Draft: Pane2ar Draft: Return of the Rabbits

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)

:zim: :bat: Kevin Kasuza
:aus: :ar: Frank Tarrant
:eng: :x: Emile McMaster
4.
:aus: :bat: Stuart Law
6.
:saf: :ar: Mike Procter
:zim: :ar: Gary Crocker
:pak: :bwl: Niaz Ahmed
:zim: :bwl: Ujesh Ranchod
:ban: :bwl: Tapash Baisya

@Paranoid Kendroid
 
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:aus: :ar: 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. :eng: :ar: WG Grace (22 caps)
2/3/4. :aus: :ar: Bill Alley (Rob Key)
4/5. :ind: :ar: Ajay Sharma (1 cap)
6. :pak: :ar: Shadab Khan
7. :saf: :bat: Percy Twentyman-Jones
8. :ind: :bat: Rajagopalan Shyamsunder
9. :aus: :bwl: Dave Gilbert
10. :eng: :bat: Charles Coventry
11. :pak: :wk: Asma Farzand

27 caps remaining

@Aravind.
 
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. :sri: :bat: Mahadevan Sathasivam
4. :saf: :ar: Aubrey Faulkner
5. :eng: :bat: John Morris
6. :saf: :wkb: Denis Lindsay
7. :sri: :ar: Chamika Karunaratne
8. :ind: :bwl: Iqbal Siddiqui
9. :pak: :bwl: Usman Khan Shinwari
10. :pak: :bwl: Tabish Khan
11. :aus: :bwl: Pud Thurlow

(44/50)

@icyman
 

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