Pick your XI

[Neil Pickup]

And your point is?

That there's no way that he is (was) undeserving of his place. He's retired now, anyway.

And if this degenerates into a Giles argument, then it's post-delete time, OK?

Why is Craig White in your team, Age_Master? Just how many England bowlers out-performed him in the winter? Besides, he's an all-rounder...

 

[luckyeddie]

Why all the selection of Rikki Clarke?!

agreed - he does not deserve the bad press. For goodness sake, the young man is 21. The point we were making was that he wasn't READY for international selection.

I've a sneaking suspicion he could be really good in a couple of years.

 

[marc71178]

Eddie, I meant because I thought we were talking Tests here.

 

[luckyeddie]

ok - obvious that he cannot qualify if he's never played in one

 

[Craig]

Ebraham
Smith (Devon)

Ul-Haq (not Inzaman)
Key
Samuels


Bugger it, I cant come up with some more names, I will look around and see more I can add to my list.

 

[Andre]

Pick eleven position players (2 openers, 4 3 batsmen, 1 allrounder, 1 wicketkeeper, 4 bowlers) who you think are the least deserving of a spot in their national teams.

This is the reason I selected Dippenaar, Butler and Clarke is for the above.

No doubt all will come good at some stage in the future, they are too good not too.

For the purpose of this, however, they make my side. I also chose not to pick Zimbabweans and Bangladeshis - too obvious.

 

[Deja moo]

Why do a couple of teams have ajay ratra in them?

Hes got a century in the westindies...and is quite a good keeper,parthiv patel is definitely not good with the bat compared to ajay ratra, and if the selectors werent so enamoured by extreme youth, ratra or even vijay dahiya deserve to be in the team....

 

[The Argonaut]

My XI shockers would be

M Bell
D Ebrahim
L Vincent
J Ontong
M Samuels
R Key
S Afridi
J Foster
A Agarkar
D Pretorius
A Blignaut

 

[age_master]

ohh i completley forgot about dawson, yep, hes really crap atm

 

[luckyeddie]

Rampers hasn't figured much. Are we getting soft or something?

 

[V Reddy]

My XI shockers would be

A Blignaut

He is one of their best players although he had a poor series in Eng.

 

[Mr. P]

hmmmmm...i was a little surprised too...he is another zimbabwean player with potential who can't seem to go on with it. (in my opinion the best current zimbabwe players are grant flower, heath streak and tatenda taibu.)

 

[V Reddy]

Why do a couple of teams have ajay ratra in them?

Hes got a century in the westindies...and is quite a good keeper,parthiv patel is definitely not good with the bat compared to ajay ratra, and if the selectors werent so enamoured by extreme youth, ratra or even vijay dahiya deserve to be in the team....

He got runsone of the flattest wickets you will ever see. Even Zaheer bowled some left arm spin in that match and most of India's overs were bowled by part-timers like Dravid,Laxman,etc,. Other than that he had a very poor test record and never looked like scoring in tests. I think his keeping was not that great too . In every other test he used to drop a catch . I though Dahiya and MSK Prasad were more deserving of a place than him. Parthiv was picked b'coz he scored runs against Nel,Terbrugge, pretorius,etc,. His keeping was top class in NZ. He scored some runs too against wi.

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

Smith (Devon)

That's a bit harsh. Smith has had a couple of good years in domestic cricket and had an unbelievable U-19 tour of England 2 years back. He didn't do too badly against the world champs this year either.

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

I have decided to move up the release of the article. Here it is, Mr Mxyzptlk's "Oh No" XI.

The next XI will be the "Should-be" XI.
These are players who should be playing for their national teams but, for whatever reason, the aren't.

I await your feedback.

 

[Rich2001]

Mate the only mistake I can see is this

"Dion Ebrahim is the only Zimbabwean nominee"

Yet Sean Ervine and Mluleki Nkala are both nominee's and Mluleki Nkala even made the side.

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

But Dion Ebrahim was the only Zimbabwean nominee for the position of batsman.

 

[V Reddy]

But Dion Ebrahim was the only Zimbabwean nominee for the position of batsman.

And he was Zim's best batsman in the series against Eng.

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

If you read the article....

 

[R_Powell_fan]

The "should be" XI

1-M.Slater
2-S.Anwar

3-Inzimam Ul-Haq
4-G.Thorpe
5-R.Powell8D

6-L.Kluesner

7-Nayan Mongia

8-D.Ramnarine
9-S.Mushtaq
10-Bryan Strang/Henry Olonga
11-R.King