Post Line-ups Legends At Battle XII | Round 3 - The greatest ODI batter who never was..

It was an incredible tournament

I tried my best but couldn't stop another English final choke.

Oh! This is the first time that in a follow on victory, Australia won,they lost all other times.
 
Quadralus said:
It was an incredible tournament

I tried my best but couldn't stop another English final choke.

Oh! This is the first time that in a follow on victory, Australia won,they lost all other times.
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Aislabie said:
Happy to serve as a non-Test player digger-upper if needed. I hope that such a competition would include players who represented Test nations before they played Test cricket: I love the idea of Duncan Fletcher steaming in to bowl at Minhajul Abedin in a LAB contest nearly as much as I enjoy the thought of just how badly Mike Procter would clean up at that level.
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That would be a very interesting theme, but I was thinking something more along the lines of Season IV where you had managers pick pretty much anybody they wanted along with the odd associate or two in their teams. It would also be a lot easier to put into action than an associates only tournament, for which a lot of research would be required on my part even with your help because I usually like going through several CA/cricinfo scorecards at once to get info on their bat positions, playing styles, top performances etc.

I think I'm a far better league manager than I was when I ran that Season IV theme and pretty much botched it with my then somewhat noobish player ratings. I feel could do a much better job with it now given everything I've learned since then about the players and how to rate them realistically on the Test sim.

Well, it's either that or this one below which is also quite an inclusive theme as far as associates are concerned:

:aus: :slvo: :ar: Alec Bannerman
:eng: :goldo: :ar: Dick Barlow
:eng: :purpo: :ar: WG Grace :c:
:eng: :goldo: :ar: George Ulyett

:aus: :goldo: :bat: Percy McDonnell
:aus: :goldo: :wkb: Billy Murdoch
:eng: :goldo: :bat: Arthur Shrewsbury

:eng: :goldo: :ar: Billy Barnes
:aus: :redo: :bat: George Bonnor
:eng: :goldo: :ar: AG Steel

:eng: :goldo: :ar: Billy Bates
:aus: :purpo: :wk: Jack Blackham
:eng: :purpo: :ar: Johnny Briggs
:can: :redo: :ar: Russell Ogden

:usa: :redo: :bwl: Charles Newhall
:aus: :purpo: :ar: Fred Spofforth
:aus: :purpo: :ar: Charlie Turner

:aus: :goldo: :ar: Joey Palmer
:eng: :purpo: :ar: Bobby Peel
:aus: :goldo: :bat: Joe Darling
:eng: :goldo: :ar: Tom Hayward
:usa: :goldo: :ar: George Patterson :c:

:usa: :goldo: :bat: Francis Bohlen
:aus: :purpo: :ar: George Giffen
:eng: :purpo: :bat: KS Ranjitsinhji
:eng: :goldo: :bat: Andrew Stoddart

:ire: :redo: :ar: Lucius Gwynn
:aus: :goldo: :bat: Frank Iredale

:can: :redo: :ar: Jack Laing
:aus: :goldo: :ar: Albert Trott

:eng: :purpo: :ar: John Ferris
:aus: :goldo: :bwl: Ernie Jones
:eng: :purpo: :ar: George Lohmann
:eng: :redo: :bwl: Tom Richardson
:fij: :redo: :bwl: Wilikonisoni Tuivanuavou

:sco: :goldo: :wk: Gregor MacGregor
:aus: :purpo: :ar: Hugh Trumble
:eng: :goldo: :bat: Archie MacLaren :c:
:aus: :purpo: :bat: Victor Trumper

:eng: :goldo: :bat: CB Fry
:aus: :purpo: :bat: Clem Hill
:usa: :goldo: :ar: John Lester

:eng: :purpo: :ar: Stanley Jackson
:aus: :goldo: :ar: Monty Noble
:saf: :redo: :ar: Jimmy Sinclair

:eng: :goldo: :ar: George Hirst
:usa: :purpo: :ar: Bart King
:eng: :goldo: :wk: Dick Lilley
:saf: :redo: :wk: Percy Sherwell

:eng: :purpo: :bwl: Sydney Barnes
:usa: :goldo: :ar: Percy Clark
:aus: :goldo: :ar: Tibby Cotter
:ned: :redo: :bwl: Carst Posthuma

:eng: :purpo: :bwl: Colin Blythe
:saf: :goldo: :ar: Reggie Schwarz
:aus: :goldo: :bat: Warren Bardsley
:aus: :goldo: :ar: Charles Kelleway
:eng: :goldo: :ar: Wilfred Rhodes

:saf: :purpo: :ar: Aubrey Faulkner
:usa: :redo: :bat: Harry Kortlang
:eng: :goldo: :bat: Phil Mead

:aus: :purpo: :ar: Warwick Armstrong :c:
:ire: :goldo: :ar: Bob Lambert
:saf: :goldo: :ar: Dave Nourse

:aus: :goldo: :wk: Sammy Carter
:eng: :goldo: :ar: Johnny Douglas
:eng: :goldo: :ar: Frank Foster
:aus: :purpo: :ar: Ranji Hordern

:arg: :redo: :ar: Herbert Dorning
:saf: :goldo: :bwl: Sid Pegler
:aus: :goldo: :bwl: Bill Whitty

:ind: :goldo: :ar: Palwankar Baloo
:saf: :goldo: :ar: Bert Vogler
:wi: :goldo: :bat: George Challenor
:eng: :purpo: :bat: Jack Hobbs
:eng: :purpo: :bat: Herbert Sutcliffe

:aus: :purpo: :ar: Charles Macartney
:saf: :goldo: :bat: Herbie Taylor :c:

:eng: :goldo: :bat: Patsy Hendren
:aus: :goldo: :ar: Jack Ryder
:eng: :goldo: :ar: Frank Woolley

:wi: :redo: :ar: Learie Constantine
:aus: :redo: :ar: Jack Gregory
:aus: :purpo: :wk: Bert Oldfield
:eng: :goldo: :ar: Maurice Tate

:arg: :purpo: :ar: Clem Gibson
:aus: :redo: :bwl: Ted McDonald
:can: :goldo: :bwl: Herbert Wookey

:aus: :goldo: :bwl: Arthur Mailey
:eng: :goldo: :bwl: Tich Freeman
:eng: :goldo: :wk: Bert Strudwick
:nz: :goldo: :bat: Stewie Dempster
:saf: :goldo: :ar: Bruce Mitchell
:aus: :purpo: :bat: Bill Ponsford

:aus: :purpo: :bat: Don Bradman :c:
:eng: :purpo: :ar: Wally Hammond
:wi: :purpo: :bat: George Headley

:eng: :goldo: :ar: Maurice Leyland
:aus: :redo: :ar: Stan McCabe
:eng: :goldo: :bat: Eddie Paynter

:eng: :goldo: :wk: Les Ames
:saf: :goldo: :wk: Jock Cameron

:ind: :goldo: :ar: Amar Singh
:eng: :goldo: :bwl: Bill Bowes
:eng: :redo: :ar: Harold Larwood

:ire: :goldo: :ar: Jimmy Boucher
:aus: :purpo: :bwl: Clarrie Grimmett
:aus: :purpo: :bwl: Bill O'Reilly
:eng: :purpo: :ar: Hedley Verity
:aus: :goldo: :bat: Sid Barnes
:eng: :purpo: :bat: Len Hutton :c:
:ind: :purpo: :bat: Vijay Merchant
:eng: :goldo: :bat: Cyril Washbrook

:eng: :purpo: :ar: Denis Compton
:eng: :goldo: :ar: Bill Edrich
:aus: :goldo: :bat: Lindsay Hassett
:saf: :purpo: :bat: Dudley Nourse

:ind: :purpo: :ar: Vijay Hazare
:sri: :redo: :bat: Mahadevan Sathasivam
:saf: :goldo: :wk: Billy Wade

:ind: :goldo: :ar: Lala Amarnath
:aus: :goldo: :wk: Don Tallon

:nz: :goldo: :bwl: Jack Cowie
:aus: :goldo: :bwl: Bill Johnston
:nz: :redo: :ar: Tom Pritchard
:aus: :goldo: :bwl: Ernie Toshack

:aus: :goldo: :ar: Ian Johnson
:sco: :goldo: :bat: James Aitchison
:aus: :purpo: :bat: Arthur Morris
:nz: :goldo: :bat: Bert Sutcliffe

:wi: :purpo: :wkb: Clyde Walcott
:wi: :purpo: :bat: Everton Weekes
:wi: :purpo: :ar: Frank Worrell

:fij: :redo: :bat: Ilikena Bula
:aus: :purpo: :bat: Neil Harvey
:aus: :purpo: :ar: Keith Miller

:aus: :purpo: :ar: Richie Benaud :c:
:aus: :purpo: :ar: Alan Davidson
:eng: :goldo: :wk: Godfrey Evans

:eng: :purpo: :bwl: Alec Bedser
:pak: :purpo: :ar: Fazal Mahmood
:aus: :purpo: :ar: Ray Lindwall
:eng: :purpo: :bwl: Frank Tyson

:eng: :purpo: :bwl: Jim Laker
:saf: :goldo: :ar: Hugh Tayfield
:aus: :goldo: :bat: Bill Lawry
:pak: :purpo: :wkb: Hanif Mohammad
:aus: :purpo: :ar: Bob Simpson

:eng: :purpo: :ar: Ken Barrington
:eng: :goldo: :ar: Ted Dexter
:eng: :goldo: :bat: Tom Graveney
:saf: :purpo: :bat: Graeme Pollock

:wi: :purpo: :wkb: Rohan Kanhai
:wi: :purpo: :ar: Garry Sobers :c:

:ind: :goldo: :wk: Farokh Engineer
:saf: :goldo: :ar: Trevor Goddard
:eng: :goldo: :ar: Ray Illingworth

:wi: :goldo: :ar: Wesley Hall
:aus: :goldo: :ar: Garth McKenzie
:ber: :goldo: :bwl: Clarence Parfitt
:eng: :purpo: :bwl: Fred Trueman

:wi: :purpo: :bwl: Lance Gibbs
:ind: :goldo: :bwl: Erapalli Prasanna
:eng: :goldo: :bat: Geoff Boycott
:ind: :purpo: :bat: Sunil Gavaskar
:saf: :purpo: :bat: Barry Richards

:aus: :purpo: :ar: Greg Chappell
:aus: :goldo: :bat: Ian Chappell
:pak: :goldo: :bat: Zaheer Abbas

:eng: :goldo: :ar: Tony Greig
:wi: :goldo: :bat: Clive Lloyd :c:
:ind: :goldo: :bat: Gundappa Viswanath

:eng: :goldo: :wk: Alan Knott
:saf: :purpo: :ar: Mike Procter

:aus: :purpo: :bwl: Dennis Lillee
:wi: :purpo: :ar: Andy Roberts
:aus: :purpo: :bwl: Jeff Thomson
:eng: :purpo: :bwl: Bob Willis

:ind: :goldo: :bwl: Bishan Bedi
:ire: :goldo: :ar: Dermott Monteith
:eng: :purpo: :bwl: Derek Underwood
:wi: :purpo: :bat: Gordon Greenidge
:wi: :goldo: :bat: Desmond Haynes

:nz: :purpo: :bat: Martin Crowe
:wi: :purpo: :bat: Viv Richards :c:

:aus: :purpo: :ar: Allan Border
:pak: :purpo: :ar: Imran Khan
:pak: :purpo: :bat: Javed Miandad

:eng: :goldo: :ar: Ian Botham
:wi: :goldo: :wk: Jeff Dujon
:nz: :purpo: :ar: Richard Hadlee
:ind: :goldo: :ar: Kapil Dev
:saf: :goldo: :ar: Clive Rice

:wi: :purpo: :bwl: Joel Garner
:wi: :purpo: :ar: Michael Holding
:wi: :purpo: :ar: Malcolm Marshall
:den: :redo: :bwl: Ole Mortensen
:saf: :purpo: :ar: Garth le Roux

:pak: :goldo: :ar: Abdul Qadir
:eng: :purpo: :ar: Graham Gooch
:saf: :goldo: :bat: Gary Kirsten
:eng: :goldo: :wkb: Alec Stewart

:ind: :goldo: :bat: Mohammad Azharuddin
:wi: :purpo: :bat: Brian Lara
:ind: :purpo: :ar: Sachin Tendulkar

:zim: :goldo: :wkb: Andy Flower
:aus: :goldo: :ar: Mark Waugh
:aus: :purpo: :ar: Steve Waugh :c:

:nz: :redo: :ar: Chris Cairns
:aus: :goldo: :wk: Ian Healy
:ken: :goldo: :ar: Maurice Odumbe

:wi: :purpo: :bwl: Curtly Ambrose
:saf: :purpo: :bwl: Allan Donald
:wi: :purpo: :bwl: Courtney Walsh
:pak: :purpo: :ar: Waqar Younis
:pak: :purpo: :ar: Wasim Akram

:aus: :purpo: :ar: Shane Warne
:aus: :purpo: :bat: Matthew Hayden
:ind: :redo: :ar: Virender Sehwag
:saf: :goldo: :bat: Graeme Smith

:ind: :purpo: :bat: Rahul Dravid
:saf: :purpo: :ar: Jacques Kallis
:aus: :purpo: :bat: Ricky Ponting :c:

:wi: :purpo: :bat: Shivnarine Chanderpaul
:pak: :purpo: :bat: Inzamam-ul-Haq
:eng: :redo: :bat: Kevin Pietersen
:ken: :goldo: :ar: Steve Tikolo

:aus: :purpo: :wk: Adam Gilchrist
:saf: :purpo: :ar: Shaun Pollock
:nz: :goldo: :ar: Daniel Vettori

:nz: :redo: :bwl: Shane Bond
:aus: :purpo: :bwl: Glenn McGrath
:pak: :redo: :bwl: Shoaib Akhtar

:ind: :goldo: :ar: Anil Kumble
:sri: :purpo: :bwl: Muttiah Muralitharan
:eng: :goldo: :bat: Alastair Cook
:aus: :redo: :bat: David Warner

:saf: :redo: :bat: Hashim Amla
:ind: :purpo: :bat: Virat Kohli
:sri: :purpo: :wkb: Kumar Sangakkara
:aus: :purpo: :bat: Steven Smith

:saf: :purpo: :wkb: AB de Villiers
:nz: :purpo: :ar: Kane Williamson :c:

:wi: :goldo: :ar: Jason Holder
:ban: :goldo: :ar: Shakib Al Hasan

:eng: :purpo: :bwl: James Anderson
:nzf: :redo: :bwl: Trent Boult
:eng: :goldo: :ar: Stuart Broad
:aus: :redo: :ar: Mitchell Johnson
:saf: :purpo: :bwl: Dale Steyn

:ind: :purpo: :ar: Ravichandran Ashwin
:sri: :purpo: :bwl: Rangana Herath
:afg: :redo: :ar: Rashid Khan
 
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I'm a little busy at the moment to be running a 32-team league (which I will attempt to finish later), but I reckon I've still got it in me to do a short 4 to 6 team (if I'm that lucky) tournament involving legends.

Over the last 10 seasons of this league, we've had Test legends taking on fellow Test legends in the 5-day format, and even the one-off season where we had ODI legends taking on fellow ODI legends in the 50-over format. But what we've never had before is Test legends taking on Test legends in the ODI format, a theme I believe this league is long due for after having run so many seasons of Cricket at the Olympics in the eras where 50-over cricket was but a distant fantasy. That essentially will be the theme for this, the proposed 11th season of Legends At Battle - the best players to never play ODI cricket.

As the theme name suggests, the season will be in the 50-over format and players that haven't played a single ODI game throughout their careers will be valid for selection. Okay, for the sake of certain players who played a handful of ODIs in the 1970s towards the twilight of their careers, I'll allow each team a maximum of 2 players who have played 10 ODIs or fewer in their squads. Players that have appeared in Tests/List-As only but have zero ODI caps are also valid, as are those that have played T20s/T20Is only. All players will be drafted by managers with there being no country-based restrictions.


Sign ups are now open. To sign up, simply post a team name of your choice and fire away..
 
Obviously I'm in for this.

Will edit in a team name and logo shortly.

One question though - is this the sort of league where Don Bradman will be eligible, or is it the sort of league where everyone wants to pick Mark Butcher because he never played an ODI? (Basically, is it pre-ODI or post-ODI?)
 
Aislabie said:
One question though - is this the sort of league where Don Bradman will be eligible, or is it the sort of league where everyone wants to pick Mark Butcher because he never played an ODI? (Basically, is it pre-ODI or post-ODI?)
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Both are eligible for selection. Hell, one can even pick the likes of Frank Tarrant and Samuel Badree if they so wish or any player who has played a proper cricket match after 1877 - just as long as they haven't played any ODIs. You're still allowed a maximum of 2 players with ODI experience (10 ODIs or fewer) in a squad.


VC the slogger said:
Players that have appeared in Tests/List-As only but have zero ODI caps are also valid, as are those that have played T20s/T20Is only.
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VC the slogger said:
Both are eligible for selection. Hell, one can even pick the likes of Frank Tarrant and Samuel Badree if they so wish or any player who has played a proper cricket match after 1877 - just as long as they haven't played any ODIs. You're still allowed a maximum of 2 players with ODI experience (10 ODIs or fewer) in a squad.
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I mean, I could end up picking a pretty wacky team for this, because there are players I pick up in drafts and end up with more of an attachment to (like Tarrant and Alley)
 
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