Alphabet teams

[zaremba]

Wayne Larkins
Archie Maclaren (c)
Mark Nicholas
Alan Oakman
Eddie Paynter
Willie Quaife
Jack Russell (w)
Brian Statham
Fred Trueman
Derek Underwood
Hedley Verity

Physically sickened by my enforced choice at 3.

Also disappointed not to have a specialist at 4.

Batting overall a bit weak. But a fine bowling line up with 2 top drawer quicks, 2 top drawer spinners and Oakman and Quaife competent back-up seamers.

[jeevan]

^ Only Englishmen allowed or did you forget Nourse, Dudley?

Starting where you please in the alphabet, here's another:

Gavaskar Sunil
Hobbs Jack
Iqbal Asif (not Faisal!!)
Jones Dean
Kallis Jacques
Lara Brian
Marsh Rodney
Nissar Mohammad
O"Reilley Bill
Pollock Shaun
Qadir Abdul ( 2 good leggies rather than pick Chris Old or Iqbal Qasim. Plus team has Kallis).

Opener pair to die for, 2nd best all rounder of all time, bowlers all very good bordering on greatness. Very competent keeper and not a passenger on this crew. Asif Iqbal to captain.

[Michaelf7777777]

Continuing on with my sir name letter teams.

1st a correction. Ken Barrington in for Eddie Barlow to bat at 4 for the B's

E's

Bruce Edgar
Matthew Elliot
John Edrich (*)
Bill Edrich
Ross Edwards
Farokh Engineer
Godfrey Evans (+)
John Embury
Phil Edmonds
Tom Emmett
Fidel Edwards

F's

Jack Fingleton
Roy Fredericks
Stephen Fleming (*)
CB Fry
Andy Flower (+)
Tip Foster
Aubrey Faulkner
Fazal Mahmood
Tich Freeman
JJ Ferris
Ken Farnes

G's

Sunil Gavaskar
Gordon Greenidge
WG Grace (*)
David Gower
Tom Graveney
Adam Gilchrist (+)
Jack Gregory
Jason Gillespie
Clarrie Grimmett
Joel Garner
Lance Gibbs

H's

Jack Hobbs
Len Hutton
George Headley
Walter Hammond
Neil Harvey (*)
Michael Hussey
Richard Hadlee
Ian Healy (+)
Harbhajan Singh
Wes Hall
Michael Holding

I's

Imran Farhat
Frank Iredale
Ijaz Ahmed
Inzamam-ul-Haq
Imran Khan (*)
Imitaz Ahmed (+)
Intikhab Alam
Iqbal Qasim
David Ironside
Jack Iverson
Bert Ironmonger

J's

Archie Jackson
Sanath Jayasuriya
Andrew Jones
Javed Miandad (*)
Mahela Jayawardene
Stanley Jackson
Mitchell Johnson
Ian Johnson
Barry Jarman (+)
Simon Jones
Bill Johnston

K's

Simon Katich
Gary Kirsten
Rohan Kanhai
Jacques Kallis
Alvin Kallicharan
Charles Kellaway
Alan Kippax
Kapil Dev (*)
Alan Knott (+)
Anil Kumble
Michael Kasprowicz

L's

Justin Langer
Bill Lawry
Brian Lara
Maurice Leyland
Clive Lloyd
Dennis Lindsay (+)
Ray Lindwall
Harold Larwood
Dennis Lillee
Jim Laker
George Lohmann

M's

Arthur Morris
Vijay Merchant
Charles Macartney
Stan McCabe
Peter May
Phil Mead
Keith Miller (*)
Rodney Marsh (+)
Malcolm Marshall
Glenn McGrath
Muttiah Muralitharin

N's

Marcus North
Nazar Mohammad
Dudley Nourse
Seymour Nurse
Monty Noble (*)
Dave Nourse
Bapu Nadkarni
Karl Nunes (+)
Dion Nash
Makhaya Ntini
Mohammad Nissar

[Blakus]

Like those teams. Just put in Clive Lloyd for Lamb in the L team. Perhaps Laxman for Leyland as well

[Michaelf7777777]

Had the feeling I was missing someone obvious for the L's

Anyway the rest of the alphabet:

O's

Tuppy Owen-Smith
Leo O'Brien
Norm O'Neill
Buddy Oldfield
Jacob Oram (*)
Simon O'Donnell
Alan Oakman
Bert Oldfield (+)
Bill O'Reilly
Chris Old
Iain O'Brien

P's and Q's

Bill Ponsford
Manoj Prabharker
Graeme Pollock
Ricky Ponting (*)
Eddie Paynter
Kevin Pieterson
Mike Proctor
Shaun Pollock
Adam Parore (+)
Peter Pollock
Erpil Prasanna

R's

Barry Richards
Rameez Raja
Viv Richards
Ranjitsinhji
Jack Ryder
John Reid
Clive Rice (*)
Wilfred Rhodes
Jack Russell (+)
Andy Roberts
Tom Richardson

S's

Virendar Sehwag
Herbert Suttcliffe
Bob Simpson
Kumar Sangakarra
Bert Suttcliffe
Garry Sobers (*)
Alec Stewart (+)
Reginald Schwarz
Sarfraz Nawaz
Dale Steyn
Brian Statham

T's

Mark Taylor (*)
Glenn Turner
Herbie Taylor
Sachin Tendulkar
Ernest Tyledsley
Don Tallon (+)
Maurice Tate
Hugh Trumble
Fred Trueman
Frank Tyson
Hugh Tayfield

U's and V's

Michael Vaughan (*)
Pieter van der Bijl
Dillip Vensarker
Gudappa Viswanath
Polly Umrigar
Lou Vincent (+)
Chaminda Vaas
Bill Voce
Hedley Verity
Vince van der Bijl
Derek Underwood

W's

Bill Woodfull
John Wright
Everton Weekes
Frank Worrell (*)
Steve Waugh
Doug Walters
Clyde Walcott (+)
Wasim Akram
Shane Warne
Waqar Younis
Courtney Walsh

X's, Y's and Z's

Bryan Young
Zaheer Abbas
Graham Yallop
Younis Khan
Yuvraj Singh
Norman Yardley
Tim Zoehrer (+)
Bruce Yardley
Zaheer Khan
Monde Zondeki
Jack Young

[Matt79]

Nice work on the teams, looking good. Miandad for Peter May or Phil Mead IMO, and Vaas into the U/V team. Funny how the V team only has leftie medium-fasts and spinners.

[stumpski]

Never heard of David Ironside though tbh.

[stephen]

Originally Posted by Michaelf7777777

W's

Bill Woodfull
John Wright
Everton Weekes
Frank Worrell (*)
Steve Waugh
Doug Walters
Clyde Walcott (+)
Wasim Akram
Shane Warne
Waqar Younis
Bob Willis

I'd drop Wright, move Worrell to opener, promote Walcott to 4 and give Wasim Bari the gloves. The extra batting that you would get from Walcott without the gloves would make up for the deficit left by picking a specialist keeper and having someone good behind the stumps to keep to Warne, Wasim and Waqar is very important IMO. I'd also probably play Walsh over WIllis.

[Blakus]

Bill Oreilly for the O's?

[Michaelf7777777]

Corrected the leaving out obvious people bits.

Javed Miandad is eleigible for the J's not the M's

David Ironside shows the lack of quality quicks the I's have

I considered Wasim Bari but I think that I'd get more out of Walcott behind the stumps

[Blakus]

John Waite would make a fine keeper for the W's perhaps

[jeevan]

Originally Posted by Michaelf7777777

Corrected the leaving out obvious people bits.

Javed Miandad is eleigible for the J's not the M's

David Ironside shows the lack of quality quicks the I's have

I considered Wasim Bari but I think that I'd get more out of Walcott behind the stumps

Asif Iqbal has to be a better choice in any department of the game.

In the S team, you have a whole clutch of Singhs and Sharmas to choose from. For e.g. Harbhajan Singh.

[stumpski]

Originally Posted by Michaelf7777777

Corrected the leaving out obvious people bits.

Javed Miandad is eleigible for the J's not the M's

David Ironside shows the lack of quality quicks the I's have

I considered Wasim Bari but I think that I'd get more out of Walcott behind the stumps

Mark Ilott, 633 wickets for Essex (and five Tests) might have been an option, although tbf Ironside, who played three times for South Africa in the 50s, took his fc wickets at a better average. Surely the only Test cricketer to have been born in Mozambique?

[Athlai]

Bart King fit in anywhere?