Alphabet draft - the first letter of your XIs first/last names need to be 22 unique -

[MrPrez]

If you remove title, he will be an M and a P. MAK Pataudi or Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi. Cricinfo and Wikipedia show the names differently interestingly:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansoor_Ali_Khan_Pataudi
Nawab of Pataudi - Check Pataudi's News, Career, Age, Rankings, Stats | ESPNcricinfo.com

Well, no, because we're going strictly by Cricinfo names. So if we were to remove the title it would surely end up being just Pataudi (I'm assuming Nawab is a title like "prince of england").

The M would surely not come into play as it's not on his Cricinfo profile.

 

[ankitj]

Yes, I know. Cricinfo title should stand.

 

[MrPrez]

Sorry, that probably came across more aggressive than I intended. As I said, if people as a whole think that the whole title rule should ultimately render him unpickable, I'm happy to abide by that. But yeah, it is certainly a weird one as Red Hill said - since his Cricinfo name is basically one long title.

 

[trundler]

I think it's fine but it is weird, lol.

 

[Test_Fan_Only]

Perhaps Nawab of Pataudi should count as N and O.

 

[mr_mister]

We can just have it N and P.

 

[Red]

"Of" is a conjunction. He is known as Nawab of Pataudi on his cricinfo profile. Nawab essentially means viceroy, and Pataudi is a family name. Nawab and Pataudi are proper nouns when you use his name in the way cricinfo does, so N and P should be the letters used, imo.

 

[AndrewB]

"Of" is a conjunction.

Preposition.

 

[ankitj]

So I am going to cheat a bit and make Richie open the batting; he has done that a fair few times in his career. That allows me to pick Greg Chappell to complete a truly awesome middle order.

Azhar Ali
Richie Richardson
Jacques Kallis [5]
Greg Chappell *
Mohammed Yousuf
Everton Weekes
Ian Healy +
Vernon Philander [3]
Derek Underwood [4]
Fred Trueman [1]
Sydney Barnes [2]

Unused letters: L,N,O,Q,X,Z

That's a damn good team, especially considering I thought I was going to give up mid-way. I could have done better if I was not playing from memory and instead searching players through Google/Cricinfo. I started researching only in R9 after I lost Alistair Cook.

 

[Teuton]

Ridley Jacobs

Final xi
Gordon Greenidge
Alastair Cook
Neil Harvey
Virat Kohli
Misbah-ul-Haq
Ian Botham
Ridley Jacobs
Dennis Lillee
Waqar Younis
Fred Spofforth
Erapalli Prasanna

 

[mr_mister]

George Gunn, who also opened a few times..


Len Hutton
George Gunn
Ricky Ponting *
Sachin Tendulkar
Keith Miller 3
Norman Yardley 6
Jeff Dujon +
Frank Foster 5
Vince van der Bijl 2
Curtley Ambrose 1
Bill O'Reilly 4


I normally try to sacrifice ATGs and just aim for 11 ATVGs to avoid passengers. Here I had to pick up a few unproven players with short test careers but it let me have a bunch of bonafide ATGs

 

[MrPrez]

Iqbal Qasim

1. Conrad Hunte
2. John Edrich
3. Brian Lara
4. Ranji
5. Kane Williamson
6. Nawab of Pataudi
7. Adam Gilchrist
8. Dale Steyn
9. Frank Tyson
10. Iqbal Qasim
11. Muttiah Muralitharan

Spin heavy but eh, so much better than any pace option.

 

[AndrewB]

Wally Hammond.

Final XI:
Barry Richards
Graham Gooch
Wally Hammond
Seymour Nurse
Zaheer Abbas
Imran Khan*
Quinton de Kock+
Mike Procter
Jim Laker
Tich Freeman
Colin Croft

 

[Michaelf7777777]

Ernie Jones will be my final selection please

Charter 77 Final XI

WG Grace (*)
Tamim Iqbal
Steve Smith
Ken Barrington
Denis Compton
Andy Flower (+)
Mushtaq Mohammad
Ray Lindwall
Peter Pollock
Hedley Verity
Ernie Jones

 

[Red]

Lee Irvine

Red Hill CC

Desmond Haynes
Kepler Wessels
Viv Richards *
Norm O'Neill
Lee Irvine +
Farohk Engineer +
Chris Cairns 4
Shaun Pollock 3
James Anderson 2
Bishen Bedi 5
Glenn McGrath 1

 

[trundler]

Patrick Patterson.

CB Fry
Jack Hobbs
Rahul Dravid (vc)
Victor Trumper
Younis Khan
Garry Sobers (c) 5
Bert Oldfield+
Wasim Akram 1
Nathan Lyon 4
Patrick Patterson 3
Manny Martindale 2

Absolutely supreme batting. GOAT keeper too.

 

[Teuton]

Not sure Manny Martindale is up for #7 with his batting average of 5

 

[trundler]

Oh, wow. I confused him with Constantine. Cheers, mate.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Andre Nel, Qasim Omar

Cattle Call XI

1. Justin Langer
2. Glenn Turner
3. Rohan Kanhai
4. Peter May
5. Ian Bell
6. Qasim Omar
7. Dinesh Chandimal +
8. Sibley Snooke
9. Andre Nel
10. Wes Hall *
11. Fidel Edwards

 

[ankitj]

Anyone yet to complete xi?