Pre-War Cricket Draft

[Flyonthewall]

Round 1 Picks
Blakus - WG Grace
Zaremba - SF Barnes
Fredfertang - Wally Hammond
Aussie - JJ Kotze
Himmanv - Bill O'Reilly
Michaelf7777777 - Jack Hobbs
Flyonthewall - Clarrie Grimmett
Marcuss - Les Ames
Pasag - Victor Trumper
Somerset - George Lohmann

Round 2 Picks
Somerset - KS Ranjitsinjhi
Pasag - Herbert Sutcliffe
Marcuss - Aubrey Faulkner
Flyonthewall - Harold Larwood
Michaelf7777777 - George Headley
Himmanv - Fred Spofforth
Aussie - Charles Macartney
Fredfertang - Stanley Jackson
Zaremba - Maurice Tate
Blakus - Monty Noble

Round 3 Picks
Zaremba - Wilfred Rhodes
Michaelf7777777 - Frank Woolley
Aussie - Tibby Cotter
Fredfertang - Douglas Jardine
Flyonthewall - Stan McCabe
Somerset - Charlie Turner
Blakus - Hugh Trumble
Himmanv - Hedley Verity
Marcuss - Bill Voce
Pasag - Clement Hill

Round 4 Picks
Pasag - CB Fry
Marcuss - Bill Ponsford
Himmanv - KS Duleepshinji
Blakus - Patsy Hendren
Somerset - JJ Ferris
Flyonthewall - Stewart Dempster
Fredfertang - Tom Richardson
Aussie - Jock Cameron
Michaelf7777777 - Jack Gregory
Zaremba - Archie Jackson

Round 5 Picks
Flyonthewall - Bert Oldfield
Blakus - Billy Murdoch
Michaelf7777777 - George Giffen
Pasag - Learie Constantine
Somerset - Archie Maclaren
Zaremba - Gilbert Jessop
Marcuss - Bruce Mitchell
Fredfertang - Maurice Leyland
Himmanv - Arthur Shrewsbury
Aussie - Tich Freeman

Round 6 Picks
Aussie - Jack Ryder
Himmanv - Phil Mead
Fredfertang - Ted McDonald
Marcuss - Bill Bowes
Zaremba - Bill Woodfull
Somerset - Herbie Taylor
Pasag/Matt79 - Warwick Armstrong
Michaelf7777777 - Bill Lockwood
Blakus - Vijay Merchant
Flyonthewall - Eddie Paynter

Round 7 Picks
Himmanv - Jack Blackham
Somerset - Johnny Briggs
Flyonthewall - Ken Farnes
Aussie - John Gunn
Fredfertang - Frank Foster
Zaremba - Alan Kippax
Marcuss - Ernest Tyldesley
Blakus - Bobby Peel
Pasag/Matt79 - Billy Bates
Michaelf7777777 - Bobby Abel

Round 8 Picks
Michaelf7777777 - Warren Bardsley
Pasag/Matt79 - Billy Barnes
Blakus - George Hirst
Marcuss - Colin Blythe
Zaremba - Gubby Allen
Fredfertang - Jack Russell
Aussie - Arthur Richardson
Flyonthewall - Allan Steel
Somerset - Joe Hardstaff Jr.
Himmanv - George Ulyett

Round 9 Picks
Fredfertang - Arthur Mailey
Aussie - Jack Sharp
Himmanv - Cyril Walters
Somerset - George Duckworth
Blakus - Bill Brown
Zaremba - Dick Lilley
Marcuss - Jack Fingleton
Pasag/Matt79 - Bill Whitty
Michaelf7777777 - Herbie Collins
Flyonthewall - George Gunn

Round 10 Picks
Flyonthewall - Charles Kelleway
Michaelf7777777 - Sammy Carter
Pasag/Matt79 - Herbert Strudwick
Marcuss - Vernon Ransford
Zaremba -
Blakus -
Somerset -
Himmanv -
Aussie -
Fredfertang

 

[Flyonthewall]

George Gunn and Charles Kelleway for my net two picks. Reckon my team's shaping up to be pretty decent.

Team Morbo's Disciples
1. Stewart Dempster
2. Charles Kelleway
3. George Gunn
4. Stan McCabe
5. Eddie Paynter
6.
7. Allan Steel
8. Bert Oldfield
9. Harold Larwood
10. Clarrie Grimmett
11. Ken Farnes

 

[Michaelf7777777]

Sammy Carter for my next pick please

Charter 77 So Far

1. Jack Hobbs
2. Herbie Collins (*)
3. George Headley
4. Bobby Abel
5. Warren Bardsley
6. Wilfred Rhodes
7. Jack Gregory
8. George Giffen
9. Sammy Carter (+)
10. Bill Lockwood
11.

 

[Matt79]

Michael, have I e er told you that you're a total ****. Find your own damn choices!


Oh, you did.

 

[aussie]

Haha. God damn you blokes are stretching my knowledge of post-war players to the limit here, almost all the good players have basically been taken. I think i may struggle to fill the last couple of places in my team.

 

[Matt79]

Bert Strudwick. Immaculate behind the stumps and famously good bloke as well.

Trumper
Sutcliffe
Hill
Fry
Armstrong*
-
Constantine
B.Barnes
Bates
Whitty
Strudwick+

 

[Jarquis]

Gutted Gunn and Whitty have gone... 2 mins

 

[Jarquis]

1. Bill Ponsford
2. Bruce Mitchell
3. Ernest Tyldesley
4. Jack Fingleton
5. Vernon Ransford
6. Aubrey Faulkner
7. Les Ames
8.
9. Bill Voce
10. Bill Bowes
11. Charlie Blythe

 

[zaremba]

1. Bill Woodfull (c)
2.
3. Archie Jackson
4. Frank Woolley
5. Alan Kippax
6. Gilbert Jessop
7. Dick Lilley (w)
8. Maurice Tate
9. Gubby Allen
10. Bert Vogler
11. SF Barnes

 

[Matt79]

1. Bill Ponsford
2. Bruce Mitchell
3. Ernest Tyldesley
4. Jack Fingleton
5. Vernon Ransford
6. Aubrey Faulkner
7. Les Ames
8.
9. Bill Voce
10. Bill Bowes
11. Charlie Blythe

Was a real toss up whether to grab Fingleton or get my keeper sorted with my last pick.

 

[zaremba]

Really hoping no-one nicks my last pick. That bastard Fertang the likeliest I suspect.

 

[Michaelf7777777]

Well you stole my last pick so fair's fair

 

[Blakus]

Tom Hayward. First man after Grace to get 100 first class centuries.

1.Vijay Merchant 859 runs @ 47.72
2.Bill Brown 1592 runs @ 46.82
3.W.G.Grace 1098 runs @ 32.29 , 9 wickets @ 26.22
4.Patsy Hendren 3525 runs @ 47.63
5.Tom Hayward 1999 runs @ 34.46
6.Monty Noble* 1997 runs @ 30.25 , 121 wickets @ 25
7.Billy Murdoch+ 908 runs @ 31.31 , 14 catches 1 stumping
8.George Hirst 790 runs @ 22.57 , 59 wickets @ 30
9.Hugh Trumble 851 runs @ 19.79 , 141 wickets @ 21.78
10.Bobby Peel 471 runs @ 14.72 , 101 wickets @ 16.98
11.

 

[Somerset]

Andy Sandham

Andy Sandham RHB (14 tests, 879 runs @ 38.21)
-
KS Ranjitsinhji RHB (15 tests, 989 runs @ 44.95)
Archie Maclaren RHB (35 tests, 1931 runs @ 33.87)
Herbie Taylor RHB (42 tests, 2936 runs @ 40.77)
Joe Hardstaff Jnr RHB (23 tests, 1636 runs @ 46.74)
Johnny Briggs RHB SLA (33 tests, 815 runs @ 18.11, 118 wickets @ 17.75)
George Duckworth RHB (24 tests, 234 runs @ 14.62, 45 catches and 15 stumpings)
Charlie Turner RHB RFM (17 tests, 323 runs @ 11.53, 101 wickets @ 16.53)
George Lohmann RHB RFM (18 tests, 213 runs @ 8.87, 112 wickets @ 10.75)
JJ Ferris (9 tests, 114 runs @ 8.76, 61 wickets @ 12.70)

 

[zaremba]

That's a flippin awesome team, Somerset

Edit: I hadn't realised how modest Lohmann's batting average was, given that he was regarded unquestionably as an all-rounder.

 

[Matt79]

Amazing bowling attack. As somerset said, a long tail is the only negative.

 

[Flyonthewall]

Round 1 Picks
Blakus - WG Grace
Zaremba - SF Barnes
Fredfertang - Wally Hammond
Aussie - JJ Kotze
Himmanv - Bill O'Reilly
Michaelf7777777 - Jack Hobbs
Flyonthewall - Clarrie Grimmett
Marcuss - Les Ames
Pasag - Victor Trumper
Somerset - George Lohmann

Round 2 Picks
Somerset - KS Ranjitsinjhi
Pasag - Herbert Sutcliffe
Marcuss - Aubrey Faulkner
Flyonthewall - Harold Larwood
Michaelf7777777 - George Headley
Himmanv - Fred Spofforth
Aussie - Charles Macartney
Fredfertang - Stanley Jackson
Zaremba - Maurice Tate
Blakus - Monty Noble

Round 3 Picks
Zaremba - Wilfred Rhodes
Michaelf7777777 - Frank Woolley
Aussie - Tibby Cotter
Fredfertang - Douglas Jardine
Flyonthewall - Stan McCabe
Somerset - [BCharlie Turner][/B]
Blakus - Hugh Trumble
Himmanv - Hedley Verity
Marcuss - Bill Voce
Pasag - Clement Hill

Round 4 Picks
Pasag - CB Fry
Marcuss - Bill Ponsford
Himmanv - KS Duleepshinji
Blakus - Patsy Hendren
Somerset - JJ Ferris
Flyonthewall - Stewart Dempster
Fredfertang - Tom Richardson
Aussie - Jock Cameron
Michaelf7777777 - Jack Gregory
Zaremba - Archie Jackson

Round 5 Picks
Flyonthewall - Bert Oldfield
Blakus - Billy Murdoch
Michaelf7777777 - George Giffen
Pasag - Learie Constantine
Somerset - Archie Maclaren
Zaremba - Gilbert Jessop
Marcuss - Bruce Mitchell
Fredfertang - Maurice Leyland
Himmanv - Arthur Shrewsbury
Aussie - Tich Freeman

Round 6 Picks
Aussie - Jack Ryder
Himmanv - Phil Mead
Fredfertang - Ted McDonald
Marcuss - Bill Bowes
Zaremba - Bill Woodfull
Somerset - Herbie Taylor
Pasag/Matt79 - Warwick Armstrong
Michaelf7777777 - Bill Lockwood
Blakus - Vijay Merchant
Flyonthewall - Eddie Paynter

Round 7 Picks
Himmanv - Jack Blackham
Somerset - Johnny Briggs
Flyonthewall - Ken Farnes
Aussie - John Gunn
Fredfertang - Frank Foster
Zaremba - Alan Kippax
Marcuss - Ernest Tyldesley
Blakus - Bobby Peel
Pasag/Matt79 - Billy Bates
Michaelf7777777 - Bobby Abel

Round 8 Picks
Michaelf7777777 - Warren Bardsley
Pasag/Matt79 - Billy Barnes
Blakus - George Hirst
Marcuss - Colin Blythe
Zaremba - Gubby Allen
Fredfertang - Jack Russell
Aussie - Arthur Richardson
Flyonthewall - Allan Steel
Somerset - Joe Hardstaff Jr.
Himmanv - George Ulyett

Round 9 Picks
Fredfertang - Arthur Mailey
Aussie - Jack Sharp
Himmanv - Cyril Walters
Somerset - George Duckworth
Blakus - Bill Brown
Zaremba - Dick Lilley
Marcuss - Jack Fingleton
Pasag/Matt79 - Bill Whitty
Michaelf7777777 - Herbie Collins
Flyonthewall - George Gunn

Round 10 Picks
Flyonthewall - Charles Kelleway
Michaelf7777777 - Sammy Carter
Pasag/Matt79 - Herbert Strudwick
Marcuss - Vernon Ransford
Zaremba - Bert Vogler
Blakus - Tom Hayward
Somerset - Andy Sandham
Himmanv -
Aussie - George Challenor
Fredfertang - Harold Gimblett

Round 11 Picks
Marcuss - Morris Nichols
Somerset - Johnny Tyldesley
Aussie - Jimmy Sinclair
Michaelf7777777 - Reginald Schwarz
Zaremba -
Flyonthewall -
Himmanv -
Pasag/Matt79 -
Blakus -
Fredfertang -

 

[Flyonthewall]

Given that Himmanv is gone until Sunday, Aussie is free to make his pick whenever.

 

[aussie]

My last 3 picks in George Gunn, Fingleton & Sandham where stolen. So i have to think who to pick, give by the end of 2moro to find some names.

 

[zaremba]

C'mon aussie let's keep this moving mate!

Edit: that's the first and only time I will ever say "c'mon aussie"