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Who has picked the weakest Test team?

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David Capel was picked in the late 1980s and early 1990s in the English selectors quest to find the new Ian Botham. They couldn't have got it more wrong, with him scoring just 374 runs at a pathetic average of 15.58 and claiming only 21 wickets at 50.66 without ever threatening to claim more than 3 wickets in an innings from 15 Tests between 1987 and 1990.


1. :aus: :bat: Jack Badock
2. :zim: :bat: Brian Chari
3. :eng: :ar: Fred Grace
4. :eng: :bat: Nawab of Pataudi snr
5. :wi: :bat: Wilton St Hill
6. :eng: :ar: David Capel
7. :ind: :bat: Maharajah of Vizianagram
8. :ind: :ar: CS Nayudu
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10. :ban: :bwl: Shahadat Hossain
11.


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:ind:Datta Gaekwad

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  • "Datta Gaekwad was an attractive batsman with a preference towards the off-side, defying his five-and-a-half-feet frame to reach the pitch of the ball and driving elegantly." This very description of him brings memories of a well known contemporary English cricketer who has a penchant for flashy, attractive 20s and 30s with beautiful cover drives and fluent strokeplay.
  • Gaekwad was a fine fielder for his days and even a courageous one at times. Versatility was his strength and he was particularly good in the cover region.
  • But what of his main skill, batting? Well, he averaged 18.42 after eleven tests. He was no one cap wonder, his record was a product of sustained failure versus three countries in three different conditions. His first-class record was mediocre at best too, in an era where Indian batsmen averaged close to 40 and plus and still underachieved on the international stage, he had a first-class average of just 36.40.
  • Gaekwad was a distant relative of the royal family of Baroda and them being cricket patrons meant that all of their princes and relatives got their fair share of cricket coaching which is how he got into cricket.
  • His first brush with controversy came when he had his university graduation exams coming up. He opted out of a crucial game versus Holkar but Baroda wanted him to play. Gaekwad refused and turned up on match day in plain clothes as a sign of protest. The management had to fetch his clothes and for all the hassle, Gaekwad managed only a duck in the first innings batting at three. Thankfully for him, Vijay Hazare's heroics ensured that he did not have to bat in the second innings.
  • Gaekwad was selected for the 1952 tour of England on the back of some decent Ranji performances, but was completely overawed by his selection and resorted to bouts of narcissism having confessed to about not being able to resist putting on the cap and the blazer and looking at himself in the mirror. The team was expected to do well after winning in Madras previously but two key players in Merchant and Mankad were not available while the captain was Hazare, not the best man for the job. The team was completely destroyed by a young, quick debutante from England named Fred Trueman while our protagonist played only the first test in the unfamiliar position of opener. He returned scores of 9 and 0. Gaekwad finished the tour with 852 runs at 27.48 with 8 fifties.
  • Gaekwad's next pair of matches came versus Pakistan at home, famous for Pakistan's first test victory (and also Kishenchand's last test). Scores? 6, 32, 20, 21*. Somehow, he still made his way into the team for the West Indies tour. There, he helped India draw a game but scored a duck and injured himself in the next game and didn't play for India again in the next six years.
  • Very strong performances for Baroda and leading them to an impressive Ranji Trophy victory alongside finishing second on the runs chart helped him win back selection to the Indian side. He was also named Indian Cricketer of the Year.
  • Gaekwad couldn't have picked a worse time to return. Hall and Gilchrist were a tad quicker than Trueman and terrorised the Indian batting lineup in previous games. So disastrous was the series that India were led by four different captains in five tests, not counting Ramchand who was the temporary captain after Mankad went off the field for food poisoning in the fourth game and very nearly got to lead in the fifth if not for his contingent leaving the hotel early due to the fear of getting stuck in traffic. Gaekwad made his highest score of 52 under these circumstances to draw the test.
  • To the shock of everyone, neither Ramchand, Mankad or Adhikari (captain for the fifth test) were selected and the selectors appointed Gaekwad himself, a veteran of six tests at that time as the captain. Gaekwad had a decent outing in the first test, defending bravely with his body and put himself into risky fielding positions to save runs. However, he suffered from bronchitis and missed the second test (leading to India's sixth captain in seven tests). Gaekwad's return did not improve India's fortunes and desperate measures were taken, like sending out a desperate plea to Baig, a classy Indian batsman at Oxford University for the Old Trafford Test who promptly scored a century (also ended up with the highest batting average for India) but none worked as they were thoroughly whitewashed 5-0 with multiple players sustaining injuries.
  • The team was widely criticized by Wisden Cricketers' Almanack for 1960, which said that the record of the team was even worse than that of the New Zealand cricket team in 1958, which is widely regarded as the worst international cricket team in history. It suggested that the problem was deep-seated, in that the side appeared only rarely to play as a team, though talented individuals made occasional contributions. Gaekwad himself received serious criticism for being unable to use Gupte effectively who was regarded as the best leg-spinner in the world at that time. He was regarded as tactically naive. Wisden, summarised his tour thus: “The Baroda player never suggested that he had the verve and personality to carry this exacting task, and he appeared a sick man midway through the tour. He did well to miss only one Test match … A more active approach to all he did, especially his field placing, would have been welcome.”
  • Gaekwad played only one more test versus Pakistan in 1961, scoring 9. With the ball, he bowled just two overs in his entire test career which went for twelve runs and no wickets. He picked up just 25 wickets in his first-class career, at an expensive rate of 3.2 runs per over.
For all of his demerits, McAlister worked best when he was the cunning schemer behind the scenes rather than the man in the spotlight outright. With Gaekwad as the unfortunate, inexperienced and naive captain of my side, McAlister is bound to cause various troubles in the most effective manner as his deputy. Gaekwad will be the second opener in my side.

  1. J. Duminy:saf::bat:
  2. D. Gaekwad:ind::bat::c:
  3. ?
  4. P. McAlister:aus::bat:
  5. J. Ikin:eng::ar:
  6. J. Mubarak:sri::bat:
  7. J. Edwards:nz::wkb:
  8. G. Kishenchand:ind::bat:
  9. M. Sami:pak::bwl:
  10. L. Tsotsobe:saf::bwl:
  11. R. Wijesuriya:sri::bwl:

Only now realised that the next pick is also mine. :p This shouldn't take too long...
 
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Bill Playle:nz::bat:

Playle was a stylish batsman who managed to play eight tests. Playle was first selected for the disastrous tour of England in 1958 on promise and potential as a nineteen year old after scoring only 355 runs in 13 matches in two seasons. He ended the tour with the worst batting average by a top order batsman in history who played throughout a five test match series. His numbers from this series read:

  • 56 runs.
  • Highest score of 18, which was remarkable for being one of the slowest test innings ever as he served up a stonewalling display, staying three and a quarter hours for this 18 – "during which time he limited himself to seven scoring strokes".
  • Batting average of 6.22.

Had the selection process involved the captain Reid as it did in the next overseas tour to South Africa, Playle and his teammates would have not even been picked as he wanted men of experience rather than potential. Playle's next series came at home versus the same side in 1963 and he still was poor, with scores of 0, 4, 23, 65, 0, 3 and a batting average of 15.83. On the domestic front, Playle's highest score of 122 came for Western Australia and his career ended with a miserable batting average of just 21.87. While a middle-order batsman initially who became an opener later on, Playle also has experience as a number three and given the incompetence of my openers, he will inevitably end up facing the new ball very soon anyway.

Got a write-up still pending in Edwards who I feel deserves a short one at the very least. :)

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Perhaps one of the worst one-cap wonders! He played a sole test match registering two ducks, caught by Woolley off Sydney Barnes twice! He had a pitiful short first class career of 12 matches, scoring 507 runs at 26.68 with 1 hundred and 3 50s.

Lewis served in France as a Lieut.-Colonel in World War I and won the MC and Bar. He was severely wounded in the leg and played no more first-class cricket, but continued to play some club cricket, and in one match, despite his crippled leg, scored a century using a runner A lawyer, he was for a brief period an acting judge. He volunteered for service again in World War II, and was the Officer-in-Charge of demobilization at South Africa House in London when the war ended.

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Mahbubal Alam was a Bangladeshi bowler who played in 4 test matches in 2008. A medium-fast bowler, he played in just 28 first-class matches across his career, all for Dhaka. In his tests he took 5 wickets at over 60 and scored just 5 runs at 1.25.
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1. Albert Rose-Innes :saf: :bat::ar:
2. Howard Francis :saf: :bat:
3. Rob Quiney :aus: :bat: :ar:
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5. Denesh Ramdin :wi: :wkb:
6. Chris Harris :nzf: :ar:
7. Emile McMaster :eng: :bat:
8. Rawl Lewis :wi: :bwl::ar:
9. Mahbubal Alam :ban: :bwl:
10. Nilesh Kulkarni :ind: :bwl:
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:ind:Datta Gaekwad

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  • "Datta Gaekwad was an attractive batsman with a preference towards the off-side, defying his five-and-a-half-feet frame to reach the pitch of the ball and driving elegantly." This very description of him brings memories of a well known contemporary English cricketer who has a penchant for flashy, attractive 20s and 30s with beautiful cover drives and fluent strokeplay.
  • Gaekwad was a fine fielder for his days and even a courageous one at times. Versatility was his strength and he was particularly good in the cover region.
  • But what of his main skill, batting? Well, he averaged 18.42 after eleven tests. He was no one cap wonder, his record was a product of sustained failure versus three countries in three different conditions. His first-class record was mediocre at best too, in an era where Indian batsmen averaged close to 40 and plus and still underachieved on the international stage, he had a first-class average of just 36.40.
  • Gaekwad was a distant relative of the royal family of Baroda and them being cricket patrons meant that all of their princes and relatives got their fair share of cricket coaching which is how he got into cricket.
  • His first brush with controversy came when he had his university graduation exams coming up. He opted out of a crucial game versus Holkar but Baroda wanted him to play. Gaekwad refused and turned up on match day in plain clothes as a sign of protest. The management had to fetch his clothes and for all the hassle, Gaekwad managed only a duck in the first innings batting at three. Thankfully for him, Vijay Hazare's heroics ensured that he did not have to bat in the second innings.
  • Gaekwad was selected for the 1952 tour of England on the back of some decent Ranji performances, but was completely overawed by his selection and resorted to bouts of narcissism having confessed to about not being able to resist putting on the cap and the blazer and looking at himself in the mirror. The team was expected to do well after winning in Madras previously but two key players in Merchant and Mankad were not available while the captain was Hazare, not the best man for the job. The team was completely destroyed by a young, quick debutante from England named Fred Trueman while our protagonist played only the first test in the unfamiliar position of opener. He returned scores of 9 and 0. Gaekwad finished the tour with 852 runs at 27.48 with 8 fifties.
  • Gaekwad's next pair of matches came versus Pakistan at home, famous for Pakistan's first test victory (and also Kishenchand's last test). Scores? 6, 32, 20, 21*. Somehow, he still made his way into the team for the West Indies tour. There, he helped India draw a game but scored a duck and injured himself in the next game and didn't play for India again in the next six years.
  • Very strong performances for Baroda and leading them to an impressive Ranji Trophy victory alongside finishing second on the runs chart helped him win back selection to the Indian side. He was also named Indian Cricketer of the Year.
  • Gaekwad couldn't have picked a worse time to return. Hall and Gilchrist were a tad quicker than Trueman and terrorised the Indian batting lineup in previous games. So disastrous was the series that India were led by four different captains in five tests, not counting Ramchand who was the temporary captain after Mankad went off the field for food poisoning in the fourth game and very nearly got to lead in the fifth if not for his contingent leaving the hotel early due to the fear of getting stuck in traffic. Gaekwad made his highest score of 52 under these circumstances to draw the test.
  • To the shock of everyone, neither Ramchand, Mankad or Adhikari (captain for the fifth test) were selected and the selectors appointed Gaekwad himself, a veteran of six tests at that time as the captain. Gaekwad had a decent outing in the first test, defending bravely with his body and put himself into risky fielding positions to save runs. However, he suffered from bronchitis and missed the second test (leading to India's sixth captain in seven tests). Gaekwad's return did not improve India's fortunes and desperate measures were taken, like sending out a desperate plea to Baig, a classy Indian batsman at Oxford University for the Old Trafford Test who promptly scored a century (also ended up with the highest batting average for India) but none worked as they were thoroughly whitewashed 5-0 with multiple players sustaining injuries.
  • The team was widely criticized by Wisden Cricketers' Almanack for 1960, which said that the record of the team was even worse than that of the New Zealand cricket team in 1958, which is widely regarded as the worst international cricket team in history. It suggested that the problem was deep-seated, in that the side appeared only rarely to play as a team, though talented individuals made occasional contributions. Gaekwad himself received serious criticism for being unable to use Gupte effectively who was regarded as the best leg-spinner in the world at that time. He was regarded as tactically naive. Wisden, summarised his tour thus: “The Baroda player never suggested that he had the verve and personality to carry this exacting task, and he appeared a sick man midway through the tour. He did well to miss only one Test match … A more active approach to all he did, especially his field placing, would have been welcome.”
  • Gaekwad played only one more test versus Pakistan in 1961, scoring 9. With the ball, he bowled just two overs in his entire test career which went for twelve runs and no wickets. He picked up just 25 wickets in his first-class career, at an expensive rate of 3.2 runs per over.
For all of his demerits, McAlister worked best when he was the cunning schemer behind the scenes rather than the man in the spotlight outright. With Gaekwad as the unfortunate, inexperienced and naive captain of my side, McAlister is bound to cause various troubles in the most effective manner as his deputy. Gaekwad will be the second opener in my side.

  1. J. Duminy:saf::bat:
  2. D. Gaekwad:ind::bat::c:
  3. ?
  4. P. McAlister:aus::bat:
  5. J. Ikin:eng::ar:
  6. J. Mubarak:sri::bat:
  7. J. Edwards:nz::wkb:
  8. G. Kishenchand:ind::bat:
  9. M. Sami:pak::bwl:
  10. L. Tsotsobe:saf::bwl:
  11. R. Wijesuriya:sri::bwl:

Only now realised that the next pick is also mine. :p This shouldn't take too long...

Sorry for being rude but I wouldn't strain my eyes reading that one. Please increase the font size. :p
 

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Sorry for being rude but I wouldn't strain my eyes reading that one. Please increase the font size. :p

No issues mate, will rectify that. It looked quite easier on my screen to be fair. :p
 

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No issues mate, will rectify that. It looked quite easier on my screen to be fair. :p

I don't like to keep font size bigger on my phone as it looks a bit horrible to me. If the font size in your phone is smaller it does help to arrange things on your phone's home screen.
 

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My final choice is Phil Carlson, who played 2 tests for Australia during the 1978/79 Ashes when Australia were decimated by defections to World Series cricket.

In his 4 innings he managed just 23 runs - 21 of them in 1 inns! - for a tail-ender worthy average of 5.75. But Carlson wasn’t a tail-ender, he was a middle order batsman who scored a first class hundred at 18. But this fast start was flattering to deceive - his first class average ended up just 28.34 and he’d only score 5 hundreds in total.

  1. Trevor Gripper (Zim) 20 Caps
  2. Blair Pocock (NZ) 15 Caps
  3. Matthew Maynard (Eng) 4 Caps
  4. Phil Carlson (Aus) 2 Caps
  5. Maqsood Ahmed (Pak) 16 Caps
  6. Alok Kapali (Ban) 17 Caps
  7. Louis Stricker (SA) 12 Caps
  8. Ian Salisbury (Eng) 15 Caps
  9. Henry Cave (NZ) 19 Caps
  10. Manjurul Islam (Ban) 17 Caps
  11. Everton Matambanadzo (Zim) 3 Caps
That completes what I think is a pretty piss poor side, most of whom proved their incompetence over a fairly decent period.

@CerealKiller to go next
 
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My last pick is Shahid Saeed, a one-cap wonder who made just 12 runs in his solitary Test in 1989. He made his debut alongside Waqar Younis and Sachin Tendulkar, but suffered the fate of never adding a second cap.

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1. :wi: Devon Smith :bat: (38 caps)
2. :wi: Rajendra Chandrika :bat: (5 caps)
3. :ind: Vikram Rathour :bat: (6 caps)
4. :pak: Shahid Saeed :bat: (1 cap)
5. :eng: Ravi Bopara :ar: (13 caps)
6. :nzf: Murray Chapple :ar: (14 caps)
7. :ind: Sameer Dighe :wkb: (6 caps)
8. :aus: John Hastings :ar: (1 cap)
9. :aus: Bryce McGain :bwl: (1 cap)
10. :ban: Rubel Hussain :bwl: (26 caps)
11. :ban: Anwar Hossain Monir :bwl: (3 caps)
(114 caps)

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Jock Edwards

  • Edwards was a stocky batsman who some believe was never primarily a wicket-keeper. There is an argument for the same considering that he was selected initially as a batsman in the team.
  • The sudden death of Ken Wadsworth from melanoma, arguably the greatest keeper NZ have ever produced left the team with a gaping hole that was initially filled by Warren Lees. Lees had a decent start to his test career, with a century in his debut series and several useful 40s in the subcontinent.
  • While Lees was mostly decent with the gloves, a poor run of form with the bat in the home series versus England meant that the selectors had alternative ideas as Edwards had already played a game versus Australia as the keeper. Lees was controversially dropped while Edwards who had scored three fifties (including two in a home game versus England as the specialist keeper) by then in his test career was supposedly given the gloves permanently for the overseas tour of England.
  • What followed was a predictable result of what happens when you go in for an overseas tour where the ball swings heavily without a good keeper. Edwards was horrible in the first two tests that he kept wickets for, making so many errors that he wasn't even picked for the third game with a part-time keeper and opening batsman in Edgar doing the job much better. One member of the BBC commentary team said that Edwards was "the worst wicketkeeper I've ever seen ... he's made mistakes you'd have the 3rd XI `keeper at school running round the pitch for". Edwards might be the worst specialist keeper to ever play test cricket in history by this report.
  • Edwards did return for the 1981 series versus India as a pure batsman due to his decent domestic form and reputation as a very useful hitter in the middle order but did not convert any of his scores into significant figures. By then, Lees himself was replaced by a much better player in Ian Smith and so the Edwards as an international wicket-keeper experiment was all but over. He never played another test again.
  • It is indeed very difficult to assess the performance of a keeper by numbers alone. Edwards conceded byes in every innings he kept barring one where NZ bowled only 3.5 overs. By the few accounts I could find from people who watched him keep on those fateful tests, Edwards was indeed as terrible as the reports suggest. He might not be the worst player with the bat, averaging 25.15 with three fifties. None of them came during or after his horror show in England however and despite his reputation as an aggressive batsman with plenty of unorthodox strokes in the armory, Edwards had the lowest batting average for a specialist batsman among his international compatriots and doesn't have a single 50 in List A cricket, a format that he should have been better at due to his style of play.
  • In a team filled with decent slip fielders like Mubarak and Ikin, the presence of a keeper like Edwards will ensure that the team's fielding efforts don't count for much in the end with an erratic bowler like Sami continuously spraying deliveries all around the pitch. Any contribution that he makes with the bat will easily be negated by his dreadful keeping.
  1. J. Duminy:saf::bat:
  2. D. Gaekwad:ind::bat::c:
  3. B. Playle:nz::bat:
  4. P. McAlister:aus::bat:
  5. J. Ikin:eng::ar:
  6. J. Mubarak:sri::bat:
  7. J. Edwards:nz::wkb:
  8. G. Kishenchand:ind::bat:
  9. M. Sami:pak::bwl:
  10. L. Tsotsobe:saf::bwl:
  11. R. Wijesuriya:sri::bwl:

Overall, I am pleased with the team selected. Mubarak, Tsotsobe and Sami were the players that I knew of prior to this draft and wanted to pick and I am glad to have done so. The only ones I feel I missed out on were Vizzy, Powell (both unlikely due to them being highly well known for incompetence) and one of either MSK Prasad and Rathour. Retrospectively, Gaekwad is a much better for this team as he also adds a captaincy option and complements McAlister well. Was a bit surprised that I managed to get Wijesuriya, Playle and Kishenchand so late in the draft as each of them had a very infamous statistical record. Feel like I could have picked Edwards much later as Blakey apart, none of the other keeper picks were really that bad and there are still plenty of terrible wicket-keepers out there who I could have opted for had he been picked.
 
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Gareth Batty :eng::bwl:

Batty holds the record of missing the largest no. of Test matched between appearances - 142. Having made his debut back in 2003 Batty was always in and out of the side and was only selected when Ashley Giles wad not available.A late recall in 2016 where he played 2 Tests out of 7 in the England's tour of Bangladesh and India picking 4 in the first test he played against Bangladesh.Although he has a very successful FC career 682 scalps in 261 games with 27 5 wickets hall.

Well that's it the squad is completed , thoroughly enjoyed searching and looking for players that are actually pretty bad and got some great insights from the fellow members players that I never even heard of.

Stats : Tests M - 9 W - 15 Avg - 60.94

Bigby's XI :

1.:bat: Lawrence Miller :nz:
2.:bat:Akash Chopra :ind:
3.:bat:Sanath Kaluperuma:sri:
4.:bat:Basit Ali:pak:
5.:bat:Craig Serjeant:aus:
6 :bat: Neil Fairbrother :eng:
7.:arwk: MSK Prasad:ind:
8.:bwl:Gareth Batty:eng:
9.:bwl: Tapash Basiya :ban:
10.:bwl:Abdur Razzak :ban:
11.:bwl: Charl Langeveldt :saf:

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Overall Pick #88: Charles Fichardt
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It perhaps says something about how strange of a person I am that I've written a biography of Charles Fichardt once before now. An alumnus of Grey College in Bloemfontein like so many Test cricketers who came after him, there are no sources anywhere which suggest Fichardt to be a spectacular cricketer. His Test debut, aged only 21, came in one of those early South African tours where matches were played on coconut matting pitches and which were only retrospectively designated Test matches. There are players who appeared in those games who would live a full and complete life, and die without ever knowing that they were in fact Test cricketers. To some, like Fichardt, it might have come as quite a surprise.

The right-handed batsman and regular non-bowler was selected to bat at number three, and would after that spend the rest of his career gradually sliding down the batting order. He found far more success outside of cricket, where he inherited a wealthy business (GA Fichardt Limited) from his father, then used the funds and influence from it to jump-start a political career. He became an admittedly unpopular city councillor in Bloemfontein before the turn of the 20th Century. During the Boer War he was injured, captured and held in a British concentration camp; while inside, he assisted Emily Hobhouse in getting the access she required to take her infamous photographs of the conditions within. Once released, he became a leading founder member of the National Party of South Africa, which would go on to become infamous in the decades following Fichardt's death in 1923 after a botched surgery.

Statistics
TESTS - :bat: 15 runs @ 3.75 (best 10) in 2 matches
FIRST CLASS - :bat: 87 runs @ 7.25 (best 16) and :bwl: 4 wickets @ 60.50 (best 2/39) in 6 matches

Role in the Team
Fichardt takes a place in our middle order at number six. Now, we already had a number six, so in order to accommodate him we have moved Whittall down to number nine, Rahman down to number eight, and Giffen up to open the batting, as he was originally selected for Australia in order to do

Aislabie's XI so far:
1. :eng: :bat: Monkey Hornby (Pick #40, 3 caps)
2. :aus: :bat: Walter Giffen (Pick #24, 3 caps)
3. :nzf: :ar: Matt Poore (Pick #1, 14 caps)
4. :wi: :bat: Floyd Reifer :c: (Pick #16, 6 caps)
5. :aus: :bat: Jack Edwards (Pick #59, 3 caps)
6. :saf: :bat: Charles Fichardt (Pick #88, 2 caps)
7. :ban: :wk: Khaled Mashud (Pick #25, 44 caps)
8. :ban: :ar: Mushfiqur Rahman (Pick #54, 10 caps)
9. :zim: :bwl: Andy Whittall (Pick #41, 10 caps)
10. :eng: :bat: Lord Hawke (Pick #66, 5 caps)
11. :wi: :bwl: Brandon Bess (Pick #79, 1 cap)

(100 caps :tick:)

A word about my team:
Now, this wasn't particularly the team I set out to select, However, I am very happy with how terrible it is. However many runs our batsmen might accidentally score (though really, who's going to score them?), it won't be enough for our bowling "attack" of Bess and Rahman's toothless seam, backed up by Whittall and Poore's non-turning off-breaks. This is a properly dreadful side, I'm very proud of it.

Next picks:
@VC the slogger to complete his team
 
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