Pane2ar Draft: Return of the Rabbits

[Yash.]

Pretty sure WG would just pay him more

Wait until I get Jay Shah in my team

 

[Paranoid Kendroid]

KS Dulipsinhji

@CerealKiller with double picks

 

[CerealKiller]

I will pick Frank Tarrant as my uncapped player, who excelled as an opening batter and spinner for Victoria and Middlesex.
First-class stats: 17,952 runs @ 36.41 (33 centuries, best 250*) and 1,512 wickets @ 17.49 (133 5WI, best 10/90) in 329 matches

My second pick is Stuart Law. Unfortunately he got the opportunity to play only one Test, and made 54* in his only innings, but scored more than 27000 runs at an average of 50 in Shield and County cricket.

CerealKiller's XI (8/50 caps)

Kevin Kasuza
Frank Tarrant
Emile McMaster
4.
Stuart Law
6.
Mike Procter
Gary Crocker
Niaz Ahmed
Ujesh Ranchod
Tapash Baisya

@Paranoid Kendroid

 

[Aislabie]

Bill Alley

In my opinion the best all-rounder never to play Test cricket, Bill Alley was an absolute weapon for New South Wales, for Colne and then for Somerset. His county career didn't even begin until he was almost 40, but then lasted over a decade as he racked up 31 centuries and 30 five-wicket hauls. The reason for his belated county career was simple: the Lancashire League paid him better, and even then Colne were getting a bargain: Alley obliterated a number of Lancashire League records set by Garry Sobers before him, and may be the best league cricketer this country has ever seen.

1. WG Grace (22 caps)
2/3/4. Bill Alley (Rob Key)
4/5. Ajay Sharma (1 cap)
6. Shadab Khan
7. Percy Twentyman-Jones
8. Rajagopalan Shyamsunder
9. Dave Gilbert
10. Charles Coventry
11. Asma Farzand

27 caps remaining

@Aravind.

 

[Paranoid Kendroid]

Paranoid Kendroid's XI:

01. Jeremy Solozano
02.
03. George Headley
04. KS Duleepsinhji
05. Sarfaraz Khan
06.
07. Vijay Rajindernath
08. Roger Wijesuriya
09. Simon Kerrigan
10. Rubel Hossain
11. Billy Frank

 

[Aravind.]

Harry Brook (43, 7 Caps Remaining)

1558 runs in 18 Test matches @53.72, one of the best batter currently in international cricket, happy to have him.

@Perfect Square

 

[Perfect Square]

Jamie Smith (6 Caps) is my pick. A good WK batter pick I believe.

@ahmedleo414 you're next.

 

[ahmedleo414]

I'll be honest I have had no time to do any research as I've been extremely busy but I think I had Ed Joyce as one of the ones shortlisted

@Supreme General you're next

 

[Aislabie]

Harry Brook (43, 7 Caps Remaining)

1558 runs in 18 Test matches @53.72, one of the best batter currently in international cricket, happy to have him.

@Perfect Square

For this one, I'll be counting Brook as 19 caps as the game was underway when this pick was made

 

[ddrap14]

For this one, I'll be counting Brook as 19 caps as the game was underway when this pick was made

I'm not gonna lie I don't think Aravind will be complaining

 

[Supreme General]

I'll go with Rashid Khan

@ddrap14

 

[Aislabie]

I've finally updated the index properly.

@ddrap14 is late, so @mohsin7827 you can go ahead and pick

 

[ddrap14]

Perfect Square killed the man but not the idea. Alan Melville comes into the team. 28 caps left and Mohsin is up

 

[mohsin7827]

I might be hitting on my foot with two picks left to pick but let's see

11. George Lohmann (18, 6)

@Neptune to go next

 

[Neptune]

Thanks to my long tail, I need a keeper comfortable batting in the top 6 and the outrageously talented Denis Lindsay fits in perfectly

It is absolutely not talked about enough how much of a trailblazer Lindsay was, in an era of specialist keepers he would have made the South African side even as a specialist bat. Almost the perfect bazball player, he absolutely took Australia to the sword in 1966-67 en route on a historic series win with airborne shots that were unthinkable for any batsmen in that era; let alone 'keeper bats

3. Mahadevan Sathasivam
4. Aubrey Faulkner
5. John Morris
6. Denis Lindsay
7. Chamika Karunaratne
8. Iqbal Siddiqui
9. Usman Khan Shinwari
10. Tabish Khan
11. Pud Thurlow

(44/50)

@icyman