Alphabet Teams

Western Warrior · 22-01-2006, 11:50 PM

I love 'what-ifs' and 'Best XI's' and as such I didn't spend my week of Annual Leave gardening - as promised. Instead I sat down and tried to generate a viable test team based on each letter of the alphabet. It was, at times, a struggle (especially trying to figure out Indian and Pakistani surnames / first names - no offence intended), but fun never-the-less.

The A Team

Dennis L. Amis
Marvan S Atapattu
Nathan J Astle
Azharuddin, Mohammad +
James C Adams
Leslie E G Ames *
Asif Iqbal
Abdul Razzaq
Abdul Qadir
Curtley E.L. Ambrose
Terence M Alderman

The B Team

Geoffrey Boycott
David C Boon
Donald G Bradman *
Kenneth F Barrington
Allan R Border
Ian T Botham
Mark V Boucher +
Richard Benaud
Ian R Bishop
Alexander V Bedster
Sydney F Barnes

The C Team

Ian M Chappell
Shivnarine Chanderpaul
Denis C S Compton
Gregory S Chappell *
Martin D Crowe
Daryll J Cullinan
Christopher L Cairns
Horace B Cameron +
Colin E H Croft
Andrew R Caddick
Bhagwat S Chandrasekhar

The D Team

Rahul Dravid *
Edward R Dexter
Pinnaduwage A De Silva
Basil L D'Oliveira
Reginald A Duff
Peter J L Dujon +
Graham T Dowling
Alan K Davidson
Graham R Dilley
Allan A Donald
Dilip R Doshi

.....more to follow shortly

Pratters · 22-01-2006, 11:56 PM

Q,X,Z teams will be fun.

Western Warrior · 22-01-2006, 11:57 PM

The E Team

John H Edrich *
Matthew T G Elliott
Ross Edwards
William J Edrich
William R Endean
Farokh M Engineer
John E Emburey
Thomas G Evans +
Phillippe H Edmonds
Richard M Ellison
Fidel H Edwards

The F Team

Roy C Fredericks
John H Fingleton
Andrew Flower +
George A Faulkner
Keith W R Fletcher
Stephen P Fleming *
Andrew Flintoff
Damien W Fleming
Oercy G H Fender
Fazal Mahmood
Angus R C Fraser

The G Team

Sunil M Gavaskar
Gordon Cuthbert Greenidge
Herschelle H Gibbs
David I Gower
Graham A Gooch
Anthony W Greig
Adam C Gilchrist +
Jason N Gillespie
Darren Gough
Joel Garner
Lancelot R Gibbs

The H Team (My favourite)

John B Hobbs
Matthew L Hayden
Walter R Hammond *
Leonard Hutton
Robert N Harvey
Arthur L Hassett
Ian A Healy +
Richard J Hadlee
Wesley W Hall
Harbhajan Singh
Michael A Holding

The I Team

Imran Farhat
Inzamam-Ul-Haq
Brian L Irvine
Imran Khan *
Ijaz Ahmed
Raymond Illingworth
Intikhab Alam
Ijaz Butt +
Mohammad Iqbal Qasim
Mark C Ilott
Herbert Ironmonger

The J Team

Sanath T Jayasuriya
Javed Miandad
Douglas R Jardine *
D P Mahela Jayawardene
Dean M Jones
Andrew H Jones
Ridley D Jacobs +
Ian W Johnson
Brendon P Julian
Simon P Jones
William A Johnston

The K Team

Gary Kirsten
Simon M Katich
Jacques H Kallis
Rohan B Kanhai
Alvin I Kallicharran
Lance Klusener
Alan P E Knott +
Kapil Dev *
Syed M H Kirmani
Anil Kumble
Michael S Kasprowicz

The L Team - hell of a bowling attack

Justin L Langer
William M Lawry
Brian C Lara
Clive H Lloyd *
Darren S Lehmann
Vangipurappu V S Laxman
Denis T Lindsay +
Raymond R Lindwall
Harold Larwood
James C Laker
Dennis K Lillee

The M Team

Arthur Morris *
Bruce Mitchell
Stanley J McCabe
Damien R Martyn
Peter B H May
Keith R Miller
Rodney W Marsh +
Malcolm D Marshall
Muttiah Muralitharan
Craig J McDermott
Glenn D McGrath

The N Team

Mudassar Nazar
Seymour M Nurse
Arthur D Nourse
Nawab of Pataudi Jr *
Arthur W Nourse
Raghunath G Nadkarni
Iqbal Nafis
Naushad Ali +
Makhaya Ntini
Ashish Nehra
Andre Nel

The O Team

Norman Oldfield
Norman C O'Neill
Jacob D P Oram
Harold G Owen-Smith
Simon P O'Donnell *
Sydney O'Linn
Kerry J O'Keeffe
William A S Oldfield +
Christopher M Old
William J O'Reilly
Shayne B O'Connor

The P Team

William H Ponsford
Geoffrey Pullar
Robert G Pollock
Edward Paynter
Ricky T Ponting *
Michael J Proctor
Adam C Parore +
Shaun M Pollock
Peter M Pollock
Ifran K Pathan
Robert Peel

The R Team

Ian R Redpatch
Mark H Richardson
Isaac V A Richards *
Richard B Richardson
Lawrence G Rowe
Arjuna Ranatunga
Robert C Russell +
Paul R Reiffel
Anderson M E Roberts
Sonny Ramadhin
Bruce A Reid

The S Team

Herbert Sutcliffe
Virender Sehwag
Garfield St A Sobers *
Graeme C Smith
Kumar C Sangakarra +
Saeed Anwar
Salim Malik
John A Snow
John B Stratham
Frederick R Spofforth
Shoaib Ahktar

The T Team - Beautiful

Victor T Trumper
Mark A Taylor *
Sachin R Tendulkar
Marcus E Trescothick
Graham P Thorpe
Glenn M Turner
Hashan P Tillakaratne +
Hugh J Tayfield
Frederick S Trueman
Jeffrey R Thomson
Frank H Tyson

The U & V, X, Y, Z Team - Don't laugh it was bloody hard

Michael P Vaughan *
Lou Vincent
Syed Zaheer Abbas
Younis Khan
Pahlan R Umrigar
Dillip B Vengsarkar
Daniel L Vettori
W P U J Chaminda Vaas
Timothy J Zoehrer +
Zaheer Khan
Derek L Underwood

The W Team

William M Woddfull
Cyril Washbrook
Everton De C Weekes
Clyde L Walcott +
Stephen R Waugh *
Frank M M Worrell
Kevin D Walters
Wasim Akram
Shane K Warne
Waqar Younis
Courtney A Walsh

Western Warrior · 22-01-2006, 11:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pratyush

Q,X,Z teams will be fun.

See above

Pratters · 23-01-2006, 12:00 AM

You are adding a lot to the forum. Good stuff.

FaaipDeOiad · 23-01-2006, 12:02 AM

Strongest is probably L, in my opinion. Very solid batting lineup, superb bowling. G is also a very good one, as are M and W. Interesting teams anyway.

Interesthing thread.

GotSpin · 23-01-2006, 12:04 AM

Nice work

Western Warrior · 23-01-2006, 12:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pratyush

You are adding a lot to the forum. Good stuff.

Thank you. I think B (bloody Bradman

), H and L are probably my favourites. I have an old cricket simulator at home written by a chap called John Cole. It seems quite accurate and teams are very easy to code. If I have the time I might run a little 'what-if' series to see which letter comes out on top.

Linda · 23-01-2006, 12:10 AM

You need to get outside in the sun!

Thats amazing though... Well done. W's attack wouldnt be much fun to face.

Natman20 · 23-01-2006, 12:19 AM

I want to see B vs. G

Western Warrior · 23-01-2006, 12:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Linda

You need to get outside in the sun!

Thats amazing though... Well done. W's attack wouldnt be much fun to face.

Neither would T's

Frederick S Trueman
Jeffrey R Thomson
Frank H Tyson

.....and I do get out in the sun now and then.

Western Warrior · 23-01-2006, 12:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Western Warrior

Neither would T's

Frederick S Trueman
Jeffrey R Thomson
Frank H Tyson

.....and I do get out in the sun now and then.

.....or S for that matter

John A Snow
John B Stratham
Frederick R Spofforth
Shoaib Ahktar

Zinzan · 23-01-2006, 12:38 AM

Nice work dude, I've been hoping someone would do a surnames team, but couldn't be bothered myself

Natman20 · 23-01-2006, 12:42 AM

These are very good teams and it would be great if there were clones made of people like 100 years ago so that we could all have them playing in a tournament.

33/3from3.3 · 23-01-2006, 12:43 AM

cool good one

22-01-2006, 11:50 PM	#1 (permalink)
Western Warrior School Boy/Girl Captain Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Western Australia Posts: 187	Alphabet Teams I love 'what-ifs' and 'Best XI's' and as such I didn't spend my week of Annual Leave gardening - as promised. Instead I sat down and tried to generate a viable test team based on each letter of the alphabet. It was, at times, a struggle (especially trying to figure out Indian and Pakistani surnames / first names - no offence intended), but fun never-the-less. The A Team Dennis L. Amis Marvan S Atapattu Nathan J Astle Azharuddin, Mohammad + James C Adams Leslie E G Ames * Asif Iqbal Abdul Razzaq Abdul Qadir Curtley E.L. Ambrose Terence M Alderman The B Team Geoffrey Boycott David C Boon Donald G Bradman * Kenneth F Barrington Allan R Border Ian T Botham Mark V Boucher + Richard Benaud Ian R Bishop Alexander V Bedster Sydney F Barnes The C Team Ian M Chappell Shivnarine Chanderpaul Denis C S Compton Gregory S Chappell * Martin D Crowe Daryll J Cullinan Christopher L Cairns Horace B Cameron + Colin E H Croft Andrew R Caddick Bhagwat S Chandrasekhar The D Team Rahul Dravid * Edward R Dexter Pinnaduwage A De Silva Basil L D'Oliveira Reginald A Duff Peter J L Dujon + Graham T Dowling Alan K Davidson Graham R Dilley Allan A Donald Dilip R Doshi .....more to follow shortly __________________ "Cricket needs brightening up a bit. My solution is to let players drink at the beginning of the game, not after. It always works in our picnic matches." - Paul Hogan

23-01-2006, 12:02 AM	#6 (permalink)
FaaipDeOiad Hall of Fame Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Australia Posts: 18,682	Strongest is probably L, in my opinion. Very solid batting lineup, superb bowling. G is also a very good one, as are M and W. Interesting teams anyway. Interesthing thread. __________________ I know a place where a royal flush Can never beat a pair

23-01-2006, 12:10 AM	#9 (permalink)
Linda International Vice-Captain Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Perth, West Aus Posts: 4,705	You need to get outside in the sun! Thats amazing though... Well done. W's attack wouldnt be much fun to face. __________________ "I know I underperformed but after the past 18 months I thought I might have received more than four Test matches' grace." - DR Martyn. "Is there any way to make it longer?" Peter English on Twenty20 Official Face of the v. hip 'Twenty20 Is Boring Society'

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Pratters Banned Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Kolkata, India Posts: 20,794	Q,X,Z teams will be fun.

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Western Warrior School Boy/Girl Captain Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Western Australia Posts: 187	The E Team John H Edrich * Matthew T G Elliott Ross Edwards William J Edrich William R Endean Farokh M Engineer John E Emburey Thomas G Evans + Phillippe H Edmonds Richard M Ellison Fidel H Edwards The F Team Roy C Fredericks John H Fingleton Andrew Flower + George A Faulkner Keith W R Fletcher Stephen P Fleming * Andrew Flintoff Damien W Fleming Oercy G H Fender Fazal Mahmood Angus R C Fraser The G Team Sunil M Gavaskar Gordon Cuthbert Greenidge Herschelle H Gibbs David I Gower Graham A Gooch Anthony W Greig Adam C Gilchrist + Jason N Gillespie Darren Gough Joel Garner Lancelot R Gibbs The H Team (My favourite) John B Hobbs Matthew L Hayden Walter R Hammond * Leonard Hutton Robert N Harvey Arthur L Hassett Ian A Healy + Richard J Hadlee Wesley W Hall Harbhajan Singh Michael A Holding The I Team Imran Farhat Inzamam-Ul-Haq Brian L Irvine Imran Khan * Ijaz Ahmed Raymond Illingworth Intikhab Alam Ijaz Butt + Mohammad Iqbal Qasim Mark C Ilott Herbert Ironmonger The J Team Sanath T Jayasuriya Javed Miandad Douglas R Jardine * D P Mahela Jayawardene Dean M Jones Andrew H Jones Ridley D Jacobs + Ian W Johnson Brendon P Julian Simon P Jones William A Johnston The K Team Gary Kirsten Simon M Katich Jacques H Kallis Rohan B Kanhai Alvin I Kallicharran Lance Klusener Alan P E Knott + Kapil Dev * Syed M H Kirmani Anil Kumble Michael S Kasprowicz The L Team - hell of a bowling attack Justin L Langer William M Lawry Brian C Lara Clive H Lloyd * Darren S Lehmann Vangipurappu V S Laxman Denis T Lindsay + Raymond R Lindwall Harold Larwood James C Laker Dennis K Lillee The M Team Arthur Morris * Bruce Mitchell Stanley J McCabe Damien R Martyn Peter B H May Keith R Miller Rodney W Marsh + Malcolm D Marshall Muttiah Muralitharan Craig J McDermott Glenn D McGrath The N Team Mudassar Nazar Seymour M Nurse Arthur D Nourse Nawab of Pataudi Jr * Arthur W Nourse Raghunath G Nadkarni Iqbal Nafis Naushad Ali + Makhaya Ntini Ashish Nehra Andre Nel The O Team Norman Oldfield Norman C O'Neill Jacob D P Oram Harold G Owen-Smith Simon P O'Donnell * Sydney O'Linn Kerry J O'Keeffe William A S Oldfield + Christopher M Old William J O'Reilly Shayne B O'Connor The P Team William H Ponsford Geoffrey Pullar Robert G Pollock Edward Paynter Ricky T Ponting * Michael J Proctor Adam C Parore + Shaun M Pollock Peter M Pollock Ifran K Pathan Robert Peel The R Team Ian R Redpatch Mark H Richardson Isaac V A Richards * Richard B Richardson Lawrence G Rowe Arjuna Ranatunga Robert C Russell + Paul R Reiffel Anderson M E Roberts Sonny Ramadhin Bruce A Reid The S Team Herbert Sutcliffe Virender Sehwag Garfield St A Sobers * Graeme C Smith Kumar C Sangakarra + Saeed Anwar Salim Malik John A Snow John B Stratham Frederick R Spofforth Shoaib Ahktar The T Team - Beautiful Victor T Trumper Mark A Taylor * Sachin R Tendulkar Marcus E Trescothick Graham P Thorpe Glenn M Turner Hashan P Tillakaratne + Hugh J Tayfield Frederick S Trueman Jeffrey R Thomson Frank H Tyson The U & V, X, Y, Z Team - Don't laugh it was bloody hard Michael P Vaughan * Lou Vincent Syed Zaheer Abbas Younis Khan Pahlan R Umrigar Dillip B Vengsarkar Daniel L Vettori W P U J Chaminda Vaas Timothy J Zoehrer + Zaheer Khan Derek L Underwood The W Team William M Woddfull Cyril Washbrook Everton De C Weekes Clyde L Walcott + Stephen R Waugh * Frank M M Worrell Kevin D Walters Wasim Akram Shane K Warne Waqar Younis Courtney A Walsh

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