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The Best of Each Decade Birthday DRAFT

Howe_zat

Howe_zat

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Yeah being near the end of the order actually helps (except maybe in round 1) as you get to plan your team better by picking two close together.

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I considered Barrington over Kanhai but thought a possible Kallis-Barrington partnership may put off the purists.

Picking in 5 ftr, or as soon as I've run out of twaddle to say
 
Howe_zat

Howe_zat

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Derek Leslie Underwood b 8 June 1945

1.
2.
3. Kanhai
4. Kallis
5. Compton
6.
7. Walcott
8. Tate
9. Marshall
10. Underwood
11.
 
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watson

watson

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Must admit that Hayden (born 1971) is not one of my favourite players, but I can't argue with the fact that he is one of the most successful openers of the last 20 years - so there he is at No.01;

01. Matthew Hayden
02.
03. Neil Harvey
04. Greg Chappell
05.
06.
07. Ian Healy
08. Richard Hadlee
09. Dale Steyn
10.
11. Neil Adcock
 
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watson

watson

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Neil Adcock is one of my favourite players, but I've never been been quite sure of his bowling action due to lack of good footage. This description from a piece in the Daily Telegraph is about as good as I can find;

The handsome, fair-haired Adcock, however, could be just as terrifying. Both bowlers were tall — Adcock, at 6ft 3in, was an inch shorter than (Name removed) — and capable of making the ball rise steeply from a length. Their bouncers, of course, were aimed at the batsman’s head. If Adcock was marginally less inclined to invective, and indeed capable of being perfectly agreeable off the pitch, in the Test arena there was little to chose between the two bowlers in aggression.

Adcock’s action was certainly the more original. “He bowls without interruption in the course of his run,” Wisden observed, “swinging his arm on a trunk that is virtually upright — like a sudden gust turning a light windmill.”

At every stage his toes remained pointing towards the batsman, while at the moment of delivery a plumb-line from hand to ground would have brushed down the bowler’s right flank. (Name removed) thought him “as near to being an arm bowler as anyone I have ever seen”, and wondered how such an action could deliver such ferocious pace.

Fred Trueman, for his part, marvelled at how Adcock managed to bowl outswingers with an inswinger’s open-chested action; the miracle was, however, most certainly achieved. Moreover, Adcock improved with age, becoming even faster as he concentrated on rhythm rather than muscular effort.
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So, sort of like a South African 1950s version of Malcolm Marshall, but obviously, not quite of the same class.
 
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chasingthedon

chasingthedon

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Our own fredfertang, writing under the sobriquet Martin Chandler, had this to say in his piece "The Dutchman and the Avalanche":-

But if Heine was the bogeyman Adcock lost little or nothing in comparison. South African journalist Charles Fortune said of him "Adcock in action is the very picture of what a fast bowler should be. His entire action is beautiful to behold and his pace a shade hotter than that of his contemporaries." From the perspective of an England batsman xxxxxxxx wrote; "Somebody remarked once that arm bowlers could not be really fast. Well, he (Adcock) was as near to being an arm bowler as anyone I have ever seen, and he was decidedly quick." Adcock's teammate and sometime captain xxxxxxx xxxxxx had this to say in his autobiography; "Adcock I must rate, technically, as the finest new-ball bowler produced in South Africa during my career. He had the priceless asset of extracting pace and disconcerting lift from the most lifeless of pitches."
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chasingthedon

chasingthedon

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Howe_zat said:
Yeah being near the end of the order actually helps (except maybe in round 1) as you get to plan your team better by picking two close together.

~

I considered Barrington over Kanhai but thought a possible Kallis-Barrington partnership may put off the purists.

Picking in 5 ftr, or as soon as I've run out of twaddle to say
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Didn't realise you're a Yorkshireman, Jake - surprised you didn't go for a top order of Dravid, Kallis, Barrington with Simpson opening - #digin
 
watson

watson

Banned
ROUND 7
85. Howe_Zat - Derek Underwood
86. watson - Matthew Hayden
87. Blakus - Bob Simpson
88. Fredfertang - Ted McDonald
89. Morgieb - Fazal Mahmood
90. Monk
91. ohnoitsyou
92. Camo999
93. Pothas
94. Ankitj
95. AldoRaine18
96. Chasingthedon
97. Saint Kopite
98. Kyear2
 
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fredfertang

fredfertang

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Been doing a bit of research on these 1890s and I can see that decade is going to cause some headaches later on so I think I'll complete my pace attack whilst I can, with a great Lancastrian

1. Vic Trumper
2.
3. Brian Lara
4. Ted Dexter
5.
6.
7. Alan Knott
8. Harold Larwood
9. Joel Garner
10.
11. Ted McDonald
 
ankitj

ankitj

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Glad to have picked out Clarrie Grimmet from 1890s. I wasn't thinking of it as a tough decade at the time though. Watson's opening post should've been a hint in that he "only" managed Sutcliffe in the best case XI from that decade.
 
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watson

watson

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Just to reiterate again (tautology?) - there are 12 'decades', and your 12th man doesn't necessarily have to be the standard of Don Bradman.
 
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