Test Cricket Draft 1970-2024

[Purple7x08_24]

• No more than 2 players for any given country
• Debut AFTER 1970
• Must select one player from each decade with at least 10 matches played (Exception if debut is in the 2020s)
• Must pick a team to suit the ground
• Players must not have played in the same team
• Must choose at least one player from all of the following countries
  • Australia
  • New Zealand
  • England
  • Pakistan
  • India
  • Sri Lanka
  • West Indies
  • South Africa
  • Zimbabwe
  • Bangladesh

From 7 am to 11pm you have 8 hours to select a player. If you miss you can make up later.
If you know you're going to be busy please send a pick to someone who's behind you, or myself and I won't read it unless I have to.
If you do come online, please submit your pick before leaving so we can keep the game rolling.

 

[eth-dog]

Tony Greig never played a test with David Gower

Forgot about WSC stopping Greig early.

 

[whatwhatsaywhat]

52 cans xii
Michael Atherton - Pom - 1989
Tamin Iqbal - Bangladeshi - 2000
Kane Williamson - Kiwi - 2010
David Boon - Tasmanian - 1984
Javed Miandad - Pakistani - 1979
Ben Stokes - Pom (shoulda been Kiwi) - 2013
Adam Gilchrist - Oztyrayan - 1999
Shamar Joseph - West Indian - 2024
Rangana Herath - Sri Lankan - 1999
?
Mohammed Shami - Indian - 2013
12th: ?

yr up, The_Reaper

 

[The_Reaper]

Desmond Haynes james brayshaw

Bulawayo Bulls

#   Player            NAT  BAT BWL DEBUT  TST  Runs  Ave   100 50  Wkts  Ave   10m  5i   Ct/St
01. YBK Jaiswal       IND  LHB LS  2023     9  1028  68.53   3  4    0   --.--   0   0    9/0
02. DL Haynes         WI   RHB --  1978   116  7487  42.29  18 39    1    8.00   0   0   65/0
03. R Dravid          IND  RHB OS  1996   164 13288  52.31  36 63    1   39.00   0   0  210/0
04. LRPL Taylor       NZ   RHB OS  2007   112  7683  44.66  19 35    3   16.00   0   0  163/0
05. SR Waugh*         AUS  RHB RM  1985   168 10927  51.06  32 50   92   37.44   0   3  112/0
06. AW Greig          ENG  RHB OS  1972    58  3599  40.43   8 20  141   32.20   6   2   87/0 
07. Mushfiquur Rahim+ BAN  RHB --  2005    88  5676  38.09  10 27    -   --.--   -   -  110/15
08. WPUJC Vaas        SL   LHB LFM 1994   111  3089  24.32   1 13  355   29.58   2  12   31/0
09. - ---------       ---  --- --  ----    --  ----  --.--   -  -    -   --.--   -   -    -/-
10. Waqar Younis      PAK  RHB RF  1989    87  1010  10.20   0  0  373   23.56   5  22   18/0
11. AA Donald         SA   RHB RF  1992    72   652  10.68   0  0  330   22.25   3  20   18/0
_____________________________________________________________________________________________
12. - ---------       ---  --- --  ----    --  ----  --.--   -  -    -   --.--   -   -    -/-

Have spent most of the game tossing up between Ross Taylor - Desmond Haynes or Richie Richardson - Stephen Fleming

 

[Art Vandelay_]

I swear all game eth and reaper have had discussions about players and in doing so named someone who's still available and I want... I then have to pick them to avoid someone else getting a good idea.

 

[eth-dog]

I swear all game eth and reaper have had discussions about players and in doing so named someone who's still available and I want... I then have to pick them to avoid someone else getting a good idea.

I've tried to avoid names as much as possible.

 

[Purple7x08_24]

I swear all game eth and reaper have had discussions about players and in doing so named someone who's still available and I want... I then have to pick them to avoid someone else getting a good idea.

I have done so at least once. But dont think thryve been picked yet

 

[james brayshaw]

Mustafizur Rahman 10s

Feeling the effects of not picking a goat with my first pick tbh

Lingsface

Order	Calypso Kings	Country	Decade
1​	Sunil Gavaskar	India	70s
2​	Sanath Jayasuriya	Sri Lanka	00s
3​	Greg Chappell	Australia	80s
4​	Graham Thorpe	England	90s
5​	Michael Clarke	Australia	00s
6​
7​	Andy Flower	Zimbabwe	90s
8​	Shaheen Shah Afridi	Pakistan	10s
9​	Mustafizur Rahman	Bangladesh	10s
10​	Kagiso Rabada	South Africa	20s
11​	Courtney Walsh	West Indies	80s
12​

 

[Lingsface]

Stephen Fleming - NZ

 

[Art Vandelay_]

Piggy Smalls

 

[Lingsface]

1- Fleming
2- Tendulkar
3- Azam
4- Tilikaratne
5- M Waugh
6- Botham
7- De Kock
8-Cummins
9- Miraz
10-
11– Holding

 

[Piggy Smalls]

Shoaib Mohammad PAK 1980s

 

[Piggy Smalls]

akkaps

 

[akkaps]

Abdullah Shafique

Art Vandelay_

 

[akkaps]

1. Hamilton Masakadza ZIM bat rhb/rm
2. Abdullah Shafique PAK bat rhb/ros
3. Ricky Ponting AUS c bat rhb/rm
4. Shivnarine Chanderpaul GUY bat lhb/rls
5. AB de Villiers RSA + keeper rhb/rm
6. SRI
7. Ravindra Jadeja IND ar lhb/las
8. Shakib Al Hasan BAN ar lhb/las
9. Merv Hughes AUS bowl rhb/rf
10. Bob Willis ENG bowl rhb/rf
11. Shane Bond NZL bowl rhb/rf

 

[Art Vandelay_]

Angelo Mathews - Sri Lanka
2020s

1. Virender Sehwag
2. Gordon Greenidge
3. Hashim Amla
4. Mohammad Yousuf
5. Angelo Mathews
6. BJ Watling +
7. Brendan Taylor
8. Imran Khan
9. Stuart Broad
10.
11. Glenn McGrath

Pak: 2
Aus: 1
Eng: 1
Ind: 1
Zim: 1
WI: 1
SA: 1
NZ: 1
SL: 1

1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s x2
2010s x3
2020s x2

Good average in England. On the Lord's honour board as a centurion.
Provides me my part time bowler. Completes my batsman with an 8 man batting line-up including the WK.

Plugger35

 

[The King!]

1. Hamilton Masakadza ZIM bat rhb/rm
2. Abdullah Shafique PAK bat rhb/ros
3. Ricky Ponting AUS c bat rhb/rm
4. Shivnarine Chanderpaul GUY bat lhb/rls
5. AB de Villiers RSA + keeper rhb/rm
6. SRI
7. Ravindra Jadeja IND ar lhb/las
8. Shakib Al Hasan BAN ar lhb/las
9. Merv Hughes AUS bowl rhb/rf
10. Bob Willis ENG bowl rhb/rf
11. Shane Bond NZL bowl rhb/rf

Your middle order is awesome

 

[Plugger35]

I need an opener, a Pakistan player and one from the 2010s so my pick 10 goes to

Azhar Ali

1. Chris Gayle
2. Azhar Ali
3. Aravinda de Silva
4. Allan Border
5.
6. Mahmudullah
7. Kapil Dev
8. Richard Hadlee
9. Daniel Vettori
10. Marco Jansen
11. Steve Harmison

12th man -

 

[The King!]

Purple7x08_24

 

[Purple7x08_24]

Purple7x08_24

Just woke up. Give me a minute. I lost my spreadsheet updates with a power outage and can't remember which players I had

 

[Purple7x08_24]

Gary Kirsten

 

[Purple7x08_24]

boncer34

 

[Purple7x08_24]

Sydney Spin Doctors

1. Innocent Kaia | Zimbabwe | 2020s

2. Gary Kirsten | South Africa | 1990s

3. SPD Smith | Australia | 2010s

4. Joe Root (vc) | England | 2010s

5. Inzumam-ul-haq | Pakistan | 1990s

6. Mominul Haque | Bangladesh | 2010s

7. MS Dohni (+) (c) | India | 2000s

8. 1970s quick

9. Neil Wagner | New Zealand | 2010s

10. Ian Bishop | West Indies | 1980s

11. Mutthiah Muralidaran | Sri Lanka | 1990s

12. Any

 

[akkaps]

Your middle order is awesome

Thank you. But Art Vandelay_ took my Sri Lanka pick. I have another option that I hope no one takes

 

[Lingsface]

1- Fleming
2- Tendulkar
3- Azam
4- Tilikaratne
5- M Waugh
6- Botham
7- De Kock
8-Cummins
9- Miraz
10-
11– Holding

Holding and Botham to open the bowling
Cummins first change.

Main spinner Miraz with some cameo appearances by Waugh and Tendulkar also eyeing off an all rounder or spinner for last pick from Zimbabwe.

Batting Azam Tilekaratne and Fleming as the solid as a rock types consistent and can bat a long innings.

Tendulkar Botham and Waugh are my three masters that can do both and win a game on their own.

De Kock will be my firework and come in for a swing.

Batting depth is good with Miraz and Cummins both very capable tail Enders.

 

[boncer34]

Marvan Atapattu
-
Viv Richards
VVS Laxman
Misbah-Ul-Haq
Daryl Mitchell
Tatenda Taibu
Shaun Pollock
Nayeem Hasan
Jeff Thomson
Jimmy Anderson

A Sri Lankan opener that averaged 50 in England with my 10th pick?

Yes please.

Soggy2112