Split test cricket into roughly two halves. ATG XI 1877-1959 vs ATG XI 1960-2015

[kingkallis]

Classic Era:

Jack Hobbs
Len Hutton
Don Bradman *
Wally Hammond
George Headley
Keith Miller
Les Ames +
Alan Davidson
Fred Trueman
Sydney Barnes
Bill O'Reilly

Modern Era:

Sunil Gavaskar
Matthew Hayden
Vivian Richards
Jacques Kallis
Garry Sobers
Adam Gilchrist +
Richard Hadlee
Wasim Akram
Shane Warne *
Malcolm Marshall
Glenn McGrath

Imran Khan missed out to include this era's answer to their Davidson.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Classic Era:

Jack Hobbs
Len Hutton
Don Bradman *
Wally Hammond
George Headley
Keith Miller
Les Ames +
Alan Davidson
Fred Trueman
Sydney Barnes
Bill O'Reilly

Modern Era:

Sunil Gavaskar
Matthew Hayden
Vivian Richards
Jacques Kallis
Garry Sobers
Adam Gilchrist +
Richard Hadlee
Wasim Akram
Shane Warne *
Malcolm Marshall
Glenn McGrath

Imran Khan missed out to include this era's answer to their Davidson.

Do you honestly think the team needs 7 bowlers though. The original point is correct, Kallis' bowling in this particular team doesn't carry much value. As a 5th bowler he's outstanding. But you've got 5 specialist bowlers and Sobers there anyway. If you think Kallis is a better batsman than Lara/Tendulkar/Ponting anyway, then fine, but otherwise it doesn't make much sense in not selecting a better batsman.

 

[kingkallis]

Do you honestly think the team needs 7 bowlers though. The original point is correct, Kallis' bowling in this particular team doesn't carry much value. As a 5th bowler he's outstanding. But you've got 5 specialist bowlers and Sobers there anyway. If you think Kallis is a better batsman than Lara/Tendulkar/Ponting anyway, then fine, but otherwise it doesn't make much sense in not selecting a better batsman.

Yes mate. I very honestly think that Kallis was as good as others if not better. He was given a particular task/role to hold the innings together for a huge period of his career which he did quite well.

Lara and Ponting were stunning attacking players but I already have Haydos and Richards in my playing XI so Kallis adds stability and can be the ideal partner for Sobers and Gilchrist. No?

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Not sure how Tendulkar doesn't offer stability. He's every bit as solid as Kallis and punishes more bad deliveries. He's the perfect middle-order batsman, way ahead of Kallis. Lara too is hardly an Afridi style hit or miss hack. One of the handful of true genius batsman in history.

 

[jimmy101]

Classic XI

Hobbs
Hutton c
Bradman
Hammond
Headley
Walcott +
Miller
Lindwall
Larwood
Verity
Barnes

Even though I haven't selected him myself, how do you all think old WG Grace would fare against the modern bowlers?

Warne to Grace...

Modern XI

Gavaskar
B Richards
V Richards
Lara
Tendulkar
Sobers c
Sangakkara +
Wasim
Warne
Marshall
Steyn

A few more questions; what kind of surface would the teams be playing on? Modern pitches, or the uncovered pitches of old?

And would the old time players (plus a few of the modern players) be equipped with modern style bats, pads & helmets?

 

[jimmy101]

Or at least have the modern gear offered to them. Viv might wanna keep his SS Jumbo.

 

[smash84]

Classic Era:

Jack Hobbs
Len Hutton
Don Bradman *
Wally Hammond
George Headley
Keith Miller
Les Ames +
Alan Davidson
Fred Trueman
Sydney Barnes
Bill O'Reilly

Modern Era:

Sunil Gavaskar
Matthew Hayden
Vivian Richards
Jacques Kallis
Garry Sobers
Adam Gilchrist +
Richard Hadlee
Wasim Akram
Shane Warne *
Malcolm Marshall
Glenn McGrath

Imran Khan missed out to include this era's answer to their Davidson.

Sacrilege

 

[flibbertyjibber]

No Root?

 

[Geoffboycott]

I've already done mine it's in my sig