CricZo's next pick is 3rd bowling option
Bert Ironmonger
Player who made a debut @ the age of 45 and went onto take 74 wickets from just 14 games...WOW!
Played with the likes of O'Reilly, Grimmett yet managed to take those 74 wickets @ more than 5 wickets a game.
CricZo XI
1. Virender Sehwag / o [ 79 | 7039 @ 54.14 | 21 - 22 / 39 @ 40.97 / 61 ] What a fine fine eye-hand combination this legend possesses. Nobody can time the ball as beautifully as Sehwag.
2. Dennis Amiss / [ 50 | 3612 @ 46.30 | 11 - 11 / 24 ] One of the finest player of fast bowling, scored 2 double hundreds on good wickets against the likes of Holding, Daniel, Roberts, Holder. Once he has 40 on the board - scored big hundreds.
3. Donald Bradman / ( c ) [ 52 | 6996 @ 99.94 | 29 - 13 / 32 ]
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5. Colin Cowdrey / [ 114 | 7624 @ 44.06 | 22 - 38 / 120 ] 43,000 FC runs to back this legend, who can forget his knock against the Aussies @ Perth at the age of 42? ]
6. Aubrey Faulkner / o [ 25 | 1754 @ 40.79 | 4 - 8 / 82 @ 26.58 | 4 - 0 / 20 ] One of the finest all-rounder, to support O'Reilly as 2nd spinning option.
7. Rodney Marsh / ( + ) [ 96 | 3633 @ 26.51 | 3 - 16 / 355 ] One of the
best wickekeepetr world ever witnessed
8. Malcolm Marshall o / [ 81 | 1818 @ 18.85 | 0 - 10 / 376 @ 20.94 | 22 - 4 | 25 ] Red cherry will be given to Marshall to unsettle some of those batting line ups
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10. Merv Hughes o [ 53 | 1032 @ 16.64 | 0 - 2 / 212 @ 28.38 | 7 - 1 | 23 ] The beast, to open bowling with Marshall
11. Bill O'Reilly o [ 27 | 410 @ 12.81 | 0 - 1 / 144 @ 22.59 | 11 - 3 / 7 ] Trump Spinner, requires no introduction, as the team manager I will make him the best buddy of Sir Don
12. Bert Ironmonger o [ 14 | 74 @ 17.97 | 4 - 2 / 3 ]
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Total experience of
591 tests
30658 runs @
52.95 |
90 100s -
102 50s [ Batsman + all rounders ]
814 wickets @
24.62 |
44 5w -
8 10w [ Bowlers + all rounders ]
325 catches by fielders /
355 ( 343 + 12 ) dismissals by wicket keeper