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Life or Death: Mixed team to play Marauding Martians

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State Vice-Captain
Who would make your team to play a group of matches - 1 Test on any surface, 1 ODI, 1 20-20 - againt the Martians? Destruction of the Earth at stake if a loss in any of the formats were to occur.

It has to be the same XI for all the matches.

And leaving out Bradman or Sobers because they haven't played ODIs or 20-20 (Sobers played only one, I believe) would be suicide!

Good luck!
 

Howe_zat

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S Ganguly
D Jardine
G Chappel
M Azharuddin
A Ranatunga
H Cronje
K Akmal
H Larwood
T Chappel
S Akhtar
M Asif

Umpire: Steve Bucknor

Coach: Ijaz Butt

Plan:

1) Put out XI that will inevitably cause some political dispute
2) Nuke 'em from orbit. It's the only way to be sure
 
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Tendulkar
Greenidge
Hayden
Bradman
Richards
Sobers
Gilchrist
Akram
Hadlee
McGrath
Murali

Picked Hayden because I need him to open in Tests alongside Greenidge, where Tendulkar doesn't open. Interesting exercise this.
 

hang on

State Vice-Captain
thanks....sort of struck me when i was reading a comment on another forum about a person to bat for my life. thought i would come up with a team to play for one's life....in all formats!
 

GotSpin

Hall of Fame Member
Tendulkar
Greenidge
Hayden
Bradman
Richards
Sobers
Gilchrist
Akram
Hadlee
McGrath
Murali

Picked Hayden because I need him to open in Tests alongside Greenidge, where Tendulkar doesn't open. Interesting exercise this.
Why would you play any spinners? You'd think the Martian XI would be pretty good at playing on dusty surfaces.

I think our best chance is to produce a green wicket. Perhaps we should play in England where the constant piss poor weather would actually be good for once
 
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GotSpin

Hall of Fame Member
S Ganguly
D Jardine
G Chappel
M Azharuddin
A Ranatunga
H Cronje
K Akmal
H Larwood
T Chappel
S Akhtar

Umpire: Steve Bucknor

Coach: Ijaz Butt

Plan:

1) Put out XI that will inevitably cause some political dispute
2) Nuke 'em from orbit. It's the only way to be sure
Fairly harsh on Asif. You'd think he'd done enough to earn selection for once.
 

GotSpin

Hall of Fame Member
To show the Martians that they shouldn't have ****ed around with us I suggest we give Roy Gilchrist a gig.
 

Austerlitz

U19 Debutant
Problem is same team for 3 formats so allrounders can't be ignored.

Mixed XI

First lets isolate absolute musthaves

Bradman
Sobers
Richards
Tendulkar
Gilchrist

Warne
Akram
Mcgrath


Then marshall for me
Imran for balance and fifth strike bowler.

Tendulkar and gilchrist open in odis and t20.
Main problem is opener for tests i'll go hayden since he's relevant in all formats.

Hayden and gilchrist open in tests,bradman 3rd sachin 4rth,richards 5th,sobers 6,imran 7,marshall 8,wasim 9,warne 10.mcgrath 11.

So final XI

Batsmen -

Bradman
Tendulkar
Richards
Hayden

Allrounders -

Imran[c]
Gilchrist[wk]
Sobers

Bowlers-

Marshall
Wasim
Warne
Mcgrath

Ground - The WACA ,perth since bowling attack is pace based and all batsmen are excellent players of fast bowling except hayden[swing] maybe but thats less of a concern in odis and t20s,plus its his home country so waca.


Scenario 2 -

Ground - Firoz shah kotla dustbowl,or wankhede mumbai dustbowl or premedasa sticky minefield.

Team

Sehwag for hayden.[home conditions,no swing]
Kumble and murali in for marshall and mcgrath.
Wasim and imran stay because of ability to use reverse swing with old ball and familiarity with subcontinent conditions.



If seperate teams for formats

ODIS

Tendulkar
Gilchrist
Ponting
Lara
Richards
Bevan
Imran[c]
Garner
Akram
Warne
Mcgrath


Tests

Len hutton
Sunil gavaskar
Don Bradman[C]
Sachin Tendulkar
Viv richards
Sobers
Gilchrist.[wk]
Warne
Marshall
Ambrose
Akram


12th man-D.lillee

Akram over lillee due to deadlier old ball with reverse swing.
Ambrose and marshall walk into test sides imo.

No coach.Can't see anyone telling these guys what to do.
 
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Howe_zat

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If finding someone to open in both formats is an issue, how about Jayasuria? Plus he'd solve balance issues in ODIs.

Or, going a little out there, Barry Richards?
 

Borges

International Regular
For games in Mars:

Gooch
Boone
Inzamam
Ranatunga
Milburn
Ian Smith
McMillan
Gough
Merv Hughes
Warne
Powar

Beat the living daylights out of the creechies.
 

zaremba

Cricketer Of The Year
Avoiding those already picked:

Victor Trumper
Roy Fredericks
Mark Waugh
Graeme Pollock
Frank Woolley
Keith Miller
Ian Botham
Alan Knott
Shaun Pollock
Alan Davidson
Jim Laker
 
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smash84

The Tiger King
Tendulkar
Hobbs/Gavaskar/Greenidge
Richards
Bradman
Lara
Sobers
Gilchrist
Imran Khan (C)
Richard Hadlee
Shane Warne/ Muralitharan
Malcolm Marshall

Beat this team Martians
 

smash84

The Tiger King
Tendulkar
Hobbs/Gavaskar/Greenidge
Richards
Bradman
Lara
Sobers
Gilchrist
Imran Khan (C)
Richard Hadlee
Shane Warne/ Muralitharan
Malcolm Marshall

Beat this team Martians
 

hang on

State Vice-Captain
quite like the thought of barry richards in the team.

tendulkar
richards b.
bradman
richards
lara
sobers
gilchrist
khan
hadlee
warne
marshall

murali, mcgrath, ambrose, barnes and co. would miss out since every run scored would count.

any of lara, tendulkar, richards could open in tests....all good enough to manage it quite comfortably.
 

Austerlitz

U19 Debutant
Can't believe people taking hadlee over mcgrath or akram.
To me marshall is the greatest test bowler of all time but in mixed format i take akram and mcgrath first.Plus with wasim u get that magic with the old ball.
Also my mixed team plays 5 genuine strike bowlers in khan,marshall,mcgrath,akram and warne.Plus sobers as backup.
With 4 bowler lineups 5th bowler sobers can be targeted in shorter formats.
 

Howe_zat

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Hadlee rocked. Who else of the supposed "all-time-greats" carried their entire country's bowling attack for 15 years? Not many.

Tendulkar
Hobbs/Gavaskar/Greenidge
Richards
Bradman
Lara
Sobers
Gilchrist
Imran Khan (C)
Richard Hadlee
Shane Warne/ Muralitharan
Malcolm Marshall

Beat this team Martians
Following the Jake Howe School of Tail-End Selections I see. You are learning, young padawan.
 
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Mike5181

International Captain
I think i will scare the Mars team to death with my team.

The Destructive Eleven
Virender Sehwag
Adam Gilchrist
Viv Richards
Andrew Symonds
Ross Taylor
Brendan McCullum+
Chris Cairns
Brett Lee
Wasim Ahktar
Shaun Tait
Alan Donald
 

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