Scorecard Draft

[Himannv]

Joe up next.

 

[Riggins]

Hello All,

First chance i've had to post for too long, been going through some pretty serious family issues and the internet took a back seat.

Sorry to have let you guys down dropping out halfway through the process but equally disappointed that I didn't get a chance to finish because it was v interesting and educational when I was playing.

Awesome to see people completing their teams, and some looking extremely good. Cheers.

 

[Himannv]

No problems I guess Riggins. Hope your family is doing ok. Someone stepped up and helped out with your team. Cheers.

 

[honestbharani]

what Himannv said.. Welcome back, Riggins.. Hope everything is and will be fine with your personal life..

 

[kingkallis]

Hope things are fine now in your family mate. Stay tough!

Also JTRC did a fine job in your absence

 

[kingkallis]

Round 1:

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NUFAN - Muttiah Muralitharan
weldone - Adam Gilchrist
Noble One - Glenn Mcgrath
Cevno - Curtly Ambrose
Blakus - Vivian Richards
Himannv - 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:

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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
Himannv - Jack Hobbs
Blakus - Sydney Barnes
Cevno - Wilfred Rhodes
Noble One - Clarrie Grimmett
weldone - George Headley
NUFAN - Fred Trueman

Round 3:

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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
Himannv - Stanley Jackson
Somerset - Kumar Ranjitsinhji
marc71178 - Archie MacLaren
honestbharani - Johnny Briggs

Round 4:

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marc71178 - Bobby Abel
honestbharani - Billy Barnes
Somerset - Billy Bates
Himannv - 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:

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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 Worrell
Himannv - Rohan Kanhai
Somerset - Godfrey Evans
marc71178 - Hanif Mohammad
NUFAN - Ted Dexter

Round 6:

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marc71178 - Alan Knott
NUFAN - Greg Chappell
Somerset - Javed Miandad
Himannv - Gordon Greenidge
Marcuss - Allan Border
weldone - Geoff Boycott
pskov - Michael Holding
Noble One - Martin Crowe
kingkallis - Rodney Marsh
HeathDavisSpeed - Andy Roberts
GI Joe - Bob Willis
Riggins - Garth Mckenzie
Michaelf7777777 - Colin Croft
Cevno - Farokh Engineer
Blakus - Bob Simpson
honestbharani - Doug Walters
Jamee999 - Bishan Bedi
Shri - Derek Underwood

Round 7:

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HeathDavisSpeed - Peter Pollock
Marcuss - Graham Gooch
Cevno - Allan Donald
Jamee999 - Matthew Hayden
marc71178 - Harbhajan Singh
honestbharani - MS Dhoni
Himannv - Dale Steyn
Noble One - Andrew Flintoff
kingkallis - Virender Sehwag
NUFAN - Greame Smith
pskov - Steve Waugh
weldone - Shane Bond
Riggins - Mahela Jayawardene
Somerset - Mohammad Yousuf
GI Joe - Jeff Thomson
Shri - Darren Gough
Blakus - Ian Bishop
Michaelf7777777 - Desmond Haynes

Round 8:

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Blakus - Zaheer Abbas
Michaelf7777777 - Clive Lloyd
Shri - Roy Fredericks
GI Joe - Bill Lawry
Somerset - Eddie Barlow
Riggins / JTRCXXX94 - Mohammad Asif
weldone - Ian Chappell
pskov - John Edrich
NUFAN - Conrad Hunte
kingkallis - Dennis Amiss
Noble One - David Gower
Himannv - Abdul Qadir
honestbharani - Shoaib Akhtar
marc71178 - Aravinda de Silva
Jamee999 - Anil Kumble
Cevno - Inzamam ul Haq
Marcuss - Shivnaraine Chanderpaul
HeathDavisSpeed - Mark Taylor

Round 9:

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Somerset - Craig McDermott
kingkallis - Merv Hughes
NUFAN - Graham Thorpe
marc71178 - Chris Gayle
Himannv - Jason Gillespie
Noble One - Mark Waugh
Marcuss - Justin Langer
Cevno - V.V.S Laxman
weldone - Gautam Gambhir
honestbharani - Shane Watson
Shri - Andrew Strauss
Blakus - Kevin Pietersen
Michaelf7777777 - Michael Hussey
Jamee999 - Makhaya Ntini
GI Joe - Alec Stewart
pskov - Younis Khan
HeathDavisSpeed - Gary Kirsten
Riggins / JTRCXXX94 - Ian Healy

Round 10:

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pskov - Jeff Dujon
HeathDavisSpeed - Syed Kirmani
GI Joe - Tony Greig
Jamee999 - John Snow
Michaelf7777777 - Mushtaq Mohammed
Blakus - Subhash Gupte
Shri - Vijay Hazare
honestbharani - Vijay Merchant
Riggins / JTRCXXX94 - Cyril Washbrook
weldone - K. Duleepsinhji
Cevno - Dudley Nourse
Marcuss - Maurice Tate
Noble One - Petsy Hendren
Himannv - Stan McCabe
marc71178 - Headley Verity
NUFAN - Jock Cameron
kingkallis - Bert Ironmonger
Somerset - Douglas Jardine

Round 11:

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Shri - Bill Ponsford
Somerset - Eddie Paynter
NUFAN - Lindsay Hassett
Blakus - Sid Barnes
marc71178 - Bill Bowes
weldone - Manny Martindale
Marcuss - Bruce Mitchell
Riggins / JTRCXXX94 - Herbie Taylor
HeathDavisSpeed - Stewie Dempster
Noble One - Gubby Allen
Himannv - Harold Larwood
GI Joe - Tich Freeman
Michaelf7777777 - Jack Gregory
Jamee999 - Bill Woodfull
pskov - Maurice Leyland
Cevno - Allan Rae
honestbharani - Jeffrey Stollmeyer
kingkallis - Polly Umrigar

Round 12

honestbharani - Bob Cowper
kingkallis - Wes Hall
Cevno - Colin Bland
pskov - Ian Redpath
Jamee999 - Alvin Kalicharan
Michaelf7777777 - Bhagwath Chandrashekhar
GI Joe
Himannv
Noble One
HeathDavisSpeed
Riggins / JTRCXXX94
Marcuss
weldone
marc71178
Blakus
NUFAN
Somerset
Shri

 

[G.I.Joe]

Whom do I pick, the all time great captain with the unfortunate sub 40 batting average, or the batsman with the batting average 10 points higher?

 

[honestbharani]

Whom do I pick, the all time great captain with the unfortunate sub 40 batting average, or the batsman with the batting average 10 points higher?

The batsman, for me..



For captaincy, there is always the Prince of Trinidad..

 

[G.I.Joe]

Are you sure? Get personalities like Lara, Miller and Greig into the one room, and they'll need a whip to put them in their place.

 

[honestbharani]

Are you sure? Get personalities like Lara, Miller and Greig into the one room, and they'll need a whip to put them in their place.

That hurts, Joe... The others maybe ego maniacs but not the prince, no way..

 

[G.I.Joe]

That hurts, Joe... The others maybe ego maniacs but not the prince, no way..

Say what? They're all the same. They just react in different ways. When its apparent they're not the sole prima donnas of the team, Miller will just pretend he doesn't care anymore and play Microsoft flight simulator instead, Greig will try and get the ICL up and running again, and Lara will switch off his cellphone and sulk at home for a couple of years.

 

[kingkallis]

Ok then pick the legendary captain!

 

[G.I.Joe]

Screw the averages. He's a better cricketer than the other two batsmen anyway.

Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi

1st Test: England v India at Leeds, Jun 8-13, 1967 | Cricket Scorecard | Cricinfo.com

Team:

1. Herbert Sutcliffe (RHB, 60.73)
2. Bill Lawry (LHB, 47.15)
3. Denis Compton (RHB, 50.06)
4. Brian Lara (LHB, 52.88)
5. Tiger Pataudi * (RHB, 34.91)
6. Tony Greig (RHB, 40.43, ROF, RM, 32.2)
7. Keith Miller (RHB, 36.97, RF, 22.97)
8. Alec Stewart + (RHB, 39.54, WK, 263c, 14st)
9. Ray Lindwall (RHB, 21.15, RF, 23)
10. Tich Freeman (RHB, 14, LBG, 25.83)
11. Bob Willis (RHB, 11.5, RF, 25.2)
12. Jeff Thomson (RHB, 12.81, RF, 28)

Thomson to come in for Freeman on pitches that have nothing in it for the spinner.

 

[weldone]

Excellent pick Joe! Don't undermine his batting. Don't undermine what he achieved using practically one functional eye.

 

[G.I.Joe]

Excellent pick Joe! Don't undermine his batting. Don't undermine what he achieved using practically one functional eye.

Yeah, AWTA.

 

[kingkallis]

Screw the averages. He's a better cricketer than the other two batsmen anyway.

Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi

1st Test: England v India at Leeds, Jun 8-13, 1967 | Cricket Scorecard | Cricinfo.com

Team:

1. Herbert Sutcliffe (RHB, 60.73)
2. Bill Lawry (LHB, 47.15)
3. Denis Compton (RHB, 50.06)
4. Brian Lara (LHB, 52.88)
5. Tiger Pataudi * (RHB, 34.91)
6. Tony Greig (RHB, 40.43, ROF, RM, 32.2)
7. Keith Miller (RHB, 36.97, RF, 22.97)
8. Alec Stewart + (RHB, 39.54, WK, 263c, 14st)
9. Ray Lindwall (RHB, 21.15, RF, 23)
10. Tich Freeman (RHB, 14, LBG, 25.83)
11. Bob Willis (RHB, 11.5, RF, 25.2)
12. Jeff Thomson (RHB, 12.81, RF, 28)

Thomson to come in for Freeman on pitches that have nothing in it for the spinner.

2nd best pick of this round...................................after mine!

 

[weldone]

Team:

1. Herbert Sutcliffe (RHB, 60.73)
2. Bill Lawry (LHB, 47.15)
3. Denis Compton (RHB, 50.06)
4. Brian Lara (LHB, 52.88)
5. Tiger Pataudi * (RHB, 34.91)
6. Tony Greig (RHB, 40.43, ROF, RM, 32.2)
7. Keith Miller (RHB, 36.97, RF, 22.97)
8. Alec Stewart + (RHB, 39.54, WK, 263c, 14st)
9. Ray Lindwall (RHB, 21.15, RF, 23)
10. Tich Freeman (RHB, 14, LBG, 25.83)
11. Bob Willis (RHB, 11.5, RF, 25.2)
12. Jeff Thomson (RHB, 12.81, RF, 28)

Thomson to come in for Freeman on pitches that have nothing in it for the spinner.

I love this team. A better spinner would have helped, though.

 

[G.I.Joe]

I love this team. A better spinner would have helped, though.

Yeah, I had a chance to get Chandrasekhar earlier, but then I would have had to let go of Tony Greig. In retrospect I left the spinners slot empty for too long. A well established spinner would certainly have given the team an extra dimension. But then, it'd have meant a compromise in another department, so I can't really say that I regret it.

Over the last couple of rounds I was hoping I'd have the chance to pick this one spinner I had in mind for a long time, but I never got into position to do so. He's still unpicked as of now. I'm very happy with my pace attack and batting depth, though. I like almost all the players I have too, so that is a big plus. Tony Greig is the one player I have reservations about, but then there's no disputing his cricketing pedigree, so I'll just have to get along with him in a Shane Watson sort of way.

 

[G.I.Joe]

2nd best pick of this round...................................after mine!

Wes Hall is indeed a fine pick for this stage. I'd love to see a match between your side and the side that has Benaud in it.

 

[Teja.]

That photo of Pataudi is a brilliant one, It must be said.