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Selection Challenge

Goughy

Goughy

Hall of Fame Member
I need 4 people to take part.

Each will get a criteia and must select a team based on that.

Each player will get 11 groups of Decade and Nation (post war only).

You must select a player that debuted for that nation in that decade.

So you will have 11 like this Pak/90s, Eng 50s, SA 00s etc and a side needs to be selected.

I will randomly determine who gets what

1. Goughy
2.
3.
4.
 
Goughy

Goughy

Hall of Fame Member
Ok. All signed up.

We will have 24 hrs (give or take), though people can happily post their team before then.

Rules- 1 player selected from each Nation/Decade combo given to you. Player must have made their Test debut in that decade. Sides selected for Test cricket

aussie- Player 1
Eng 00s
Aus 50s
Aus 60s
Aus 80s
Nz 50s
Nz 00s
Pak 50s
Pak 60s
SA 90s
Bang 00s
WI 80s

Goughy- Player 2
Eng 90s
Aus 40s
Aus 90s
Nz 40s
Nz 70s
Nz 80s
Pak 80s
SA 50s
SA 70s
Zim 90s
WI 60s

four_or_six- Player 3
Eng 50s
Eng 70s
Eng 80s
Aus 00s
India 70s
India 90s
Nz 60s
SA 00s
Sri L 80s
Sri L 90s
WI 00s

social- Player 4
Eng 40s
Eng 60s
Aus 70s
India 50s
India 60s
India 80s
India 00s
Pak 90s
Pak 00s
Zim 00s
Sri L 00s
 
Goughy

Goughy

Hall of Fame Member
You guys all know whats going on? Any questions?

Who do others predict will have the strongest team just on the basis of the Nation/Decade combos?
 
aussie

aussie

Hall of Fame Member
Marcus Trescothick
Bob Simpson
Ian Chappell (c)
Steve Waugh
John Reid
Ross Taylor
Imtiaz Ahmed+
Intikhab Alam
Shaun Pollock
Mashrafe Mortaza
Curtly Ambrose

Straight garbage team, haha..
 
S

social

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Bastard - I'm picking a number of subcontinent sides and one contentious selection will open me up to a world of abuse
 
Goughy

Goughy

Hall of Fame Member
I think Ive given myself a stacked list. Im looking at potential selections and this team could be off the charts. I promise it was all random :)
 
Goughy

Goughy

Hall of Fame Member
Tough choices. Lindwall or Miller? Warne, McGrath or Ponting? hmm

EDIT- Choices made

1. B. Richards (SA/70s)
2. B. Sutcliffe (NZ/40s)
3. M. Crowe (NZ/80s)
4. A. Flower (Zim/90s) wkt
5. Thorpe (Eng/90s)
6. C. Lloyd (WI/60s) capt
7. K. Miller (Aus/40s)
8. Hadlee (NZ/70s)
9. Wasim Akram (Pak 80s)
10. Warne (Aus/90s)
11. Adcock (SA/50s)


Geniune 5 man attack and bat down to 10
 
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S

social

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Start with the guys I'm most familiar with - Aust debutants in the 70s

Rick McCosker
Bruce Laird
Greg Chappell
Allan Border
Ross Edwards
Kim Hughes
Rod Marsh
Gary Gilmour
Bruce Yardley
Dennis Lillee
Jeff Thomson

Really tough one to choose as a number of players had their careers cut short for a variety of reasons

Guys like McCosker and Edwards were top players who spent little time in the game because of financial/study pressures

Laird's best years were arguably in the WSC

Hughes was a brilliant player whose record was shattered by captaincy pressures

Gilmour was a drunk but potentially one of the greatest ever all-rounders

Yardley only took up spinners late in his career but was a fine bowler

Thomson lived off his pre-injury rep for a number of years (probably should've picked Walker but the Lillee - Thommo combination is hard to ignore)
 
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