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ESPNcricinfo World XI
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smash84
The Tiger King
You echo my feelings there.
GotSpin
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Yeah I agree
Excitement XI? I'd be fairly damn excited watching Bradman play - Probably enough to have a bat myself
GotSpin
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
It's just a stupid idea
Jono
Virat Kohli (c)
No it's not.
Before on this board we've had people make XIs of players that they like, players that they most like watching etc.
It's just one of those activities cricket fans do.
Hating spinners, hating people making XIs of players that excite them... the **** is going on with Cricket Chat atm.
Before on this board we've had people make XIs of players that they like, players that they most like watching etc.
It's just one of those activities cricket fans do.
Hating spinners, hating people making XIs of players that excite them... the **** is going on with Cricket Chat atm.
GotSpin
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Go run home to your dolly then. I think it's a stupid idea. So what
Prince EWS
Global Moderator
They don't stick them in All Time World XI threads though, and if they do they get chastised. I just think the timing of it with cricinfo doing an ATWXI, and them being posted in this thread I suppose, muddies the waters a bit.
I never had a great problem with them anyway; I just had a laugh at how typical of Chappell it was to do a thrill-a-minute XI.
GotSpin
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
There's no way Sachin won't be in it. It's Cricinfo
honestbharani
Whatever it takes!!!
lol.. wud make interesting reading in the comments section though..
That said, I think that spot at #4 and #5, you could pick between any of Sachin, Lara, G Chappell, Viv Richards, Ponting, Steve Waugh, Border, Miandad, Hammond, Barrington, Pollock etc. Really won't make a real difference to the batting strength of the side if you take any of these as your 2 IMO..
GotSpin
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Id like Hammond/Border/Chappeli in there but they won't get past Sachin and Richardslol.. wud make interesting reading in the comments section though..
That said, I think that spot at #4 and #5, you could pick between any of Sachin, Lara, G Chappell, Viv Richards, Ponting, Steve Waugh, Border, Miandad, Hammond, Barrington, Pollock etc. Really won't make a real difference to the batting strength of the side if you take any of these as your 2 IMO..
Athlai
Not Terrible
Border? Thats pretty interesting. Always felt he was a little below the likes of Hammond, Chappell, Sachin and Richards.
GotSpin
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
It's mostly bias that I think Border should be in there - Fairly happy to admit that though. Still think he's incredibly underrated in most circles though.
Athlai
Not Terrible
Agreed. My Border > Ponting thread ended poorly.
Matt79
Hall of Fame Member
As someone else mentioned Chappell's XI was interesting because it was a reminder of just how awesome a team you can make without recourse to the usual suspects. I've been playing around the last few days with different combinations based on that idea, and have thought a few times that against my "standard" all-time XI, a few of the teams would be well and truly capable of holding their own and getting the odd win against them.
You could do a reverse of Chappell's team and have the "Solid/Metronome XI" and it could be an awesome team that would equally have the potential to knock off any XI - names like Boycott, Barrington, Dravid, Kallis, McGrath, Ambrose, Grimmett etc etc.
You could do a reverse of Chappell's team and have the "Solid/Metronome XI" and it could be an awesome team that would equally have the potential to knock off any XI - names like Boycott, Barrington, Dravid, Kallis, McGrath, Ambrose, Grimmett etc etc.
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andyc
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Not positive about Sachin and Richards tbh. The team that the readers pick will have them, for sure, but going by the All Time XIs selected for each country, whoever's selecting them seems to love picking blokes from yesteryear over modern players, like with Trumper and Morris getting in over Hayden, and Fredricks getting in over Dujon, when I'm pretty sure both would've romped it in in the readers pick. Not saying that those guys didn't have a case to be selected, obviously, just that the selectors may well feel like they have to do something a bit different to what the general public thinks.