Did anyone waste as many early picks as I? Just had a look at my starting XI and how they match up with round picks... <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="158"><colgroup><col style="width:48pt" width="64"> <col style="mso-width-source:userset;mso-width-alt:1097;width:23pt" width="30"> <col style="width:48pt" width="64"> </colgroup><tbody><tr style="height:12.75pt" height="17"> <td style="height:12.75pt;width:48pt" align="right" height="17" width="64">1</td> <td style="width:23pt" width="30"> </td> <td style="width:48pt" width="64">Round 10</td> </tr> <tr style="height:12.75pt" height="17"> <td style="height:12.75pt" align="right" height="17">2</td> <td> </td> <td>Round 14</td> </tr> <tr style="height:12.75pt" height="17"> <td style="height:12.75pt" align="right" height="17">3</td> <td> </td> <td>Round 2</td> </tr> <tr style="height:12.75pt" height="17"> <td style="height:12.75pt" align="right" height="17">4</td> <td> </td> <td>Round 9</td> </tr> <tr style="height:12.75pt" height="17"> <td 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</td> </tr> <tr style="height:12.75pt" height="17"> <td style="height:12.75pt" align="right" height="17">12</td> <td> </td> <td>Round 15</td> </tr> <tr style="height:12.75pt" height="17"> <td style="height:12.75pt" align="right" height="17">13</td> <td> </td> <td>Round 12</td> </tr> <tr style="height:12.75pt" height="17"> <td style="height:12.75pt" height="17"> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:12.75pt" height="17"> <td style="height:12.75pt" height="17"> </td> <td> </td> <td> </td> </tr> <tr style="height:12.75pt" height="17"> <td style="height:12.75pt" height="17">Others:</td> <td> </td> <td>Round 3</td> </tr> <tr style="height:12.75pt" height="17"> <td style="height:12.75pt" height="17"> </td> <td> </td> <td>Round 5</td> </tr> <tr style="height:12.75pt" height="17"> <td style="height:12.75pt" height="17"> </td> <td> </td> <td>Round 11</td> </tr> <tr style="height:12.75pt" height="17"> <td style="height:12.75pt" height="17"> </td> <td> </td> <td>Round 16</td> </tr> 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1. Round 15 2. Round 8 3. Round 14 4. Round 6 5. Round 9 6. Round 13 7. Round 7 8. Round 1 9. Round 11 10. Round 16 11. Round 2
My side only has one from outside the top 11: 1. Puttick (Rd 8) 2. Rogers (Rd 7) 3. Watson (Rd 4) 4. Sinclair (Rd 9) 5. D Hussey (Rd 6) 6. Styris (Rd 13) 7. Prior (Rd 2) 8. Harris (rd 3) 9. Lee (Rd 5) 10. Davies (Rd 10) 11. Mendis (Rd 1) Salman Butt and Nathan Hauritz were my 11th and 12th pick and both are very much in the reckoning.
1. Round 5 2. Round 15 3. Round 10 4. Round 1 5. Round 8 6. Round 7 7. Round 11 8. Round 7, picked by Hunter 9. Round 4 10. Round 6 11. Round 2 Not as bad as I thought. My picks were shithouse though.
1. GC Smith - Round 2 2. G Gambhir - Round 3 3. EC Joyce - Round 10 4. M van Jaarsveld - Round 8 5. MJ North - Round 6 6. SPD Smith - Round 4 7. CD Hartley - Round 11 8. TT Bresnan - Round 9 9. MG Johnson - Round 1 10. KMDN Kulasekara - Round 5 11. PT Collins - Round 13 Only one is Collins and his spot is deffo not cemented.
This is how things are looking at the moment... 1. Heino Kuhn (+) - Round 8 2. Fawad Alam - Round 6 3. Mohammad Wasim - Round 14 4. Virat Kohli - Round 5 5. Jesse Ryder (5/6) - Round 3 6. Dale Benkenstein - Round 10 7. Albie Morkel (4) - Round 1 8. Irfan Pathan (3) - Round 7 9. Sunil Joshi (6/5) - Round 16 10. Friedel de Wet (2) - Round 3 11. Peter Siddle (1) - Round 2 However, I'm wondering whether Abdur Rauf (round 17?) might be a better selection than Siddle; at least statistically speaking.
1. Round 11 2. Round 4 3. Round 9 4. Round 6 5. Round 2 6. Round 10 7. Round 7 8. Round 5 9. Round 1 10. Round 13 11. Round 3 Theron is likely to be my only first 11 pick to not make it at this stage and I admitted early I picked him too soon. He is probably not even the back-up seamer.