Draft idea - may need work...

[Himannv]

Ok, after some consideration, I think I'll go with these peaks for now:

• Richard Hadlee - 40 Tests (11 Mar 1982 to 1 Dec 1988) - 1629 runs at 33.24 | 233 wickets at 18.36
• Curtly Ambrose - 30 Tests (1 Jan 1990 and 15 Apr 1994) - 399 runs at 10.5 | 158 wickets at 18.41

Would be nice if I can decide to change the specified peaks later though.

 

[ataraxia]

Would be nice if I can decide to change the specified peaks later though.

I don't think you can do that because multiple people can pick the same player as long as the time period picked doesn't overlap.

 

[Himannv]

I don't think you can do that because multiple people can pick the same player as long as the time period picked doesn't overlap.

Yeah, my brain eventually ventured towards that aspect of this draft.

 

[Himannv]

@Line and Length is up now to finish off Round 2.

 

[Line and Length]

Apart from catch-ups after time-outs, I believe I'm up and that my selection ends Round 2.

I'll take Dale Steyn (60 Tests) 26/1/2007 to 12/2/2014 318 wickets @ 21.75 and 888 runs @ 15.31

Order for Round 3 required

 

[Himannv]

@AndrewB we need a new order (or perhaps instructions to continue with the same order).

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Jacques Kallis

60 tests

14 Sept 2001 - 1 Dec 2007

6046 runs @ 70.15 and 124 wickets @ 34.22

 

[JOJOXI]

Apart from catch-ups after time-outs, I believe I'm up and that my selection ends Round 2.

I'll take Dale Steyn (60 Tests) 26/1/2007 to 12/2/2014 318 wickets @ 21.75 and 888 runs @ 15.31

Order for Round 3 required

For a short while I thought 15.31 was the bowling average - was thinking he was good but that good?!?!

 

[Michaelf7777777]

Shane Warne (02/01/2002-25/11/2005 - 35 Tests) will be my next selection please

Charter 77 so Far

Ian Botham (77-82) - 50 Tests, 2808 Runs @39.00, 226 Wickets @22.98
Shane Warne (02-05) - 35 Tests, 902 Runs @19.19, 221 Wickets @21.71

 

[AndrewB]

Round 1:
Line and Length: Garfield Sobers, 17 Jan 1958 - 14 Mar 1968 (50)
ataraxia: Mohammad Yousuf, 26 Dec 2003 - 20 Jul 2009 (35)
Himannv: Richard Hadlee, 11 Mar 1982 - 1 Dec 1988 (40)
Michaelf7777777: Ian Botham, 11 Aug 1977 - 8 Jul 1982 (50)
Fuller Pilch: Adam Gilchrist, 5 Nov 1999 - 8 Mar 2002 (30)
JOJOXI: Imran Khan, 1 Jan 1982 - 12 Dec 1991 (50)
AndrewB: Shaun Pollock, 6 Aug 1998 - 30 Sep 2003 (50)
kingkallis:
trundler: Sydney Barnes, 17 Jan 1902 - 14 Feb 1914 (25)
Pothas: Muttiah Muralitharan, 28 Jun 2000 - 14 Jul 2007 (60)
Teuton: Waqar Younis, 19 Jan 1990 - 05 Oct 1994 (30)

Round 2:
Teuton: Steve Smith, 04 Dec 2013 - 12 Jul 2019 (55)
Pothas: Malcolm Marshall, 10 Apr 1981 - 28 Apr 1989 (55)
trundler: Glenn McGrath, 28 Feb 1997 - 23 Aug 2001 (50)
kingkallis
AndrewB: Ricky Ponting, 8 Nov 2001 - 5 Dec 2006 (60)
JOJOXI: Andy Flower, 1 Jun 2000 - 31 Dec 2001 (10)
Fuller Pilch: Jacques Kallis, 14 Sep 2001 - 1 Dec 2007 (60)
Michaelf7777777: Shane Warne, 02 Jan 2002 - 25 Nov 2005 (35)
Himannv: Curtly Ambrose, 1 Jan 1990 - 15 Apr 1994 (30)
ataraxia: Keith Miller, 29 Mar 1946 - 7 Jun 1956 (50)
Line and Length: Dale Steyn, 26 Jan 2007 - 12 Feb 2014 (60)

Round 3 order:
Pothas: Jack Hobbs, 1 Jan 1910 - 13 Jun 1930, (50)
Fuller Pilch: Matthew Hayden, 1 Jan 2001 - 15 Apr 2005, (55)
Teuton: Wasim Akram, 9 Dec 1989 - 6 Mar 98 (50)
JOJOXI
Line and Length: Sachin Tendulkar, 1 Jan 1994 - 31 Dec 1999 (45)
ataraxia: Kumar Sangakkara, 7 Dec 2006 - 4 Feb 2014 (60)
kingkallis
trundler
AndrewB
Himannv
Michaelf7777777

 

[Pothas]

Jack Hobbs (01 Jan 1910-13 Jun 1930) 50 matches, 4827 runs @63.51

Just a 20 year peak there.

 

[Pothas]

@Fuller Pilch

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Matty Hayden (55 matches)

1 Jan 2001 - 15 April 2005

5193 runs @ 59.68

@Teuton

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Yeah I will confirm Gilchrist for 30 tests

Hayden 55
Kallis 60
Gilchrist 30

 

[Teuton]

Wasim Akram (9/12/89 - 6/3/98)

50 matches, 250 wickets @20, 1568 runs @23.

@JOJOXI

 

[AndrewB]

JOJOXI has timed out, @Line and Length can jump in.

 

[Line and Length]

Sachin Tendulkar (45) 1 Jan 1994 - 31 Dec 1999 4116 runs @ 61.43 please.

@ataraxia

 

[ataraxia]

Kumar Sangakkara (7 December 2006 to 4 February 2014, 60 tests, 6355 runs at 67.60)

Annoyingly enough Sanga had a 63-test peak in which he averaged 69.72.

3) Kumar Sangakkara / + (60 tests, 6355 runs at 67.60)
4) Mohammad Yousuf / (35 tests, 3713 runs at 62.93)
5) Keith Miller o / (50 tests, 2727 runs at 38.40, 153 wkts at 22.92)

 

[Line and Length]

Kumar Sangakkara (7 December 2006 to 4 February 2014, 60 tests, 6355 runs at 67.60)

Annoyingly enough Sanga had a 63-test peak in which he averaged 69.72.

3) Kumar Sangakkara / + (60 tests, 6355 runs at 67.60)
4) Mohammad Yousuf / (35 tests, 3713 runs at 62.93)
5) Keith Miller o / (50 tests, 2727 runs at 38.40, 153 wkts at 22.92)

A good selection, but Sangakarra only kept for 48 of his 134 Tests and rarely donned the gloves in the era you selected him for. The last stumping he effected was in 2006 and only 7 of his 131 'keeping catches came in the time frame you chose.

 

[Line and Length]

@kingkallis (has anyone heard from him - already timed out twice) then @trundler