Draft - your selection must have a batting average close to the previous player's selection

[stephen]

Come on @weeman27bob Time for the last wild card of the game. Let's get nice and low.

 

[weeman27bob]

**wildcard** - Vernon Philander (24.04)

 

[Teuton]

@honestbharani

 

[weeman27bob]

**wildcard** - Vernon Philander (24.04)

Sorry edited because I'd picked up his bowling average instead.

 

[weeman27bob]

Alastair Cook (45.35)
Arthur Morris (46.48)
Rahul Dravid (52.31)
Kumar Sangakkara (57.40)
Dennis Compton (50.06)
Les Ames (40.56)
Wilfred Rhodes (30.19 bat / 26.96 bowl)
Jack Gregory (36.96 bat / 31.15 bowl)
Vernon Philander (24.04 bat / 22.32 bowl)
Derek Underwood (11.56 bat / 25.83 bowl)
Courtney Walsh (7.54 bat / 24.44 bowl)

Pretty happy with the batting line-up there. Could probably have done with another seamer somewhere in the lineup rather than two SLA bowlers, but they'll make it work I'm sure.

 

[stephen]

Reminder of player order:

R11
jojoXI *
srbhkshk
trundler *
michaelf7777777 *
red hill *
pothas
andrewb
weeman27bob *
honestbharani
kingkallis
fuller pilch
ataraxia
teuton
stephen

* player has a wild card

 

[stephen]

4 days and 7 pages since I made my last selection.

 

[honestbharani]

Mitch Starc (22.27)

 

[honestbharani]

Player Name​	Style​	Runs​	Batting Average​	Wickets​	Bowling Average​	Catches​	Stumpings​
Mudassar Nazar	RHB, RM	4114​	38​	66​	38​	48​	-
Simon Katich	LHB, SLW	4188​	45​	21​	30​	39​	-
Ken Barrington	RHB, RMF	6806​	59​	29​	45​	58​	-
Greg Chappell (vc)	RHB, RM	7110​	54​	47​	41​	122​	-
Keith Miller	RHB, RF	2958​	37​	170​	23​	38​	-
Aubrey Faulkner	RHB, RLS	1754​	41​	82​	27​	20​	-
MS Dhoni © (wk)	RHB, RM	4876​	38​	-	-	256​	38​
Mitch Starc	LHB, LF	1515​	22​	244​	27​	29​	-
Neil Wagner	LHB, LFM	575​	13​	206​	27​	12​	-
Joel Garner	RHB, RF	672​	12​	259​	21​	42​	-
Muttiah Muralitharan	RHB, ROS	1261​	12​	800​	23​	72​	-

 

[honestbharani]

Quite love the side I got finally. 6 ATGs supported by Mudassar, Katich, Dhoni, Starc and Wagner. Good enough to beat anyone anywhere anytime on any pitch. Every batsman can bowl and even my last 3 average 37 collectively.

 

[kingkallis]

Lala Amarnath (24.38) to somehow fit in my team and guide us as he was an Indian legend back in those days.

CricZo XI

Matthew Hayden /
Sir Geoffrey Boycott /
Neil Harvey /
Sir Garfield Sobers / o
Warwick Armstrong / o
Lala Amarnath / o
Mark Boucher + /
Richie Benaud / o (c)
Harold Larwood o /
Pat Cummins o /
Sydney Barnes o

 

[AndrewB]

My final XI:

Jack Hobbs
Victor Trumper
Trevor Goddard
Frank Worrell*
Martin Crowe
Doug Walters
Tony Greig
Denis Lindsay+
Alan Davidson
Johnny Wardle
Glenn McGrath

Bats ridiculously deep (for reasons beyond my control...), but there's certainly variety in the bowling (McGrath RFM, Davidson LFM, Wardle SL both styles, Greig RM/OB, Goddard LM, Worrell SLA/LM, Walters RM).

 

[ataraxia]

@Fuller Pilch up

 

[Fuller Pilch]

My final player was an ATG English county player with more than 100 FC centuries. To say he underachieved at test level is a massive understatement.

Mark Ramprakash 27.32


Final team

Virender Sehwag
Bert Sutcliffe
Everton Weekes
Sachin Tendulkar
Mark Ramprakash
Shakib Al Hasan
Imran Khan (*)
Wasim Akram
Godfrey Evans (+)
Jason Gillespie
Anil Kumble

Everyone in the side scored at least one test 100.

 

[ataraxia]

Dave Nourse (29.78)

@Teuton

 

[stephen]

*sigh* back up to 30 again already.

 

[Teuton]

John Waite 30.44

 

[stephen]

John Waite 30.44

Wrong, you were supposed to go down so I could pick up Maurice Tate.

 

[Pothas]

Kind of great how much of this draft has been spent in the 20s and 30s. Feels like we were on briefly amongst the bowlers.

 

[stephen]

Trevor Bailey (29.74)