The Test-only players ODI Draft

[The Battlers Prince]

**** Subhash Gupte?

 

[kingkallis]

Round 1

J_C - Barry Richards
watson - Keith Miller
kingkallis - Mike Procter
AldoRaine18 - Graeme Pollock
Zinzan - Wally Hammond
Morgieb - Bill O'Reilly
mr_mister - Stan McCabe
Red Hill - Harold Larwood
schearzie - Ray Lindwall
Pothas - S.F. Barnes
Agent TBY - Sir Clyde Walcott
OverratedSanity - Victor Trumper

Round 2

OverratedSanity - Gilbert Jessop
Agent TBY - Aubrey Faulkner
Pothas - George Headley
schearzie - Jack Gregory
Red Hill - Alan Davidson
mr_mister - Clarie Grimmett
Morgieb - Frank Worrell
Zinzan - Fred Trueman
AldoRaine18 - Neil Harvey
kingkallis - WG Grace
watson - Ted Dexter
J_C - Charles Macartney

Round 3

mr_mister - Len Hutton
Pothas - Richie Benaud
Zinzan - Everton Weekes
J_C - Wes Hall
Red Hill - Frank Woolley
AldoRaine18 - Jack Hobbs
watson - Denis Compton
Morgieb - Monty Noble
schearzie- Bill Ponsford
OverratedSanity- Les Ames
kingkallis- Dudley Nourse
Agent TBY- Clem Hill

Round 4

Agent TBY- Maurice Tate
kingkallis- Trevor Goddard
OverratedSanity- Jim Laker
schearzie- Denis Lindsay
Morgieb- Brian Statham
watson- Peter Pollock
AldoRaine18- Learie Constantine
Red Hill - Arthur Morris
J_C - Peter May
Zinzan - Hedley Verity
Pothas - KS Ranjitsinhji
mr_mister - Alec Bedser

Round 5

J_C - Hugh Tayfield
schearzie - Fazal Mahmood
Morgieb - Herb Sutcliffe
Red Hill - Norm O'Neill
kingkallis - Archie Jackson
watson - John R. Reid
OverratedSanity - Frank Tyson
AldoRaine18 - Jack Cowie
Pothas - Bill Johnston
Agent TBY - Warwick Armstrong
mr_mister - Lindsay Hassett
Zinzan - George Lohmann

Round 6

Zinzan - Ken Barrington
mr_mister - Douglas Jardine
Agent TBY - Neil Adcock
Pothas - Patsy Hendren
AldoRaine18 - Vijay Hazare
OverratedSanity - Maurice Leyland
watson - Eddie Barlow
kingkallis - Fred Spofforth
Red Hill - Stanley Jackson
Morgieb - Charlie Turner
schearzie - Stewie Dempster
J_C - Martin Donnelly

Round 7

Red Hill - Hugh Trumble
kingkallis - Colin Bland
J_C - Tom Richardson
AldoRaine18 - Ted McDonald
Pothas - Jock Cameron
schearzie - Johnny Tyldesley
watson - Charlie Griffith
OverratedSanity - Vijay Merchant
Zinzan - Sid Barnes
Morgieb - Lee Irvine
mr_mister - Bill Voce
Agent TBY - Herbie Taylor

Round 8

Agent TBY - KS Duleepsinhji
mr_mister - Don Tallon
Morgieb - Jack Ryder
Zinzan - Bert Sutcliffe
OverratedSanity - Colin Milburn
watson - Eddie Paynter
schearzie - Mohammad Nisar
Pothas - Conrad Hunte
AldoRaine18 - Wilfred Rhodes
J_C - Budhi Kunderan
kingkallis - Alan Melville
Red Hill - Godfrey Evans

Round 9

J_C
schearzie - Subhash Gupte
Zinzan
mr_mister
kingkallis
Agent TBY
AldoRaine18
OverratedSanity
Red Hill
Morgieb
watson
Pothas

Round 10

Pothas
watson
Morgieb
Red Hill
OverratedSanity
AldoRaine18
Agent TBY
kingkallis
mr_mister
Zinzan
schearzie
J_C

Round 11

Pothas
Agent TBY
J_C
watson
OverratedSanity
Zinzan
Morgieb
Red Hill
kingkallis
mr_mister
schearzie
AldoRaine18

 

[kingkallis]

Zinzan > mr_mister > kingkallis

 

[Zinzan]

Need an allrounder to bat 6 or 7... Was about to select English all-rounder Trevor Bailey before realising his nickname 'Barnicle' was given to him due to his incredibly defensive, dull & doughty batting. Instead when for India all-rounder Vinoo Mankad who like bailey, could play gutsy innings, but he could attack brilliantly too when he wanted to and was a very good & economical left arm spinner.



1. Sid Barnes
2. Bert Sutcliffe
3. Sir Everton Weekes
4. Ken Barrington
5. Wally Hammond
6.
7. Vinoo Mankad
8.
9. Hedley Verity
10. George Lohmann
11. Fred Trueman

 

[mr_mister]

nobody has chosen yet so I'm repicking. Bert Ironmonger. Economy rate of 1.7, bowling average of 17. Old as **** just like Grimmet haha but I only need 20 tight overs out of them

 

[mr_mister]

There's a theme going on here ha

Hutton
Tallon
McCabe
Hassett
Jardine
~
~
Bedser
Voce
Grimmett
Ironmonger

 

[OverratedSanity]

Need an allrounder to bat 6 or 7... Was about to select English all-rounder Trevor Bailey before realising his nickname 'Barnicle' was given to him due to his incredibly defensive, dull & doughty batting. Instead when for India all-rounder Vinoo Mankad who like bailey, could play gutsy innings, but he could attack brilliantly too when he wanted to and was a very good & economical left arm spinner.



1. Sid Barnes
2. Bert Sutcliffe
3. Sir Everton Weekes
4. Ken Barrington
5. Wally Hammond
6.
7. Vinoo Mankad
8.
9. Hedley Verity
10. George Lohmann
11. Fred Trueman

Man I was so surprised no one was picking him. Hugely valuable player.

 

[kingkallis]

I'll take Johnny Wardle, the miser, to do the duty of a spinner.

CricZo XI

1. WG Grace / o (6)
2. Alan Melville /
3. Archie Jackson /
4. Dudley Nourse /
5. Colin Bland / o (7)
6. Trevor Goddard / o (3)
7. Mike Procter o / (2)
8.
9. Johnny Wardle o (4)
10.
11. Fred Spofforth o (1)

 

[Agent TBY]

Spinners seem to be going fast, and I need a finger-spin option, so I think it's about time to cash out this gamble and pick the surprisingly still available thinking man's offie.

Odd Jobs XI

1. Herbie Taylor
2.
3. Clem Hill
4. KS Duleepsinhji
5. Clyde Walcott (+)
6. Aubrey Faulkner
7. Warwick Armstrong
8. Maurice Tate
9.
10. Erapalli Prasanna
11. Neil Adcock

 

[The Battlers Prince]

Wardle was on my list of possibles, such an unlucky player to not get more tests. On the flip side had Lock missed out the same questions would be asked...great choice though mate

 

[mr_mister]

lol @ nobody picking poor Mailey

 

[AldoRaine18]

Archie Maclaren to open the innings with Jack Hobbs.

His obvious powers took some time to ripen, but within a few years he reached the front rank of batsmen. Possessed of great resource, he could, according to circumstances, play a cautious or a brilliant game that made him splendid to watch from the ringside. Standing erect with bat raised well behind him, he was ready to receive any kind of delivery and would force the ball away with every sort of powerful stroke.

At the same time, he was one of the most stylish batsmen of his time, who scored fast and did so with all the aesthetic brilliance to make Cardus an unabashed admirer for life. His 424 for Lancashire against Somerset, scored in 1895, stayed a world record in First-Class cricket for 28 years before being surpassed by Bill Ponsford, and remained the highest score in England for 99 summers before Brian Lara hit 501 in 1994.

Neville Cardus would not hear a word against MacLaren, whom he dubbed the noblest Roman of them all. ‘MacLaren could not, by nature, be inactive,’ he wrote. ‘His cricket belonged to the Golden Age of the game, to the spacious and opulent England of his day; it knew not the common touch.’ R. C. Robertson-Glasgow said of him ‘As captain and batsman MacLaren was a calculating attacker. His delight was to scatter the enemy by the strong stroke of bat or tactics.’ MacLaren showed flashes of brilliance as a captain, particularly in lifting Sydney Barnes from the near obscurity of league cricket to the spotlight of Test cricket.

01. Jack Hobbs
02. Archie Maclaren
03. Graeme Pollock
04. Vijay Hazare
05. Neil Harvey
06. Baron Constantine
07. Wilfred Rhodes
08.
09. Jack Cowie
10. Ted Mcdonald
11.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Going to go for a slightly unconventional pick here. Bapu Nadkarni was considered the most miserly bowler in the history of the game, and can perform the middle overs choke job perfectly to slowly suck the momentum out of an innings. Averaged 29 with the ball, with an incredible ER of 1.6 and was also a useful lower order batsman, who averaged 25 in tests and over 40 in FC cricket with 14 hundreds. While he did bowl a defensive line as a spinner, the guy was notorious for being completely unhittable.

Batsmen faced with the problem of playing Bapu Nadkarni's left-arm spin had two scoring options to choose from: nil and negligible. Nadkarni was one of the game's most noted economist ever - he gave away just 1.67 runs per over over in his Test career. In the 1960-61 series against Pakistan, he returned figures of 32-24-23-0 at Kanpur followed by 34-24-24-1 at Delhi. He crowned that with Test cricket's finest display of quantity-control bowling, with 21 successive maidens in his 32-27-5-0 against England at Madras in 1964. His legendary parsimony and precision were the result of untiring research and development in the nets - he would bowl endlessly at a coin placed on a good length.

An obstinate batsman with a pronounced crouching stance, he scored 52 and 122, both not out, against England at Kanpur in 1963-64, and in his next outing, against Australia at Chennai, he came up with his Test best bowling effort: 5-31 and 6-91. And with a first-class average of more than 40, and an innings of 283 not out for Bombay v Delhi to his credit, he'd have been an automatic pick if one-day cricket had been around in his time

http://www.espncricinfo.com/india/content/player/31760.html

Vijay Merchant
Colin Milburn
Victor Trumper
Maurice Leyland
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Les Ames
Gilbert Jessop
Bapu Nadkarni
Jim Laker
Frank Tyson
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[mr_mister]

Ironmonger's ER was 1.7 while averaging 17

 

[OverratedSanity]

Ironmonger's ER was 1.7 while averaging 17

Well yeah, can't pick him though can I? Nadkarni gives me batting too though.

And I wanted to pick a unique player.

 

[mr_mister]

just wanted to rub it in hehe. perhaps not in the spirit of the draft

 

[OverratedSanity]

Ironmonger averaged 2 with the bat you ****. Nadkarni has 14 FC hundreds. There

 

[cnerd123]

I'd have picked Nadkarni ages ago tbh. Sounds like he'd be one of the ATG ODI spinners if he ever got the chance.

 

[OverratedSanity]

I'd have picked Nadkarni ages ago tbh. Sounds like he'd be one of the ATG ODI spinners if he ever got the chance.

Yeah was considering him earlier but was confident that not many would know of him. I wanted to maybe delay it one more round but I had a feeling Siddle's crazy economic spell would bring up stats junkies on cricinfo mentioning Nadkarni

 

[cnerd123]

Yeah was considering him earlier but was confident that not many would know of him. I wanted to maybe delay it one more round but I had a feeling Siddle's crazy economic spell would bring up stats junkies on cricinfo mentioning Nadkarni

Almost as if on cue...

"Siddle's economy is currently in the top 40," says Geat, probably before he conceded that four. "Top of the list is Nadkarni's remarkable 0.15 from 32 overs v England in 1964."