All Southpaws XI vs Right Handers/Armers XI

[TimAngas]

Who would be in the teams and win in a contest between the best ever teams of purely left handers/armers and right handers/armers.
(For this case players who fit into the team must fufill their 'main' role in the team with the specified handedness. Obviously there's a grey area.)

Southpaws have Sobers, Lara and Gilchrist, righties have Bradman, Hobbs, Hutton, Marshall and Warne/Murali.

My XIs would be:

Right XI:

J Hobbs
L Hutton
D Bradman (c)
V Richards
W Hammond
I Khan
A Knott
M Marshall
S Warne
G McGrath
J Garner

Left XI:

V Lawry
M Hayden
K Sangakarra
B Lara
G Sobers
RG Pollock
A Gilchrist
W Akram
A Davidson
H Verity
D Underwood

Left XI bats deep but Right XI top order is better. Struggling to find a third quick for the Left XI though I doubt Sobers would cut it.

 

[ankitj]

By this time even Monk and kyear must be sick of ATG XI threads.

 

[kyear2]

Hobbs
Richards^
Bradman*
Richards
Tendulkar
Kallis^
Imran
Knott+
Marshall
Warne^
Barnes

Morris
Hayden^
Lara^
Pollock
Sobers^
Border*
Gilchrist+
Davidson
Akram
Johnston
Underwood

 

[kyear2]

By this time even Monk and kyear must be sick of ATG XI threads.

meh..............

 

[TimAngas]

The hard one for me is Sangakarra over Border, Harvey, Flower, Chanderpaul or Hussey but I think his average wins out despite him being so contemporary.

 

[Red]

By this time even Monk and kyear must be sick of ATG XI threads.

Never enough.

I like the inclusion of Virender Lawry btw.

 

[uvelocity]

**** me, you were at the club last night. had this exact discussion, but just about australia current generation lefties v righties

 

[benchmark00]

Right hand attack lacks variation, could do with a left armer.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Best fielding side in the world

 

[OverratedSanity]

Whoops wrong thread

 

[Camel 56]

You do realise that the term "southpaw" is specific to boxing/martial arts? It's not used for left handers in any other sport or part of life. I'd suggest changing the title of the thread to avoid any further embarrassment.

 

[benchmark00]

You do realise that the term "southpaw" is specific to boxing/martial arts? It's not used for left handers in any other sport or part of life. I'd suggest changing the title of the thread to avoid any further embarrassment.

How's my boy John Laws going? Him and Pinkline going well?

 

[harsh.ag]

For Australia:

Morris
Hayden
Hill
Harvey
Border
Hussey
Gilchrist
Davidson
Johnson
Reid
Ironmonger


vs


Simpson
Trumper
Bradman
Ponting
Chappell
Miller
Healy
Warne
Lillee/Lindwall
O'Reilly
McGrath