"200 Test or less" Draft Vote

[AndrewB]

Here are the final teams for this draft (each team having played a maximum total of 200 Tests at the time of selection): please vote for the three strongest,

AndyZaltzHair
Peter Kirsten
Madhav Apte
Charles Davis
Phil Mead
Frank Worrell* [6]
Alan Fairfax [5]
Jock Cameron+
Amar Singh [2]
Manny Martindale [3]
Shane Bond [1]
Bill O'Reilly [4]

Schearzie's Under 200
Archie Jackson
Bill Brown
Ernest Tyldesley
Martin Love
Kane Williamson (6)
Sam Loxton (5)
Graham Manou+
Ron Archer* (3)
Clarrie Grimmett (4)
CTB Turner (1)
Peter Heine (2)

Jimmy's tryhard XI
Raman Subba Row /
Bob Cowper/
Murray Goodwin /
Graeme Pollock /
Ajinkya Rahane /
Jack Gregory /o (1)
Learie Constantine* /o (3)
Steve Rhodes+
Fanie de Villiers o (2)
Yasir Shah o (5)
Ernie Toshack o (4)

stphndbsn
Jimmy Cook
Sir Leonard Hutton
Sid Barnes
Alan Melville*
Colin Bland
Lee Irvine+
Billy Barnes (4)
Ranji Hordern (5)
Peter Pollock (1)
Harry Dean (3)
Wayne Daniel (2)

Fred's Fertangs
WG Grace*
CAG Russell
A Sharma
PJ Sharpe
V Kambli
E Paynter
A Flintoff
EA McDonald
T Richardson
KV Andrew+
J Iverson

Longrangers
Bill Ponsford
Usman Khawaja
George Headley*
KS Duleepsinhji
CK Nayudu
Tom Moody (5)
Quinton de Kock+
Ryan Harris (2)
Charlie Griffith (1)
Kagiso Rabada (3)
Subhash Gupte (4)

OverratedSanity
Charles Bannerman
Charles Macartney* (6)
Ranjitsinghji
Martin Donnelly
Stuart Law
Milinda Siriwardana (5)
Brendon Kuruppu+
Bernard Bosanquet (4)
Andy Roberts (1)
Joel Garner (3)
Frank Tyson (2)

Red Hill XI
Vijay Merchant
Pieter van der Bijl
Clyde Walcott
Everton Weekes
Steve Smith*
Tim Paine+
Eldine Baptiste (5)
Tich Freeman (4)
Len Pascoe (1)
Pat Cummins (3)
JJ Ferris (2)

morgieb
Bruce Mitchell
Andy Sandham
Jack Robertson
David Steele
Brad Hodge
F.S. Jackson (5)
Peter Nevill+
Ken Higgs (3)
Sydney Barnes (2)
Colin Blythe (4)
Bruce Reid (1)

mr_mister
Barry Richards
Jack Hobbs
Stewie Dempster
Vijay Hazare
Keith Miller* (1)
Albert Trott (5)
James Faulkner (4)
Warren Hegg+
Chuck Fleetwood Smith (6)
Mohammad Nissar (3)
Bill Bowes (2)

watson
Allan Rae
Cyril Walters
Stan McCabe [6]
Dudley Nourse
Aron 'Ali' Bacher*
Denis Lindsay+
Mike Procter [1]
Garry Gilmour [4]
Sylvester Clarke [3]
Tom Goddard [5]
Neil Adcock [2]

Aldo XI
Herbie Collins
Arthur Shrewsbury*
Gary Ballance
Keith Rigg
Michael Bevan [6]
Andrew Symonds [5]
Jos Buttler+
Bert Vogler [4]
Mohammed Asif [3]
Fred Spofforth [2]
Harold Larwood [1]

Raw Deal XI
Archie MacLaren
Phil Jacques
Jack Ryder
Douglas Jardine
Adam Voges
Dinesh Chandimal+
Allan Steel
Bobby Peel
George Lohmann
Mohammed Amir
Jack Cowie

AndrewB XI
Colin Milburn
Fred Bakewell
Eddie Barlow* (6)
Aubrey Faulkner (5)
Joe Hardstaff jr
Tip Foster
Frank Foster (3)
James Foster+
Alan Davidson (2)
Bob Appleyard (4)
Colin Croft (1)

 

[watson]

Thanks Andrew. I don't think that I've seen a poll thread put up so fast! Have to recalibrate my eyes though as they're not used to seeing teams without the numbers.

All of the teams are close, bar none, so I need think about the '3 strongest a bit longer' before voting.

 

[kingkallis]

watson, OS, longrangers in that order

 

[Flametree]

Great draft, sorry I missed the start of it!

I think the best player missed by everyone would be Billy Bates, with 50 wickets at 16 and a useful batsman he was a steal at only 15 tests....

And no-one takes Mominul Haq's numbers all that seriously then?

I tried to come up with an xi using none of the players above...

Bob Bolus (7)
George Gunn (15)
Dave Houghton (22)
Seymour Nurse (29)
Darren Lehmann (27)
Billy Murdoch -wk- (18)
Billy Bates (15)
Col McCool (14)
Bruce Taylor (30)
Tony Gray (5)
Peter Loader (13)

 

[StephenZA]

Great draft, sorry I missed the start of it!

I think the best player missed by everyone would be Billy Bates, with 50 wickets at 16 and a useful batsman he was a steal at only 15 tests....

And no-one takes Mominul Haq's numbers all that seriously then?

I tried to come up with an xi using none of the players above...

Bob Bolus (7)
George Gunn (15)
Dave Houghton (22)
Seymour Nurse (29)
Darren Lehmann (27)
Billy Murdoch -wk- (18)
Billy Bates (15)
Col McCool (14)
Bruce Taylor (30)
Tony Gray (5)
Peter Loader (13)

I looked at Bates, but went for Barnes instead, and felt Horden was a better spinner.

 

[Howe_zat]

Damn, thought I did better than 0 votes

 

[jimmy101]

I also was considering Mominul for a time, Houghton too.

 

[mr_mister]

happy to be in the running here, splurged like 60% my budget on only 2 players but feel it was worth it

 

[mr_mister]

I looked at Bates, but went for Barnes instead, and felt Horden was a better spinner.

I looked long and hard at Houghton and Lehmann.


I feel Bert Ironmonger at 14 tests (with an average of 17) was a tough overlook as well. Man that guy never ever gets drafted


Also Lawrence Rowe at 30 tests is an okayish choice too

 

[longranger]

I was going to take Dave Houghton but in Tom Moody I got a useful allrounder who helped me save for getting Charlie Griffith. Bert Ironmonger and Billy Bates were on my shortlist as well.

 

[AndrewB]

Just a reminder that you have 2 days left to vote in this poll.

 

[NZTailender]

Wow what a draft. Probably the hardest to choose teams from in recent memory!

 

[AndrewB]

Just noticed that my team's surnames are all from the first half of the alphabet. In fact the bowlers don't have an initial later than F between them (if you allow "Bob" for "Robert").

 

[watson]

Looks like OS's pace attack of Andy Roberts (1), Joel Garner (3), and Frank Tyson (2) was too irresistable. And probably rightly so.

 

[OverratedSanity]

I guess I win. Surprised that people voted for my team over watson's tbh.

 

[jimmy101]

Well done OS, your team had just in enough strength in all areas.

 

[AndrewB]

Congratulations to Overrated Sanity for winning the "200 Test or less" draft - I think we ended up with a lot of good teams there.

 

[Howe_zat]

I feel like I was punished here for my previous victory

 

[mr_mister]

that was a bloody joke tbqh


jkz

 

[watson]

I feel like I was punished here for my previous victory

Unfortunately Howe, I think that it's more likely that your team lacked a marquee batsman and a properly fast bowler. No disrespect to Jardine/MacLaren or Cowie.