Alphabet Teams

Which letter of the alphabet would make the best ever test team?

All 11 players surname has to start with the same letter..

Feel free to do any letter, and perhaps we could Sim the top 4 or 8 teams or something along those lines to see the gun letter.

B TEAM

1 Geoff Boycott
2 David Boon
3 Don Bradman
4 Ken Barrington
5 Allan Border
6 Ian Botham
7 Mark Boucher
8 Richie Benaud
9 Bishan Bedi
10 Sid Barnes
11 Alec Bedser

Done this myself in my spare time - the answer is M,, with L or H close behind

M:
Morris
Mitchell
McCartney
McCabe
Miandad
Miller
Marsh+
Marshall
Muralitharan
McDermott/McKenzie/MacDonald
McGrath

With Martyn, Mushtaq and MacGill on the bench.
Very even team with a lethal bowling attack.

H:
Hutton
Hobbs
Hammond
Headley
Harvey
Hill
Healy+
Hadlee
Holding
Hughes
Hall

Easily the strongest batting of any one letter, bowling not quite as good as "M" or "L", and no decent spinner is an issue.

L:
Lawry
Langer
Lara
Lloyd
Laxman
Langley+
Lindwall
Laker
Larwood
Lillee
Lohmann
L's bowling is top drawer, batting is quite strong, albeit a bit short.

G is not bad either:
Greenidge
Gavaskar
Grace
Gomes
Ganguly
Gilchrist
Grout+
Gregory, J
Gillespie
Garner
Grimmett

Cheating and playing Gilchrist as a specialist bat.

Cool cheers mate - please put in Richard Hadlee in the H Team!!

Also Gower instead of Gomes or Ganguly

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Originally Posted by NUFAN

Cool cheers mate - please put in Richard Hadlee in the H Team!!

Also Gower instead of Gomes or Ganguly

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Knew I was forgetting someone really really obvious in the H team - I was thinking "this team had a better looking bowling line up when I last did this"... Corrected above.

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Originally Posted by Matt79

Knew I was forgetting someone really really obvious in the H team - I was thinking "this team had a better looking bowling line up when I last did this"... Corrected above.

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Haha yeah it's easy to forget someone, let me know if you think anyone should be in the B team instead..

One of the strongest alphabet sides : The eleven W's

1. Woodfull
2. Waugh Mark
3. Weekes
4. Walcott
5. Waugh Steve
6. Worrell
7. Woolley
8. Wasim
9. Warne
10. Waqar
11. Walsh

A modified M-side

1. Morris, Arthur R
2. Mankad, Mulvantrai H
3. Macartney, Charles G
4. May, Peter B H
5. McCabe, Stanley J
6. Miller, Keith R
7. Marsh, Rodney W
8. Marshall, Malcolm D
9. McGrath, Glenn D
10. Mailey, Arthur A
11. Muralitharan, Muttiah

Washbrook for M Waugh, agreed re strength. Another option is to have Walcott keep and slot Walters in there.

I want to see whether anyone can better my "F" team...

H's have the strongest batting, M's the strongest bowling so far. Think we had the same thread as this not long ago iirc.

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Originally Posted by Matt79

H:
Hutton
Hobbs
Hammond
Headley
Harvey
Hill
Healy+
Hadlee
Holding
Hughes
Hoggard

Easily the strongest batting of any one letter, bowling not quite as good as "M" or "L", and no decent spinner is an issue.

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Maybe Hirst for Hill to improve the bowling. Hammond is a plausible 5th bowler, but somewhat redundant with the 4 main seamers.

The Eleven L's

1. Lawry, Bill
2. Langer, Justin
3. Lara, Brian
4. Laxman, V V S
5. Lloyd, Clive
6. Lindsay, Denis
7. Lindwall, Ray
8. Larwood, Harold
9. Laker, Jim
10. Lillee, Dennis
11. Lohmann, George

Yeah, I named an XI of Test/FC players, roughly in position, that started with Q. Archie had been doing Australian specific ones but quit at that point... :p

S
1 Michael Slater
2 Herb Sutcliffe
3 Bob Simpson
4 Kumar Sangakarra
5 Gary Sobers
6 Ramnaresh Sarwan
7 Alec Stewart
8 Heath Streak
9 Fred Spoffoth
10 Brian Statham
11 John Snow