H.S Draft- combined sum of XI's test high scores not to exceed 1000 (negotiable)

[mr_mister]

and Merchant is a terrific choice

 

[OverratedSanity]

and Merchant is a terrific choice

Yup. Although "India's GOAT batsman" is going a bit too far.

 

[kingkallis]

Time for me to pick my captain, spinner and all-rounder - Richie Benaud

CricZo XI

1.
2.
3.
4. Jacques Kallis / o - 224 - 5
5.
6.
7. Richie Benaud (c) o / - 122 - 4
8. Malcolm Marshall o / 92 - 1
9. Shane Bond o 41 - 2/3
10. Sydney Barnes o 38 - 2/3
11. Bert Strudwick + 24

Spent: 541
Balance: 559

 

[mr_mister]

well he's gotta play him up a bit haha


Also how was the quality of bowling he faced in old school India's FC cricket?

i'm just being cheeky here

 

[Red]

We learnt in the batting position draft that Gregory's most commonly batted position in tests was actually number 9 lol

True that! Cant imagine there would be many guys who have batted in as many positions as Gregory did. Batted in every position apart from 10 and 11. Averaged over 100 at #4 and nearly 70 at #5.

Have got a DVD somewhere where Bradman talks about how in a services game he opened the batting and the bowling, scoring 100 in each innings and taking 6 wickets for the match. Evidently, he was also peerless as a slip fieldsman.

He was a generous and likeable Australian. He gave himself to cricket with enthusiasm and relish. He enjoyed himself and was the cause of enjoyment in others. At Johannesburg in 1921 Gregory scored a century in seventy minutes v South Africa - the fastest hundred in the history of Test cricket. He was a slip fielder of quite unfair reach and alacrity, a Wally Hammond in enlargement, so to say, though not as graceful, effortless, and terpsichorean. Gregory was young manhood in excelsis. All who ever saw him and met him will remember and cherish him. - cricinfo

 

[Red]

Yup. Although "India's GOAT batsman" is going a bit too far.

Better than Gavaskar and Tendulkar IMO

 

[OverratedSanity]

No

 

[mr_mister]

so many good, cheap ATG wicketkeeping choices still available, but I feel my tail is gonna be very long so I may as well make him someone who could do more than simply hold a bat and justify a top 6 spot

Jock Cameron - 90


honestb> morgieb> RTB

 

[Red]

No

quality argument

 

[OverratedSanity]

quality argument

So was this:

Better than Gavaskar and Tendulkar IMO

 

[Red]

At the very least he sits with Gavaskar and Tendulakar in the top three of India's greatest batsmen (I'd probably add Dravid and Hazare into that mix as well).

Being a jerk aside, he was a remarkable batsmen, and I would be interested to know what India's FC standards was like through Merchant's career. His FC career is phenomenal, and he demonstrated an ability at test level to deal with (as an opener) bowlers of the calibre of Bedser, Voce and Allen.

 

[honestbharani]

Graeme Swann 85 and I now have a spin + seam attack

 

[The Battlers Prince]

Good pick HB, I would have sworn Swann had a century

 

[morgieb]

Risky one here, but WG Grace - 170

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

Brian Vitori - 19

 

[mr_mister]

Round 7


The Battlers Prince
mr mister
Red Hill
slifer
weldone
honestbharani
Dan
stphndbsn
morgieb
anil1405
jimmy101
kingkallis
RossTaylorsBox

 

[mr_mister]

anil > jimmy > slifer > battlers > Round 7!

 

[anil1405]

IVA Richards - 291

 

[anil1405]

1. Trevor Goddard
2.
3. IVA Richards
4. Allan Border (C)
5.
6. Adam Gilchrist (Wk)
7. Ray Lindwall
8.
9. Dale Steyn
10.
11.

 

[Red]

IVA Richards - 291

**** **** ****!!!!!!!