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In 5 years time

Andre

International Regular
Do love how much people think things will change in 5 years. Invariably it never changes as much as you think.
 

NUFAN

Y no Afghanistan flag
Do love how much people think things will change in 5 years. Invariably it never changes as much as you think.
Australia vs India 2008 Jan 2
1 Jaques
2 Hayden
3 Ponting
4 Hussey
5 Clarke
6 Symonds
7 Gilchrist
8 Hogg
9 Lee
10 Johnson
11 Clark

I beg to differ.
 

smash84

The Tiger King
Nasir Jamshed
Babar Azam
Azhar Ali (c)
Fawad Alam
Usman Salahuddin
Asad Shafiq
Adnan Akmal (wk)
Raza Hasan
Mohammad Talha
Junaid Khan
Sadaf Hussain

Not too sure about Adnan in 5 years (will be 32) but he has been keeping well and I don't know any other domestic keepers in Pak cricket atm. Similarly Fawad will also be 32 and at this stage it looks as if he will never get a chance but I can hope. With regards to Talha, he is a talent but hasn't been doing too well recently, however I would like to see him get a chance (did really well against England in the warm up).
dude....fawad alam won't be around in 2018. He is already into his 30s isn't he?
 

NZTailender

I can't believe I ate the whole thing
Do love how much people think things will change in 5 years. Invariably it never changes as much as you think.
Conversely, there's probably 1 or 2 who aren't even playing domestic cricket right now who might just be there as well.
 

CricAddict

Cricketer Of The Year
Rahane, Mukund, Pujara, Kohli, Rohit, Jadeja, Parthiv Patel, Ashwin, Ojha, Umesh, Sandeep..

Yeah, wont change much..
 

theegyptian

International Vice-Captain
fwiw i was thinking about this again

Age at which England regulars of the last 10/15 years played their last game

Strauss 35, Collingwood 34, Harmison 30, Flintoff 31, Vaughan 33, Sidebottom 32, Hoggard 31, Trescothick 30, Giles 33, Butcher 32, Hussain 36, Alex Stewart 40, Gough 32, Atherton 33, Caddick 34, Hick 34, Ramprakash 32

mean age is 33.05
batsmen age is 33.9
bowling age is 31.86

Now look at how the team changed over 5 year period.

Test -2007/08

Cook, Vaughan, Bell, Pietersen, Collingwood, Bopara, Prior, Sidebottam, Harmison, Hoggard, Panesar(SL Dec 2007 )

Cook, Vaughan, Strauss, Pietersen, Bell, Collingwood, Ambrose, Sidebottom, Hoggard, Harmison, Panesar(NZ march 2008)


Test – 2002/03

Trescothick, Vaughan, Butcher, Hussain, Crawley, Stewart, White, Giles, Caddick, Hoggard, Jones(1st test vs Aus 2002)

Trescothick, Vaughan, Butcher, Hussain, Key, Crawley, Stewart, Dawson, Caddick, Hoggard, Harmison(5th test 2003)


Today – Cook, Compton,Trott, Pietersen, Bell, Root,Prior, Broad, Swann, Finn, Anderson, (Panesar, Bresnan, Bairstow)

From 2002/03 to 07/08 Vaughan, Hoggard and Harmison were the only 3 remaining. From 07/08 to 12/13 4 or 5 remain - Cook, KP, Bell, Prior,Panesar.

Would suggest that from 2012/13 to 17/18 the most likely number remaining is 3,4 or 5.




Test in 5 years time – Cook(33), Compton(34),Trott(36), Pietersen(37), Bell(35), Root(27),Prior(35), Broad(31), Swann(38), Finn(28), Anderson (35)

Given the data provided earlier I'd predict

Cook, Finn and Root are the only three I would say are likely to be still playing in 5 years time. I'd imagine one of KP, Bell or Trott will still be going. My guess is Trott is still going- came to test cricket late and seems to just love batting. Bell will be dropped sometime in the future for bad form, and KP has been complaining about the schedule for the last couple of years so he's unlikely to make it.

Compton probably isn't good enough and will be dropped well before 5 years. Prior has a dodgy achilles which he is constantly managing and a lot of promising wicketkeeping batsmen who will challenge for his place in a few years. Swann with his elbow no chance. Anderson is fit but not one english fast bowler of recent times has made it to 35.

Even with Broad you have to doubt if he makes it another 5 years, given he's already got 5 years of regular cricket in all formats behind him and is quite injury prone and inconsistent with form.

The team I selected though probably has the wrong balance with too many young players

Cook (33), Chopra (30), Root(27), Ballance(28), Thakor(24), Stokes(26), A Davies(23), Overton(23), Finn(28), Kerrigan(28), Topley(23). Avg age 26.6

It's much more likely to have a few more current lions players in place of the really young players. I'd suggest something like this

Cook(33), Chopra(30), Trott(36), Root(27), Taylor(28), Stokes(26), Bairstow(28), Broad(31), Finn(28), Kerrigan(28), Topley(23) avg age 28.9
 

Red

The normal awards that everyone else has
- Warner
- Hughes
- Burns
- Doolan
- Bailey *
- Nevill
- Paine +
- Pattinson
- Starc
- Cummins
- Lyon

- Bird
 

Coronis

Cricketer Of The Year
Steyn will be recognised as the great fast bowler he is, Philander may have burned out or still be averaging <20, and Kallis will still be there.
 

M0rphin3

International Debutant
Rutherford
Guppy
KANEH :wub: (vc)
Taylor (c)
Latham/Ryder
Flynn
Watling
Sodhi
Bracewell
Southee
Boult/Wheeler
 
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Dan

Hall of Fame Member
1. Alastair Cook
2. Joe Root
3. Jonny Bairstow
4. Ian Bell
5. Ben Stokes
6. Ben Foakes +
7. Chris Woakes
8. Stuart Broad
9. Azeem Rafiq
10. James Anderson
11. Steven Finn
(James Harris, Jos Buttler)


1. David Warner
2. Phil Hughes
3. Kurtis Patterson
4. Joe Burns
5. Michael Clarke *
6. Steven Smith
7. Tim Paine +
8. Ashton Agar
9. James Pattinson/Pat Cummins
10. Peter Siddle
11. Mitchell Starc
(Jackson Bird, Nic Maddinson)


1. Quinton de Kock
2. Stiaan van Zyl
3. Hashim Amla
4. Rilee Rossouw
5. AB de Villiers
6. Faf du Plessis
7. Dane Vilas +
8. Chris Morris
9. Vernon Philander
10. Dale Steyn
11. Ayabulela Gqamane
(Lizaad Williams, Obus Pienaar)


1. Martin Guptill
2. Hamish Rutherford
3. Kane Williamson *
4. Ross Taylor
5. Tom Latham
6. BJ Watling
7. Will Young
8. Ish Sodhi
9. Tim Southee
10. Matt Henry/Bevan Small
11. Trent Boult
(Ben Wheeler, Daniel Flynn)
 

flibbertyjibber

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RVD doesn't care about ability he just wants the Stokes/Foakes/Woakes combination to be playing. :laugh:

If Anderson and Steyn are still playing in 5 years time both will have over 500 wickets.
 
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