Draft: The Alphabet Draft

[Khan Sahab54]

Owais Shah

 

[ahmedleo414]

@Parth D you got next

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

1. Michael Atherton

Format	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100s	50s	4s	6s	Ct	St
Test	115	212	7	7728	185*	37.69	20609	37.49	16	46	904	4	83	0
FC	336	584	47	21929	268*	40.83			54	107			268	0

Cricinfo bio:
Gutsy and stubborn, single-minded and sledger-proof, Mike Atherton was an opener in the classic English tradition, making batting look like trench warfare. Defence was his forte, but when his bad back wasn't playing up, he hooked freely and timed the ball sweetly through point. In opponents' eyes, he was England's most wanted man for the seven years until his retirement at the end of the 2001 Ashes. Thrust into the captaincy at the age of 25, he proved more durable than successful, but after finally resigning in 1998, he slipped comfortably into the role of elder statesman. Australia seldom saw the best of him, but his relish for a personal duel did much to bring about series victories over both South Africa (1998) and West Indies (2000). He retired in 2001 and slipped easily into the media, establishing a reputation as one of the better player-broadcasters as well as a no-nonsense journalist.

1. Mike Atherton
2. 
3. Norm O'Neill
4. 
5. Sir Vivian Richards
6. Mahendra Singh Dhoni
7. Polly Umrigar
8. Shaun Pollock
9. Bill O'Reilly
10. Ishant Sharma
11. Stuart Broad

@mohsin7827

 

[mohsin7827]

3. Andy Flower

@AsadRM

 

[AsadRM]

Taslim Arif at #8

@Ashutosh.

 

[ahmedleo414]

I'm going to bed so i'll just tag @Ashutosh. he's got 4 hours to make his pick otherwise @Murtaza96 can go

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

Taslim Arif at #8

@Ashutosh.

7 mins left for @Ashutosh.

@Murtaza96 can go then

 

[Khan Sahab54]

Brett Lee

 

[qpeedore]

Think after @Murtaza96 it's me.

I have numbers 3 and 4 to fill. Damn me Qpee, those are important spots. Should have filled them earlier.

GENERALISED

Hmm...

Elias "Patsy" Hendren at four for me. Only Jack Hobbs has more FC centuries than him to this day. Guy hit 170 scores of 100 or more, and an amazing 272 fifties. Hell yeah number four in my squad.

@ahmedleo414

 

[ahmedleo414]

Down to my final two E and B

For B this I had four players in mind and ended up going with Freddie Brown

Stats	Matches	Runs	HS	Batting Ave	100s/50s	Wickets	BBI	BBM	Bowling Ave	5w/10w
First Class	335	13,325	212	27.36	22/56	1,221	8/34	?	26.21	62/11
Test	22	734	79	25.31	0/0	45	5/49	6/81	31.06	1/0

Bio from cricinfo:

Freddie Brown was born at Lima, Peru, where his father, no mean cricketer himself, was in business. The boy's left-handedness at everything met with paternal disapproval, and he was forced to change over, fortunately with no damage to his natural co-ordination. At his prep school, St Pirans, he made rapid strides under the tutorage of Aubrey Faulkner, who on the staff, so that when he moved on to The Leys, he had four years of unbroken success, with more than 2,000 runs and nearly 200 wickets for XI. Before his first season at Cambridge, he was advised by Faulkner to concentrate on leg-breaks and googlies as his main weapons in first-class cricket, keeping his medium-pace swingers up his sleeve as a variation. That he was able to carry this out is a tribute to his adaptability. In his two seasons at Cambridge, 1930 and 1931, he exceeded 1,000 runs in 25 matches and took exactly 100 wickets. In his first University Match he played two useful innings, and in 1931, when the Nawab of Pataudi made his record 238 not out for Oxford, he sustained and accurate and probing attack with five for 153 in 43.5 overs. In an appendix to his book, [I]Cricket Musketeer[/I], published in 1954, no fewer than 27 instances of fast scoring involving brown are cited, and it is estimated that he scored at 64 runs per hour in his longer innings, usually with shirt billowing and with a white kerchief ever present. In a career stretching from 1930 to 1961, he made 13,325 runs at 27.36, including 22 hundreds, took 1,221 wickets at 26.21 apiece, and held 212 catches. He performed the double again in 1949, and in 1952 he missed a third by a single wicket. He passed 1,000 runs four times. His best bowling figures were eight for 34 against Somerset at Weston-super-Mare in 1939. In his 22 Tests, 15 as captain, Brown made 734 runs for an average of 25.31 and took 45 wickets at 31.06. He was chairman of selectors in 1953, and later in the decade he managed the MCC sides in South Africa and Australia. He was President of MCC in 1971-72 and also of the NCA and ESCA.

While primarily being used as a lower order batsman on my team, Freddie was able to bowl Medium pace and Leg Spin, so he can be used as a 5th bowling option depending on conditions

My team so far:

1. Bill Ponsford
2. Barry Richards
3. Ian Chappell
4. Greg Chappell
5. Imran Khan
6. Sir Clive Lloyd
7. E
8. Freddie Brown
9. Anil Kumble
10. Courtney Walsh
11. Ken Higgs

@Parth D you are next

 

[Ashutosh.]

Brett Lee

INVALID

 

[Khan Sahab54]

INVALID

Bhuvneshwar Kumar

 

[ahmedleo414]

INVALID

Thank you, I missed that... @Murtaza96 please make another pick

 

[Ashutosh.]

Which XI is better?

Gayle
Hayden
ABD
Ollie Pope
Sachin
Ian Botham
Chris Woakes
Ashwin
Lee
Jim Laker
Yasir Shah

Or

Gayle
Hayden
ABD
Ollie Pope
Sachin
Ian Botham
Paul Collingwood
Ashwin
Lee
Jim Laker
Waqar Younis

 

[Khan Sahab54]

Thank you, I missed that... @Murtaza96 please make another pick

I have already picked Bhuvneshwar Kumar