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With the AFL draft just around the corner, every fan wants to know who their team is going to pick up.ESPN.com.au AFL draft expert Christopher Doerre - aka Knightmare - may have the answers.As well as attending live games during the season, Doerre pores through match vision, analyses the stats and talks to industry sources to ensure he can offer the most insightful analysis.This is his final update after his initial phantom draft in October.1 Essendon - Andrew McGrathHeight, weight: 179cm, 75kgSummary profile: At his best when he is running with ball in hand and providing overlap run off half-back. McGrath is excellent through the midfield as a ball winner.2 GWS - Tim TarantoHeight, weight: 186cm, 82kgSummary profile: Damaging forward who finds inside 50m targets or can play deep and be a marking target himself. He is also very capable through the midfield as a ball winner.3 Brisbane - Hugh McCluggageHeight, weight: 185cm, 75kgSummary profile: High-production forward and midfielder who is freakish at ground level. Precise finisher in front of goal and is just as good hitting forward 50m targets.4 Gold Coast - Ben AinsworthHeight, weight: 179cm, 74kgSummary profile: High leaping forward with vice-like hands overhead who plays taller than his height. Can also push through the midfield and have an impact.5 GWS - Will Setterfield - after Carlton bidHeight, weight: 190cm, 80kgSummary profile: Tall, classy midfielder who wins a high volume of contested ball and tackles strongly. Strong overhead and someone hits forward 50m targets regularly from stoppages.6 Carlton - Sam Petrevski-SetonHeight, weight: 181cm, 76kgSummary profile: Midfielder who is at his best when taking on the game using his acceleration, sidestep and evasiveness. Capable ball winner who is freakishly clean and uses it well on both sides.7 Gold Coast - Griffin LogueHeight, weight: 193cm, 92kgSummary profile: Athletic and powerful key defender. May at his size and with his athleticism and ground-ball winning be able to develop into a big-bodied midfielder.8 Gold Coast - Jack Bowes (Gold Coast Academy) - after Fremantle bid.Height, weight: 187cm, 78kgSummary profile: Precise ball user who wins the ball through the midfield. Bowes is also capable of pushing forward and hitting the scoreboard.9 Fremantle - Jy SimpkinHeight, weight: 181cm, 71kgSummary profile: Forward with composure who hits forward 50m targets and provides heavy scoreboard impact. Has good acceleration and possible scope to develop into a midfielder.10 Sydney - Oliver FlorentHeight, weight: 183cm, 74kgSummary profile: Composed forward who moves well through traffic and displays acceleration. Can also push up onto the wings and find the footy.?11 Gold Coast - Jack ScrimshawHeight, weight: 193cm, 80kgSummary profile: Evasive, smooth-moving tall utility. Good intercept mark behind the ball and does damage by foot over long distance.12 North Melbourne - Will BrodieHeight, weight: 189cm, 82kgSummary profile: Strong contested-ball winning midfielder with good acceleration. Brodie has performed best in the big games against strong competition.13 West Coast - Jarrod BerryHeight, weight: 191cm, 80kgSummary profile: Line breaker with the capacity to play back, through the midfield or up forward. Has been noted for leadership qualities.14 GWS - Harry Perryman (GWS Academy) - after Adelaide bidHeight, weight: 184cm, 75kgSummary profile: Smart footballer who wins contested ball, is strong overhead and uses it well. Can also play back or forward to a strong standard as required.15 Adelaide - Jordan GallucciHeight, weight: 183cm, 75kgSummary profile: Midfielder with breakaway speed who kicks with both sides. Can play midfield, forward and back.16 Port Adelaide - Tim EnglishHeight, weight: 203cm, 86kgSummary profile: Mobile ruckman with excellent endurance. High volume accumulator and elite ball user who is developing rapidly.17 Brisbane - Alex WitherdenHeight, weight: 184cm, 78kgSummary profile: Damaging kick off half-back and has composure with ball in hand. Has possible scope to develop through the midfield.18 Port Adelaide - Will HaywardHeight, weight: 186cm, 76kgSummary profile: Strong-marking forward who does his best work close to goal and provides heavy scoreboard impact.19 Western Bulldogs - Todd MarshallHeight, weight: 198cm, 87kgSummary profile: Talented key forward with substantial scope to improve. Very quick and agile. Freakish at ground level for someone of his height.20 Sydney - Tom StewartHeight, weight: 190cm, 90kgSummary profile: Mature-age key defender who plays well both ways. Beats direct opponent, takes intercept marks and hits his targets.21 Essendon - Jack GrahamHeight, weight: 183cm, 83kgSummary profile: Strong-bodied contested-ball winner who won the Larke Medal for best player during the AFL Under-18 Championships.22 GWS - Isaac Cumming (GWS Academy) - after Brisbane bidHeight, weight: 183cm, 72kgSummary profile: Back flanker who provides run out of the back half. He is clean, composed, makes good decisions, generally hitting a target.23 Brisbane - Daniel VenablesHeight, weight: 186cm, 81kgSummary profile: Explosive forward who does damage with ball in hand. Plays an aggressive style of game and has the scope in the future to develop into a midfielder.24 Brisbane - Jordan RidleyHeight, weight: 192cm, 79kgSummary profile: Has played forward, back and midfield this season. Skilled, athletic type who does his best work on the outside.25 St Kilda - Sam Powell-PepperHeight, weight: 186cm, 83kgSummary profile: Powerful ball winner who impacts games with just a few touches. Looks most damaging off half-forward but has capacity to play through the midfield in the future.26 Geelong - Joshua BattleHeight, weight: 192cm, 90kgSummary profile: Forward who is strong overhead and clean at ground level. He has excellent endurance and uses the ball precisely.27 Carlton - Cedric CoxHeight, weight: 184cm, 70kgSummary profile: Outside linebreaker with good skills who provides high impact per possession.28 Western Bulldogs - Brennan CoxHeight, weight: 194cm, 90kgSummary profile: Athletic key position player who was named as an Under-18 All-Australian key defender. Strong in the contest and provides run.29 Richmond - Elliott HimmelbergHeight, weight: 196cm, 84kgSummary profile: Athletic key position player with the scope to play either end. Brother of GWS Harrison.30 Collingwood - Shai BoltonHeight, weight: 177cm, 67kgSummary profile: Creative and damaging one-touch forward. Has striking acceleration and evasiveness. Impacts the scoreboard heavily.31 Essendon - Luke RyanHeight, weight: 185cm, 87kgSummary profile: Intercept marking threat down back who provides meaningful rebound by foot and makes good decisions from the back half.32 Gold Coast - Brad Scheer (Gold Coast Academy) - after Port Adelaide bidHeight, weight: 184cm, 83kgSummary profile: Strong-bodied midfielder who does his best work at stoppages winning the contested ball. Can also push forward and present a marking threat.33 GWS - Kobe Mutch (GWS Academy) - after West Coast bidHeight, weight: 184cm, 79kgSummary profile: High production midfielder who runs all day. Clean ball user and can win contested ball and runs both ways.34 Port Adelaide - Dylan ClarkeHeight, weight: 187cm, 85kgSummary profile: Strong-bodied ball winning midfielder who does his best work at stoppages. Has excellent endurance and distributes well by hand.35 Gold Coast - Josh Williams (Gold Coast Academy) - after Port Adelaide bidHeight, weight: 189cm, 69kgSummary profile: Line breaking outside runner with excellent acceleration.36 Port Adelaide - Brandan ParfittHeight, weight: 179cm, 78kgSummary profile: Hardnosed midfielder who brings enormous energy and intensity to the contest. Takes on the game at speed and dances around opposition players.37 North Melbourne - Jack MaibaumHeight, weight: 193cm, 90kgSummary profile: Athletic key defender who shuts down opposition key forwards. Was named an Under-18 All-Australian during the Under-18 Championships.38 North Melbourne - Ben DavisHeight, weight: 187cm, 84kgSummary profile: Powerful marking forward with size, smarts and strong one-on-one ability. Younger brother of Sydneys Abe.39 West Coast - Josh RothamHeight, weight: 192cm, 79kgSummary profile: Athletic backman who may in the future develop the capacity to run through midfield. Can break the lines and uses the ball well out of defence.40 Fremantle - Joe AtleyHeight, weight: 186cm, 84kgSummary profile: Contested-ball winning midfielder who does his best work at the coal face but can also push forward. Brother of North Melbournes Shaun.41 GWS - Harrison Macreadie (GWS Academy) - after St Kilda bidHeight, weight: 196cm, 89kgSummary profile: Athletic key defender who provides run from the back half. He uses the ball cleanly and demonstrates composure with ball in hand.42 St Kilda - Willem DrewHeight, weight: 188cm, 78kgSummary profile: Aggressive and impactful ball winner and tackler who does his best work at the coalface.43 Geelong - Sam WalkerHeight, weight: 187cm, 80kgSummary profile: Intercept-marking backman with clean skills who made this years AFL Under-18 All-Australian team.44 Fremantle - Pat KerrHeight, weight: 194cm, 93kgSummary profile: Strong-marking key forward who impressed during Under-18 Championships with Under-18 All-Australian selection.45 Collingwood - Callum Brown (Collingwood father-son) - after Essendon bidHeight, weight: 177cm, 69kgSummary profile: Midfielder who plays with hardness and is able to push forward. Son of Gavin.46 Essendon - Jonty ScharenbergHeight, weight: 186cm, 80kgSummary profile: Strong ball winner through the midfield who generally uses the ball reliably by foot. Jonty is the younger brother of Collingwoods Matthew.47 Collingwood - Josh Daicos (Collingwood father-son) - after Geelong bidHeight, weight: 178cm, 69kgSummary profile: Skillful forward with composure and evasiveness. Son of Peter.48 GWS - Zachary Sproule (GWS Academy) - after Geelong bidHeight, weight: 197cm, 84kgSummary profile: Promising endurance athlete with good skills. Has the scope to play as a key forward, key defender or up on a wing.49 Geelong - Harry MorrisonHeight, weight: 182cm, 73kgSummary profile: Clean ball user off half-back who displays composure with ball in hand. He also provides run and intercepts well.50 Adelaide - Oscar McInerneyHeight, weight: 203cm, 100kgSummary profile: Mature-age tap ruckman with athleticism who follows up well.51 Brisbane - Declan Watson (Brisbane Academy) - after Sydney bidHeight, weight: 194cm, 80kgSummary profile: Highly productive key defender who zones off well and always feels involved.52 Sydney - Bailey MorrishHeight, weight: 186cm, 76kgSummary profile: Clean ball user off half-back who provides run and carry.53 Melbourne - Oliver HanrahanHeight, weight: 183cm, 74kgSummary profile: Forward who can push up the ground. He is a damaging ball user who provides run.54 Carlton - Zac FisherHeight, weight: 175cm, 61kgSummary profile: Strong contested-ball winner with complete game. Excellent decision-maker who is very clean and precise by hand and foot.55 West Coast - Jake Waterman (West Coast father-son) - after Sydney bidHeight, weight: 191cm, 82kgSummary profile: Plays up forward and through the midfield. Production has been strong. Strong overhead, wins own ball and offers strong scoreboard impact.56 Sydney - Sam McLartyHeight, weight: 193cm, 92kgSummary profile: Powerful, marking key position player who has shown proficiency at both ends.57 Western Bulldogs - Ben LongHeight, weight: 183cm, 71kgSummary profile: Has shown promise both down back and as a forward. Capable shutdown player down back who finishes well up forward.58 Adelaide - Patrick LipinskiHeight, weight: 188cm, 79kgSummary profile: Athletic forward who can also push up through the midfield. High leaper who moves well.59 Richmond - Joshua BegleyHeight, weight: 187cm, 93kgSummary profile: Strong-marking forward who can also push through the midfield and win his own ball. Provides heavy scoreboard impact when used forward of centre.60 Brisbane - Jacob Allison (Brisbane Academy) - after St Kilda bidHeight, weight: 194cm, 79kgSummary profile: Athletic, tall utility who breaks the lines, is a strong mark overhead and has a 60m kick. He does his best work providing run on the outside.61 St Kilda - Tyson StengleHeight, weight: 171cm, 69kgSummary profile: Crumbing forward who hits the scoreboard and heaps on the pressure inside the forward 50m.62 Collingwood - Ryan Garthwaite (GWS Academy)Height, weight: 192cm, 84kgSummary profile: Smart intercept marking key defender who reads the flight well and is strong in the one-on-one contests. Can play tall or small as needed.63 Carlton - Myles PoholkeHeight, weight: 184cm, 84kgSummary profile: Strong-marking forward who also can play through the midfield and win the contested ball.64 Geelong - Cameron ZurhaarHeight, weight: 188cm, 79kgSummary profile: Powerful, athletic type who has the versatility to play forward or back. Looks best suited providing run off half-back.65 Collingwood - Lachlan Tiziani (GWS Academy)Height, weight: 189cm, 82kgSummary profile: Forward who had big back end to the TAC Cup season with a TAC Cup-best 32 goals in his last nine games. Tiziani is athletic, a good finisher and has ability overhead and at ground level.66 Carlton - Kym LeBoisHeight, weight: 175cm, 66kgSummary profile: Evasive small forward with tricks and hurt factor.67 Adelaide - Liam BakerHeight, weight: 174cm, 67kgSummary profile: Strong contested-ball winning midfielder who is clean, composed and uses both sides well.68 Essendon - Oscar JunkerHeight, weight: 193cm, 84kgSummary profile: Strong-marking utility who can play forward, back or through the midfield.?69 Melbourne - Esava RatugoleaHeight, weight: 194cm, 95kgSummary profile: Raw, athletic key forward who has a crack. He contesting every marking contest, at least bringing the ball to ground and commits to winning the ground balls.70 Carlton - Mitch McCarthyHeight, weight: 196cm, 87kgSummary profile: Athletic key position player who can pinch-hit through the ruck. He moves well and makes sound decisions with ball in hand.71 Fremantle - Mitch HingeHeight, weight: 187cm, 82kgSummary profile: Composed, late bloomer who is a clean ball user with evasiveness and cleanness at ground level. Looks good off half-back.72 Geelong - Taylin DumanHeight, weight: 193cm, 75kgSummary profile: Tall utility with endurance and clean skills.73 Geelong - Jack HenryHeight, weight: 191cm, 83kgSummary profile: Athletic forward who is a strong mark overhead. Has the versatility to push up the ground and makes sound decisions with ball in hand.74 Western Bulldogs - Robbie FoxHeight, weight: 187cm, 87kgSummary profile: Versatile mature-ager who has transition from the back half in 2015 up though the midfield and up on the wings. Provides run.75 Fremantle - Rowan MarshallHeight, weight: 201cm, 97kgSummary profile: Highly regarded mature-age ruckman who competes well in the ruck, tackles strongly and provides a target forward of centre.76 Richmond - Jye BoltonHeight, weight: 183cm, 80kgSummary profile: The ex-Collingwood rookie has broken out this season upon moving to Western Australia to join Claremont. He won the Sandover Medal and starred through the midfield.77 Port Adelaide - Brett EddyHeight, weight: 194cm, 89kgSummary profile: Mature-age key forward who kicked 74 goals from 20 SANFL League games. Ready to play right away. Difficult matchup who time and time again finds a way to get out the back for easy goals.78 North Melbourne - Juhdan DundonHeight, weight: 186cm, 77kgSummary profile: Left footer who plays wing and half forward. He uses the ball well on the outside and can hit the scoreboard.79 Hawthorn - Matt GuelfiHeight, weight: 184cm, 78kgSummary profile: Ball-winning midfielder who can win the ball at stoppages and also find plenty of the ball on the outside.80 Adelaide - Ben Jarman (Adelaide father-son)Height, weight: 175cm, 68kgSummary profile: Clean, skilful midfielder and forward. Son of Darren. In the mix late for Adelaide, but having not been nominated by the Crows or Hawthorn, could end up anywhere.81 Hawthorn - Liam RyanHeight, weight: 184cm, 76kgSummary profile: High leaping forward who has taken several hangers this year. 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In compiling Masterly Batting: 100 Great Test Centuries, Patrick Ferriday and Dave Wilson, assisted by an able band of co-conspirators, have struck up a pub debate liable to exercise pedants, inflame nationalists and, perhaps worst of all, provoke the Twitterati to fresh displays of mandrill pomposity. There could be broken glass.This is no back-of-a-beer-mat musing, however. The authors have come tooled up. The research has been rigorous, their soundings far and wide (former Wisden editor John Woodcock is one of the first to be credited in the acknowledgements). In setting out the projects aims, Ferriday is awake to the difficulty, both rousing and daunting. Ranking the 100 greatest Test hundreds - for that is what they have done, or attempted, despite the enigmatic subtitle - is not a matter of irrefutable fact, but rather falls into the category where no such certainty can bring the debate to a crushing and indelible conclusion. And it is precisely these latter cases that are the most stimulating; opinion is reinforced by fact, fact is questioned, opinion reinforced or, where open minds prevail, altered.The danger of having an open mind, of course, is that your brain falls out. But Masterly Batting should find the thoughtful audience it deserves. The methodology is explained in the introduction, with ten categories - size, conditions, bowling attack, percentage, chances, speed, series impact, match impact, intangibles, compatibility - weighed against each other. The precise formula is not revealed but we can assume it is quite exacting, as there are several tied positions. The prospect of sifting through over 2000 possible candidates would leave many to conclude that pure maths was the only way to go, but Ferriday and Wilson have brought humanity to the numbers by stirring in contemporaneous reportage and the wisdom of numerous cricket judges. The order is, in many ways, subordinate to the higher purpose, which is to collate great cricket writing on great cricket feats. Measuring centuries against each other was settled upon as a valid and achievable goal but the effect is to paint vivid pictures of a different kind of century - more than 100 years of Test batting. This is particularly true with regard to the top 25 innings, which are given extended treatment and take up more than half of the book.Never mind the run-making, the keystrokes are just as impressive. Therre are some fabulous pieces in the book by a variety of writers, including David Frith, Stephen Chalke, Telford Vice and Rob Smyth.dddddddddddd. Chalke provides a superb portrait of Herbert Sutcliffe, Daniel Harris on Gordon Greenidge fizzes and crackles with an apposite energy, while Vices essay on Jacques Kallis - He has fashioned one of the great careers with the passion he might have brought to mowing the lawn - is full of good lines. Ferriday himself worships thrice at the altar of Brian Lara, while the comic-book vitality of Kevin Pietersens 186 in Mumbai is another example of the multitudes contained within.The result is richly satisfying, a kaleidoscope of dogged rearguards, effervescent counter-attacking and dreadnought destruction. Absence is what makes the heart grow harder. Each reader will come to Masterly Batting in search of particular favourites, some of whom are bound to be disappointed. No Atherton in Johannesburg, no Dravid in Adelaide? It is the relative dearth of Asian representatives that will cause most debate: seven Indian entries, five Pakistani and three Sri Lankan, plus Mohammad Ashraful. Virender Sehwags 293 in Mumbai is the highest ranked, at No. 15, while Ashraful comes well ahead of Sachin Tendulkar, whose single worthy effort - 155 not out against Australia in Chennai - is deemed great enough to creep in at No. 100. This may seem doubly controversial in the prevailing climate of Sachinalia, although it is interesting to note that a similar exercise in 2001, the Wisden 100, found no room for Tendulkar at all.Perhaps a greater oversight is the lack of Asian voices - Rahul Bhattacharya is quoted in the opening pages, but that is as close as an Indian writer gets to the book. The subcontinent stretches far across crickets globe, however, and this might have been better reflected. On the matter of which innings did and didnt make the cut, Ferriday is happy to engage and he would doubtless provide a sound argument for the inclusion of both Kallis hundreds in Cape Town in 2011 when Tendulkars in the same match misses out.But they are still serving at the bar and argument will continue long into the night. In a publishing landscape that is dominated by turgid autobiographies and glossy compilations, Masterly Batting stands out like a Laxman cover drive. And where does Kolkata 2001 rank next to Bradman on a sticky MCG pitch or Mark Butchers Headingley heroics? Time for me to get my coat.Masterly Batting: 100 Great Test Centuries Compiled and edited by Patrick Ferriday and Dave Wilson Von Krumm Publishing 290 pages; ￡15 ' ' '