Test Cricket Draft

[Carbine Chaos]

Akthar gone too.

Panikstan mode? Nope. thorne has options.

 

[Torz]

Akthar gone too.

Panikstan mode? Nope. thorne has options.

I heard Kamran Akmal is still available if you need a keeper.

 

[Carbine Chaos]

I heard Kamran Akmal is still available if you need a keeper.

Ix-nay-on-the-Akmal-ay.

Hurry up other n00bs I want to take MOAR players.

 

[Gak Attack]

It's a Sunday, people should have nothing better to do!

 

[Torz]

It's a Sunday, people should have nothing better to do!

Watching Ryobi maybe?

 

[The Speaker]

Perhaps the Dr was at one of those epic parties again, thinking about his Lankan.

 

[Torz]

Perhaps the Dr was at one of those epic parties again, thinking about his Lankan.

It doesn't surprise me that he was thinking about it though, I'm stumped as well.

 

[Noobz0r]

He's probably busy PMing people, hey Torz?

 

[Torz]

He's probably busy PMing people, hey Torz?

I admit nothing.

 

[Carbine Chaos]

He's probably busy PMing people, hey Torz?

 

[Torz]

I thought we'd already established there is some sexual tension between Noobz0r and thorne?

 

[Noobz0r]

I thought we'd already established there is some sexual tension between Noobz0r and thorne?

New sig <3

 

[Carbine Chaos]

DrVanNostrand

About an hour left in your 12 hour window, methinks.

 

[DrVanNostrand]

Actually been out on the field all day, peeps.

Thilan Samaraweera. Not a fan at all, but need a Lankan, even if he is a flat track bully of Haydenesque proportions. Averages 51.29 over 76 Tests, thanks in no small part to the SSC I'm assuming.

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Actually been out on the field all day, peeps.

How'd you go?

 

[Gak Attack]

Richie Benaud

Noobz0r

 

[Torz]

How'd you go?

Note: Out in the field all day.

I'm going to hazard a guess and say not the best.

 

[DrVanNostrand]

Note: Out in the field all day.

I'm going to hazard a guess and say not the best.

No choice when you're the umpire

Did 8 minutes of overtime, spewing.

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Richie Benaud

Noobz0r

 

[Noobz0r]

Got myself stuck needing a middle order Sri Lankan batsman, decided to pick one that helped my bowling attack as well.

Sanath Jayasuriya

Scored almost 7000 runs at a touch over 40, whilst taking 98 wickets @ 34 bowling his left arm orthodox.

He'll bat at number 6 for the Noobz0r XI, can bat anywhere in the top 6 though. He'll also be a good variation on lakers off spin, and has the ability to tie up one end with his bowling.

 

[Torz]

Glinn Mgraw

 

[The Speaker]

Keith Miller​

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Numbers do this man no justice. Australia's greatest all-rounder was a man who understood that there was more to life than cricket, which is why his batting average seems to be so far below par for him. But the key for him is that he could be called upon to turn a game when it mattered. He didn't care for his average, but I would trust him to play me a match winning innings with the bat if needed, and his contribution with the ball would always be first rate.

 

[Torz]

@thornyturncoat

 

[Carbine Chaos]

This is tough. I know which 4 players I want to complete the XI but I need to choose the right order to grab them.

With this in mind, I'll take this guy first...

COURTNEY WALSH

Cricket is a numbers game, and few come close to this vastly underrated quick. Here's a few stats to chew on...

Tests: 132
Wickets: 519
Avg: 24.4
SR: 57

A physiological phenomenon, Courtney Walsh probably bowled faster for longer than any man in history. His spirit was as unbreakable as his body, urging him on to the previously undreamed-of heights of 519 Test wickets and 30,019 balls, not to mention the countless overs he sent down for Gloucestershire and Jamaica. For the first half of his career, Walsh was the willing workhorse cantering into the wind while Curtly Ambrose or Malcolm Marshall galloped down the hill. But he grew stronger and wilier with age, graduating to the new ball around 1993, and forming one of the great opening partnerships with Ambrose: 421 wickets between them from 49 Tests. Walsh's action was neither elegant nor orthodox, but it was hugely economical, catapulting the ball down from 10 foot high with a simple snap of the hips. An old-fashioned specialist, his comic incompetence with the bat earned him a Test-record 43 ducks.

Completes my pace attack very nicely. Give me a bit for the next pick, tossing up between a lot of options.

 

[Torz]

Another person I was looking at.