I thought I'd list where everyone comes from and see if it reveals any interesting patterns. I've grouped them largely by birthplace, but if players have clearly grown up and learnt their cricket elsewhere I've moved them to the more realistic category (for example, O'Keefe is not Malaysian and Symonds isn't English). All lists are sorted in order of where the players were picked in the draft. Updated after Mousey's Round 15 pick, Season 2: New South Wales BJ Haddin MJ Clarke RJ Harris PJ Hughes TA Copeland GD McGrath UT Khawaja SR Clark PA Jaques MA Cameron SPD Smith B Lee AC Gilchrist DE Bollinger CJL Rogers JW Hastings SNJ O'Keefe NJ Maddinson DT Christian EJM Cowan DJ Thornely DG Wright MC Henriques NW Bracken Queensland MG Johnson SR Watson AA Noffke A Symonds JR Hopes CR Swan BP Nash CD Hartley NM Hauritz CA Lynn ML Hayden SJ Magoffin South Australia MJ Cosgrove SW Tait CJ Ferguson PR George Tasmania RT Ponting BW Hilfenhaus MJ Di Venuto TD Paine LR Butterworth GJ Bailey B Geeves JP Faulkner Victoria PM Siddle SK Warne BJ Hodge CJ McKay AB McDonald CL White M Klinger MS Wade DP Nannes N Jewell PM Nevill Western Australia MEK Hussey SM Katich DJ Hussey MJ North L Ronchi AC Voges SE Marsh JL Langer Bangladesh T Iqbal S Al Hasan MM Riyad England A Flintoff GP Swann JM Anderson AJ Strauss AN Cook MJ Prior ST Finn RJ Sidebottom G Onions PD Collingwood CT Tremlett AU Rashid CR Woakes SM Davies ME Trescothick MA Carberry SCJ Broad MR Ramprakash MS Panesar JWA Taylor IR Bell CMW Read JAR Harris JC Hildreth TT Bresnan AM Davies JS Foster ID Blackwell A Lyth RWT Key JM Bairstow SJ Harmison MJ Hoggard RS Bopara G Chapple A Shahzad OA Shah JHK Adams MA Wagh DD Masters LJ Wright C Kieswetter DG Cork SI Mahmood A McGrath PD Trego JC Tredwell AW Gale India MS Dhoni SR Tendulkar Z Khan H Singh RS Dravid V Sehwag G Gambhir I Sharma P Kumar VVS Laxman CA Pujara JD Unadkat M Kartik J Sharma S Sreesanth A Mishra PP Chawla A Mukund V Kohli MK Tiwary RG Sharma U Kaul S Badrinath IK Pathan AM Rahane HH Kanitkar Y Singh R Ashwin W Jaffer SK Raina S Dhawan B Sumanth S Sriram RA Jadeja PA Patel A Kumble Y Singh YK Pathan A Chopra RR Powar CM Gautam AM Nayar S Rana DS Jadhav P Dharmani PP Ojha MK Pandey MM Patel SS Tiwary M Vijay SI Abdulla KD Karthik Ireland EC Joyce EJG Morgan New Zealand DL Vettori SE Bond JEC Franklin BB McCullum IE O'Brien JD Ryder AR Adams SR Wells KS Williamson LRPL Taylor JDP Oram MS Sinclair SP Fleming DR Tuffey MJ Mason SB Styris NT Broom KD Mills PJ Ingram GW Aldridge MJ Guptill CS Martin Pakistan M Amir MY Khan U Gul DPS Kaneria M Yousuf S Akhtar M Asif W Riaz U Akmal F Alam K Akmal SMKS Afridi M Ul Haq H Raza Y Arafat A Mahmood T Ahmed A Ali A Razzaq S Tanvir S Butt K Manzoor MI Tahir SA Khan S Malik R Naved S Hussain A Shehzad A Shafiq T Umar I Farhat M Wasim M Rameez A Rehman S Ahmed M Irfan South Africa AB De Villiers DW Steyn M Morkel JA Morkel JH Kallis GC Smith KP Pietersen IJL Trott LL Tsotsobe HM Amla R McLaren AG Prince R ten Doeschate M Ntini F de Wet JA Rudolph SM Pollock ND McKenzie JP Duminy MV Boucher RR Rossouw VD Philander N Pothas JM Kemp D Elgar HH Gibbs M Van Jaarsveld J Theron AG Puttick HG Kuhn S van Zyl HH Dippenaar AJ Hall A Nel AN Petersen AJA Gray JJ Van Der Wath Q Friend Z de Bruyn PL Harris J Botha NJ Dexter VB van Jaarsveld MJ Lumb R Pietersen N Boje WD Parnell Sri Lanka M Muralitharan KC Sangakarra BAW Mendis DMPD Jayawardene TT Samaraweera TM Dilshan ST Jayasuriya KMDN Kulasekara WPUJC Vaas NT Paranavitana AD Matthews HKS Randiv CRD Fernando HMRKB Herath SMSM Senanayake LD Chandimal HAPW Jayawardene SL Malinga PM Pushpakumara JK Silva KTGD Prasad WU Tharanga West Indies S Chanderpaul KAJ Roach RR Sarwan CH Gayle JE Taylor Dwayne Bravo AB Barath NO Miller I Khan DA Bravo DJG Sammy RO Hinds CD Collymore PT Collins RS Morton Zimbabwe MW Goodwin T Taibu DM Benkenstein SM Ervine
I think the funniest thing was Western Australia: MEK Hussey SM Katich DJ Hussey MJ North L Ronchi AC Voges SE Marsh JL Langer That's more than an entire batting lineup without a single bowler. Produce more bowlers you shit ****s.
Queensland surprised me by being able to field a competitive eleven: 1 SR Watson 2 ML Hayden 3 CA Lynn 4 A Symonds 5 BP Nash 6 JR Hopes 7 CD Hartley 8 AA Noffke 9 NM Hauritz 10 MG Johnson 11 CR Swan 12th: SJ Magoffin Real team of allrounders - batting down to 11 and 7 serious bowling options. Only four of those players actually play for Queensland these days though.
Victoria have exactly eleven players but it happens to form a well-balanced team: 1. Nick Jewell 2. Michael Klinger 3. Brad Hodge 4. Cameron White 5. Andrew McDonald (5) 6. Matthew Wade 7. Peter Nevill 8. Shane Warne (4) 9. Clint McKay (2) 10. Peter Siddle (3) 11. Dirk Nannes (1)
Haha, yeah, he does need to work on that. Granted. Still, I consider him a lot more English than a good few England players.
Well I know Harris grew up in South Africa. I have no idea what Benkenstein did between being born and making his First Class debut.
I've only got Hauritz and Watson. I'll add another one to the list very shortly though. Perhaps two if I can't think of anyone else to take..
