Test Cricket Eras Draft

[Carbine Chaos]

I assumed Bradman would be unavailable.

That's generally how the drafts work.

 

[big_e]

Ah bugger, sorry about that. I've scribbled down names of potential selections and I was simply reading from the wrong column.

I'll go for the South African Herbie Taylor.

And I'll vote for Bradman in, for the reasons I mentioned earlier.

 

[james brayshaw]

Yeah bradman in

 

[The_Reaper]

bradman in

 

[Pykie]

I assumed Bradman would be unavailable.

That's generally how the drafts work.

Im the same, It's not a case of stripping the best player of the era, it just happens that player is statistically twice as good as anyone else in history. It's a fair tiebreaker.

 

[Pykie]

K. S. Ranjitsinhji

Inventer of the leg glace, the late cut, and on-side scoring, which amazing, hadn't been considered until he started playing shots like the leg glance etc.

The Ranji trophy in India is named after him.

Good article about him by Gideon Haigh for those interested.

http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/418303.html

Slax

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Ranji played his last Test in 1902.

 

[Pykie]

Ranji played his last Test in 1902.

Bah.

Phil Mead then. All-time leading runs scorer in County Cricket, Hampshire all-time record run scorer with 153 first class tons, with 30 consecutive years of 1000+ runs, amazing. Averaged 49.3 with the bat at Test level.

Apparently regarded as the greatest player of spin of all time, dominating on sticky wickets of the UK, in the hardest of conditions.

 

[The_Reaper]

How about this?
Bradman is in but leg theory is legalised for him?

 

[OrdinaryJoel]

Bradman in!!!

 

[Danger in Texas]

Okay, Bradman is in.

 

[Wacky Tiger]

Okay, Bradman is in.

Congrats JB

 

[The_Reaper]

Bradman is in, but he counts as a 30s player

 

[Wacky Tiger]

Slax think your up buddy

 

[Danger in Texas]

Slax skipped.

james brayshaw up. First '20's pick, although we all know who it's going to be.

 

[james brayshaw]

Sir Donald Bradman

 

[Danger in Texas]

thorne89

 

[Slax]

Slax skipped.

james brayshaw up. First '20's pick, although we all know who it's going to be.

Sorry went away for a couple of days. If it's not too late can I add my 1910-19 pick

William Whitty

 

[Danger in Texas]

Sorry went away for a couple of days. If it's not too late can I add my 1910-19 pick

William Whitty

U sure can.
Just to make it clear, if 24 hours passes since the last person has picked, the person is skipped but can pick at anytime.

 

[Wacky Tiger]

U sure can.
Just to make it clear, if 24 hours passes since the last person has picked, the person is skipped but can pick at anytime.

Yep sounds great and reckon that's fair.

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Wally Hammond for me

The judgment of cricket history is that the greatest batsmen the game has known are - in order of appearance, only - WG Grace, Jack Hobbs, Walter Hammond and Don Bradman. Others may come close indeed to those four but do not quite take place with them.

Of the four great batsmen he was physically the finest and most powerfully equipped. He was a superb fast-medium bowler who often, as Sir Donald Bradman once remarked, "was too busy scoring runs to worry about bowling." When he was roused - as he once was by Essex bowling bouncers at the Gloucestershire batsmen - his pace could be devastating. "I never saw a man bowl faster for Gloucestershire than Wally did that day," said Tom Goddard, "and he not only battered them, he bowled them out as well."

At slip he had no superior. He stood all but motionless, moved late but with uncanny speed, never needing to stretch or strain but plucking the ball from the air like an apple from a tree.

MG MG

 

[MG MG]

Bert Oldfield

 

[Danger in Texas]

herbert sutcliffe

 

[Wacky Tiger]

big_e your pick champ

 

[big_e]

Let's try this again: Jack Gregory.

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