"200 Tests or less" Draft

[AndyZaltzHair]

New round order?

 

[StephenZA]

New round order?

AndrewB will normally pitch in an hour or so and give the final round order...

 

[AndrewB]

Picks (and total Tests played) in Rounds 1-10: (pickers now sorted alphabetically)

AldoRaine18: Harold Larwood, Fred Spofforth, Arthur Shrewsbury, Herbie Collins, Michael Bevan, Mohammad Asif, Andrew Symonds, Bert Vogler, Gary Ballance (177)
AndrewB: Aubrey Faulkner, Frank Foster, Colin Milburn, Alan Davidson, Bob Appleyard, Tip Foster, Colin Croft, Eddie Barlow, James Foster, Joe Hardstaff jr (193)
AndyZaltzHair: Bill O'Reilly, Shane Bond, Amar Singh, Phil Mead, Charlie Davis, Madhav Apte, Peter Kirsten, Frank Worrell, Manny Martindale, Alan Fairfax (174)
fredfertang: WG Grace, Tom Richardson, Eddie Paynter, Jack Iverson, Ted McDonald, Vinod Kambli, Albert Russell, Ajay Sharma, Andrew Flintoff, Phil Sharpe (191)
Howe_Zat: George Lohmann, Jack Cowie, Douglas Jardine, Archie MacLaren, Bobby Peel, Allan Steel, Phil Jaques, Adam Voges, Jack Ryder, Dinesh Chandimal (184)
jimmy101: Graeme Pollock, Fanie de Villiers, Learie Constantine, Murray Goodwin, Jack Gregory, Yasir Shah, Ajinkya Rahane, Steve Rhodes, Raman Subba Row, Ernie Toshack (172)
longranger: George Headley, Duleepsinhji, Bill Ponsford, Ryan Harris, CK Nayudu, Kagiso Rabada, Quinton de Kock, Usman Khawaja, Subhash Gupte, Tom Moody (168)
morgieb: Sydney Barnes, Ken Higgs, Stanley Jackson, Brad Hodge, Charlie Blythe, Peter Nevill, David Steele, Andy Sandham, Bruce Reid, Bruce Mitchell (188)
mr_mister: Barry Richards, Keith Miller, Stewie Dempster, Mohammad Nissar, Chuck Fleetwood-Smith, Vijay Hazare, Bill Bowes, Jack Hobbs, Albert Trott, James Faulkner (197)
Overrated Sanity: Frank Tyson, Ranjitsinhji, Martin Donnelly, Stuart Law, Andy Roberts, Charles Macartney, Bernard Bosanquet, Joel Garner, Charles Bannerman, Brendon Kuruppu (194)
Red Hill: Vijay Merchant, Jack Ferris, Pieter van der Bijl, Tich Freeman, Pat Cummins, Len Pascoe, Clyde Walcott, Everton Weekes, Steve Smith, Tim Paine (187)
schearzie: Archie Jackson, Charlie Turner, Clarrie Grimmett, Ernest Tyldesley, Peter Heine, Martin Love, Bill Brown, Sam Loxton, Graham Manou, Ron Archer (149)
stphndbsn: Colin Bland, Sid Barnes, Peter Pollock, Jimmy Cook, Wayne Daniel, Billy Barnes, Lee Irvine, Ranji Hordern, Allan Melville, Harry Dean (121)
watson: Mike Procter, Stan McCabe, Sylvester Clarke, Denis Lindsay, Dudley Nourse, Gary Gilmour, Neil Adcock, Allan Rae, Cyril Walters, Ali Bacher (189)

AldoRaine18 still to pick in Round 10

Round 11 (names and number of Tests still to "use")
schearzie (51)
AndyZaltzHair (26)
jimmy101 (28)
stphndbsn (79)
fredfertang (9)
mr_mister (3)
Overrated Sanity (6)
Red Hill (13)
AldoRaine18 (23 for last two picks)
Howe_Zat (16)
longranger (32)
morgieb (12)
AndrewB (7)
watson (11)

 

[The Battlers Prince]

Go ahead I'll pick in a while

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

Jock Cameron 26

1. Peter Kirsten
2. Madhav Apte
3. Charles Davis
4. Phil Mead
5. Frank Worrell [c] [6]
6. Alan Fairfax [5]
7. Jock Cameron [+]
8. Amar Singh [2]
9. Manny Martindale [3]
10. Shane Bond [1]
11. Bill O'Reilly [4]

 

[The Battlers Prince]

Kane Williamson (47)

 

[The Battlers Prince]

Schearzie's Under 200

Archie Jackson
Bill Brown
Ernest Tyldesley
Martin Love
Kane Williamson (6)
Sam Loxton (5)
Graham Manou+
Ron Archer (c) (3)
Clarrie Grimmett (4)
CTB Turner (1)
Peter Heine (2)

196 matches played with Big Daddy Kane's match tomorrow not changing it being over 200

 

[jimmy101]

Bob Cowper (27)

Jimmy's tryhard XI

1 Raman Subba Row /
2 Bob Cowper/
3 Murray Goodwin /
4 Graeme Pollock /
5 Ajinkya Rahane /
6 Jack Gregory /o (1)
7 Learie Constantine /o (3) c
8 Steve Rhodes +
9 Fanie de Villiers o (2)
10 Yasir Shah o (5)
11 Ernie Toshack o (4)

Not too shabby in the batting dept with each of the top five averaging 40+. Have three genuine quicks at my disposal with Toshack's left arm medium & Yasir's leggies to spice things up a bit. Am confident also with Constantine at the helm, hopefully I'll be in with a shout here. 199 Tests in total.

 

[StephenZA]

Sir Len Hutton (79) (no surprises)

1 Jimmy Cook
2 Sir Leonard Hutton
3 Sid Barnes
4 Alan Melville*
5 Colin Bland
6 Lee Irvine+
7 Billy Barnes[SUP]4[/SUP]
8 Ranji Hordern[SUP]5[/SUP]
9 Peter Pollock[SUP]1[/SUP]
10 Harry Dean[SUP]3[/SUP]
11 Wayne Daniel[SUP]2[/SUP]


Pretty happy with that team. Solid top 6; including the Rhodes of SA before Rhodes was. 7-9 all know which end to hold the bat on... Good pace attack, and even a Dr that can spin the ball a bit. Spot on total of 200.

 

[fredfertang]

Fred's Fertangs completed by one of the greatest wicketkeepers ever, just a shame he gives me a bit of a tail, but Iverson will rapidly mop up anyone who isn't blasted out by Richardson, McDonald and Flintoff and the batsmen will have no trouble getting enough runs

1. WG Grace*
2. CAG Russell
3. A Sharma
4. PJ Sharpe
5. V Kambli
6. E Paynter
7. A Flintoff
8. EA McDonald
9. T Richardson
10. KV Andrew+
11. J Iverson

 

[AndrewB]

Round 11 (names and picks/number of Tests still to "use")
schearzie: Kane Williamson
AndyZaltzHair: Jock Cameron
jimmy101: Bob Cowper
stphndbsn: Len Hutton
fredfertang: Keith Andrew
mr_mister: Warren Hegg
Overrated Sanity: Milinda Siriwardana
Red Hill: Eldine Baptiste
AldoRaine18 (23 for last two picks)
Howe_Zat (14)
longranger: Charlie Griffith
morgieb: Eldine Baptiste
AndrewB (7)
watson: Tom Goddard

... barring any objections from AldoRaine18 or Howe_Zat...

 

[Howe_zat]

Incidentally, if anyone wants to pick a player that no-one above them could pick, I don't see any objection to them jumping the gun.

Josh Hazlewood (16) then - before the toss today

1. Archie MacLaren
2. Phil Jacques
3. Jack Ryder
4. Douglas Jardine
5. Adam Voges
6. Dinesh Chandimal
7. Allan Steel
8. Bobby Peel
9. George Lohmann
10. Josh Hazlewood
11. Jack Cowie

 

[AndrewB]

Josh Hazlewood (16) then - before the toss today

1. Archie MacLaren
2. Phil Jacques
3. Jack Ryder
4. Douglas Jardine
5. Adam Voges
6. Dinesh Chandimal
7. Allan Steel
8. Bobby Peel
9. George Lohmann
10. Josh Hazlewood
11. Jack Cowie

AldoRaine18 might want to pick him (I'd be surprised, looking at his team so far, but it's not inconceivable).

More to the point, I've miscounted somewhere, and you've only got 14 Tests left to use. Sorry, my fault.

 

[watson]

Seems fairer to me that Howe keeps Hazlewood if Aldo doesn't pick him.

Especially if Howe had specifically pre-planned Hazlewood during the last few rounds or so based on the tallies given.

 

[AndrewB]

Seems fairer to me that Howe keeps Hazlewood if Aldo doesn't pick him. Especially if Howe had specifically pre-planned Hazlewood for the last few rounds or so based on the tallies given.

Checking back, I made the mistake when announcing Round 11 (161+25 does not equal 184...), so Hazlewood can't have been a pre-planned pick.

Incidentally, if anyone's checked the figures and is wondering, Howe_zat picked Adam Voges before the last Test (his 14th) had finished, which I decided counted as Voges having played 13 Tests (having said at the start that for current players it was based on Tests played at the time they were picked).

 

[longranger]

I'll go ahead since no one else can afford my pick -

Charlie Griffith (28)

Longrangers:
01. Bill Ponsford
02. Usman Khawaja
03. George Headley*
04. KS Duleepsinhji
05. CK Nayudu
06. Tom Moody (5)
07. Quinton de Kock+
08. Ryan Harris (2)
09. Charlie Griffith (1)
10. Kagiso Rabada (3)
11. Subhash Gupte (4)

Detailed description to follow

 

[mr_mister]

Warren Hegg

 

[OverratedSanity]

*Milinda Siriwardana

Charles Bannerman
Charles Macartney* (6)
Ranjitsinghji
Martin Donnelly
Stuart Law
Milinda Siriwardana (5)
Brendon Kuruppu (+)
Bernard Bosanquet (4)
Andy Roberts (1)
Joel Garner (3)
Frank Tyson (2)

Pretty pleased with how that went. Bowling attack is phenomenal and the batting is alright. Decent number of good bowling options as well.

 

[Red]

Eldine Baptiste


Red Hill XI

Vijay Merchant
Pieter van der Bijl
Clyde Walcott
Everton Weekes
Steve Smith *
Tim Paine +
Eldine Baptiste (5)
Tich Freeman (4)
Len Pascoe (1)
Pat Cummins (3)
JJ Ferris (2)

 

[morgieb]

Jack Robertson (11)

1) Bruce Mitchell
2) Andy Sandham
3) Jack Robertson
4) David Steele
5) Brad Hodge
6) F.S. Jackson (5)
7) Peter Nevill+
8) Ken Higgs (3)
9) Sydney Barnes (2)
10) Colin Blythe (4)
11) Bruce Reid (1)

Pretty strong bowling attack, probably not the best batting though.