Draft: The Panesar Draft

[NILAYSHAH60]

Have no idea why Tiwary barely got a chance to establish himself in the national side. He was one of the best middle order players we had and could have played a huge part in helping those middle order issues.

Maybe not in Duncan Fletcher's scheme of things I suppose.

 

[Na Maloom Afraad]

NMA's PANESAR XI

Robert Whyte (UD)
Bart King ( 0)
Kyle Mills (UD)
Rony Stanyforth (UD)
Sridharan Jeganathan (UD)
Mark Lawrence (UD)

TEST CAPS USED (0/50)

It was only inevitable that I came back to this well. Bart King is my first pick.

"The best player not to play a Test | ESPNCricinfo.com"

|Matches|Runs|Wickets|BBI|Average|5Ws|10Ws
First-Class |65|6502| 415 |10/53|15.66|38|11

"Undoubtedly the best cricketer to ever come from the USA.", an excerpt from my previous post about him. He will carry my team's fast-bowling. Him and Mills shouldn't be too bad of a new ball pairing, unusual as it may be. I'm hoping this single pick can take care of my fast-bowling woes, so I can allot more picks to batsmen 'cause I really need a strong top-six. But we'll see as we go, I suppose.

"Bart King was by a wide margin the greatest cricketer that the US has ever produced, as well as being a great character. His reputation outside America was largely made by his three tours of England with The Philadelphians (who before World War 1 played cricket to a high standard) in 1897, 1903 and 1908." - ESPNCricinfo

His figures in first-class matches on those tours were:

TOURS|| RUNS| AVG.| WKTS| AVG.
1897| |441|20.10| 72 |24.20
1903| |653|28.89| 93 |14.91
1908| |290|16.11| 87 |11.01

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@El Loco, you're up

 

[Master Bates]

NMA's PANESAR XI

Robert Whyte (UD)
Bart King ( 0)
Kyle Mills (UD)
Rony Stanyforth (UD)
Sridharan Jeganathan (UD)
Mark Lawrence (UD)

TEST CAPS USED (0/50)

It was only inevitable that I came back to this well. Bart King is my first pick.

"The best player not to play a Test | ESPNCricinfo.com"

|Matches|Runs|Wickets|BBI|Average|5Ws|10Ws
First-Class |65|6502| 415 |10/53|15.66|38|11

"Undoubtedly the best cricketer to ever come from the USA.", an excerpt from my previous post about him. He will carry my team's fast-bowling. Him and Mills shouldn't be too bad of a new ball pairing, unusual as it may be. I'm hoping this single pick can take care of my fast-bowling woes, so I can allot more picks to batsmen 'cause I really need a strong top-six. But we'll see as we go, I suppose.

"Bart King was by a wide margin the greatest cricketer that the US has ever produced, as well as being a great character. His reputation outside America was largely made by his three tours of England with The Philadelphians (who before World War 1 played cricket to a high standard) in 1897, 1903 and 1908." - ESPNCricinfo

His figures in first-class matches on those tours were:

TOURS|| RUNS| AVG.| WKTS| AVG.
1897| |441|20.10| 72 |24.20
1903| |653|28.89| 93 |14.91
1908| |290|16.11| 87 |11.01

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@El Loco, you're up

Only a PC legend knows how to create the perfect table!

 

[Aislabie]

Bart King ( 0)

There goes yet another of my targeted players!

 

[Bevab]

There goes yet another of my targeted players!

I've pretty much resigned myself to losing all of the legendary players/all-rounders that would help with the cap restrictions and instead shall wait when it is my turn to make up my mind on whom to pick depending on who is left. Might probably be one of the Ranji giants or the pre-war players assuming I get around to reading the Wisden book on the Ashes.

 

[blockerdave]

There goes yet another of my targeted players!

Same!

 

[Neo 7]

One player I have in mind . Let's see if he gets picked or not !

 

[El Loco]

Gonna go with Phil Mead for my first pick.

@Nilay_60

 

[NILAYSHAH60]

Amol Muzumdar
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A middle-order right hand batsman who did everything he could in the domestic arena but yet never got an opportunity to play for India because of the existence of the Fab 5 in the Indian side (Sachin, Sehwag, Dravid, Laxman, Sourav). Amol Muzumdar was padded up and next man in for Shardashram English school when Sachin Tendulkar and Vinod Kambli had their world-record 664-run partnership. I felt Muzumdar was quite unlucky not to ever make the Indian Test side being the 2nd highest run-scorer in the Ranji Trophy after Wasim Jaffer. He also had 60 half-centuries and 30 centuries to his name.

Amol Muzumdar retired in 2013. Since then he has been involved in multiple jobs related to Cricket serving as a analytical and an insightful commentator for Star Sports India covering Domestic matches across the country. He also served as a coach for Rajasthan Royals in the Indian Premier League and also South Africa's Test batting coach when they toured India in 2019.

Stats|Matches|Runs|Average|50s/100s|Top Score|Balls Bowled|Runs|Wickets|BBI|Average|Economy|SR|5w|10w
First-Class|171|11,167|48.13|60/30|260|414|216|6|1/1|36.00|3.13|69.0|0|0|
Tests|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|

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Caps used 0/50

@Nilay_60 's XI

Aakash Chopra (UD)


Amol Muzumdar

A.N. Hornby (UD)
Alec Douglas-Home (UD)

Bill Bell (UD)

Ranjan Das (UD)

 

[Master Bates]

@Bevab double picks!

 

[blockerdave]

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Amol Muzumdar
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A middle-order right hand batsman who did everything he could in the domestic arena but yet never got an opportunity to play for India because of the existence of the Fab 5 in the Indian side (Sachin, Sehwag, Dravid, Laxman, Sourav). I felt Muzumdar was quite unlucky not to ever make the Indian Test side being the 2nd highest run-scorer in the Ranji Trophy after Wasim Jaffer. He also had 60 half-centuries and 30 centuries to his name.

Amol Muzumdar retired in 2014. Since then he has been involved in multiple jobs related to Cricket serving as a analytical and an insightful commentator for Star Sports India covering Domestic matches across the country. He also served as a coach for Rajasthan Royals in the Indian Premier League and also South Africa's Test batting coach when they toured India in 2019.

Stats|Matches|Runs|Average|50s/100s|Top Score|Balls Bowled|Runs|Wickets|BBI|Average|Economy|SR|5w|10w
First-Class|171|11,167|48.13|30/60|260|414|216|6|1/1|36.00|3.13|69.0|0|0|
Tests|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|

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Caps used 0/50

@Nilay_60 's XI

Aakash Chopra


Amol Muzumdar

A.N. Hornby
Alec Douglas-Home

Bill Bell

Ranjan Das

I feel it should be a rule that every time Muzumdar is mentioned in a draft it must also be mentioned that he was the poor git padded up to come in next when Tendulkar and Kambli shared their 664* stand as schoolboys.

 

[NILAYSHAH60]

I feel it should be a rule that every time Muzumdar is mentioned in a draft it must also be mentioned that he was the poor git padded up to come in next when Tendulkar and Kambli shared their 664* stand as schoolboys.

Done

 

[Bevab]

So I've actually got the opportunity to select two South Africans from the Apartheid era that I've had my eyes on. First up, I shall pick Vintcent Van der Bijl who is in conversation for being the greatest bowler to never receive a test match call-up alongside King and Stephenson. Over 200 centimetres tall, he wasn't an outrageously quick bowler who terrorized batsmen with raw pace but with a high release point and incredible accuracy, he did not require that. For years, Van der Bijl terrorized South African domestic batsmen in an era considered to be overflowing with talent and set numerous records. Even when he was remarked to be past his peak at 32, he turned up for Middlesex and performed to an outstanding level to turn a side from fourteenth place to champions alongside converting England's legendary captain Brearley into a fan of him after the latter had several doubts over his signing. This was a side with two excellent domestic spinners in Emburey and Edmonds but the South African was by far the best bowler in the side and his first-class average that season was only bettered by Hadlee who only played seven games owing to injury. Despite his height, Van der Bijl was a fine fielder and was capable of heroics with the bat down the order and could have been an all-rounder with more focus.

Stats|Matches|Runs|Average|50s/100s|Top Score|Balls Bowled|Runs|Wickets|BBI|Average|Economy|SR|5w|10w
First-Class|156|2269|16.20|9/0|87|35271|12692|767|8-35|16.54|2.15|45.98|46|12|
Tests|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|

My next pick is Lee Irvine. He was initially an outfielder who later took up the gloves for his domestic team with excellence and had it not been for stern competition from Lindsay, he would have been the team's first choice keeper. Nevertheless, Irvine managed to play four games for South Africa as a pure batsman scoring a century and two fifties. Irvine was remarked to be one of the toughest batsmen to bowl to by none other than Van der Bijl himself and former captain Bacher remarked that he was comparable to AB de Villiers himself in terms of technique and sheer aggression. Irvine loved to hit sixes too as evidenced by the twenty six sixes attributed to him in his first season for Essex.

Stats|Matches|Runs|Average|50s/100s|Top Score|Balls Bowled|Runs|Wickets|BBI|Average|Economy|SR|5w|10w
First-Class|157|9919|40.48|46/21|193|228|142|1|1-39|142.00|3.73|228.00|0|0|
Tests|4|353|50.42|2/1|102|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|

1. ?
2. ?
3. ?
4. Virat Kohli
5. Lee Irvine
6. Rolland Beaumont
7. ?
8. Vintcent Van der Bijl
9. Darren Pattinson
10. Anwar Hossain Monir
11. Krishna Kumar
    (4/50 caps)

@Nilay_60 back to you.

 

[Aislabie]

Vintcent Van der Bijl

Lee Irvine

Fantastic picks both

 

[CerealKiller]

Vintcent Van der Bijl

Almost went for him ahead of Le Roux, but needed someone who could bat