Wasn't just that, he also didn't know who to give the third "Best" spot to and the Dark Horse. I actually thought the hold up was making the pairs in the first place.
Round 9-10 Code: Cabinet96 Sean Abbott James Vince jimmy_c8 Jason Behrendorff Sam Hain morgieb Tim Paine Mehidy Hasan Number 11 Scott Boland Devon Smith Benny MS Dhoni Marques Ackerman Julian Joe Mennie Moises Henriques HeathDavisSpeed Brendan Taylor Jan Frylinck Gazza Mandeep Singh Olly Stone Hunter Mohammad Rizwan Senuran Muthusamy Boobidy Mitchell Swepson Peter Nevill Athlai Shadab Khan Younis Khan Skippos Shane Dowrich Bilal Asif StephenZA Raynard van Tonder Jason Smith Magrat Garlick Jaydev Unadkat Rahkeem Cornwall Baxter Stiaan van Zyl Ian Bell Alex Liam Livingstone Hassan Azad Phlegm Greg Hay Dinesh Karthik MrPrez Bjorn Fortuin Temba Bavuma GoodAreasShane Alzarri Joesph Heinrich Klaasen Captain Roshen Silva Ben Coad Howe and Dan Mohammad Hafeez Baba Indrajith Chewie Usman Shinwari Scott Kuggeleijn Dhokchau Toby Roland Jones Mahipal Lomror spark!ptz Shivnarine Chanderpaul Sarfraz Ahmed Best 3: @Number 11 (Boland and Devon Smith): I loved Downes in this period of the draft. He played it safe when others were going for domestic h4x with established decent Test players, and then afterwards he managed to pick up the domestic h4x most people have missed. No-one scores runs in West Indies domestic cricket... except Devon Smith. WAG. @Athlai (Shadab and Younis): A couple of punts here in a gun ODI player and an ATG Test bat who retired a couple of years back. I think both will pay off. @Hunter (Rizwan and Muthusamy): I was really suprirsed Rizwan slid this long. Another drafter was considering picking him up just to use as trade bait even though he didn't want/need him because he'd figured people were forgetting him, and I was inclined to agree. A real steal. Muthusamy was only solid rather than spectacular in isolation as a player for this round, or possibly even slightly early, but I liked it because it fit his team so well with Holder and the recently recruited Rizwan at 6 and 7. This round really sorted Hunter's balance out and I rated that more than some of the flashier picks. Dark Horse: @Boobidy (Swepson and Nevill): Duds in more of a straight stats-whoring exercise, I actually really rated these picks. The Sheffield Shield is a really hard to place to bowl spin in and Swepson's more recent form has been excellent in it to the point where his overall FC average is quite misleadingly medicore now. Nevill's batting has declined since his peak a few years ago but he's still one of the best glovemen in the world. Worst Pair: Dhokchau (Lomror and TRJ): Dire. Dishonourable mention to @morgieb (Paine and Mehidy) who were both taken a couple of rounds early (at least) by someone who had been on a hot streak of gun picks beforehand.
Round 11-12 Code: Boobidy Matt Renshaw Fawad Ahmed StephenZA Mohammad Nabi David Bedingham spark!ptz Imad Wasim Riley Meredith jimmy_c8 Marcus Stoinis Chris Rushworth Skippos Daniel Worrall Misbah-ul-Haq DVMace09 Obus Pienaar Junaid Khan Chewie Jason Roy Imam-ul-Haq Hunter Sunil Ambris Jon Holland morgieb Kyle Jarvis Shimron Hetmyer Howe and Dan Ankit Bawne Qais Ahmad Number 11 Daniel Hughes Jamie Porter HeathDavisSpeed Daryl Mitchell Nauman Ali GoodAreasShane Sami Aslam Dane Cleaver Alex Tom Curran Akila Dananjaya Baxter Ben Foakes Todd Astle Magrat Garlick Imran Farhat Lasith Malinga Gazza Shadman Islam Ryan ten Doeschate MrPrez Mohammad Shahzad Stephen Cook Benny Yuzvendra Chahal Dawid Malan Captain Mossadek Hossain Naseem Shah Athlai Aaron Finch Jimmy Neesham Julian Gautam Gambhir Jonathan Trott Phlegm Hamish Rutherford Tom Bruce Cabinet96 Gurkeerat Singh Mann Shahbaz Nadeem Best 3: @Baxter (Tastle/Foakes): Reminds me a lot of the Hunter pair I gave an award to last round -- a top keeper who slid and a solid spinning allrounder who fit what he needed in his squad really really well. @HeathDavisSpeed (Mitchell/Nauman): Nauman's been really lighting up trees (sic) the last couple of seasons, most noticably 2019-20 which was not only a much higher standard than the QeAT has been for most of the last decade, but also appears to have been very batting friendly. Mitchell's similarly having a good season and looked quite at home on Test debut. @Hunter (Ambris/Holland): Solid. Hunter has really Chewie'd this draft. Dark Horse: Athlai (Finch/Neesham): I rate both picks a lot but I've relegated them to dark horse because I'd be slightly concerned about becoming too reliant on white ball players, especially in the top order. Maybe one too many top order eggs in this basket with Finch, good as he should for a Round 11 pick at this level. Both players probably should've been picked up by other teams slightly earlier though, so it could well pay off. Worst Pair: @Cabinet96 (Gurkeerat/Nadeem): Gurkeerat is a "rich man's Lomror", which is still too much Lomror. Nadeem was a decent pick but not enough to save the pair from this honour.
Round 13-14 Code: Benny Chris Gayle Ryan McLaren Boobidy Nathan Coulter-Nile D'Arcy Short Captain Liton Das Aditya Sarwate Hunter Sam Northeast Raymon Reifer Gazza Tim Seifert Kyle Jamieson Howe and Dan Tim Bresnan Zohaib Khan GoodAreasShane Craig Williams Nandre Burger jimmy_c8 Liam Dawson Tom Kohler-Cadmore Phlegm Matt McEwan Srikar Bharat Skippos Krishnappa Gowtham Gabe Bell HeathDavisSpeed Anshy Rath Faheem Ashraf Cabinet96 Tom Cooper Tom Bailey Number 11 Alex Doolan Sheldon Cottrell spark!ptz Grant Roelofsen Mohammad Nawaz Baxter Ben Brown Ahmed Shehzad morgieb Farhaan Behardien Aizaz Cheema Magrat Garlick Sandeep Lamichhane Usman Salahuddin Chewie Liam Plunkett Kashif Bhatti DVMace09 Parthiv Patel Jalaj Saxena Alex Imran Khan Leus du Plooy MrPrez Keemo Paul Umar Akmal Julian Graham Onions Jeet Raval Athlai Andile Phehlukwayo Cam Fletcher StephenZA Anmolpreet Singh Gerald Coetzee Best 3: @Skippos (Gowtham/Bell): Really hard to find two such good bowlers in a row at this point of the draft. @Cabinet96 (Cooper/Bailey): Bounced back well from the worst pair last round. Probably would've made more sense to do these four picks in reverse order. @MrPrez (Umar/Paul): Prez's best round in a while. Umar is a meme but more than decent at this stage, and Paul was a steal. Dark Horse: @Magrat Garlick (Sandeep/Salahuddin): Sneaky. Well played. Worst Pair: @morgieb (Behardien/Cheema): Cheema? Dishonourable mention to @Dan for Z o h a i b. DBZ.
