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Scorecard Draft

honestbharani

honestbharani

Whatever it takes!!!
lol.. I left you guys at 1890 and after 4 picks, we are still at 1887..


I am amazed the all rounder I referred to hasn't been picked yet.. Seriously, you won't get many decent all rounders in this era apart from that guy.. But not sure if he stretched all the way back to 1887 though. :(
 
Himannv

Himannv

Hall of Fame Member
The 1800's have certainly brought out some more unusual names I reckon. Been really interesting reading up on some of them.

Round 1:

NUFAN - Muttiah Muralitharan
weldone - Adam Gilchrist
Noble One - Glenn Mcgrath
Cevno - Curtly Ambrose
Blakus - Vivian Richards
Himmanv - Imran Khan
honestbharani - Richard Hadlee
kingkallis - Malcolm Marshall
GI Joe - Brian Lara
Shri - Kumar Sangakkara
pskov - Shane Warne
HeathDavisSpeed - Jacques Kallis
Somerset - Sachin Tendulkar
marc71178 - Wasim Akram
Marcuss - Waqar Younis
Jamee999 - Ricky Ponting
Michaelf7777777 - Andy Flower
Riggins - Michael Slater

Round 2:

Riggins - Rahul Dravid
Michaelf7777777 - Shaun Pollock
Jamee999 - Courtney Walsh
Marcuss - Kapil Dev
marc71178 - Ian Botham
Somerset - Dennis Lillee
HeathDavisSpeed - Joel Garner
pskov - Sunil Gavaskar
Shri - Garry Sobers
GI Joe - Keith Miller
kingkallis - Donald Bradman
honestbharani - Wally Hammond
Himmanv - Jack Hobbs
Blakus - Sydney Barnes
Cevno - Wilfred Rhodes
Noble One - Clarrie Grimmett
weldone - George Headley
NUFAN - Fred Trueman

Round 3:

pskov - Alan Davidson
Jamee999 - Len Hutton
Marcuss - Les Ames
GI Joe - Herbert Sutcliffe
kingkallis - Aubrey Faulkner
Riggins - Charles Macartney
Michaelf7777777 - Colin Blythe
Shri - Hugh Trumble
weldone - George Lohmann
Blakus - Frederick Spofforth
NUFAN - Charlie Turner
Cevno - W.G Grace
Noble One - Victor Trumper
HeathDavisSpeed - Warwick Armstrong
Himmanv - Stanley Jackson
Somerset - Kumar Ranjitsinhji
marc71178 - Archie MacLaren
honestbharani - Johnny Briggs

Round 4:

marc71178 - Bobby Abel
honestbharani - Billy Barnes
Somerset - Billy Bates
Himmanv - Dick Barlow
HeathDavisSpeed - Tom Garrett
Noble One
Cevno
NUFAN
Blakus
weldone
Shri
Michaelf7777777
Riggins
kingkallis
GI Joe
Marcuss
Jamee999
pskov
 
Noble One

Noble One

International Vice-Captain
This is getting tough now.

Not many choices given the previous name provided. I considered Blackham, but given the lack of quality all-rounders available, I don't think I can carry a non-batting wicketkeeper.

I have read bits and pieces about the below name. To average 35 with the bat in an era when anyone who could bowl seemed to average in the mid-teens is an awesome effort.

Arthur Shrewsbury

2nd Test: Australia v England at Sydney, Feb 25-Mar 1, 1887 | Cricket Scorecard | Cricinfo.com
 
kingkallis

kingkallis

International Coach
Jeez, how will we go back to Post WW2 era? This is getting more and more tough and intersting!

As Himannv said, its great reading some of these old lads...
 
Noble One

Noble One

International Vice-Captain
kingkallis said:
Jeez, how will we go back to Post WW2 era? This is getting more and more tough and intersting!

As Himannv said, its great reading some of these old lads...
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My selection brings us a little closer to the turn of the century. If the next pick goes back into the 1880's again, well we may never get out again.
 
Himannv

Himannv

Hall of Fame Member
I can think of only one really good pick which can take it closer to the turn of the century. All other good picks will either keep it there or take it back again.
 
kingkallis

kingkallis

International Coach
I am in the favor of letting others know of such players if they exist so that we can go back to PWW2 era or else we are done and dusted :D
 
weldone

weldone

Hall of Fame Member
Once it comes to the twentieth century, things will get better. There is one very good batsman of the 1900-10 still to be selected, by the way.
 
Flyonthewall

Flyonthewall

U19 Captain
Now I know I'm not involved in this draft (too late tbf), but as far as I can see there is one definite (and IMO very good) bowling option that you get you back into the twentieth century.
 
Cevno

Cevno

Hall of Fame Member
I'll go for Billy Barnes

2nd Test: England v Australia at The Oval, Aug 11-12, 1890 | Cricket Scorecard | Cricinfo.com

HS Altham described him as "a sparkling player who batted as though he loved it" Barnes was a forceful batsman with strong offside shots, as well as a fine medium pacer whose bowling won at least two Test matches. An excellent close field, and an automatic first choice for England from the first test played on English soil to 1890. His finest hour was in the first Test ever played in Adelaide where his 134 on a rain-damaged wicket ensured the win for England. In the next Test of that series, at Melbourne, he bowled England into a 2-0 lead with second-innings figures of 38.3-26-31-6. At Sydney two years later he did likewise - 6 for 28 off 46 (four-ball) overs, a match in which England were skittled for 45 on the first morning and still won. Legend has it that Barnes once made a match-saving century for Nottinghamshire after having more than one shandy too many. Appropriately, he later became landlord of a pub, and was only 46 when he died in Nottingham in 1899.


A All rounder with a Batting average of 23.36 which is pretty good considering he played till 1890 only and a bowling average of 15.54 in 21 tests beaten only by Lohmann for such a long period and also a very good strike rate of 44.1 for the time.
 
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