Australian All-Time Test Team Draft

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I'm actually surprised that no-one has picked this opener.

Michael Slater
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A combative and wholehearted cricketer, Michael Slater has played many vital innings for New South Wales and as an Australia opener with his adventurous brand of strokeplay.
Aside from the period between October 1996 and March 1998, Slater occupied a position at the top of the Australian Test batting line-up for close to a decade. Amid a golden run of success for the team as a whole, individual highlights have included his 219 against Sri Lanka in Perth in 1995-96; and his brilliant home series against New Zealand in 1993-94 (which netted him 305 runs at 76.25) and England (623 runs at 62.30) in 1994-95. His signature trait of kissing his helmet whenever he reached three figures was seen 14 times, and he made scores in the nineties on a record-breaking nine occasions. He also played in each of the 16 matches between late 1999 and early 2001 which delivered the then Australian team the greatest run of consecutive victories in the history of Test cricket.

Michael Slater scored 5312 runs in 74 matches at an average of 42.83.He has a strike rate of 53.29 with a high score of 219 and notching up 14 centuries and 21 half-centuries.
 
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1.Justin Langer
2.Michael Slater
3.
4.Mark Waugh
5.Allan Border
6.
7.Rod Marsh
8.Alan Davidson
9.
10.
11.Terry Alderman

My team is starting to look deadly.:)
 
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I'm already ending up with a lot of Invincibles, but...

D. Tallon

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Full name Donald Tallon
Born February 17, 1916, Bundaberg, Queensland
Died September 7, 1984, Bundaberg, Queensland (aged 68 years 203 days)
Major teams Australia, Queensland
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Legbreak
Fielding Position Wicketkeeper

Matches 21
Runs scored 394
Batting average 17.13
Top score 92
Balls bowled –
Wickets –
Bowling average –
Catches/stumpings 50/8

Perhaps Australia's finest ever wicketkeeper, Tallon's style is legendery. Smooth, efficient and technically flawless he stood well up to the stumps to medium pace bowlers. Although his dismissal rate is less than those of more modern keepers, it was more reflective of the type of bowling of the time - his bye and leg bye rates is one of the lowest of all time.

He was also a useful lower-order batsman, technically sound in defence and while not highscoring, a reliable partner for any recognised batsman to find themselves at the crease with him.
 
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I left my list of picks at work -so hopefully no-one has him.

Lindsay Hassett

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HASSETT, ARTHUR LINDSAY, MBE, died on June 16, 1993, aged 79. Lindsay Hassett followed Bradman both as captain of Australia and as the embodiment of the national tradition of pocket-sized batting geniuses. He was of course nowhere near Bradman's class as a batsman, but the two men differed most in their approach to life: Hassett was far more light-hearted and puckish.

An artful strokemaker before the Second World War, afterwards Lindsay Hassett was a more circumspect batsman, though one who never lost his lightness of touch. A tiny man who cast a shadow little longer than his bat, he played spin with quick feet, and speed with easy confidence; only five men with more than 10,000 first-class runs boast a better average. He captained the Australian Services XI during the 1945 Victory Tests, and became Bradman's deputy and eventual successor, leading his country to 14 victories and only four defeats.

This, however, falls short of a full estimation: his generosity and deadpan humour won hordes of admirers abroad, especially in England. "Australia has sent to these shores no captain of cricket who shared Hassett's secret into our English ways," wrote Neville Cardus, "knowing it without any surrender of Australia's own related yet not entirely similar ways." He later became a thoughtful radio commentator.
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      Mat Inns NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 6s Ct St 
Tests 43 69 3 3073 198* 46.56 10 11 8 30 0
 
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I hate computers :mad: But anyway looks like I havent missed my spot at all

But my next selection will be to add some toughness to the bowling attack and a new selector for the selection panel :p

Merv Hughes

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Player profile

Full name Mervyn Gregory Hughes
Born November 23, 1961, Euroa, Victoria
Current age 47 years 163 days
Major teams Australia, Australian Capital Territory, Essex, Victoria
Nickname Fruitfly (the biggest Australian pest!)
Playing role Bowler
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm fast

Batting: 1032 runs @ 16.62 HS 72*, 2 50's
Bowling: 212 wickets @ 28.38, BB 8/87, 14 4w hauls, 7 5w hauls and 1 10wm

Merv Hughes was a big-hearted fast bowler who ultimately made a major contribution to Australia's fortunes. A crowd favourite, he was a lively character armed with an imposing run-up and delivery action, a classic fast bowlers' glare down the pitch, a mischievous sense of humour and a moustache of incredible proportions. And while his antics sometimes overshadowed his bowling, Hughes gave every ounce of effort to his country, and helped it to re-climb the ranks of Test cricket. Hughes made a comparatively modest entrance in the mid-1980s, but his value came to the fore against West Indies in 1988-89, when he lost pace partner Geoff Lawson to a broken jaw in the second Test. Hughes gained a hat-trick in that match, but his performance - 13 for 217 off 73.1 overs - illustrated his ability to combine the roles of spearhead and stock bowler.
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Ah dammit eddie, i was banking on merv. Met the bloke before, real nice fella.

anyway lads I'm going a long way back to find a quick bowler to open with Hoggy. Tibby Cotter.
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Runs scored: 457
Average : 13.05
Wickets taken: 89
Average: 28.64


Tibby Cotter was a short (5'8") fast bowler who generated extreme pace from powerful chest and shoulders and on at least 20 occasions shattered the stumps or bails so quick was he. He was also a more than useful batsman, and in a grade match for Glebe he once smashed 152 in 70 minutes in an innings which included 16 sixes.

He made his debut for New South Wales in 1901 and made his Test debut against England at the end of the 1903-04 series and in his second Test - the last at the MCG - he took 8 for 65 to guide Australia to victory. He was included in the 1905 side which toured England, taking 121 wickets at 20.19, playing three Tests and taking 7 for 148 in the first innings at The Oval. He took five-for in the first two Tests of the 1907-08 Ashes, and in England in 1909 he took 17 wickets at 21.47 in another Australian Ashes success.

He was again in good for against South Africa in 1910-11 and the following season struggled against England ina series increasingly overshadowed by the bitter dispute between leading players and the board. As a result, he was one of six leading cricketers who refused to tour England for the 1912 Trinagular tournament. That was the end of his international career. For the Glebe club, he took 295 wickets at 20.20 between 1900-01 and 1914-15.

He joined the Australian Light Horse, and in 1917 at Beersheba he peeped over the rim of a trench to verify what he had seen in his periscope and was shot dead by a sniper. Shortly before his death he is said to have tossed up a ball of mud and said to a colleague: "That's my last bowl ... something's going to happen."
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Cricinfo - Players and Officials - Tibby Cotter
 
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My next pick is Tim May, as I need a spinner. Will write up later on today.. plus Pup's as well..
 
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I'm going to take brad haddin as my keeper. pretty simple really, he;s prob already made more runs that the rest of the keepers available, and hes a good keeper.
 
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el-capitano;347362 said:
And since you're the last one to pick a wicket keeper- it means Phil Emery misses out! :eek:





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ah crap. i tried to get him before anyone else did, i could have saved him til last. i didnt realise everyone else had picked one lol...awww poor phil emery
 
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Alright, if no ones got him, I'm going to steal one of Victoria's finest youngster's from the 1948 Invincibles;

Slamming Sam Loxton.

He only got to play 12 tests but during that time he batted at just under 37 (basically identical to his first class average) and took wickets with fast-medo's at 43. Whilst that would never be considered a real all rounder in the days of Miller and the like, and later Sobers, of course these days this would put him alongside Symonds and Watson as a "superb, exciting, brilliant allrounder".
But the real reason I picked him is because apparently after the underarm incident in 1980/81 or whenever it was, it's hard to place in time as Kiwi's always talk about it like it was last Tuesday, he went into the Aussie rooms and blasted them over it. He then sat down and cried openly telling them they'd destroyed cricket.
This makes him the only Australian test cricketer to shed a tear in a dressing room whilst there was:

a)No Khe Sanh playing on the CD player
or
b)No Under the Southern Cross I Stand being belted out by Marsh/Healy/Ponting/Langer/Gear Steward,
or
c)Whilst not being held up by the throat against a locker by Simon Katich.
 
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A diamond in the rough is how I would describe him. A future Australian captain without a doubt but his gliyzy personal life could be a potential area of concern. I remember him and his golden innings against India and India and realized he is a talent of note. Whether he is batting, bowling his left arm spin or fielding, something is bound to happen. The mere fact that he has seen the other side of international cricket after a disastrous run of form indicates he has a tough side to him as well.(Just ask Simon Katich..)
I will add the fact that he has put his family and country ahead of the IPL indicates that he realises that he will have to look after himself and his injury prone body.
This selection banks on him having a successful career, so prove me right please .. Pup.
Full name Michael John Clarke

Born 2 April 1981 (1981-04-02) (age 28)Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia
Nickname Pup, Nemo

Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)

Batting style Right-hand Bowling style Slow left-arm orthodox
First Class Teams New South Wales, Hampshire

Code: 
Competition [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_cricket"]Test[/URL] [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Day_International"]ODI[/URL] [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-class_cricket"]FC[/URL] [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_A_cricket"]List A[/URL]   Matches 47 155 103 218   Runs scored 3,204 4,650 6,957 6,460   [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batting_average"]Batting average[/URL] 47.82 42.66 44.03 40.88   100s/50s 10/13 4/35 23/27 5/49   Top score 151 130 201* 130   [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delivery_%28cricket%29"]Balls[/URL] bowled 1,426 2,078 2,582 2,774   [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicket"]Wickets[/URL] 18 52 29 77   [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowling_average"]Bowling average[/URL] 37.77 33.67 46.65 29.70   5 wickets in [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innings"]innings[/URL] 1 1 1 1   10 wickets in match 0 n/a 0 n/a   Best bowling 6/9 5/35 6/9 5/35   Catches/[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stump_%28cricket%29#Manner_of_dismissing_a_batsman"]stumpings[/URL] 39/– 62/– 95/– 86/–
 
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Timothy Brian Alexander May (born 26 January 1962 at North Adelaide, South Australia) is a former cricketer for South Australia and Australia, who is currently a leading administrator of the game in his role as Chief Executive of the Federation of International Cricketers' Associations (FICA). May played in 24 Tests and 47 ODIs in an injury-interrupted career between 1987 and 1995.
An off-spin bowler more suited to Test matches than ODIs, May was also a handy batsman good enough to score a first-class century. His best bowling was 5/9 in 1992–93 against the West Indies in the fourth Test at the Adelaide Oval, when he hit his best Test score of 42 not out.
May's Test bowling average of nearly 35 is worse than leading spinners of the 1990s such as Saqlain Mushtaq and Shane Warne, but better than many other Australian spin bowlers of the time. For a brief period, he formed a successful partnership with Warne when they captured 55 wickets between them during the 1993 Ashes series.
Although he was not a good fielder, May was regularly selected as twelfth man for Australia, and holds the record for most appearances in this role. On one occasion during the 1992–93 World Series Cup, May was substituting for the injured Dean Jones and dropped a catch from Rameez Raja at extra cover, forcing Jones to return. Mike Atherton called May the "best off-spin bowler" that he faced, even though May did not bowl the doosra.
In 1997, May became the inaugural CEO of the Australian Cricketers' Association and was a significant influence in its establishment as an important organisation in Australian cricket. In June 2005, he was appointed as the CEO of FICA, which is based in Austin, Texas.
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Competition [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_cricket"]Tests[/URL] [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Day_International"]ODIs[/URL]   Matches 24 47   Runs scored 225 39   [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batting_average"]Batting average[/URL] 14.06 9.75   100s/50s -/- -/-   Top score 42* 15   [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delivery_%28cricket%29"]Balls[/URL] bowled 6577 2504   [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wicket"]Wickets[/URL] 75 39   [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowling_average"]Bowling average[/URL] 34.74 45.43   5 wickets in [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innings"]innings[/URL] 3 -   10 wickets in match - n/a   Best bowling 5/9 3/19   Catches/[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stump_%28cricket%29#Manner_of_dismissing_a_batsman"]stumpings[/URL] 6/- 3/-

Tim May - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 
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Okay... well, bundy's time has just expired. I would let him have the rest of the day if I wasn't about to go offline for a few days, so I'll have to draft now.

I need a solid, capable player at number three, who can be relied upon to come through with a good knock to build on the stylings of my openers. I select one of the greatest...

C. Hill

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Full name Clement Hill
Born March 18, 1877, Hindmarsh, Adelaide, South Australia
Died September 5, 1945, Parkville, Melbourne, Victoria (aged 68 years 171 days)
Major teams Australia, South Australia
Batting style Left-hand bat
Bowling style Legbreak

Matches 49
Runs scored 3412
Batting average 39.21
Balls bowled –
Wickets –
Bowling average –

A gifted batsman, able to accelerate his scoring at will, Clem Hill relished the challenge of playing against fast bowlers on pace-conducive wickets. A brilliant back-foot and square of the wicket player, he cut and hooked with a control and precision often only seen in the more orthodox drives of the day.

A teenage prodigy, making his first-class debut at 16 for South Australia, he captured and held for many decades a raft of records - most runs in Test cricket and first batsman to make 1,000 Test runs in a calandar year to name but two. To this day, he still holds the records for most successful seventh and eighth wicket partnerships for Australia. If the Bix Six Boycott hadn't prematurely ended his career, who knows what further heights he may have achieved?
 
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Post when you can Bundy! ;)

Filling out my middle order (literally) is big Darren Lehmann.

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A superbly talented player, the stockily-built Darren Lehmann is a free-scoring left-hand batsman, and an underestimated left-arm orthodox spin bowler. As an out-and-out strokeplayer, he treats spectators to an audacious mixture of swashbuckling aggression and deft finesse. From the time that he burst on to the first-class scene in Australia as a 17-year-old in the 1987-88 season, Lehmann has built an imposing record in both his home country and with the county team Yorkshire. He achieved a telling milestone by playing more first-class games and scoring more runs than any other Australian - until Michael Hussey - before making his Test debut in Bangalore in 1998.
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Batting

Code: 
    Mat  	Inns  	NO  	Runs  	HS  	Ave  	BF  	SR  	100  	50  	4s  	6s  	Ct  	St
Tests 	27 	42 	2 	1798 	177 	44.95 	2909 	61.80 	5 	10 	214 	10 	11 	0

Bowling

Code: 
    Mat  	Inns  	Balls  	Runs  	Wkts  	BBI  	BBM  	Ave  	Econ  	SR  	4w  	5w  	10
Tests 	27 	25 	974 	412 	15 	3/42 	6/92 	27.46 	2.53 	64.9 	0 	0 	0

Darren Lehmann - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Cricinfo - Players and Officials - Darren Lehmann
 
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