Test Cricket Draft

[DrVanNostrand]

A bit premature I guess but.

Best team (other than my own): Glinn MGraw
Best bowling attack (other than my own): Noobz0r
Best batting lineup (other than my own): Glinn MGraw
Best behaved team: stevemac/Noobz0r
Team I'd most like to party with: DrVanNostrand
Most likely to lose to the Redbacks: MG MG or a very busy Imran Khan
Most hours of study wasted on this thread: stevemac
Best player not selected: A West Indian. I'll wait a bit before naming but I'm surprised no one's taken him yet.

lol'd.

Headley? Roberts? Haynes? Hall?

 

[stevemac]

lol'd.

Headley? Roberts? Haynes? Hall?

 

[Howard Littlejohn]

Is that eveyone done?
edit: Looks like there are still some 12th men to come.

Its going to be tough to pick a winner out of this lot.

 

[Howard Littlejohn]

lol'd.

Headley? Roberts? Haynes? Hall?

Don't scare me like that. You had me wondering why Headley wasn't on my short list for the Unselected XI when I have 9 West Indians on that list. He is taken by Noobz0r.
The others you mentioned were among the West Indians already in consideration.
Another one again is currently captain.

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Is it my turn to pick my 12th man? Haven't been notified.

 

[Noobz0r]

It is, yes

 

[Carbine Chaos]

In that case, my 12th man will be a very logical pick considering I won't be changing my first XI...

JONTY RHODES

Who better to come on as a subsitute fielder than the best fielder in the history of the game? Unbelievably acrobatic and skillful, the opposition batsmen from the other teams would want to be very careful navigating the ball anywhere near the pair of Sobers and Rhodes. They will snare me wickets out of nothing, whether it be a run out or a catch that nobody else in this competition would take. Will set the standard at training and is a great team player.

Rhodes worked harder than anyone else in a team of hard workers, frequently delaying the team bus at the end of practice for one more round of reflex catches hit from ten metres or less. Nobody has ever fielded better in the key one-day position of backward point, where he leapt like a salmon, threw off balance, and stopped singles by reputation alone. He laboured just as hard over his batting which needed, and underwent, a complete technical overhaul in 1997 - whereupon he averaged 50 for the rest of his Test career, until he gave it up to concentrate on one-day cricket in 2000.

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Se7en XI​

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1. Herbert Sutcliffe (England)​

54 tests, 4555 runs @ 60.73​

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2. Hanif Mohammad (Pakistan) (+)​

55 tests, 3915 runs @ 43.98​

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3. Graeme Pollock (South Africa)​

23 tests, 2256 runs @ 60.97​

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4. Martin Crowe (New Zealand)​

77 tests, 5444 runs @ 45.36​

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5. Steve Waugh (Australia) (C)​

168 tests, 10927 runs @ 51.06​

92 wickets @ 37.44​

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6. Aravinda de Silva (Sri Lanka)​

93 tests, 6361 runs @ 42.97​

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7. Sir Garfield Sobers (West Indies)​

93 tests, 8032 runs @ 57.78​

235 wickets @ 34.03​

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8. Kapil Dev (India)​

131 tests, 434 wickets @ 29.64​

5248 runs @ 31.05​

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9. Sydney Barnes (England)​

27 tests, 189 wickets @ 16.43​

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10. Bishen Bedi (India)​

67 tests, 266 wickets @ 28.71​

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11. Courtney Walsh (West Indies)​

132 tests, 519 wickets @ 24.44​

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12th Man - Jonty Rhodes (South Africa)​

52 tests, 2532 runs @ 35.66​

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Very happy with my XI, though I have a lingering fear it is destined to be underrated. A strong batting line-up is anchored down by the likes of Graeme Pollock and Steve Waugh in the middle order, rounded off down the tail end by the irrefutably great Garry Sobers and the more than handy Kapil Dev. The bowling attack is one that relies on a greater deal of subtly than others in this competition. Walsh and Dev are the workhorses, Sobers provides the burst of brilliance with either seam or spin, Bedi is one of the best spinners ever and the big X-factor, Sydney Barnes, brings a wide variety of techniques to the table to fool and dismiss the batsmen. It's an attack you'd never be set against. The fielding is also terrific, with Sobers and the substitute Rhodes in particular outstanding fieldsmen.​

 

[The Speaker]

MG MG also has two picks to make.

 

[Torz]

How are we going to go about picking the best team? Do it like stevemac has? Put up a poll? Or get some non-participants to form a committee and decide?

 

[Howard Littlejohn]

How are we going to go about picking the best team? Do it like stevemac has? Put up a poll? Or get some non-participants to form a committee and decide?

Full preferential voting of course. This is Australia after all.

 

[The Speaker]

The Empire XI​

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Sir Len Hutton (c)​

Right hand bat​

6971 runs @ 56.67​

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Bill Ponsford​

Right hand bat​

2122 runs @ 48.22​

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Wally Hammond​

Right hand bat, right arm fast medium​

7249 runs @ 58.45​

83 wickets @ 37.80​

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Inzamam-ul-Haq​

Right hand bat​

8829 runs @ 50.16​

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Sir Clyde Walcott​

Right hand bat​

3798 runs @ 56.68​

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Kumar Sangakkara (+)​

Left hand bat​

9872 runs @ 56.73​

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Keith Miller​

Right hand bat, right arm fast​

2958 runs @ 36.97​

170 wickets @ 22.97​

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Shaun Pollock​

Right hand bat, right arm fast medium​

3781 runs @ 32.31​

421 wickets @ 23.11​

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Sir Richard Hadlee​

Left hand bat, right arm fast​

3124 runs @ 27.16​

431 wickets @ 22.29​

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Bill O'Reilly​

Left hand bat, right arm leg spin​

410 runs @ 12.81​

144 wickets @ 22.59​

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Bhagwath Chandrasekhar​

Right hand bat, right arm leg spin​

167 runs @ 4.07​

242 wickets @ 29.74​

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Alan Davidson​

Left hand bat, left arm fast medium​

1328 runs @ 24.59​

186 wickets @ 20.53​

 

[The Speaker]

How are we going to go about picking the best team? Do it like stevemac has? Put up a poll? Or get some non-participants to form a committee and decide?

I was thinking we have a participants award (PMing me the votes) and a viewers award (a poll for everyone).

 

[stevemac]

Stevemac
Barry Richards
Everton Weekes
Mahela Jayawardene
Rahul Dravid
Douglas Jardine (c)
Geoff Boycott
Mark Boucher (+)
Daniel Vettori
Waqar Younis
Michael Holding
Glenn McGrath
Hugh Trumble (12th)

This is probably pathetic, but if there's some sort of viewer's poll, could you adjust the batting line-up?

It's...
Barry Richards
Geoff Boycott
Rahul Dravid
Mahela Jayawardene
Everton Weekes
Douglas Jardine (c)
Mark Boucher (+)
Daniel Vettori
Michael Holding
Waqar Younis
Glenn McGrath
Hugh Trumble (12th)

 

[stevemac]

I was thinking we have a participants award (PMing me the votes) and a viewers award (a poll for everyone).

What happens when we PM you the votes and Glinn Mgraw finishes 1st, 2nd and 3rd.

 

[MG MG]

Anyone interested in joining the OFG Warriors?

 

[The Speaker]

Anyone interested in joining the OFG Warriors?

I'd say there's more interest in your last two picks...

 

[MG MG]

I'd say there's more interest in your last two picks...

Do I have 2 picks now?

 

[The Speaker]

Do I have 2 picks now?

Yes.

 

[Torz]

MG MG also has two picks to make.

Yup.

 

[MG MG]

I hope none of these are taken.

Steve Waugh
Jonty Rhodes (12th man)

 

[Gak Attack]

Yup.

Correct.

 

[Gak Attack]

I hope none of these are taken.

Steve Waugh
Jonty Rhodes (12th man)

Seriously?.... it's on this page!

 

[The Speaker]

I hope none of these are taken.

Steve Waugh
Jonty Rhodes (12th man)

They both are.

 

[Torz]

Seriously. I put together that teams post for a reason!

And for that I'm not going to join SFA.