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The Name Game.
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masterblaster
International Captain
Farookh Engineer (Former Indian Wicketkeeper in the 1960's)
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Stephen Flemming
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Franklyn Rose
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Steve Magoffin (W.A. former Qld player)
I am assuming the next letter to start would be 'E' (for Eight)marc71178 said:marc71178 (CW Red and CW XI)
Sir Everton Weekes - Wisden Cricketer of the year 1951
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TESTS
(career)
M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct St
Batting & Fielding 48 81 5 4455 207 58.61 15 19 49 0
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Wisden overview
Short and thickset with engaging charm, the second of the Three Ws -- Walcott, Weekes and Worrell -- Everton Weekes was immensely quick on his feet and possessed a whole armoury of attacking strokes on both sides of the wicket. For long periods he attacked all bowlers in the same relentless manner of Don Bradman, and he was a brilliant versatile field too. His maiden Test century -- 141 in his fourth match, against England in 1947-48 -- began a phenomenal sequence of scoring, which included five consecutive hundreds, the highest 194 at Bombay. A sixth was missed by a whisker when he was run out for 90 at Madras. The Three Ws proved a tremendous draw on the 1950 England tour, and again he headed the batting with 2310 runs at 79.65, including a career-high 304 not out against Cambridge at Fenner’s. Though he fell below his own high standards in Australia in 1951-52 and against England in 1957, he continued to score heavily. Against England in 1953-54 he added 338 for the third wicket with Frank Worrell at Port-of-Spain, and in New Zealand in 1955-56 he was completely dominant, hitting 940 runs in only eight first-class games. He also played in English League cricket, toured with various Commonwealth sides, coached in Barbados and was awarded the MBE and the CBE. He made sage comments on the radio during home Tests in Barbados, and also served as an ICC match referee. He was the last of the Ws to be knighted, in 1995.
Christopher Martin-Jenkins
masterblaster
International Captain
Waqar Younis (Pak)
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Yasir Arafat
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International Captain
Asif Iqbal (Pak)
Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi (Nawab of Pataudi Snr) India
Wisden Cricketer of the Year 1932
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The senior Nawab of Pataudi, Iftikhar Ali Khan, is the only Test cricketer to have played for both England and India. Educated at Aitchison's College, Lahore and Balliol College, Oxford, he made the England squad for the 1932-33 Bodyline series. Pataudi followed in the footsteps of Ranji and Duleep by scoring a hundred at the SCG on his Ashes debut (which was also his Test debut). However, he was dropped after the next Test, apparently because he disagreed with the tactics of Douglas Jardine, and returned home before the end of the tour. Punishing form for Worcestershire in the 1933 and 1934 English seasons earned him a recall for one Test against the visiting Australians in 1934, the last time he turned out for his adopted country.
Pataudi was appointed Indian captain several months ahead of the tour of England in 1936. The idea was that he could watch the players in the winter series against the visiting Australians led by Jack Ryder and pick the side he wanted but the advance planning came to nothing when Pataudi withdrew in February claiming he was not fully fit. It was ten years later that he finally led an Indian team to England, although it was not a very well conceived move. Pataudi, then 36, was considerably past his prime and had played little first-class cricket in the preceding years. He made close to a thousand runs on the tour and showed rare glimpses from the past, with centuries against Nottinghamshire and Sussex. But he averaged just 11 in the Tests, which India lost 1-0, and ill health forced him to retire soon after. Five years later, he died while playing a game of polo, on his son - Mansur Ali Khan's - birthday. Sankhya Krishnan
Wisden Cricketer of the Year 1932
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The senior Nawab of Pataudi, Iftikhar Ali Khan, is the only Test cricketer to have played for both England and India. Educated at Aitchison's College, Lahore and Balliol College, Oxford, he made the England squad for the 1932-33 Bodyline series. Pataudi followed in the footsteps of Ranji and Duleep by scoring a hundred at the SCG on his Ashes debut (which was also his Test debut). However, he was dropped after the next Test, apparently because he disagreed with the tactics of Douglas Jardine, and returned home before the end of the tour. Punishing form for Worcestershire in the 1933 and 1934 English seasons earned him a recall for one Test against the visiting Australians in 1934, the last time he turned out for his adopted country.
Pataudi was appointed Indian captain several months ahead of the tour of England in 1936. The idea was that he could watch the players in the winter series against the visiting Australians led by Jack Ryder and pick the side he wanted but the advance planning came to nothing when Pataudi withdrew in February claiming he was not fully fit. It was ten years later that he finally led an Indian team to England, although it was not a very well conceived move. Pataudi, then 36, was considerably past his prime and had played little first-class cricket in the preceding years. He made close to a thousand runs on the tour and showed rare glimpses from the past, with centuries against Nottinghamshire and Sussex. But he averaged just 11 in the Tests, which India lost 1-0, and ill health forced him to retire soon after. Five years later, he died while playing a game of polo, on his son - Mansur Ali Khan's - birthday. Sankhya Krishnan
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how so?