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A teams

slogger555

Cricket Spectator
Interested in into see what your 2nd best team would be for your country
Australia
Odi
1) Jaques
2) Rogers
3) Hodge (first batsman to get into top team
4) Crosgrove
5) Voges
6) Haddin (keeper
7) Thornley
8) Hauritz
9) Harwood
10) Hilfenhous
11) Tait

i think im missing a really good player in there some whrere just cant think at the moment
 

Prince EWS

Global Moderator
Haha, Rogers. Can't even make the WA one day side, so I doubt he'd make a second XI for Australia in the format.

Anyway, it also depends a lot on if you're talking about a true second XI - as in, a side who would take the field the current team all killed each other in a massive knife-fight - or a developing squad of fringe players likely to be selected in the future (which is what A teams typcially are..) If it was the former, the likes of Lehmann and Gillespie would be selected. Something like this I'd imagine

1. Phil Jaques
2. Simon Katich
3. Brad Hodge
4. Darren Lehmann
5. Adam Voges
6. Cameron White
7. Brad Haddin
8. Jason Gillespie
9. Stuart Clark
10. Ben Hilfenhaus
11. Shaun Tait
 
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Goughy

Hall of Fame Member
SA

1. Dippenaar
2. Puttick
3. Rudolph
4. McKenzie
5. Martin van Jaarsveld
6. Zander de Bruyn
7. van Wyk
8. van der Wath
9. Langeveldt
10. M. Morkel
11. Friedel de Wet

Looks a very decent side to me. Especially as Ive probably forgotten a few guys
 

Perm

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Put Rudolph up to open and insert JP Duminy in the middle order, I noticed Rudolph had been opening the innings for his franchise side.
 
Interested in into see what your 2nd best team would be for your country
Australia
Odi
1) Jaques
2) Rogers
3) Hodge (first batsman to get into top team
4) Crosgrove
5) Voges
6) Haddin (keeper
7) Thornley
8) Hauritz
9) Harwood
10) Hilfenhous
11) Tait

i think im missing a really good player in there some whrere just cant think at the moment
Thornely is just rubbish.
 

Perm

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
1. Tim McIntosh
2. Michael Papps
3. Hamish Marshall
4. Ross Taylor
5. Jesse Ryder
6. Rob Nicol
7. Gareth Hopkins
8. Jeetan Patel
9. Mark Gillespie
10. Michael Mason
11. Ian O'Brien
 

Goughy

Hall of Fame Member
Put Rudolph up to open and insert JP Duminy in the middle order, I noticed Rudolph had been opening the innings for his franchise side.
Why would I drop Puttick? I rate him

and the old guys in the middle order, van Jaarsveld and Zander de Bruyn, have been in great form this season.

Duminy is definately unlucky to miss out (if it had one eye on youth he would be there) but so is Kemp, Zulu, Mclaren, Vaughn van Jaarsveld
 
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Perm

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Why would I drop Puttick? I rate him

and the old guys in the middle order, van Jaarsveld and Zander de Bruyn, have been in great form this season.
I noted that JP Duminy is an exceptional talent and probably deserves a spot in the middle order, which would require dropping one of the middle order batsman, or putting Rudoplh in the opener's slot because that's where he has been playing this season.
 

Goughy

Hall of Fame Member
If I was focusing on younger players, then my Under 24 A team (condition under 24 as of today)

SA U 24 A Team

1. Cook
2. Kuhn (wkt)
3. Duminy
4. Imraan Khan
5. Vaughn van Jaarsveld
6. Martin Bekker
7. Vernon Philander
8. Ryan McLaren
9. Morne Morkel
10. Steyn
11. Tshabalala
 

chaminda_00

Hall of Fame Member
Not the best sides ever, but not that bad really

List A

M Vandort
N Tharanga
M Warnapura
R Arnold
T Dilshan
C Kapugedera
J Silva (wk)
U Chandana
M Bandara
N Zoysa
A Ganegama

FC

M Vandort
N Tharanga
M Warnapura
R Arnold
T Samarawerra
T Dilshan
J Silva (wk)
M Bandara
M Suraj
N Zoysa
A Ganegama

Batting line up looks ok, but seam attack is a major worry.
 

Pup Clarke

Cricketer Of The Year
England A Team in One Day cricket
1)Mal Loye
2)Matt Prior
3)Alastair Cook
4)Ravi Bopara
5)Michael Yardy
6)Ian Blackwell
7)Chris Read
8)Glenn Chapple
9)Kabir Ali
10)Chris Tremlett
11)Stuart Broad
 

marc71178

Eyes not spreadsheets
Which only goes to confirm that there's nobody better waiting in the wings to replace the first team (although I'd have Read in the side still personally)
 

wpdavid

Hall of Fame Member
England A Team in One Day cricket
1)Mal Loye
2)Matt Prior
3)Alastair Cook
4)Ravi Bopara
5)Michael Yardy
6)Ian Blackwell
7)Chris Read
8)Glenn Chapple
9)Kabir Ali
10)Chris Tremlett
11)Stuart Broad
Benning maybe?
If you're right about that lot being our 2nd XI, then we're in real trouble, especially with the middle order batting. And surely Kabir Ali is completely out of the frame by now. James Kirtley would be a better bet.
 

Pup Clarke

Cricketer Of The Year
Benning maybe?
And surely Kabir Ali is completely out of the frame by now. James Kirtley would be a better bet.
Your right but the selectors are so stubborn and won't see it like that.TBH if he has a good county season the selectors knowing them will probably recall him.....:dry:
 

adharcric

International Coach
Apparently I'm the only one who gives a **** about India's "A" team.

India A
Cheteshwar Pujara
Gautam Gambhir
Mohammad Kaif *
Suresh Raina
Subramaniam Badrinath
Dinesh Karthik +
Irfan Pathan
Piyush Chawla
Ramesh Powar
Ishant Sharma
VRV Singh
Reserves: Shikhar Dhawan, Rohit Sharma, Manoj Tiwary, Joginder Sharma/Ranadeb Bose, Gagandeep Singh

You can always put guys like Uthappa and Pathan in the A team
 
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Pup Clarke

Cricketer Of The Year
I'll try and do a West Indies A team

Lendl Simmons
Sewnarine Chattergoon
Devon Smith
Runako Morton
Kieron Pollard
Narsingh Deonarine
Carlton Baugh
Omari Banks
Jermaine Lawson
Tino Best
Pedro Collins
 

Prince EWS

Global Moderator
England A Team in One Day cricket
1)Mal Loye
2)Matt Prior
3)Alastair Cook
4)Ravi Bopara
5)Michael Yardy
6)Ian Blackwell
7)Chris Read
8)Glenn Chapple
9)Kabir Ali
10)Chris Tremlett
11)Stuart Broad
How ironic. The first team is ridiculous problems with its wicket keeper position, and yet the second team has three wicket keepers in it!

Anyway, I think it'd be more like this:

1. Mal Loye
2. Alastair Cook
3. Ian Bell
4. Andrew Strauss
5. Owais Shah/Vikram Solanki/Usman Afzaal
6. Ravi Bopara
7. Chris Read
8. Liam Plunkett
9. Ashley Giles
10. Chris Tremlett
11. Saj Mahmood

First XI would contain Trescothick, Pietersen, Anderson and Lewis which would drop a few of the current starters (Strauss, Bell, Plunkett, Mahmood) back to this team.
 

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