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"The Cricketer" 75th Anniversary 1st XIs

ohtani's jacket

State Vice-Captain
I just found this recently.

My apologies if it's been posted before.

In the 75th anniversary year of 'The Cricketer' (1996), leading test cricketers were asked to select the best cricketing elevens from their countries.

The selectors:

Australia -- Richie Benaud
England -- Denis Compton
South Africa -- Barry Richards
West Indies -- Garfield Sobers
India -- Sunil Gavaskar
Pakistan -- Hanif Mohammad
Sri Lanka -- Sidath Wettimuny
New Zealand -- Richard Hadlee

I assume their selections cover the 75 years from 1921-1996.

(Apologies for any typos, this is cut and paste stuff.)

AUSTRALIA

Arthur Morris
Mark Taylor
Bradman (C)
Neil Harvey
Greg Chappell
K Miller (VC)
Lindwall
Don Tallon (WK)
Shane Warne
Dennis Lillee
O'Reilly
Davidson (12th)

ENGLAND

Jack Hobbs
Len Hutton (C)
Peter May
DCS Compton
D Gower
Ian Botham
G Evans (WK)
Jim Laker
Hedley Verity
F Trueman
A Bedser
F Tyson (12th)

SOUTH AFRICA

Eddie Barlow
Barry Richards
Dudley Nourse
Graeme Pollock
Clive Rice (C)
Dennis Lindsay
Mike Procter
Brian Mc Millan
Hugh Tayfield
Allan Donald
Neil Adcock
Jonty Rhodes (12th)

WEST INDIES

Conrad Hunte
G Greenidge
G Headley
Everton Weekes
Richards
Sobers (C)
Marshall
J Hendricks (WK)
Holding
Wes Hall
Lance Gibbs
Valentine (12th)

INDIA

Vijay Merchant
S Tendulkar
Polly Umrigar (C)
GR Vishwanath
Vijay Hazare
V Mankad
Kapil Dev
D Phadkar
Kirmani (WK)
E Prasanna
B Chandra

PAKISTAN

Hanif Mohd
Aamer Sohail
Zaheer Abbas
Javed Miandad
Asif Iqbal
Imran Khan (C)
W Bari (Wk)
W Akram
Abdul Qadir
Waqar Younis
Iqbal Qasim
Shoaib M (12)

SRI LANKA

Anura Pb Tennekoon
S Wettimuny
Roy Dias
Arvinda De Silva
Arjun Ranatunga
Duleep Mendis
Michael Tisserra
Gonatillake
Chaminda Vaas
Asantha De Mel
Ajith De Silva

NEW ZEALAND

Stewie Dampster
Glenn Turner
B Sutcliffe
Martin Crowe
MP Donnelly
Johr Reid (C)
Richard Hadlee
Bruce Taylor
Ian Smith (WK)
Hedley Howarth
Jack Cowie
 

chooka_nick

International 12th Man
ohtani's jacket said:
AUSTRALIA

Arthur Morris
Mark Taylor
Bradman (C)
Neil Harvey
Greg Chappell
K Miller (VC)
Lindwall
Don Tallon (WK)
Shane Warne
Dennis Lillee
O'Reilly
Davidson (12th)
Swap Hayden for Taylor and Gilchrist for Tallon (although Tallon would be a better keeper) and you've got one hell of a team.
(And for those of you wondering 'ONE FAST BOWLER?!?!?!!!?!?!?! LOLZZZ' be assured that either Miller or Lindwall could open the bowling on a whim ;))
 

archie mac

International Coach
Thanks for that. I was surprised that some players picked themselves, but Gavaskar did not choose one of the great Indians openers :)
 

Dissector

International Debutant
"I was surprised that some players picked themselves.."
Well it would be rather ridiculous if Sobers and Hadlee didn't pick themselves. And frankly it was a bit silly of Gavaskar not to pick himself and send Tendulkar in to open! In the case of Benaud however it was reasonable to select O'Reilly and Warne of ahead of himself though his batting definitely makes him a contender as well. However I must say I am surprised to see Compton picking himself ahead of the likes of Walter Hammond
 

Beleg

International Regular
Pakistan should be,

Hanif Mohd
Saeed Anwar instead of Aamir Sohail
Zaheer Abbas
Javed Miandad
Inzamam instead of Asif Iqbal
Imran Khan (C)
W Bari (Wk)
W Akram
Abdul Qadir
Waqar Younis
Shoaib Akhtar instead of Iqbal Qasim
Majid Khan instead of Shoaib Mohammad as the 12th man.

SL would probably look something like:

Jayasuria for Anura Pb Tennekoon
Attapatu for S Wettimuny
Kumar Sangakara
Arvinda De Silva
Arjun Ranatunga
Duleep Mendis
Michael Tisserra
Kumar Dharmasena instead of Gonatillake
Chaminda Vaas
Muralitharan instead of Ajith De Silva
Asantha De Mail
 

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