Your national side 2015

[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.

 

[vcs]

Sehwag
Gambhir
Kohli
Pujara
Rahane
Badrinath
Dhoni
Harbhajan
Ashwin
Chahar
Zaheer

 

[Howe_zat]

I'll be impressed with how wrong I am.

Cook
Lyth
Trott
Taylor
Pietersen
Gale (c)
Prior
Bresnan
Broad
Briggs
Finn

 

[vcs]

Isn't Anderson still in his 20s?

 

[Teja.]

I'll be impressed with how wrong I am.

Cook
Lyth
Trott
Taylor
Pietersen
Gale (c)
Prior
Bresnan
Broad
Briggs
Finn

Absence of Tremmers is shocking tstl.

 

[Athlai]

McCullum (if Baz gets injured and retires I'll say Brodie)
Guptill
Williamson
Taylor
Ryder
Neil Broom
Young folllowed possibly by Cachopa
Astle or Beard
Bracewell
Southee
Boult


Austin-Smellie might be close to the team but he is a hard call. Milne and Bennett should also be in or around the team. Wouldn't be entirely surprised if Broom jnr. made a go of it too. Oh and Corey Anderson at 6 could be an option. May be a bit after this date though.

Wagner will either be spearheading this attack or never get in it.

 

[Flem274*]

McCullum (if Baz gets injured and retires I'll say Brodie)
Guptill
Williamson
Taylor
Ryder
Neil Broom
Young folllowed possibly by Cachopa
Astle or Beard
Bracewell
Southee
Boult


Austin-Smellie might be close to the team but he is a hard call. Milne and Bennett should also be in or around the team. Wouldn't be entirely surprised if Broom jnr. made a go of it too. Oh and Corey Anderson at 6 could be an option. May be a bit after this date though.

Yeah looks a good prediction. Why Brad Cachopa? You've seen him keep?

Reckon Corey Anderson will struggle with injury.

 

[Migara]

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.

 

[centurymaker]

Sehwag
Gambhir
Kohli
Pujara
Rahane
Badrinath
Dhoni
Harbhajan
Ashwin
Chahar
Zaheer

Sehwag and Zaheer won't last for another 4 years. They are already battling fitness issues....

 

[morgieb]

Sehwag
Gambhir
Kohli
Pujara
Rahane
Badrinath
Dhoni
Harbhajan
Ashwin
Chahar
Zaheer

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

 

[Howe_zat]

Isn't Anderson still in his 20s?

Absence of Tremmers is shocking tstl.

Both will be finished by injury by 2015. Finn will have spent most of his time steadily improving in county cricket, and will be a relatively new addition to the squad.

 

[vcs]

Sehwag and Zaheer won't last for another 4 years. They are already battling fitness issues....

I definitely expect Sehwag to still be around, unless his eye has deserted him by then..

 

[morgieb]

I definitely expect Sehwag to still be around, unless his eye has deserted him by then..

No way in the world Zaheer will still be there - he's struggling to be fully fit as it is, I can't see him lasting past 2012.

Sehwag will be 37 also - and the way he plays will suggest that he'll lose it quickly.

 

[Mike5181]

First test of 2015

Raval
Guptill
Williamson
Taylor (c)
Ryder
Kitchen
Austin-Smelie+
Astle
Southee
Wagner
Milne

12th man Bracewell

 

[Oscillatingmind]

Hughes
Maddison
Khawaja (c)
Watson
Clarke
S.Marsh
Paine (wk) (v.c)
Hauritz.... ....
Starc
Siddle
George

 

[Blaze 18]

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.

 

[Bahnz]

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

 

[NUFAN]

I do these all the time, I'll just go for a not so obvious team.

1 N Maddinson
2 S Marsh
3 U Khawaja
4 S Watson c
5 A Finch
6 C Lynn
7 T Paine
8 T Copeland
9 P Siddle
10 J Pattinson
11 N Lyon

 

[Smudge]

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

Play on words? :

 

[Howsie]

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