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Based off last year, will most teams only take 1 player in the draft? Fox won't be happy!
They need to get the AFL guys in to help bulk up the telecast.

May not need the second night though 😂
 
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About 70 Pakistani players have nominated for the Draft , given their International schedule and changes in how they are issuing NOC's I doubt to many will even be drafted.

See what happens I guess

No mention of Mohammad Amir though

Shan Masood might think he will be out of a job by then 😀

 
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West Indies noms have dropped

No surprise that DreRuss , Narine & Nicky P etc haven't nominated
 
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D Bracewell , Chapman , De Grandhomme , Ferguson , Jacobs , Kuggeleijn , Milne , Neesham & Sodhi are the NZ nominations.

Chapman (1-3 games) , Ferguson (6-9) , Milne (4-6) , Sodhi (1-3)

Chapman & Sodhi both have NZ central contracts so not sure what happens with them
 
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Full list of 432 nominations is now on the App

Hendriks , Ngidi , Rossouw , Shamsi , Tahir headline the 17 South Africans

19 from Afghanistan
4 from Canada
1 from Greece
5 from Hong Kong
10 from Ireland
1 from Japan
2 from Namibia
2 from Nepal
7 from Netherlands (no Edwards)
3 from Oman
1 from Romania
6 from Scotland
9 from UAE
26 from USA
5 from Zimbabwe

Thought Shikhar Dhawan might have nominated since he announced his retirement , not sure he still lives in Melbourne since his divorce
 
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Dan Worrall among the OS nominations

Nathan Sowter could be a interesting pick , Australian born leggie now qualified for England

Edit : Just noticed Sowter has a ILT 20 contract
 
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“Everyone in Australia” seems a bit keen!

It would be interesting to see how many people actually watch this.

The AFL aggressively promotes their draft for months, and I’m not sure that many people (even big AFL fans) tune in for that.
100%, i can't imagine it would be too many.

Personally i forgot it was on until i just saw a random article on fox sports and I'm one of the bigger cricket nuts around, watching all but a handful of games each season, no lifes SC etc etc. and i don't even have much interest in this thanks to each team already signing an Int player, and the "pass" having ruined/soured the past two drafts. Like who is the draft for if not me?
 

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100%, i can't imagine it would be too many.

Personally i forgot it was on until i just saw a random article on fox sports and I'm one of the bigger cricket nuts around, watching all but a handful of games each season, no lifes SC etc etc. and i don't even have much interest in this thanks to each team already signing an Int player, and the "pass" having ruined/soured the past two drafts. Like who is the draft for if not me?
Exactly. It’s a niche audience even within the confines of the sport’s supporter base.

It would be great for the sport if CA could raise interest in these sorts of things.

Cricket has some natural disadvantages relative to sports such as AFL (including an irregular schedule, and little context to many matches), but I still think CA could learn a lot from how groups like the AFL approach things.
 
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Round 1

MS - Duckett
MR - Evans
ST - Ferguson
HH - Hope
AS - Overton
BH - Munro (pre signing)
PS - Allen (pre signing)
SS - Vince

MR initially selected Vince , who Sixers then retained
 
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