Your Dream Series

[Jamee999]

OK, here's the deal.

You can have 5 matches, with any players(past or present, mine will be present) in any teams, with any format, at any ground, and if you wish, any umpires or other little things like that.

My 2 teams:

Team 1

A Strauss
M Trescothick
B Lara
B Hodge
J Kallis
A Gilchrist+
A Flintoff
A Agarkar*
S Warne
S Harmison
G McGrath

12th Man: S Jones

Team 2

V Sehwag
M Vaughan*
S Tendulkar
K Pietersen
P Collingwood
G Jones+
S Pollock
A Giles
I Pathan
S Harmison
M Murrali

12th Man: R Ponting

Match A

50 over ODI

WACA, Perth, Australia
Umpires: B Bowden, S Bucknor

Match B

5 Day Test Match

Kingston, Jamaica
Umpires: S Taufell, D Orchard

Match C

60 over ODI

Eden Gardens, Chennai,India
Umpires: B Bowden, D Bird

Match D

5 Day Test Match

Cape Town, South Africa
Umpires: A Dar, R Koertzen

Match E

Timeless Test Match

Lords,London,England
Umpires: D Bird, D Shepard

No umpire gets more than 2 Matches, (Bird and Bowden get 2) and Each match is on a different continent.

Yours?

 

[Unattainableguy]

Your Team 2 looks pretty weak compared to Team 1, especially with Ponting as the 12th man.

 

[superkingdave]

and Harmison playing against himself

and you do realise Hodge has left Leicestershire now?

 

[kof98]

I think a great current series would be a test match series (6 day tests) with the teams:
Aus test team vs combined Asian test team vs combined SA,Eng,NZ,WI test team. I can't really decide on a venue but I would say better to have one conutry as the venue for the whole series so that the players are not constantly having to adjust to different conditions.

 

[Duncan]

I agree, the second team is too weak. A dream series would be a tri-series... Australia vs South Asia vs Rest of the World. Now that would be entertaining! It would consist of three Twenty20 matches, 7 ODIs and 5 tests.

 

[SpeedKing]

I agree, the second team is too weak. A dream series would be a tri-series... Australia vs South Asia vs Rest of the World. Now that would be entertaining! It would consist of three Twenty20 matches, 7 ODIs and 5 tests.

Yeah i like that

 

[Langeveldt]

Venue - The Wanderers or Centurion Park or Potch'
Umpires - Billy Bowden and Simon Taufel

Cant be bothered to sort teams out, but they would be picked roughly from this pool of players, not based on strength, but personal liking

Michael Vaughan (capt)
Daren Ganga
Brendon Taylor
Abraham de Villiers
Neil McKenzie
Boeta Dippenaar
Rahul Dravid (capt)
Matthew Sinclair
Mark Boucher
Moin Khan
Justin Kemp
Ray Price
Shane Warne
Stewart MacGill
Jermaine Lawson
Fidel Edwards
Dewald Pretorius
Nicky Boje
Jermaine Lawson
Steve Harmison
Charl Langeveldt
Dale Steyn

 

[superkingdave]

No KP?

 

[Langeveldt]

No KP?

Ive changed my tune in 3 years over Steve Harmison.. There is room for KP yet

(Although Harmison isn't a ****y tosser)

 

[FaaipDeOiad]

Dream series? Either the West Indies of 1984 against Australia of 2001 or today, or an all time XI matchup.

1st XI
Jack Hobbs
Herbert Sutcliffe
Viv Richards
Walter Hammond
Greg Chappell
Steve Waugh
Imran Khan
Alan Knott
Richard Hadlee
Alan Davidson
Muttiah Muralitharan

2nd XI
Len Hutton
Sunil Gavaskar
Donald Bradman
George Headley
Brian Lara
Gary Sobers
Adam Gilchrist
Keith Miller
Shane Warne
Sydney Barnes
Glenn McGrath


Tried to match them up reasonably evenly. I'd pick the second XI to win, though.

 

[Deja moo]

Match C

60 over ODI

Eden Gardens, Chennai,India
Umpires: B Bowden, D Bird

Eden Gardens, Kolkata, India. Although the Chidambaram, Chennai would be a better choice IMO.

 

[archie mac]

Aesthetic 11
Victor Trumper
Archie Jackson
Greg Chappell
Archie Maclaren
Mark Waugh
Frank Woolley
David Gower
Jock Cameron
Keith Miller
Maurice Tate
Arthur Mailey


Ruthless 11
Geoff Boycott
Alick Bannermann
Don Bradman
Len Hutton
Alan Border
Steve Waugh
Les Ames
Mikey Holding
Andy Roberts
Bill O'Reilley
Sid Barnes

5 Test Series no ODI and I hope my teams would refuse to play 20/20 rubbish

 

[age_master]

Hmm on personal preference (or i would have loved to have seen them) i would have some of these players more than likley

some batsmen:
D Bradman
S Tendulkar
B Lara
R Ponting
A Gilchrist
M Waugh
V Richards
J Hobbs
V Trumper
D Hookes
G Chappell
D Martyn
J Langer
V Richards

another keeper:
I Healy

All Rounders:
K Miller
I Botham

Bowlers:
McGrath
Warne
Lohmann
Barnes
Marshall
Garner
Grimmett
Hadlee
Lindwall

 

[chaminda_00]

Mine would be a series involving Australia, Asian XI and Rest of the World. Each team would play two test aganist each other one home and away.

Teams:
Australia current Test Side (no point writting it)

Asia XI:
V Shewag
M Atapattu (c)
R Dravid
S Tendulkar
I Ul Haq
S Jayasuriya
K Sangakkara (wk)
C Vaas
I Pathan
M Muralithran
S Ahktar

12 Man: A Razzaq

World XI
A Strauss
G Smith
B Lara
M Vaughan (c)
G Thorpe
J Kallis
A Flintoff
B McCullum (wk)
S Pollock
D Vettori
S Harmison

 

[steds]

Team 1

A Strauss
M Trescothick
B Lara
B Hodge
J Kallis
A Gilchrist+
A Flintoff
A Agarkar*
S Warne
S Harmison
G McGrath

No prizes for spotting the weak link















(If you haven't got it already, I'll give you a clue. He's got a * next to his name )

 

[mofo123]

dream series:
team 1:
Pak 1995-2005
shahid afridi
salman butt
younis khan
inzamam-ul-haq
yousuf youhana
shoaib malik
abdul razzaq
kamran akmal
saqlain mushtaq
shoaib akhtar/mohammad sami
umar gul

team 2:
Pak 1985-1995
saeed anwar
amer sohail
zaheer abbas
ijaz ahmed
javed maindad
saleem malik
imran khan
moin khan/rashid latif
wasim akram
mushtaq ahmed
waqar younis

and yes i knw most wouldnt b interested but id do anything to see this series
3 Tests
2 ODIs (100 overs innings)

 

[Pratters]

Eden Gardens, Chennai,India
Umpires: B Bowden, D Bird

Eden Gardens is in Calcutta and the Bible. No connection with Chennai.

 

[Pratters]

I would like to see

Bradman's Invincibles versus Clive Lloyd's West Indies

Format of play - 5 tests

I dont think it gets better than that.

And it would be one series in a neutral venue which would be played to packed houses.

 

[Slifer]

Mine would have to be a match up home and away between two of the best teams ever at their peak Australia( 99-present) and the WI( 76-84). Home and away five tests each:

[/B]Aust WI
Hayden Greenidge
Langer Haynes
Ponting Richards
M Waugh Kallicharan
S Waugh Lloyd
D Martyn Gomes
A Gilchrist Dujon
S Warne Marshall
B Lee Holding
J Gillespie Roberts
G Mcgrath Garner

The tests at the traditional test venues for Aust. that would be: WACA, Gabba, SCG, MCG, Adelaide Oval; WI: ARG, Sabina, Kensington, Quenns PArk and Bourda. The West Indies in Australia will play as conditions are now with flat wickets everywhere except for the bouncy perth wicket and spinner friendly SCG. Australia will play in the WI as conditions were in the 80s: bouncy uneven wickets all around. I suspect AUST to win at home 3-2 and WI to win in their home 3-1.

 

[chekmeout]

(If you haven't got it already, I'll give you a clue. He's got a * next to his name )

Oh.. I thought the * was because he was the captain...