Draft: Left-Handed Cricketers | Index updated

[RUDI]

Mitchell Starc
@El Loco you're up next!

RUDI's XI

1. Graeme Smith
2. David Warner
3.
4.
5.
6.
7. Wasim Akram
8. Mitchell Starc
9.
10.
11.

 

[Master Bates]

Mitchell Starc

He is a bowler, not an all-rounder

 

[RUDI]

He is a bowler, not an all-rounder

With a First-Class average of 22.03 and 10x50's and Test average of 21.27 with 9x50's with the bat; he might as well be

 

[El Loco]

Alvin Kallicharran.
@Ashutosh.

 

[Ashutosh.]

Niroshan Dickwella.

 

[Master Bates]

Quinton de Kock.

Already picked by @Quadralus

 

[RUDI]

@El Loco you are up again!

 

[El Loco]

Gary Gilmour.
@Akshay.

 

[Akshay.]

1. Bill Lawry
2. Chris Gayle
3.
4.
5. Mike Hussey
6. Garry Sobers
7.
8.
9.
10.
11. Bill Johnston

@Manish.

 

[Manish.]

Hedley verity
Write up in a day or two , laptop dead.
@VC the slogger your turn !

 

[Ashutosh.]

Mitchell Johnson
@VC the slogger your turn !

Invalid pick!

 

[VC the slogger]

Bert Sutcliffe

 

[Master Bates]

@Aislabie next

 

[Aislabie]

Overall Pick #49: Frank Woolley

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Profile
Had he been born a century later, Twenty20 cricket would have been made for the Kentish cavalier Frank Woolley. Woolley wasn't just a very good cricketer, he looked like a very good cricketer, and did so while making sure to provide the best spectacle he could for the fans in attendance. If there was a weakness to his game, it was an unwillingness to defend - but why would one defend a ball that could be clumped to the boundary? Though his Test record is eminently excellent, his fun-loving style was considered "un-English" and he was never entrusted with the Test captaincy. Regardless, he was held in the highest esteem at Kent. In his own words: "We were never allowed to play for averages in the Kent... We always had to play the game and play for the team." Had he been that little bit more selfish, then he may have somewhat avoided the curious statistic of being dismissed in the nineties 35 times in first-class cricket.

Statistics

| | Left-handed batsman | Left-arm orthodox, medium-pace |
Tests|64 matches|3,283 runs @ 36.04 (5 centuries, best 154)|83 wickets @ 33.91 (4 5WI, best 7/76)|64 catches
First-class|978 matches|58,959 runs @ 40.77 (145 centuries, best 305*)|2,066 wickets @ 19.87 (132 5WI, best 8/22)|1,018 catches

Finest Performance
During the ill-fated Triangular Tournament of 1912, Frank Woolley put in one of the most impressive and curiously forgotten all-round performances in the history of Test cricket. On something of a sticky wicket, Woolley's first-innings score of 62 was the third-highest of the entire game with only Jack Hobbs' 66 and CB Fry's 79 standing higher. Woolley, in typical fashion, also scored the vast majority of his runs in boundaries. He then backed this up with a rapid five-wicket haul: in the space of 58 balls, he dismissed Kelleway, Jennings, Minnett, Smith and Carkeek. A forgivable failure in the second innings was then followed by five more wickets to complete the match: this time, in 46 balls he dismissed Jennings, Minnett, Whitty, Hazlitt and Matthews.

Aislabie's Southpaws so far:
1. Trevor Goddard (Pick #22)
2. Simon Katich (Pick #30)
3. Stephen Fleming (Pick #35)
4. Graeme Pollock (Pick #1)
5. Frank Woolley (Pick #49)
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.

This icon denotes somebody who performed both their primary and secondary skills left-handed. No restriction.
This icon denotes somebody who performed their secondary skill right-handed. Only five allowed.

Next pick:
@CerealKiller

 

[Aislabie]

On behalf of @Rebel2k19 - Phil Jaques

@Sinister One up next, @CerealKiller still needs to pick