Old Timers Reverse Order Draft

[AndrewB]

I certainly learnt there weren't many quality batsmen in the first ever Test; that's why I ended up with a team stacked with bowlers... (should probably have picked more batsmen at the start of the draft).

 

[ataraxia]

FTR a batting/bowling average of a 1870s cricketer will be very different to that of a 1910s cricketer and that's important to bear in mind with the voting.

 

[Himannv]

Participants should add some description to some of their picks when submitting it for voting. I mean there's a good chance we haven't heard of some of these players.

 

[Line and Length]

Participants should add some description to some of their picks when submitting it for voting. I mean there's a good chance we haven't heard of some of these players.

Good point. My bottom 5 probably need some background.

Alfred Perry "Bunny" Lucas was an English first-class cricketer from 1874 to 1907, playing for Cambridge University, Surrey, Middlesex and Essex. He also played five Test matches for England. 1876 saw Lucas advance into the top league of batsmen, with 818 runs at an average of thirty being exceptional for the time and placing him among the top batsmen in the game. 1877 saw Lucas make a further advance, being in average behind only the incomparable W.G. Grace. He also showed himself a useful slow bowler, taking 34 wickets for less than fourteen each, and as late as 1882 achieved his best first-class bowling of six wickets for ten runs.

Edward Ferdinando Sutton Tylecote was an English cricketer. He was born in Marston Moretaine, Bedfordshire and was educated at Clifton College and played first-class cricket for Oxford University and Kent County Cricket Club. He also played six Test matches for England. His career lasted from 1869 to 1886. When he was 19, Tylecote set the then record for the highest score ever made in a cricket match when playing in at Clifton College. Tylecote's innings covered three afternoons and six hours as he amassed 404 not out: the first quadruple century in a cricket match.

William Attewell was a cricketer who played for Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club and England. Attewell was a medium pace bowler who was renowned for his extraordinary accuracy and economy. At times Attewell was a useful batsman for his county, and he scored 102 against Kent in 1897.

John Thomas Hearne (known as Jack Hearne, J. T. Hearne or Old Jack Hearne to avoid confusion with J. W. Hearne to whom he was distantly related) was a Middlesex and England medium-fast bowler. His aggregate of 3061 first-class wickets is the greatest for any bowler of medium pace or above, and his 257 wickets in 1896 is the tenth highest total on record. In 1891, 1896, 1898, 1904 and 1910 Hearne headed the first-class bowling averages. In his heyday he was a truly great bowler able to gain vigorous off-break from even the most docile wickets.

Henry Frederick "Harry" Boyle was a leading Australian Test cricketer of the late 1870s and early 1880s. Boyle played for Victoria and had the distinction of visiting England with the three earliest Australian representative touring teams, in 1878, 1880 and 1882. An outstanding medium-pacer, Boyle's greatest strengths were said to be the accuracy of his deliveries and his ability to probe a batsman's weaknesses.

Excerpts from Wikipedia.