Draft: The A Team

[Verified Enigma]

Micheal Atherton

With an agreesive batter like Mayank Agarwal on one end, I needed an orthodox test cricket type of player who can keep knocking the ball down from the other end. Mike Atherton can be the perfect partner for it.

Format	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100s	50s	4s	6s	Ct	St
Test	115	212	7	7728	185*	37.69	20609	37.49	16	46	904	4	83	0
FC	336	584	47	21929	268*	40.83	-	-	54	107	-	-	268	0

1. Mayank Agarwal
2. Mike Atherton
3. Mohinder Amarnath
4. ?
5. ?
6. Warwick Armstrong
7. Sarfaraz Ahmed
8. Intikhab Alam
9. ?
10. ?
11. Curtly Ambrose

@ddrap14

 

[pillowprocter]

Micheal Atherton

With an agreesive batter like Mayank Agarwal on one end, I needed an orthodox test cricket type of player who can keep knocking the ball down from the other end. Mike Atherton can be the perfect partner for it.

Format	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100s	50s	4s	6s	Ct	St
Test	115	212	7	7728	185*	37.69	20609	37.49	16	46	904	4	83	0
FC	336	584	47	21929	268*	40.83	-	-	54	107	-	-	268	0

1. Mayank Agarwal
2. Mike Atherton
3. Mohinder Amarnath
4. ?
5. ?
6. Warwick Armstrong
7. Sarfaraz Ahmed
8. Intikhab Alam
9. ?
10. ?
11. Curtly Ambrose

@ddrap14

Already taken by @ahmedleo414

 

[ddrap14]

1. Dennis Amiss
3. Hashim Amla
4. Hylton Ackerman
5. Keith Arthurton
6. Ron Archer
7. Les Ames
10. Mushtaq Ahmed

I'm more confident my pace bowling options will fall than I am in Ackerman, the last international quality bat left on my board.

@Verified Enigma to fix a pick, @RUDI to make one

 

[Verified Enigma]

I think I confused Atherton with Artherton

 

[RUDI]

Kevin Arnott

Test avr: 43.14

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

 

[Verified Enigma]

Robert 'Bobby' Abel instead of Mike Atherton

Needed an opener. Got an opener
Comes in Top 50 run getters in First Class cricket ever
He is English just like Atherton
Couldn't ask for anything more

Format	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	100s	50s	6s	Ct	St
Test	13	22	2	744	132*	37.20	2	2	0	13	0
FC	627	1007	73	33128	357*	35.46	74	145	-	587	0

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1. Mayank Agarwal
2. Bobby Abel
3. Mohinder Amarnath
4. ?
5. ?
6. Warwick Armstrong
7. Sarfaraz Ahmed
8. Intikhab Alam
9. ?
10. ?
11. Curtly Ambrose

And to be quite quite sure, for sure, here,

 

[RUDI]

@Neo 7

 

[Verified Enigma]

Kevin Arnott

Test avr: 43.14

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

Didn't know Arnott kept wickets

 

[RUDI]

@Aravind. / @Neo 7

 

[Aravind.]

Zulfiqar Ahmed, right arm off spinner. Bowling average of 18 in test cricket and 21 in FC.

@Aislabie to pick next.
@Neo 7 has outstanding pick left.

 

[Aislabie]

Time to further reinforce my middle-order with Pravin Amre, who averaged 42.50 in Test cricket and 49.44 in non-Test first-class cricket. He scored a century on debut against a South African attack that included Allan Donald, but there are always more Indian batters around the corner and he never got another go after being dropped for the first time. Curiously, he played Ranji cricket for five different teams (six if we count "Bombay" and "Mumbai" separately, which we shouldn't).

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

@ahmedleo414

 

[Neo 7]

Lala Amarnath ...

Shahid Afridi
Mohammad Azharuddin
Umar Akmal
Jofra Archer
Kyle Abbott
Saeed Ajmal

 

[Aislabie]

Lala Amarnath

Really good pick this one - one of many many people whose career got kicked to the kerb after a run-in with Vizzy, but a true all-rounder who could make his Test team either as a batter, a bowler or a wicket-keeper depending on what they needed.

 

[ahmedleo414]

After seeing Taslim Arif is still available, I can't believe I hastily selected Gerry Alexander. He can still play as an opener on my team with Atherton

My team so far.

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

@pillowprocter for double picks

 

[pillowprocter]

Shabbir Ahmed was a chucker, but wow, he was a good chucker. 50 Test wickets at an average of 23 and 400 FC wickets at 22.

Abid Ali averages 49 in Tests and 40 in FC.

Back to @ahmedleo414.