Ultimate Test Draft

[Goughy]

CB Fry 1892 He was not top of my list but I couldnt bring myself to pick someone over him

Sydney Francis Barnes 1901 Enough said

 

[chaminda_00]

Micheal up...

Order for the start of Round 3:
1. Someset
2. The Sean
3. pskov
4. chaminda_00
5. Michaelf7777777
6. Samuel_Vimes
7. Goughy
8. Matt79

Will try and post this at the start of each even round, Might make a difference in selections.

 

[Somerset]

Micheal up...

Order for the start of Round 3:
1. Someset
2. The Sean
3. pskov
4. chaminda_00
5. Michaelf7777777
6. Samuel_Vimes
7. Goughy
8. Matt79

Will try and post this at the start of each even round, Might make a difference in selections.

Bit of a disappointment to go first in the 1910s and last in the 1920s, which has a much greater range of legendary players to select from.

 

[chaminda_00]

Bit of a disappointment to go first in the 1910s and last in the 1920s, which has a much greater range of legendary players to select from.

Round three is 1920-1929. Some fair guns there.

Some would say you have the best round to go first.

 

[Matt79]

Round 3 is 1910-1919 surely. Making me first pick in 1920-1929.

 

[chaminda_00]

Round 3 is 1910-1919 surely. Making me first pick in 1920-1929.

Nope due to WWI, Round 2 is over 20 years. 1900-1919. Read the first post guys.

 

[silentstriker]

In, but as usual too late?

 

[Michaelf7777777]

Jack Hobbs (1908) for my 2nd pick please

My Team so Far

Jack Hobbs
Wilfred Rhodes

 

[Matt79]

Nope due to WWI, Round 2 is over 20 years. 1900-1919. Read the first post guys.

Jack Hobbs (1908) for my 2nd pick please

My Team so Far

Jack Hobbs
Wilfred Rhodes

You both suck ass. My plan of selections is now in tatters.

Won't be able to pick til I do some research.

 

[chaminda_00]

In, but as usual too late?

Yeah too late, but I will put you first on the waiting list if you want.

If someone doesn't pick a player by 24 hours they will get replaced. But I don't think that will be problem with the group we have. Unless they lose internet access like Jamee.

 

[Somerset]

Round three is 1920-1929. Some fair guns there.

Some would say you have the best round to go first.

Pays to read the first post carefully - in that case I'm delighted to go first in round three.

Aubrey Faulkner (1906) for my round two pick.

 

[chaminda_00]

It not your turn yet, Matt still has to pick.

 

[Matt79]

It not your turn yet, Matt still has to pick.

sorry Somerset, Faulkner is my pick.

 

[chaminda_00]

Picks so far:

1.1. chaminda_00 - WG Grace (1880)
1.2. Samuel_Vimes - Ranji (1896) 
1.3. The Sean - Jack Blackham (1877) 
1.4. pskov - George Lohmann (1886)
1.5. Somerset - Fred Spofforth (1877)
1.6. Matt79 - Victor Trumper (1899)
1.7. Michaelf7777777 - Wilfred Rhodes (1899)
1.8. Goughy - CB Fry (1892)

2.1. Goughy - SF Barnes (1901)
2.2. Michaelf7777777 - Jack Hobbs (1908)
2.3. Matt79 - Aubrey Faulkner (1906)
2.4. Somerset - Charlie Macartney (1907)
2.5. pskov - Colin Blythe (1901)
2.6. The Sean - Phil Mead
2.7. Samuel_Vimes - Warwick Armstrong (1902) 
2.8. chaminda_00 - Phil Mead (1911)

3.1. Somerset
3.2. The Sean
3.3. pskov
3.4. chaminda_00
3,5. Michaelf7777777 
3.6. Samuel_Vimes
3.7. Goughy
3.8. Matt79

4.1. Matt79
4.2. Goughy
4.3. Samuel_Vimes
4.4. Michaelf7777777 
4.5. chaminda_00
4.6. pskov
4.7. The Sean
4.8. Somerset

 

[Somerset]

Oops, getting a bit lost with the ordering. Charlie Macartney (1907) in that case - I was tossing up over Faulker and Macartney anyway.

 

[chaminda_00]

Could get a few quick picks here guys. Pskov, Sean, Hak, Somerset and myself are here now.

 

[pskov]

Colin Blythe (1901)

Possibly the greatest left arm spinner ever to play the game, he took 100 wickets in just 19 tests for an average of 18.63. In first class cricket for Kent he was a true phenom, racking up 14 seasons with 100 wickets or more, including a stunning 215 in 1909, eventually finishing with 2503 career scalps at 16.81 each. He was killed in World War I fighting near Passchendaele.

Lohmann
Blythe

Two picks in and my team already has over 4500 first class wickets in it.

 

[Matt79]

Colin Blythe (1901)

Possibly the greatest left arm spinner ever to play the game, he took 100 wickets in just 19 tests for an average of 18.63. In first class cricket for Kent he was a true phenom, racking up 14 seasons with 100 wickets or more, including a stunning 215 in 1909, eventually finishing with 2503 career scalps at 16.81 each. He was killed in World War I fighting near Passchendaele.

Lohmann
Blythe

Two picks in and my team already has over 4500 first class wickets in it.

As much as any war history I've read, looking at all the turn of the century cricketers who didn't make it through WWI really brought home to me how the war really destroyed so much of what England had been.

 

[The Sean]

My next pick is for the top of the order - the only man ever to drive the incomparable SF Barnes to singular distraction:

Herbie Taylor (1912)

 

[Magrat Garlick]

I'll go for a heavy dirigible, then

Warwick Armstrong (1902)