Birthplace Draft

[Teuton]

Ken Barrington UK

 

[Teuton]

Final team


Sunil Gavaskar (India)
Graeme Smith (South Africa)
Rohan Kanhai (Guyana)
Mohammad Yousuf (Pakistan)
Ken Barrington (UK)
Frank Worrell (C) (Barbados)
Brendan McCullum (NZ)
Heath Streak (Zimbabwe)
Rangana Herath (Sri Lanka)
Andy Roberts (Antigua and Barbuda)
Glenn McGrath (Australia)

 

[AndrewB]

Conrad Hunte (Barbados)

Final XI:

Jack Hobbs (UK)
Conrad Hunte (Barbados)
Rahul Dravid (India)
Brian Lara (Trinidad & Tobago)
Shakib al Hasan (Bangladesh)
Gerry Alexander*+ (Jamaica)
Mike Procter (South Africa)
Chris Cairns (New Zealand)
Wasim Akram (Pakistan)
Bill O'Reilly (Australia)
Colin Croft (Guyana)

 

[trundler]

Sorry, lads. Didn't have internet for a couple of days. I'll pick Aravinda De Silva.

Hutton
Stollmeyer
Dexter 5
Crowe*
Ranji
Aravinda
Gilchrist
Pollock 2
Marshall 1
Gibbs 4
Akhtar 3

 

[Michaelf7777777]

Desmond Haynes (Barbados) will be my final selection please

Charter 77 Final XI

WG Grace (*)
Desmond Haynes
George Headley
Virat Kohli
Richie Richardson
Colin Bland
Denis Lindsay (+)
Fazal Mahmood
Clarrie Grimmett
Dennis Lillee
Ole Mortensen

 

[AndrewB]

Test_Fan_Only >> Red Hill >> fredfertang to finish the draft

 

[Red]

Test Fan Only already has a NZ player so I'll go ahead and pick Martin Donnelly as my final player. All in all not a bad XI. I probably jumped the gun picking O'Keefe early, but having a Malaysian born player at least makes things interesting. The rest is good, a brutal middle order of DeVilliers, Lloyd and Sobers, plus Ames, is the highlight, and could do some serious damage to a tiring attack.

Red Hill CC

Martin Donnelly
Chris Gayle
Younis Khan
AB DeVilliers
Clive Lloyd
Gary Sobers
Les Ames +
Kapil Dev
Steve O'Keefe
Ray Lindwall
Waqar Younis

 

[Test_Fan_Only]

Thilan Samaraweera (Sri Lanka)

- Glenn Turner - New Zealand
- Ravi Shastri - India
- Wally Hammond - UK
- Jacques Kallis - South Africa
- Clyde Walcott - Barbados
- Thilan Samaraweera - Sri Lanka
- Keith Miller - Australia
- Mushfiqur Rahim+ - Bangladesh
- Imran Khan* - Pakistan
- Michael Holding - Jamaica
- Sonny Ramadhin - Trinidad and Tobago

Openers are clearly a bit weak although Shastri did average mid 40s as an opener as well as Turner. Plenty of quality batting with depth with Imran Kham at 9.
Lots of bowling options with Holding, Imran, Miller, Kallis and Hammond to bowl fast, and, Ramadhin and Shastri to bowl spin.

 

[fredfertang]

Kenyan Steve Tikolo to finish things off, leaving this splendid lot to line up as Fred's Fertangs


Barry Richards - South Africa
Vinoo Mankad - India
Kumar Sangakkara - Sri Lanka
Everton Weekes - Barbados
Kane Williamson - New Zealand
Steve Tikolo - Kenya
Bart King - USA
Harold Larwood - UK
Shane Warne - Australia
Saqlain Mushtaq - Pakistan
Patrick Patterson - Jamaica

 

[AndrewB]

Cheers all; http://www.cricketweb.net/forum/cricket-chat/80006-poll-birthplace-draft.html is now up.

Obviously you could pick a tremendously strong team meeting the requirements - e.g.

Jack Hobbs (UK)
Barry Richards (SA)
Viv Richards (Antigua)
Sachin Tendulkar (India)
Brian Lara (T&T)
Garry Sobers (Barbados)
Adam Gilchrist (Australia)
Imran Khan (Pakistan)
Richard Hadlee (NZ)
Michael Holding (Jamaica)
Muttiah Muralitharan (SL)

but some of the picks had me wondering how strong a team you could be if players born in Test countries were excluded... bending the rules to allow Scotland because I was struggling to come up with decent batsmen:

Archie Jackson (Scotland)
Paul Terry (Germany)
George Headley (Panama)
Ted Dexter (Italy)
Steve Tikolo (Kenya)
Freddie Brown (Peru)
Geraint Jones (PNG)
Bart King (USA)
Phil Edmonds (Zambia)
Steve O'Keefe (Malaysia)
Ole Mortensen (Denmark)

 

[Teuton]

As promised earlier i have come up with a follow up draft based on birthplaces as well. See the new thread and sign up if interested.