The Test-only players ODI Draft

[morgieb]

Lee Irvine. Reckon he could've been Gilchrist-lite with a proper career.

 

[mr_mister]

Bill Voce. The forgotton bodyline bowler. Need a lefty

 

[Red]

Lee Irvine. Reckon he could've been Gilchrist-lite with a proper career.

Great selection.

 

[AldoRaine18]

Round 1

J_C - Barry Richards
watson - Keith Miller
kingkallis - Mike Procter
AldoRaine18 - Graeme Pollock
Zinzan - Wally Hammond
Morgieb - Bill O'Reilly
mr_mister - Stan McCabe
Red Hill - Harold Larwood
schearzie - Ray Lindwall
Pothas - S.F. Barnes
Agent TBY - Sir Clyde Walcott
OverratedSanity - Victor Trumper

Round 2

OverratedSanity - Gilbert Jessop
Agent TBY - Aubrey Faulkner
Pothas - George Headley
schearzie - Jack Gregory
Red Hill - Alan Davidson
mr_mister - Clarie Grimmett
Morgieb - Frank Worrell
Zinzan - Fred Trueman
AldoRaine18 - Neil Harvey
kingkallis - WG Grace
watson - Ted Dexter
J_C - Charles Macartney

Round 3

mr_mister - Len Hutton
Pothas - Richie Benaud
Zinzan - Everton Weekes
J_C - Wes Hall
Red Hill - Frank Woolley
AldoRaine18 - Jack Hobbs
watson - Denis Compton
Morgieb - Monty Noble
schearzie- Bill Ponsford
OverratedSanity- Les Ames
kingkallis- Dudley Nourse
Agent TBY- Clem Hill

Round 4

Agent TBY- Maurice Tate
kingkallis- Trevor Goddard
OverratedSanity- Jim Laker
schearzie- Denis Lindsay
Morgieb- Brian Statham
watson- Peter Pollock
AldoRaine18- Learie Constantine
Red Hill - Arthur Morris
J_C - Peter May
Zinzan - Hedley Verity
Pothas - KS Ranjitsinhji
mr_mister - Alec Bedser

Round 5

J_C - Hugh Tayfield
schearzie - Fazal Mahmood
Morgieb - Herb Sutcliffe
Red Hill - Norm O'Neill
kingkallis - Archie Jackson
watson - John R. Reid
OverratedSanity - Frank Tyson
AldoRaine18 - Jack Cowie
Pothas - Bill Johnston
Agent TBY - Warwick Armstrong
mr_mister - Lindsay Hassett
Zinzan - George Lohmann

Round 6

Zinzan - Ken Barrington
mr_mister - Douglas Jardine
Agent TBY - Neil Adcock
Pothas - Patsy Hendren
AldoRaine18 - Vijay Hazare
OverratedSanity - Maurice Leyland
watson - Eddie Barlow
kingkallis - Fred Spofforth
Red Hill - Stanley Jackson
Morgieb - Charlie Turner
schearzie - Stewie Dempster
J_C - Martin Donnelly

Round 7

Red Hill - Hugh Trumble
kingkallis - Colin Bland
J_C - Tom Richardson
AldoRaine18 - Ted McDonald
Pothas - Jock Cameron
schearzie - Johnny Tyldesley
watson - Charlie Griffith
OverratedSanity - Vijay Merchant
Zinzan - Sid Barnes
Morgieb - Lee Irvine
mr_mister - Bill Voce
Agent TBY

Round 8

Agent TBY
mr_mister
Morgieb
Zinzan
OverratedSanity
watson
schearzie
Pothas
AldoRaine18
J_C
kingkallis
Red Hill

Round 9

J_C
schearzie
Zinzan
mr_mister
kingkallis
Agent TBY
AldoRaine18
OverratedSanity
Red Hill
Morgieb
watson
Pothas

Round 10

Pothas
watson
Morgieb
Red Hill
OverratedSanity
AldoRaine18
Agent TBY
kingkallis
mr_mister
Zinzan
schearzie
J_C

Round 11

Pothas
Agent TBY
J_C
watson
OverratedSanity
Zinzan
Morgieb
Red Hill
kingkallis
mr_mister
schearzie
AldoRaine18

 

[AldoRaine18]

Agent TBY(x2) > mr_mister > morgieb

 

[Agent TBY]

So in the 65,000-odd selections between my previous pick and these two, everyone I was looking to draft in the next few rounds is gone, and I'm gonna have to reshuffle the deck quite a bit.

Fun times.

Odd Jobs XI

1. Herbie Taylor
2.
3. Clem Hill
4. KS Duleepsinhji
5. Clyde Walcott (+)
6. Aubrey Faulkner
7. Warwick Armstrong
8. Maurice Tate
9.
10.
11. Neil Adcock

 

[The Battlers Prince]

That's such a strong batting lineup...honestly you've got Armstrong at 7 FFS

How many people are changing batting orders to suit ODI as opposed to where people bat in FC or tests?

 

[Agent TBY]

I definitely am. The idea with Walcott/Faulkner/Armstrong is to have a floating, flexible 5-7 like Dhoni/Yuvraj/Raina in India's WC-winning side.

In an ideal world, my order would've looked something like

Hill
Merchant
Hazare
Leyland
Walcott
Faulkner
Armstrong

I was really hoping Leyland at least would slip through unnoticed because everything, and I don't mean this as an insult to either of these men, points to his being Michael Bevan before Michael Bevan was Micheal Bevan—prolific southpaw who had issues against the short ball but had the skillset to work the ball with ease during the middle overs of a one-day game. Absolutely gutted I didn't get him.

 

[mr_mister]

second edit - **** it, Don Tallon.

 

[mr_mister]

Hutton
~
McCabe
Hassett
Jardine
~
Tallon
Bedser
~
Grimmett
Voce

 

[OverratedSanity]

Duleepsinhji

There are enough solid openers still left for me to be patient one round longer.

Duleep only played 12 tests, but scored 5 tons in that time span. His test average of 58(higher than Sobers) and test strikerate of 51(also higher than Sobers) is enough for him to slot into my middle order

Tby pipped you to duleep

 

[mr_mister]

Tby pipped you to duleep

okay

 

[mr_mister]

Tallon can throw his wicket away at the top of the order potentially for a quickfire 30 and let McCabe come in ASAP

 

[morgieb]

Jack Ryder

 

[OverratedSanity]

Ah damn I just saw Fazal has been picked. Didn't expect him to go that soon.

 

[AldoRaine18]

Ah damn I just saw Fazal has been picked. Didn't expect him to go that soon.

Haha, I would have been all over him.

 

[watson]

ZinZan > ORS > Watson

 

[Zinzan]

The great NZ lefthander Bert Sutcliffe for me thanks to open with Sid Barnes, nice left-right combo.

Can't believe Sutcliffe is still available tbh. History buffs, check his glorious drive straight down the ground at 2:16 of this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ci6mayT7dU0


S G Barnes
B Sutcliffe
Weekes
Barrington
Hammond
_
_
Verity
_
Lohmann
Trueman

 

[OverratedSanity]

Love that Colin Milburn is available. Brilliant,entertaining, attacking batsman who's career was tragically cut short. Would've been great fun to watch in ODI cricket, imo.

Against the formidable West Indies side, he hit 94 in England's second innings at Old Trafford in the First Test, and with a memorable 126 not out at Lord's he saved the game by his brilliant attacking strokes

Spectators who saw it have not forgotten his hundred in only 77 minutes at Adelaide and at Brisbane he played the most extraordinary innings seen there in Shield matches. On the first day he made 243, and before he was out in the first over after tea, having scored 181 between lunch and tea, he had hit four sixes and 38 fours

Only drawback is he was terrible in the field. No issues though. It's hardly difficult to hide someone on the field. Will bump Trumper down to number 3

Vijay Merchant
Colin Milburn
Victor Trumper
Maurice Leyland
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Les Ames
Gilbert Jessop
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-
Frank Tyson
Jim Laker

 

[watson]

Just realised that Colin Cowdrey played a single ODI so I'm going to pick Eddie Paynter instead.

01.
02. Eddie Barlow
03. Ted Dexter
04. Denis Compton
05. Eddie Paynter
06. Keith Miller
07. John R. Reid
08.
09. Peter Pollock
10. Charlie Griffith
11.

So deep has Edward Paynter’s name been etched in the history of the sport due to his courage in the Bodyline series and his extraordinary career numbers that the fact that he was a gifted stroke-player is usually forgotten. Relying mostly on back-foot strokes, he could hook and pull ferociously, and his experience of playing at Old Trafford meant that he could handle swing as well.

Paynter was also a gifted player of spin; unlike most others he was never reluctant to play his strokes and to step out of the crease and even swept the ball mercilessly, which was one of the most important reasons of his success against the likes of Bill O’Reilly. Few batsmen of the era were as attractive as Paynter in full flow. He loved to clear cricket grounds.

Eric Midwinter wrote of him: “A ferocious driver, a batsman who hooked seemingly with both feet off the ground or swept so fiercely that his pad knee-roll always looked tarnished, and one who indulged in what he [Paynter] termed ‘me fancy cuts’, he was highly regarded with affection as well as esteem.”

The main aspect of Paynter was, however, his numbers. With a 20-Test cut-off, Paynter ranks fifth in the history of Test cricket in terms of highest batting averages......

Paynter was also an exceptional fielder: his swiftness and anticipation at cover were well-known, and he was one of the best outfielders of his era: he was one of the safest of catchers and his throw was fast, hard, and almost always accurate.


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