"200 Tests or less" Draft

[watson]

With 14 already in the draw we'll be picking Neville Nobodies by about round 7 or 8.

 

[Pratters]

Will be a very interesting draft..

 

[OverratedSanity]

Red Hill's timed out.

 

[Red]

Vijay Merchant- 10 tests

Test average of 47, FC average of 71.

The supreme yardstick for batsmanship is the Bradman scale. West Indies' George Headley was `the black Bradman'. Every Australian prodigy since 1948 has been heralded as `the new Bradman'. Gavaskar has rewritten the Test record books, and yet is still acknowledged as slightly lower caste. But if figures count, Vijay Merchant, with a first-class average of 71, is next in line to The Don, even though his Test average was only 47.72. On his home pitches he amassed thousands of runs, and on his two tours of England, 10 years apart, he showed batsmanship of rich class, making over 4000 runs on the two tours combined….In his 10 Tests, all against England, spread over 18 years, he made 859 runs, and in 47 Ranji Trophy innings he reached 100 on 16 occasions, totalling 3639 runs at the astounding average of 98.75. In all first-class cricket he made over 13,000 runs at 71, and took 65 wickets (31.87) with medium-pace offspin.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Aw was hoping he'd go unnoticed

 

[Red]

Nice start. Happy with that.

 

[mr_mister]

Nobody goes unnoticed on this forum OS

 

[jimmy101]

Some updates would be great here Andrew. I'm struggling to figure out who's next.

 

[Howe_zat]

George Lohmann

Jack Cowie

 

[StephenZA]

No objections received, so here's the draw for the first 2 rounds:

Round 1

watson
mr_mister
jimmy101
fredfertang
longranger
morgieb
AldoRaine18
AndrewB
AndyZaltzHair
stphndbsn
schearzie
Overrated Sanity
Red Hill
Howe_Zat

Round 2

Howe_Zat
Red Hill
Overrated Sanity
schearzie
stphndbsn
AndyZaltzHair
AndrewB
AldoRaine18
morgieb
longranger
fredfertang
jimmy101
mr_mister
watson

For those that struggle with the first page . Just started round 2. Red Hill next.

 

[StephenZA]

Just so people know who`s been picked so far:

]mr_mister: Barry Richards 4
jimmy101:Graeme Pollock 23
watson: Mike Proctor 7
morgieb: Sydney Barnes 27
AndrewB: Aubrey Faulkner 25
longranger: George Headley 22
Howe_Zat: George Lohmann 18;Jack Cowie 9
fredfertang: W.G. Grace 22
AldoRaine18: Harold Larwood 21
AZH: Bill O'Reilly 27
Overratedsanity: Frank Tyson 17
Red Hill: Vijay Merchant 10
stphndbsn: Colin Bland 21
schearzie: Archie Jackson 8

Disclaimer: If any mistakes have been made I take no responsibility for anything (i.e. Please check that this is correct.}

 

[AndrewB]

Just so people know who`s been picked so far:

mr_mister: Barry Richards 4
jimmy101:Graeme Pollock 23
watson: Mike Proctor 7
morgieb: Sydney Barnes 27
AndrewB: Aubrey Faulkner 25
longranger: George Headley 22
Howe_Zat: George Lohmann 18;Jack Cowie 9
fredfertang: W.G. Grace 22
AldoRaine18: Harold Larwood 21
AZH: Bill O'Reilly 27
Overratedsanity: Frank Tyson 17
Red Hill: Vijay Merchant 10
stphndbsn: Colin Bland 21
schearzie: Archie Jackson 8

Disclaimer: If any mistakes have been made I take no responsibility for anything (i.e. Please check that this is correct.}

Thanks for the updates - looks right to me. We'd have a pretty good squad there, if only someone had picked a wicket-keeper :-)

 

[Red]

Round 1

Watson- Mike Procter
mr_mister- Barry Richards
jimmy101- Graeme Pollock
fredfertang- WG Grace
longranger- George Headley
morgieb- Syd Barnes
AldoRaine18- Harold Larwood
AndrewB- Aubrey Faulkner
AndyZaltzHair- Bill O’Reilly
Stphndbsn- Colin Bland
Schearzie- Archie Jackson
Overrated Sanity- Frank Tyson
Red Hill- Vijay Merchant
Howe_Zat- George Lohmann

Round 2

Howe_Zat- Jack Cowie
Red Hill
Overrated Sanity
schearzie
stphndbsn
AndyZaltzHair
AndrewB
AldoRaine18
morgieb
longranger
fredfertang
jimmy101
mr_mister
watson

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

Nobody goes unnoticed on this forum OS

Yeah OS with a shocker

 

[Red]

JJ Ferris. 9 tests and 61 wickets.

JJ Ferris was a deadly left-arm swing bowler who played Test cricket for Australia and England. In his eight Tests for the Aussies, Ferris wreaked havoc. His first act as a Test player was to bowl England out for 45, at Sydney in 1886-87, when he bowled unchanged. He later settled in England, for whom he played one Test, at Cape Town in 1891-92. Ferris took 13 for 91 in the match (he took 263 wickets on the tour) and ended up with 61 wickets at the amazing average of 12.70. - cricinfo

 

[OverratedSanity]

KS Ranjitsinghji (15)

 

[The Battlers Prince]

CTB Turner 17

 

[StephenZA]

Sidney George Barnes (13) ..............(the other one)

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

Shane Bond 18

 

[AndrewB]

Frank Foster (11): "Given time he might now be recognised as the greatest English all-rounder bar none"... with Foster and Faulkner I may be heading for a "came to a sad end" XI.