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Best all time XI for each country

zaremba

Cricketer Of The Year
Mullet Hairdo XI

Not all big beefy mutant mullets but rest assured - all had one at some time in their career... Always thought the short mullet a'la Bruce Reid was just as ordinary on the eyes... Note: this is not a "big hair" XI or the likes of Imran/Lillee would walk straight in.

Sorry about the Australian bias. And I struggled to think of well known opening batsmen...

Not a bad side all the same and no surprise that they mostly played in the fashion decade of shame :)

W Phillips +
D Boon
A Lamb
M Waugh
D Gower
S Waugh c
I Botham
S Warne
J Gillespie
T Alderman
B Reid
You could always call up Tim Robinson for a bit of cheeky mullet action.

Botham was legendary and the Waugh brothers kept the flame burning in the 90s. But for sheer grimness it's hard to beat Bruce Reid's vile number from the late 80s.

Edit: let's not forget the prime modern-day exponent, MP Vaughan:

 
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robinjr

School Boy/Girl Captain
Ozland

Victor Trumper
Bill Lawry
Don Bradman c
Ricky Ponting
Greig Chappel
Keith Miller
Adam Gilchrist
Alan Davidson
Shane Warne
Denis Lillee
Glenn McGrath

12th man/Matthew Hayden
 

zaremba

Cricketer Of The Year
Yeah Big Dwayne waddles straight into that team and then has an immediate sit-down to recuperate. Eddo "Biscuit Beneficiary" Brandes is another good shout, as of course is Colin Milburn.
 

stephen

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
I have compiled my team and squad for each of the top 7 test sides. I gave myself the challenge of picking a batting and bowling reserve for each country.

Australia
Hayden
Trumper
Bradman ©
Chappell
Ponting
Miller
Gilchrist+
Davidson
Warne
Lillee
McGrath

Reserves:
Waugh
Lindwall
West Indies
Hunte
Greenidge
Headley
Lara
Richards ©
Sobers
Dujon+
Marshall
Holding
Garner
Ambrose

Reserves:
Gibbs
Weekes

England
Hobbs ©
Suttcliffe
Hammond
Barrington
Compton
Botham
Knott+
Willis
Trueman
Underwood
Barnes

Reserves:
Lohmann
Grace

South Africa
Smith ©
Richards
Pollock G
Nourse
Kallis
Faulkner
Boucher+
Pollock S
Adcock
Steyn
Donald

Reserves:
Tayfield
Bland

Pakistan
Anwar
Hanif Mohammad
Abbas
Miandad
Inzamam-ul-Haq
Yousuf
Akmal+
Imran ©
Akram
Younis
Qadir

Reserves:
Akhtar
Khan
India
Gavaskar
Sehwag
Dravid
Tendulkar
Hazare
Laxman
Dhoni ©+
Dev
Kumble
Bedi
Khan

Reserves:
Azharuddin
Singh

New Zealand
Turner
Sutcliffe
Flemming ©
Crowe
Jones
Cairns
McCullum+
Vettori
Hadlee
Taylor
Bond

Reserves:
Cowie
Wright
 

Renegade

Cricket Spectator
Champions XI

1. Salman Butt
2. Herschelle Gibbs
3. Ajay Jadeja
4. Mohammad Azharuddin
5. Saleem Malik
6. Hansie Cronje (c)
7. Kamran Akmal (wk)
8. Manoj Prabhakar
9. Nicky Boje
10. Mohammad Asif
11. Mohammad Aamir
 

The Sean

Cricketer Of The Year
I have compiled my team and squad for each of the top 7 test sides. I gave myself the challenge of picking a batting and bowling reserve for each country.

Australia


West Indies



England



South Africa



Pakistan


India



New Zealand
Great sides mate, nice work. :)
 

smash84

The Tiger King
Champions XI

1. Salman Butt
2. Herschelle Gibbs
3. Ajay Jadeja
4. Mohammad Azharuddin
5. Saleem Malik
6. Hansie Cronje (c)
7. Kamran Akmal (wk)
8. Manoj Prabhakar
9. Nicky Boje
10. Mohammad Asif
11. Mohammad Aamir
:laugh::laugh::laugh:

I have compiled my team and squad for each of the top 7 test sides. I gave myself the challenge of picking a batting and bowling reserve for each country.

Australia


West Indies



England



South Africa



Pakistan


India



New Zealand
WTF........Please. For God's sake. Do not insult the Pakistan wicket keeping tradition. We have had decent keepers in the past such as Imtiaz Ahmed, Bari, Latif, and Moin Khan. How come Akmal is the keeper in the Pakistan all time XI??? And who is the Khan in the reserves??? Majid Khan, Mohsin Khan, Shahid Khan, Sohail Khan?????
 

weeman27bob

International Regular
An XI of Non-english players who played against Ian Botham.


1. Sunil Gavaskar
2. Gordon Greenidge
3. Viv Richards
4. Steve Waugh
5. Allan Border
6. Kapil Dev
7. Ian Healy
8. Richard Hadlee
9. Dennis Lillee
10. Abdul Qadir
11. Courtney Walsh
 

weeman27bob

International Regular
The "Left Handed batsmen who played in a game in which Ganguly was captain" XI

1. Hayden
2. Langer
3. Sangakarra
4. Lara
5. Ganguly *
6. Chanderpal
7. Gilchrist +
8. Vettori
9. Giles
10. Vaas
11. Zaheer Khan
 

Howe_zat

Audio File
An XI of Non-english players who played against Ian Botham.
The "Left Handed batsmen who played in a game in which Ganguly was captain" XI
Brilliant :laugh:

The "Played at least three Twenty20s but never took a catch in one" XI

Shaun Marsh
Hashim Amla
Jonathan Trott
Narsingh Deonaraine
Dinesh Chandimal (wk)
Dan Christian
Chaminda Vaas
Ajit Agarkar
Suraj Randiv
Ben Hilfenhaus
Iain O' Brien
 
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