Aislabie
Test Cricket is Best Cricket
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Test Cricket is Best Cricket
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Aislabie
Test Cricket is Best Cricket
So, huge thanks to everyone for submitting your Unlucky Dip nominations.
The Unlucky Dip will proceed in the following order:
The Unlucky Dip will proceed in the following order:
- All players nominated by multiple participants (in random order)
- All other nominated players (in random order)
- Players from the reserve list (in random order)
Aislabie
Test Cricket is Best Cricket
Unlucky Dip, Player #1: 
Charles Coventry
Nominated by: @Aislabie and @Supreme General
Received by: @Aislabie
A fantastic start to my team! Despite playing as a batter only in anything above club cricket, he has an average of 6.97 across all matches on Cricket Archive.
I'll pencil him in at number 10 in my order for now (I won't assume anyone else's batting order)
Aislabie's XI so far:
10. Charles Coventry
Charles Coventry Nominated by: @Aislabie and @Supreme General
Received by: @Aislabie
A fantastic start to my team! Despite playing as a batter only in anything above club cricket, he has an average of 6.97 across all matches on Cricket Archive.
I'll pencil him in at number 10 in my order for now (I won't assume anyone else's batting order)
Aislabie's XI so far:
10.
Charles Coventry
Aislabie
Test Cricket is Best Cricket
Unlucky Dip, Player #2: Fionn Hand
Nominated by: @ddrap14 and @Till Valhalla
Received by: @Till Valhalla
A medium-pace seamer straight out of the Irish tradition of what bowlers should look like, Hand's record of 6 wickets @ 72.33 from 7 first-class matches (including one Test) suggest that you'll probably get more out of his muscular batting.
Till Valhalla's XI so far:
Fionn Hand
Fionn Hand Nominated by: @ddrap14 and @Till Valhalla
Received by: @Till Valhalla
A medium-pace seamer straight out of the Irish tradition of what bowlers should look like, Hand's record of 6 wickets @ 72.33 from 7 first-class matches (including one Test) suggest that you'll probably get more out of his muscular batting.
Till Valhalla's XI so far:
Fionn Hand
Aislabie
Test Cricket is Best Cricket
Unlucky Dip Player #3: Billy Frank
Nominated by: @Paranoid Kendroid and @Neptune
Received by: @Paranoid Kendroid
A player obscure enough that he might almost not have existed, if not for having bowled just under ten expensive overs in his only Test match.
Kendroid's XI so far:
Billy Frank
Billy FrankNominated by: @Paranoid Kendroid and @Neptune
Received by: @Paranoid Kendroid
A player obscure enough that he might almost not have existed, if not for having bowled just under ten expensive overs in his only Test match.
Kendroid's XI so far:
Billy Frank
Aislabie
Test Cricket is Best Cricket
Unlucky Dip Player #4: Robert Stewart
Nominated by: @Paranoid Kendroid and @Supreme General
Received by: @Supreme General
Another player I simply couldn't find a photo for, but of the three players so far whose entire first-class careers spanned England-South Africa Test matches, Stewart was the best of them: an accomplished schoolboy batter who could also bowl and field well in his youth.
Supreme General's XI so far:
Robert Stewart
Robert StewartNominated by: @Paranoid Kendroid and @Supreme General
Received by: @Supreme General
Another player I simply couldn't find a photo for, but of the three players so far whose entire first-class careers spanned England-South Africa Test matches, Stewart was the best of them: an accomplished schoolboy batter who could also bowl and field well in his youth.
Supreme General's XI so far:
Robert Stewart
Aislabie
Test Cricket is Best Cricket
Unlucky Dip Player #5: Pud Thurlow
Nominated by: @ahmedleo414 and @Neptune
Received by: @Neptune
Pud Thurlow was a hard working fast bowler whose career coincided with some of the flattest pitches in cricket history. He played Shield cricket during the period where Woodfull's Victorians were putting up scores of 1,000 and more. With that in mind, Thurlow's first-class bowling average of 42 is more respectable than it seems.
Neptune's XI so far:
Pud Thurlow
Pud ThurlowNominated by: @ahmedleo414 and @Neptune
Received by: @Neptune
Pud Thurlow was a hard working fast bowler whose career coincided with some of the flattest pitches in cricket history. He played Shield cricket during the period where Woodfull's Victorians were putting up scores of 1,000 and more. With that in mind, Thurlow's first-class bowling average of 42 is more respectable than it seems.
Neptune's XI so far:
Pud Thurlow
Aislabie
Test Cricket is Best Cricket
Unlucky Dip Player #6: Baqa Jilani
Nominated by: @mohsin7827 and @Till Valhalla
Received by: @mohsin7827
A first-class bowling average of just 19 makes Baqa Jilani one of the best purely cricketing nominations in this draft. However, the fact that he made the Indian team by being Vizzy's best mate suggests that his presence might not do wonders for morale.
Mohsin's XI so far:
Baqa Jilani
Baqa JilaniNominated by: @mohsin7827 and @Till Valhalla
Received by: @mohsin7827
A first-class bowling average of just 19 makes Baqa Jilani one of the best purely cricketing nominations in this draft. However, the fact that he made the Indian team by being Vizzy's best mate suggests that his presence might not do wonders for morale.
Mohsin's XI so far:
Baqa Jilani
Aislabie
Test Cricket is Best Cricket
That is the last of our double-nominated players, so anyone who gambled and nominated a genuinely good player for this section has my condolences
Aislabie
Test Cricket is Best Cricket
Unlucky Dip Player #7: Trevor McMahon
Nominated by: @Neptune
Received by: @Aravind
Trevor McMahon was a top-quality gloveman and a genuine non-batter: that said, a proper gloveman is a valuable role to have checked off during the Unlucky Dip phase of this draft.
Aravind's XI so far
Trevor McMahon
Trevor McMahonNominated by: @Neptune
Received by: @Aravind
Trevor McMahon was a top-quality gloveman and a genuine non-batter: that said, a proper gloveman is a valuable role to have checked off during the Unlucky Dip phase of this draft.
Aravind's XI so far
Trevor McMahon
Aislabie
Test Cricket is Best Cricket
Unlucky Dip Player #8: Iqbal Siddiqui
Nominated by: @mohsin7827
Received by: @Neptune
A brisk Indian fast bowler who I think of as his era's Pankaj Singh, there are far far worse players available than Iqbal Siddiqui. And he joins a team that is already building up a respectable seam attack.
Neptune's XI so far:
Iqbal Siddiqui
Pud Thurlow
Iqbal SiddiquiNominated by: @mohsin7827
Received by: @Neptune
A brisk Indian fast bowler who I think of as his era's Pankaj Singh, there are far far worse players available than Iqbal Siddiqui. And he joins a team that is already building up a respectable seam attack.
Neptune's XI so far:
Iqbal Siddiqui Pud Thurlow
Aislabie
Test Cricket is Best Cricket
Unlucky Dip Player #9: Imran Khan
Nominated by: @Paranoid Kendroid
Received by: @Till Valhalla
This is the first of the gambled picks that didn't quite pay off: one of the greatest cricketers of all time, but only Kendroid rolled the dice, so this time he's the unlucky one.
Till Valhalla's XI so far:
Imran Khan
Fionn Hand
Imran Khan
Nominated by: @Paranoid Kendroid
Received by: @Till Valhalla
This is the first of the gambled picks that didn't quite pay off: one of the greatest cricketers of all time, but only Kendroid rolled the dice, so this time he's the unlucky one.
Till Valhalla's XI so far:
Imran Khan Fionn Hand
Aislabie
Test Cricket is Best Cricket
Unlucky Dip Player #10: Tinu Yonannan
Nominated by: @Aravind.
Received by: @ddrap14
A long-time high jumper who saw an advert for the MRF Pace Academy and decided to turn up unannounced, Tinu Yohannan had all the ingredients to be part of the 2013-14 England Ashes squad (which is to say that he was very tall indeed).
Ddrap's XI so far:
Tinu Yohannan
Tinu YonannanNominated by: @Aravind.
Received by: @ddrap14
A long-time high jumper who saw an advert for the MRF Pace Academy and decided to turn up unannounced, Tinu Yohannan had all the ingredients to be part of the 2013-14 England Ashes squad (which is to say that he was very tall indeed).
Ddrap's XI so far:
Tinu Yohannan
