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

[VC the slogger]

Still pretty sour about that BTW

Its been six years, man..

 

[Na Maloom Afraad]

Its been six years, man..

[HASHTAG]#neverforget[/HASHTAG]

 

[VC the slogger]

Legends At Battle XI
Season summary​

Spoiler: Introduction

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.

Spoiler: Teams & squads

Spoiler: Generic Wanderers

Manager: @Aislabie
Home Ground: Trent Bridge, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England

Squad:

Michael Klinger
Colin Milburn
Victor Trumper

Denis Compton
Clem Hill
Charles Macartney

Asif Iqbal
Lee Irvine
Gilbert Jessop
Frank Woolley

Les Ames
Mike Procter

Percy Fender
Gary Gilmour
Bart King

Bob Appleyard

Jack Iverson
Hedley Verity

Spoiler: Dominators

Manager: @The Deadman & @Sinister One
Home Ground: Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Squad:

Warren Bardsley
Bill Ponsford
Herbert Sutcliffe
Bill Woodfull

Lindsay Hassett
Vijay Hazare
George Headley
KS Ranjitsinhji

Trevor Goddard
Jack Gregory
Keith Miller

Albert Trott
Dane Vilas

Sydney Barnes
JJ Ferris
George Lohmann
Fred Spofforth

Bobby Peel

Spoiler: Hound Dogs

Manager: @VC the slogger
Home Ground: Old Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Squad:

Sid Barnes
Justin Langer

Ted Dexter
Douglas Jardine
Mahadevan Sathasivam

Ilikena Bula
Basil Butcher
Jimmy Sinclair

Ryan Campbell
Learie Constantine
Bapu Nadkarni

Alec Bedser
Roy Gilchrist
Carst Posthuma
Frank Tyson
Bill Voce

Tony Lock
Sonny Ramadhin

Spoiler: Karachi Cricket Club

Manager: @Na Maloom Afraad
Home Ground: National Stadium, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan

Squad:

WG Grace
Hanif Mohammad
Arthur Morris

Ken Barrington
Don Bradman
Wally Hammond
Neil Harvey

Warwick Armstrong
John Reid
Clyde Walcott

Richie Benaud
Wilfred Rhodes

Jack Cowie
Herbert Dorning
Bill Lockwood
Float Woods

Hugh Tayfield
Hugh Trumble

Spoiler: PlanetCricket

Manager: @Pinch hitter
Home Ground: Eden Gardens, Kolkata, West Bengal, India

Squad:

Jack Hobbs
Len Hutton
John Langridge
Barry Richards

Wasim Jaffer
Ken McEwan
Monty Noble

Aubrey Faulkner
Vinoo Mankad
Garry Sobers

Jim Parks
Peter Sainsbury
Franklyn Stephenson

Fazal Mahmood
Don Shepherd
Fred Trueman
Charlie Turner

Rajinder Goel

Spoiler: The Undisputed Era

Manager: @CerealKiller
Home Ground: Lord's, St John's Wood, London, England

Squad:

Vijay Merchant
George Patterson

KS Duleepsinhji
Stan McCabe
Graeme Pollock
Everton Weekes
Frank Worrell

Denis Lindsay
Clive Rice

Alan Davidson
Bert Oldfield

Harold Larwood
Garth le Roux
Ray Lindwall
Vince van der Bijl

Bhagwath Chandrasekhar
Clarrie Grimmett
Bill O'Reilly

Spoiler: Fixtures & Results

Fixtures & Results

Warm-ups

Warm-up Round 1

Generic Wanderers v England ODI XI at Trent Bridge - England won by 6 runs
Karachi Cricket Club v Pakistan ODI XI at Karachi - Karachi Cricket Club won by 19 runs
The Undisputed Era v South Africa ODI XI at Lord's - The Undisputed Era won by 3 wickets (with 5 balls remaining)
Dominators v Australia ODI XI at The MCG - Australia won by 20 runs
Hound Dogs v World Cup XI at Johannesburg - World Cup XI won by 14 runs
PlanetCricket v India ODI XI at Kolkata - India ODI XI won by 20 runs

Warm-up Round 2

The Undisputed Era v ODI Rejects XI at Lord's - ODI Rejects XI won by 3 wickets (with 1 ball remaining)
PlanetCricket v Olympians at Kolkata - PlanetCricket won by 6 wickets (with 3 balls remaining)
Karachi Cricket Club v Rugger Buggers at Karachi - Karachi Cricket Club won by 6 wickets (with 46 balls remaining)
Hound Dogs v LAB XI Rejects at Johannesburg - Hound Dogs won by 43 runs
Dominators v LAB XI Rejects at The MCG - Dominators won by 38 runs
Generic Wanderers v Twenty20 XI at Trent Bridge - Twenty20 XI won by 41 runs


Round 1

Generic Wanderers v The Undisputed Era at Trent Bridge - Generic Wanderers won by 2 wickets (with 0 balls remaining)
Karachi Cricket Club v PlanetCricket at Karachi - Karachi Cricket Club won by 9 runs
Dominators v Hound Dogs at The MCG - Dominators won by 6 wickets (with 68 balls remaining)

Round 2

The Undisputed Era v Hound Dogs at Lord's - The Undisputed Era won by 36 runs
PlanetCricket v Dominators at Kolkata - PlanetCricket won by 26 runs
Generic Wanderers v Karachi Cricket Club at Trent Bridge - Generic Wanderers won by 136 runs

Round 3

Karachi Cricket Club v The Undisputed Era at Karachi - Karachi Cricket Club won by 61 runs
Dominators v Generic Wanderers at The MCG - Generic Wanderers won by 1 wicket (with 32 balls remaining)
Hound Dogs v PlanetCricket at Johannesburg - Hound Dogs won by 4 wickets (with 23 balls remaining)

Round 4

The Undisputed Era v PlanetCricket at Lord's - Match tied
Generic Wanderers v Hound Dogs at Trent Bridge - Generic Wanderers won by 57 runs
Karachi Cricket Club v Dominators at Karachi - Karachi Cricket Club won by 46 runs

Round 5

Dominators v The Undisputed Era at The MCG - Dominators won by 1 wicket (with 7 balls remaining)
Hound Dogs v Karachi Cricket Club at Johannesburg - Karachi Cricket Club won by 3 wickets (with 1 ball remaining)
PlanetCricket v Generic Wanderers at Kolkata - Generic Wanderers won by 45 runs

Round 6

The Undisputed Era v Dominators at Lord's - Dominators won by 19 runs
Karachi Cricket Club v Hound Dogs at Karachi - Karachi Cricket Club won by 82 runs
Generic Wanderers v PlanetCricket at Trent Bridge - PlanetCricket won by 1 wicket (with 4 balls remaining)

Round 7

Dominators v Karachi Cricket Club at The MCG - Dominators won by 8 wickets (with 1 ball remaining)
Hound Dogs v Generic Wanderers at Johannesburg - Hound Dogs won by 6 wickets (with 0 balls remaining)
PlanetCricket v The Undisputed Era at Kolkata - PlanetCricket won by 164 runs​

Round 8

The Undisputed Era v Karachi Cricket Club at Lord's - Karachi Cricket Club won by 5 wickets (with 31 balls remaining)
Generic Wanderers v Dominators at Trent Bridge - Dominators won by 49 runs
PlanetCricket v Hound Dogs at Kolkata - PlanetCricket won by 4 wickets (with 87 balls remaining)

Round 9

Karachi Cricket Club v Generic Wanderers at Karachi - Karachi Cricket Club won by 5 wickets (with 18 balls remaining)
Hound Dogs v The Undisputed Era at Johannesburg - Match tied
Dominators v PlanetCricket at The MCG - PlanetCricket won by 51 runs

Round 10

The Undisputed Era v Generic Wanderers at Lord's - The Undisputed Era won by 2 wickets (with 2 balls remaining)
PlanetCricket v Karachi Cricket Club at Kolkata - PlanetCricket won by 152 runs
Hound Dogs v Dominators at Johannesburg - Dominators won by 4 wickets (with 6 balls remaining)

Playoffs

Qualifying Final 1

Karachi Cricket Club v PlanetCricket at Johannesburg - PlanetCricket won by 3 wickets (with 2 balls remaining)

Elimination Final

Dominators v Generic Wanderers at Kolkata - Dominators won by 7 runs


Qualifying Final 2

Karachi Cricket Club v Dominators at Trent Bridge - Karachi Cricket Club won by 149 runs


Final

PlanetCricket v Karachi Cricket Club at Lord's - Karachi Cricket Club won by 1 run


Icons beside venues are used to denote the following timelines:

Olympics era 1 (1896-1912)
Olympics era 2 (1920-1936)
Early-ODI era (1971-1983)
Mid-ODI era (1985-1999)
Pre-Twenty20 era (2000-2009)
Twenty20 era (2010-present)​

Spoiler: Statistics

Spoiler: Generic Wanderers

GENERIC WANDERERS

BATTING & FIELDING

Player            Mat  Inns  NO  Runs  HS    Avg    BF    S/R   100s 50s  4s  6s  0s  Ct  St
VT Trumper        11    11    0  447  128   40.64  469   95.31    1   3   52   6   1   9   -
C Hill            11    11    0  387  161   35.18  437   88.56    1   1   31  17   1   4   -
GL Jessop         11    11    0  358  100   32.55  307  116.61    1   2   22  24   0   6   -
CG Macartney      10    10    0  357  118   35.70  414   86.23    1   1   44   2   1   4   -
DCS Compton        9     9    0  272  115   30.22  305   89.18    1   1   32   3   1   9   -
BL Irvine          6     6    1  160   46   32.00  169   94.67    0   0   14   4   0   2   0
C Milburn          5     5    0  147   93   29.40  143  102.80    0   1   14   6   0   1   -
LEG Ames           7     6    0  121   63   20.17  170   71.18    0   1   13   0   0   3   0
JB King            9     8    3  120   43   24.00  132   90.91    0   0   10   3   1   3   -
MJ Procter         8     7    3   95   37   23.75  138   68.84    0   0    7   3   1   3   -
GJ Gilmour         6     5    2   91   28*  30.33  133   68.42    0   0    7   1   1   1   -
M Klinger          3     3    0   72   54   24.00   64  112.50    0   1   11   1   0   0   -
PGH Fender         5     5    1   65   22*  16.25   69   94.20    0   0    3   5   1   2   -
Asif Iqbal         2     2    1   38   35*  38.00   29  131.04    0   0    4   1   0   0   -
H Verity           9     7    3   37   12*   9.25   64   57.81    0   0    3   0   1   2   -
R Appleyard        5     4    1    6    3    2.00   22   27.27    0   0    0   0   1   1   -
JB Iverson         2     2    1    5    5*   5.00    7   71.41    0   0    0   0   1   1   -
FE Woolley         1     1    0    1    1    1.00    6   16.67    0   0    0   0   0   0   -

BOWLING

Player            Mat  Inns  Overs  Mdns  Runs  Wkts    BBI   Avg   Econ   S/R  4w  5w
MJ Procter         8     8   66.0    0    370    16    4/51  23.13  5.61  24.8   1   0
JB King           10    10   86.4    2    520    16    3/29  32.50  6.00  32.5   0   0
H Verity           9     9   80.0    5    394    14    4/60  28.14  4.93  34.3   1   0
GJ Gilmour         6     6   49.4    2    290     9    3/39  32.22  5.84  33.1   0   0
PGH Fender         5     5   41.0    1    224     8    3/52  28.00  5.46  30.8   0   0
R Appleyard        5     5   49.0    3    232     8    4/58  29.00  4.73  36.8   1   0
CG Macartney      10     8   42.0    1    233     7    3/46  33.29  5.55  36.0   0   0
GL Jessop         11    10   49.4    1    244     4    2/61  61.00  4.91  74.5   0   0
FE Woolley         1     1    3.0    0     34     2    2/34  17.00 11.33   9.0   0   0
JB Iverson         2     2   19.0    0     87     2    1/33  43.50  4.58  57.0   0   0
Asif Iqbal         2     2   15.0    1     94     1    1/29  94.00  6.27  90.0   0   0

Spoiler: Dominators

DOMINATORS

BATTING & FIELDING

Player            Mat  Inns  NO  Runs  HS    Avg    BF    S/R   100s 50s  4s  6s  0s  Ct  St
H Sutcliffe       10    10    0  505  114   50.50  605   83.47    3   1   52   8   0   5   -
KS Ranjitsinhji    7     7    1  390  149   65.00  392   99.49    1   3   38  10   0   6   -
KR Miller          9     9    4  305   82*  61.00  324   94.14    0   2   31  11   0   5   -
VS Hazare          9     9    2  290   83   41.43  397   73.05    0   2   23   3   0   5   -
WH Ponsford        9     9    0  264   90   29.33  390   67.69    0   3   20   2   2   4   -
DJ Vilas          12    10    0  179   54   17.90  222   80.63    0   1   14   4   0  11   1
TL Goddard         8     7    0  119   44   17.00  189   62.96    0   0    6   5   0   4   -
JM Gregory         8     7    2  106   31*  21.20  117   90.60    0   0    8   4   0   4   -
AL Hassett         5     5    1   88   49*  22.00  123   71.54    0   0    4   5   1   3   -
WM Woodfull        3     3    0   86   47   28.67  124   69.35    0   0    6   2   0   4   -
GA Headley         5     5    0   81   48   16.20  121   66.94    0   0    9   0   0   1   -
W Bardsley         2     2    0   59   53   29.50   89   66.29    0   1    3   0   0   0   -
JJ Ferris         11     7    3   30   15    7.50   69   43.48    0   0    1   0   1   0   -
R Peel             4     2    0   29   26   14.50   30   96.67    0   0    3   1   0   2   -
FR Spofforth       7     4    2   27   11   13.50   35   77.15    0   0    2   0   0   1   -
GA Lohmann        10     6    0   27   12    4.50   44   61.37    0   0    2   0   2   2   -
AE Trott           2     2    1   25   17*  25.00   17  147.08    0   0    2   1   0   0   -
SF Barnes         10     5    2   18    9*   6.00   54   33.33    0   0    0   0   1   3   -

BOWLING

Player            Mat  Inns  Overs  Mdns  Runs  Wkts    BBI   Avg   Econ   S/R  4w  5w
GA Lohmann        10    10   88.3    1    480    23    5/42  20.87  5.42  23.1   1   1
SF Barnes         10    10   87.5    1    399    16    3/47  24.94  4.54  32.9   0   0
JM Gregory         8     8   69.5    4    356    14    4/52  25.43  5.10  29.9   1   0
JJ Ferris         11    11   71.5    1    400    12    4/41  33.33  5.57  35.9   1   0
TL Goddard         8     8   64.0    2    302     9    3/20  33.56  4.72  42.7   0   0
KR Miller          9     9   66.0    1    359     9    3/30  39.89  5.44  44.0   0   0
FR Spofforth       7     7   58.0    1    300     8    2/29  37.50  5.17  43.5   0   0
R Peel             4     4   38.0    1    209     6    2/54  34.83  5.50  38.0   0   0
AE Trott           2     2   12.0    0     80     2    2/53  40.00  6.66  36.0   0   0
GA Headley         5     1    4.0    1      8     1    1/8    8.00  2.00  24.0   0   0
VS Hazare          9     1    3.0    0     26     0    0/26   N/A   8.67    -    0   0

Spoiler: Hound Dogs

HOUND DOGS

BATTING & FIELDING

Player            Mat  Inns  NO  Runs  HS    Avg    BF    S/R   100s 50s  4s  6s  0s  Ct  St
IL Bula           10    10    0  365  139   36.50  359  101.67    2   0   31  18   1   4   -
JL Langer          9     9    0  315  120   35.00  417   75.54    1   1   28   1   0   1   -
JH Sinclair        5     5    0  227  121   45.40  205  110.73    1   0   23   9   0   1   -
ER Dexter          9     9    0  186   74   20.67  266   69.93    0   1   13   5   0   6   -
SG Barnes          6     6    0  172   43   28.67  278   61.87    0   0   13   3   0   4   -
DR Jardine         7     7    1  163   60   27.17  429   38.00    0   2    3   1   1   2   -
LN Constantine     9     9    1  160   42   20.00  159  100.63    0   0    9   8   1   1   -
RJ Campbell       10    10    2  148   52*  18.50  171   86.55    0   1   21   0   2  11   0
M Sathasivam       4     4    1   80   40*  26.67  158   50.63    0   0    1   0   0   0   -
FH Tyson           6     5    3   61   42*  30.50  114   53.51    0   0    4   0   0   1   -
AV Bedser          7     4    1   48   21   16.00   93   51.61    0   0    0   0   0   2   -
W Voce             2     2    0   32   30   16.00   32  100.00    0   0    3   1   0   0   -
GAR Lock           7     3    1   31   26*  15.50   36   86.11    0   0    2   1   1   3   -
CJ Posthuma        5     3    1   28   14*  14.00   41   68.30    0   0    1   0   0   0   -
RG Nadkarni        6     5    3   27   16   13.50   69   39.13    0   0    1   0   0   1   -
BF Butcher         3     3    0   22   12    7.33   34   64.70    0   0    1   0   0   1   -
S Ramadhin         2     1    1    7    7*   N/A    15   46.67    0   0    0   0   0   0   -
R Gilchrist        3     2    0    5    3    2.50   11   45.46    0   0    0   0   0   1   -

BOWLING

Player            Mat  Inns  Overs  Mdns  Runs  Wkts    BBI   Avg   Econ   S/R  4w  5w
LN Constantine     9     9   78.3    0    376    12    5/57  31.33  4.79  39.3   0   1
FH Tyson           6     6   54.0    2    278    10    6/38  27.80  5.14  32.4   0   1
AV Bedser          7     7   62.4    2    319     9    3/47  35.44  5.09  41.8   0   0
RG Nadkarni        6     6   41.5    2    179     7    2/19  25.57  4.28  35.9   0   0
S Ramadhin         2     2   18.0    0     86     5    4/38  17.20  4.78  21.6   1   0
JH Sinclair        5     5   36.0    0    211     5    2/65  42.20  5.86  43.2   0   0
GAR Lock           7     7   59.0    1    288     5    2/39  57.60  4.88  70.8   0   0
CJ Posthuma        5     5   43.0    1    260     4    2/27  65.00  6.05  64.5   0   0
R Gilchrist        3     3   28.0    0    137     3    1/29  45.67  4.89  56.0   0   0
W Voce             2     2   16.0    1     93     2    1/30  46.50  5.81  48.0   0   0
ER Dexter          9     6   16.5    0    105     0    0/2    N/A   6.24    -    0   0
SG Barnes          6     1    2.0    0     33     0    0/33   N/A  16.50    -    0   0

Spoiler: Karachi Cricket Club

KARACHI CRICKET CLUB

BATTING & FIELDING

Player            Mat  Inns  NO  Runs  HS    Avg    BF    S/R   100s 50s  4s  6s  0s  Ct  St
DG Bradman        13    13    2  750  147   68.18  738  101.63    5   1   81  22   2   4   -
AR Morris          9     9    0  486  116   54.00  535   90.84    2   3   45  12   1   2   -
WR Hammond        12    12    3  429   78*  47.67  434   98.85    0   4   46   9   0   4   -
KF Barrington     12    12    1  401   85   36.45  445   90.11    0   4   47   8   0   9   -
Hanif Mohammad    11    11    0  294   79   26.73  386   76.17    0   4   20   6   0   6   -
CL Walcott        13    10    4  251   55*  41.83  229  109.61    0   1   21  11   0   8   1
WG Grace           7     7    0  239   60   34.14  366   65.30    0   3   21   3   1   1   -
WW Armstrong       9     8    2  147   55*  24.50  198   74.24    0   1   18   1   0   2   -
RN Harvey          4     4    1  120   53   40.00  152   78.95    0   1   13   0   0   2   -
R Benaud          12     7    3   76   34*  19.00   75  101.33    0   0    9   1   4   2   -
WH Lockwood       10     5    3   53   33*  26.50   59   89.93    0   0    4   3   1   4   -
W Rhodes           6     4    1   24   13*   8.00   36   66.67    0   0    2   0   0   0   -
J Woods           10     5    2   15    6    5.00   29   51.73    0   0    0   0   1   4   -
H Trumble          8     2    0   12   12    6.00   18   66.67    0   0    1   0   1   4   -
H Dorning          3     3    0    9    7    3.00   30   30.00    0   0    0   0   1   0   -
HJ Tayfield        3     1    0    0    0    0.00    3    0.00    0   0    0   0   1   2   -
J Cowie            1     1    0    0    0    0.00    3    0.00    0   0    0   0   1   1   -

BOWLING

Player            Mat  Inns  Overs  Mdns  Runs  Wkts    BBI   Avg   Econ   S/R  4w  5w
WH Lockwood       10    10   90.0    1    512    21    5/98  24.38  5.69  25.7   0   1
R Benaud          12    12  105.0    1    563    19    5/25  29.63  5.36  33.2   0   1
J Woods           10    10   90.4    1    471    15    3/53  31.40  5.19  36.3   0   0
H Trumble          8     8   66.5    0    351    13    3/39  27.00  5.25  30.9   0   0
WR Hammond        12    12   80.0    1    518    11    2/45  47.09  6.48  43.6   0   0
WW Armstrong       9     9   56.0    0    301     7    2/44  43.00  5.38  48.0   0   0
W Rhodes           6     6   58.3    0    304     5    3/57  60.80  5.20  70.2   0   0
KF Barrington     12     5   12.0    0     88     3    1/10  29.33  7.33  24.0   0   0
H Dorning          3     3   23.0    1    107     3    2/47  35.67  4.65  46.0   0   0
HJ Tayfield        3     3   28.0    0    121     3    2/46  40.33  4.32  56.0   0   0
J Cowie            1     1   10.0    0     43     1    1/43  43.00  4.30  60.0   0   0

Spoiler: PlanetCricket

PLANETCRICKET

BATTING & FIELDING

Player            Mat  Inns  NO  Runs  HS    Avg    BF    S/R   100s 50s  4s  6s  0s  Ct  St
GS Sobers         12    12    1  475  156   43.18  536   88.62    1   3   43  11   0  10   -
JB Hobbs           8     8    1  441  104*  63.00  645   68.37    1   5   25   5   0   3   -
BA Richards       10    10    0  348   80   34.80  373   93.30    0   3   44   5   0   8   -
MA Noble          12    12    0  310   68   25.83  416   74.52    0   2   29   9   0   3   -
GA Faulkner        9     9    2  282   97   40.29  276  102.17    0   1   31   4   0   5   -
W Jaffer          10    10    1  227   82   25.22  323   70.28    0   2   13   5   2   7   -
FD Stephenson      8     8    2  167   48   27.83  116  143.97    0   0    9  11   0   2   -
KS McEwan          8     8    1  155   74*  22.14  197   78.68    0   1    9   2   1  10   3
L Hutton           6     6    0  138   45   23.00  166   83.13    0   0   13   2   0   3   -
JG Langridge       2     2    0   69   67   34.50  118   58.47    0   1    6   0   0   0   -
MH Mankad          4     4    3   65   37   65.00   96   67.71    0   0    3   1   0   2   -
Fazal Mahmood     10     7    3   37   12    9.25   48   77.08    0   0    3   0   1   8   -
FS Trueman        10     5    2   31   10*  10.33   43   72.09    0   0    1   0   0   0   -
CTB Turner         9     5    4   25   14*  25.00   30   83.33    0   0    2   0   0   3   -
JM Parks           4     3    0   20   12    6.67   25   79.99    0   0    3   0   0   4   0
PJ Sainsbury       2     2    0   12   10    6.00   23   52.18    0   0    1   0   0   2   -
DJ Shepherd        5     2    1    5    4*   5.00    9   55.56    0   0    0   0   0   0   -
R Goel             3     1    1    0    0*   N/A     1    0.00    0   0    0   0   0   0   -

BOWLING

Player            Mat  Inns  Overs  Mdns  Runs  Wkts    BBI   Avg   Econ   S/R  4w  5w
FS Trueman        10    10   84.3    1    417    23    4/45  18.13  4.93  22.0   2   0
Fazal Mahmood     10    10   77.0    1    395    17    4/23  23.24  5.13  27.2   2   0
FD Stephenson      8     8   62.0    1    348    13    3/19  26.77  5.61  28.6   0   0
CTB Turner         9     9   70.3    4    302    12    3/39  25.17  4.28  35.3   0   0
GS Sobers         12    11   57.2    1    261    11    3/26  23.73  4.55  31.3   0   0
GA Faulkner        9     8   36.0    0    184     6    2/10  30.67  5.11  36.0   0   0
MA Noble          12    10   52.0    3    223     6    2/24  37.17  4.29  52.0   0   0
MH Mankad          4     4   28.1    1    119     5    3/30  23.80  4.22  33.8   0   0
DJ Shepherd        5     5   29.2    1    118     4    2/24  29.50  4.02  44.0   0   0
R Goel             3     3   22.1    1     95     3    3/46  31.67  4.29  44.3   0   0
PJ Sainsbury       2     2   12.0    0     79     0    0/19   N/A   6.58    -    0   0

Spoiler: The Undisputed Era

THE UNDISPUTED ERA

BATTING & FIELDING

Player            Mat  Inns  NO  Runs  HS    Avg    BF    S/R   100s 50s  4s  6s  0s  Ct  St
SJ McCabe         10    10    0  412  112   41.20  495   83.23    1   2   33   9   1   8   -
FMM Worrell        9     9    0  239   82   26.56  284   84.16    0   1   15   5   0   3   -
ED Weekes          8     8    0  237   68   29.63  307   77.20    0   2   19   1   1   6   -
DT Lindsay         9     9    0  235   82   26.11  254   92.52    0   2   22  10   0   9   0
RG Pollock         6     6    0  229   79   38.17  273   83.88    0   3   21   5   1   2   -
CEB Rice           9     9    1  196   52*  24.50  247   79.35    0   1   14   4   0   0   -
AK Davidson        8     8    1  139   61   19.86  175   79.43    0   1    6   5   0   0   -
RR Lindwall        9     9    3  123   40*  20.50  143   86.02    0   0   11   4   1   4   -
KS Duleepsinhji    4     4    0  120   54   30.00  125   96.00    0   1   11   1   0   1   -
VM Merchant        4     4    0  109   60   27.25  154   70.78    0   1    9   0   1   1   -
H Larwood          8     8    4  106   37   26.50  121   87.60    0   0    5   3   0   2   -
VAP van der Bijl   6     5    1   46   34*  11.50   44  104.55    0   0    2   2   2   1   -
GS le Roux         4     4    0   39   14    9.75   29  134.49    0   0    4   1   0   0   -
WJ O'Reilly        8     6    1   36   13*   7.20   53   67.93    0   0    1   1   2   1   -
GS Patterson       1     1    0   21   21   21.00   31   67.74    0   0    1   1   0   0   -
BS Chandrasekhar   3     2    1   19   19   19.00   18  105.56    0   0    3   0   0   0   -
CV Grimmett        3     3    0    5    4    1.67    8   62.50    0   0    1   0   1   0   -
WAS Oldfield       1     1    0    3    3    3.00   15   20.00    0   0    0   0   0   0   0

BOWLING

Player            Mat  Inns  Overs  Mdns  Runs  Wkts    BBI   Avg   Econ   S/R  4w  5w
RR Lindwall        9     9   78.5    0    472    16    3/63  29.50  5.99  29.6   0   0
H Larwood          8     8   71.0    1    403    13    3/30  31.00  5.68  32.7   0   0
AK Davidson        8     8   73.0    3    349    12    3/34  29.08  4.78  36.5   0   0
VAP van der Bijl   6     6   57.3    4    243    11    4/27  22.09  4.23  31.4   1   0
WJ O'Reilly        8     8   75.5    2    392     9    2/49  43.56  5.17  50.6   0   0
CEB Rice           9     9   40.0    2    233     5    2/43  46.60  5.83  48.0   0   0
GS le Roux         4     4   34.2    1    187     4    1/34  46.75  5.45  51.5   0   0
CV Grimmett        3     3   29.0    0    140     2    1/33  70.00  4.83  87.0   0   0
BS Chandrasekhar   3     3   27.0    1    145     2    2/48  72.50  5.37  81.0   0   0
GS Patterson       1     1    2.0    0     12     0    0/12   N/A   6.00    -    0   0
FMM Worrell        9     2    4.0    0     32     0    0/22   N/A   8.00    -    0   0

Spoiler: Standings (league stage)

Standings​

-||Team||Pld||Won||Lost||NR/T||NRR||Pts
| | Karachi Cricket Club | | 10 | | 7 | | 3 | | 0 | | -0.093 | | 14
| | PlanetCricket | | 10 | | 6 | | 3 | | 1 | | +0.796 | | 13
| | Dominators | | 10 | | 6 | | 4 | | 0 | | -0.023 | | 12
| | Generic Wanderers | | 10 | | 5 | | 5 | | 0 | | +0.384 | | 10
| | The Undisputed Era | | 10 | | 2 | | 6 | | 2 | | -0.480 | | 6
| | Hound Dogs | | 10 | | 2 | | 7 | | 1 | | -0.592 | | 5

​

Points system

Result|Points
Win | 2 points
Tie/No result | 1 point
Loss | 0 points

​

Guidelines

- The top four teams from the double round robin qualify for the playoffs.
- Positions are decided by most points. Where two or more teams are tied on points, the following method will be taken into account to decide which team goes through :-
1) Higher net run rate.
2) Winner of most recent head-to-head match.
3) Higher number of wickets per ball.

- If a playoff match is tied, the following methods will be taken into account to decide the winner :-
1) Lesser number of wickets down.
2) Winner of most recent head-to-head match.
3) Better finish in the round robin stage.
4) Higher run rate in the first 20 overs of an innings.

- If the final is tied, the two finalists will be declared joint winners of the tournament.​

Stats leaders​

Most runs

Player|Team|Mat|Inns|NO|Runs|H.S|Average|Balls|S/R|100s|50s|0s|4s|6s
Don Bradman | KCC | 13 | 13 | 2 | 750 | 147 | 68.18 | 738 | 101.63 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 81 | 22
Herbert Sutcliffe | DOM | 10 | 10 | 0 | 505 | 114 | 50.50 | 605 | 83.47 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 52 | 8
Arthur Morris | KCC | 9 | 9 | 0 | 486 | 116 | 54.00 | 535 | 90.84 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 45 | 12
Garry Sobers | PC | 12 | 12 | 1 | 475 | 156 | 43.18 | 536 | 88.62 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 43 | 11
Victor Trumper | GEN | 11 | 11 | 0 | 447 | 128 | 40.64 | 469 | 95.31 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 52 | 6
Jack Hobbs | PC | 8 | 8 | 1 | 441 | 104* | 63.00 | 645 | 68.37 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 25 | 5
Wally Hammond | KCC | 12 | 12 | 3 | 429 | 78* | 47.67 | 434 | 98.85 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 46 | 9
Stan McCabe | TUE | 10 | 10 | 0 | 412 | 112 | 41.20 | 495 | 83.23 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 33 | 9
Ken Barrington | KCC | 12 | 12 | 1 | 401 | 85 | 36.45 | 445 | 90.11 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 47 | 8
KS Ranjitsinhji | DOM | 7 | 7 | 1 | 390 | 149 | 65.00 | 392 | 99.49 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 38 | 10
Clem Hill | GEN | 11 | 11 | 0 | 387 | 161 | 35.18 | 437 | 88.56 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 31 | 17
Ilikena Bula | HD | 10 | 10 | 0 | 365 | 139 | 36.50 | 359 | 101.67 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 31 | 18
Gilbert Jessop | GEN | 11 | 11 | 0 | 358 | 100 | 32.55 | 307 | 116.61 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 22 | 24
Charles Macartney | GEN | 10 | 10 | 0 | 357 | 118 | 35.70 | 414 | 86.23 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 44 | 2
Barry Richards | PC | 10 | 10 | 0 | 348 | 80 | 34.80 | 373 | 93.30 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 44 | 5
Justin Langer | HD | 9 | 9 | 0 | 315 | 120 | 35.00 | 417 | 75.54 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 28 | 1
Monty Noble | PC | 12 | 12 | 0 | 310 | 68 | 25.83 | 416 | 74.52 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 29 | 9
Keith Miller | DOM | 9 | 9 | 4 | 305 | 82* | 61.00 | 324 | 94.14 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 31 | 11
Hanif Mohammad | KCC | 11 | 11 | 0 | 294 | 79 | 26.73 | 386 | 76.17 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 20 | 6
Vijay Hazare | DOM | 9 | 9 | 2 | 290 | 83 | 41.43 | 397 | 73.05 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 23 | 3
Aubrey Faulkner | PC | 9 | 9 | 2 | 282 | 97 | 40.29 | 276 | 102.17 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 31 | 4

​

Most wickets

Player|Team|Mat|Inns|Overs|Mdns|Runs|Wkts|BBI|Average|Econ|S/R|4w|5w
Fred Trueman | PC | 10 | 10 | 84.3 | 1 | 417 | 23 | 4/45 | 18.13 | 4.93 | 22.0 | 2 | 0
George Lohmann | DOM | 10 | 10 | 88.3 | 1 | 480 | 23 | 5/42 | 20.87 | 5.42 | 23.1 | 1 | 1
Bill Lockwood | KCC | 10 | 10 | 90.0 | 1 | 512 | 21 | 5/98 | 24.38 | 5.69 | 25.7 | 0 | 1
Richie Benaud | KCC | 12 | 12 | 105.0 | 1 | 563 | 19 | 5/25 | 29.63 | 5.36 | 33.2 | 0 | 1
Fazal Mahmood | PC | 10 | 10 | 77.0 | 1 | 395 | 17 | 4/23 | 23.24 | 5.13 | 27.2 | 2 | 0
Mike Procter | GEN | 8 | 8 | 66.0 | 0 | 370 | 16 | 4/51 | 23.13 | 5.61 | 24.8 | 1 | 0
Sydney Barnes | DOM | 10 | 10 | 87.5 | 1 | 399 | 16 | 3/47 | 24.94 | 4.54 | 32.9 | 0 | 0
Ray Lindwall | TUE | 9 | 9 | 78.5 | 0 | 472 | 16 | 3/63 | 29.50 | 5.99 | 29.6 | 0 | 0
Bart King | GEN | 10 | 10 | 86.4 | 2 | 520 | 16 | 3/29 | 32.50 | 6.00 | 32.5 | 0 | 0
Float Woods | KCC | 10 | 10 | 90.4 | 1 | 471 | 15 | 3/53 | 31.40 | 5.19 | 36.3 | 0 | 0
Jack Gregory | DOM | 8 | 8 | 69.5 | 4 | 356 | 14 | 4/52 | 25.43 | 5.10 | 29.9 | 1 | 0
Hedley Verity | GEN | 9 | 9 | 80.0 | 5 | 394 | 14 | 4/60 | 28.14 | 4.93 | 34.3 | 1 | 0
Franklyn Stephenson | PC | 8 | 8 | 62.0 | 1 | 348 | 13 | 3/19 | 26.77 | 5.61 | 28.6 | 0 | 0
Hugh Trumble | KCC | 8 | 8 | 66.5 | 0 | 351 | 13 | 3/39 | 27.00 | 5.25 | 30.9 | 0 | 0
Harold Larwood | TUE | 8 | 8 | 71.0 | 1 | 403 | 13 | 3/30 | 31.00 | 5.68 | 32.7 | 0 | 0
Charlie Turner | PC | 9 | 9 | 70.3 | 4 | 302 | 12 | 3/39 | 25.17 | 4.28 | 35.3 | 0 | 0
Alan Davidson | TUE | 8 | 8 | 73.0 | 3 | 349 | 12 | 3/34 | 29.08 | 4.78 | 36.5 | 0 | 0
Learie Constantine | HD | 9 | 9 | 78.3 | 0 | 376 | 12 | 5/57 | 31.33 | 4.79 | 39.3 | 0 | 1
JJ Ferris | DOM | 11 | 11 | 71.5 | 1 | 400 | 12 | 4/41 | 33.33 | 5.57 | 35.9 | 1 | 0
Vince van der Bijl | TUE | 6 | 6 | 57.3 | 4 | 243 | 11 | 4/27 | 22.09 | 4.23 | 31.4 | 1 | 0
Garry Sobers | PC | 12 | 11 | 57.2 | 1 | 261 | 11 | 3/26 | 23.73 | 4.55 | 31.3 | 0 | 0
Wally Hammond | KCC | 12 | 12 | 80.0 | 1 | 518 | 11 | 2/45 | 47.09 | 6.48 | 43.6 | 0 | 0
Frank Tyson | HD | 6 | 6 | 54.0 | 2 | 278 | 10 | 6/38 | 27.80 | 5.14 | 32.4 | 0 | 1

​

Most dismissals

Player|Team|Mat|Inns|Dis|Cat|St|Max Dis Inns|Dis/Inns
Ken McEwan | PC | 8 | 8 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 5 (2ct 3st) | 1.625
Dane Vilas | DOM | 12 | 12 | 12 | 11 | 1 | 3 (3ct 0st) | 1.000
Ryan Campbell | HD | 9 | 9 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 4 (4ct 0st) | 1.222
Denis Lindsay | TUE | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 3 (3ct 0st) | 1.000
Clyde Walcott | KCC | 13 | 13 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 4 (3ct 1st) | 0.692
Jim Parks | PC | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 (2ct 0st) | 0.750
Les Ames | GEN | 7 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 (2ct 0st) | 0.429
Lee Irvine | GEN | 6 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 (2ct 0st) | 0.667
Bert Oldfield | TUE | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 (0ct 0st) | 0.000

​

Lineup of the tournament​

1) Jack Hobbs (PlanetCricket) - 441 runs at 63.00
2) Arthur Morris (Karachi CricketClub) - 486 runs at 54.00
3) KS Ranjitsinhji (Dominators) - 390 runs at 65.00
4) Don Bradman (Karachi Cricket Club) - 750 runs at 68.18
5) Garry Sobers (PlanetCricket) - 475 runs at 43.18, 11 wickets at 23.73
6) Gilbert Jessop (Generic Wanderers) - 358 runs at 32.55 (SR 116.61), 4 wickets at 61.00
7) Clyde Walcott (Karachi Cricket Club) - 251 runs at 41.83, 9 dismissals (8ct 1st)
8) Franklyn Stephenson (PlanetCricket) - 167 runs at 27.83 (SR 143.97), 13 wickets at 26.77
9) Richie Benaud (Karachi Cricket Club) - 19 wickets at 29.63, 76 runs at 19.00
10) Fred Trueman (PlanetCricket) - 23 wickets at 18.13
11) George Lohmann (Dominators) - 23 wickets at 20.87

@Na Maloom Afraad @Yash. @Pinch hitter @Hamza2000 @CerealKiller @Master Bates @Aislabie​

 

[Na Maloom Afraad]

 

[CerealKiller]

Pretty miserable season for me.

 

[VC the slogger]

Howdy folks.. welcome back here for the first time since Covid. Although I did run a spin-off of this league for a brief while without properly calculating the amount of work required which had me basically creating 12 different squads in the sim every single round, which can only be sustainable for so long.. Nevertheless, I took my time to get back here with a different idea that could do this league justice for it's 12th season (how time flies ) incidentally 12 years after I started this league, and one which doesn't require me to take on a ridiculous workload either.

So, let's get to it.. Legends At Battle XII will feature (hopefully 12?) teams with no national restrictions à la Season XI where any players who have played an official cricket match or unofficial associate level match since Test cricket's start year 1877 are eligible for selection. There will be some minor restrictions on player selection however, so we don't end up having squads featuring only the Bradmans, Barneses and Headleys etc, which would make things a bit one-dimensional for a 50-over tournament with no disrespect to those players. Each squad will contain 18 players with the following criteria:

- A minimum of 5 all-format specialists (Test, ODI & T20I capped; eg Virat Kohli, AB de Villiers, Chris Gayle, Rohit Sharma etc)
- A minimum of 3 T20 specialists i.e players that have placed at least twice the number of T20 matches (international/domestic) as compared to other international formats combined (eg Andre Russell, Dwayne Bravo, Rashid Khan, Will Jacks etc)
- A minimum of 3 Test specialists. As the name suggests, this criteria means players who have only played Test cricket at international level and no ODIs/T20Is, which allows you to either select players from pre-ODI eras dating back to 1877 (eg Don Bradman, Sydney Barnes, Wally Hammond etc) to even more recent cases such as Mark Butcher for instance.
- A minimum of 3 associate legends.. This means players from associate countries that do not have Test status, or players that represented pre-Test status Ireland/Afghanistan/Zimbabwe/Bangladesh/Sri Lanka (then Ceylon). Here you have the freedom to select players irrespective of what format they played from any era starting from 1877 to present (eg Steve Tikolo, Ryan ten Doeschate, Bart King). I have even allowed players who have only played unofficial fixtures so as to allow certain gun players that never played first-class cricket back in the old days due to their country of origin not being interested to dabble for various reasons such as Canada's legendary Jack Laing of the 1890s, or even the likes of Friedrich Rincker, Arie Terwiel from the Netherlands, Felix Menzel from Nazi Germany etc.
- The remaining 4 players can be any of your choice regardless of which formats they played, including internationally capped or non-capped players. This also gives you the opportunity to get in some quality Test & ODI only picks from the pre-T20 era (eg Viv Richards, Dennis Lillee, Michael Bevan, Malcolm Marshall etc)
- There are no lineup restrictions save for the customary wicket-keeper in your XI, and at least 16 of your 18 squad members including at least 2 associates/T20 specialists getting a game at the very least.

Sign-ups are open as of now. To sign up, simply post a team name of your choice and fire away..


Tagging last season's participants in case they're interested this time around - @Aislabie @Umair7 @Pinch hitter @Na Maloom Afraad @CerealKiller @Master Bates

 

[Na Maloom Afraad]

Yep, I'm in.

 

[Viper.]

I am in, but do we pick countries or what?

 

[VC the slogger]

I am in, but do we pick countries or what?

Just sign up with any random team name of your choice (eg Inglorious Basterds or any such).. There are no country restrictions, we'll just have a draft afterwards where you can select any player that ever played for whichever country in your XVIII as long as you play by the squad rules mentioned above.

 

[Till Valhalla]

In

 

[Aislabie]

Yes, I'll play

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

The Baker Street Boys will return

 

[Umair7]

In

 

[Paranoid Kendroid]

In

Post your lineup first

 

[Pinch hitter]

I am in too...