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The ATG Teams General arguing/discussing thread

h_hurricane

International Vice-Captain
Lillee in for Garner
No way :) Garner is an objectively better bowler afaic. Performed everywhere against everyone, criminally under-rated in this forum.

By the way, curious to know, do you rate Beefy above Garner as a bowler ? :unsure:
 
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Burgey

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Fred Trueman is a lock in place of Cairns

Lillee in for Garner
He should be in for Donald tbh. Allan was never a risk of having a heart attack, let's be honest.

There's hopefully a better spinner around than Bedi who qualifies. Terrific bloke and a very good bowler, but you'd hope for better.

Edit: shame current players DNQ. Could ditch Cairns and bat TPC at four. That line up would be very very difficult to bowl out twice.
 
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h_hurricane

International Vice-Captain
He should be in for Donald tbh. Allan was never a risk of having a heart attack, let's be honest.

There's hopefully a better spinner around than Bedi who qualifies. Terrific bloke and a very good bowler, but you'd hope for better.

Edit: shame current players DNQ. Could ditch Cairns and bat TPC at four. That line up would be very very difficult to bowl out twice.
TPC should end up playing well above 75 tests. Haven't included any current players hence. Cairns and Bedi are obviously replacable, but not getting better options for that criteria.
 

h_hurricane

International Vice-Captain
cant imagine fred trueman not making it to the team
Trueman was an ATG but there is sizable disparity between home and away records. He had great peer reputation and self proclaimed himself as "the greatest bowler who ever drew breath", but White Lightning still wins it for me, not by much though.
 

the big bambino

International Captain
Just seen a clip on the news of the only known action shots of Bradman in colour. It was his last game at the SCG apparently, and a testimonial match. In this clip he's seen smashing a Miller bumper and pulling a slow bowler too. From memory he made 53 in that game.
 

h_hurricane

International Vice-Captain
I will give it a try for 50-74 tests

Jack Hobbs
Herbert Sutcliffe
Don Bradman
Frank Worrell
Andy Flower
Keith Miller
Chris Cairns
Wally Grout (wk)
Joel Garner
Bishen Singh Bedi
Allan Donald
How could I have missed Benaud ? His inclusion makes it easy for me to include Trueman or Lillee in the team.

Jack Hobbs
Herbert Sutcliffe
Don Bradman
Frank Worrell
Andy Flower
Keith Miller
Richie Benaud
Wally Grout (wk)
Fred Trueman / Dennis Lillee
Joel Garner
Allan Donald
 

SillyCowCorner1

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How could I have missed Benaud ? His inclusion makes it easy for me to include Trueman or Lillee in the team.

Jack Hobbs
Herbert Sutcliffe
Don Bradman
Frank Worrell
Andy Flower
Keith Miller
Richie Benaud
Wally Grout (wk)
Fred Trueman / Dennis Lillee
Joel Garner
Allan Donald
It'll be hard to dismantle that top order.
 

Bolo.

International Vice-Captain
How could I have missed Benaud ? His inclusion makes it easy for me to include Trueman or Lillee in the team.

Jack Hobbs
Herbert Sutcliffe
Don Bradman
Frank Worrell
Andy Flower
Keith Miller
Richie Benaud
Wally Grout (wk)
Fred Trueman / Dennis Lillee
Joel Garner
Allan Donald
Not sure, but I feel like this is probably comparable to a not 50-74 tests, mostly due to bradman. Not a fan of grout ahead of of gilchrist, or benuad ahead of whoever, but most of the other calls are really marginal, even if i would have picked almost no none of these guys in my first XI.
 

AndrewB

International Vice-Captain
The "twenty-something Tests" XI is pretty strong:

WG Grace
Bill Ponsford
George Headley
Graeme Pollock
Stanley Jackson
Aubrey Faulkner
Jack Gregory
Don Tallon+
Bill O'Reilly
Sydney Barnes
Colin Croft

with plenty of alternatives too (Colin Bland, Darren Lehmann, Eddie Paynter, Douglas Jardine, Ryan Harris, Peter Pollock, Neil Adcock, Johnny Wardle...)

The "thirty-something Tests" XI is (I would say) less good:

Bill Woodfull
Eddie Barlow
Stan McCabe
Vijay Hazare
Dudley Nourse
Charlie Macartney
Maurice Tate
Max Walker
Jack Blackham+
Fazal Mahmood
Clarrie Grimmett
 

AndrewB

International Vice-Captain
Bradman's team of 50-59 Tests is also very strong:

Hanif Mohammad
Herbert Sutcliffe
Don Bradman
Frank Worrell
Patsy Hendren
Tony Greig
Keith Miller
Wilfred Rhodes
Wally Grout+
Alec Bedser
Joel Garner

as is the 40-49 Tests team:

Bruce Mitchell
Arthur Morris
Clem Hill
Everton Weekes
Lindsay Hassett
Clyde Walcott+
Monty Noble
Alan Davidson
Jim Laker
Andy Roberts
Ian Bishop
 

ataraxia

International Coach
80–something Test XI:

DA Warner
JG Wright
WR Hammond
GS Chappell
KF Barrington
V Kohli
Imran Khan*
PJL Dujon +
RJ Hadlee
MD Marshall
DL Underwood

90–something:

HH Gibbs
MS Ataputtu
GS Sobers*
Mohammad Yousuf
JE Root
AC Gilchrist
APE Knott +
HMRKB Herath
DW Steyn
NM Lyon
CEL Ambrose

100–something:

V Sehwag
G Boycott
ML Hayden
KP Pietersen
LRPL Taylor
BB McCullum* +
IT Botham
SM Pollock
Wasim Akram
Harbhajan Singh
M Ntini

Plenty of openers there. Boon, Gayle, Greenidge, Kirsten, Langer, Strauss, and M Taylor qualify plus the four in the XI. For comparison, there are only 3 other reserves.

110–something:

GC Smith*
GA Gooch
Younis Khan
MJ Clarke
AB de Villiers
CH Lloyd
DL Vettori
IA Healy +
WPUJC Vaas
No other
bowlers


120–134:

SM Gavaskar
HM Amla
BC Lara
IVA Richards
Javed Miandad
KC Sangakkara +
N Kapil Dev*
A Kumble
M Muralitharan
CA Walsh
GD McGrath

135 and over:

AN Cook
R Dravid
RT Ponting
SR Tendulkar
JH Kallis
AR Border
SR Waugh*
MV Boucher +
SCJ Broad
SK Warne
JM Anderson

S Chanderpaul
DPMD Jayawardene

Kallis can function as a fourth bowler here.
 

ataraxia

International Coach
70–something:

L Hutton*
JH Edrich
RN Harvey
SPD Smith
DCS Compton
KD Walters
MJ Prior +
R Ashwin
DK Lillee
JB Statham
AA Donald

Second XI:

MJ Slater
ME Trescothick
KS Williamson
RB Kanhai
IM Chappell*
MEK Hussey
A Flintoff
AC Parore +
MG Johnson
B Lee
LR Gibbs

60–something:

JB Hobbs
RB Simpson
PBH May
A Flower
DR Martyn
BJ Watling +
R Benaud*
VD Philander
RR Lindwall
FS Trueman
MA Holding

Second XI:

WM Lawry
IR Redpath
AI Kallicharran
ER Dexter
FE Woolley
BA Stokes
BJ Haddin +
R Illingworth
HH Streak
GD McKenzie
BS Bedi
 

AndrewB

International Vice-Captain
10-19 Tests:

Vijay Merchant
Sid Barnes
Stewie Dempster
Ranjitsinhji
Duleepsinhji
Denis Lindsay+
Alan Fairfax
Shane Bond
Frank Tyson
Fred Spofforth
Herbert Ironmonger

1-9 Tests:

Barry Richards
Madhav Apte
Archie Jackson
Brad Hodge
Martin Donnelly
Lee Irvine+
Mike Procter
Albert Trott
Jack Cowie
Bob Appleyard
Jack Iverson
 

bagapath

International Captain
shane warne has picked an aussie XI from his playing days...

Hayden
Slater
Ponting
M.Waugh
Border *
S. Waugh
Gilchrist +
May
Gillespie
McGrath
Reid

Surprised by the inclusion of S.Waugh and exclusion of Healy, considering his equation with Tugga, and his preference for Healy over Gilly in all his rankings so far.

Also, McGill is definitely better than May, isn't he?
 
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