Alphabet teams

[Blakus]

Originally Posted by stephen

So Trumble vs Verity? (forgot Trumble was a spinner TBH)

Hmm. Hard to split their bowling but Trumble is the better batsman (considering era) and has a really good catches to matches ratio. Therefore Trumble

[Shri]

P team

1.
2.
Ricky Ponting
Graeme Pollock
Kevin Pietersen
Ashwell Prince
Matt Prior
Mike Procter
Shaun Pollock
EAS Prasanna
11.

[zaremba]

Working on the Gs.

[Noble One]

The book Test Cricket Lists by Graham Dawson compiled a list of A to Z teams. I'll try and copy some later on. My copy is only current up to 1997, so some changes since then.

[NUFAN]

1 Ken Barrington
2 Gary Kirsten
3 Kumar Sangakarra
4 Jacques Kallis
5 Rohan Kanhai
6 Keith Miller
7 Imran Khan
8 Alan Knott
9 Kapil Dev
10 Anil Kumble
11 Ken Higgs

Okay, so Barrington is not usually an opener,but he did open a few times in Test Cricket. Am I overlooking someone instead of Higgs? I love how this team has 4 gun all rounders!

[zaremba]

WG Grace
Sunil Gavaskar
George Headley
Greg Chappell
Graeme Pollock
Garry Sobers
Adam Gilchrist
George Lohmann
Lance Gibbs
Joel Garner
Glenn McGrath

12th man: Garth le Roux

I'd back that team against any of the rest.

We are also leaving out some pretty good opening batsmen: Gooch, Greenidge, Graeme Smith, Geoff Boycott

[NUFAN]

Thank god for Ian

1 Tamim Iqbal
2 Ian Redpath
3 Ian Chappell
4 Inzamam Ul-Haq
5 Ian Bell
6 Ian Botham
7 Ian Healy
8 Imran Khan
9 Iqbal Qasim
10 Ian Bishop
11 Bert Ironmonger

[zaremba]

On reflection the other sides are damn good too. But the Gs have the best batting line up I reckon.

I forgot to mention thaty sub fielder is of course Gary Pratt

[NUFAN]

Originally Posted by zaremba

On reflection the other sides are damn good too. But the Gs have the best batting line up I reckon.

I forgot to mention thaty sub fielder is of course Gary Pratt

Yep the G's batting lineup is awesome.

My favourite team is the K team, it's probably not the best team on show, but I can't see this team getting defeated much (they should hold on for draws).

[zaremba]

I absolutely love this, and will be doing it in my head all day. I will resist the temptation to visit cricket archive though - as all of us must. This matters too much to cheat.

[NZ Guy]

God Im funny!

[NUFAN]

R
1 Barry Richards
2 Ian Redpath
3 Viv Richards
4 Ricky Ponting
5 Ranji
6 Rohan Kanhai
7 Rod Marsh
8 Richard Hadlee
9 Richie Benaud
10 Ray Lindwall
11 Andy Roberts

[Blakus]

The L team

Len Hutton
Bill Lawry
Justin Langer
V.V.S Laxman
Clive Lloyd
Les Ames
Ray Lindwall
Dennis Lillee
Harold Larwood
George Lohmann
Jim Laker

Batting is a bit short but that bowling attack is worth it

[King Pietersen]

Originally Posted by zaremba

WG Grace
Sunil Gavaskar
George Headley
Greg Chappell
Graeme Pollock
Garry Sobers
Adam Gilchrist
George Lohmann
Lance Gibbs
Joel Garner
Glenn McGrath

12th man: Garth le Roux

I'd back that team against any of the rest.

We are also leaving out some pretty good opening batsmen: Gooch, Greenidge, Graeme Smith, Geoff Boycott

Subhash Gupte > Lance Gibbs?

M Team

Matthew Hayden
Mark Taylor
Martin Crowe
Mark Waugh
Mohammed Azharuddin
Keith Miller
Mark Boucher +
Michael Holding
Malcolm Marshall
Muttiah Muralitharan
Glenn McGrath

Liking that team, incredible bowling attack.

[NUFAN]

Originally Posted by NUFAN

1 Ken Barrington
2 Gary Kirsten
3 Kumar Sangakarra
4 Jacques Kallis
5 Rohan Kanhai
6 Keith Miller
7 Imran Khan
8 Alan Knott
9 Kapil Dev
10 Anil Kumble
11 Ken Higgs

Okay, so Barrington is not usually an opener,but he did open a few times in Test Cricket. Am I overlooking someone instead of Higgs? I love how this team has 4 gun all rounders!

I forgot about :Kevin Pietersen, who's better KP or Kanhai? I think it's tough, but I naturally normally go for the cricketer who has finished his career.

Man Kapil Dev at 9 is just awesome.