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The ATG Teams General arguing/discussing thread

AndrewB

International Vice-Captain
You can make a pretty strong XI out of players alive today who made their Test debut at least 60 years ago:

Colin McDonald
Bob Simpson*
Everton Weekes
Neil Harvey
Ted Dexter
Gary Sobers
Jim Parks+
Alan Davidson
Wes Hall
Sonny Ramadhin
Lance Gibbs

with John Reid, Rohan Kanhai, Ray Illingworth and Chandu Borde all also eligible. Weekes and Harvey both debuted nearly 71 years ago.
 

AndrewB

International Vice-Captain
Probably even stronger XI if you allow anyone who was alive 65 years after their Test debut:

Arthur Morris
Bruce Mitchell
Don Bradman*
Everton Weekes
Neil Harvey
John Reid
Wilfred Rhodes
Alan Davidson
Tiger Smith+
Harold Larwood
Sydney Barnes

with Bill Ponsford, Frank Woolley and Sonny Ramadhin also available picks.
 

bagapath

International Captain
Post the full XI, man!
My second hand nostalgia XI

Sir Jack Hobbs
Sir Len Hutton
Sir Don Bradman *
Walter Hammond
Sir Garfield Sobers
Keith Miller
Alan Knott +
Alan Davidson
Ray Lindwall
Fred Trueman
Tiger O'Reilly

Second XI

Trumper
Grace
Compton
Ranji
Weekes
Faulkner
Ames +
Benaud *
P.Pollock
Spofforth
Larwood
 
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Coronis

Cricketer Of The Year
I’ll go the opposite, my first hand XI

Hayden
Sehwag
Ponting*
Tendulkar
Lara
Kallis
Gilchrist+
Warne
Harris
Steyn
McGrath

and players i never saw

Hobbs
Sutcliffe
Bradman*
Hammond
Chappell
Sobers*
Knott+
Procter
Hadlee
Marshall
Barnes
 
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Red

The normal awards that everyone else has
Players I saw (and liked watching):

Greenidge
Gooch
V.Richards
Tendulkar
Lara
Ponting
Gilchrist +
Wasim
Warne
Ambrose
McGrath

Never saw (but wish I did):

Hutton
Trumper
Bradman
McCabe
Miller
Sobers
Evans +
Davidson
Barnes
Lillee
OReilly
 

andmark

International Captain
I don't know how, but I accidentally stumbled on Red Hill's post there a few hours ago. Here's my xi of never saw (but wish I did):

1) WG Grace
2) Gavaskar (if I could take a camera for footage, it'd be Trumper)
3) Bradman
4) Greg Chappell (could very easily be Graeme Pollock)
5) Viv
6) Hadlee
7) Knott
8) O'Reilly
9) Thommo
10) Barnes
11) Spofforth
 

Gnske

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Graham Coochie
Jack Knobs
Ricky Poontang
Willie Hammond
Victor Trumpet
Vajayjay Hazare
Quinton De Kock
Peter Pollock
Harold Lar-wood
Waqar Penis
Be**** Singh Bedi

I'm inexplicably proud of this.
I might have gone my whole life without seeing the name Ricky Poontang.
 

NUFAN

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01 Archie Jackson
02 Bob Simpson
03 Vic Richardson
04 John Dyson+
05 Shane Watson
06 Alan Davidson
07 Mitch Johnson
08 Ian Johnson
09 Geoff Lawson
10 Jeff Thomson
11 Jack Iverson

Coach: Javed Miandad
 

trundler

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01 Archie Jackson
02 Bob Simpson
03 Vic Richardson
04 John Dyson+
05 Shane Watson
06 Alan Davidson
07 Mitch Johnson
08 Ian Johnson
09 Geoff Lawson
10 Jeff Thomson
11 Jack Iverson

Coach: Javed Miandad
I guffawed at the last line.
 

AndrewB

International Vice-Captain
Making it an international XI with Kane Williamson, Richie Richardson and Stanley Jackson would strengthen the batting (and you could consider Tyson, Anderson and Tom Richardson as bowlers).

They could play against

Charles Bannerman
Vinoo Mankad
Donald Bradman
Darren Lehmann
Vijay Manjrekar
VVS Laxman
Barry Jarman+
George Lohmann
Fred Trueman
Tich Freeman
Terry Alderman
 

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