CW Draft League

[Blakus]

Yeah I like it. I tend to mark down teams which have Flower keeping as I don't rate it very highly.

@Watson. I rate Flower higher. Very much like Headley, he was all that was standing against defeat for his team.

 

[Himannv]

Not sure if I'm doing the right thing but i will relieve Andy Flower off his keeping duties and play him at no 5 as specialist batsman where his average is around 55. Moving Frank Worrell to opening position to accommodate Farokh Engineer at no 7.

1. Gordon Greenidge
2. Frank Worrell*
3. Ted Dexter
4. Garfield Sobers
5. Andy Flower
6. Doug Walters
7. Farokh Engineer+
8. Harold Larwood
9. Hugh Tayfield
10. Michael Holding
11. Allan Donald

Yeah, I reckon that's a good move which will probably get you votes. Flower is great as a specialist batsman and Engineer will do a good job with the gloves. Win-win.

 

[Jager]

Saqlain Mushtaq for spin

Jager's Giants

1. Victor Trumper
2. Graeme Smith* ^
3. Hashim Amla
4. Jacques Kallis ^
5. Denis Compton
6. Archie Jackson
7. Adam Gilchrist †
8. Kapil Dev
9. Alan Davidson ^
10. Saqlain Mushtaq
11. Frank Tyson

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

Thanks for the feedback guys, was in huge confusion about which way to go

 

[Prince EWS]

Thanks for the feedback guys, was in huge confusion about which way to go

Yeah I think that makes your team a lot better personally, but I've always been a pretty harsh critic of Flower's glovework in general. I'm in arguably a similar bind with Walcott - although he was a superb keeper by all reports, injury prevented him from sustaining that workload. I'll be left with a much more limited choice of wicket keepers than you if I choose to go down your path though.

 

[Howe_zat]

AZH probably could have made better picks for his team (Flower as a specialist bat works, Worrell opening is the iffy bit), but there are so many players still needing a keeper-bat that it was a smart move just to take Engineer off the market.

 

[Prince EWS]

AZH probably could have made better picks for his team (Flower as a specialist bat works, Worrell opening is the iffy bit), but there are so many players still needing a keeper-bat that it was a smart move just to take Engineer off the market.

Engineer did a bit of opening himself, did he not? Would seem a waste to open with Engineer and have someone like Worrell chilling at 7 though.

 

[Red]

- Monk's XI

- Arthur Morris
- Sid Barnes
- Brian Lara
- Stan McCabe
- Neil Harvey
- Michael Clarke (c)
- Alan Knott (wk)
- Wasim Akram
- Shane Warne
- Brian Statham
- Andy Roberts

 

[Blakus]

Mahela Jayawardene

1.Bill Ponsford
2.Virender Sehwag
3.Walter Hammond
4.Everton Weekes
5.Javed Miandad
6.Mahela Jayawardene
7.John Waite
8.Shaun Pollock
9.Fred Trueman
10.Muttiah Muralitharan
11.Courtney Walsh

 

[watson]

watson - Godfrey Evans
kingkallis - Denis Lindsay
AndyZaltzHair - Farokh Engineer
Jager - Saqlain Mushtaq
Monk - Brian Statham
Blakus - Mahela Jayawardene
Michaelf7777777 -
kyear2 -
Himannv -
Marcuss -
Eds

 

[Michaelf7777777]

Herbie Taylor for my next selection please

Charter 77 So Far

WG Grace
Herbie Taylor
Kumar Sangakarra
Martin Crowe
Steve Waugh (*)
Keith Miller
Ian Healy (+)
Ray Lindwall
Hugh Trumble
Frederick Spofforth
Jim Laker

 

[kyear2]

H.B. "Jock" Cameron

KYEAR XI

Sunil Gavaskar ^
Graham Gooch
George Headley
Ricky Ponting ^
Clive Lloyd *^
Mushtaq Mohammad
Jock Cameron +
Hedley Verity
Ian Bishop
Collin Croft
Glenn Mcgrath

 

[watson]

- Monk's XI

- Arthur Morris
- Sid Barnes
- Brian Lara
- Stan McCabe
- Neil Harvey
- Michael Clarke (c)
- Alan Knott (wk)
- Wasim Akram
- Shane Warne
- Brian Statham
- Andy Roberts

Here is some good footage of Statham bowling to Harvey in 1958/59. I must admit that I was quite taken back by Statham's action which was nothing like I had imagined. Basically he lifts his arm straight up in the air before whirling it over at the delivery stride. I can understand why Glen McGrath was so accurate because his action was so fluid, but how Statham achieved his legendary accuracy with a jerky action like that is a mystery to me;

Neil Harvey 167 vs England - 2nd test MCG 1958/59 ASHES - YouTube

 

[Red]

Here is some good footage of Statham bowling to Harvey in 1958/59. I must admit that I was quite taken back by Statham's action which was nothing like I had imagined. Basically he lifts his arm straight up in the air before whirling it over at the delivery stride. I can understand why Glen McGrath was so accurate because his action was so fluid, but how Statham achieved his legendary accuracy with a jerky action like that is a mystery to me;

Neil Harvey 167 vs England - 2nd test MCG 1958/59 ASHES - YouTube

I've seen a bit of footage of him bowling. He does have an ugly action. Sort of goes against my "players I'd love to watch" theme, but he was too good a bowler to pass up. He'd compliment Wasim and Roberts perfectly.

Great footage, thanks mate!

 

[Himannv]

Don Tallon

 

[Prince EWS]

VVS Laxman

 

[watson]

VVS Laxman

That's rather conservative PEWS. So, Walcott will be at No.7 after all thus completing a very solid batting line-up?

 

[watson]

Don Tallon

I wouldn't worry too much Himannv. Tallon will be just fine standing-up at the stumps to Alec Bedser.

 

[Prince EWS]

That's rather conservative PEWS. So, Walcott will be at No.7 after all thus completing a very solid batting line-up?

Indeed. I was extremely close to picking Tony Grieg but it just looked so much worse on paper than having Laxman at 6 and Walcott at 7. If these teams were judged more as twelve man squads to take around the world then having Griegy along with what my Round 12 pick will be would've made it a more versatile squad for different conditions IMO but I decided to go for on-paper first XI strength. Sold my soul etc.

 

[Howe_zat]

Reckon Himannv's a bowler short. Ought to have taken an allrounder ahead of Paynter.