Draft: The Layer Cake Draft

[ahmedleo414]

I'm adding Ravi Shastri to my team

@El Loco

 

[Aislabie]

1. Hanif Mohammad

That is an absolutely fantastic pick

Aubrey Faulkner, one of cricket's most tragic tales and South Africa's first legendary all-rounder in their rich tradition will be my next pick.

Well that decides my next pick for me. I was torn between Faulkner and one other player

 

[Na Maloom Afraad]

@Na Maloom Afraad are you trying to build an ODI XI?

Only now has it been brought to my attention that the objective of this draft was to build a Test side.

 

[Aislabie]

MB and NMA's XI

1. -
2. Fred Grace (L)
3. Steve Smith (L)
4. Sachin Tendulkar (L)
5. Shakib Al Hasan
6. -
7. Adam Gilchrist (P)
8. Lance Klusener
9. -
10. Allan Donald
11. Simon Kerrigan (L)

And just like that, you've made a Test side

 

[Na Maloom Afraad]

And just like that, you've made a Test side

 

[El Loco]

My opener, and wicket-keeper, will be the legendary Hanif Mohammad, famous for playing the longest innings in Test history, at 970 minutes, making 337 after following on.

Would've gone for him if I hadn't already been blessed with Meuleman

Next pick: Greg Chappell.

1. Alastair Cook
2. Ken Meuleman
3.
4. Greg Chappell
5. Dudley Nourse
6.
7. Andrew Flintoff
8. Kapil Dev
9. Malcolm Marshall
10. Sydney Barnes
11. Monty Panesar

 

[Na Maloom Afraad]

Am I allowed players from only the Test playing nations? Or can I choose anyone I like.

 

[blockerdave]

Would've gone for him if I hadn't already been blessed with Meuleman

Next pick: Greg Chappell.

1. Alastair Cook
2. Ken Meuleman
3.
4. Greg Chappell
5. Dudley Nourse
6.
7. Andrew Flintoff
8. Kapil Dev
9. Malcolm Marshall
10. Sydney Barnes
11. Monty Panesar

great pick too was on my list

 

[Aislabie]

Am I allowed players from only the Test playing nations? Or can I choose anyone I like.

Anyone at all ever.

Sounds as if you're considering my planned penultimate pick

 

[Na Maloom Afraad]

Sounds as if you're considering my planned penultimate pick

If it's a certain gentleman, then yeah.

 

[Na Maloom Afraad]

MB and NMA's XI

1. -
2. Fred Grace (L)
3. Steve Smith (L)
4. Sachin Tendulkar (L)
5. Shakib Al Hasan
6. -
7. Adam Gilchrist (P)
8. Lance Klusener
9. Bart King
10. Allan Donald
11. Simon Kerrigan (L)

My next pick is Bart King. Undoubtedly the best cricketer to ever come from the USA. I do have some reservations about putting him so down at 9, but I'll hold on until my last two picks before I make final adjustments to the lineup that Aislabie was so kind to sort out, making it suitable for Test cricket.

Your next @Aislabie

 

[Aislabie]

9. Bart King

Yep, I was planning to pick him next round, but never mind

 

[Aislabie]

My pick is Charlie Macartney

Test stats - 2,131 runs @ 41.78 (7 centuries, best 170) and 45 wickets @ 27.55 (2 5WI, best 7/58) in 35 matches
First-class stats - 15,019 runs @ 45.78 (49 centuries, best 345) and 419 wickets @ 20.95 (17 5WI, best 7/58) in 249 matches

Charlie Macartney was that rarest thing, an all-rounder good enough to make a Test side both as a specialist batsman and as a specialist bowler. We know this because Macartney did both: his first ten Tests were played as a front-line left-arm spinner with great success: 26 wickets at 20.15 apiece, with a seven-for, was an excellent return given that this was an Australian side that sported four fast and fast-medium bowlers. From then on though, he took up arms as a batsman, averaging over 51 and scoring seven centuries in his last 25 Tests. Macartney is the game's forgotten all-rounder and I'm not quite sure why.

1. Gordon Greenidge
2. Geoffrey Boycott
3. Younis Khan
4. Douglas Jardine
5. Everton Weekes
6. Charlie Macartney
7. Imran Khan
8. Scott Kremerskothen
9. George Lohmann
10.
11.

@Dutch if he's feeling it, but @blockerdave can go ahead

 

[blockerdave]

I’ll take Herb Sutcliffe. 4,555 runs at 60.7 marks him as one of the best opening batsmen of all time, and alongside Barry Richards he marks a formidable opening pair.

1) Barry Richards
2) Herb Sutcliffe
3)
4) Clive Rice
5) Ross Taylor
6) Keith Miller
7)
8) Franklyn Stephenson
9) Graeme Swann
10) Andy Roberts
11) Muttiah Muralitharan

@DalePlaysCricket

 

[Aislabie]

Barry Richards
Herbert Sutcliffe
-
Clive Rice
Ross Taylor
Keith Miller
-
Franklyn Stephenson
Graeme Swann
Andy Roberts
Muttiah Muralitharan

Oh good lord that's terrifying. Especially as I'm 95% sure who your keeper is going to be