Pick Your Poison XI

[Goughy]

Pick 5 pairs and any 1 from the 2nd column to make an XI.

I dont claim to have scientifically designed the groupings.

So to recap-- you must take both in the pair if you select it apart from your final pick which can be any of the players listed 2nd in their pair.

Then list your XI

Imran and A. Giles
Viv Richards and Derek Pringle
Lara and Peter Willey
Tendulkar and Dion Ebrahim
Gilchrist and Mark Ramprakash
Murali and Paul Harris
Warne and Shahriar Nafees
Boycott and Carl Hooper
Gavaskar and Chris Pringle
Waqar and Denesh Ramdin
Kumble and Bravo
Hadlee and Agarkar
A. Flower and Chris Lewis
Lillee and Omari Banks
Marshall and Guy Whittall
Donald and Rajesh Chauhan
Kallis and Paul Adams
Botham and Swann
Holding and Dave Mohammed
Ambrose and John Crawley
Wasim and Parore
Dravid and John Wright
Houghton and Raju
Jayasuriya and Flintoff
S. Pollock and Ian Bell
Sehwag and Ashraful
KP and Vettori
Ponting and Chris Martin
Hayden and Panesar

 

[Prince EWS]

Gilchrist and Mark Ramprakash
Dravid and John Wright
KP and Vettori
Botham and Swann
Ambrose and John Crawley

And Flintoff.

1. John Wright
2. John Crawley
3. Rahul Dravid
4. Mark Ramprakash
5. Kevin Pietersen
6. Adam Gilchrist
7. Ian Botham
8. Daniel Vettori
9. Andrew Flintoff
10. Graeme Swann
11. Curtly Ambrose

 

[Jono]

Gilchrist and Mark Ramprakash
Boycott and Hooper
Jayasuriya and Flintoff
S. Pollock and Ian Bell
KP and Vettori
Bravo


Boycott
Jayasuriya
Ramprakash
Pietersen
Bell
Hooper
Gilchrist
Flintoff
Bravo
Pollock
Vettori

batting depth ftw

 

[Noble One]

Dravid and John Wright
Houghton and Raju
Jayasuriya and Flintoff
S. Pollock and Ian Bell
Ambrose and John Crawley

and Hooper

1. Jayasuriya
2. Wright
3. Dravid
4. Houghton (WK)
5. Hooper
6. Bell
7. Crawley
8. Flintoff
9. Pollock
10. Raju
11. Ambrose

 

[Goughy]

Wasim and Parore
Dravid and John Wright
Boycott and Carl Hooper
Kallis and Paul Adams
Hadlee and Agarkar

and Flintoff

Boycott (capt)
Wright
Dravid
Kallis
Hooper
Flintoff
Parore (wkt)
Hadlee
Wasim
Agarkar
Adams

 

[Jono]

Nah I picked Hooper and Boycott, just accidentally put Warne and Nafees there.

Fixed now.

 

[honestbharani]

This should be a draft like thing, where we can vote for the best XI..

 

[Shri]

Gilchrist and Mark Ramprakash
Dravid and Wright
Hadlee and Agarkar
S. Pollock and Ian Bell
Hayden and Panesar
Andrew Flintoff



1. Matthew Hayden
2. John Wright
3. Rahul Dravid
4. Mark Ramprakash
5. Ian Bell
6. Andrew Flintoff
7. Adam Gilchrist
8. Shaun Pollock
9. Richard Hadlee
10. Ajit Agarkar
11. Monty Panesar

 

[kingkallis]

Team 1 : Shane Warne & Shahriar Nafees
Team 2 : Curtley Ambrose & John Crawley
Team 3 : Adam Gilchrist & Mark Ramprakash
Team 4 : Matthew Hayden & Monty Panesar
Team 5 : Vivian Richards & Derek Pringle
Team 6 : Andrew Flintoff

My XI

Matthew Hayden
Shahriar Nafees
Vivian Richards
Mark Ramprakash
John Crawley
Andrew Flintoff
Adam Gilchrist ( + )
Shane Warne ( c )
Derek Pringle
Curtley Ambrose
Monty Panesar

 

[Shri]

Flintoff picked in every side so far.

 

[Somerset]

John Wright (1)
Sanath Jayasuriya (2)
Rahul Dravid (1)
Ian Bell (3)
Carl Hooper (Extra)
John Crawley (4)
Andrew Flintoff (2)
Adam Parore (5)
Shaun Pollock (3)
Wasim Akram (5)
Curtley Ambrose (4)

Batting on the weaker side but plenty of depth in the lower order to compensate and a world class bowling attack.

 

[andyc]

1. Wright
2. Dravid
3. Pietersen
4. Bell
5. Ramprakash
6. Gilchrist
7. Botham
8. Flintoff
9. Pollock
10. Vettori
11. Swann

Botham and Swann
S. Pollock and Ian Bell
KP and Vettori
Gilchrist and Mark Ramprakash
Dravid and Wright
and Flintoff

Hopefully the lack of strong middle order bats would be made up by the deep batting line-up.

 

[archie mac]

Good idea, maybe I should have had another top order batsman, or a decent spinner


Boycott
John Wright
Dravid
Mark Ramprakash
Carl Hooper
Botham
Imran
Parore
Wasim
A. Giles
Swann

 

[Athlai]

Jayasuriya
Boycott
Dravid
Ramprakash
Hooper
Wright
Gilchrist (+)
Flintoff
Swann (unpaired)
Hadlee
Agarkar

 

[Zinzan]

Gilchrist and Mark Ramprakash
Boycott and Hooper
Jayasuriya and Flintoff
S. Pollock and Ian Bell
KP and Vettori
Bravo


Boycott
Jayasuriya
Ramprakash
Pietersen
Bell
Hooper
Gilchrist
Flintoff
Bravo
Pollock
Vettori

batting depth ftw

Massively deep, but would bat Vettori above Pollock in tests

 

[Zinzan]

Crawley
Wright
Dravid
KP
Botham
Flintoff (non-pair)
Vettori
Parore (wk)
Wasim
Swann
Ambrose

 

[Prince EWS]

Wright
Crawley
Dravid
Lara (non-pair)
KP
Botham
Vettori
Parore (wk)
Swann
Wasim
Ambrose

You can't pick Lara as a non-paired player; has to be from the second column.

 

[Zinzan]

You can't pick Lara as a non-paired player; has to be from the second column.

Cheers, I'll blame the tequila shots

^ Edited..

 

[Maximus0723]

Boycott and Carl Hooper
Dravid and John Wright
KP and Vettori
S. Pollock and Ian Bell
Botham and Swann
11th man Flintoff.

Boycott
Wright
Dravid (K)
KP
Bell
Hooper
Flintoff
Botham
Pollock (C)
Vettori
Swann

 

[Goughy]

Crawley
Wright
Dravid
KP
Botham
Flintoff (non-pair)
Vettori
Parore (wk)
Wasim
Swann
Ambrose

Ah, the old 4 batsman 6 bowler strategy