The ATG World XI's game

[Dan]

I really don't mind - if you want me to run one, I will. If you two want to keep doing it yourself, that's fine too. You're choice.

Openers:
Jimmy Cook - one of the most underrated openers around, a shame that his career was utterly ruined by Apartheid. Averaged 50 in FC cricket (albeit played much of it at Taunton).
Stewie Dempster - New Zealand's first batting great. Very good batsman indeed, shame his career was cut short by the war.

Middle Order:
Kumar Duleepsinhji - I'll keep voting for him until he gets in
Maurice Leyland - From what I've read, an incredible player of spin bowling. One of England's many great middle order players from his era.
Jack Ryder - Averaged 50+ in Tests in a bowler-friendly(ish) era. Useful with the ball as a 6th bowler too.

Wicketkeeper:
Gerry Alexander - Very good wicketkeeper, very good batsman and a good captain too. Another whom I'm going to continue voting for.

Spinner:
Subhash Gupte - From all accounts a very good spinner. About time one of the classical Indian spinners gets in, shame the votes have been split between them up til this point.

Fast Bowlers:
Jack Gregory - Spearhead of the attack, and can bat as well.
George Hirst - Didn't quite perform as well as he arguably should have at Test level, however his FC stats are incredible.

 

[Camo999]

J McGlew
G Turner

L Rowe
A Kallicharran
D Jones

S Kirmani

B Chandrasekhar

L Constantine
M Hughes

 

[Jager]

Sure rvd, all yours if you're happy to.

 

[watson]

1. John Edrich
2. Glen Turner
3. Herbie Taylor
4. Aravinda de Silva
5. Maurice Leyland
6.
7. Matt Prior
8. Jack Gregory
9.
10. Wayne Daniel
11. Erapalli Prasanna (by most accounts the greatest Indian spinner of all time)

 

[morgieb]

Slater, Edrich
Martyn, Hussey, Leyland
Prior
Lock
Reid, Gregory

All are Aussies or Poms. Not entirely uncoincidental.

 

[Jager]

Bloody hell, I forgot about Dean Jones. I changed my vote to him, hope it's not a problem.

 

[Jacknife]

John Edrich, Michael Slater

Dean Jones, Maurice Leyland, Robin Smith

Matt Prior

Tony Lock

Sylvester Clarke, Darren Gough

 

[Jarquis]

Turner
Dempster
Jones
Herbie Taylor
Leyland
Prior
Lock
Asif
De Villiers

 

[morgieb]

Slater, Edrich
Martyn, Hussey, Jones
Prior
Lock
Reid, Gregory

All are Aussies or Poms. Not entirely uncoincidental.

Changed from Leyland to Jones because I forgot about him initially.

 

[fredfertang]

Herb Taylor and Glen Turner
Frank Woolley, Mike Hussey, John Reid
Wally Grout
Erapelli Prasanna
Sylvers and Jack Gregory

 

[Blakus]

Glenn Turner
Michael Slater
Herbie Taylor
Damien Martyn
Michael Hussey

Mark Boucher
Jack Gregory
Bobby Peel
Graham Mckenzie

 

[Flametree]

Amiss
Dempster

Duleepsinjhi
Graveney
Hussey

Boucher

Lock

Philander
Reid B

 

[weldone]

1. Herbie Taylor, Jackie McGlew
2. Dilip Vengsarkar, Herbie Taylor, Mohammad Azharuddin
3. Rashid Latif
4. Bert Ironmonger
5. Makhaya Ntini, Garth McKenzie

 

[NUFAN]

Results


Turner 7
Slater 4
Atherton 1
Edrich 4
Gayle 1
Cook 1
Dempster 3
McGlew 2
Herb Taylor 2
Amiss 1

Kallicharan 2
Martyn 3
Ryder 2
Woolley 2
Leyland 6
Herb Taylor 5
Jones 4
Amla 1
O’Neill 1
Duleepsinhji 2
Rowe 1
Hussey 4
Smith 1
Reid 1
Graveney 1
Vengsarkar 1
Azharrudin 1

Boucher 3
Latif 2
Alexander 2
Prior 4
Kirmani 1
Grout 1

Gupte 2
Chandrasekhar 2
Lock 5
Prasanna 2
Peel 1
Ironmonger 1

Reid 4
De Villiers 2
Zaheer 1
Asif 2
Daniel 2
Gregory 5
Hirst 1
Constantine 1
Hughes 1
Clarke 2
Gough 1
McKenzie 2
Philander 1
Ntini 1

Edrich vs. Slater is very close. I saw all of Slater's career and I was definitely a fan especially pre-dropping where he averaged above 47 so he gets in.

Hussey vs. Jones - Excellent batsman, difficult decision. I'll go Hussey.

World P XI
1. Glenn Turner
2. Michael Slater
3. Maurice Leyland
4. Herbie Taylor
5. Michael Hussey
6.
7. Matt Prior
8. Jack Gregory
9. Tony Lock
10.
11. Bruce Reid

 

[NUFAN]

I think it worked out well doing 9 names in 1 go.

1) Select a number 6 - I guess Prior could bat 6, and this selection could bat at 7.
2) Select the final spot, most likely a number 9 or 10

Middle Order Batsman
Shakib Al Hasan, Mohinder Amarnath, Hashim Amla, Mohammad Azharuddin, Ian Bell, Colin Bland, Herbie Collins, Daryl Cullinan, Charlie Davis, Martin Donnelly, Kumar Duleepsinhji, Sourav Ganguly, Gerry Gomez, Murray Goodwin, Tom Graveney, Alvin Kallicharan, Darren Lehmann, Saleem Malik, Damien Martyn, Ken Mackay, Brian McMillan, Mushtaq Mohammad, Seymour Nurse, Norman O'Neill, John R Reid, Lawrence Rowe, Jack Ryder, Thilan Samaraweera, Arthur Shrewsbury, Robin Smith, Raman Subba-Row, Polly Umrigar, Dilip Vengsarkar, Gundappa Viswanath, Frank Woolley



Suggested quicks
Mohammad Asif, Terry Alderman, Bill Bowes, Stuart Broad, Andy Caddick, Lance Cairns, Stuart Clark, Sylvester Clarke, Learie Constantine, Wayne Daniel, Fanie de Villiers, Darren Gough, Charlie Griffith, Neil Hawke, Peter Heine, Ken Higgs, George Hirst, Merv Hughes, Zaheer Khan, Brett Lee, Lasith Malinga, Garth McKenzie, Dick Motz, Sarfraz Nawaz, Makhaya Ntini, Vernon Philander, Peter Siddle, Amar Singh, Javagal Srinath, Heath Streak, Ernie Toshack, Max Walker

OR

Suggested Spinners
Mushtaq Ahmed, Saeed Ajmal, Shakib Al-Hasan, Bishan Bedi, Charlie Blythe, Bhajwath Chandrasekhar, George Giffen, Subhash Gupte, Regana Herath, Bert Ironmonger, Jack Iverson, Ian Johnson, Lindsay Kline, Stuart MacGill, Arthur Mailey, Saqlain Mushtaq, Bobby Peel, Erapalli Prasanna, Abdul Qadir, Iqbal Qasim, Sonny Ramadhin, Pervez Sajjad, Reggie Schwarz, Harbajhan Singh, Alf Valentine, Daniel Vettori, Bert Vogler

 

[Blakus]

Frank Woolley
Garth Mckenzie

 

[fredfertang]

Sylvers and John Reid

 

[watson]

My main memory of Bruce Reid is his final over performance during a 'Day-Nighter' at the SCG in 1987.

England needed 18 runs off 6 balls to win. The striker was Alan Lamb and Phil Defreitas was down the other end. The commentators were Bill Lawry and Ian Chappell;

ALLAN LAMB BASHES BRUCE REID - YouTube

http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/65411.html (I'm almost sure that's the card)

 

[watson]

Frank Woolley

Wayne Daniel


Just for interest - here is the scorecard of an MCC V Tasmania game from 1912.

It features a triple century smashed by Woolley in only 205 minutes. That's less than 2 sessions;

http://static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1910S/1911-12/ENG_IN_AUS/MCC_TAS_26-29JAN1912.html

 

[watson]

Frank Woolley
Monty Noble

Unfortunately Monty Noble features in a previous team