The Bands Draft

[ddrap14]

@Umair7 @Aislabie are both late. @Till Valhalla

 

[Aislabie]

Charlie Parker (band 10)

Charlie Parker (of Gloucestershire) only started bowling spin in 1919 after the War. He was 36 years old at the time, and had a respectable 467 first-class wickets @ 25.71 with 20 5WI bowling seam-up and a best of 8/48 that he achieved twice.

After switching to spin he added a further 2,811 first-class wickets @ 18.43 with 257 5WI and a best of 10/76.

He only got one Test cap.

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@Till Valhalla

 

[Umair7]

Stuart Law (27,080 runs @50.52) was unlucky not to play more than 1 Test match - a victim of the Aussie stacked lineup!

 

[Till Valhalla]

Garth Le Roux
@Aravind.

 

[Aravind.]

Goofy Lawrence, played only 5 tests due to South Africa's ban in international cricket.

28 wickets in 5 Test matches @18.28
342 wickets in 77 FC matches @17.97

Ryan ten Doeschate will be my uncapped player.

11298 FC runs @44.30
214 FC wickets @33.84

@Till Valhalla

 

[Till Valhalla]

@Aislabie
Shahid Afridi

 

[Aislabie]

Alec Hurwood

11 wickets @ 15.45 (best 4/22) in 2 Test matches (band 9)
113 wickets @ 27.62 (5 5WI, best 6/80) in 43 first-class matches

It might be a slight exaggeration, but there was a short while around the turn of the 1930s when Alec Hurwood might have been the fourth-best spinner in the world. Unfortunately for him, the top three at the time were the famous trio of Grimmett, Ironmonger and O'Reilly. Hurwood's mixture of off-spinners and arm balls delivered off a very short run-up were good enough to regularly trouble Don Bradman during Shield matches.

At a time when to play Shield cricket meant bowling at Jackson, Bradman, Fairfax, Kippax and McCabe for New South Wales, then Ponsford, Woodfull, Ryder and Darling for Victoria, then Richardson, Nitschke and the rest at South Australia, the "step up" to Test cricket wasn't a step up at all: indeed, Hurwood had no trouble running through the touring West Indian batters. In fact, only one person didn't rate Hurwood: Bill Woodfull, captain of Victoria and Australia, who bowled Hurwood for only 354 overs across 20 first-class matches in the 1930 Ashes Tour, and picked him for none of the Test matches.

And as a result, as we near 100 years since Hurwood's Test career, he is most famous as a footnote in his famous teammates' career.

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@Umair7

 

[Umair7]

I believe in Joe Hendry Shane Bond

@Supreme General you are next!

 

[Supreme General]

Gonna go with a safe and well trodden path for my uncapped player. Another one of the lost South African generation. The pace bowler, Vintcent Van Der Bijl.


George Headley
Garfield Sobers
VVDB

@Paranoid Kendroid

 

[ddrap14]

@Paranoid Kendroid missed time. @Neo 7 is up

 

[Paranoid Kendroid]

Clyde Walcott
Jacques Kallis (50+ tests)
George Lohmann (17-26 tests)

 

[Neo 7]

Subramaniam Badrinath

 

[Supreme General]

@Bladezz

 

[Bladezz]

I'm gonna go for Simon Harmer for my 8-10 pick, only 10 tests but a long first class and limited overs career, averaging around 25 with the ball and is handy enough with the bat, he'll do as my main spinner.

@pillowprocter

 

[pillowprocter]

the man after whom the Duleep trophy is named, Duleepsinhji is my pick in the 11-16 Tests category, which means we have now covered every band in this draft

@mohsin7827