Furball's Greatest XI

[Furball]

It's a subject I've been thinking about over the last few weeks. Big thanks to Days of Grace for his excellent top 100 batsman series, which along with a couple of Sky's excellent features has reminded me of some of the great players I've been fortunate enough to enjoy playing this great game.

I'm going to tease people and name them one at a time. A word of warning, this list will be highly biased, and if you're going to come in here and argue stats, then kindly do me a favour and **** off.

Who knows, maybe it'll spark a few others to think about their greatest XIs. The first name will be revealed tomorrow, feel free to speculate until then...

 

[Cabinet96]

Your opinion isn't regarded highly enough for you to do it one by one, ****.

 

[CricAddict]

I am so excited GF. Have left all my work and waiting here for the first name to be released..

 

[Furball]

Any more sarcasm and I'll leave it until Friday.

 

[honestbharani]

Fully expect MSD to be the first name

 

[Howe_zat]

Please don't leave it, I have a driving lesson Friday and it'll be distracting while I'm constantly refreshing the page in anticipation

 

[Prince EWS]

Please don't leave it, I have a driving lesson Friday and it'll be distracting while I'm constantly refreshing the page in anticipation

Nah seriously, I'm looking forward to it. Just based on players you've seen, yeah?

 

[kyear2]

I assume you are releasing them in batting order? Additionally if you picking an ATG XI or just from players you have seen?

 

[Spikey]

happy birthday cab96

 

[Howe_zat]

I assume you are releasing them in batting order? Additionally if you picking an ATG XI or just from players you have seen?

From the sounds of it he's just talking about his favourites, which is great

 

[MW1304]

Watson
Gambhir
Kallis
Tendulkar
Some Australian
Some Indian
I don't actually know enough about GF to really do this
Ishant Sharma

 

[Cabinet96]

I expect at least five players to be labeled "**** ****s" by Furball when justifying their exclusion.

 

[Furball]

Watson
Gambhir
Kallis
Tendulkar
Some Australian
Some Indian
I don't actually know enough about GF to really do this
Ishant Sharma

Hahaha Ishant Sharma is actually massively out of place on that list, but not for the reasons most would think.

 

[Cabinet96]

watson
gambhir
kallis
tendulkar
samaraweera
kohli
dhoni/haddin
ishant sharma
harbhajan singh
zaheer khan
sreesanth

fify

 

[Furball]

Samaraweera is completely inoffensive, Sreesanth is hilariously bad, Zaheer should be nowhere near that list and I can think of a much worse opening pair. Tendulkar's also kind of out of place as well.

But anyway, this isn't my most hated list, ****s.

 

[Furball]

In fact when I think about it Zaheer's quite possibly the first reserve quickie. Definitely makes my 2nd XI. So to you Cabinet.

 

[Prince EWS]

Samaraweera is completely inoffensive

You loved his last tour of England though. 50 average really summed up exactly how he went IIRC...

 

[Furball]

You loved his last tour of England though. 50 average really summed up exactly how he went IIRC...

Nah, Samaraweera's series here and Watson's last 2 Ashes series are perfect examples of why looking at a series average in isolation is a particularly poor method of rating players.

 

[honestbharani]

Samaraweera is completely inoffensive, Sreesanth is hilariously bad, Zaheer should be nowhere near that list and I can think of a much worse opening pair. Tendulkar's also kind of out of place as well.

But anyway, this isn't my most hated list, ****s.

Looks like a most hated list of GF would be a lot more well received than this.. Take the hint....

 

[Agent Nationaux]

Amir and Asif to feature