Your national side 2015

[shivfan]

Adrian Barath
Kraigg Braithwaite
Darren Bravo
Ramnaresh Sarwan
Marlon Samuels
Dwayne Bravo
Top-scoring WK in 2014 regional tournament +
Andre Russell
Odean Brown/Benn
Kemar Roach
Jason Holder

Slim pickings, and Sarwan is a toss-up really. Probably missing someone big, but alas...

Somehow, I don't see too much talent in the ranks to see Gayle being replaced in four years' time....

1) Kraigg Brathwaite
2) Adrian Barath
3) Darren Bravo
4) Chris Gayle
5) Ramnaresh Sarwan
6) Marlon Samuels
7) Chadwick Walton
8) Andre Russell/Jerome Taylor
9) Dev Bishoo
10) Kemar Roach
11) Nelon Pascal

 

[Flem274*]

Yeah, one of these. Put your money where your mouth is, and we'll dig it in four years to see how wrong we are.

New Zealand Test Side

McCullum
Guptill (still getting to 30 and getting out)
Williamson
Taylor
Ryder
Wells (big punt this one since I haven't seen him live yet, but hearsay and stats are good)
Young
Astle
Bracewell
Southee
Milne

Reserves: Raval, Franklin, Austin-Smellie, Broom, Boult, Wheeler.

Not terrible

Howsie's XI looks pretty good to me.

Just to be different my XI

1) Brodie (will get a temporary stint in the team 4 years from now and will fail)
2) Flynn (who will average 30)
3) Williamson
4) Taylor
5) Ryder
6) McCullum (will be dropped as an opener and still won't want to keep)
7) Watling (will take up the gloves to get into the team)
8) Bracewell (best bowling action after Mason)
9) Southee (he is the real deal)
10) Beard (Revolving door for our spinner - we will try various people like Aussie is)
11) Wagner

This is inspired apart from the openers.

What fools we all were for thinking we'd have Jesse back.

 

[hendrix]

1. Brendon McCullum
2. Daniel Flynn
3. Kane Williamson (vc)
4. Ross Taylor (C)
5. Jesse Ryder
6. Tom Latham +
7. Corey Anderson
8. Doug Bracewell
9. Tim Southee
10. Nick Beard
11. Trent Boult

This is pretty good too.

 

[Furball]

morgie's Australia team was surprisingly good considering the source.

 

[SteveNZ]

Austin-Smellie

 

[Mike5181]

I was a special child.

 

[Spark]

Gut feel:

Watson
Hughes (Marsh's injury record worries me long-term)
Khawaja
Clarke (c) (Hopefully by then he'll have long learnt how to score runs at #4)
Ferguson
Marsh
Paine
Smith
Siddle
Starc/Hazlewood/Mitch/Doug/others

well this was embarrassing

 

[Cabinet96]

Smith as a bowler....

It's also weird seeing people pick the likes of Bollinger and Haurtiz and them then never playing another test match.

 

[Bahnz]

McCullum
Ravalving door opener
Williamson
Taylor
Ryder
Anderson
de Boorder
Astle
Southee
Boult
Milne

Pretty poor, should've realised at the time that injury problems would hold Milne back. Though I'm surprised to see that I opted for Boult - I didn't think that much of him until I saw him bowling on test debut. Gonna claim half a point for Anderson, as his battle with Neesham for the no 6 spot is far from decided.

As for Jesse, he was playing for NZ regularly at the time (when fit) so there was no reason to suspect that he wouldn't be available in 2015.

 

[Prince EWS]

6) McCullum (will be dropped as an opener and still won't want to keep)
7) Watling (will take up the gloves to get into the team)

Lyon

I know he's biased but this was pretty awesome given Lyon hadn't even played a First Class match yet.

 

[smash84]

Expect Dilshan, Sanga, MJ and Samaraweera to call it a day by 2015, but Sanga and MJ on 37 have a chance of playing by then, Any way I omit both of them in the list.

Tharanga Paranavithana (LH)
Lahiru Thirimanne (LH)
Dinesh Chandimal (RH, rwk)
Angelo Mathews* (RH, RFM)
Thilina Kandamby (LH)
Kaushal Silva+ (RH)
Banuka Rajapakshe (LH, RMF)
Suraj Randiv (RH, OB)
Sachithra Senanayake (RH, OB)
Lasith Malinga (RH, RF)
Thilan Thushara (LH, LFM)

Both Randiv and Senanayake will be very gritty lower order batsmen. Rajapakse is in Jayasuriya mold. Still 19, and ATM flaying the ENG U-19 bowlers at Galle. He's avery useful right arm medium fast bowlers too. SL in 2015 will depend on varierty and all rounders. Legendary names like Sanga, Mahela, Murali will be missing and SL will be in th rebuilding phase by then.

India

Test

1) Gautham Gambhir
2) Murali Vijay
3) Cheteshwar Pujara
4) Virat Kohli
5) Rohit Sharma
6) MS Dhoni
7) Praveen Kumar
8) Harbhajan Singh
9) Ravichandran Ashwin
10)Shantakumaran Sreesanth
11)Munaf Patel

Sehwag has hinted that he is going to retire after his hundredth test, which is why I have left him out.

not bad efforts these 2

 

[smash84]

btw Blaze 18 was such a gun. Was such a shock to have him banned

 

[morgieb]

Zaheer? He'd be 37 by 2015, I can't see him or even Sehwag lasting that long.

Anyhow....

Hughes
Watson
Khawaja
Clarke (if his back is still alive)
Mitch Marsh
Smith
Paine
Siddle
Starc
Pattinson
Hazlewood

Came good later on. Didn't really nail the roles of Marsh and Smith though.

 

[bahadurhussain]

Ahmed Shehzad
Misbah ul Haq (c)
Younis Khan
Junaid Khan
Sarfaraz Ahmed (wk)
Mohammad Hafeez
Mohammad Irfan
Harris Sohail
Shahid Afridi
Yasir Shah
Wahab Riaz
Sohaib Maqsood
Sohail Khan
Umar Akmal
Ehsan Adil

 

[theegyptian]

Funny that a lot of the English teams went with Lyth and having been in the wilderness these last few years he's had a resurgence and could well play England's first test of 2015.

 

[Furball]

Got to me a wee bit that virtually every Aussie had Hughes opening the batting

 

[Daemon]

Adrian Barath
Kraigg Braithwaite
Darren Bravo
Ramnaresh Sarwan
Marlon Samuels
Dwayne Bravo
Top-scoring WK in 2014 regional tournament +
Andre Russell
Odean Brown/Benn
Kemar Roach
Jason Holder

Slim pickings, and Sarwan is a toss-up really. Probably missing someone big, but alas...

Not bad at all

 

[Hurricane]

Flem to start a 2020 year thread. I have already been mulling over my selections.