Draft suggestion: "Never met" XI

[Slifer]

Bob Cowper

 

[Himannv]

Almost home.

01. Eddie Barlow /o
02. Wilfred Rhodes /o
03. Ricky Ponting** /
04. Stan McCabe /
05. Arthur Shrewsbury /
06. Garry Sobers /o
07. Imran Khan* o/
08.
09. Kagiso Rabada o
10. Frank Tyson o
11.

 

[ankitj]

You could play Rhodes in middle order and have Shrewsbury open. Did Shrewsbury play in middle order much?

 

[vitalogy83]

Round 9 order: left

JC
AndrewB
jimmy101
kingkallis
Howe_zat
randycricfreak
ankitj
mr_mister
OverratedSanity
SillyCowCorner1
bagapath
vitalogy83

 

[Himannv]

You could play Rhodes in middle order and have Shrewsbury open. Did Shrewsbury play in middle order much?

Rhodes played pretty much everywhere but he opened significantly more often than he played in any other position. Shrewsbury played anywhere between 1 to 5. His best position seems to be at 3 although he has a good record at 5 as well.

Shifting them about should be ok tbh, but I don't see why Shrewsbury is considered an opener, while Rhodes is more of an opener than anything else. If you scroll to the bottom of these pages you can see their batting position stats.

Rhodes - http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/player/19376.html?class=1;template=results;type=batting
Shrewsbury - http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/player/20179.html?class=1;template=results;type=batting

 

[ankitj]

For some reason I thought Shrewsbury only opened.

 

[Himannv]

Yeah, I thought so as well initially.

 

[J_C]

Bill Ponsford.

 

[ankitj]

J_C's team shaping up quite well. Well done.

 

[AndrewB]

Colin Blythe

 

[ankitj]

jimmy101 timed out. Kingkallis is up.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

William Barnes
Charles Mead


L. Rowe
P. Hughes
C. Mead
R. Richardson (capt)
U. Tharanga
D. Atkinson
.
.
R. Cunis
W. Barnes
M. Black

 

[AndrewB]

William Barnes
Charles Mead


L. Rowe
P. Hughes
C. Mead
R. Richardson (capt)
U. Tharanga
D. Atkinson
.
.
.
W. Barnes
M. Black

Didn't you pick Bob Cunis at some point?

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Didn't you pick Bob Cunis at some point?

yes I did...forgot completely about him

 

[vitalogy83]

Guys what's the remaining order? I can see SCC made a pick? Is that for a missed one from before mate? Cheers

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Guys what's the remaining order? I can see SCC made a pick? Is that for a missed one from before mate? Cheers

I'm pretty sure I was two picks behind...hence my double. ..AndrewB seemed okay with my picks. .

I think the order is a few posts ago

 

[vitalogy83]

All G

I think this is where we are at

Round 9 order: left

kingkallis - timed out
Howe_zat
randycricfreak
ankitj
mr_mister
OverratedSanity
SillyCowCorner1
bagapath
vitalogy83

 

[AndrewB]

Picks in Rounds 1-8 (Howe_zat is two picks behind):
AndrewB: Keith Miller, Shane Warne, Richard Hadlee, Roy Fredericks, Jack Gregory, Ken Barrington, Les Ames, Tom Richardson
ankitj: Mike Procter, Dennis Lillee, Jacques Kallis, Steve Smith, Clyde Walcott, Ian Bishop, Bruce Mitchell, Hugh Trumble
bagapath: George Headley, Aubrey Faulkner, Hugh Tayfield, Frank Worrell, Peter Pollock, Hanif Mohammad, Ryan Harris, Andy Roberts
Himannv: Garry Sobers, Imran Khan, Frank Tyson, Kagiso Rabada, Ricky Ponting, Eddie Barlow, Stan McCabe, Wilfred Rhodes
Howe_zat: Sydney Barnes, Len Hutton, Kumar Sangakkara, Ian Botham, Ranjitsinhji, Maurice Tate
JC: Graeme Pollock, Alan Davidson, Greg Chappell, Wasim Akram, Virender Sehwag, Quinton de Kock, Charlie Turner, Erapalli Prasanna
jimmy101: Barry Richards, Archie Jackson, Viv Richards, Neil Adcock, Rahul Dravid, Bobby Peel, Vinod Kambli, Vernon Philander
kingkallis: Bill O'Reilly, Fred Trueman, Brian Lara, Joe Root, Kapil Dev, Glenn Turner, Monty Noble, Denis Lindsay
mr_mister: Victor Trumper, Harold Larwood, Ted McDonald, Jack Cowie, Vijay Merchant, Dudley Nourse, Kevin Pietersen, Farokh Engineer
OverratedSanity: WG Grace, Clarrie Grimmett, Ray Lindwall, Allan Donald, Javed Miandad, Warwick Armstrong, Martin Donnelly, Herbie Taylor
randycricfreak: Malcolm Marshall, Dale Steyn, Herbert Sutcliffe, George Lohmann, Derek Underwood, Everton Weekes, Justin Langer, Shai Hope
Red Hill: Wally Hammond, Glenn McGrath, Joel Garner, David Warner, Richie Benaud, Charlie Macartney, Stanley Jackson, Tim Zoehrer
SillyCowCorner1: Lawrence Rowe, Phil Hughes, Richie Richardson, Marlon Black, Upul Tharanga, Denis Atkinson, Robert Cunis, Billy Barnes
Slifer: Adam Gilchrist, Curtly Ambrose, Sunil Gavaskar, Arthur Morris, Virat Kohli, Fazal Mahmood, Colin Croft, Hedley Verity
vitalogy83: Jack Hobbs, Fred Spofforth, Michael Holding, Rangana Herath, Wes Hall, Vijay Hazare, Stewie Dempster, Andy Flower

Round 9 order/picks to date:
Red_Hill: Charles Bannerman
Himannv: Arthur Shrewsbury
Slifer: Bob Cowper
JC: Bill Ponsford
AndrewB: Colin Blythe
jimmy101
kingkallis
Howe_zat
randycricfreak
ankitj
mr_mister
OverratedSanity
SillyCowCorner1
bagapath
vitalogy83

SillyCowCorner1 had one pick to catch up - I've left Billy Barnes in above, though you can replace this with Phil Mead if you want.

jimmy101 has timed out; kingkallis doesn't time out for a couple of hours yet.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Yeah, I'll take the bowler over yhe batsman...so Barnes it is

 

[jimmy101]

I'll take Frank Woolley, who thankfully somehow managed to avoid playing against Archie Jackson in 1930.