Draft: The A Team

[ddrap14]

This is such a tough one because I have two guys who I doubt will fall. But I'm more confident in the other guy sliding than I am in Aislabie not picking Ewart Astill. A deceptive medium pacer, good with the bat but outstanding (2500 career wickets) with the ball.

1. Dennis Amiss
3. Hashim Amla
4. Hylton Ackerman
5. Keith Arthurton
6. Ron Archer
7. Les Ames
8. Ewart Astill
10. Jo Angel
11. Mushtaq Ahmed

@RUDI

 

[RUDI]

Ashraf Ali
Test bat avr: 45.80

1) Madhav Apte
2) Abid Ali
3) Azhar Ali
4)
5) Kevin Arnott
6) Ashraf Ali
7) Sir Gubby Allen
8) William Attewell
9)
10) Shaheen Afridi
11) Shoaib Akhtar

@Neo 7 you're up next.

 

[Neo 7]

Denis Atkinson ...

Shahid Afridi
Lala Amarnath
Chris Adams
Mohammad Azharuddin
Umar Akmal
Denis Atkinson
Jofra Archer
Kyle Abbott
Saeed Ajmal


@Aravind.

 

[Aravind.]

Kamran Akmal, 13000 FC runs, 33 FC ton's, 2600 test runs & 6 test centuries.

@Aislabie

 

[Aislabie]

Asghar Afghan was a very mediocre white-ball batter, but against the red ball he really came into his own: from admittedly small sample sizes, his Test and first-class batting averages both sit at 44. Also very considerate of him to change his surname so I could pick him in this draft, really coming in clutch.

1.
2.
3. Asghar Afghan
4. Jimmy Adams
5. Fawad Alam
6. Pravin Amre
7. Bill Alley
8. Jimmy Anderson
9. Bob Appleyard
10. Terry Alderman
11. Neil Adcock

@ahmedleo414

 

[ahmedleo414]

1. Taslim Arif
2. Michael Atherton
3. Ijaz Ahmed
4. ?
5. Zaheer Abbas
6. ?
7. Wasim Akram
8. Gerry Alexander
9. Hassan Ali
10. Geoff Arnold
11. Tauseef Ahmed

Geoff Arnold is my pick

@pillowprocter

 

[Verified Enigma]

1. Taslim Arif
2. Michael Atherton
3. Ijaz Ahmed
4. ?
5. Zaheer Abbas
6. ?
7. Wasim Akram
8. Gerry Alexander
9. Hassan Ali
10. :Eng: Geoff Arnold
11. Tauseef Ahmed

Geoff Arnold is my pick

@pillowprocter

What the...

This is what was literally open in my chrome tab,

 

[pillowprocter]

What the...

This is what was literally open in my chrome tab,
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If you'd just waited 40 seconds to take that screenshot...

 

[pillowprocter]

Gobo Ashley only played 4 FC games, but his stats are amazing, including a 7fer in his only test.

@Verified Enigma

 

[Verified Enigma]

With Geoff Arnold being taken by @ahmedleo414 , I will go ahead with another Arnold instead, Ted Arnold who can bat as well instead. He has 24 FC hundreds at and average of 30 and over 1,000 FC Wickets at an average of 23.

Batting & Fielding​

Format	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	100s	50s	6s	Ct	St
Test	10	15	3	160	40	13.33	0	0	0	8	0
FC	343	592	62	15853	215	29.91	24	76	-	187	0

Bowling​

Format	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w	10w
Test	10	19	1677	788	31	5/37	6/70	25.41	2.81	54.0	2	1	0
FC	343	-	54899	24763	1069	9/64	-	23.16	2.70	51.3	-	63	13

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...and now for the second pick, as @Aislabie would describe it, "That is crafty"

Mohammad Shami Ahmed



Just to clarify, the pick has been deemed valid by @Aislabie

1. Mayank Agarwal
2. Bobby Abel
3. Mohinder Amarnath
4. Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi
5. Warwick Armstrong
6. Sarfaraz Ahmed
7. Ted Arnold
8. Intikhab Alam
9. Mohammad Shami Ahmed
10. ?
11. Curtly Ambrose

Back to @pillowprocter

 

[pillowprocter]

Russel Arnold was a mediocre Test batter, but he's my mediocre Test batter. Also has a good record opening the batting.

@ahmedleo414

 

[ddrap14]

...and now for the second pick, as @Aislabie would describe it, "That is crafty"

Meanwhile, two completely different participants on the Discord a full week ago:

 

[ahmedleo414]

1. Taslim Arif
2. Michael Atherton
3. Ijaz Ahmed
4. ?
5. Zaheer Abbas
6. Gerry Alexander
7. Wasim Akram
8. Faheem Ashraf
9. Hassan Ali
10. Geoff Arnold
11. Tauseef Ahmed

Faheem Ashraf

@Aislabie

 

[Aislabie]

Mushtaq Ali will be the first of my two opening batters; with a memorable career that stretched either side of World War Two, his very best years were lost to international cricket. Despite that, he still put together a respectable record, especially as an opener. His left-arm spin will do a job as my second spinner, although I don't expect him to shoulder much of the wicket-taking burden.

1.
2. Mushtaq Ali
3. Asghar Afghan
4. Jimmy Adams
5. Fawad Alam
6. Pravin Amre
7. Bill Alley
8. Jimmy Anderson
9. Bob Appleyard
10. Terry Alderman
11. Neil Adcock

@Aravind.

 

[Aravind.]

Deshamanya Arjuna Ranatunga former srilanka world cup winning captain.

5000 test runs at the average of 36.

@Neo 7