Double Handed XI

[irfan]

Players who bat with one hand and bowl with the other

I.e. Klusener (RFM, LHB)
Zaheer (LFM, RHB)

For simplicity you can pick any wicketkeeper

Here's my Test XI based on current players

G Smith
C Gayle
K Sangakkara+
M Clarke
S Ganguly (c)
M Hussey
J Oram
Z Khan
RP Singh
P Harris
M Asif

 

[Richard]

Asif bats left-handed?

 

[KiWiNiNjA]

Double Handed XI?

 

[James_W]

Asif bats left-handed?

Yeah, I'm pretty sure he does.

My effort, recentish;

Hayden
Langer
Lara
Sanga+
Inzamam
Hussey
Oram
Klusener
Z Khan
Harris (no better spinners fit the bill AFAIK)
Asif

I reckon that's a decent little side.

 

[Jamee999]

Broad needs a place, imo.

 

[Matteh]

Ashley Giles and Nick Knight more so.

 

[James_W]

Considered Giles and Broad, but Zaheer is better than Broad and I needed a spinner.

 

[Retox]

Vettori can bowl with both hands can he not?

 

[sportychic33]

Fleming can also come in this XI. Probably in place of Ganguly?

 

[James_W]

Fleming can also come in this XI. Probably in place of Ganguly?

Fleming vs. Ganguly, that is an interesting competition. Ganguly has more centuries, a slightly better average and strike rate, although there's no doubt that Fleming has been more important to his side than Ganguly has over the years. In a side like this, with other talented batsmen, I'd take Sourav. If I needed to pick between the two as someone to build my side around, I'd take Fleming.

 

[GIMH]

Simon Jones

 

[James_W]

Jones from 2005 would replace Zaheer now that you mention it.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Ashley Giles and Nick Knight more so.

I thought it was meant to be current players. If anyone can join in I'll put up Clive Lloyd and Richard Hadlee for consideration.

 

[archie mac]

I thought it was meant to be current players. If anyone can join in I'll put up Clive Lloyd and Richard Hadlee for consideration.

Yes lets put an all time team up

Ambrose & Jack Gregory spring to mind, and Gilly throws right handed

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Yes lets put an all time team up

Ambrose & Jack Gregory spring to mind, and Gilly throws right handed

Derek Underwood as spinner.

 

[four_or_six]

It's really quite common now to bat with one hand and bowl with the other, now that a lot of youngsters are taught to bat the 'other way round'.

'Handedness' is a bit of an interest of mine and I've been interested for a while in finding out about bowlers who bowl 'with the other hand'. The only two I have been able to find out about are Darren Gough and Shane Watson. Does anyone know of any others, especially any where they discuss it and how it came about?

 

[Richard]

I thought it was meant to be current players. If anyone can join in I'll put up Clive Lloyd and Richard Hadlee for consideration.

Warwickshire is far more important than current for Mr Mat(teh) Mitchell.

 

[Richard]

It's really quite common now to bat with one hand and bowl with the other, now that a lot of youngsters are taught to bat the 'other way round'.

'Handedness' is a bit of an interest of mine and I've been interested for a while in finding out about bowlers who bowl 'with the other hand'. The only two I have been able to find out about are Darren Gough and Shane Watson. Does anyone know of any others, especially any where they discuss it and how it came about?

I'd never heard of any TBH and I'd have thought it was damn near impossible to bowl\throw with the hand which is not your natural (though Fred Trueman was something of an ambidextrose and could bowl more than passable left-arm fingerspin, and did in exhibition matches from time to time). Batting, of course, is rather different, and while there's a connection (my dad always tried to teach me to bat left-handed but I refused as right-handed felt better) it's not entirely accurate to call it "left-handed" and "right-handed" as you can manufacture a player to do the opposite if they try hard enough.

 

[archie mac]

Derek Underwood as spinner.

Yes, and we could have Tiger from the other end

 

[BoyBrumby]

I'd never heard of any TBH and I'd have thought it was damn near impossible to bowl\throw with the hand which is not your natural (though Fred Trueman was something of an ambidextrose and could bowl more than passable left-arm fingerspin, and did in exhibition matches from time to time). Batting, of course, is rather different, and while there's a connection (my dad always tried to teach me to bat left-handed but I refused as right-handed felt better) it's not entirely accurate to call it "left-handed" and "right-handed" as you can manufacture a player to do the opposite if they try hard enough.

I think I read somewhere that Ian Harvey was known as "Freak" because he could bowl in the nets with his left hand just as quickly & accurately as with his right.