Descending all time XIs

[Red]

Just something to kill time, I pick my first all time world XI, then the next poster picks the 2nd best (obviously not using any players I used, and so on).

Each poster must wait for two other teams to be selected before he/she can select again.

World First XI

1. Jack Hobbs (Eng)
2. Sunil Gavaskar (Ind)
3. Don Bradman (Aus)
4. Viv Richards (WI)
5. Garry Sobers (WI)
6. Imran Khan (Pak)
7. Alan Knott (Eng)
8. Shane Warne (Aus)
9. Curtly Ambrose (WI)
10. Dennis Lillee (Aus)
11. Bill O'Reilly (Aus)

 

[ankitj]

Len Hutton
Barry Richards
Brian Lara
Sachin Tendulkar
Graeme Pollock
Adam Gilchrist
Keith Miller
Richard Hadlee
Malcolm Marshall
Muttiah Muralitharan
Sydney Barnes

 

[Jager]

Sutcliffe
Trumper
Headley
Compton
Macartney
Ames
Botham
Davidson
Garner
Grimmett
Waqar

 

[Red]

G. Greenidge
A. Morris
K. Barrington
G. Chappell
N. Harvey
S. Waugh
MS. Dhoni
Wasim Akram
R. Lindwall
F. Trueman
D. Underwood

 

[ankitj]

Dhoni? I don't complain

 

[NUFAN]

Has anyone started on the next one? I'll do it, if not.

 

[Red]

Go....


(Dhoni is a gun).

 

[NUFAN]

1. WG Grace
2. R Dravid
3. R Ponting
4. J Miandad
5. F Worrell
6. A Border*
7. D Lindsay
8. M Holding
9. J Laker
10. A Donald
11. C Walsh

I don't mind moving Rahul up, I want him in this team.

 

[Red]

Oops, Ponting slipped!

 

[Red]

World First XI

Jack Hobbs (Eng)
Sunil Gavaskar (Ind)
Don Bradman (Aus)
Viv Richards (WI)
Garry Sobers (WI)
Imran Khan (Pak)
Alan Knott (Eng)
Shane Warne (Aus)
Curtly Ambrose (WI)
Dennis Lillee (Aus)
Bill O'Reilly (Aus)

Second XI
Len Hutton
Barry Richards
Brian Lara
Sachin Tendulkar
Graeme Pollock
Adam Gilchrist
Keith Miller
Richard Hadlee
Malcolm Marshall
Muttiah Muralitharan
Sydney Barnes

Third XI
Sutcliffe
Trumper
Headley
Compton
Macartney
Ames
Botham
Davidson
Garner
Grimmett
Waqar

Fourth XI
G. Greenidge
A. Morris
K. Barrington
G. Chappell
N. Harvey
S. Waugh
MS. Dhoni
Wasim Akram
R. Lindwall
F. Trueman
D. Underwood

Fifth XI
WG Grace
R Dravid
R Ponting
J Miandad
F Worrell
A Border*
D Lindsay
M Holding
J Laker
W Younis need someone else, one minute...
A Donald

 

[Jager]

Anwar
Barnes
Abbas
Compton
Paynter
Lloyd
Tallon
Roberts
Qadir
Larwood
McGrath

 

[NUFAN]

Go....


(Dhoni is a gun).

How exactly? What has he done in Test Cricket to excite you? He is an ordinary batsman and just average behind the stumps. Dhoni is not one of the best 200 Test Cricketers of all time.

Oops, Ponting slipped!

Yep, I think he slipped too. Have you seen the thread All Time XI Game, by any chance? We are working out our top 16 teams, a slightly slower process than this one though.

 

[NUFAN]

Anwar
Barnes
Abbas
Compton
Paynter
Lloyd
Tallon
Roberts
Qadir
Hall
McGrath

What an oversight from me.

 

[Jager]

What an oversight from me.

I found it hilarious

 

[NUFAN]

I found it hilarious

I opened up the other thread too but must have overlooked the top team assuming that everyone had been chosen.

 

[Red]

Geoff Boycott
Bob Simpson
Wally Hammond
Peter May
Javed Miandad
Everton Weekes
Richie Benaud
Ian Healy
Alec Bedser
Fred Spofforth
CTB Turner

 

[zaremba]

1. Graham Gooch
2. Archie Jackson
3. Kumar Sangakkara
4. KS Ranjitsinjhi
5. Mahela Jayawardene
6. Andy Flower
7. Mike Procter
8. Wilfred Rhodes
9. Shaun Pollock
10. Hedley Verity
11. George Lohmann

 

[fredfertang]

Cyril Washbrook
Michael Atherton
Ian Chappell
Clive Lloyd
Johnny Tyldesley
VVS Laxman
Farokh Engineer
Johnny Briggs
Colin Croft
Brian Statham
Ted MacDonald

 

[Dan]

World First XI
Jack Hobbs
Sunil Gavaskar
Don Bradman
Viv Richards
Garry Sobers
Imran Khan
Alan Knott
Shane Warne
Curtly Ambrose
Dennis Lillee
Bill O'Reilly

Second XI
Len Hutton
Barry Richards
Brian Lara
Sachin Tendulkar
Graeme Pollock
Adam Gilchrist
Keith Miller
Richard Hadlee
Malcolm Marshall
Muttiah Muralitharan
Sydney Barnes

Third XI
Herbert Sutcliffe
Victor Trumper
George Headley
Denis Compton
Charles Macartney
Les Ames
Ian Botham
Alan Davidson
Joel Garner
Clarrie Grimmett
Waqar Younis

Fourth XI
Gordon Greenidge
Arthur Morris
Ken Barrington
Greg Chappell
Neil Harvey
Steve Waugh
MS Dhoni
Wasim Akram
Ray Lindwall
Fred Trueman
Derek Underwood

Fifth XI
WG Grace
Rahul Dravid
Ricky Ponting
Javed Miandad
Frank Worrell
Allan Border*
Denis Lindsay
Michael Holding
Jim Laker
Allan Donald
Courtney Walsh

Sixth XI
Saeed Anwar
Sid Barnes
Zaheer Abbas
Denis Compton
Eddie Paynter
Clive Lloyd
Don Tallon
Andy Roberts
Abdul Qadir
Harold Larwood
Glenn McGrath

Seventh XI
Geoff Boycott
Bob Simpson
Wally Hammond
Peter May
Javed Miandad
Everton Weekes
Richie Benaud
Ian Healy
Alec Bedser
Fred Spofforth
Charlie Turner

Eighth XI
Graham Gooch
Archie Jackson
Kumar Sangakkara
KS Ranjitsinjhi
Mahela Jayawardene
Andy Flower
Mike Procter
Wilfred Rhodes
Shaun Pollock
Hedley Verity
George Lohmann

Ninth XI
Cyril Washbrook
Michael Atherton
Ian Chappell
Clive Lloyd
Johnny Tyldesley
VVS Laxman
Farokh Engineer
Johnny Briggs
Colin Croft
Brian Statham
Ted MacDonald

Tenth XI
Bruce Mitchell
Archie McLaren
Rohan Kanhai
Martin Crowe
KS Duleepsinhji
Aubrey Faulkner
Kapil Dev
Johnny Wardle
Bert Oldfield
Dale Steyn
Neil Adcock

EDIT: Beaten by fredfertang
EDIT2: Italics don't work in quotes, hence players picked twice are now in red.

 

[ankitj]

McGrath in sixth XI :-o