Draft: The No Ducks Draft

[Yash.]

I'll post my picks by tomorrow. Please continue.

 

[ahmedleo414]

@Ed Smith is next

 

[Ed Smith]

1. Alex Hales
2. Devon Conway
3. Joe Denly
4.
5. Ollie Pope
6. Ben Foakes
7. Colin McCool
8. Rashid Khan
9.
10. Shaun Tait
11. Fred Martin

Again. More for comedy value than anything else. Denturies all round.

@ahmedleo414

 

[ahmedleo414]

double picks for me.

Les Jackson and Andre Adams

My Team:

1. Ed Joyce
2. Abdullah Shafique
3. Sami Aslam
4. Dave Houghton
5. Sean Williams
6. Kevin O'Brien
7. Billy Bates
8. Andre Adams
9. ?
10. Reg Perks
11. Les Jackson

@Ed Smith back to you

 

[Aislabie]

As @Ed Smith hasn't made his pick, we move on to @Yash.

 

[Yash.]

1. Len Baichan
2. ?
3. Rusi Modi
4. Shreyas Iyer
5. Pathum Nissanka
6. Ajay Sharma
7. Pieter van der Bijl
8. ?
9. Toby Roland-Jones
10. Simon Harmer
11. Tim Murtagh

@Aislabie to continue

 

[Aislabie]

George Finlay-Bissett

Tests - 25 wickets @ 18.76 (2 5WI, best 7/29) in 4 matches
First-class - 67 wickets @ 27.10 (5 5WI, best 7/29) in 21 matches

George Finlay-Bissett barely had a career, thanks to a long-running foot problem that barely allowed him to play cricket at all. When he did manage to achieve full fitness, however, it was against horribly stiff opposition: the English batting order included the likes of Percy Holmes (67 first-class centuries), Herbert Sutcliffe (Test average 60.73), Ernest Tyldesley (Test average 55.00), Wally Hammond (Test average 58.45) and Bob Wyatt (85 first-class centuries). What hope did a physically fragile 22-year-old debutant bowler have?

On the first morning of his first Test, Finlay-Bissett claimed the wickets of Holmes, Tyldesley, Sutcliffe, Greville Stevens and Wyatt (the first five to fall) before the English tourists had reached 70 runs. In his third Test, Finlay-Bissett again toppled Holmes and Tyldesley to kick off a Test match. In his final spell of a short Test career, Finlay-Bissett finished with his magnum opus: 7 for 29 in 19 overs - out of the first eight wickets to fall in the innings. Finlay-Bissett claimed the wicket of the great Sutcliffe four times in four Tests, across which South Africa won twice, drew once and lost only once, and yet he was never seen at that level again thanks to long-standing injuries that ultimately forced him out of cricket by 25 years old.

1. Barry Richards
2. Raman Subba Row
3. Duleepsinhji
4. HD Ackerman
5. Pravin Amre
6. Jim Burke
7. Bernard Bosanquet
8. Stan Nichols
9.
10. Scott Boland
11. George Finlay-Bissett

@Neptune

 

[Ed Smith]

Imma do this tomorrow. Brain isn't upto it today

 

[ahmedleo414]

@Neptune missed his time @ddrap14 you're next

 

[Neptune]

Billy Bates has a pretty great record so ill pick him

 

[ddrap14]

Marcus Harris, who is the definition of a serviceable opener.

1. Jack Robertson
2. Marcus Harris
3. Stewie Dempster
4. Brad Hodge
6. Alan Fairfax
7. Upul Chandana
8. Shadab Khan
9. Bernard Julien
10. Clint McKay
11. Bruce Dooland

@ahmedleo414
(two notes: 1. if he's already taken, I do apologise, I checked on the draft order sheet; and 2. how do you filter for wicketkeepers on Cricinfo)

 

[Ed Smith]

1. Alex Hales
2. Devon Conway
3. Joe Denly
4. Owais Shah
5. Ollie Pope
6. Ben Foakes
7. Colin McCool
8. Rashid Khan
9.
10. Shaun Tait
11. Fred Martin

Ah why not

 

[ahmedleo414]

My final pick Joe Partridge

My Team:

1. Ed Joyce
2. Abdullah Shafique
3. Sami Aslam
4. Dave Houghton
5. Sean Williams
6. Kevin O'Brien
7. Billy Bates
8. Andre Adams
9. Joe Partridge
10. Reg Perks
11. Les Jackson

@ddrap14 back to you

 

[ddrap14]

Tim Zoehrer to finish the draft. Not an ideal number six, but a good keeper and can also bowl wristspin if necessary.

@Neptune

 

[Neptune]

@Aislabie can go ahead, I'll make my pick later in the day