Draft: Test Cricket Scrubs XI Draft

[qpeedore]

I'll reuse a pick I made in the Quotea Draft and go with Tabraiz Shamsi.

2 Tests, 6 wickets at 46.33 (best 3/91)
82 FC, 332 wickets at 26.10 (best 8/32)

South Africa seem to look at him as their limited overs spinner, while Keshav Maharaj is their main Test spinner. I get that certain players have certain roles to play, but Shamsi only got to play all of two Tests before being relegated to the limited overs role. Maharaj has played more FC matches and taken more wickets, but taking that into consideration, Shamsi has the better average and better strike rate. I wish he had played more Tests, because that best of 8/32 came in the last First Class match he played in November, on a Day 3 pitch. This was after making his career highest FC score of 36 just before that (hey, he's a bowler, I'll take the runs).

I think he's a good start to my XI. Hopefully not all of my planned picks get snapped up too quickly.

@blockerdave

 

[Aislabie]

I'll reuse a pick I made in the Quotea Draft and go with Tabraiz Shamsi.

2 Tests, 6 wickets at 46.33 (best 3/91)
82 FC, 332 wickets at 26.10 (best 8/32)

That's a really good pick; exactly the sort of player we're all looking to pick up - someone who has a lot of ability, but for reasons other than their own talent hasn't had the returns in Test cricket that one might expect.

Could also be the first building block of a spin-to-win strategy. Possibly even one with my favourite kind of bowling attack, one that includes all four kinds of spin bowler

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

I thought I would get an entry in the draft with my vrv singh comment

 

[Aislabie]

I thought I would get an entry in the draft with my vrv singh comment

My apologies - I didn't read that as an entry, more an observation of VRV Singh being a scrub, so I gave the five available slots to the first five entries I saw

 

[Yash.]

I’m so hundred percent sure @blockerdave is gonna pick the player I want to be my first pick.

 

[blockerdave]

Well I’m a bit torn here, between trying to pick a good side, and trying to pick an awful side.

But I’ll go for good and the obvious choice to me seems my old faithful Jimmy Cook to open.

was this him @Yash. ?

your go @ahmedleo414

 

[Yash.]

But I’ll go for good and the obvious choice to me seems my old faithful Jimmy Cook to open.

was this him @Yash. ?

Of course it was him...

 

[Aislabie]

I’ll go for good and the obvious choice to me seems my old faithful Jimmy Cook to open.

I did consider picking him first up, but honestly didn't want to get in the way of the meme

 

[ahmedleo414]

I have to start the team with Charles Passailaigue

Stats||Matches||Runs||HS|| Ave||100s/50s
First-Class | |12| |788| |261*| |52.53| |2/2
Test | |1| |46| |44| |46.00| |0/0

From cricinfo:

"Clarence Passailaigue was a close childhood friend of George Headley, who scored 183 on his first-class debut for Jamaica against MCC in 1929-30. His second match was his Test debut, also at Sabina Park, in the final Test where he made 44 and 2 not out, and he was unfortunate not to be picked for the tour of Australia in 1930-31. Indeed, it was rather odd that he never played for West Indies again. The remainder of his first-class career was spasmodic, with ten matches in the next eight years, all in either Jamaica or Trinidad. In 1931-32, he hammered a career-best 261 not out against Lord Tennyson's tourists, adding a world-record 487 for the sixth wicket with Headley."

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Test caps used (1/50)

@Dale88 has the next pick

 

[Ed Smith]

11.Lonwabo Tsotobe



Can't bat
Test bowling sub par
Unlimited coolness factor
Serviceable 1st class average

Everybody say Hi to Lonnie[DOUBLEPOST=1610047675][/DOUBLEPOST]@Yash.

 

[ahmedleo414]

Hi Lonnie

 

[Yash.]

My first two picks would be Jim Parks Sr. and ...

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Ajay Sharma

 

[Yash.]

@Dale88

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

Now that he is ineligible, no one picked Shubman Gill.

opportunity wasted

 

[Aislabie]

The fact that there's a first round of any draft where the six players picked are O'Donnell, Shamsi, J. Cook, Passailaigue, Tsotsobe and Parks Sr is something I am very proud of

Interesting to see some of you going for one-cap wonders early on; if you're not careful you might end up needing to pick Jim Kelly to get your caps up