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World XI the day you were born

Zinzan

Zinzan

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NZTailender said:
29th April, 1987 (not in ranking order, but by their general batting position)

1. CG Greenidge
2. DB Vengsarkar
3. IVA Richards
4. MD Crowe
5. AR Border
6. D Gower
7. Imran Khan
8. PJL Dujon+
9. RJ Hadlee
10. MD Marshall
11. EJ Chatfield
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General batting position? Was Vengsarkar an opener?
 
Craig

Craig

World Traveller
June 11 1985:

Batting:

1 797 I.V.A. Richards WI 938 v England, 27/03/1981
2 783 A.R. Border AUS 877 v England, 27/08/1981
3 756 C.G. Greenidge WI 844 v England, 26/07/1984
4 754 K.C. Wessels AUS 754 v West Indies, 30/12/1984
5 733 Javed Miandad PAK 885 v New Zealand, 24/02/1989
6 696 J.V. Coney NZ 702 v Australia, 13/03/1986
7 686 H.A. Gomes WI 773 v Australia, 07/12/1984
8 673 D.L. Haynes WI 785 v New Zealand, 20/02/1987
8 673 J.F. Reid NZ 746 v Pakistan, 25/01/1985
10 657 D.I. Gower ENG 822 v West Indies, 21/03/1986

11 654 P.J.L. Dujon WI 703 v Australia, 22/12/1984 (WK)

Bowling:


1 890 M.D. Marshall WI 910 v England, 30/06/1988
2 880 R.J. Hadlee NZ 909 v Australia, 30/11/1985
3 812 M.A. Holding WI 860 v Australia, 30/01/1982
4 803 G.F. Lawson AUS 855 v Pakistan, 02/01/1984
5 780 J. Garner WI 890 v Pakistan, 30/12/1980
6 754 Imran Khan PAK 922 v India, 30/01/1983
7 744 Kapil Dev IND 877 v Pakistan, 15/01/1980
8 638 Iqbal Qasim PAK 770 v Sri Lanka, 14/03/1982
9 604 B.L. Cairns NZ 712 v England, 10/02/1984
10 589 I.T. Botham ENG 911 v India, 15/02/1980

So how about:

Greenidge
Haynes
* Richards
Miandad
Border
Khan
Botham
+ Dujon
Hadlee
Marshall
Holding

12th man: Dev

That side would be near unbeatable IMO, and there a few players unlucky not to get picked.
 
bagapath

bagapath

International Captain
tried it. got a **** team.

glenn turner
farokh engineer (wk) - no 19 in the batting list
ian redpath
ian chappell
doug walters
mushtaq mohammad
toney grieg (no.11 in batting; no.5 in bowling)
max walker
gg arnold
derek underwood
chandrasekar
 
JBMAC

JBMAC

State Captain
SJS said:
Aha !

Well it had to be between 1st January 1936 (the day the 4th Test between the touring Australians and South Africa started) and 14th February 1936 (the day before the next test started). Now I have to guess between 1st and 14th Feb so let me start with my trivia methodology. :)

Were you born in the first week of February ?

By the way, I dont like the idea of crediting (or debiting) the results of a test match's performance on the day it started. How can you credit a batsman on day 1 for a century he scored four days later?

They should credit the scores only at the end of the Test match and the ratings should apply from the next day.
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I think it's the same day as you????? Not sure but seem to recall we are both Aquarians:)
 
Matt79

Matt79

Global Moderator
Craig said:
June 11 1985:

Batting:

1 797 I.V.A. Richards WI 938 v England, 27/03/1981
2 783 A.R. Border AUS 877 v England, 27/08/1981
3 756 C.G. Greenidge WI 844 v England, 26/07/1984
4 754 K.C. Wessels AUS 754 v West Indies, 30/12/1984
5 733 Javed Miandad PAK 885 v New Zealand, 24/02/1989
6 696 J.V. Coney NZ 702 v Australia, 13/03/1986
7 686 H.A. Gomes WI 773 v Australia, 07/12/1984
8 673 D.L. Haynes WI 785 v New Zealand, 20/02/1987
8 673 J.F. Reid NZ 746 v Pakistan, 25/01/1985
10 657 D.I. Gower ENG 822 v West Indies, 21/03/1986

11 654 P.J.L. Dujon WI 703 v Australia, 22/12/1984 (WK)

Bowling:


1 890 M.D. Marshall WI 910 v England, 30/06/1988
2 880 R.J. Hadlee NZ 909 v Australia, 30/11/1985
3 812 M.A. Holding WI 860 v Australia, 30/01/1982
4 803 G.F. Lawson AUS 855 v Pakistan, 02/01/1984
5 780 J. Garner WI 890 v Pakistan, 30/12/1980
6 754 Imran Khan PAK 922 v India, 30/01/1983
7 744 Kapil Dev IND 877 v Pakistan, 15/01/1980
8 638 Iqbal Qasim PAK 770 v Sri Lanka, 14/03/1982
9 604 B.L. Cairns NZ 712 v England, 10/02/1984
10 589 I.T. Botham ENG 911 v India, 15/02/1980

So how about:

Greenidge
Haynes
* Richards
Miandad
Border
Khan
Botham
+ Dujon
Hadlee
Marshall
Holding

12th man: Dev

That side would be near unbeatable IMO, and there a few players unlucky not to get picked.
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Five quicks and no spinner?
 
Hit_Wicket

Hit_Wicket

School Boy/Girl Cricketer
Interesting concept. I'll give it a go.

1st July 1995

Batting

1. S.R. Waugh
2. Inzamam-ul-Haq
3. B.C. Lara
4. J.C. Adams
5. S.R. Tendulkar
6. G.P. Thorpe
7. M.A. Atherton
8. M.J. Slater
9. Salim Malik
10. M.E. Waugh


Bowling

1. C.E.L. Ambrose
2. Waqar Younis
3. S.K. Warne
4. C.A. Walsh
5. A. Kumble
6. Wasim Akram
7. P.S. de Villiers
8. I.R. Bishop
9. S.L.V Raju
10. C.J. McDermott

Accordingly, the team might look something like:

1. M.J. Slater
2. M.A. Atherton
3. B.C. Lara
4. S.R. Tendulkar
5. S.R. Waugh *
6. Inzamam-Ul-Haq
7. J.C. Adams +
8. S.K. Warne
9. C.E.L. Ambrose
10. Waqar Younis
11. C.A. Walsh

12. G.P. Thorpe

The main contentious spots (as far as batting order) were those in the middle order, which had a rather superfluous wealth of candidates. Some things I considered included:

1. Electing Thorpe over Slater (Slater is ranked lower), with Tendulkar then opening the batting and Thorpe at 4. The conumdrum was that Sachin isn't a pure opener, so I decided to stick with Slats.

2. Putting Lara at his customary number 4 position (the lack of a better first drop accounted for the evaporation of that idea, as well as the fact that Sachin also bats at 4).

3. Moving Inzamam and Jimmy Adams up into the middle order. However, the overdose of competent middle order bats meant that they had to make do with batting a few places lower than usual.

The exercise on a whole was rather intriguing and fun.

I would be grateful for and open to any suggestions which might improve the line up.
 
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Hit_Wicket

Hit_Wicket

School Boy/Girl Cricketer
Prince EWS said:
Wicket keeper would probably be useful. :p
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Done, thanks.

Does Adams keep? It says so in his profile on Cricinfo, but I'm not sure.

If not, I might have to reconsider the team.

Alec Stewart is the highest ranked wicketkeeper (apart from Adams) at #14 in the batting standings. I do know that he kept for England, but am not sure about whether Adams was a regular behind the stumps. Could someone intelligent please clarify?

Much appreciated. :)
 
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Prince EWS

Prince EWS

Global Moderator
Hit_Wicket said:
Done, thanks.

Does Adams keep? It says so in his profile on Cricinfo, but I'm not sure.

If not, I might have to reconsider the team.

Alec Stewart is the highest ranked wicketkeeper (apart from Adams) at #14 in the batting standings. I do know that he kept for England, but am not sure about whether Adams was a regular behind the stumps. Could someone intelligent please clarify?

Much appreciated. :)
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Adams did a bit of keeping in domestic cricket and even kept a bit for the Windies in ODIs but I don't think he ever kept in a Test at all.
 
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