The Flesh Ripping Sonic Torment XI
Written by: Damith Samarakoon
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Loading ...A little while back Pro Lion and I ran a little fantasy draft game on our main site-SL Cricket.Com. The rules were simple. A whole heap of cricket fanatics took part and you would get a turn to pick a cricketer from any era of cricket since the 1900s. But you could only pick 2 cricketers from each decade.Needless to say when your turn came around the good guys were all taken. Each round was randomised so that everyone got a fair go to get the best “picks” of that round.
Click here if you want the full details on the competition and how it unfolded over weeks (cuz it was played on a cricket forum with players from USA/Australia/Europe/Asia and sometimes we would have to wait for about a day for a guy from the USA to pick his player when his turn came around)
Below is my complete side after the game was over.
Have a look and see if you can pick a team that would out do this lot.
The Flesh Ripping Sonic Torment XI
John Edrich (1960s)
Herbert Sutcliffe (1930s)
Dennis Compton (1940s)
David Gower (1980s)
Dougie Walters (1970s)
Andy Flower (2000s)
Shane Warne (1990s)
Harbajan Singh (2000s)
Malcom Marshall (1980s)
Fred Trueman (1950s)
Frank Tyson (1950s)
Edirch & Sutcliffe
My openers have 90000 runs between them with 250 hundreds together.These two will bat any bowling attack into submission under any condition.Also note the left hand right hand combination.
Compton at 3
And when the 1st wicket falls at 500 I have one the most gifted batsmen ever to step on to the cricket field coming in at 3. Daring and adventurous, Compton will pumel any attack in to oblivion.When you open with 2 guys who have a 100 100s each to their name its gonnna be hard to top it eh. Not so.
Compton boasts 40000 runs with 123 100s to his name with a test avg of 50.
Oh ye poor bowlers.
Eye-Candy at 4
Other batsmen go in and out of form: Gower always seemed to play the same - beautifully, until the moment he made a mistake. Sometimes, the mistake was put off long enough for him to play an innings of unforgettable brilliance.
My no 4 deals only in elegance. Perfect foil for Compton. While Dennis goes hell for leather Gower will make all you traditonalists jaws drop.Silking his way through the covers to a hundred before you realise what hit you.
Lil Dougie at 5
Doug Walters holds a somewhat mythical place in Australian cricket. Small, cheeky, popular and multi-skilled, he would drink all night without getting drunk then wipe sleep from his eyes to make a shot-laden century or take a crucial wicket or stunning catch - sometimes, in folklore at least, on the same day.
At 1500-3 on day 2 there isnt much left to do
. So Ill send in Dougie to make merry while sporting a hangover,drinkin too much beer watching his top 4 beat the lights out of the opposition bowling. Since he probably wouldnt get to bat too many times in this line up, Ill put him in charge of making sure the dressing room freezer is well stocked.
Mr Zimbabwe
Has there ever been 1 cricketer who has carried an entire country on his shoulders for so long and kept a more remarkable record than the older Flower brother. Flower power is what he was known as. And when he was scoring all those runs, and those memorable hundreds in India, through out the 2000s I was wonderin what flower he was smoking. Some will argue his keeping is not up to the scratch but when you see flower bat or do anything on the cricket field, you get the feeling he will find away to do wht is necessary.
Will his batting suffer due to keeping for two long. When you realise whose bowling in my team you wont ask me that again.
“Holly-Wood” Warney
If you can name it then Shane Warnes probably done it twice over.
Ball of the century,wickets,shoulder injuries,finger operations,Zooters,Sliders,Sex,Drugs this guys life was a soap opera from start to finish. But nothing outside cricket ever affected what he did on the field.Mastery of legspin,out thinking batsmen at everyturn, Warne was the greatest leg spinner the world has ever seen, if not the greatest bowler of all time. With accolades such as a cricketer of the century warne is sure to spin webs around any batting line up.
Bowled, Shane.
“Tubanator” Singh
India’s most successful offspin bowler. Bowling with a windmilling, whiplash action,he exercises great command over the ball, has the ability to vary his length and pace, and can turn it the other way too.
A hatrick against the modern Aussie Line up, the 1st by an Indian,and 32 wickets in a 3 test series against them speaks for it self. Perfect spin partner for Warne from the other end.
46,49,45 & 20,21,18
Batsmen feel free to memorise these figures because every 46th or 49th or 45th delivery or every 20,21,18th run a wicket is gonna fall when my quicks are in operation. Trueman and Marshall will open while Tyson will operate in short bursts. This pace attacks reeks of pace and malice and genuine fear. When you bat against these 3 a batsmans very life is in danger.
Good luck all you openers.
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Note that my top 6 all will share left hand right hand batting combinations. This will add more to the bowlers headaches when the score board read 2500-3.
2 All rounders in Walters and Flower, Off and Leg Spin options with 3 of the greatest fast men to bowl in cricket cap off my team
The Flesh Ripping Sonic Torment XI will be captained by, you guessed it, Warne.
The greatest captain Australia never had will only have to make a handful of decisions when leading this team. But dont expect anything other than attack with Warne as captain.
Can anyone say Blitzkrieg ?
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Neat write up man,
Good read.
not so much of a torment XI
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