Ashes Draft

[Joao]

For round 11 I've decide to be change things up a bit and involve matches from 2 series...kinda.


Round 11 features the 1882 match that started it all and the follow-up series played in 1882/83. (4 matches total)

Round order (reverses for round 12)
1.Howe_zat
2.Teja
3.Kingkallis
4.Nufan
5.Marcuss
6.Blakus
7.Zinzan12
8.Shri
9.Michaelf7777777
10.Fredfertang
11.Himannv
12.Joao

Round 12 will be anyone who hasn't played in a series already used.
This ensures that round 12 won't just be a throw-away round.

Does the 12th player picked have to be the 12th man or can you make anyone your 12th?

 

[Blakus]

Anyone can be the 12th. Team composition is entirely up to you.

 

[Joao]

Anyone can be the 12th. Team composition is entirely up to you.

That's awesome because there are some serious hacks in my team and some quality players that missed out by series.

 

[Howe_zat]

12 hours gone, both zinzan and Shri up.

 

[Zinzan]

Bobby Simpson (capt) 4869 runs @ 48.68
-
Jack Ryder 1400 runs @ 51.62
M Waugh 8000 runs @ 41.81
Les Ames (W.K) 2400 runs @ 40.56 & 74 catches, 23 stumpings
Keith Miller 2968 runs @ 36.97 & 170 wickets @ 22.97
Albert Trott 228 runs @ 228 runs @ 38.00 & 26 wickets @ 15.00
Ian Botham 5200 runs @ 33.54 & 383 wickets @ 28.40
George Ulyett 949 runs @ 24.33 & 50 wickets @ 20.40
Max Walker 586 runs @ 19.53 & 138 wickets @ 27.47
Jason Gillespie 1218 runs @ 18.73 & 259 wickets @ 26.13

12th Man: (for now) Bill Lockwood 231 runs @ 17.76 & 43 wickets @ 20.53

Ridiculously deep batting with Gillespie at no. 11

 

[Zinzan]

Joey Palmer. From what I've read, a fast but quality off-spinner.

1.Justin Langer 7696 Runs @ 45.27
2.Jack Hobbs 5410 runs @ 56.94
3.Clem Hill 3412 runs @ 39.21
4.Denis Compton 5807 runs @ 50.06 , 25 wickets @ 56.40
5.Colin Cowdrey 7624 runs @ 44.06
6.Douglas Jardine* 1296 runs @ 48
7.Ian Healy+ 4356 runs @ 27.39 , 366 catches, 29 stumpings
8.Joey Palmer 296 runs @ 14.09 , 78 wickets @ 21.51
9.Dennis Lillee 905 runs @ 13.71 , 355 wickets @ 23.92
10.Charlie Turner 323 runs @ 11.53 , 101 wickets @ 16.53
11.Brian Statham 675 runs @ 11.44 , 252 wickets @ 24.8

Very happy with my side. Has a good balance between bat and ball as well as Poms and Aussies.

Probably the best side to be fair, definite balance

 

[Jarquis]

Has a tail from hell.

 

[Zinzan]

Great balance between bat & ball. The batting may not have great depth, but it doesn't need it with that top-order.

 

[Himannv]

Agreed. I think depending on the bowlers to contribute with the bat just says that the batting lineup is a bit too weak. The team put up by Blakus so far has a fantastic top six. They should not be needing the bowlers to scrape around for runs.

 

[Blakus]

Agreed. I think depending on the bowlers to contribute with the bat just says that the batting lineup is a bit too weak. The team put up by Blakus so far has a fantastic top six. They should not be needing the bowlers to scrape around for runs.

That it does. However, I'm a firm believer that you can never have too much batting. My lower order is a weakness - just not too great a one.

 

[Howe_zat]

In fact you could say that balance to the side is the only thing Blakus lacks. Great batting, great bowling, quality captain. Just lacking a proper all-rounder or two to give balance. But that's merely a bonus.

I have the opposite issue. Four all-rounders in the lower-middle (Armstrong, Jessop, Benaud, Allen) gives plenty of options and depth but the specialists' class just isn't there.

 

[Himannv]

Whose turn is it now? Is it still Shri or is Micheal up as well?

 

[Howe_zat]

Still Shri. Michael can skip him and go in 10 minutes, at 18:43 (GMT).

 

[kingkallis]

Shri, Micheal and in 2 hours time next to him will be up as well...

 

[Michaelf7777777]

Billy Murdoch for my next pick please

Charter 77 So Far

Colin McDonald
Herbie Collins
Billy Murdoch
Kevin Pietersen
Alec Stewart
Joe Darling
Alan Davidson
Hugh Trumble
Bill O'Reilly
Jeff Thomson
Mike Hendrik

 

[Himannv]

Just to keep track of which players have been picked.

1.Howe_zat - Spofforth
2.Teja - B. Bates
3.Kingkallis - Grace
4.Nufan - Steel
5.Marcuss - B. Barnes
6.Blakus - Palmer
7.Zinzan12 - Ulyett
8.Shri - A.Bannerman
9.Michaelf7777777 - Murdoch
10.Fredfertang - Read
11.Himannv - Barlow
12.Joao -

 

[Himannv]

Haha just managed to read the whole founding of the Ashes story. Fantastic stuff.

The article which started it all:

In Affectionate Remembrance
of
ENGLISH CRICKET,
which died at the Oval
on
29th AUGUST, 1882,
Deeply lamented by a large circle of sorrowing
friends and acquaintances
----
R.I.P.
----
N.B. — The body will be cremated and the
ashes taken to Australia.

Reginald Brooks (The Sporting Times).

 

[fredfertang]

The man who in 1884 scored an Ashes century from number 10

1. Michael Atherton
2. Victor Trumper
3. Walter Read
4. Stan McCabe
5. Tom Graveney
6. Tony Greig
7. Harry Trott
8. Bert Oldfield
9. Shane Warne
10. Fred Trueman
11. Geoff Lawson

 

[Zinzan]

^ Sorry Fred, nabbed Ulyett already

 

[fredfertang]

^ Sorry Fred, nabbed Ulyett already

So you had - apologies - will edit