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Ascending batting average draft (tests)

Line and Length

Line and Length

Cricketer Of The Year
Thanks h-hurricane and Fuller Pilch. I decided to go in pursuit of Bradman after someone was critical of my choice of spinner. After that it became in exercise in number crunching and finding players who fitted those numbers.

I'm more than happy with the batting support for The Don. The line-up is flexible with the option of opening with Edrich (who normally went in at 3, Bradman's spot, and letting Stewart bat in the middle order. A possible order would be:

C.Gayle 6
A.Stewart (w/k)
D.Bradman (c)
B.Edrich 7
G.Viswanath
S.Ganguly 8
B.D'Oliviera 5
A.Davidson 3
N.Lyon 4
F.Tyson 1
G.McGrath 2
 
trundler

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Line and Length said:
Thanks h-hurricane and Fuller Pilch. I decided to go in pursuit of Bradman after someone was critical of my choice of spinner. After that it became in exercise in number crunching and finding players who fitted those numbers.

I'm more than happy with the batting support for The Don. The line-up is flexible with the option of opening with Edrich (who normally went in at 3, Bradman's spot, and letting Stewart bat in the middle order. A possible order would be:

C.Gayle 6
A.Stewart (w/k)
D.Bradman (c)
B.Edrich 7
G.Viswanath
S.Ganguly 8
B.D'Oliviera 5
A.Davidson 3
N.Lyon 4
F.Tyson 1
G.McGrath 2
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With that pace attack and The Don at 3, the rest only need to do a job so to speak. And that they can do very well.
 
honestbharani

honestbharani

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Its a great side, L&L. But I won't open with the keeper. You can move GRV to 4. Stewart batted 5 when he was keeping for England and he is ace against the new ball, so he can do a job for your side at 6 or 7 and face up to the second new ball.
 
mr_mister

mr_mister

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Line and Length said:
My alternative line-is:

C.Gayle 6
B.Edrich 7
D.Bradman (c)
G.Viswanath
S.Ganguly 8
A.Stewart (w/k)
B.D'Oliviera 5
A.Davidson 3
N.Lyon 4
F.Tyson 1
G.McGrath 2
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That'd probably get more votes. People dont like seeing Stewart opening and keeping as he rarely did both
 
ankitj

ankitj

Hall of Fame Member
@trundler can pick
@kingkallis timed out
  • KingKallis [Timed out] - Brett Schultz (1.5), James Anderson (9.67), Kagiso Rabada (11.43), Richie Benaud (24.4), Rod Marsh (26.5), Ben Stokes (38.58), Ian Chappell (42.42), Hanif Mohammad (44.00)
  • Trundler - Bert Ironmonger (2.62), Fred Trueman (13.82), Wes Hall (15.73), Peter Pollock (21.67), Jonny Waite (30.4), Charlie Macartney (41.78), Colin Cowdrey (44.07)
  • Pothas - Dale Steyn (13.59), Fazal Mahmood (14.09), Rangana Herath (14.52), Shaun Pollock (32.31), Mushtaq Mohammad (39.17), Matt Prior (40.18), David Gower (44.25)
  • Marcuss - Mohammad Asif (5.64), Wayne Daniel (6.57), Jim Laker (14.08), Imran Khan (37.69), Michael Atherton (37.69), Les Ames (40.56), Michael Vaughan (41.44), Richie Richardson (44.39)
  • Fuller Pilch - Curtly Ambrose (12.4), Alec Bedser (12.75), Hugh Tayfield (16.90), Vernon Philander (24.04), Chris Cairns (33.53), Gordon Greenidge (44.72)
  • StephenZA - Muttiah Muralitharan (11.68), Zaheer Khan (11.95), Patrick ***mins (17.02), Fanie de Villiers (18.89), Wilfred Rhodes (30.19), Peter Kirsten (31.3), Quinton de Kock (39.12), Zaheer Abbas (44.79)
  • Ankitj - Courtney Walsh (7.54), Stuart MacGill (9.69), Jack Cowie (10), Richard Hadlee (27.16), Imtiaz Ahmed (29.28), Shakib Al Hasan (39.40), Conrad Hunte (45.06)
  • Teuton - Bhagwat Chandrasekhar (4.07), Shoaib Akhtar (10.07), Bob Willis (11.51), Wasim Akram (22.64), Alan Knott (32.75), Frank Woolley (36.07), Alastair Cook (45.35)
  • Mr_mister - Neil Adcock (5.41), Lance Gibbs (6.97), Michael Holding (13.79), Don Tallon (17.13), Ian Botham (33.54), Jack Gregory (36.96), Graham Gooch (42.58), Martin Crowe (45.36)
  • Coronis - Bill Bowes (4.66), Mohammad Abbas (7.23), Clarrie Grimmett (13.92), Wally Grout (15.08), Keith Miller (36.97), Tamim Iqbal (38.64), Marvan Atapattu (39.02), VVS Laxman (45.97)
  • AndrewB - Jasprit Bumrah (2.9), Bill O'Reilly (12.81), Ray Lindwall (21.15), Maurice Tate (25.48), Ian Healy (27.39),Tony Greig (40.43), Arthur Morris (46.48), Arthur Morris (46.48)
  • Ataraxia - Allan Donald (10.68), Derek Underwood (11.56), Shane Bond (12.92), Mike Procter (25.11), Syed Kirmani (27.04), Dave Nourse (29.78), Bob Simpson (46.81)
  • Honestbharani - Malcolm Marshall (18.85), Hedley Verity (20.90), Mitch Starc (22.27), Ravi Ashwin (28.10), Trevor Goddard (34.46), Shane Watson (35.19), Asif Iqbal (38.85) Adam Gilchrist (47.60)
  • Weldone/JOJOXI - Waqar Younis (10.2), Shane Warne (17.33), Tim Southee (17.38), Kapil Dev (31.05), Brendon McCullum (38.64), Aravinda de Silva (42.98), Geoff Boycott (47.73)
  • srbhkshk - Joel Garner (12.44), Neil Wagner (12.5), Andy Roberts (14.94), Anil Kumble (17.77), Andrew Flintoff (31.77), Jeff Dujon (31.94) , Mark Waugh (41.81), Gautam Gambhir (41.95), Sunil Gavaskar (51.12)
  • Red Hill - Bruce Reid (4.65), Dennis Lillee (13.71), Harold Larwood (19.4), Godfrey Evans (20.49), Graeme Swann (22.09), Desmond Haynes (42.29), Mark Taylor (43.49), Viv Richards (50.23)
Completed
  • Line and Length - Glenn McGrath (7.37), Frank Tyson (10.95), Nathan Lyon (12.27), Alan Davidson (24.59), Alec Stewart (39.54), Bill Edrich (40.00), Basil D'Oliveira (40.06), Gundappa Viswanath (41.93), Saurav Ganguly (42.17), Chris Gayle (42.18), Don Bradman (99.94)
 
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ankitj

ankitj

Hall of Fame Member
Had my eyes set on Crowe. But with decimal point difference in averages of Crowe and my last pick it was going to be hard to get prized pick like him.
 
mr_mister

mr_mister

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Yeah i always think of Crowe as a guy with reputation better than his average so had been eyeing him off for sometime
 
Line and Length

Line and Length

Cricketer Of The Year
Obviously a number jockeying for a couple of prized selections. The only average above 50 came as a 9th pick. It certainly has been an entertaining draft.
 
ankitj

ankitj

Hall of Fame Member
@Fuller Pilch up next
  • KingKallis [Timed out] - Brett Schultz (1.5), James Anderson (9.67), Kagiso Rabada (11.43), Richie Benaud (24.4), Rod Marsh (26.5), Ben Stokes (38.58), Ian Chappell (42.42), Hanif Mohammad (44.00)
  • Fuller Pilch - Curtly Ambrose (12.4), Alec Bedser (12.75), Hugh Tayfield (16.90), Vernon Philander (24.04), Chris Cairns (33.53), Gordon Greenidge (44.72)
  • StephenZA - Muttiah Muralitharan (11.68), Zaheer Khan (11.95), Patrick ***mins (17.02), Fanie de Villiers (18.89), Wilfred Rhodes (30.19), Peter Kirsten (31.3), Quinton de Kock (39.12), Zaheer Abbas (44.79)
  • Ankitj - Courtney Walsh (7.54), Stuart MacGill (9.69), Jack Cowie (10), Richard Hadlee (27.16), Imtiaz Ahmed (29.28), Shakib Al Hasan (39.40), Conrad Hunte (45.06)
  • Trundler - Bert Ironmonger (2.62), Fred Trueman (13.82), Wes Hall (15.73), Peter Pollock (21.67), Jonny Waite (30.4), Charlie Macartney (41.78), Colin Cowdrey (44.07), Glenn Turner (44.64), Gary Kirsten (45.27)
  • Teuton - Bhagwat Chandrasekhar (4.07), Shoaib Akhtar (10.07), Bob Willis (11.51), Wasim Akram (22.64), Alan Knott (32.75), Frank Woolley (36.07), Alastair Cook (45.35)
  • Mr_mister - Neil Ad**** (5.41), Lance Gibbs (6.97), Michael Holding (13.79), Don Tallon (17.13), Ian Botham (33.54), Jack Gregory (36.96), Graham Gooch (42.58), Martin Crowe (45.36)
  • Coronis - Bill Bowes (4.66), Mohammad Abbas (7.23), Clarrie Grimmett (13.92), Wally Grout (15.08), Keith Miller (36.97), Tamim Iqbal (38.64), Marvan Atapattu (39.02), VVS Laxman (45.97)
  • AndrewB - Jasprit Bumrah (2.9), Bill O'Reilly (12.81), Ray Lindwall (21.15), Maurice Tate (25.48), Ian Healy (27.39),Tony Greig (40.43), Arthur Morris (46.48), Arthur Morris (46.48)
  • Ataraxia - Allan Donald (10.68), Derek Underwood (11.56), Shane Bond (12.92), Mike Procter (25.11), Syed Kirmani (27.04), Dave Nourse (29.78), Bob Simpson (46.81)
  • Honestbharani - Malcolm Marshall (18.85), Hedley Verity (20.90), Mitch Starc (22.27), Ravi Ashwin (28.10), Trevor Goddard (34.46), Shane Watson (35.19), Asif Iqbal (38.85) Adam Gilchrist (47.60)
  • Weldone/JOJOXI - Waqar Younis (10.2), Shane Warne (17.33), Tim Southee (17.38), Kapil Dev (31.05), Brendon McCullum (38.64), Aravinda de Silva (42.98), Geoff Boycott (47.73)
  • Pothas - Dale Steyn (13.59), Fazal Mahmood (14.09), Rangana Herath (14.52), Shaun Pollock (32.31), Mushtaq Mohammad (39.17), Matt Prior (40.18), David Gower (44.25), Graeme Smith (48.25)
  • Red Hill - Bruce Reid (4.65), Dennis Lillee (13.71), Harold Larwood (19.4), Godfrey Evans (20.49), Graeme Swann (22.09), Desmond Haynes (42.29), Mark Taylor (43.49), Viv Richards (50.23)
  • Marcuss - Mohammad Asif (5.64), Wayne Daniel (6.57), Jim Laker (14.08), Imran Khan (37.69), Michael Atherton (37.69), Les Ames (40.56), Michael Vaughan (41.44), Richie Richardson (44.39), Allan Border (50.56)
  • srbhkshkk - Joel Garner (12.44), Neil Wagner (12.5), Andy Roberts (14.94), Anil Kumble (17.77), Andrew Flintoff (31.77), Jeff Dujon (31.94) , Mark Waugh (41.81), Gautam Gambhir (41.95), Sunil Gavaskar (51.12)
Completed
  • Line and Length - Glenn McGrath (7.37), Frank Tyson (10.95), Nathan Lyon (12.27), Alan Davidson (24.59), Alec Stewart (39.54), Bill Edrich (40.00), Basil D'Oliveira (40.06), Gundappa Viswanath (41.93), Saurav Ganguly (42.17), Chris Gayle (42.18), Don Bradman (99.94)
 
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