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My final pick will be Dudley Nourse

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A bit of his bio from cricinfo:

"Arthur Dudley Nourse, who died at his home in Durban on August 14, was destined to outstrip even the deeds of his father, A. W. 'Dave' Nourse, although the war cost him many Test appearances. The first of his 34 Test matches was at Trent Bridge in 1935, and the last at The Oval in 1951. In that time he scored 2960 runs, with nine centuries (seven against England), at the rare average of 53.81, and established a reputation as a fighting batsman, defensive when need be but ever ready to punch the ball with all the strength of his beefy forearms.

His most renowned innings was 208 in the Nottingham Test of 1951. Coming into the match (at the age of 40) with his broken right thumb pinned, he batted for nine hours, gritting his teeth against the pain, and not only registering South Africa's first double-century against England, but captaining South Africa to their first Test victory for 16 years....

...During war service in the Middle East, he smote nine sixes off nine balls (including all six in an over) in a match in Alexandria; but, having lost his peak years to the war, he had also lost some of his health and his slimness. Gradually he found his form again, and England in 1947 saw a redoubtable Nourse. His stand of 319 with Melville in the opening Test, at Trent Bridge, remains the second-highest in South Africa's Test history, and a further century flashed from his bat -- in a losing cause -- in the third Test, at Old Trafford. He renewed acquaintances with Edgbaston with an unbeaten 205 against Warwickshire, and in The Oval Test he was given out bowled for 97 only after an umpires' consultation. His 621 runs (av. 69) topped the Springbok averages, and only the phenomenal figures of Edrich and Compton exceeded his on the English side.

A year later his form still held as he captained against England in a losing series, making centuries in the Cape Town and Johannesburg Tests and leading the averages of both sides with 76.57. A year later he scored consistently in the four defeats by Australia, reaching three figures at Cape Town. And at last, in the 1951 series in England, he led his country to a victory, his 208 at Nottingham receiving the necessary support from the bowlers. The rest of the tour was anticlimax, England winning three of the other four Tests. Nourse's ninth century, however, placed him on a pinnacle, still unmatched today, eleven years into South Africa's isolation."
  1. :aus: :bat: Sid Barnes
  2. :eng: :ar: W.G. Grace
  3. :pak: :bat: Hanif Mohammad
  4. :saf: :bat: Dudley Nourse
  5. :ind: :ar: Polly Umrigar
  6. :saf: :wkb: Denis Lindsay
  7. :aus: :ar: Richie Benaud
  8. :wi: :ar: John Goddard
  9. :aus: :bwl: Bill O'Reilly
  10. :eng: :bwl: Fred Trueman
  11. :wi: :bwl: Wes Hall
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Now it's time for a bit of a rogue pick.

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:eng: :bat: Jim Stewart

This attacking right-hander is regarded by many as the best Warwickshire batter never to play Test cricket for England. In his fifth season in first-class cricket, a 24-year-old Stewart absolutely shattered a record set by the great Wally Hammond by smashing 17 sixes in a first-class innings against Lancashire at Blackpool. He did this in an innings of 155 while opening the batting, one of five centuries in his break-out first-class season, and his record would remain untouched until Andrew Symonds' famous 1995 innings at Abergavenny. His explosive, cavalier style must have stood against his hopes of pursuing higher honours - especially competing against the likes of Richardson, Pullar, Subba Row, and Boycott for opening places - but in a team which already has plenty of dependable players in its top four, someone so able to hit sixes at will is the perfect player to complete my team. I would love to watch Stewart and Jessop go up against some of these old-fashioned bowlers in the last ten overs or so.

1. :aus: :ar: Charlie Macartney
2. :eng: :bat: Wally Hammond
3. :aus: :bat: Clem Hill
4. :eng: :bat: Denis Compton
5. :eng: :bat: Jim Stewart
6. :eng: :ar: Gilbert Jessop
7. :saf: :ar: Aubrey Faulkner
8. :aus: :ar: Alan Davidson
9. :wi: :ar: Learie Constantine :c:
10. :wi: :wk: Jackie Hendriks
11. :eng: :bwl: SF Barnes

That was the obscure player I've been sitting on for a while. One of my proudest picks in a draft, to be honest.

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Fred Rumsey :bwl:
A left arm pacer from London who took 130 List-A wickets in 95 games, 580 First Class wickets in 180 games. Averaged 16.80 & 20.29 in List-A and First-Class respectively. He also played 5 Tests and picked up 17 wickets. His contribution to the Professional Cricketer's Association is beyond recognition. Rumsey could've possibly been the most influential figures in the history of the game. Every Cricketer who has followed owes him a plenty. Perhaps this is the reason why I am tempted to make him the Captain in place of Tare.
Nilay's XI

  1. :ind: Vijay Merchant :bat:
  2. :aus: Michael Klinger :bat:
  3. :ind: Vijay Hazare :ar:
  4. :eng: James Hildreth :bat:
  5. :ind: Mithun Manhas :bat: (part time right arm off break)
  6. :ind: Aditya Tare :wkb:
  7. :bar: Franklyn Stephenson :ar:
  8. :saf: Garth le Roux :bwl:
  9. :eng: Brian Statham :bwl:
  10. :eng: Fred Rumsey :c::bwl:
  11. :ind: Erapalli Prasanna :bwl:


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Arthur Morris to finish things off. Scored 196 in the game Bradman got his duck, and averaged 47 across his career. Shocked he hasn't been selected
1. :eng: :bat: Len Hutton
2. :aus: :bat: Arthur Morris
3. :aus: :bat: Don Bradman
4. :wi: :bat: George Headley
5. :eng: :wkb: Les Ames
6. :aus: :ar: Monty Noble
7. :eng: :ar: Billy Barnes
8. :eng: :bwl: Jim Laker
9. :aus: :bwl: JJ Ferris
10. :eng: :bwl: George Lohmann
11. :aus: :bwl: Clarrie Grimmett

@VC the slogger IDK if there's any further components for this? If not, draft's over. Pleased with my team, maybe a bit thin with the bat, but let's be honest when is three of that top four failing?
 

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Arthur Morris to finish things off. Scored 196 in the game Bradman got his duck, and averaged 47 across his career. Shocked he hasn't been selected
1. :eng: :bat: Len Hutton
2. :aus: :bat: Arthur Morris
3. :aus: :bat: Don Bradman
4. :wi: :bat: George Headley
5. :eng: :wkb: Les Ames
6. :aus: :ar: Monty Noble
7. :eng: :ar: Billy Barnes
8. :eng: :bwl: Jim Laker
9. :aus: :bwl: JJ Ferris
10. :eng: :bwl: George Lohmann
11. :aus: :bwl: Clarrie Grimmett

@VC the slogger IDK if there's any further components for this? If not, draft's over. Pleased with my team, maybe a bit thin with the bat, but let's be honest when is three of that top four failing?
Thin on batting? Look at the middle order of my side. Hildreth-Manhas-Tare!! Imagine a Trueman/Wess Hall/Van Bijl running to bowl at them!
 

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@VC the slogger IDK if there's any further components for this? If not, draft's over. Pleased with my team, maybe a bit thin with the bat, but let's be honest when is three of that top four failing?


I'm not one for doing post-draft summaries and such.. Lets just have a sim tourney, simple and fun..
 

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Will finish @Parth D's XI with the following:

:eng: :bat: Jack Hobbs - A man who topped the century charts in pretty much every level of cricket he played, so it's not difficult to imagine him doing so in the one-day format as well.
:wi: :bat: Everton Weekes - He generally kept the ball along the ground and the only two sixes of his Test career were reportedly via overthrows. That didn't stop him from scoring quickly, and he could pulverize any bowling attack with nothing but classic batting.
:aus: :ar: Stan McCabe - The only man ever to make even Bradman jealous when he bludgeoned England for a whirlwind 232 off just 277 balls at Trent Bridge in 1938 which the latter called the greatest innings he had ever seen. Decent part-time seamer too.
:saf: :wk: Lee Irvine - A big hitting South African keeper-batsman who batted in a manner similar to Adam Gilchrist before the latter was even conceived. Could have been a pioneer in terms of wicket-keeper batters if not for Apartheid.
:nzf: :ar: John R Reid - The record of 16 sixes in a first-class innings which the likes of Andrew Symonds and more recently Colin Munro broke originally belonged to this man who once hit 16 in an innings. Was the most prolific six hitter of his day at Test level too with 33 from 58 Tests, and New Zealand's only world class player other than Bert Sutcliffe during the barren 1950s and 60s.
:eng: :ar: Harold Larwood - The man responsible for basically halving Bradman's average in the 1932/33 Bodyline series. One of the fastest and meanest bowlers of his day, and certainly no mug with the bat.
:den: :bwl: Ole Mortensen - A cricketing Dane who forged quite a reputation for himself at Derbyshire with his accurate and economical bowling, and was simply too good for his peers at ICC Trophy level. Could have played one of the early World Cups for Denmark (yes, they were really that good) had the ICC a 14-team format in place back then, but alas..


So..

1. :aus: :bat: Victor Trumper
2. :eng: :bat: Jack Hobbs
3. :wi: :bat: Everton Weekes
4. :aus: :ar: Stan McCabe
5. :saf: :wk: Lee Irvine
6. :nzf: :ar: John R. Reid :c:
7. :aus: :ar: Keith Miller
8. :saf: :ar: Mike Procter
9. :eng: :ar: Harold Larwood
10. :eng: :ar: Hedley Verity
11. :den: :bwl: Ole Mortensen


A testament to those first four picks that he still ends up with a pretty deadly looking lineup.
 

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In that side I think I'd likely swap the positions of Irvine and Miller. Irvine was certainly a brutal six-hitter (26 in his first season for Essex is no mean feat), but he also never scored more than a cameo in List A cricket. It's certainly a solid team though - there certainly were plenty of players to go around in this one
 

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If we're changing batting order I'm going to put Dennis down to 8 and bump the rest up one. Also goes without saying but Richie will be the captain
 

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Will finish @Parth D's XI with the following:

:eng: :bat: Jack Hobbs - A man who topped the century charts in pretty much every level of cricket he played, so it's not difficult to imagine him doing so in the one-day format as well.
:wi: :bat: Everton Weekes - He generally kept the ball along the ground and the only two sixes of his Test career were reportedly via overthrows. That didn't stop him from scoring quickly, and he could pulverize any bowling attack with nothing but classic batting.
:aus: :ar: Stan McCabe - The only man ever to make even Bradman jealous when he bludgeoned England for a whirlwind 232 off just 277 balls at Trent Bridge in 1938 which the latter called the greatest innings he had ever seen. Decent part-time seamer too.
:saf: :wk: Lee Irvine - A big hitting South African keeper-batsman who batted in a manner similar to Adam Gilchrist before the latter was even conceived. Could have been a pioneer in terms of wicket-keeper batters if not for Apartheid.
:nzf: :ar: John R Reid - The record of 16 sixes in a first-class innings which the likes of Andrew Symonds and more recently Colin Munro broke originally belonged to this man who once hit 16 in an innings. Was the most prolific six hitter of his day at Test level too with 33 from 58 Tests, and New Zealand's only world class player other than Bert Sutcliffe during the barren 1950s and 60s.
:eng: :ar: Harold Larwood - The man responsible for basically halving Bradman's average in the 1932/33 Bodyline series. One of the fastest and meanest bowlers of his day, and certainly no mug with the bat.
:den: :bwl: Ole Mortensen - A cricketing Dane who forged quite a reputation for himself at Derbyshire with his accurate and economical bowling, and was simply too good for his peers at ICC Trophy level. Could have played one of the early World Cups for Denmark (yes, they were really that good) had the ICC a 14-team format in place back then, but alas..


So..

1. :aus: :bat: Victor Trumper
2. :eng: :bat: Jack Hobbs
3. :wi: :bat: Everton Weekes
4. :aus: :ar: Stan McCabe
5. :saf: :wk: Lee Irvine
6. :nzf: :ar: John R. Reid :c:
7. :aus: :ar: Keith Miller
8. :saf: :ar: Mike Procter
9. :eng: :ar: Harold Larwood
10. :eng: :ar: Hedley Verity
11. :den: :bwl: Ole Mortensen


A testament to those first four picks that he still ends up with a pretty deadly looking lineup.
Thanks for completing this. Really appreciate it. One of those times when I regret not been able to witness this era of cricket.
 

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