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I personally believe that Gilchrist was a very good keeper and what ever (little) deficientcies he had was more than made up by his batting.
Aus. XI
Simpson^ | Hayden | Bradman | Chappell^ | Ponting | Border* | Gilchrist+ | Davidson3 | Warne4^ | Lillee1 | McGrath2
W.I. XI
Greenidge | Hunte | Richards^ | Headley* | Lara^ | Sobers5^ | Walcott+ | Marshall1 | Ambrose2 | Holding3 | Garner4
S.A. XI
Richards^ | Smith*^ | Amla | Pollock | Kallis5^ | Nourse | Waite+ | Procter3 | Steyn1 | Tayfield4 | Donald2
Eng. XI
Hobbs | Hutton*^ | Hammond^ | Compton | Barrington | Botham5^ | Knott | Trueman1 | Laker4 | Larwood2 | Barnes3
Agree, absolutely. I'd imagine MacGill to be very tough to keep to. Really ripped his leggie, and wasn't as accurate as Warne was.Originally Posted by NUFAN
Ames.
Prior is superb standing back. Has only dropped a couple standing back in the last couple of years and they were both down the leg side. His keeping to Swann isn't as good, and he occasionally misses stumping chances. But overall I'd say he's one of the best in the world at the moment.
What about Bob Taylor? Many say he was slightly above Knott as a pure gloveman.
Oh for a strong arm and a walking stick
Really don't know much about him (apart from he was a contemporary of Knott), and haven't seen much footage. If he's as good, or better, than Knotty, he's right up there. I'd take Knott as keeper in my ATG test team every day of the week.
A-tribute-to-Players-who-took-part-in-Combat XI
1. Len Hutton
2. Herbert Sutcliffe
3. Bruce Mitchell
4. Maurice Leyland
5. Charles Macartney
6. Keith Miller
7. Bill Edrich
8. Hedley Verity
9. Herbert Strudwick+
10. Ken Farnes
11. Bill Bowes
Last edited by AndyZaltzHair; 20-11-2012 at 11:41 AM.
Originally Spoken by Brendon McCullum
You have got to earn the right to be aggressive.
Yes.
"If that Swann lad is the future of spin bowling in this country, then we're ****ed." - Nasser Hussain, 1997.
I think you mean "Yes?"
~ Cribbage
Sanga isn't the best off spinner in the history of cricket? News to me.
Ames scored plenty of runs against NZ, SA, and the WIs, but averaged only 29.00 (1 century) against Australia. A significant drop from his overall average.
Alan Knott averaged 32.98 (2 centuries) against Australia and 29.23 (1 century) against the West Indies. Probably the best 2 countries of his era.
So I don't think that that Ames is going the rescue the tail of the ATG England team any better than Knott. Plus Knott is very likely to be the better wicket-keeper.
Knott over Ames.
Feel like it's time for some discussion (I'm bored as). I'm on a bit of a Lara fan tangent atm, so here is my current ATG team
- Jack Hobbs
- Bill Lawry
- Don Bradman
- Brian Lara
- Viv Richards
- Garry Sobers
- Imran Khan *
- Shane Warne
- Godfrey Evans +
- Malcolm Marshall
- Dennis Lillee
Apparently Bradman used to say that his ideal ATG should have a L/R hand opening combination, one LH in the middle order, a seam bolwing All Rounder, a wicket keeper who could bat, a fast bolwer to bowl with the wind, a medium fast to bowl into it and a off and a leg (or LH) spinner. with that in mind.
Jack Hobbs
Arthur Morris
Don Bradman
Brian Lara
Viv Richards
Garry Sobers
Adam Gilchrist
Malcolm Marshall
Shane Warne
Muttiah Muralitharan
Glenn Mcgrath
I think with this team, the negotiable positions are Lawry, Lara, Imran and Evans. The rest are locked in.
I'm probably still picking the same team I was 12-18 months ago. I don't think Lara's done enough in that time to force his way in...
1 Jack Hobbs
2
3 Don Bradman
4 Viv Richards
5
6 Garry Sobers
7 Adam Gilchrist
8
9 Malcolm Marshall
10 Shane Warne
11
Those are my permanent locked ins.
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