All Time Australian XI game

[watson]

O’Reilly sometimes batted at No.9 and Spofforth mostly at 10 and 11. Both legitimate tailenders.


1. Steve Smith at No.4 or 5 and Jack Gregory - that B Team really needs a properly fast bowler who can bowl a bouncer or three.

2. Bert Oldfield

3. Bill Lawry

 

[stephen]

Smith and McDermott
Haddin
Lawry

 

[morgieb]

Smith & Harris

Tallon

Lawry

 

[Midwinter]

6. G.Giffen
10. CTB Turner

W.A. Oldfield

S. Barnes

 

[kingkallis]

1. Doug Walters & Craig McDermott

2. Rod Marsh

3. Bill Lawry

 

[randycricfreak]

1. Steven Smith & Mitchell Johnson

2. Rod Marsh

3.Langer

 

[AndrewB]

Steve Smith, Jeff Thomson
Rod Marsh
Sid Barnes

 

[NUFAN]

Results

Australia A XI
1 A Morris
2 B Simpson
3 R Ponting
4 N Harvey
5 S Waugh
6 S Smith
7 I Healy
8 A Davidson
9 J Gillespie
10 B OReilly
11 F Spofforth

Smith easily wins the final batting spot, Ill ask a new question as to his batting spot as it does seem debatable.

Gillespie narrowly defeats Turner and McDermott by the one vote. I like Dizzy at 9 personally.

Australia B XI
1 B Lawry
2
3
4
5
6
7 R Marsh
8
9
10
11

Lawry beats Barnes by 5 and Marsh gets 4 more votes than Oldfield.

 

[Red]

4. Smith
5. Harvey
6. Waugh

Seems right

 

[NUFAN]

Aus A questions
- Who should captain
- Should Waugh remain at 5 and therefore Smith stays at 6？yes or no.

Aus B questions
- Select 2 opening bowlers
- Select 3 batsman to occupy positions 3 4 and 5. Highest 3 vote getters will make the team and Ill work out the order or ask for help

 

[NUFAN]

4. Smith
5. Harvey
6. Waugh

Seems right

I am keeping Harvey at 4. He won that vote fairly. I think Waugh might have gained selection over Smith because people wanted Smith to be the star in the next team. Now that he is in the team, Waugh or smith at 5？

 

[watson]

I am keeping Harvey at 4. He won that vote fairly. I think Waugh might have gained selection over Smith because people wanted Smith to be the star in the next team. Now that he is in the team, Waugh or smith at 5？

Waugh liked batting with the tail and was good at it. He even inspired McGrath to make a Test 50.

So Smith at 5 where he is more likely to score his double centuries, and Waugh at 6.

 

[Midwinter]

Waugh as Captain
Waugh at 6

Thomson and MacDonald

C.Hill
W.Ponsford
W.Murdoch

 

[Teuton]

Waugh as captain and at 6.

McKenzie and Turner

Hill
McCabe
Macartney

 

[Gnske]

Aus A questions
- Who should captain
- Should Waugh remain at 5 and therefore Smith stays at 6？yes or no.

Aus B questions
- Select 2 opening bowlers
- Select 3 batsman to occupy positions 3 4 and 5. Highest 3 vote getters will make the team and Ill work out the order or ask for help

Waugh
No

Turner and Harris
McCabe Hussey Ryder

 

[Himannv]

Waugh
Yes

Charlie Turner, Jeff Thomson
Stan McCabe (forgot about him, should've probably made the A team), Michael Clarke, Charles Macartney

 

[stephen]

Ridiculous that people rate Gillespie higher than McDermott.

Waugh captain and #6

McDermott and Reid
McCabe, Hussey, Walters

 

[stephen]

Calling Lindwall "the less good option" is ridiculous. The only argument you can really make that says Davidson is "better" is that he offers left arm variety, which is fine.

Lindwall was acknowledged as the greatest fast bowler ever at the end of his career.

And, fwiw:

Lindwall took wickets at a higher average and took less wickets per match than Davidson. And Davidson was the better batsman. And Davidson offers left arm variety when you already have 3 right arm quicks in the side. He's also pretty much the perfect 3rd quick too in that he was basically the most economical bowler around.

Lindwall should be talked about but as the third quick Davidson makes so much more sense on so many levels.

 

[watson]

Aus A questions
- Who should captain
Steve Smith

- Should Waugh remain at 5 and therefore Smith stays at 6？
No

Aus B questions
- Select 2 opening bowlers
Jack Gregory
Craig McDermott

- Select 3 batsman to occupy positions 3 4 and 5. Highest 3 vote getters will make the team and Ill work out the order or ask for help

3. Charlie Macartney
4. Stan McCabe
5. Michael Clarke

 

[randycricfreak]

Ponting to captain.

Waugh to remain at 5.

AUS B fast bowlers
Mitchell Johnson
Jeff Thommo

Bats@3,4,5
Stan McCabe
Michael Clarke
Mike Husse