The Test-only players ODI Draft

[OverratedSanity]

Heh knew it would happen.

 

[AldoRaine18]

Not really fond of bigging up my own players but thought I'd mention this bit in this discussion..

Rhodes bowled 48 overs for 94 runs, five wickets. It was on this occasion that Trumper, the most brilliant of all batsmen, alive or dead, made his famous remark to Rhodes -- "for God's sake, Wilfred, give me a minute's rest."

 

[AldoRaine18]

Red Hill > Morgieb > watson

 

[watson]

Surprisingly, Red Hill timed out an hour ago.

 

[morgieb]

JJ Ferris

 

[watson]

In 1954 at the SCG Tom Graveney opened the batting with Len Hutton against Lindwall, Miller, Davidson, and Benaud. While everyone else struggled Graveney scored 111 runs off only 157 balls, a Strike Rate of 71. With his Mark Waugh like flick off the pads, and Viv Richards like hook and pulls off the front-foot I think that Graveney would have been an ODI revelation.


01. Eddie Barlow
02. Tom Graveney
03. Ted Dexter *
04. Denis Compton
05. Eddie Paynter
06. Keith Miller
07. John R. Reid
08.
09. Peter Pollock
10. Charlie Griffith
11.

But it was on that day, from the New Road end, that I bowled to Graveney and was primary witness to a single stroke that defined everything that has followed for me since. The delivery, such as it was, contained no particular merit. It was on a length, lively enough in pace from a whippy youngster and not badly directed at around middle-and-off. At least it deserved respect. What followed is as clear as day.

Tom eased himself forward and his bat came down straight. Then, without hitting around his front pad, which had remained inside the line of the ball, he turned his top hand (not the bottom hand shovel that so many use now) and caressed the ball away to the legside. There was no crack of leather on willow, no explosion from the blade. The ball was eased with precision to the left of the fellow at midwicket and to the right of mid-on. Both set off in pursuit as it tracked over the turf towards the pickets in front of the pavilion.

Tom Graveney's stroke of genius was a shot for the ages | Mike Selvey | Sport | The Guardian

And Graveney delivered in style. He fully believed that he had been the best batsman in England between 1962 and 1966, ‘not that what I thought really mattered.’ And now, at this advanced age he came out at No 3 and played a majestic innings of 96. The drives through the off and forcing shots towards the on were as crunchy and effortless as ever. Even when Hall or Griffith sent one rearing for his eyebrow, he plonked his left foot down the pitch hooked them with élan off the front-foot. In later years, only Viv Richards showed the same inclination to play the hook shot without rocking on to the back-foot.

Tom Graveney: The man who played his best cricket after he turned 39 - Latest Cricket News, Articles & Videos at CricketCountry.com

 

[Red]

George Giffen- Gonna use him as a Shane Watson type, bowling a full quota or close to it and dominating from the top of the order. Wonderful early era all rounder.

As a batsman Giffen possessed a wonderfully fine defence. He had a great variety of strokes with great freedom in his use of the bat, and was exceptionally strong in driving. He bowled right-hand, rather below medium-pace, with considerable spin and well-concealed change of flight and pace. He used to send down with much effect a slow ball, very high-tossed, which, seeming to be coming well up to the batsman, pitched short, and resulted in many a caught and bowled.

 

[Red]

Red Hill XI

Arthur Morris
George Giffen (3)
Frank Woolley (5)
Norm O'Neill
~
SF Jackson * (5)
~
Godfrey Evans +
Alan Davidson (2)
Hugh Trumble (4)
Harold Larwood (1)

 

[OverratedSanity]

Nothing to see here

 

[cnerd123]

Yea OS is picking the guys I would have. Good stuff. Great minds etc etc

 

[watson]

Nice pick ORS, but it's actually Pothas' turn (double pick).

 

[OverratedSanity]

Oh **** I was looking at Round 10. Apologies.

 

[AldoRaine18]

Round 1

J_C - Barry Richards
watson - Keith Miller
kingkallis - Mike Procter
AldoRaine18 - Graeme Pollock
Zinzan - Wally Hammond
Morgieb - Bill O'Reilly
mr_mister - Stan McCabe
Red Hill - Harold Larwood
schearzie - Ray Lindwall
Pothas - S.F. Barnes
Agent TBY - Sir Clyde Walcott
OverratedSanity - Victor Trumper

Round 2

OverratedSanity - Gilbert Jessop
Agent TBY - Aubrey Faulkner
Pothas - George Headley
schearzie - Jack Gregory
Red Hill - Alan Davidson
mr_mister - Clarie Grimmett
Morgieb - Frank Worrell
Zinzan - Fred Trueman
AldoRaine18 - Neil Harvey
kingkallis - WG Grace
watson - Ted Dexter
J_C - Charles Macartney

Round 3

mr_mister - Len Hutton
Pothas - Richie Benaud
Zinzan - Everton Weekes
J_C - Wes Hall
Red Hill - Frank Woolley
AldoRaine18 - Jack Hobbs
watson - Denis Compton
Morgieb - Monty Noble
schearzie- Bill Ponsford
OverratedSanity- Les Ames
kingkallis- Dudley Nourse
Agent TBY- Clem Hill

Round 4

Agent TBY- Maurice Tate
kingkallis- Trevor Goddard
OverratedSanity- Jim Laker
schearzie- Denis Lindsay
Morgieb- Brian Statham
watson- Peter Pollock
AldoRaine18- Learie Constantine
Red Hill - Arthur Morris
J_C - Peter May
Zinzan - Hedley Verity
Pothas - KS Ranjitsinhji
mr_mister - Alec Bedser

Round 5

J_C - Hugh Tayfield
schearzie - Fazal Mahmood
Morgieb - Herb Sutcliffe
Red Hill - Norm O'Neill
kingkallis - Archie Jackson
watson - John R. Reid
OverratedSanity - Frank Tyson
AldoRaine18 - Jack Cowie
Pothas - Bill Johnston
Agent TBY - Warwick Armstrong
mr_mister - Lindsay Hassett
Zinzan - George Lohmann

Round 6

Zinzan - Ken Barrington
mr_mister - Douglas Jardine
Agent TBY - Neil Adcock
Pothas - Patsy Hendren
AldoRaine18 - Vijay Hazare
OverratedSanity - Maurice Leyland
watson - Eddie Barlow
kingkallis - Fred Spofforth
Red Hill - Stanley Jackson
Morgieb - Charlie Turner
schearzie - Stewie Dempster
J_C - Martin Donnelly

Round 7

Red Hill - Hugh Trumble
kingkallis - Colin Bland
J_C - Tom Richardson
AldoRaine18 - Ted McDonald
Pothas - Jock Cameron
schearzie - Johnny Tyldesley
watson - Charlie Griffith
OverratedSanity - Vijay Merchant
Zinzan - Sid Barnes
Morgieb - Lee Irvine
mr_mister - Bill Voce
Agent TBY - Herbie Taylor

Round 8

Agent TBY - KS Duleepsinhji
mr_mister - Don Tallon
Morgieb - Jack Ryder
Zinzan - Bert Sutcliffe
OverratedSanity - Colin Milburn
watson - Eddie Paynter
schearzie - Mohammad Nisar
Pothas - Conrad Hunte
AldoRaine18 - Wilfred Rhodes
J_C - Budhi Kunderan
kingkallis - Alan Melville
Red Hill - Godfrey Evans

Round 9

J_C
schearzie - Subhash Gupte
Zinzan - Vinoo Mankad
mr_mister - Bert Ironmonger
kingkallis - Johnny Wardle
Agent TBY - Erapalli Prasanna
AldoRaine18 - Archie Maclaren
OverratedSanity - Bapu Nadkarni
Red Hill - George Giffen
Morgieb - JJ Ferris
watson - Tom Graveney
Pothas - Albert Trott

Round 10

Pothas - Frank Foster
watson - Jim Parks
Morgieb
Red Hill
OverratedSanity
AldoRaine18
Agent TBY
kingkallis
mr_mister
Zinzan
schearzie
J_C

Round 11

Pothas
Agent TBY
J_C
watson
OverratedSanity
Zinzan
Morgieb
Red Hill
kingkallis
mr_mister
schearzie
AldoRaine18

 

[AldoRaine18]

Pothas(x2) > watson > Morgieb

 

[Pothas]

Got to love the double pick at this stage, a couple of all rounders:

Albert Trott
Frank Foster

I admit I only wanted Trott because I knew about him hitting it over the Lords pavilion but his bowling actually sounds very well suited as well.

 

[cnerd123]

Albert Trott another player I would have locked in much earlier. Good pick.

 

[watson]

Going for a wicketkeeper who began his career keeping to Trueman and Lock, and finished it keeping to Snow and Underwood - Jim Parks. Also a cracking batsman with lots of One Day experience in County cricket. So, good luck bowling that lot out in 50 overs is all I'll say at this point;


01. Eddie Barlow
02. Tom Graveney
03. Ted Dexter *
04. Denis Compton
05. Eddie Paynter
06. Keith Miller
07. John R. Reid
08. Jim Parks +
09. Peter Pollock
10. Charlie Griffith
11.

Parks was, of course, a fine keeper but it was his wonderful batting that attracted me. In a fragile post-Dexter batting order the accepted wisdom among the stripy deckchairs and wheeling seagulls at Hove was that as long as Parks was still at the crease hope sprung eternal. It is a motto I still believe in today.

A batsman of stinging drives and jaunty footwork, he seemed to play the game as it should be played, with total commitment yet without a hint of malice or pretension. Although a destructive one-day player, he always seemed to be enjoying himself whatever the occasion. I always imagined he was the sort of bloke who carried a bag of Fox's Glacier Mints in his pocket.

For the next five years Jim Parks was my hero. I collected his autograph so many times that he must have thought I was learning to forge his signature, and his autobiography, the unfortunately titled Runs in the Sun (my mum always said it sounded like something you'd pick up on holiday), was the most cherished of my burgeoning collection of second-hand cricket books, especially when I discovered a letter sent from the author to the previous owner of the tome nestling among its pages.

In 1970 I watched in mute supplication as he stood alone against the might of Lancashire in the Gillette Cup final (my first trip up to the home of cricket and one which provided my first pre-pubescent experience of heartbreak). At Eastbourne the same year I saw him strike a sublime and effortless 150 against Essex, bringing up his hundred by driving the ball straight into my sandwiches on the boundary edge at deep extra cover.

Sunny Jim | Cricket | ESPN Cricinfo

Just leaves the spinner's spot open now, and there's 3 still left that I quite like. Don't mind which one I get going into around 11.

 

[kingkallis]

I like that team Watto

 

[watson]

Got to love the double pick at this stage, a couple of all rounders:

Albert Trott
Frank Foster

I admit I only wanted Trott because I knew about him hitting it over the Lords pavilion but his bowling actually sounds very well suited as well.

Of course - Barnes AND now Foster. Very nice.

 

[watson]

RED HILL picks Bruce Mitchell.