# 6 for 1946-2006 World Test XI

[adharcric]

Now that CW has messed up with Lara over Sobers at 5, we don't really have a choice do we? Have to include Sobers and go for the best we can salvage at this point.

 

[JBH001]

Jeez, you guys sure do whine a lot.

Maybe this thread should be called the Aussie Tragic and SS best post WW2 XI?

And the rest of CW can just sit and applaud your collective wisdom?

(it sure would save on having to scroll through pages of complaining)

 

[JBH001]

Incidentally, unless I am mistaken I was the 13th CW poster to vote for Lara.

Heheh

Seriously though, a side without Lara? No way - I would rather have dropped SRT from the list and had Lara in, as he is, imo, the marginally better batsman.

Also, you guys underate Sobers, by a long margin.

He is widely regarded as the best all-rounder of all time, not the best batting allrounder of all time as seems to be the impression of him held by some on this forum.

Moreover, the idea of balance is also over-rated and having 5 pure bowlers, one of whom can bat, though a nice idea, is not a sine qua non for a winning or dominant test side.

You only have to look at the WI of the 70s and 80s, and the Aus since then to realise that.

Sobers is more than adequate as a 5th bowler in whatever capacity he is called on.

 

[JBH001]

I think it would be more interesting if the bowling poll wasn't split at all. Just put all 15 bowlers in and let everyone choose 4 options. That way if SS really thinks that the best attack would be McGrath, Marshall, Hadlee and Imran he can choose it. Similarly I can choose Marshall, Lillee, Murali and Warne and everyone can pick whichever attack they think is best. That way no one is forced to select a spinner if they don't want to.

Agreed.

This seems the most sound way of settling the conundrum.

I fail to see why we must have 3 pacers and a spinner presented as an incontravertible and indisputable part of the team make-up. Put it up to a vote, that way non-one's hands are tied.

 

[adharcric]

Agreed.

This seems the most sound way of settling the conundrum.

I fail to see why we must have 3 pacers and a spinner presented as an incontravertible and indisputable part of the team make-up. Put it up to a vote, that way non-one's hands are tied.

That option is very reasonable but very boring. You might as well have everyone pick their XI and decide the final composition from there itself.

 

[JBH001]

Hmmm, fair point.

Just read the other #5 thread and I suppose, picking 2 opening bowlers and 2 follow up bowlers is the best way to go. _b

 

[chaminda_00]

Personally i think we should have the option of three spinners, but we don't, my hands have been tied.

 

[Anil]

sobers of course...no one else comes close....

 

[bagapath]

sobers obviously.

 

[GIMH]

Obviously I voted Botham, just to be controversial. Ooooh the controversy.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

That option is very reasonable but very boring. You might as well have everyone pick their XI and decide the final composition from there itself.

That would actually be a good idea at a later date to see if the eventual line-up is similar to the one being selected in the current way.

Before we started my XI would have been:

1. Sunil Gavaskar
2. Len Hutton
3. Viv Richards
4. Sachin Tendulkar
5. Brian Lara
6. Garry Sobers
7. Adam Gilchrist
8. Shane Warne
9. Malcolm Marshall
10.Dennis Lillee
11.Muttiah Muralitharan

I think 9 of those will be in the eventual team with McGrath/Hadlee possibly replacing Lillee and one of the spinners.

 

[Poker Boy]

Just for a change..Gary Sobers.

 

[adharcric]

Before we started my XI would have been:

1. Sunil Gavaskar
2. Len Hutton
3. Viv Richards
4. Sachin Tendulkar
5. Brian Lara
6. Garry Sobers
7. Adam Gilchrist
8. Shane Warne
9. Malcolm Marshall
10.Dennis Lillee
11.Muttiah Muralitharan

For me ...

1. Sunil Gavaskar
2. Len Hutton
3. Viv Richards
4. Sachin Tendulkar
5. Garry Sobers
6. Imran Khan
7. Adam Gilchrist
8. Richard Hadlee
9. Malcolm Marshall
10. Shane Warne
11. Muttiah Muralitharan

 

[PhoenixFire]

Might as wekk start the next round of voting now, it's pretty clear cut who's going to win it.

 

[silentstriker]

1. Sunil Gavaskar
2. Len Hutton
3. Viv Richards
4. Sachin Tendulkar
5. Garry Sobers
6. Imran Khan
7. Adam Gilchrist
8. Richard Hadlee
9. Malcolm Marshall
10. Curtly Ambrose/Shane Warne
11. Glenn McGrath

 

[silentstriker]

Incidentally, unless I am mistaken I was the 13th CW poster to vote for Lara.

Heheh

Seriously though, a side without Lara? No way - I would rather have dropped SRT from the list and had Lara in, as he is, imo, the marginally better batsman.

Irrelevant. Put Lara in for Sachin, it doesn't matter. But putting both in is a mistake.

 

[adharcric]

1. Sunil Gavaskar
2. Len Hutton
3. Viv Richards
4. Sachin Tendulkar
5. Garry Sobers
6. Imran Khan
7. Adam Gilchrist
8. Richard Hadlee
9. Malcolm Marshall
10. Curtly Ambrose/Shane Warne
11. Glenn McGrath

You're addicted to pace mate. Chill out.

 

[PhoenixFire]

Nah he just hates spinners.

 

[silentstriker]

1. Ian Botham
2. Miller
3. Sobers
4. Gilchrist (+)
5. Imran Khan
6. Flintoff
7. Hadlee
8. Marshall
9. Trueman
10. Curtly Ambrose
11. Glenn McGrath

 

[adharcric]

1. Ian Botham
2. Miller
3. Sobers
4. Gilchrist (+)
5. Imran Khan
6. Flintoff
7. Hadlee
8. Marshall
9. Trueman
10. Curtly Ambrose
11. Glenn McGrath

You're ******** mate. Chill out.