Draft: Selection: Impossible

[Aislabie]

@Yash. is now late. @ddrap14 can pick

 

[ddrap14]

Good news for Yash - I saw this as I'm packing up for uni. I'll pick when home tonight, so he has about six more hours

 

[ddrap14]

David Hussey

D-Huss perhaps didn't capitalise on his opportunities at limited overs international level, but there's no doubting two things - he is a handy part time bowler, and more importantly, his first class record basically matches his brother's in averages (if not longevity). Mike Hussey probably doesn't make an all-time Test XI but he did average 52 in the format. I would quite like that in my team.

Hussey will come in at six. While his bowling option is useful, it's probably the least so of the seven I'll end up with if everything goes to plan.

1. Michael di Venuto
4. Clive Rice
5. Ryan ten Doeschate
6. David Hussey
9. Adam Milne

@Welwyn (@Yash. to catch up too)

 

[Yash.]

Ben Stokes comes into my team, to carry the team home in close finishes.

 

[Welwyn]

Vincent Van Der Bijl

 

[pillowprocter]

@Viper. for the next pick

 

[Viper.]

Another addition to the bowling attack will be the greatest of Sri Lanka's all time pace battery-



Warnakulasuriya Patabendige Ushantha Joseph Chaminda Vaas is the second Lankan and the second one with more than 3 names in my team, rounding up my bowling attack and assisting Wasim Akram in that pace lineup. He was a more than able batsman too, averaging 24 with the bat and 29 with the ball in tests.

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1.
2.
3.
4.
5. Allan Border
6.
7. Quinton de Kock
8. Wasim Akram
9. Chaminda Vaas
10. Rangana Herath
11.

 

[ahmedleo414]

@icyman is next I believe

 

[Bigby Wolf]

Take your time folks.

I guess my next turn will come after Ramadan only now lol.

 

[icyman]

Godrey Evans


Needed a keeper in the line up. Arguably one of the best the game has known.

Icy's line-up:
1. Hobbs
2. Collins
3. Headley
4.
5.
6.
7. Evans
8.
9. Larwood
10.
11.

@Aislabie

 

[Aislabie]

MATTHEW HAYDEN

I can honestly say I am shocked to find that Matthew Hayden is still available. Very few Test opening batters have been as good at defining matches as Hayden was: he scored 30 centuries in his 103 Test matches, and converted more than half of his 50+ scores into centuries - and one of them into a then-World Record 380. But as good as Hayden's overall numbers were, they belie just how absurdly excellent he was during an eight-year purple patch that began with his recall to the Australian team in March 2000. In that period, he averaged 56.20 with the bat across 87 Test matches, scoring a century once every three matches. In that time, he averaged over 40 and scored centuries against every opponent but one: Bangladesh was his kryptonite, specifically something about Mashrafe Mortaza's bowling that Hayden found tricky early in his innings. However, it wouldn't be farfetched to say that that was his only batting weakness.

1.
2. Matthew Hayden
3. Brian Lara
4.
5.
6.
7. Bob Taylor
8.
9. Courtney Walsh
10. Glenn McGrath
11.



@pillowprocter

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

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MATTHEW HAYDEN

I can honestly say I am shocked to find that Matthew Hayden is still available. Very few Test opening batters have been as good at defining matches as Hayden was: he scored 30 centuries in his 103 Test matches, and converted more than half of his 50+ scores into centuries - and one of them into a then-World Record 380. But as good as Hayden's overall numbers were, they belie just how absurdly excellent he was during an eight-year purple patch that began with his recall to the Australian team in March 2000. In that period, he averaged 56.20 with the bat across 87 Test matches, scoring a century once every three matches. In that time, he averaged over 40 and scored centuries against every opponent but one: Bangladesh was his kryptonite, specifically something about Mashrafe Mortaza's bowling that Hayden found tricky early in his innings. However, it wouldn't be farfetched to say that that was his only batting weakness.

1.
2. Matthew Hayden
3. Brian Lara
4.
5.
6.
7. Bob Taylor
8.
9. Courtney Walsh
10. Glenn McGrath
11.

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Would have been my next pick

 

[ddrap14]

I can honestly say I am shocked to find that Matthew Hayden is still available. Very few Test opening batters have been as good at defining matches as Hayden was: he scored 30 centuries in his 103 Test matches, and converted more than half of his 50+ scores into centuries - and one of them into a then-World Record 380. But as good as Hayden's overall numbers were, they belie just how absurdly excellent he was during an eight-year purple patch that began with his recall to the Australian team in March 2000. In that period, he averaged 56.20 with the bat across 87 Test matches, scoring a century once every three matches. In that time, he averaged over 40 and scored centuries against every opponent but one: Bangladesh was his kryptonite, specifically something about Mashrafe Mortaza's bowling that Hayden found tricky early in his innings. However, it wouldn't be farfetched to say that that was his only batting weakness.

There's also evidence to suggest he underperformed...

 

[pillowprocter]

The woman with the 5th most dismissals in WTests, 8th highest innings by a captain and the joint most consecutive ducks in Women's tests, Alyssa Healy is my next pick. I intend to play her as a batter unless I don't get my planned keeper.



1. Chetan Chauhan
5. Alyssa Healy
7. Malcolm Marshall
8. Shane Warne
9. Mitchell Starc

Note these batting positions will almost 100% be changed some picks in, I haven't planned any further picks yet.

@CerealKiller for a double pick now

 

[CerealKiller]

The great South African leg-spin bowling all-rounder Aubrey Faulkner adds some spin stocks to my XI, while Kapil Dev continues to add both pace bowling and batting depth

CerealKiller's XI
1.
2.
Don Bradman
4.
Clyde Walcott
Aubrey Faulkner
Imran Khan
Shaun Pollock
Kapil Dev
10.
11.

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