The Alphabet Draft
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ahmedleo414
The Butcher
My Final pick
I left for this to my last pick because I had two picks which I couldn't decide between.
One was a good batsman and a decent keeper, other was a decent batsman and a great keeper...
I ended up going with the latter, Godfrey Evans
Bio from cricinfo:
Godfrey Evans was arguably the best wicketkeeper the game has ever seen. Debates about wicketkeepers cannot be stilled by statistics but what is beyond question is that Evans was the game's most charismatic keeper: the man who made the game's least obtrusive specialism a spectator sport in itself. His energy and enthusiasm brought the best out of other fielders, whatever the state of the game. But he added to that a technical excellence that has probably never been surpassed.
My team so far:
I left for this to my last pick because I had two picks which I couldn't decide between.
One was a good batsman and a decent keeper, other was a decent batsman and a great keeper...
I ended up going with the latter, Godfrey Evans
| Stats | Matches | Runs | HS | Batting Ave | 100s/50s | Catches/Stumps |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First Class | 465 | 14,882 | 144 | 21.22 | 7/62 | 816/250 |
| Test | 91 | 2,439 | 104 | 20.49 | 2/8 | 173/46 |
Bio from cricinfo:
Godfrey Evans was arguably the best wicketkeeper the game has ever seen. Debates about wicketkeepers cannot be stilled by statistics but what is beyond question is that Evans was the game's most charismatic keeper: the man who made the game's least obtrusive specialism a spectator sport in itself. His energy and enthusiasm brought the best out of other fielders, whatever the state of the game. But he added to that a technical excellence that has probably never been surpassed.
My team so far:
Bill Ponsford- Barry Richards
- Ian Chappell
- Greg Chappell
- Imran Khan
- Sir Clive Lloyd
- Godfrey Evans
- Freddie Brown
- Anil Kumble
- Courtney Walsh
- Ken Higgs
AsadRM
Panel of Selectors
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mohsin7827
International Coach
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- Jan 1, 2013
7. Trevor Bailey
Bowling
Trevor Bailey was one of the hardest, most doughty opponents you would wish to meet. An outstanding fast-medium bowler, brilliant fielder and generally dull batsman, whose resolute defence, rescued England from many a fix and earned him the nickname "Barnacle".
A precocious schoolboy cricketer at Dulwich, he played for England at Lord's in 1944 and after a spell in national service, became a regular in the Essex side and won Blues in 1947 and 1948 at Cambridge. He made his Test debut in 1949, and for a decade, during which time England were the leading side in the world, he was at the heart of the team.
He thrived in a crisis and in 1953, when England regained the Ashes after 19 years, their success owed much to him. At Lord's he batted for four-and-a-half hours in a famous last-day stand with Willie Watson, and at Headingely he bowled negative leg theory to put the skids on Australia's push for victory. That winter he took 7 for 34 against a powerful West Indies. He bowed out after England's wretched Ashes series in 1958-59, during which he made first-class cricket's slowest half-century, in 357 minutes at Brisbane, one of 14 matches in which he opened.
For many years, Bailey was Essex, acting as club secretary from 1955 to 1967 and captain from 1961 to 1966. He passed 1000 runs 18 times and took 100 wickets on nine occasions. He achieved the double eight times , the most for any post-war player, tied with Fred Titmus. Bailey was also a skilled footballer, winning a Blue as well as an FA Amateur Cup medal with Walthamstow Avenue.
After retiring he wrote books and for newspapers, and became a popular member of the Test Match Special team on the BBC.
Martin Williamson
@Parth D
Batting & Fielding
| Format | Mat | Inns | NO | Runs | HS | Ave | 100s | 50s | 6s | Ct | St |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Test | 61 | 91 | 14 | 2290 | 134* | 29.74 | 1 | 10 | 2 | 32 | 0 |
| FC | 682 | 1072 | 215 | 28641 | 205 | 33.42 | 28 | 150 | 426 |
| Format | Mat | Inns | Balls | Runs | Wkts | BBI | BBM | Ave | SR | 4w | 5w | 10w |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Test | 61 | 95 | 9712 | 3856 | 132 | 7/34 | 11/98 | 29.21 | 73.50 | 5 | 5 | 1 |
| FC | 682 | 116659 | 48170 | 2082 | 10/90 | 23.13 | 56.00 | 110 | 13 |
Trevor Bailey was one of the hardest, most doughty opponents you would wish to meet. An outstanding fast-medium bowler, brilliant fielder and generally dull batsman, whose resolute defence, rescued England from many a fix and earned him the nickname "Barnacle".
A precocious schoolboy cricketer at Dulwich, he played for England at Lord's in 1944 and after a spell in national service, became a regular in the Essex side and won Blues in 1947 and 1948 at Cambridge. He made his Test debut in 1949, and for a decade, during which time England were the leading side in the world, he was at the heart of the team.
He thrived in a crisis and in 1953, when England regained the Ashes after 19 years, their success owed much to him. At Lord's he batted for four-and-a-half hours in a famous last-day stand with Willie Watson, and at Headingely he bowled negative leg theory to put the skids on Australia's push for victory. That winter he took 7 for 34 against a powerful West Indies. He bowed out after England's wretched Ashes series in 1958-59, during which he made first-class cricket's slowest half-century, in 357 minutes at Brisbane, one of 14 matches in which he opened.
For many years, Bailey was Essex, acting as club secretary from 1955 to 1967 and captain from 1961 to 1966. He passed 1000 runs 18 times and took 100 wickets on nine occasions. He achieved the double eight times , the most for any post-war player, tied with Fred Titmus. Bailey was also a skilled footballer, winning a Blue as well as an FA Amateur Cup medal with Walthamstow Avenue.
After retiring he wrote books and for newspapers, and became a popular member of the Test Match Special team on the BBC.
Martin Williamson
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@Parth D
ahmedleo414
The Butcher
qpeedore
SOTM Winner - July 2014
Just waiting on the final few picks...
@ahmedleo414 you and others have done tables for Drafts...can someone show me the BBCode to make a table?
@ahmedleo414 you and others have done tables for Drafts...can someone show me the BBCode to make a table?
Sherlock Holmes
PlanetCricket's Sherlock Holmes
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2. Virender Sehwag
| Format | Mat | Inns | NO | Runs | HS | Ave | BF | SR | 100s | 50s | 4s | 6s | Ct | St |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Test | 104 | 180 | 6 | 8586 | 319 | 49.34 | 10441 | 82.23 | 23 | 32 | 1233 | 91 | 91 | 0 |
| FC | 194 | 321 | 11 | 14683 | 319 | 47.36 | 42 | 55 | 166 | 0 |
- Mike Atherton
- Virender Sehwag
- Norm O'Neill
- Ian Bell
- Sir Vivian Richards
- Mahendra Singh Dhoni
- Polly Umrigar
- Shaun Pollock
- Bill O'Reilly
- Ishant Sharma
- Stuart Broad
ahmedleo414
The Butcher
Thank you to everyone that participated in the tournament. There will be Alphabet Draft part 2 coming soon.
Here is everyone's full teams.
As mentioned I will be doing a knockout style tournament with the 8 teams, here are the brackets.
Here is everyone's full teams.
| Batting order | @ahmedleo414 | @Murtaza96 | @AsadRM | @Parth D | @ddrap14 | @Ashutosh. | @qpeedore | @mohsin7827 |
| 1 | Bill Ponsford | Alastair Cook | Justin Langer | Michael Atherton | Herbert Sutcliffe | Chris Gayle | Sunil Gavaskar | Usman Khawaja |
| 2 | Barry Richards | Younis Khan | Hashim Amla | Virender Sehwag | Inzamam-ul-Haq | Matthew Hayden | Dean Elgar | Navjot Sidhu |
| 3 | Ian Chappell | Brendon McCullum | Misbah-ul-Haq | Norm O'Neill | Sourav Ganguly | AB de Villiers | Nasser Hussain | Andy Flower |
| 4 | Greg Chappell | Eoin Morgan | Sir Everton Weekes | Ian Bell | Wally Hammond | Ollie Pope | Elias "Patsy" Hendren | Sir Don Bradman |
| 5 | Imran Khan | Rahul Dravid | VVS Laxman | Sir Vivian Richards | Graham Thorpe | Sachin Tendulkar | Joe Root | Adam Gilchrist |
| 6 | Sir Clive Lloyd | Parthiv Patel | Brian Lara | MS Dhoni | Bill Edrich | Ian Botham | Warwick Armstrong | Kevin Pietersen |
| 7 | Godfrey Evans | Hasan Ali | Alan Oakman | Polly Umrigar | Jeff Dujon | Paul Collingwood | Leslie Ames | Trevor Bailey |
| 8 | Freddie Brown | Owais Shah | Taslim Arif | Shaun Pollock | Monty Noble | Ravichandran Ashwin | Ian Bishop | Wasim Akram |
| 9 | Anil Kumble | Bhuvneshwar Kumar | Iqbal Qasim | Bill O'Reilly | Ernie Toshack | Brett Lee | Saqlain Mushtaq | Sydney Barnes |
| 10 | Courtney Walsh | Irfan Pathan | Chris Old | Ishant Sharma | Shane Warne | Jim Laker | Fidel Edwards | Dennis Lillee |
| 11 | Ken Higgs | Mohammad Amir | Makhaya Ntini | Stuart Broad | Fred Spofforth | Waqar Younis | Dale Steyn | Erapalli Prasanna |
As mentioned I will be doing a knockout style tournament with the 8 teams, here are the brackets.
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qpeedore
SOTM Winner - July 2014
Give me a day or two to research the players and then analyse?
ahmedleo414
The Butcher
randomly generated tournament
ahmedleo414
The Butcher
Here are the results of the first match... and I can honestly say this was unexpected...
@Ashutosh. vs @ddrap14
Since it's a draw, both teams will face each other one more time to determine who will go ahead in the tournament... There must be a winner
@Ashutosh. vs @ddrap14
Since it's a draw, both teams will face each other one more time to determine who will go ahead in the tournament... There must be a winner
Sherlock Holmes
PlanetCricket's Sherlock Holmes
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- Mar 27, 2014
Does the game have the directory of all exisiting players beforehand or do we need to make a database manually?
