The Budget Draft: Project 200

[Ed Smith]

This was a toss up between Richard Hadlee and Mark Ramprakash ( not a position I thought I'd end up in) and I'm going for Ramps. Over 100 first class 100s at an average over 50 and a test average of 27 taking me to exactly 200

1. Eric Tindill (9)
2. Moeen Ali (29)
3. Peter Kirsten (31)
4. Nasser Hussain (38)
5. Mark Ramprakash (27)
6. Andrew Flintoff (32)
7. Arthur McIntyre (3)
8. Terry Alderman (7)
9. Chris Martin (2)
10. Muttiah Muralitharan (12)
11. James Anderson (10)


Budget: 200/200[DOUBLEPOST=1583491148][/DOUBLEPOST]@Aislabie[DOUBLEPOST=1583491209][/DOUBLEPOST]

That was already something I'd pencilled in

Is it not basically Dave's team though?

 

[blockerdave]

Ramps was another guy who was totally in my original XI, but then I changed my mind.

 

[Aislabie]

It wouldn't look very different to this...

1. Jimmy Cook (cost 17)
2. Andy Lloyd (cost 0)
3. Alec Stewart (cost 39)
   
4. Brian Lara (cost 52)
5. Viv Richards (cost 50) - CAPTAIN
6. Stuart Law (cost 0)
7. Learie Constantine (cost 19)
8. Richard Blakey (cost 1) - WICKETKEEPER
9. George Lohmann (cost 8)
10. Sydney Barnes (cost 8)
11. Wayne Daniel (cost 6)

Amd that is a properly monstrous side. You definitely weren't meant to be able to pick both Lara and Sir Viv

This was a toss up between Richard Hadlee and Mark Ramprakash

And this is 100% a brand new sentence

 

[blockerdave]

Amd that is a properly monstrous side. You definitely weren't meant to be able to pick both Lara and Sir Viv

At one point I wrote out a side with the Don in too, just for a giggle. (I mean, the Don in place of Lara and Viv of course.)

I nearly went for Sobers over Viv too but he was 57 and that made a couple of other things abit too tight.[DOUBLEPOST=1583491730][/DOUBLEPOST]@DalePlaysCricket If you had put Hadlee at number 5, your batting would have been shocking, but you'd have had a bowling lineup that still might have carried them!

 

[Ed Smith]

At one point I wrote out a side with the Don in too, just for a giggle. (I mean, the Don in place of Lara and Viv of course.)

I nearly went for Sobers over Viv too but he was 57 and that made a couple of other things abit too tight.[DOUBLEPOST=1583491730][/DOUBLEPOST]@DalePlaysCricket If you had put Hadlee at number 5, your batting would have been shocking, but you'd have had a bowling lineup that still might have carried them!

That would have been the thinking. Bowl everyone for less than 100 or we're knackered

 

[blockerdave]

So now we wait for this 11 average number 4. I’ve honestly no idea and I’m really intrigued.

 

[CerealKiller]

We definitely need a simulated tournament for this.

 

[blockerdave]

We definitely need a simulated tournament for this.

can you imagine some of the scores, with these bowling lineups!!

 

[Ed Smith]

I reckon you'd break the simulator. "Does not compute"

 

[Aislabie]

Well, I needed a proper batsman to bat at number four and here he is, Transvaal legend and war hero Dooley Briscoe. Despite an average of 48 in non-Test first-class games, he only got two one-off goes at Test cricket before World War Two broke out. He undoubtedly would have played more after the War had he not been killed in courageous circumstances in Ethiopia in 1941, having previously been decorated with the Military Cross in recognition of a previous act of courage. He was only thirty years old.

Test Stats (2 matches)
33 runs @ 11.00 (best 16)
no wickets

1. WG Grace (Cost: 32)
2. Javed Omar Belim (Cost: 22)
3. Jacques Kallis (Cost: 55)
4. Dooley Briscoe (Cost: 11)
5. Syd Gregory (Cost: 24)
6. Richie Benaud (Cost: 24)
7. Godfrey Evans (Cost: 20)
8. Fred Spofforth (Cost: 9)
9. Jasprit Bumrah (Cost: 2)
10. Jack Iverson (Cost: 0)
11. Brett Schultz (Cost: 1)

Budget remaining: 0

@CerealKiller

 

[blockerdave]

Well, I needed a proper batsman to bat at number four and here he is, Transvaal legend and war hero Dooley Briscoe. Despite an average of 48 in non-Test first-class games, he only got two one-off goes at Test cricket before World War Two broke out. He undoubtedly would have played more after the War had he not been killed in courageous circumstances in Ethiopia in 1941, having previously been decorated with the Military Cross in recognition of a previous act of courage. He was only thirty years old.

Test Stats (2 matches)
33 runs @ 11.00 (best 16)
no wickets

1. WG Grace (Cost: 32)
2. Javed Omar Belim (Cost: 22)
3. Jacques Kallis (Cost: 55)
4. Dooley Briscoe (⁹Cost: 11)
5. Syd Gregory (Cost: 24)
6. Richie Benaud (Cost: 24)
7. Godfrey Evans (Cost: 20)
8. Fred Spofforth (Cost: 9)
9. Jasprit Bumrah (Cost: 2)
10. Jack Iverson (Cost: 0)
11. Brett Schultz (Cost: 1)

Budget remaining: 0

@CerealKiller

brilliant - never heard of him!

 

[Aislabie]

At one point I wrote out a side with the Don in too, just for a giggle. (I mean, the Don in place of Lara and Viv of course.)

1. Ken Meuleman (0)
2. Andy Lloyd (0)
3. Don Bradman (99)
4. Zaheer Abbas (44)
5. Stuart Law (0)
6. Richie Benaud (24)
7. Wasim Bari (15)
8. George Lohmann (8)
9. Glenn McGrath (7)
10. Jasprit Bumrah (2)
11. Brett Schultz (1)

200

Yes okay I have regrets

 

[blockerdave]

1. Ken Meuleman (0)
2. Andy Lloyd (0)
3. Don Bradman (99)
4. Zaheer Abbas (44)
5. Stuart Law (0)
6. Richie Benaud (24)
7. Wasim Bari (15)
8. George Lohmann (8)
9. Glenn McGrath (7)
10. Jasprit Bumrah (2)
11. Brett Schultz (1)

200

Yes okay I have regrets

My "Bradman XI" was:

1. Cook (17)
2. Lloyd (0)
3. Stewart (39)
4. Bradman (99)
5. Law (0)
6. Constantine (19)
7. Bert Strudwick (8)
8. Lohmann (8)
9. Barnes(8)
10. Grahame Chevalier (0)
11. Schultz (1)

Actually, I didn't know Meuleman at the time, so you could potentially switch him for Cook, and Warne for Chevalier...

Amazingly both only use 199 so you still have a point!

 

[CerealKiller]

I was undecided between him, Sir Frank Worrell and Inzi, but my final pick is Aussie all-time great Neil Harvey. He averaged 48 in 79 Tests, with 24 fifties and 21 hundreds, and had he played today rather than the 50s, he would easily average at least 10 more. He was an extremely talented batsman, thrilling the crowd with his full range of strokes.
In FC cricket, he amassed over 20000 runs at an average of 50. He will slot in at 5, and hopefully be the glue that holds the innings together.
Trumper will be the captain.

CerealKiller’s XI
1. Ken Meuleman (Cost: 0)
2. Tim Curtis (Cost: 15)
3. Victor Trumper (Cost: 39)
4. Rob Bailey (Cost: 14)
5. Neil Harvey (Cost: 48)
6. Mike Procter (Cost: 25)
7. Prasanna Jayawardena (Cost: 29)
8. Waqar Younis (Cost: 10)
9. Allan Donald (Cost: 10)
10. Glenn McGrath (Cost: 7)
11. Bert Ironmonger (Cost: 2)

@ahmedleo414

 

[blockerdave]

I was undecided between him, Sir Frank Worrell and Inzi, but my final pick is Aussie all-time great Neil Harvey. He averaged 48 in 79 Tests, with 24 fifties and 21 hundreds, and had he played today rather than the 50s, he would easily average at least 10 more. He was an extremely talented batsman, thrilling the crowd with his full range of strokes.
In FC cricket, he amassed over 20000 runs at an average of 50. He will slot in at 5, and hopefully be the glue that holds the innings together.
Trumper will be the captain.

CerealKiller’s XI
1. Ken Meuleman (Cost: 0)
2. Tim Curtis (Cost: 15)
3. Victor Trumper (Cost: 39)
4. Rob Bailey (Cost: 14)
5. Neil Harvey (Cost: 48)
6. Mike Procter (Cost: 25)
7. Prasanna Jayawardena (Cost: 29)
8. Waqar Younis (Cost: 10)
9. Allan Donald (Cost: 10)
10. Glenn McGrath (Cost: 7)
11. Bert Ironmonger (Cost: 2)

@ahmedleo414

strong team this. Great bowling attack, batting not too weak.