Another "bid for position" draft

[Himannv]

01. Barry Richards /
02. WG Grace /
03. Wally Hammond* /o
04. Dennis Compton /
05. Rohan Kanhai /
06. Ian Botham /o
07. Les Ames+
08. Mike Proctor o/
09. Alan Davidson o/
10. Jim Laker o
11. Allan Donald o

 

[kingkallis]

Andrew Flintoff to join the squad as an all-rounder. This will give us that crazy bowling spell every now and then plus some solid hitting down the order with Gilchrist and he brings those safe pair of hands in the outfield.

CricZo XI

Matthew Hayden /
Graham Gooch /
Viv Richards / o
Graeme Pollock /
Kevin Pietersen /
Adam Gilchrist / +
Andrew Flintoff / o
Richie Benaud o / (c)
Richard Hadlee o /
Dennis Lillee o
Wes Hall o

 

[ataraxia]

@weeman27bob

 

[weeman27bob]

Alan Knott

@ataraxia

 

[weeman27bob]

1. Bill Ponsford
2. Saeed Anwar
3. Hashim Amla
4. Mohammed Yousuf
5. Younis Khan
6. Andy Flower
7. Alan Knott +
8. Wasim Akram
9. Dale Steyn
10. Curtly Ambrose
11. Muttiah Muralitharan

 

[ataraxia]

BJ Watling, the legend

@JOJOXI

 

[ataraxia]

1) Sunil Gavaskar /
2) Victor Trumper /
3) Ricky Ponting* /
4) Dudley Nourse /
5) Peter May /
6) Aubrey Faulkner / o
7) BJ Watling + /
8) Maurice Tate o /
9) Clarrie Grimmett o
10) Andy Roberts o
11) Brian Statham o

A legendary def/agg opening pair is followed by a middle order of prolific and solid run-scorers. Faulkner is a brilliant all-round option. Along with Tate, he would combine well with Watling as an agg/def combo (McCullum, Neesham, Anderson, CdG all combined with Watling amazingly).

In the bowling, Roberts and Statham perform a great aggressive role, while Tate and Grimmett are incredibly economical and pressure-building besides being awesome bowlers theirselves. Faulkner would be very good on spinning wickets and otherwise a good partnership breaker and relief bowler at this level.

I like the side.

 

[JOJOXI]

I'll go with MS Dhoni and do a write up later

 

[JOJOXI]

@Line and Length

 

[Line and Length]

I certainly won't be asking Sangakarra to keep as it has an adverse effect on his batting. I'll go w ith the man who still holds the record for the most stumpings in Test cricket - Bert Oldfield - who is regarded as one of the best 'keepers of all time. He won't mind batting at #9 where he averages 48+

 

[trundler]

@Pothas

 

[Line and Length]

1. Len Hutton */
2. Geoff Boycott /
3. Kumar Sangakarra /
4. Everton Weekes /
5. Neil Harvey /
6. Imran Khan /o
7. Ravindra Jadeya /o
8. Shaun Pollock /o
9. Bert Oldfield +
10. Malcolm Marshall o
11. Alec Bedser o

Two ATG openers are followed by a fine middle order with two great left-handers split by one of the wonderful 3 Ws. The lower middle order comprises 3 all-rounders whose performances speak for themselves. Bert Oldfield is a great 'keeper, and leading the bowling attack is arguably the ATG fast bowler. He has plenty of pace support in Imran, Pollock and the indefatigable Bedser. Jadeya has plenty of admirers as a spinner/all-rounder and completes a potent attack.

 

[Pothas]

Ian Healy

Graeme Smith*
Arthur Morris
George Headley
Jacques Kallis
Greg Chappell
Virat Kohli
Ian Healy+
Ravi Ashwin
Fred Trueman
Bill O'Reilly
Waqar Younis

Not really what I planned but actually really enjoy that bowling attack. Two spinners means I wanted the specialist keeper.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Probably need a bit of batting from my wicketkeeper so Matt Prior will do


Alastair Cook
Gordon Greenidge
Allan Border
Garry Sobers
Stan McCabe
Shiv Chanderpaul
Matt Prior (wk)
Ryan Harris
Harold Larwood
Michael Holding
Sydney Barnes

 

[trundler]

Well Watling would've fit the eyesore criteria perfectly but I'll do a 180 and take Quinton De Kock instead.

Jack Hobbs
Bill Lawry
Rahul Dravid
Ken Barrington
Javed Miandad
Steve Waugh*
Quinton De Kock+
Ray Lindwall 1
Hedley Verity 4
Joel Garner 3
James Anderson 2

Covers all bases methinks. Good luck to any side looking to get these blokes out. Bowling has a nice balance to it too. Anderson's relentlessness coupled with The Killer's skiddy express pace for the new ball sounds pretty tasty. But wait, I've got the GOAT 3rd seamer and Bradman's deadliest adversary to follow them.

 

[honestbharani]

Simon Katich (6)
Herbert Sutcliffe
Brian Lara
Sachin Tendulkar
Frank Worrell (c) (4)
Clyde Walcott (wk)
Ben Stokes (5)
Pat Cummins (2)
Anil Kumble (vc)
Neil Wagner (3)
Frank Tyson (1)


As balanced a side as I could have hoped for. Lots of personal favorites, covers all bases and all ranges of batting and bowling, from attack to defence and the entire spectrum in between.

 

[ataraxia]

Simon Katich (6)
Herbert Sutcliffe
Brian Lara
Sachin Tendulkar
Frank Worrell (c) (4)
Clyde Walcott (wk)
Ben Stokes (5)
Pat Cummins (2)
Anil Kumble (vc)
Neil Wagner (3)
Frank Tyson (1)


As balanced a side as I could have hoped for. Lots of personal favorites, covers all bases and all ranges of batting and bowling, from attack to defence and the entire spectrum in between.

very hb side:

couple of Indians; Lara, Katich, Cummins; hostile quicks; 7 bowlers; two Ws; a no-rounder at ATG level; part-time keeper keeping; saying it's balanced mainly because 3/7 bowlers are lefties; and some odd tactical choice in having Worrell into the attack pre-Stokes (srs I'd be tempted to introduce Worrell pre-Wagner so whatever, good tactics I guess)

and Kumble may want to bowl at some point

 

[honestbharani]

very hb side:

couple of Indians; Lara, Katich, Cummins; hostile quicks; 7 bowlers; two Ws; a no-rounder at ATG level; part-time keeper keeping; saying it's balanced mainly because 3/7 bowlers are lefties; and some odd tactical choice in having Worrell into the attack pre-Stokes (srs I'd be tempted to introduce Worrell pre-Wagner so whatever, good tactics I guess)

and Kumble may want to bowl at some point

Lol missed it somehow. I blame dng this on my phone ?

 

[Himannv]

Kumble is in the side for his batting obviously.

 

[Red_Ink_Squid]

Specialist vice captain.