Draft: All-Time Australia Test Draft (minus Bradman) | Poll open see first post for full team list

[Yash.]

Voges could be termed as a good batsman, with going through a seriously great purple patch. The only exception was that the whole purple patch was his entire career. Nevertheless, I became a big fan of him during his stay in test cricket.

 

[blockerdave]

Sorry. Well, I know I need a keeper so I’ll go with world record holder for stumpings, Bert Oldfield.

 

[Ed Smith]

1.Justin Langer
2.Phil Hughes
3.Marnus Labuschagne
4.John Ryder
5.Darren Lehmann
7.Ian Healy
8.Mitchell Johnson
10.Nathan Lyon
11.Glenn McGrath



Solid batsman. Decent bowler. Utter prick.[DOUBLEPOST=1609878855][/DOUBLEPOST]@Yash.

 

[ahmedleo414]

@Yash. missed his time so my next pick Doug Walters

Stats||Matches||Runs||HS|| Ave||100s/50s||Wkts||BBI||BBM|| Ave||Econ||5w/10w
First-Class | |258| |16,180| |253| |43.84| |45/81| |190| |7/63| |?| |35.69| |2.79| |6/0
Test | |74| |5,357| |250| |48.26| |15/33| |49| |5/66| |7/89| |29.08| |2.59| |1/0

A bit about him from cricinfo:

"Doug Walters holds a somewhat mythical place in Australian cricket. Small, cheeky, popular and multi-skilled, he would drink all night without getting drunk then wipe sleep from his eyes to make a shot-laden century or take a crucial wicket or stunning catch - sometimes, in folklore at least, on the same day. Sometimes cricket is not even the tale's focus. Michael Clarke, who is often compared to Walters, knows him only as a great bloke instead of a great batsman. It is a shame. He was more than a person whose card games were interrupted by falls of wicket.

Walters, the country boy with the bush technique, was a knockabout who disliked training and going to bed early, and favoured drinking, smoking, solitaire and cribbage. Quick on to the back foot against the spinners, he was a fine straight-driver and hooker, and a valuable partnership breaker with his medium pace. Crowds relaxed and related to his instinctive and aggressive Test batting that three times brought up centuries in a session, the most famous arriving when he smacked the last ball of the day from Bob Willis for six at the WACA in 1974-75. He could play pressure innings as well, like the 112 against West Indies at Port-of-Spain in 1972-93, when Lance Gibbs had three short-legs by 35 minutes on day one and Walters scored 100 between lunch and tea. "By any standards it was a magnificent innings," Wisden reported. The grit never stuck to his stories, forcing him to open his autobiography with a spoiler. "It rather amuses me when journalists refer to me as happy-go-lucky and unflappable. I feel the pressures and tensions as much as the next bloke.""

Doug will be used as a part time bowler. He will bat at 8 where he had a batting ave of 47+

1. Sid Barnes
2. Bill Brown
3. Ricky Ponting
4. ?
5. Adam Voges
   
6. Richie Benaud
7. Adam Gilchrist
8. Doug Walters
9. Brett Lee
10. Jeff Thompson
11. Charlie Turner

@Dale88 has the next pick

 

[Ed Smith]

1.Justin Langer
2.Phil Hughes
3.Marnus Labuschagne
4.John Ryder
5.Darren Lehmann
7.Ian Healy
8.Mitchell Johnson
9.Jason Gillespie
10.Nathan Lyon
11.Glenn McGrath

@CerealKiller

 

[Aislabie]

6. Richie Benaud
7. Adam Gilchrist
8. Doug Walters

You seem to have your number six and number eight the wrong way around

 

[blockerdave]

Neil Harvey being unpicked till now is so criminal...

He was picked by @Ashutosh. a little back

 

[Yash.]

Ian Chappel comes into my team, to bat at number three. Averaged over 50 at that position.

 

[CerealKiller]

I was eyeing Bert Oldfield as my keeper, but @blockerdave took care if that, so i'll go with the guy who has the fifth most dismissals fir Australia, after Gilly, Healy, Marsh and Haddin, Wally Grout. He played in the 50s and 60s, so he’s an old school pure keeper, with a batting average of 15.

CerealKiller’s XI
1. Arthur Morris
2. Bill Lawry
3. Stan McCabe
4. Steve Smith
5. Allan Border
6. Keith Miller
7. Alan Davidson
8. Ray Lindwall
9. Wally Grout
10. Bill O'Reilly
11.

@Yash.

 

[Aislabie]

Solid batsman. Decent bowler. Utter prick.

I really enjoy your write-ups. They're so accurate

 

[ahmedleo414]

You seem to have your number six and number eight the wrong way around

I was going to give my lineup a once over at the end of the draft but yeah this is a good suggestion

 

[Yash.]

1. Matthew Hayden
2. Mark Taylor
3. Ian Chappel
4. Mark Waugh
5. Michael Hussey
6. 
   
7. Rod Marsh
8. Warwick Armstrong
9. Clarrie Grimmett
10. Ernie Toshack
11. Dennis Lillee

@blockerdave

 

[blockerdave]

I'm quite surprised David Boon hasn't been picked yet, and as I'm in need of a top order batsman he'll do the job for me.

1. Michael Slater
2. Victor Trumper
3. David Boon
4. Greg Chappell
5. Archie Jackson
6. -
7. Bert Outfield
8. Merv Hughes
9. Ryan Harris
10. Fred Spofforth
11. Stuart Macgill

@Ashutosh.

 

[Ashutosh.]

1. David Warner
2.
3. Neil Harvey
4. Michael Clark
5. Dean Jones
6. Steve Waugh
7. Brad Haddin
8. Pat Cummins
9. Mitchell Starc
10. Shane Warne
11. Craig McDermott

@Yash.

 

[Yash.]

Andrew Symonds completes my team. Will add the aggressive oomph in my team.