22 Degrees of David Gower

[ahmedleo414]

Imran Khan is my first pick @Mittal2002 you're next

 

[blockerdave]

@Mittal2002 is late, @qpeedore please go ahead

 

[Mittal2002]

Muttiah Muralitharan for me.
@qpeedore is next.

 

[qpeedore]

Gonna have to go with AB himself, Allan Border.

@Yash.

 

[Yash.]

I'll pick Jaques Kallis for my team.

@sanchitgarg

 

[sanchitgarg]

I will have Brian Lara.
@Aislabie

 

[Aislabie]

Glenn McGrath

563 wickets @ 21.64 (29 5WI, best 8/24) in 124 Test matches

This was an easy pick here: one of the handful of greatest-ever Test seam bowlers by VARP, and one who particularly feasted on the remains of English batting line-ups. 157 Ashes wickets at 20.92 apiece. He came along a little bit after Gower's retirement, but I think he makes it by only one more degree of separation from the left-hander so this should be all good.

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@blockerdave

 

[blockerdave]

Gonna have to go with AB himself, Allan Border.

@Yash.

Was gonna be my next pick

 

[blockerdave]

Mike Procter is my pick. Would have played against Gower in county championship matches and also by degree of separation.

@Yash.

 

[Yash.]

Gary Sobers comes into my team as he did play with a degree of separation with Gower.

@Aislabie

 

[Aislabie]

Richard Hadlee

3,124 runs @ 27.16 (2 centuries, best 151*) and 431 wickets @ 22.29 (36 5WI, best 9/52) in 86 Test matches

With both Imran Khan and Mike Procter gone, I had to snap up the third member of this era's trio of all-rounders capable of both opening the bowling alongside McGrath and of scoring vital runs in the lower middle order. Hadlee will be pencilled in at number eight for now, but might move up to seven if it helps us accommodate another bowler when the time comes.

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@Mittal2002

 

[Mittal2002]

I will go for Wasim Akram. He must have played against Gower or someone whom Gower played with.
@sanchitgarg

 

[sanchitgarg]

I will go for Kapil dev.
@Ed Smith's Basement

 

[qpeedore]

Think @ddrap14 can go ahead now, @Ed Smith's Basement is a bit late.

 

[Ed Smith]

Apologies, I'll take Curtly Ambrose. Still resisting memeing for now.