Draft: The Panesar Draft

[blockerdave]

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

Not in Le Roux's class, but he was no mug with the bat and given some of the "attacks", I think he'd do rather well.

 

[blockerdave]

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.

a 4-5 of Kohli and Irvine is pretty impressive

 

[NILAYSHAH60]

This has to be a very expensive pick for me but worth picking out.

Harold Larwood
​

Probably the fastest bowler to have played the game. A right arm fast bowler for England having almost a decade long career. Harold Larwood will never be forgotten by the Cricketing fraternity for his thunderous bowling in a series popularly known as Bodyline series. Bodyline which was actually a series in which English Captain Douglas Jardine asked or you would say provoked his bowlers to bowl bouncers by setting legside field to trouble the Aussies and Bradman in particular. Jardine was such a mean Captain that he forced Larwood to bowl with a broken foot until he actually dismissed Bradman. ESPN Cricinfo literally calls Bradman's performance in this series as mediocre but still managed to have an average of 56 in that series getting out to short deliveries of Larwood in 4 out of 8 innings. Larwood's name was enough to scare the demons out of a batsman. Cricinfo mentions an incident of Bodyline Ashes as follows,

"In the Adelaide Test, Australian exasperation reached white heat as the captain, Bill Woodfull, was struck stunningly over the heart by a lifting ball from Larwood- whose captain cynically switched to the Bodyline field as soon as Woodfull was able to continue - and Bert Oldfield suffered a fracture when edging another Larwood delivery onto his temple. Mounted police mustered behind the pavilion as the masses of spectators hooted and jeered and threatened to storm the field."​

The then British Prime Minister John Major gave Larwood's cricket achievement belated recognition by awarding him the MBE in 1993, his picture made the newspapers again, together with characteristic quotes from the old fast bowler as he contemplated the changes that had overtaken cricket in the many years since he was headline news himself.

Larwood's career had quite an interesting end,

"Larwood never played for England again. Welcomed home as a popular hero, he soon found that `diplomacy' was at work. At Lord's members of the MCC committee had begun to understand the cause of Australian indignation. That cricket had been damaged was becoming obvious to all but the blindly partisan. Moves to outlaw the leg-side field-setting, if not the short-pitched fast ball, were instituted. And a letter of apology was drawn up for signature by Harold Larwood, the arch-exponent of Bodyline. Since he had been bowling to orders and believed in his heart that there was nothing sinister in his method of attack, he refused to sign the letter. His Test career was over at 28."
​

Spoiler: Stats

Stats|Matches|Runs|Average|50s/100s|Top Score|Balls Bowled|Runs|Wickets|BBI|Average|Economy|SR|5w|10w
First-Class|361|7,290|19.91|23/3|102*|58,027|24,994|1427|9/41|17.51|2.58|40.6|98|20|
Tests|21|485|19.4|2/0|98|4,969|2,212|78|6/32|28.25|2.67|63.7|4|1|

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Caps used 21/50

@Nilay_60 's XI

Aakash Chopra (UD)


Amol Muzumdar (0)

A.N.Hornby (UD)
Alec Douglas-Home (UD)
Harold Larwood (21)
Bill Bell (UD)

Ranjan Das (UD)

@El Loco

 

[NILAYSHAH60]

Stats|Matches|Runs|Average|50s/100s|Top Score|Balls Bowled|Runs|Wickets|BBI|Average|Economy|SR|5w|10w
First-Class|361|7,290|19.91|23/3|102*|58,027|24,994|1427|9/41|17.51|2.58|40.6|98|20|
Tests|21||485|19.4|2/0|98|4,969|2,212|78|6/32|28.25|2.67|63.7|4 |1|

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@CerealKiller would you mind putting 1 in the 10w box for Tests. Not happening for me.

 

[CerealKiller]

@CerealKiller would you mind putting 1 in the 10w box for Tests. Not happening for me.

Sorry, mate, i’m on mobile, can’t even see the whole table.
Anyone knows how to make a table that you can move left or right on mobile? @VC the slogger @Na Maloom Afraad @Aislabie

 

[Na Maloom Afraad]

Sorry, mate, i’m on mobile, can’t even see the whole table.
Anyone knows how to make a table that you can move left or right on mobile? @VC the slogger @Na Maloom Afraad @Aislabie

You can only 'move' the table left or right if it's in a spoiler. Hope that helps, 'cause I don't think I understand what you're asking. [DOUBLEPOST=1587214589][/DOUBLEPOST]

@CerealKiller would you mind putting 1 in the 10w box for Tests. Not happening for me.

Just add another "|" at the end of it.

 

[CerealKiller]

You can only 'move' the table left or right if it's in a spoiler. Hope that helps, 'cause I don't think I understand what you're asking. [DOUBLEPOST=1587214589][/DOUBLEPOST]
Just add another "|" at the end of it.

Thanks

 

[Yash.]

Damn! That’s a great pick @Nilay_60

 

[NILAYSHAH60]

Just add another "|" at the end of it.

That only I did but didn't happen. It wouldn't matter anyways to complete that one. We are more concerned about picking players.

 

[El Loco]

My next pick has scored the most first-class centuries without ever playing a test-match. In comes John Langridge.

@Na Maloom Afraad

 

[Na Maloom Afraad]

Can I use a little more time in choosing the player? I need to make up my mind on who I want, seeing as my next pick is gonna be 16 picks later. Gotta decide if the person I don't choose will be picked-up by someone else (which is most likely the case), and if I'll feel regretful on losing said player knowing I could've chosen them first.

Won't take too long, I'll get my pick in before the 24-hour deadline today.

 

[Na Maloom Afraad]

NMA's PANESAR XI

Graeme Pollock ( 23)
Robert Whyte (UD)
Bart King ( 0)
Kyle Mills (UD)
Rony Stanyforth (UD)
Sridharan Jeganathan (UD)
Mark Lawrence (UD)

TEST CAPS USED (23/50)

Graeme Pollock is my second pick. I know it might seem like my picks are getting a bit repetitive, but honestly, he was the best option available for the role I had in my mind. I struggled with him and another player, but in the end, I gave into Pollock's stats. Even if they were marginally better. An expensive pick, but a pick I was willing to make. I also, for some reason, thought of picking Don Bradman because in my mind he had played 50 tests. So I was going to blow all my load for the Don (hehe), only to find out he's played 2 more Tests than what I thought.

"An artist in the super league of left-handers | ESPNCricinfo.com"

"One of South Africa's finest | ESPNCricinfo.com"

|Matches|Innings|Not outs|

RUNS

|

HS

|Average|100s|50s

Tests |23|41|4| 2256 | - 274 - |60.97|7|11

- First-Class - |262|437|54| - 20940 - |274|54.67|64|99

"South Africa's player of the 20th century, and perhaps the finest left-hand batsman the game has ever produced, Graeme Pollock played only 23 Tests, but those were enough to rank him among the game's all-time greats."

"Perhaps the finest left-hand batsman the game has ever produced - Donald Bradman certainly thought so, classing only Garry Sobers as his equal among those he saw play. Another deprived of greater exposure by South Africa's isolation, Pollock showed in his 23 Tests what an awesome talent he possessed; his highest score of 274 was for many years the South African Test record."

"Pollock was an extremely powerful batsman, although his timing was perhaps his most obvious natural asset, and could also bowl effective legspin at times. He scored his maiden first-class century when he was just 16 and then posted his first Test hundred at 19 in Australia."

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@CerealKiller, you're next

 

[blockerdave]

Great pick, I wanted Pollock.

 

[CerealKiller]

I'll go with the same guy i picked in the One-Test Wonder draft, Stuart Law, who made 54* in his only Test innings, but scored over 27000 runs at an average of 50 in the two best domestic leagues in Australia and England.


CerealKiller’s XI
1.
2.
3.
4.
5. Stuart Law (1)
6. Wasim Haider UD
7. Garth le Roux (0)
8. Sanaullah Khan UD
9. Jack Blaterwick UD
10. Pommie Mbangwa UD
11. Raja Maharaj Singh UD

Caps : 1

@deleted member

 

[ahmedleo414]

I'll go with the same guy i picked in the One-Test Wonder draft, Stuart Law, who made 54* in his only Test innings, but scored over 27000 runs at an average of 50 in the two best domestic leagues in Australia and England.


CerealKiller’s XI
1.
2.
3.
4.
5. Stuart Law (1)
6. Wasim Haider UD
7. Garth le Roux (0)
8. Sanaullah Khan UD
9. Jack Blaterwick UD
10. Pommie Mbangwa UD
11. Raja Maharaj Singh UD

Caps : 1

@deleted member

There goes my next pick