ATG 'Mixed Experience' Test XI - Draft

[Zinzan]

Nice work fellas, so we're done with the rounds.

I'll allow 48 hours or so for everyone to confirm their final XIs & their skippers.

Then we'll set things up for the voting.

25-29 Test range (105 players fit this criteria).

1 AndyZaltzHair - Bill O'Reilly
2 King Kallis - Sydney Barnes
3 weldone - Aubrey Faulkner
4 Bagapath - Bill Ponsford
5 Zinzan - Joe Root
6 Camo999 - Colin Croft
7 schearzie - Steve Smith
8 mr_mister - Darren Lehmann
9 Agent TBY - Vernon Philander
10 WalkingWicket - Ryan Harris
11 J_C - Peter Pollock
12 Red Hill - Andrew Symonds
13 Nufan - Bruce Reid
14 honestbharani - George Ulyett
15 Coronis - Neil Adcock

Round 2 (Reversed order)

30-36 Test range (91 players fit this criteria)

1 Coronis - Eddie Barlow
2 honestbharani - Charles McCartney
3 Nufan - Dudley Nourse
4 Red Hill - Virat Kohli
5 J_C - Vijay Hazare
6 WalkingWicket - Bill Woodfull
7 Agent TBY - Tom Hayward
8 mr_mister - Lasith Malinga
9 schearzie - Paul Reifel
10 Camo999 - Jack Blackham
11 Zinzan - Johnny Briggs
12 Bagapath - B J Watling
13 weldone - Trent Boult
14 King Kallis - Fazal Mahmood
15 AndyZaltzHair - Archie MacLaren

Round 3

37-41 test range (76 to choose from)

1 WalkingWicket - Clarrie Grimmett
2 Nufan - Hugh Tayfield
3 schearzie - Maurice Tate
4 weldone - Stan McCabe
5 King Kallis - Hedley Verity
6 Bagapath - David Warner
7 Agent TBY - Maurice Leyland
8 Coronis - Glenn Turner
9 mr_mister - Shakib Al Hasan
10 AndyZaltzHair - Kane Williamson
11 honestbharani - William Johnston
12 Red Hill - Terry Alderman
13 Zinzan - Trevor Goddard
14 J_C - Brian McMillan
15 Camo999 - Warren Bardsley

Round 4 (reversed)

42-48 Test range - (64 to choose from)

1 Camo999 - Alan Davidson
2 J_C - Clyde Walcott
3 Zinzan - Everton Weekes
4 Red Hill - Victor Trumper
5 honestbharani - Jim Laker
6 AndyZaltzHair - Les Ames
7 mr_mister - Andy Roberts
8 Coronis - Arthur Morris
9 Agent TBY - Bruce Mitchell
10 Bagapath- Shoaib Akhtar
11 King Kallis - Lindsay Hassett
12 weldone - missed
13 schearzie - Mankad Vinoo
14 Nufan - Ian Bishop
15 WalkingWicket - Wes Hall

Round 5 Range 49-56 (55)

1 schearzie - Keith MIller
2 King Kallis - Herbert Sutcliffe
3 Agent TBY - Frank Worrell
4 Camo999 - Hanif Mohammad
5 Zinzan - Alec Bedser
6 mr_mister - Saeed Anwar
7 J_C - John Snow
8 Bagapath - Jeff Thomson
9 Coronis - Tony Lock
10 Nufan - Warwick Armstrong
11 WalkingWicket - Dennis Amiss
12 honestbharani - Simon Katich
13 AndyZaltzHair - Patsy Hendren
14 Red Hill - Bert Oldfield
15 weldone - to pick

Round 6 Range 57-64 (52)

1 weldone -to pick
2 Red Hill - Joel Garner
3 AndyZaltzHair - Michael Holding
4 honestbharani - Jack Hobbs
5 WalkingWicket - Andy Flower
6 Nufan - Ray Lindwall
7 Coronis - Bob Simpson
8 Bagapath - Richie Benaud
9 J_C - Bhagwath Chandrasekhar
10 mr_mister - Tony Greig
11 Zinzan - Chris Cairns
12 Camo999 - Wilfred Rhodes
13 Agent TBY - Mushtaq Mohammad
14 King Kallis - Ted Dexter
15 schearzie - Ian Smith

Round 7 Range 65-78 (43)

1 Coronis - Fred Trueman
2 mr_mister - Dennis Lillee
3 weldone - Scratched
4 Agent TBY - Allan Donald
5 Camo999 - Martin Crowe
6 Nufan - Bill Lawry
7 WalkingWicket - Denis Compton
8 schearzie - Bishop Bedi
9 AndyZaltzHair - Peter May
10 King Kallis – Doug Walters
11 honestbharani- Brian Statham
12 J_C- Michael Slater
13 Bagapath- Damian Martyn
14 Zinzan - Jason Gillespie
15 Red Hill - Ian Chappell


Round 8 Round 79-87 (30)

1 Red Hill - Malcolm Marshall
2 Zinzan - Richard Hadlee
3 Bagapath - Wally Hammond
4 J_C - Dale Steyn
5 Honestbharani - Ken Barrington
6 King Kallis - Len Hutton
7 AndyZaltzHair - Neil Harvey
8 schearzie - Greg Chappell
9 Walking Wicket - Hashim Amla
10 Nufan - Andrew Flintoff
11 Camo999 - Waqar Younis
12 Agent TBY - Matt Prior
13 mr_mister - Rohan Kanhai
14 Coronis - Mike Hussey

Round 9 (88-102) (29 to pick from)


1 Agent TBY - Garry Sobers
2 mr_mister - Adam Gilchrist
3 Zinzan - AB de Villiers
4 AndyZaltzHair- Imran Khan
5 King Kallis- Curtly Ambrose
6 Nufan- Younis Khan
7 Honestbharani- Ian Botham
8 Camo999- Mohammed Yousuf
9 Red Hill- Graham Thorpe
10 Walking Wicket- Brendon McCullum
11 J_C- Gary Kirsten
12 Bagapath- Aravinda de Silva
13 schearzie- Herschelle Gibbs
14 Coronis- MS Dhoni



Round 10 (103-118) (28 to choose from)

1 Coronis- Wasim Akram
2 schearzie- Matthew Hayden
3 Bagapath- Shaun Pollock
4 J_C- Micheal Clarke
5 Walking Wicket- Chaminda Vaas
6 Red Hill- Gordon Greenidge
7 Camo999- Sanath Jayasuriya
8 Honestbharani - Kevin Pietersen
9 Nufan - Virender Sehwag
10 King Kallis - Clive Lloyd
11 AndyZaltzHair - Graham Gooch
12 Zinzan - Graeme Smith
13 mr_mister - Geoff Boycott
14 Agent TBY - Alastair Cook.

Round 11 Range >=119 Tests (25 players to pick from)

Red Hill - Shane Warne
schearzie - Viv Richards
Nufan- Brian Lara
Zinzan- Sachin Tendulkar
Walking Wicket- Jacques Kallis
Bagapath- Kumar Sangakkara
Honestbharani- Glenn McGrath
J_C- Ricky Ponting
Agent TBY- Muttiah Muralitharan
Coronis - Courtney Walsh
King Kallis - Kapil Dev
AndyZaltzHair - Sunil Gavaskar
mr_mister - Steve Waugh
Camo999 - Allan Border

Round 12 Range <25

Camo999 - George Headley
mr_mister - Graham Pollock
AndyZaltzHair - Mike Procter
King Kallis - Denis Lindsay
Coronis - Jack Ryder
Agent TBY - Harold Larwood
J_C - Barry Richards
Honestbharani - Sarfraz Ahmed
Bagapath - Shane Bond
Walking Wicket - W G Grace
Zinzan - Ranjitsinhji
Nufan - Don Tallon
schearzie - Frank Tyson
Red Hill - Jack Gregory

 

[Zinzan]

Would appreciate some advice on my final XI as to whether I leave out Ranji, Goddard (opening bat who averaged 26 as a spinner), Smith, Root or Briggs.

Ranjitsinhji/Trevor Goddard (6)
Graeme Smith
Ranjitsinhji/ Root
Sachin Tendulkar
Everton Weekes
AB de Villiers +
Chris Cairns (5)
Richard Hadlee (1)
Johnny Briggs (4)
Jason Gillespie (3)
Alec Bedser (2)

If I do leave out Briggs and move Goddard down to 7 as the specialist spinner, it would possibly be the deepest batting lineup of all-time with Cairns, Hadlee & Gillespie at 8,9 & 10

 

[The Battlers Prince]

I'm a big fan of Ranji, he was an opening batsman though. Even though he did well for a few innings at 3.

 

[Zinzan]

I'm a big fan of Ranji, he was an opening batsman though. Even though he did well for a few innings at 3.

Cheers mate, I assume you meant 'wasn't'. Yeah, really tough decision either way.

 

[harsh.ag]

Yeah, Ranji has to play at 3 ahead of Root

 

[Zinzan]

Yeah, Ranji has to play at 3 ahead of Root

Yeah, that was one of the 3 options I was considering. You're probably right. Oh well I've put the feelers out, so will be interesting what others think.

 

[The Battlers Prince]

Where do we post our final team?

 

[Zinzan]

Here please. At anytime in the next 48 hours, unless of course the last one you posted was how you want it.

 

[mr_mister]

Mister's Men

Saeed Anwar
Geoff Boycott
Graham Pollock
Rohan Kanhai
Steve Waugh c 6
Tony Greig 4
Adam Gilchrist +
Shakib Al-Hasan 5
Dennis Lillee 1
Andy Roberts 2
Lasith Malinga 3


12th man: Darren Lehmann

 

[Zinzan]

Mister's Men

Saeed Anwar
Geoff Boycott
Graham Pollock
Rohan Kanhai
Steve Waugh c 6
Tony Greig 4
Adam Gilchrist +
Shakib Al-Hasan 5
Dennis Lillee 1
Andy Roberts 2
Lasith Malinga 3

Nice all-round side mate, I like the balance. Two all-time great bowlers in Lillee and Roberts, an solid opening pair & some would argue the greatest left-handed batsman of all time.

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

Mister's Men

Saeed Anwar
Geoff Boycott
Graham Pollock
Rohan Kanhai
Steve Waugh c 6
Tony Greig 4
Adam Gilchrist +
Shakib Al-Hasan 5
Dennis Lillee 1
Andy Roberts 2
Lasith Malinga 3

That is one freak batting line up

 

[mr_mister]

yeah and to think i originally had boof in for malinga... shakib at 9 lol. but honestly i dont think lehmann is needed here, though on the SC he would he brought in for someone

 

[The Battlers Prince]

Here please. At anytime in the next 48 hours, unless of course the last one you posted was how you want it.

Yeah I'll leave it as is, so no Reiffel in the XI

 

[Agent TBY]

Same as before, but reposting it just so it's easier to find.

1. Bruce Mitchell
2. Alastair Cook
3. Frank Worrell (*)
4. Garry Sobers (5)
5. Maurice Leyland
6. Mushtaq Mohammad (6)
7. Matt Prior (+)
8. Vernon Philander (3)
9. Harold Larwood (1)
10. Allan Donald (2)
11. Muttiah Muralitharan (4)

12. Tom Hayward

 

[NUFAN]

yeah and to think i originally had boof in for malinga... shakib at 9 lol. but honestly i dont think lehmann is needed here, though on the SC he would he brought in for someone

I hope you still agree that Malinga suits the team more so than Lehmann. But yeah, if you did have Boof, it would just add to the insane batting lineup. It is just so hard to imagine this team ever posting a moderate total.

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

Really many great sides all around in this draft. Voting is going to be tough.

 

[Zinzan]

Top side TBY, wonderful bowling attack in particular.

 

[Agent TBY]

Yeah, and I nearly picked Imran because I was so short of bowling!

Feels kinda weird to say picking Sobers was a gamble, but it was one and thankfully it paid off. Really lucked out in getting Murali and Larwood in the last two rounds.

 

[mr_mister]

I hope you still agree that Malinga suits the team more so than Lehmann. But yeah, if you did have Boof, it would just add to the insane batting lineup. It is just so hard to imagine this team ever posting a moderate total.

yeah my only issue with malinga was that I thought he was considered an ODI specialist, but his test record (especially his strikerate) is certainly respectable. so yeah i agree with you

 

[honestbharani]

Reposting my earlier post too of the final team...


Honest Hunks...


Jack Hobbs - 5410 runs @ 57
Simon Katich (8) - 4188 runs @ 45, 21 wkts @ 30
Ken Barrington (7) - 6806 runs @ 59, 29 wkts @ 45
Charles Macartney (6) - 2131 runs @ 42, 45 wkts @ 28
Kevin Pietersen - 8181 runs @ 47
Ian Botham (3) - 5200 runs @ 34, 383 wkts @ 28
Sarfraz Ahmed (wk) - 1157 runs @ 50
Jim Laker (5) - 676 runs @ 14, 193 wkts @ 21
Brian Statham (2) - 675 runs @ 11, 252 wkts @ 25
William Johnston (4) - 273 runs @ 11, 160 wkts @ 24
Glenn McGrath (1) - 563 wkts @ 22




George Ulyett (3) - 949 runs @ 24, 50 wkts @ 20 = 12th Man


Think it is a very well balanced side... Not Enough Lefties is the only problem I can notice.. Otherwise we have a lovely balance with an ATG opener and another who is a left hander with a good record in all conditions and a guy who scores in weird areas which will disrupt the bowling combination always... At #3 is another ATG, a bit of a stonewalling type of batsman but who will perfectly complement the aggressors batting from Nos. 4 through 7... Macartney was the original Sehwag who always believed in hitting the ball to the boundary and defending only if that was not possible at all... His left arm spin will be a very good additional advantage for the side in conditions where the 5 main bowlers will be stretched. KP, to me, is an ATG or at least a player who has played MANY ATG knocks and he will smash the tired bowling attacks for fun... An ATG allrounder in Beefy Botham at 6 who will bat and bowl entertainingly and be a matchwinner for the side in both departments. Sarfraz is still young in the game but has already shown that he can bat enterprisingly in most conditions and is a very very tidy keeper given the variety of bowlers he will need to keep to in this side. The bowling attack will be led by 3 ATGs = Statham and McGrath with the new ball and Laker as the spinner. They will have the ATG allrounder Botham and Bill Johnston with his left arm fast medium and occasional left arm orthodox spin from both Johnston and Macartney backing them up... Barrington and Katich will provide leg spin of both left arm and right arm variety when needed as well. McGrath and Statham is one of the dream opening bowling combinations and with the great Laker and the rest of the bowling attack to back them up, this is a side that will take 20 wickets in almost all conditions..