and he got him. His style is a perfect fit with Dhawan too. A great start for him.

 

[ddrap14]

Pick 13: Len Baichan
Nominated by: @ddrap14
Received by: @Aislabie

Okay, so this is a guy I nominated solely because of his presence in my original draft. Maybe had Roy Fredricks or Greenidge not existed he'd have had more success. But his first class average of 51 is a handy pickup.

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[ddrap14]

Pick 14: Timycen Maruna
Nominated by: @Aislabie
Received by: @ddrap14
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Maruma started his career as honestly a pretty good leg-spinner. But we're picking post-yips Maruma, so that is basically irrelevant as he's not bowled in about ten years. What he has done is bat. Badly.

He keeps getting selected for Zimbabwe in all three formats of international cricket - including as an opening batsman, as he was for his Test debut - despite failing repeatedly for Zimbabwe in all three formats of international cricket. In Test cricket, he has a batting average of 9.71, in ODI cricket he has an average of 11.52 and a strike rate of 59.39 and in Twenty20 cricket he has an average of 11.11 and a strike rate of 91.74. Even now, after nearly 40 failures caps at international level, he has been selected for both the red and white ball teams in 2021.

That Jack Leach selfpick was deserved.

 

[ddrap14]

Pick 15: Bruce Patterson
Nominated by: @CerealKiller / @ddrap14 (will explain below)
Received by: @Till Valhalla

CK's original nomination was a truly terrible player, but unfortunately he only ever played as a specialist tailender (unlike our two monarchs from R1 who actually opened). So I've ruled it to be invalid and replaced it with an equally awful player. Patterson did hit a four from Damien Fleming, but he scored six more runs at ODI level as part of the worst top four in cricket history. If it's any solace for Till Valhalla, this guy is a slight improvement on CK's player

 

[ddrap14]

Pick 16: Danny Morrison
Nominated by: @Ed Smith's Basement
Received by: @Neptune

Yes, the Duckman once opened the batting as a joke- NZ needed to chase the mammoth target of 2 in a 1990 Test so they sent out Morrison and regular number ten Martin Snedden. Snedden was an OK bat, Morrison not so. At least he can bowl