Botham walks to the crease with Criczo XI on 47/2 in their second innings, a lead off 230 as it stands. The situation demands quick runs so that Criczo XI declare soon and give themselves enough time to bowl out New Zealand. On the other end Boycott continues to labour his way towards 26 off 80 deliveries when Botham (and his mates) decide it's high time to run this **** out and so the plot is put into action.CricZo XI
Geoffrey Boycott /
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Denis Compton /
Stan McCabe / o
Ian Botham o /
Quinton de Kock + /
Dennis Lillee o
Bill O'Reilly o
Andy Roberts o
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In the end, the result matters. My players know their roles as we have made it very much clear whats expected from them.Botham walks to the crease with Criczo XI on 47/2 in their second innings, a lead off 230 as it stands. The situation demands quick runs so that Criczo XI declare soon and give themselves enough time to bowl out New Zealand. On the other end Boycott continues to labour his way towards 26 off 80 deliveries when Botham (and his mates) decide it's high time to run this **** out and so the plot is put into action.
As Boycott walks back to the pavilion he asks Botham what have you done and Botham quietly whispers... "I've run you out, you ****".
DeKock then arrives to give his team the impetus that's needed and both deKock and Botham do the needful. Criczo XI go on to dismiss their opponents for a paltry score to win the game.
Drafter | Players | # of tests |
Teuton | Denis Lindsay, Jasprit Bumrah, Pat Cummins, Jim Laker, Shakib al Hasan, Bill Lawry, Martin Crowe, Wasim Akram, Joe Root (8) | 105 |
Magrat Garlick | George Headley, Bill Ponsford, Maurice Tate, Ian Bishop, Kagiso Rabada, Peter May, BJ Watling, Gordon Greenidge (8) | 108 |
CricAddict | Adam Voges, Shahid Afridi, Babar Azam, Rohit Sharma, Ravindra Jadeja, Andy Flower, Mitchell Johnson, R Ashwin, Shaun Pollock (9) | 108 |
KingKallis | Bill O'Reilly, Stan McCabe, Andy Roberts, Quinton de Kock, Dennis Lillee, Denis Compton, Ian Botham, Geoff Boycott (8) | 108 |
Michaelf7777777 | WG Grace, Charlie Macartney, Glenn Turner, Alec Bedser, Neil Wagner, Wilfred Rhodes, Richard Hadlee, MS Dhoni, Clive Lloyd (9) | 110 |
honestbharani | Keith Miller, Simon Katich, Mushtaq Mohammad, Tony Greig, Ted Dexter, Doug Walters, Rohan Kanhai, Adam Gilchrist, Chaminda Vaas (9) | 111 |
srbhkshk | Ranjitsinhji, Douglas Jardine, Mohammad Asif, Clarrie Grimmett, Joel Garner, Shane Watson, Allan Donald, Ken Barrington, Kane Williamson, AB de Villiers (10) | 114 |
JOJOXI | Shane Bond, Herbie Collins, Alan Davidson, Victor Trumper, Fred Trueman, Dale Steyn, Aravinda de Silva, Rodney Marsh, Viv Richards (9) | 121 |
Himannv | Stewie Dempster, Phil Mead, Fred Spofforth, Harold Larwood, Johnny Wardle, Vijay Hazare, Les Ames, Patsy Hendren, Len Hutton, Glenn McGrath (10) | 124 |
trundler | Vijay Merchant, George Lohmann, Stanley Jackson, Dudley Nourse, Hugh Tayfield, Rashid Latif, Jack Hobbs, Imran Khan, Mohammad Yousuf, Kapil Dev (10) | 131 |
Pothas | Frank Tyson, Neil Adcock, Eddie Barlow, Hedley Verity, Malcolm Marshall, Jeff Dujon, Greg Chappell, Virat Kohli, Matthew Hayden, Brian Lara (10) | 131 |
ataraxia | Graeme Pollock, Jock Cameron, Bill Woodfull, Trevor Goddard, Lindsay Hassett, Frank Worrell, Ray Lindwall, Bishen Bedi, Waqar Younis, Courtney Walsh (10) | 132 |
Red | Duleepsinhji, Charlie Turner, Arthur Mailey, Jack Gregory, Ryan Harris, Everton Weekes, Bob Simpson, Curtly Ambrose, Chris Gayle, Kumar Sangakkara (10) | 134 |
FWIW each of Walcott, Faulkner and Sobers scored 700+ in which they scored most of the runs while batting at 3; but I tend to think of all of them as batting at 5/6.Chuck Walcott to three, I think he batted there regularly
Good side. I'd go Walcott 3, KP 4, Sobers 5, Faulkner 6My final XI:
Virender Sehwag
Conrad Hunte
Aubrey Faulkner
Kevin Pietersen
Clyde Walcott
Garry Sobers
Alan Knott+
Richie Benaud*
Frank Foster
Michael Holding
James Anderson