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Dan

Hall of Fame Member
watson said:
Allen's overall SR was 54.1 and 64.7 against Australia. A lot lower than I had assumed.

Appears to be an under-rated player, especially as he bowled against some pretty powerful Aussie batsman - Bradman, McCabe etc,
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I think some of it stems from who he was as a man - everything I've read is pretty polarising; he single handedly ended the career of Joe Hardstaff Jr., yet ended up with special priveliges at Lord's and refused to bowl Bodyline. Little bit contradictory there.

NUFAN said:
Yeah, that's the only plus. I guess the person who picked it, didn't realize how hard/easy the other choices would be.

Is the best female cricketer of all time anywhere close to the worst male cricketer of all time to play Tests? Hmm..
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Well, Elysse Perry is far from the best female cricketer of all time, and she did pretty well when she played First Grade. Given we've had a handful of grade guys jump very quickly from Firsts to the Test XI, and considering the quality of some of Bangladesh's Test players, I don't see why some of the best Women's players of history couldn't be seen as better than some of the worst men.

tl;dr - Belinda Clark > Darren Maddy & Elysse Perry > Rajan Das
 
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Michaelf7777777

International Debutant
Cevno's 12 hours are up so I'll take Fazal Mahmood (Dismissed as part of a test cricket hattrick) for my next selection please

Charter 77 So Far

WG Grace
Sunil Gavaskar
Bill Edrich
Garfield Sobers (*)
Ian Botham
Fazal Mahmood
 
watson

watson

Banned
Let's just go.

I'm going away on holiday Tuesday morning (heading way out West) and not sure of my internet access for about 3 days.
 
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Cevno

Cevno

Hall of Fame Member
Team so far -

Mathew Hayden
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Ricky Ponting
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Aubrey Faulkner
Richard Hadlee
Alec Bedser
Dale Steyn
Frank Tyson

Happy with the batting depth there and my attack. Leg Spinner, Medium pacer, Outswing bowler, Inswing bowler and someone with Raw pace.
 
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Red

Red

The normal awards that everyone else has
R1

Michaelf7777777 - Garry Sobers (shares a name with a USA President)
watson - Wally Hammond (bowled Bradman)
kyear2 - Malcolm Marshall (Aus, Eng & WI)
Jager - Imran Khan (Aus Eng & WI)
Cevno - Richard Hadlee (batting avg between 25-40)
Himannv - Viv Richards (boxing day 100)
Eds - Keith Miller (Aus, Eng and WI)
Blakus - Joel Garner (shares a name with a USA president)
AndyZaltzHair - Glenn McGrath (Aus, Eng and WI)
Marcuss - Adam Gilchrist (shares a name with a USA president)
Monk - Fred Trueman (shares a name with a USA president)
kingkallis - Jack Hobbs (debut before WW2)

R2

kingkallis- Curtly Ambrose (Aus, Eng and WI)
Monk- Waqar Younis (FC for a team beginning with G)
Marcuss- Shane Warne (part of a hat trick)
AndyZaltzHair - Mike Procter (FC cricket for a team beginning with G)
Blakus- Hedley Verity (bowled Bradman)
Eds- Jaques Kallis (boxing day 100)
Himmanv- Harold Larwood (bowled Bradman)
Cevno- Alec Bedser (bowled Bradman)
Jager- Sachin Tendulkar (boxing day 100)
kyear2- Brian Lara (dismissed as part of a hat trick)
watson- Dennis Lillee (Aus, Eng and WI)
MichaelF7777- WG Grace (FC cricket for team beginning with G)

R3

Blakus- Ray Lindwall (Aus, Eng and WI)
Jager- Maurice Tate (bowled Bradman)
Monk- Vijay Hazare (bowled Bradman)
Marcuss- Graham Pollock (FC cricket for a team beginning with G)
Himmanv- Muttiah Muralitharan (part of a hat trick)
kingkallis- Barry Richards (FC cricket for a team beginning with G)
kyear2- Bill O'Reilly (debut before WW2)
MichaelF7777- Bill Edrich (bowled Bradman)
Eds- SF Barnes (part of a hat trick)
AndyZaltzHair- George Headley (debut before WW2)
Cevno- Ricky Ponting (part of a hat trick)
watson- Len Hutton (debut before WW2)

R4

watson- Andy Roberts (debut post WW2)
Cevno- Aubrey Faulkner (debut before WW2)
AndyZaltzHair- Javed Miandad (part of a hat trick)
Eds- Clyde Walcott (FC for a team starting with G)
MichaelF7777- Ian Botham (average between 25-40)
kyear2- Greg Chappell (debut post WW2)
kingkallis- Alan Davidson (debut post WW2)
Himmanv- Allan Border (FC cricket for a team starting with G)
Marcuss- Wasim Akram (Aus, WI and Eng)
Monk- Gordon Greenidge (part of a hat trick)
Jager- Allan Donald (debut post WW2)
Blakus- Rahul Dravid (Warne & Murali)

R5

Himmanv- Shaun Pollock (avg between 25-40)
MichaelF7777- Sunil Gavaskar (Aus, Eng & WI)
Cevno- Dale Steyn (Aus, Eng & WI)
Jager- Victor Trumper (avg between 25-40)
kingkallis- Hugh Tayfield (part of a hat trick)
Monk- Frank Worrell (Aus, Eng & WI)
kyear2- Arthur Morris (shares a name with a USA president)
AndyZaltzHair- Steve Waugh (boxing day century scorer)
Eds- Kapil Dev (batting avg between 25-40)
Marcuss- Herb Sutcliffe (pre WW2)
watson- (Arthur) Dudley Nourse (shares a name with a USA president)
Blakus- Neil Adcock (part of a hat trick)

R6

Blakus- Dennis Compton (pre WW2)
watson- Courtney Walsh (FC cricket for a team beginning with G)
Marcuss- Colin Cowdrey (not selected in previous drafts)
Eds- Michael Holding (post WW2)
AndyZaltzHair- Gubby Allen (bowled Bradman)
kyear2- Colin Croft (FC cricket for a team beginning with G)
Monk- AB De Villiers (Warne and Murali)
kingkallis- Alec Stweart (dismissed by Warne and Murali)
Jager- Martin Crowe (dismissed by Warne and Murali)
Cevno- Frank Tyson (debut post WW2)
MichaelF7777- Fazal Mahmood (dismissed as part of a hat trick)
Himmanv- Lindsay Hasset (shares a name with USA president)

R7

Cevno- Matthew Hayden (boxing day 100)
Blakus- Alan Knott (average between 25-40)
kyear2- Bill Lawry (boxing day 100)
Michaelf7777777- Clarrie Grimmett (pre WW2)
watson- John Waite- (average between 25-40)
Eds- Archie Jackson (USA president)
Himannv
Marcuss
kingkallis
AndyZaltzHair
Jager
Monk

R8

Monk
Jager
AndyZaltzHair
kingkallis
marcuss
Himmanv
Eds
watson
MichaelF7777
kyear2
Blakus
Cevno


Clauses Used

1. Boxing day century scorer (MCG)
-Eds
-Himmanv
-Jager
-AZH
-Cevno
-kyear2


2. Played FC cricket with a team starting with G (test player)
-Monk
-AndyZaltzHair
-MichaelF77777
-Marcuss
-KK
-Eds
-Himmanv
-kyear2
-watson

3. Select a player who has not been selected in both previous drafts
-Marcuss


4. Someone who clean bowled Bradman in tests
-watson
-Blakus
-Himmanv
-Cevno
-Jager
-Monk
-MichaelF777777
-AZH


5. Test debut before WWII
-KK
-kyear2
-watson
-AndyZaltzHair
-Cevno
-Marcuss
-Blakus
-MichaelF7777


6. Played test cricket in WI, England and Australia (other countries permitted too)
-Kyear2
-Jager
-AndyZaltzHair
-Eds
-KK
-watson
-Blakus
-Marcuss
-Cevno
-MichaelF7777
-Monk

7. Select a player with a test batting average of between 25 and 40
-Cevno
-MichaelF7777
-Jager
-Himmanv
-Eds
-Blakus
-watson


8. Select a player to debut post-WWII
-watson
-kyear2
-KK
-Jager
-Eds
-Cevno



9.Shares a surname with a US president/vice president
-Michaelf7777
-Monk
-Marcuss
-Blakus
-kyear2
-watson
-Himmanv
-Eds

10. Select a female test cricketer


11. Select a player dismissed as part of a test cricket hat-trick
-AZH
-Marcuss
-kyear2
-Himmanv
-Eds
-Cevno
-Monk
-Blakus
MichaelF77777


12. Select a batsman who played his highest amount of innings in a spot from 1-6 who was dismissed by Warne/Muralitharan
-Blakus
-Monk
-kingkallis
-Jager
.

 
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Blakus

Blakus

State Vice-Captain
Alan Knott - average between 25 and 40

1.
2.
3.Rahul Dravid
4.Denis Compton
5.
6.
7.Alan Knott
8.Ray Lindwall
9.Hedley Verity
10.Joel Garner
11.Neil Adcock
 
kyear2

kyear2

International Coach
KYEAR XI

Arthur Morris
Bill Lawry
Brian Lara
Greg Chappell



Malcolm Marshall

Bill O'Reilly
Colin Croft
 
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Michaelf7777777

International Debutant
I'll take Clarrie Grimmett (Test debut pre WWII) for my next pick please

Charter 77 So Far

Charter 77 So Far

WG Grace
Sunil Gavaskar
Bill Edrich
Garfield Sobers (*)
Ian Botham
Clarrie Grimmett
Fazal Mahmood
 
watson

watson

Banned
I think that Blakus is on the right track with his last pick, therefore....

Ave. 25-40 = JHB Waite = 30.44


Watson's XI
01. Len Hutton
02.
03. Walter Hammond
04. Dudley Nourse
05.
06.
07. John Waite
08. Andy Roberts
09. Dennis Lillee
10. Courtney Walsh
11
 
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