Test Cricket Eras Draft

[Carbine Chaos]

In that case, I'll take my Trump card.

Victor Trumper

 

[Wacky Tiger]

Righteo MG MG

 

[MG MG]

Vernon Ransford

 

[Wacky Tiger]

Crow number four your up boss

 

[Slax]

Vernon Ransford

Bugger there goes one of my 1910-19 picks

 

[Danger in Texas]

Charlie Macartney

Useful batsman and bowler.

 

[Danger in Texas]

big_e

 

[Wacky Tiger]

Try remember to tag the next pick. Might make it run a little quicker plus it should be the same person behind your pick most picks

big_e

 

[big_e]

Hugh Trumble

BoshtrichBurger - you're up.

 

[OrdinaryJoel]

W.G. Grace

Wacky Tiger

 

[Wacky Tiger]

Charles 'Terror' Turner

Eagleoz83

 

[EagleOz]

Kaley's Mountains welcome

WW Armstrong (AUS)

Up next Marklar_33

 

[Marklar_33]

George Lohmann thankyou very much!

Pykie

 

[Danger in Texas]

W.G. Grace

Wacky Tiger

Bah, steal of the century!

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Bah, steal of the century!

Considered him. But let's be honest, Trumper is better.

 

[Marklar_33]

Bah, steal of the century!

The 19th century

 

[Pykie]

Frank Woolley

Frank Edward Woolley, who died aged 91, was beyond doubt one of the finest and most elegant left-handed all-rounders of all time. In a first-class career extending from 1906 to 1938 he hit 58,969 runs - a total exceeded only by Sir Jack Hobbs - including 145 centuries, to average 40.75; he took 2,068 wickets for 19.85 runs each, and he held 1,015 catches, mainly at slip, a record which remains unsurpassed.

According to R. C. Robertson-Glasgow "when you wrote about him, there weren't enough words. In describing a great innings by Woolley, and few of them were not great in artistry, you had to be careful with your adjectives and stack them in little rows, like pats of butter or razor-blades. In the first over of his innings, perhaps, there had been an exquisite off-drive, followed by a perfect cut, then an effortless leg-glide. In the second over the same sort of thing happened; and your superlatives had already gone. The best thing to do was to presume that your readers knew how Frank Woolley batted and use no adjectives at all.....there was all summer in a stroke by Woolley, and he batted as it is sometimes shown in dreams." R. L. Arrowsmith wrote "his average rate of scoring has been exceeded only by Jessop ("the Croucher") and equaled by Trumper. His philosophy was to dominate the bowler. "When I am batting," he said, "I am the attack." " To this day his 205 minute triple century for the MCC vs Tasmania remains the second fastest ever scored, bettered only by Denis Compton.[5]
Woolley played 64 Test matches between 1909 and 1934, coincidentally both topping and tailing his international career with games against Australia at The Oval. He played under fourteen different captains for England, a record in Test cricket.[6] He was made a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1911. In county cricket he spent his entire career (1906–1938) with Kent County Cricket Club, making his mark in his third game when he produced match figures of 95 runs and 8-119 with the ball to help Kent to a one-wicket win.

The Reaper

 

[Danger in Texas]

No, not Slax.

The Reaper up.

 

[Pykie]

No, not Slax.

The Reaper up.

Ahh yes Mine changes each time, my bad.

 

[Slax]

I'm last in what I reckon could be the toughest decade

 

[Wacky Tiger]

I'm last in what I reckon could be the toughest decade

Yeah not much choice for anyone really this decade. Im last in the 90's

 

[The_Reaper]

Warren Bardsley

james brayshaw

 

[james brayshaw]

Wilfred Rhodes thorne89

 

[Marklar_33]

Wilfred Rhodes thorne89

Bah! Very nearly took him Round 1

 

[The_Reaper]

Wilfred Rhodes thorne89

Strongly considered him as well.

Still mad that Ryder made his test debut in 1920 though.