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Scorecard Draft

kingkallis

kingkallis

International Coach
Somerset said:
Although I've the option of waiting for a modern-day wicket-keeper batsman, I intended to select a traditional keeper so I'll stick to that objective and select Godfrey Evans.

1st Test: England v West Indies at Birmingham, May 30-Jun 4, 1957 | Cricket Scorecard | Cricinfo.com

Somerset XI:
Sachin Tendulkar
K.S.Ranjitsinhji
Billy Bates
Godfrey Evans
Dennis Lillee
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Very very good pick Somerset!

I too considered him before picking Cowdrey but then I had other keepers in mind as well...
 
kingkallis

kingkallis

International Coach
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 - Arthur Shrewsbury
Cevno - Bobby Peel
NUFAN - Allan Steel
Blakus - Billy Murdoch
weldone - George Ulyett
Shri - Syd Gregory
Michaelf7777777 - Frank Woolley
Riggins - Bill Voce
kingkallis - Bill O'Rielly
GI Joe - Ray Lindwall
Marcuss - Jim Laker
Jamee999 - Clyde Walcott
pskov - Neil Harvey

Round 5:

Shri - Alec Bedser
Jamee999 - Peter May
honestbharani - Graeme Pollock
Blakus - Ken Barrington
Cevno - Frank Tyson
Michaelf7777777 - Arthur Morris
Riggins - Vinoo Mankad
GI Joe - Denis Compton
HeathDavisSpeed - Everton Weekes
kingkallis - Colin Cowdrey
Noble One - Brian Statham
pskov - Neil Adcock
weldone - Richie Benaud
Marcuss - Frank Warrell
Himmanv - Rohan Kanhai
Somerset - Godfrey Evans
marc71178
NUFAN

Round 6:
marc71178
NUFAN
Somerset
Himmanv
Marcuss
weldone
pskov
Noble One
kingkallis
HeathDavisSpeed
GI Joe
Riggins
Michaelf7777777
Cevno
Blakus
honestbharani
Jamee999
Shri
 
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G.I.Joe

G.I.Joe

International Coach
Somerset said:
Although I've the option of waiting for a modern-day wicket-keeper batsman, I intended to select a traditional keeper so I'll stick to that objective and select Godfrey Evans.

1st Test: England v West Indies at Birmingham, May 30-Jun 4, 1957 | Cricket Scorecard | Cricinfo.com

Somerset XI:
Sachin Tendulkar
K.S.Ranjitsinhji
Billy Bates
Godfrey Evans
Dennis Lillee
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Nice. I actually had the option of picking Evans instead of Compton. I had a read around some of the wicketkeeper threads on CW, and there seems to be very little mention of him, contrary to the impression created by cricinfo and wikipedia. Is it one of those "Out of sight, out of mind" things here?
 
Jarquis

Jarquis

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Not sure how to balance my bowling attack. Dev has never bowled first change in his career. So he can open with Waqar, I guess. Though Worrell did so much better with the ball opening than anywhere else.
But he's not exactly alltime-draft class as an opening bowler :laugh: Nor can he be first change really.

So : Waqar, Dev, ??, Laker, Worrell

With first change batting 9 I guess? Hmmm.
 
Himannv

Himannv

Hall of Fame Member
Canceling my gym session today, some work cropped up.

I have a fairly strange combination of players at the moment lol..

Hobbs
Kanhai
Jackson
Imran
Barlow
 
kingkallis

kingkallis

International Coach
G.I.Joe said:
Nice. I actually had the option of picking Evans instead of Compton. I had a read around some of the wicketkeeper threads on CW, and there seems to be very little mention of him, contrary to the impression created by cricinfo and wikipedia. Is it one of those "Out of sight, out of mind" things here?
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Its the stats which puts him behind others... 220 / 230 dismissals in 90+ games is not that good but from what I had read about him - he was pretty good! Just like Syed Kirmani, whose stats does not do him justice.
 
NUFAN

NUFAN

Y no Afghanistan flag
Some awesome batsman picked lately, I'm going to go for Ted Dexter

NUFANasia

1
2
3 Ted Dexter (c)
4
5
6 Allan Steel
7
8
9 Fred Trueman
10 Charlie Turner
11 Muttiah Muralitharan

12

pretty sure I'll be going for an opener next selection.
 
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kingkallis

kingkallis

International Coach
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 - Arthur Shrewsbury
Cevno - Bobby Peel
NUFAN - Allan Steel
Blakus - Billy Murdoch
weldone - George Ulyett
Shri - Syd Gregory
Michaelf7777777 - Frank Woolley
Riggins - Bill Voce
kingkallis - Bill O'Rielly
GI Joe - Ray Lindwall
Marcuss - Jim Laker
Jamee999 - Clyde Walcott
pskov - Neil Harvey

Round 5:

Shri - Alec Bedser
Jamee999 - Peter May
honestbharani - Graeme Pollock
Blakus - Ken Barrington
Cevno - Frank Tyson
Michaelf7777777 - Arthur Morris
Riggins - Vinoo Mankad
GI Joe - Denis Compton
HeathDavisSpeed - Everton Weekes
kingkallis - Colin Cowdrey
Noble One - Brian Statham
pskov - Neil Adcock
weldone - Richie Benaud
Marcuss - Frank Warrell
Himmanv - Rohan Kanhai
Somerset - Godfrey Evans
marc71178 - Hanif Mohammad
NUFAN - Ted Dexter

Round 6:

marc71178
NUFAN
Somerset
Himmanv
Marcuss
weldone
pskov
Noble One
kingkallis
HeathDavisSpeed
GI Joe
Riggins
Michaelf7777777
Cevno
Blakus
honestbharani
Jamee999
Shri
 
Somerset

Somerset

Cricketer Of The Year
G.I.Joe said:
Nice. I actually had the option of picking Evans instead of Compton. I had a read around some of the wicketkeeper threads on CW, and there seems to be very little mention of him, contrary to the impression created by cricinfo and wikipedia. Is it one of those "Out of sight, out of mind" things here?
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I think with the wicket-keeper batsmen coming through in recent times the keepers of past eras have been somewhat shelved in discussions. Averages seem to play such a part in determining the merit of players in past eras that those like Evans, Blackham, Tallon, etc. (great keepers who all averaged in the teens or low 20s) haven't been popular choices for these drafts though the better batsmen (and comparably inferior wicket keepers) are selected.
 
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