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1945 - 1977 vote

Which team is the greatest


  • Total voters
    14
  • Poll closed .

jimmy101

Cricketer Of The Year
After 12 rounds...

BAGAPATH

Len Hutton (c)
Cyril Washbrook
David Gower
Gundappa Viswananth
Norman O'Neil
Vinoo Mankad
Ian Botham
Syed Kirmani (+)
Peter Pollock
Abdul Qadir
Wes Hall
12th Bill Lawry

FREDFERTANG

Trevor Goddard
Colin Milburn
Colin Bland
Tom Graveney
Collie Smith
Tony Greig
Farokh Engineer
Jim Laker
Alec Bedser
Fred Trueman
Fazal Mahmood
12th Derek Randall

CORONIS

Gordon Greenidge
Barry Richards
Mohinder Amarnath
Seymour Nurse
Graham Yallop
Garry Sobers (c)
Rod Marsh (+)
Garth le Roux
Vintcent van der Bijl
Jeff Thomson
Bhagwath Chandrasekhar
12th Charlie Davis

WATSON

Desmond Haynes
Roy Fredericks
Rohan Kanhai
Neil Harvey
Clive Lloyd
Asif Iqbal
John Waite
Ray Lindwall
Garth McKenzie
John Snow
Derek Underwood
12th Bevan Congdon

KINGKALLIS

Geoffrey Boycott
Arthur Morris
Bob Cowper
Ian Redpath
Zaheer Abbas
Dilip Vengsarkar
Denis Lindsay (+)
Richie Benaud (c)
Sir Richard Hadlee
Alan Davidson
Colin Croft
12th Rodney Hogg

BLAKUS

Conrad Hunte
Eddie Barlow
Viv Richards
Allan Border
Dennis Amiss
Saeed Ahmed
Alan Knott
Joel Garner
Peter Heine
Sonny Ramadhine
Neil Adcock
12th Colin McCool

JIMMY101

Glenn Turner
Allan Rae
Javed Minadad
Graeme Pollock
Polly Umrigar
Basil D'Olivera
Lee Irvine (+)
Clive Rice (c)
Bob Willis
Bishan Bedi
Terry Alderman
12th Joe Solomon

HIMANNV

Graham Gooch
Kepler Wessels
Ted Dexter
Denis Compton
Peter May
Lawrence Rowe
Imran Khan (c)
Godfrey Evans (+)
Johnny Wardle
Tony Lock
Frank Tyson
12th Eknath Solkar

POTHAS

John Edrich
Bert Sutcliffe
Ian Chappell (c)
Greg Chappell
Everton Weekes
Doug Walters
Jim Parks (+)
Dennis Lillee
Brian Statham
Ernie Toshack
Alf Valentine
12th Trevor Bailey

LONGHOPCASSIDY

Sunil Gavaskar
Hanif Mohammad
Alvin Kallicharran
Martin Donnelly
Sir Frank Worrell (c)
John Reid
Wasim Bari (+)
Michael Holding
Max Walker
Subhash Gupta
Lance Gibbs
12th Gary Gilmour

ANDYZALTZHAIR

Bob Simpson
Jackie McGlew
Lindsay Hassett
Basil Butcher
Vijay Hazare
Mushtaq Mohammad
Kapil Dev
Mike Procter
Don Tallon (+)
Hugh Tayfield
Andy Roberts
12th Nawab of Pataudi

MONK

Sid Barnes
Colin Cowdrey
Clyde Walcott
Ken Barrington
Mike Gatting
Keith Miller
Ray Illingworth (c)
Wally Grout (+)
Charlie Griffith
Erapalli Prasanna
Bill Johnston
12th -- Yet to be decided --
 

kingkallis

International Coach
1. Geoffrey Boycott /
2. Arthur Morris /
3. Ian Redpath /
4. Bob Cowper / o (5)
5. Zaheer Abbas /
6. Dilip Vengsarkar /
7. Denis Lindsay (+) /
8. Richie Benaud (c) o / (4)
9. Sir Richard Hadlee o / (1)
10. Alan Davidson o (2)
11. Colin Croft o (3)

I think I'll go with this Batting line up. Switched Redpath & Cowper.
 
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watson

Banned
I'm assuming that we vote for our 3 favourite teams as per usual. Not sure why Jimmy has placed a vote next to everyone.

At the risk of appearing anal retentive - I would like numbers next to each player. Looking at long rows of mere names is confusing to my brain. OK I'm weird, but happy that way just the same.
 
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kingkallis

International Coach
I'm assuming that we vote for our 3 favourite teams as per usual. Not sure why Jimmy has placed a vote next to everyone.

At the risk of appearing anal retentive - I would like numbers next to each player. Looking at long rows of mere names is confusing to my brain. OK I'm weird, but happy that way just the same.
Completely agree with this.
 

Lillian Thomson

Hall of Fame Member
If it's 1945-77 the selections of David Gower, Allan Border and Kepler Wessels are ludicrous, the selection of Joel Garner highly suspect and the selection of Javed Miandad a tad iffy.
 

Coronis

Cricketer Of The Year
If it's 1945-77 the selections of David Gower, Allan Border and Kepler Wessels are ludicrous, the selection of Joel Garner highly suspect and the selection of Javed Miandad a tad iffy.
It was when they made their debut, or if they played enough matches after the war.
 

kingkallis

International Coach
Watson for drafting an excellent team
Himmanv for overall good team
Fredfertang for his bowling which is 2nd next to only me ;)
 

kyear2

Cricketer Of The Year
Intended to vote for Blakus, but unintentionally voted for Jimmy instead.

Voted for Watson, Blakus and Pothas.
 

watson

Banned
ANDY
The attack of Roberts-Procter-Dev-Tayfield-Mushtaq-Hazare-Simpson is superb because of its skill and variety. Simpson-McGlew-Hassett form a rock solid top order, and Mushtaq-Dev-Procter provide the fireworks in the middle-order. With Tallon going in at No.9 the team has good batting depth.

POTHAS
The class of the batting line-up (right down to Jim Parks) was too hard to ignore. Statham-Toshak-Valentine-Chappell-Walters is a reasonable attack that is transformed by the inclusion of Dennis Lillee. With Lillee it has just enough firepower to claim the 20 wickets necessary.

BAGAPATH
Bagapath's bowling line-up is highly imaginative and I really like the combination of Hall-Pollock-Botham-Qadir-Mankad. Hutton and Washbrook work really well together, and Vishy gives the middle-order some much needed stability. The lower-middle-order of Botham-Kirmani-Pollock means the batting line-up will be no push over, and do just enough to support the bowling attack
 
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H4G

Banned
Himanav
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Longhopcassidy

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Jimmy101
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If all of these XI's ever face each other, should be a piece of Cake for Himannv's to win
 

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