Your 3rd XI

[Goughy]

This may take some work, so Im not expecting a lot of replies.

However, what is, in your opinion, the 3rd XI for your Country (if a game was to be played tomorrow).

This is mine for England
1. Butcher
2. Denly
3. Sales
4. Patel
5. Bopara
6. Trott
7. Blackwell
8. Pothas
9. Plunkett
10. Tremlett
11. Lewis

Toughest decision was Denly, Butcher and Trott over Carberry. In fairness not seen enough of Carberry to make a decision where as Trott and Denly have rising reps and Butcher is the experienced campaigner.

EDIT- I forgot Jon Lewis. He is now included and Gough drops to 4th XI

Assuming the current team is the 1st XI, if you are interested in guessing, what did I pick as my 2nd XI (assuming fitness) ? Ill give Tres for free as I included him

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before I saw he had retired.

 

[GIMH]

Are these guys in your 2nd XI?

Prior
Swann
Hoggard
Harmison

 

[Goughy]

I went down to a 5th XI.

Im sure Ive prob missed someone obvious and will have to change but following are players picked for England International cricket that I have not selected for any of my England Test teams down to 5th XI.

601 CP Schofield England v Zimbabwe at Lord's, 2000
605 IJ Ward England v Pakistan at Lord's, 2001
606 U Afzaal England v Australia at Birmingham, 2001
607 J Ormond England v Australia at The Oval, 2001
608 RKJ Dawson India v England at Mohali, 2001/02
609 JS Foster India v England at Mohali, 2001/02
615 RL Johnson England v Zimbabwe at Chester-le-Street, 2003
616 RJ Kirtley England v South Africa at Nottingham, 2003
617 ET Smith England v South Africa at Nottingham, 2003
619 GJ Batty Bangladesh v England at Dhaka, 2003/04
620 R Clarke Bangladesh v England at Dhaka, 2003/04
621 MJ Saggers Bangladesh v England at Chittagong (MAA), 2003/04
627 SD Udal Pakistan v England at Multan, 2005/06
633 SI Mahmood England v Sri Lanka at Lord's, 2006
159 PJ Franks England v West Indies at Nottingham, 2000
160 AP Grayson England v South Africa at Nairobi (Gym), 2000/01
167 JN Snape Zimbabwe v England at Harare, 2001/02
169 AJ Tudor England v Sri Lanka at Manchester, 2002
192 JWM Dalrymple Ireland v England at Belfast, 2006
195 AGR Loudon England v Sri Lanka at Chester-le-Street, 2006
198 MH Yardy England v Pakistan at Nottingham, 2006
199 PA Nixon Australia v England at Melbourne, 2006/07
201 MB Loye Australia v England at Brisbane, 2006/07
203 AD Mascarenhas England v West Indies at Lord's, 2007
204 LJ Wright England v India at The Oval, 2007
205 P Mustard Sri Lanka v England at Dambulla, 2007/08
VS Solanki England v Australia at Southampton, 2005

 

[Goughy]

Are these guys in your 2nd XI?

Prior- Yes
Swann- No
Hoggard- Yes
Harmison- Yes

 

[Jamee999]

1st XI:

Cook
Vaughan
Pietersen
Bell
Collingwood
Shah
Ambrose
Broad
Sidebottom
Anderson
Panesar

2nd XI:

Strauss
Carberry
Key
Joyce
Ramprakash
Bopara
Read
Swann
Tremlett
Plunkett
Hoggard

3rd XI:

Denly
Wagh
Sales
Hildreth
Trott
Yardy
Pothas
Rashid
Shreck
Onions
Harmison

 

[Goughy]

...

Flintoff in the 4ths?

 

[Jamee999]

Flintoff's crocked.

 

[BoyBrumby]

This is my guess at Goughy's 2nd XI:

1) Key*
2) Trescothick
3) Ramprakash
4) Shah
5) Hildreth
6) Rashid
7) Flintoff
8) Prior+
9) Hoggard
10) Harmison
11) Caddick

Would've probably guessed at Swann, but he's already nixed him.

 

[Jamee999]

With Trescorhick and Flintoff it looks more like this:

1st XI:

Trescothick
Cook
Vaughan
Pietersen
Collingwood
Flintoff
Ambrose
Broad
Sidebottom
Anderson
Panesar

2nd XI:

Strauss
Key
Bell
Joyce
Ramprakash
Shah
Read
Swann
Tremlett
Plunkett
Hoggard

3rd XI:

Denly
Carberry
Wagh
Sales
Bopara
Trott
Pothas
Rashid
Shreck
Onions
Harmison

 

[Goughy]

Flintoff's crocked.

a) I said assuming fitness and b) check out cricinfo

 

[Goughy]

This is my guess at Goughy's 2nd XI:

Would've probably guessed at Swann, but he's already nixed him.

1) Key*
2) Trescothick
3) Ramprakash
4) Shah
5) Hildreth
6) Rashid
7) Flintoff
8) Prior+
9) Hoggard
10) Harmison
11) Caddick

Bolded are correct
Interestingly Hildreth and Rashid both star in my 5th XI. It is certainly possible that Ive been out of the UK too long

 

[Jamee999]

Joyce at 5?

 

[Goughy]

Joyce at 5?

Yeah.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Hmm. Are you including *coughs* English-qualified guys like Stuey Law & Saqlain Mustaq then?

EDIT: ignore this. Posted before i saw Jamee's reply.

 

[Goughy]

Hmm. Are you including *coughs* English-qualified guys like Stuey Law & Saqlain Mustaq then?

Nah. Though I will say its possible Im bowling heavy in my 2nds but I love it

 

[Jamee999]

So an allrounder at 6?

 

[BoyBrumby]

Kabir Ali? Really struggling.

 

[Goughy]

So an allrounder at 6?

Kabir Ali? Really struggling.

Simon Jones

 

[BoyBrumby]

Simon Jones

D'oh. Missed the "assuming full-fitness" thing.

 

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Ist 11

- Tendulkar, Sehwag. Gambhir
- Yuvi, Uthappa, Dhoni, Pathan
- Zak, RP, Ishant, Chawla

2nd 11

- Ganguly, Karthik, Dravid
- Laxman, Rohit, Tiwari, Praveen
- Bhajji, Kumble, Sreesant, Munaf

3rd 11

- Chopra, Jaffar, Kaif
- Raina, Badrinath, Parthiv, YK Pathan
- Agarkar, Balaji, Kartik, Nehra

still remaining ----> Mishra, Venugopalan, Joginder Sharma, VRV Singh, Pankaj Singh, Ramesh Powar