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Originally Posted by Monk
Don't mind this at all. I like most of your rationale as well. It's a well balanced XI. I'd include Ames over Stewart at 6, and I'd have Barnes over Snow. I couldn't include a guy with the average of 22 in the top six of an ATG side no matter how good a captain he was though!
Hobbs
Hutton
Hammond
Compton
Barrington/Woolley/May/KP/Ranji
Ames *
Botham
Verity
Bedser
Trueman
SF Barnes
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You don't have a pair of fast bowlers to open the bowling.
Having Trueman as the lone fast-bowler spearhead is not desirable in an ATG team IMO
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1945-1977 ATG Draft: Desmond Haynes - Roy Fredericks - Rohan Kanhai - Neil Harvey - Clive Lloyd - Asif Iqbal - John Waite - Ray Lindwall - Garth McKenzie - John Snow - Derek Underwood
ATG XI: Jack Hobbs - Len Hutton - Don Bradman - Brian Lara - Graham Pollock - Gary Sobers - Alan Knott - Malcolm Marshall - Shane Warne - Dennis Lillee- Sydney Barnes
Last edited by watson; 24-10-2012 at 10:36 PM.
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