Cricket draft 1945 -1977

[bagapath]

G. R. Viswanath to come after gower and make batting look ***y again after my openers grind out the first session and a half

Hutton
Lawry
Gower
Viswanath
....
Mankad
Botham
....
Pollock
Hall
.....

 

[kingkallis]

Hope my turn comes before 9:30PM (IST) as we are going to the hill station and I doubt I will be able to come online for a day or two.

 

[watson]

G. R. Viswanath to come after gower and make batting look ***y again after my openers grind out the first session and a half

Hutton
Lawry
Gower
Viswanath
....
Mankad
Botham
....
Pollock
Hall
.....

I think that Vishy was almost as important to the Indian batting in the 70s/80s as was Gavaskar. Excellent batsman.

 

[watson]

Jimmy times out.

 

[Himannv]

Tony Lock to complete my bowling attack.

 

[Coronis]

Bhagwath Chandrasekhar

1. Gordon Greenidge
2. Barry Richards
3.
4.
5.
6. Garry Sobers
7. Rod Marsh
8. Garth le Roux
9. Vintcent van der Bijl
10. Jeff Thomson
11. Bhagwath Chandrasekhar

 

[jimmy101]

Sorry for the delay, my round 8 pick is Terry Alderman

 

[Red]

Bhagwath Chandrasekhar

1. Gordon Greenidge
2. Barry Richards
3.
4.
5.
6. Garry Sobers
7. Rod Marsh
8. Garth le Roux
9. Vintcent van der Bijl
10. Jeff Thomson
11. Bhagwath Chandrasekhar

Good spot to be in. Openers sorted. Bowlers and keeper sorted.

 

[Coronis]

Good spot to be in. Openers sorted. Bowlers and keeper sorted.

Probably should've picked van der Bijl earlier, would've been able to get Rice then too. Not sure why I picked Thomson first name that popped into my head.

 

[Red]

Gun ATG opening combo. Greatest batting all rounder. Very underrated spinner. Heaps of bowling firepower. You're set. Just the middle order to fill.

 

[watson]

ROUND 8
- AndyZaltzHair- Lindsay Hassett
- watson- Roy Fredericks
- fredfertang- Tom Graveney
- bagapath- G. R. Viswanath
- jimmy101- Terry Alderman
- Himmanv- Tony Lock
- Coronis- Bhagwath Chandrasekhar
- Howe_za- ?
- Pothas- John Edrich
- LongHopCassidy- Subhash Gupte
- kingkallis- Zaheer Abbas
- Blakus

 

[watson]

Howe times-out again. Pothas up.

 

[Pothas]

John Edrich

 

[LongHopCassidy]

Subhash Gupte.

 

[watson]

kingkallis takes Zaheer Abbas

 

[watson]

CORONIS
01. Gordon Greenidge
02. Barry Richards
03.
04.
05.
06. Garry Sobers *
07. Rod Marsh +
08. Garth le Roux
09. Vintcent van der Bijl
10. Jeff Thomson
11. Bhagwath Chandrasekhar

KINGKALLIS
01. Sir Geoffrey Boycott
02. Arthur Morris
03. Zaheer Abbas
04.
05.
06. Denis Lindsay +
07. Richie Benaud *
08. Sir Richard Hadlee
09. Alan Davidson o/
10. Colin Croft
11.

ANDY
01. Bob Simpson
02.
03.
04. Lindsay Hassett
05. Vijay Hazare
06.
07. Kapil Dev
08. Mike Procter
09. Don Tallon+
10. Hugh Tayfield
11. Andy Roberts

FRED
01. Trevor Goddard
02.
03. Colin Bland
04. Tom Graveney
05.
06. Tony Greig
07. Farokh Engineer
08. Jim Laker
09. Alec Bedser
10. Fred Trueman
11. Fazal Mahmood

BAGAPATH
01. Len Hutton
02. Bill Lawry
03. David Gower
04. Gundappa Viswanath
05. Norman O'Neill
06. Vinoo Mankad
07. Ian Botham
08.
09. Peter Pollock
10. Wesley Hall
11

WATSON
01.
02. Roy Fredericks
03. Rohan Kanhai
04. Neil Harvey
05. Clive Lloyd
06.
07. John Waite
08. Ray Lindwall
09. Garth McKenzie
10. John Snow
11. Derek Underwood

BLAKUS
01. Eddie Barlow
02. Conrad Hunte
03. Viv Richards
04. Allan Border
05.
06.
07. Alan Knott
08. Joel Garner
09.
10. Peter Heine
11. Neil Adcock

LONGHOPCASSIDY
01. Sunil Gavaskar
02. Hanif Mohammad
03. Alvin Kallicharran
04. Martin Donnelly
05. Sir Frank Worrell*
06.
07.
08.
09. Michael Holding
10. Lance Gibbs
11. Subhash Gupta

POTHAS
01. John Edrich
02.
03. Ian Chappell
04. Greg Chappell
05. Everton Weekes
06. Doug Walters
07.
08.
09. Dennis Lillee
10. Ernie Toshak
11. Brian Statham

JIMMY
01. Glenn Turner
02.
03. Javed Miandad
04. Graeme Pollock
05. Basil D’Olivera
06. Clive Rice
07.
08.
09. Bishan Bedi
10. Terry Alderman
11. Bob Willis

HIMMANV
01. Graham Gooch
02.
03. Ted Dexter
04. Peter May
05. Denis Compton
06.
07. Imran Khan
08.
09. Johnny Wardle
10. Tony Lock
11. Frank Tyson

HOWE
01. Sid Barnes
02.
03. Clyde Walcott
04. Ken Barrington
05. Colin Cowdrey
06. Keith Miller
07.
08.
09.
10. Erapalli Prasanna
11. Bill Johnston

ROUND 8
- AndyZaltzHair- Lindsay Hassett
- watson- Roy Fredericks
- fredfertang- Tom Graveney
- bagapath- G. R. Viswanath
- jimmy101- Terry Alderman
- Himmanv- Tony Lock
- Coronis- Bhagwath Chandrasekhar
- Howe_zat- ?
- Pothas- John Edrich
- LongHopCassidy- Subhash Gupte
- kingkallis- Zaheer Abbas
- Blakus- Peter Heine

ROUND 9
- watson- John Waite
- fredfertang- Colin Bland
- bagapath- Norman O'Neill
- jimmy101
- Himmanv
- Coronis
- Howe_zat
- Pathos
- LongHopCassidy
- kingkallis
- Blakus
- AndyZaltzHair

 

[LongHopCassidy]

I have to admit, Roy Fredericks completely escaped my mind when I went for Hanif. 0/100 off 60 overs sounds tantalizing, dunnit?

 

[watson]

I have to admit, Roy Fredericks completely escaped my mind when I went for Hanif. 0/100 off 60 overs sounds tantalizing, dunnit?

You knew that Gavaskar was in full-swing when he hit his cover drives while down on one knee. The bat would be wrapped over his shoulder in the follow though.

Hanif was the first batsman to improvise the reverse-sweep, and used it when he was set.

The point being that great batsman are sometimes held back by the weaknesses of their team's batting order, but most can attack when the pressure is off and the mood takes them.

 

[Blakus]

Peter Heine

 

[watson]

Before the good keeper-batsman rapidly disappear -John Waite