The Budget Draft: Project 200

[blockerdave]

Since everyone seems to be picking bowlers, I'll take George Lohmann, 112 wickets at 10.75 - yes, 10.75, yet was batting average was lower still - 8.87

@CerealKiller

 

[CerealKiller]

I’ll go with the great Waqar Younis, of toe-crushing fame, with 373 wickets at 23 runs apiece, and a batting average of 10.

CerealKiller’s XI
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9. Waqar Younis (Cost: 10)
10. Glenn McGrath (Cost: 7)
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Budget remaining : 183
@ahmedleo414

 

[Aislabie]

Since everyone seems to be picking bowlers, I'll take George Lohmann, 112 wickets at 10.75 - yes, 10.75, yet was batting average was lower still - 8.87

He was very nearly my first pick. Absolutely should have been, especially given that despite his disappointing batting average, he was a proper batsman - and an outstanding fielder.

 

[blockerdave]

He was very nearly my first pick. Absolutely should have been, especially given that despite his disappointing batting average, he was a proper batsman - and an outstanding fielder.

I was gonna pick another batsman, thinking that actually there’s gonna plenty of decent bowlers with low batting averages...

But then everyone else had picked bowlers so I thought, what the hell, there’s plenty of bowlers with low batting averages, but there’s only Lohmann!

 

[Master Bates]

Budget remaining: 200

This is why I (we?) love Aislabie!

 

[ahmedleo414]

One of the best spinners ever produced in the Caribbean, the great Lance Gibbs

488 runs @ 6.97 (best 25)
309 wickets @ 29.09 (18 5WI, 2 10WI, best 8/38)

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8. Ian Bishop (Cost: 12)
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11. Lance Gibbs (Cost: 7)

Budget remaining: 181

@Aislabie

 

[Aislabie]

After the tragic loss of George Lohmann to @blockerdave - something I should have mitigated with my first pick, but I just loved the idea of keeping my budget at 200 for an extra pick - it's time to pick up the man I've wanted as my captain from the start: Richie Benaud. Though his Test career started modestly with only one contribution of particular note from his first 24 matches, but he matured into one of the finest all-rounders Australia has ever produced. Despite being inconsistent, his batting showed flashes of match-defining brilliance: his 121 against the West Indies in 1955 came in only 96 minutes, an innings starkly out of place in an era characterised by dull draws and dead-batting. His bowling, however, flourished: in a period of 20 Tests from the arrival of the Indians in 1956, he took an astonishing 124 wickets at 19.48 apiece, with no fewer than 12 five-wicket hauls. And he achieved this as one of the most charismatic captains Australian cricket has ever seen.

Test Stats (63 matches)
2,201 runs @ 24.45 (3 centuries, best 122)
248 wickets @ 27.03 (16 5WI, best 7/72)
won 12, tied 1, drew 11, lost 4

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6. Richie Benaud (Cost: 24)
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10. Jack Iverson (Cost: 0)
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Budget remaining: 176

@ahmedleo414

 

[blockerdave]

Tasty spin attack you’ve got there.

so I kept my budget at 200 after first pick AND got Lohmann

 

[Aislabie]

Tasty spin attack you’ve got there.

so I kept my budget at 200 after first pick AND got Lohmann

Yeah you're the real winner of the first two rounds. You've somehow managed to get one and a half proper batsmen and a contender for GOAT bowler at a cost of only eight to your budget.

 

[blockerdave]

Yes I’m very happy with that start, if I can get my next 2 or 3 first choices I will be ecstatic

 

[ahmedleo414]

The great unbreakable Courtney Walsh

936 runs @ 7.54 (best 30*)
519 wickets @ 24.44 (22 5WI, 3 10WI, best 7/27)

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8. Ian Bishop (Cost: 12)
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10. Courtney Walsh (Cost: 8)
11. Lance Gibbs (Cost: 7)

Budget remaining: 173

@CerealKiller

 

[CerealKiller]

To complement Waqar and McGrath, i’ll go with Allan Donald, batting average of 10, but 330 Test wickets at an average of 22.

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9. Waqar Younis (Cost: 10)
10. Allan Donald (Cost: 10)
11. Glenn McGrath (Cost: 7)


Budget remaining : 173
@blockerdave

 

[blockerdave]

I’ll take Sydney Barnes, a ludicrous 189 wickets at 16.43 in 27 test matches, and a batting average of just 8.

so I’ve got Law, Lohmann and Barnes and used up just 16

Over to @DalePlaysCricket

 

[Ed Smith]

Reckon I'm taking Terry Alderman. On account of he tortured some sides with his bowling. And he averages 7.

@Aislabie

 

[Aislabie]

I’ll take Sydney Barnes, a ludicrous 189 wickets at 16.43 in 27 test matches, and a batting average of just 8.

so I’ve got Law, Lohmann and Barnes and used up just 16

Over to @DalePlaysCricket

Dammit, I can't win