Cricket draft 1945 -1977

[watson]

Here is a rare and fabulous video from 1950 as a diversion till the next player is selected;

Cricket (1950) - YouTube

Enjoy!

(Howe now has 3 picks I think. Can't remember him contributing in Rounds 8 or 9)

 

[kingkallis]

Can we skip him?

 

[kingkallis]

Here is a rare and fabulous video from 1950 as a diversion till the next player is selected;

Cricket (1950) - YouTube

Enjoy!

Excellent!

Big LOL @ the Aussie players fighting for the stumps at the end of the game. Haha!

 

[watson]

It is highly unlikely that Howe will pick in the next 2 hours because it's becoming late evening in the UK.

Therefore, I think that's it's OK for Pothas to pick ASAP. Otherwise the Draft will held up un-necessarily for several hours during the UK nightime.

Just my opinion.

(Assuming that Pothas is currently in SE London, as I'm guessing that's where Surbiton is)

 

[Pothas]

SW London, so close enough.

My pick will not make any difference to Howe anyway so will go ahead and pick Jim Parks.

 

[LongHopCassidy]

Max Walker. Need a larrikin to counter Gavaskar's inevitable dressing-room dickishness.

 

[watson]

ROUND 10
- fredfertang- Collie Smith
- bagapath- Abdul Qadir
- jimmy101- Polly Umrigar
- Himmanv- Lawrence Rowe
- Coronis- Mohinder Amarnath
- Howe_zat- ?
- Pothas- Jim Parks
- LongHopCassidy- Max Walker
- kingkallis- Ian Redpath
- Blakus- Dennis Amiss
- AndyZaltzHair- ?
- Watson- Desmond Haynes

 

[LongHopCassidy]

The Vincibles

1. Sunil Gavaskar
2. Hanif Mohammad
3. Alvin Kallicharran
4. Martin Donnelly
5. Sir Frank Worrell*
6. John Reid
7.
8. Michael Holding
9. Max Walker
10. Subhash Gupta
11. Lance Gibbs

Shopping for a keeper. Probably Kirmani or Wasim Bari given the spin-heavy attack, although Grout kept to Benaud and Johnson with distinction. None can bat for ****, mind, it's a mercy the tail starts at 10.

Btw, official home ground is Chennai. Having a long, meaningful chat with the groundsman aws.

 

[Red]

Max Walker. Need a larrikin to counter Gavaskar's inevitable dressing-room dickishness.

 

[LongHopCassidy]

Can we sim these matches?

 

[Coronis]

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

Just one middle order player to go!

 

[kingkallis]

I'll pick in 5

 

[kingkallis]

Ian Redpath as No.4. He has a decent record at No.5 as well but I'll prefer him to be No.4 and Colonel can bat at No.5...

CricZo XI

1. Sir Geoffrey Boycott /
2. Arthur Morris /
3. Zaheer Abbas /
4. Ian Redpath /
5. Dilip Vengsarkar /
6.
7. Denis Lindsay ( + )
8. Richie Benaud ( c ) o /
9. Sir Richard Hadlee o /
10. Alan Davidson o /
11. Colin Croft o

 

[kingkallis]

Can we sim these matches?

It will be fun if we can do this....

 

[Blakus]

Dennis Amiss

 

[bagapath]

Can we sim these matches?

I hope we can. The only time I was part of such an exercise my team lost most of the simulated games.

This time around... With two express fast bowlers in hall and pollock and botham to bowl fast medium swing, the left arm orthox spin of mankad and wrist spin of qadir should make my attack effective against most batting lineups.

I have two very evolved technicians in my team to open the batting, with Hutton being the best ever; and the middle order is made up of three stylists who would not hesitate to cut, pull, sweep or hook when necessary. Mankad will be a thorn in the flesh at 6 and beefy is good enough to turn the game around in a single session with good old village green stuff. If any of them needed extra support pollock and my keeper should be able to stay on long enough to milk those additional runs.

So.... With Sir Len at the helm I expect my team to do better this time around (yeah, I am starting my campaign early)

 

[watson]

Desmond Haynes

http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/52047.html

01. Desmond Haynes
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

(Andy timed-out)

 

[kingkallis]

Watto - you have a fabulous team!

 

[Himannv]

Didn't think he was available. Missed a trick there.

 

[Pothas]

Think it is a nonsense that he is.