The "Should Have Played More Tests" Draft

[mr_mister]

Touring Pak in 94/95 he averaged 60 in a 3 Test series against Akram, Waqar and Mushtaq Ahmed.
In 96/97, at home to a WI with Ambrose, Walsh, and Bishop, he averaged 55 in a four test series.

With the exception of averaging 29.5 in one test against India in 96/97, in all other series (4 of them) he crashed and burned entirely.

Given his FC stats, there's more than enough to suggest that he had the potential to turn his career around and do well for Australia if he had got more chances. He seemed to have spikes in form rather than general incompetence at Test level.

Yeah. 4 **** series and 2 good ones could have easily been 3 and 3 and he might have averaged closer to 40.

A random series or two in the early 2000s could have easily resulted in him killing it and then going on to a decent test career

 

[Dan]

Because of the disrespect MichaelF7777777777777777777777777777777777777 showed him in the other thread, I'll take John Sparling.

1. Jatinder Singh
2.
3.
4.
5. Scott Kremerskothen *
6. Nick Bertus +
7. Greg Lamb
8. John Sparling
9.
10.
11.

 

[trundler]

Arthur Shrewsbury

 

[Red]

Brad Hodge

 

[Teuton]

Lee Irvine

 

[a massive zebra]

Colin Bland

1.
2.
3.
4. Phil Mead
5. Colin Bland
6.
7.
8. Bart King
9. Harold Larwood
10.
11. Mohammad Asif

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Can I go ahead with my R5 now?

 

[Teuton]

Yes.

R4 is done.
R5: fuller > Shane
Catch up: SCC

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Vinod Kambli

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.
3. Jack Ryder
4. Vinod Kambli
5. Stanley Jackson
6.
7.
8.
9.
10. John James Ferris
11. Arthur Mailey

 

[Teuton]

And for when R5 is finished, to again be run concurrently:

Round 6
morgieb
quincywagstaff
SillyCowCorner1
Dan
Magrat Garlick
Michaelf7777777
mr_mister
GoodAreasShane
Teuton
MrPrez
kingkallis
Red Hill
Fuller Pilch
trundler
a massive zebra

Round 7
a massive zebra
trundler
Fuller Pilch
Red Hill
kingkallis
MrPrez
Teuton
GoodAreasShane
mr_mister
Michaelf7777777
Magrat Garlick
Dan
SillyCowCorner1
quincywagstaff
morgieb

 

[GoodAreasShane]

Murray Goodwin

 

[Teuton]

Murray Goodwin

Just wait, Fuller Pilch is up first.

R6 & 7 will commence once he has picked/timed out which is still 5 hrs away

 

[GoodAreasShane]

Sorry thought he had timed out already.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Sorry thought he had timed out already. Frankly everyone seems pretty disorganised with this

We are waiting for Fuller + you to finish R5.

 

[Teuton]

Well we likely wont need to wait for Shane as his pick of Goodwin will count unless Fuller wants him.

 

[Teuton]

Fuller timed out. Shane picks Goodwin.

R6: morg > quincy > scc

R7: amz > trundler > fuller

catch up: fuller

 

[morgieb]

Chris Rogers

 

[a massive zebra]

Dave Houghton

1.
2.
3.
4. Phil Mead
5. Colin Bland
6. Dave Houghton (wk)
7.
8. Bart King
9. Harold Larwood
10.
11. Mohammad Asif

 

[trundler]

Bill Bowes

 

[quincywagstaff]

Charles Davis.