Debuts & Retirements draft

[jimmy101]

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo....


Dude, I went to 2002 thinking you had gone with that change (just like OS) as I badly needed an opener...

Sorry bro, that's fair enough. You can have Smith & I'll Take Harmison (2002 - 2009) & Trott (2009 - ?)

Final amended team

Brown
Hayward
Trott
Chappell
Jones
Worrell c
Woolley
Lindsay +
Peel
Harmison
Donald

 

[honestbharani]

Sorry bro, that's fair enough. You can have Smith & I'll Take Harmison (2002 - 2009) & Trott (2009 - ?)

Final amended team

Brown
Hayward
Trott
Chappell
Jones
Worrell c
Woolley
Lindsay +
Peel
Harmison
Donald

Thanks a bunch mate.. Very sporting of you. Honestly was not expecting you to repick. I was just venting and I have no clue how the underline came about, must have hit ctrl U while looking for some caps lock combination.

 

[J_C]

Billy Murdoch (1877-1892).

Vijay Merchant
Bill Lawry
Peter May
Steve Smith
Warren Bardsley
Billy Murdoch +
Imran Khan (c) / 1
Harold Larwood / 2
Johnny Briggs / 4
Frank Laver / 5
Muttiah Muralitharan / 3

 

[The Battlers Prince]

Bob McCosker

1. Bob McCosker (1975-1980)
2. Bill Woodfull* (1926-1934)
3. Arthur Shrewsbury (1882-1893)
4. Lucky Denton (1905-1910)
5. Stanley Jackson (1893-1905)
6. Trevor Goddard (1955-1970)
7. Terry Jenner (1970-1975)
8. Bill Johnston (1947-1955)
9. Bill Copson (1939-1947)
10. Bert Strudwick+ (1910-1926)
11. Ken Farnes (1934-1939)

For the amount of time I couldn't invest in this I'm surprised I made a team which could go out and play. I'll be surprised if I get many votes at all. Thanks for running the draft though

 

[AndrewB]

Thanks everyone for sticking with this draft which had its flaws & was frustrating at times, but I felt it was fun & unique overall.

After all, with all the talk recently here on CW about the same old names getting selected over & over in drafts, just take a look at all the names I can think of off the top of my head that didn't get selected. It's not like they weren't available either.

SF Barnes

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First draft I ever took part in, and it was great fun.

SF Barnes made his debut in the only Test in 1901, which I don't think was anyone's final Test, so he was virtually unpickable. I would guess the other unpicked big names also started (or maybe ended) in a "bad" year.

 

[AndrewB]

Graham Gooch (1975-1995)
Jeffrey Stollmeyer (1939-1955)
Ernest Tyldesley (1921-1929)
KS Ranjitsinhji (1896-1902)
Allan Steel (1880-1888)
Warwick Armstrong (1902-1921)
Les Ames (1929-1939)
Shaun Pollock (1995-2008)
Fred Titmus (1955-1975)
George Lohmann (1886-1896)
Peter Siddle (2008-date)

Pretty solid line-up, bats very deep (they all made at least one FC hundred) and plenty of variety in the bowling.

Obviously Ames is the wicket-keeper, but I guess I should confirm that Armstrong is the captain. Pollock and Lohmann open the bowling, with Siddle as first change; Titmus and Armstrong as the off-spin/leg-spin pair, with Steel in reserve to confuse the opposition with his "tricky" bowling.

 

[jimmy101]

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First draft I ever took part in, and it was great fun.

SF Barnes made his debut in the only Test in 1901, which I don't think was anyone's final Test, so he was virtually unpickable. I would guess the other unpicked big names also started (or maybe ended) in a "bad" year.

Glad it was fun for you Andrew. Another 'bad' year was 1920, technically impossible to reach.

 

[jimmy101]

Just waiting on Watson & HB to post their final lineups & I'll start the voting thread.

 

[watson]

Just waiting on Watson & HB to post their final lineups & I'll start the voting thread.

Not sure if you want dates or not, so.....

01. Andy Sandham (1921 - 1930)
02. Plum Warner (1909 -1912)
03. Everton Weekes (1948 - 1958)
04. Hon. Lionel Tennyson (1913 - 1921)
05. Mohammad Azharuddin (1985 - 2000)
06. Albert Trott [5] (1895 - 1909)
07. Ray Illingworth * [4] (1958 - 1973)
08. Gubby Allen [3] (1930 - 1948)
09. Tiger Smith + (1912 - 1913)
10. Charles Turner [1] (1887 - 1895)
11. Jeff Thomson [2] (1973 - 1985)


01. Andy Sandham
02. Plum Warner
03. Everton Weekes
04. Hon. Lionel Tennyson
05. Mohammad Azharuddin
06. Albert Trott [5]
07. Ray Illingworth * [4]
08. Gubby Allen [3]
09. Tiger Smith +
10. Charles Turner [1]
11. Jeff Thomson [2]

 

[watson]

Glad it was fun for you Andrew. Another 'bad' year was 1920, technically impossible to reach.

I did look at picking Len Hutton via Percy Fender (1921 to 1929) and Walter Robins (1929 to 1937), but Hutton's retirement year seemed such a dud at first glance, and the Illingworth/Allen alternative seemed significantly stronger. Maybe I should have looked harder.

 

[jimmy101]

^ That's what I liked about this draft Watson my man; so many paths, variables & opportunities to f--k yourself over. I'm sorry that you had such of a bad starting position. If enough people are interested I will gladly start a reverse variant of this draft once this draft is finished (modern day working backwards) & the vote has been decided.

Please like this post if you would like me to PM you about the reverse draft. Cheers.

 

[honestbharani]

Graeme Smith (2002-2014)



Honest Hunks


Sid Barnes - RHB, LB - 1072 runs @ 63, 57 wkts @ 32 (FC)
Graeme Smith - LHB, ROS - 9265 runs @ 48, 8 wkts @ 111
Maurice Leyland - LHB, SLA - 2764 runs @ 46, 466 wkts @ 29 (FC)
Clyde Walcott - RHB, WK, RFM - 3798 runs @ 57, 11 wkts @ 37, 53 Catches, 11 Stumpings
Clive Lloyd (c) - LHB, RM - 7515 runs @ 47, 10 wkts @ 62
Charles Kelleway - RHB, RFM - 1422 runs @ 37, 52 wkts @ 32
Murray Bisset - WK - 103 runs @ 26

David Allen - RHB, ROS - 918 runs @ 25, 122 wkts @ 31
Wasim Akram - LHB, LF - 2898 runs @ 23, 414 wkts @ 24
Jack Hearne - RM - 49 wkts @ 22
JJ Ferris - LFM - 61 wkts @ 13






Great variety in bowling, decent depth in batting and a very formidable batting lineup. Proud of what I managed given I was just going one player at a time than following any chains till the last round.