The Best of Each Decade Birthday DRAFT

[watson]

Just a reminder that there will be 12 Rounds, so there is some 'wriggle room' with your selections.

 

[Red]

When we talk great Australian spinners, it's always the leggies. Warne, O'Reilly and MacGill. A forgotten man is off spinner Hugh Trumble. Tall, dour, deadly on older style wickets, Trumble took almost 5 wickets a test, was economical with the ball, and could bat too, making a couple of test fifties.

Monk's XI

- Len Hutton
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- Ricky Ponting
- Graeme Pollock
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- Kapil Dev
- Hugh Trumble
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- Curtly Ambrose
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[fredfertang]

Ted Dexter

1930s

 

[chasingthedon]

Jack Gregory, 1890s.

Perhaps the most under-rated player in Test cricket in my opinion - in all of the various analyses I've bored the front-page readers with over the years, Gregory scores very highly, for example finishing third all-time in the Series Points ranking on a per-game basis. Scarily fast bowler in tandem with adopted Lanc Ted McDonald, in Tests he averaged nearly 37 with the bat and a shade over 31 with the ball (21 in all F/C). A great close fielder, he held 15 catches in one Ashes series.

Couldn't find a decent image of him bowling, unfortunately (or batting, for that matter).

 

[ankitj]

When we talk great Australian spinners, it's always the leggies. Warne, O'Reilly and MacGill. A forgotten man is off spinner Hugh Trumble. Tall, dour, deadly on older style wickets, Trumble took almost 5 wickets a test, was economical with the ball, and could bat too, making a couple of test fifties.

I could've used that testimony when I picked Trumble in the last draft

 

[watson]

ROUND 6
71. Morgieb - Monty Noble
72. AldoRaine18 - Frank Woolley
73. watson - Neil Adcock
74. Saint Kopite - Stan McCabe
75. Howe_Zat - Rohan Kanhai
76. Monk - Hugh Trumble
77. Fredfertang - Ted Dexter
78. Chasingthedon - Jack Gregory
79. Blakus
80. Kyear2
81. Pothas
82. ohnoitsyou
83. Ankitj
84. Camo999

 

[watson]

Here's some more on Trumble as it's sometimes difficult understanding what the old timers actually bowled;

A tall man, he bowled offspin at close to medium pace with considerable variation in flight and pace. He turned the ball enough to beat the bat on true pitches, but on a wet wicket could make the ball bite, turn and lift spitefully. He fooled many a good batsman with a well disguised slower ball, often resulting in a caught and bowled. He was also a very useful batsman with 4 Test fifties and three first-class centuries to his name, mostly concentrating on defence.

And Monty Noble's technique seems altogther unique;

With the ball Noble employed break-backs, although when the wicket was not offering assistance he preferred "spin-swerve".....Picking up a new grip from baseball, he was able to apply swerve to trick the batsmen. "Instead of pressing two or three fingers on the ball's seam, like a spinner, Noble held it between his thumb and his strong corn-studded forefinger," Robinson wrote. "On the truest of tracks all he needed was some sort of headwind for this spin-swerve to be difficult."

 

[Red]

Jack Gregory, 1890s.

Perhaps the most under-rated player in Test cricket in my opinion - in all of the various analyses I've bored the front-page readers with over the years, Gregory scores very highly, for example finishing third all-time in the Series Points ranking on a per-game basis. Scarily fast bowler in tandem with adopted Lanc Ted McDonald, in Tests he averaged nearly 37 with the bat and a shade over 31 with the ball (21 in all F/C). A great close fielder, he held 15 catches in one Ashes series.

Couldn't find a decent image of him bowling, unfortunately (or batting, for that matter).

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I was hoping he'd last. Sort of knew he wouldn't!

 

[chasingthedon]

I was hoping he'd last. Sort of knew he wouldn't!

Yeah, as was mentioned earlier it's a bit of thin decade - when guys born in this decade would have been at their peaks the Great War altered priorities somewhat.

 

[kyear2]

Jack Gregory, 1890s.

Perhaps the most under-rated player in Test cricket in my opinion - in all of the various analyses I've bored the front-page readers with over the years, Gregory scores very highly, for example finishing third all-time in the Series Points ranking on a per-game basis. Scarily fast bowler in tandem with adopted Lanc Ted McDonald, in Tests he averaged nearly 37 with the bat and a shade over 31 with the ball (21 in all F/C). A great close fielder, he held 15 catches in one Ashes series.

Couldn't find a decent image of him bowling, unfortunately (or batting, for that matter).

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Great pick.

 

[chasingthedon]

Great pick.

Cheers mate.

 

[Blakus]

Bert Oldfield, 1890s.

 

[kyear2]

Aubrey Faulkner 1880's

 

[watson]

Aubrey Faulkner 1880's

Go again kyear. Aubrey was one of chasingthedons early picks.

 

[chasingthedon]

Aubrey Faulkner 1880's

Sorry!

 

[kyear2]

Apologies, though I had checked thoroughly.

Give me a few

 

[kyear2]

Bruce Mitchell: 1900's

 

[chasingthedon]

Bruce Mitchell: 1900's

Another very underrated player - nice pick.

 

[ankitj]

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<=1870s

1880s

1890s

1900s

1910s

1920s

1930s

1940s

1950s

1960s

1970s

>=1980s

AldoRaine18

x

x

x

x

x

x

Ankitj

x

x

x

x

x

x

Blakus

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

Camo999

x

x

x

x

x

x

Chasingthedon

x

x

x

x

x

x

Fredfertang

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

Howe_Zat

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

Kyear2

x

x

x

x

x

x

Monk

x

x

x

x

x

x

Morgieb

x

x

x

x

x

x

ohnoitsyou

x

x

x

x

x

x

Pothas

x

x

x

x

x

x

Saint Kopite

x

x

x

x

x

x

watson

x

x

x

x

x

x

x

Updated the table. Will keep editing this post to update till the edit time window expires (which seems to be 24 hours)

 

[Howe_zat]

Would an eager mind please put up an updated list of all the picks? Means it's easy to ctrl+f to see if your bloke has gone.