Draft: The A Team

:eng: Micheal Atherton :bat:

With an agreesive batter like Mayank Agarwal on one end, I needed an orthodox test cricket type of player who can keep knocking the ball down from the other end. Mike Atherton can be the perfect partner for it.

FormatMatInnsNORunsHSAveBFSR100s50s4s6sCtSt
Test11521277728185*37.692060937.4916469044830
FC3365844721929268*40.83--54107--2680

  1. :ind: :bat: Mayank Agarwal
  2. :eng: :bat: Mike Atherton
  3. :ind: :ar: Mohinder Amarnath
  4. ?
  5. ?
  6. :aus: :ar: Warwick Armstrong
  7. :pak: :wkb: Sarfaraz Ahmed
  8. :pak: :ar: Intikhab Alam
  9. ?
  10. ?
  11. :wi: :bwl: Curtly Ambrose
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:eng: Micheal Atherton :bat:

With an agreesive batter like Mayank Agarwal on one end, I needed an orthodox test cricket type of player who can keep knocking the ball down from the other end. Mike Atherton can be the perfect partner for it.

FormatMatInnsNORunsHSAveBFSR100s50s4s6sCtSt
Test11521277728185*37.692060937.4916469044830
FC3365844721929268*40.83--54107--2680

  1. :ind: :bat: Mayank Agarwal
  2. :eng: :bat: Mike Atherton
  3. :ind: :ar: Mohinder Amarnath
  4. ?
  5. ?
  6. :aus: :ar: Warwick Armstrong
  7. :pak: :wkb: Sarfaraz Ahmed
  8. :pak: :ar: Intikhab Alam
  9. ?
  10. ?
  11. :wi: :bwl: Curtly Ambrose
@ddrap14
Already taken by @ahmedleo414
 
1. :eng: :bat: Dennis Amiss
3. :saf: :bat: Hashim Amla
4. :saf: :bat: Hylton Ackerman
5. :wi: :bat: Keith Arthurton
6. :aus: :ar: Ron Archer
7. :eng: :wkb: Les Ames
10. :pak: :bwl: Mushtaq Ahmed

I'm more confident my pace bowling options will fall than I am in Ackerman, the last international quality bat left on my board.

@Verified Enigma to fix a pick, @RUDI to make one
 
I think I confused Atherton with Artherton
 
:zim: :bat: Kevin Arnott

Test avr: 43.14

1) :ind: :bat: Madhav Apte
2) :pak: :bat: Abid Ali
3) :pak: :bat: Azhar Ali
4)
5) :zim: :bat: Kevin Arnott
6)
7) :eng: :ar: William Attewell
8)
9)
10) :pak: :bwl: Shaheen Afridi
11) :pak: :bwl: Shoaib Akhtar
 
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Robert 'Bobby' Abel instead of Mike Atherton

:tick: Needed an opener. Got an opener
:tick: Comes in Top 50 run getters in First Class cricket ever
:tick: He is English just like Atherton
:tick: Couldn't ask for anything more

FormatMatInnsNORunsHSAve100s50s6sCtSt
Test13222744132*37.20220130
FC62710077333128357*35.4674145-5870

  1. :ind: :bat: Mayank Agarwal
  2. :eng: :bat: Bobby Abel
  3. :ind: :ar: Mohinder Amarnath
  4. ?
  5. ?
  6. :aus: :ar: Warwick Armstrong
  7. :pak: :wkb: Sarfaraz Ahmed
  8. :pak: :ar: Intikhab Alam
  9. ?
  10. ?
  11. :wi: :bwl: Curtly Ambrose
And to be quite quite sure, for sure, here,
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:zim: :wk: Kevin Arnott

Test avr: 43.14

1) :ind: :bat: Madhav Apte
2) :pak: :bat: Abid Ali
3) :pak: :bat: Azhar Ali
4)
5) :zim: :wk: Kevin Arnott
6)
7) :eng: :ar: William Attewell
8)
9)
10) :pak: :bwl: Shaheen Afridi
11) :pak: :bwl: Shoaib Akhtar
Didn't know Arnott kept wickets :thinking:
 
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Time to further reinforce my middle-order with :ind: :bat: Pravin Amre, who averaged 42.50 in Test cricket and 49.44 in non-Test first-class cricket. He scored a century on debut against a South African attack that included Allan Donald, but there are always more Indian batters around the corner and he never got another go after being dropped for the first time. Curiously, he played Ranji cricket for five different teams (six if we count "Bombay" and "Mumbai" separately, which we shouldn't).

1.
2.
3.
4. :wi: :wkb: Jimmy Adams
5. :pak: :bat: Fawad Alam
6. :ind: :bat: Pravin Amre
7.
8. :eng: :bwl: Jimmy Anderson
9. :eng: :bwl: Bob Appleyard
10. :aus: :bwl: Terry Alderman
11. :saf: :bwl: Neil Adcock

@ahmedleo414
 
Lala Amarnath
Really good pick this one - one of many many people whose career got kicked to the kerb after a run-in with Vizzy, but a true all-rounder who could make his Test team either as a batter, a bowler or a wicket-keeper depending on what they needed.
 
After seeing Taslim Arif is still available, I can't believe I hastily selected Gerry Alexander. He can still play as an opener on my team with Atherton

My team so far.

  1. :pak: :wkb: Taslim Arif
  2. :eng: :bat: Michael Atherton
  3. :pak: :bat: Ijaz Ahmed
  4. ?
  5. :pak: :bat: Zaheer Abbas
  6. ?
  7. :pak: :ar: Wasim Akram
  8. :wi: :wk: Gerry Alexander
  9. ?
  10. ?
  11. :pak: :bwl: Tauseef Ahmed
@pillowprocter for double picks
 
:pak: :bwl: Shabbir Ahmed was a chucker, but wow, he was a good chucker. 50 Test wickets at an average of 23 and 400 FC wickets at 22.

:pak: :bat: Abid Ali averages 49 in Tests and 40 in FC.

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