• Welcome to the Cricket Web forums, one of the biggest forums in the world dedicated to cricket.

    You are currently viewing our boards as a guest which gives you limited access to view most discussions and access our other features. By joining our free community you will have access to post topics, respond to polls, upload content and access many other special features. Registration is fast, simple and absolutely free so please, join the Cricket Web community today!

    If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please contact us.

Search results

  1. F

    Modern New Zealand XI (dayboo post 1980) fifth poll: Catch my balls

    I'm not sure this works as an independent poll - it depends entirely on who is the elusive number 6 and who's opening to my mind. If it's Cairns as the 11th player, and it looks like it will be, then the extra batting of Watling or McCullum are needed. If McCullum is the opener, then that plays...
  2. F

    Modern New Zealand XI (dayboo post 1980) 4th poll: The batting usually starts here

    I assume the eyes mean this is a joke but I always felt a bit sorry for Vincent - he was clearly a better number 3 or lower order batsman than he was an opener, but he had to play over half his matches as an opener. I think he scored that big score against Sri Lanka at number 4, and then he...
  3. F

    Modern New Zealand XI (dayboo post 1980) second poll: Your Hospital Ward Occupants

    Seems the vast majority want five bowlers. I'm not sold - not sure the fourth seamer will add much benefit to this side. In a normal test xi, having someone like Cairns or Oram at 6 was fine as they were only marginally worse batsmen than the players they were replacing (and often probably...
  4. F

    Modern New Zealand XI (dayboo post 1980) first poll: The Two Positions from Hell

    I went for McCullum from the list given, but had forgotten that I won't be able to squeeze all of Williamson, Taylor, Jones Crowe, Fleming/Ryder into the middle order so I think I'd prefer Jones. He opened a fair bit in first class cricket I think. But ticking the "other" box doesn't seem...
  5. F

    Poll2: Playing Selector: Opening Bowlers for Subcontinental AT XI

    I know they don't meet any of the criteria, but Mohammed Nissar and Amar Singh should be in the list... but then I chose Merchant in the opener thread so call me a nostalgia-freak...
  6. F

    Poll2: Playing Selector: Opening Bowlers for Subcontinental AT XI

    I just about understand picking Kapil Dev (though I wouldn't, I'd take a spinning allrounder or Kumble)... but I genuinely don't understand why everyone keeps batting him at 7 ahead of Imran...
  7. F

    Poll 3: Playing Selector: Openers for all time subcontinental XI

    Would like to go back 30 years or so and get one of Dravid's coaches to tell him to open... I'm sure that he would have been just as successful, and that way he could open here allowing me to fit both Younis Khan and Javed into the middle order...
  8. F

    Poll 1: Playing selector: WK for the AT subcontinental XI

    Agree. This is a problem with these sorts of polls - "now pick your allrounder... now pick your bowlers" when in fact you want two allrounders... Just pick the 11. Given Gavaskar, Tendulkar, Sangakkara (in either capacity), Imran, Wasim, Waqar and Murali are absolute locks, you might as well...
  9. F

    *Official* 2nd Test at Lord's

    Andrew Hilditch is dead?
  10. F

    Rank Australia's quicks- post war

    Bichel??? Ahead of Hawke, Connolly, Pascoe, Hurst, Dymock, Gilmour, Wayne Clark, Ron Archer, Kasprowicz....... and surely Toshack should be fairly well up this list.
  11. F

    Your ATG XI's for these four minnows (Zim, Kenya, Bangas & Ireland)

    You pick a Bangla top xi and omit a bloke who averages 55?
  12. F

    *Official* 1st Test at the SWALEC Stadium

    He will if England get caught up in the gung ho crap and keep bowling half-trackers to him. They proved very slow learners last time...
  13. F

    Almost nearly but not quite ATG XI discussion

    I like to stick some sort of limits on the averages for this sort of exercise... so a sub-40 batting line-up (keeper sub 30) with a post-30 bowling line up... a team of decent test players who wouldn't get too near their ATG xi's. Something like : Majid Khan, Atherton, Gomes, Hughes K...
  14. F

    Asia XI vs ROW XI for the last 25 years. Who wins a test series?

    Think Jamie How and Blair Pocock are unlucky not to be in the discussion myself.... Genuine left field pick - Steve Tikolo for the Africa team?
  15. F

    Road to the 2015 Ashes in England

    I would certainly go for Marsh. I think he and Watson will fail with the bat about the same number of times, but when they get in, Marsh seems far more likely to really hurt the opponents. Given the Aussie tail has a knack of sticking around for the batsmen at the other end, he could really...
  16. F

    Is Jonty Rhodes the best fielder International Cricket has seen ?

    My Dad was a regular at Old Trafford in the 70's and says a Clive Lloyd was amazing in the covers in his younger years.... he didn't maintain the standard into his late 30s the way Ponting did of course. No fielding thread is complete without mentioning Derek Randall. And back in the days of...
  17. F

    The ATS Teams General arguing/discussing thread

    Was he a successful test batsman?
  18. F

    The ATS Teams General arguing/discussing thread

    Karthik has played plenty as a batsman though? And you can always stretch to three openers. Since 1990 : Chopra, Rathore, Mukund, Jadeja, Badani, Binny Bangar, Gandhi, Raman, Badrinath, Raina, Robin Singh Srikkanth, Das, Jaffer, Karthik, Mo.Kaif/Yuvraj, Kanitkar There's three top 6's...
  19. F

    Road to the 2015 Ashes in England

    Yep I think this is still a bit of an unknown. Do we agree that if Harris has lost a yard of pace he'll be nowhere near as effective? If he seems down on pace in the warmups I don't think having him wait for later in the series would be terrible.
  20. F

    The ATS Teams General arguing/discussing thread

    Don't understand how Amre gets in these teams ahead of Karthik, Dasgupta, Rathore, Chopra, Bangar... bloke averaged 40+.... you'llbe thowing Kambli and Rohit in there next... Says a lot about Australia over the years just how hard it is to pick a side (without going for 11 spinners that is) ...

Top