I wanted a break from coding but also wanted to keep my mind in a fresh CPL focused state so I'm gonna waste time and do these. I'm going to allow myself a little latitude to maintain reasonably balanced sides.
Australia 1 Warner 2 Burns 3 Labuschange 4 Smith 5 Head 6 Wade+ 7 Pattinson 8 Cummins 9 Starc 10 Lyon 11 Hazlewood (Siddle, O'Keefe, Khawaja, Bird, Richardson, Patterson all picked before Wade but needed someone resembling a keeper)
England 1 Cook 2 Burns 3 Root 4 Pope 5 Stokes 6 Bairstow 7 Woakes 8 Moeen 9 Broad 10 Leach 11 Anderson Archer picked like 6th or something but five seamers is illegal
India 1 Rohit 2 Agarwal 3 Pujara 4 Kohli 5 Rahane 6 Jadeja 7 Pant 8 Ashwin 9 Ishant 10 Shami 11 Bumrah Bhuvi and Umesh picked a few picks before and Agarwal but too many bowlers and needed a keeper
NZ 1 Latham 2 Young 3 Williamson 4 Taylor 5 Nicholls 6 Watling 7 de Grandhomme 8 Southee 9 Patel 10 Wagner 11 Boult Lockie picked before Jeets and Young Conway also picked before Young but not eligible yet
South Africa 1 Elgar 2 Markram 3 Hamza 4 de Villiers 5 du Plessis 6 de Kock+ 7 Philander 8 Maharaj 9 Steyn 10 Rabada 11 Ngidi
West Indies 1 Brathwaite 2 Hope 3 Bravo 4 Chanderpaul 5 Chase 6 Holder 7 Dowrich+ 8 Miller 9 Roach 10 Joseph 11 Gabriel
Bangladesh 1 Tamim 2 Shadman 3 Mominul 4 Mushfiqur+ 5 Shakib 6 Mahmudullah 7 Mosaddek 8 Liton 9 Mehidy 10 Taijul 11 Mustafizur lol what a team
Pakistan 1 Azhar 2 Abid 3 Babar 4 Haris 5 Fawad 6 Shafiq 7 Rizwan+ 8 Yasir 9 Amir 10 Abbas 11 Afridi Keeper not picked until Round 9, probably a few players picked before then (Masood was the first)
Sri Lanka 1 Karunaratne 2 Dhananjaya 3 Sanga 4 Mendis 5 Mathews 6 Chandimal 7 Dickwella+ 8 Dilruwan 9 Herath 10 Lakmal 11 Malinga A bunch of players picked before Malinga but given they had two quicks picked I figured I'd stick him in. Alternatively, DDS goes down to 8 and Oshada Fernando opens.
Assorted Others 1 Shahzad+ 2 3 4 B Taylor 5 RtD 6 Nabi 7 Rashid 8 Frylinck 9 Jarvis 10 Qais 11 Murtagh Needs more associate bats. Get on it Heath.
I doubt we'll be able to complete a full currently-eligible-for-Zimbabwe team but I do have hopes for this one: Born/Schooled in Zimbabwe XI 1 2 3 4 B Taylor 5 Ballance 6 de Grandhomme 7 Higgins as a specialist batsman because five seamers is illegal 8 S Curran 9 T Curran 10 11 Jarvis
Yeah you’d think this will fill out. A few Zimbabwean players who ought to be taken and one Australian cap in there too. If five seamers are illegal (why) surely one of the Curran boys bats so Higgins can bowl!!
One of them bowls like an amputee and the other just isn’t very good. Higgins is our lord and saviour.