Taking into account who had already been picked before hand in the draft and comparing them to the quality of the rest of the picks in that round. Dale Steyn Kevin Pietersen Mohammad Yousuf Rahul Dravid Ben Hilfenhaus Mark Davies Irfan Pathan James Foster Yasir Arafat Graham Onions Ganguly/Pothas/Van Der Wath Lasith Malinga Razza/Pathan/Naved Was only a quick scan of the draft order FWIW, probably got some horrendously wrong.
1 Jacques Kallis 2 Graeme Smith/Virender Sehwag 3 Mohammad Yousuf 4 Shane Watson/Rahul Dravid 5 Justin Langer 6 Amit Mishra 7 Anil Kumble 8 Jacques Rudolph/Andrew Hall 9 Michael Divenuto 10 Stephen Fleming/Boeta Dippenaar 11 Sourav Ganguly/Azhar Mahmood/Rangana Herath/Andre Adams/Ramesh Powar/Johan Van der Wath 12 Lasith Malinga/Aakash Chopra 13 Abdul Razzaq
You're not getting the point. Kallis isn't a particularly good pick, because every single person on here would have taken him.
Yeah, just realised my last post sounded patronising as ****. Blame the beer. You get the point though. It wasn't a good pick, it was the only pick.