Pre-War Cricket Draft

[Jarquis]

1. Bill Ponsford	Aus	29	2122 @ 48.22
2. Bruce Mitchell	SA	42	3471 @ 48.88	27 @ 51.11
3. Ernest Tyldesley	Eng	14	990 @ 55.00
4. Jack Fingleton	Aus	18	1189 @ 42.46
5. Vernon Ransford	Aus	20	1211 @ 37.84
6. Aubrey Faulkner	SA	25	1754 @ 40.79	82 @ 26.58
7. Les Ames		Eng	47	2434 @ 40.56	97 dismissals
8. Morris Nichols	Eng	14	355 @ 29.58	41 @ 28.09
9. Bill Voce		Eng	27	308 @ 13.39	98 @ 27.88
10. Charlie Blythe	Eng	19	183 @ 9.63	100 @ 18.63
11. Bill Bowes		Eng	15	28 @ 4.66	68 @ 22.33

 

[aussie]

Even the best of teams would struggle if they only had 10 men

Haha ye. I forgot to put in Charles Bannerman. But now somebody else has taken him *sigh*. Got to think again..

 

[aussie]

Andrew Stoddart

George Challenor
Andrew Stoddart
Jack Ryder
Charles Macartney
John Gunn
Jack Sharp
Jimmy Sinclair
Jock Cameron
Tich Freeman
Johannes Kotze
Tibby Cotter

 

[zaremba]

Despite the redoubtable Constantine, my team so far arguably a bit light on for West Indian flair, so for my last selection I'll take Clifford Roach. Played in the Windies first test, scored the Windies first century and then later it's first double century.

V. Trumper
H. Sutcliffe
C. Hill
C.B. Fry
W. Armstrong*
C. Roach
L. Constantine
B. Barnes
B. Bates
B. Whitty
H. Strudwick+

Phenomenal batting line-up.

 

[Matt79]

Mainly Pasag's work tbf.

 

[Prince EWS]

Charles Bannerman

My team:

Cyril Walters
Arthur Shrewsbury
KS Duleepshinji
CP Mead
Tip Foster*
Charles Bannerman
George Ulyett
Jack Blackham+
Headley Verity
Bill O'Reilly
Fred Spofforth

I'm gonna vote for you just because you picked my uncle. Easy way to get a vote.

 

[zaremba]

I'm gonna vote for you just because you picked my uncle. Easy way to get a vote.

Who dat?

 

[Blakus]

Really tough choice this. I should be picking a fast bowler, but how often do you get to say your side has over 12000 first class wickets? JT "Old Jack" Hearne. Possessor of the 4th highest tally of first class wickets and the first hat trick against Australia.

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.Jack Hearne 126 runs @ 9.00 , 49 wickets @ 22.08

Who need pace? I'll defeat you with spin, cutters and an awesome batting line-up

 

[Prince EWS]

Who dat?

Charles Bannerman is my great great great great uncle or something of the sort. Alec Bannerman is too, obviously.

 

[zaremba]

Really tough choice this. I should be picking a fast bowler, but how often do you get to say your side has over 12000 first class wickets? JT "Old Jack" Hearne. Possessor of the 4th highest tally of first class wickets and the first hat trick against Australia.

Good choice - I flirted with the idea of picking him around round 8. "Young Jack" too.

 

[zaremba]

Charles Bannerman is my great great great great uncle or something of the sort. Alec Bannerman is too, obviously.

Blimey, royalty!

I suppose I should have gathered as much from your username

 

[fredfertang]

.... and then there was one

I don't have a keeper - Mr Z selected Dick Lilley, who had been my first thought, and then for a long time I was undecided between Tiger Smith and West Indian Ivan Barrow, but then I decided to strengthen my batting and my legal team - and if my magnificent attack struggles to dismiss anyones batting line up then he can always be called upon to do what he did at the Oval in 1884 when, after Australia got to around 500 for 6, he came on to bowl his lobs, without bothering to take off his pads, and took the last four wickets for 19

Jack Russell
Harold Gimblett
Douglas Jardine*
Walter Hammond
Maurice Leyland
Stanley Jackson
Frank Foster
Alfred Lyttelton+
Arthur Mailey
Tom Richardson
Ted McDonald

 

[fredfertang]

As I finished Round 11 do I get first shout at choice of ground?

 

[Himannv]

Yeah I think you should take a pick.

 

[fredfertang]

OK - I'm assuming this is pre war grounds?

So I'm going for that batsman's paradise at the Oval - my top 8 will make thousands of runs and while the opposition will get a few too it's Tom Richardson's home ground and Arthur Mailey will get turn anywhere

 

[Blakus]

How can I say no to the home of cricket? Lords for me please

 

[Himannv]

Pasag/Matt up next.

 

[Matt79]

Matsag's Bluepies:
Victor Trumper (3163 @ 39.04, 8 centuries)
Herbert Sutcliffe (4555 @ 60.73, 16 centuries)
Clem Hill (3412 @ 39.21, 7 centuries)
C.B. Fry (1223 @ 32.18, 2 centuries)
Warwick Armstrong* (LG) (2863 @ 38.68, 6 centuries. 87 wickets @ 33.59, 3 five-fers)
Clifford Roach (952 @ 30.70, 2 centuries).
Billy Barnes (RFM) (725 @ 23.38, 1 century. 51 wickets @ 15.54, 3 five-fers)
Baron Learie Constantine (RF) (635 @ 19.24. 58 wickets @ 30.10, 2 five-fers)
Billy Bates (OS) (656 @ 27.33. 50 wickets @ 16.42, 4 five-fers)
Bill Whitty (LFM) (161 @ 13.41. 65 wickets @ 21.12, 3 five-fers)
H. Strudwick+ (230 @ 7.93)

Home Ground: The mighty MCG.

Bats down to nine. Worth noting that as with so many of these players, Constantine's abilities are much better demonstrated in his FC record, rather than his small sample of tests - 4475 runs @ 24.05, 439 wickets @ 20.48. Bowling attack featuring right and left arm pace bowling, an off-spinner and a leg spinner. Strudwick a silken keeper, albeit it the batting bunny of the team.

 

[Himannv]

Ground: Old Trafford, Manchester

Cyril Walters (784 @ 52.26)
Arthur Shrewsbury (1277 @ 35.47)
Kumar Duleepsinhji (995 @ 58.52)
Phil Mead (1185 @ 49.37)
Tip Foster* (602 @ 46.30)
Charles Bannerman (239 @ 59.75)
George Ulyett (949 @ 24.33 | 50 Wkts @ 20.40)
Jack Blackham+ (800 @ 15.68 | 37 Ct 24 St)
Hedley Verity (669 @ 20.90 | 144 Wkts @ 24.37)
Bill O'Reilly (410 @ 12.81 | 144 Wkts @ 22.59)
Frederick Spofforth (217 @ 9.43 | 94 Wkts @ 18.41)

 

[Flyonthewall]

Round 1 Picks
Blakus - WG Grace
Zaremba - SF Barnes
Fredfertang - Wally Hammond
Aussie - JJ Kotze
Himmanv - Bill O'Reilly
Michaelf7777777 - Jack Hobbs
Flyonthewall - [B]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]
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[/B]
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 - Tip Foster
Aussie - George Challenor
Fredfertang - Harold Gimblett

Round 11 Picks
Marcuss - Morris Nichols
Somerset - Johnny Tyldesley
Aussie - Jimmy Sinclair
Michaelf7777777 - Reginald Schwarz
Zaremba - Reginald Spooner
Flyonthewall - Roy Kilner
Himmanv - Charles Bannerman
Pasag/Matt79 - Clifford Roach
Blakus - JT Hearne
Fredfertang - Alfred Lyttleton

Round 12 Picks - Ground Selection
Fredfertang - The Oval
Blakus - Lords
Pasag/Matt79 - The MCG
Himmanv - Old Trafford
Flyonthewall - Adelaide Oval
Zaremba - Headingley
Michaelf7777777 -
Aussie -
Somerset -
Marcuss -