The Alphabet Game

[Arthur Crabtree]

Must be better out there than Nel. Dion Nash would be a better pick if pushed.

The WI Nash might get in the batting.

[Arthur Crabtree]

A decent best-of-the-rest XI from the first half of the alphabet:

Hayden
Haynes
Crowe
Martyn
Kallicharan
Mathews
McCullum
Lee
Alderman
Larwood
Gibbs/MacGill/Mushtaq

Larwood was in I think. No interest in George Lohmann.

[Arthur Crabtree]

Karun Nair has a Test triple.

[Arthur Crabtree]

Paul Nixon is the only keeper I can think of.

[DiligentDefence]

Paul Nixon is the only keeper I can think of.

Must be in I would have thought.

[Arthur Crabtree]

Looked up the keeper records and Peter Nevill is the only Test keeper with any sort of pedigree.

[Arthur Crabtree]

1. Seymour Nurse
2.
3.
4. Dudley Nourse
5.
6.
7. Peter Nevill
8.
9.
10. Sarfraz Nawaz
11. Makhaya Ntini

[Arthur Crabtree]

1. Seymour Nurse
2.
3.
4. Dudley Nourse
5.
6.
7. Peter Nevill
8. Bapu Nadkarni
9.
10. Sarfraz Nawaz
11. Makhaya Ntini

Easily the best spin candidate is India's SLA from the sixties, with 87 wickets at under 30. Amazingly his rpo was 1.7! Scored a Test hundred too. No, I'd not heard of him.

Others, like Mohammad Nazir of Pakistan and Sunil Narine of the IPL just have a handful of wickets.

[Arthur Crabtree]

1. Seymour Nurse
2.
3.
4. Dudley Nourse
5.
6.
7. Peter Nevill
8. Bapu Nadkarni
9. Dion Nash/Andre Nel
10. Sarfraz Nawaz
11. Makhaya Ntini

[ianp1970]

The WI Nash might get in the batting.

Marcus North?

[Arthur Crabtree]

Brendan Nash and Marcus North average about the same. I just remember Nash being a tough man to get out when WI were really poor.

Monty Noble is a well known name from yesteryear. Mudassar Nazar, scorer of the slowest Test ton...

[Arthur Crabtree]

1. Seymour Nurse
2. Mudassar Nazar
3. Dudley Nourse
4. Marcus North
5. Brendan Nash
6. Monty Noble
7. Peter Nevill
8. Bapu Nadkarni
9. Dion Nash/Andre Nel
10. Sarfraz Nawaz
11. Makhaya Ntini

Just to get some names down.

[Arthur Crabtree]

1. Seymour Nurse
2. Mudassar Nazar
3. Dudley Nourse
4. Marcus North
5. Brendan Nash
6. Monty Noble
7. Peter Nevill
8. Bapu Nadkarni
9. Dion Nash
10. Sarfraz Nawaz
11. Makhaya Ntini

This then?

[Arthur Crabtree]

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8. Bert Oldfield
9. Bill O'Reilly
10.
11.

[ianp1970]

Looks like another tricky one...

Jacob Oram
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