So this is my last player before a 30-pick break; I'd best make it count.
Keith Boyce
ODI stats - 57 runs @ 14.25 (SR: 74.02, best 34) and 13 wickets @ 24.07 (econ: 3.99, best 4/50) in 8 matches
List A stats - 2,395 runs @ 17.61 (SR: n/a, 1 century, best 123) and 268 wickets @ 16.05 (econ: 3.29,3 5WI, best 8/26) in 164 matches
I've gone for a third pick from the early years of one-day cricket. Keith Boyce's loping, easy run to the wicket belied the explosive pace with which he delivered the ball - pace which was too much for the county sides that he terrorised in the early years of the Gillette Cup and John Player League. All the more remarkable then is that he was scouted into the Barbados team as a leg-spinner, only to be told to bowl fast instead when it was realised that there was nobody else present who could. From that day in 1965, his knees allowed him twelve years of fast bowling before finally packing in: a time which included a first-class nine-for and a one-day eight-for among its finest moments. When added to his dynamic fielding and brutal batting, Keith Boyce really was a Twenty20 superstar born four decades too soon. He bats at number eight in my side, and opens the bowling alongside Procter.
Aislabie's XI so far
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Graeme Pollock (top-order hitter)
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Mike Procter (middle-order hitter, express pace bowler)
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Keith Boyce (lower-order hitter, attacking seam bowler)
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@Murtaza96 (
@Asham still has an invalid pick to make up for)