Historical T20 XI

[ma1978]

Would love to see these guys compete

historical t20

Farokh Engineer +
Victor Trumper
Don Bradman
Viv Richards
Garry Sobers (5)
Basil D’Oliveira (7)
Lance Klusener (6)
Kapil Dev (3)
Richard Hadlee (1)
Harold Larwood (2)
Derek Underwood (4)

could they beat the the actual t20 best xi, say

Chris Gayle
Shane Watson (7)
Virat Kohli
AB De Villiers
MS Dhoni + (c)
Andrew Symonds (6)
Hardik Pandya (5)
Rashid Khan (6)
Mitchell Starc (3)
Lasith Malinga (2)
Jasorit Bumrah (1)

 

[capt_Luffy]

You have to put Gilbert Jessop (for Oliveira), Bill O'Reilly (for Underwood) and Sydney Barnes (for Hadlee) up there....

 

[Ali TT]

What about 90s cricketers who played either only a handful of T20 matches, like Wasim, or a bunch once they'd retired from everything else and were well past their best, like Gilchrist?

 

[Socerer 01]

Gilchrist was still a monster at t20s lol even past his peak and has more than 100 t20s played

 

[Socerer 01]

historical xi

Don Bradman
Viv Richards
Zaheer Abbas
Gary Sobers
Keith Miller
Gilbert Jessop
Denis Lindsay (keeper)
Kapil Dev
Richard Hadlee
Bill O'Reilly
Joel Garner

2 best batsmen in the top 3 like most t20 teams do with Bradman being the t20 version of anchor and a very aggressive player from a still modern time in Abbas to follow. Sobers to adapt to the situation and then Miller, Jessop, Lindsay and Kapil to bosh. you could even replace Lindsay and stick in a pure wicket keeper like Blackham or Knott and push Kapil and Hadlee one spot above because no 7 and no 8 in t20s barely bat and when they do they often have to hit out anyway. on 2nd thought that might be better

Kapil and Hadlee open the bowling to cause early swing, Miller bowls when you high pace, O'Reilly bowls all sorts of variations at quick speed woth awkward bounce like the modern t20 mystery spinners, Sobers can do the tying down role that finger spinners tend to do and Garner is my pièce de résistance of the t20 side, the death overs specialist. good luck trying to hit him for runs lol. Jessop can bowl still and so can Viv but i doubt you need either of them

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Would love to see these guys compete

historical t20

Farokh Engineer +
Victor Trumper
Don Bradman
Viv Richards
Garry Sobers (5)
Basil D’Oliveira (7)
Lance Klusener (6)
Kapil Dev (3)
Richard Hadlee (1)
Harold Larwood (2)
Derek Underwood (4)

could they beat the the actual t20 best xi, say

Chris Gayle
Shane Watson (7)
Virat Kohli
AB De Villiers
MS Dhoni + (c)
Andrew Symonds (6)
Hardik Pandya (5)
Rashid Khan (6)
Mitchell Starc (3)
Lasith Malinga (2)
Jasorit Bumrah (1)

Klusener played T20s

 

[Fuller Pilch]

What about 90s cricketers who played either only a handful of T20 matches, like Wasim, or a bunch once they'd retired from everything else and were well past their best, like Gilchrist?

Chris Harris in T20s:

Averaged 70.66 with the bat (s/r 120.68)
Averaged 23.11 with the ball (e/r 6.25)

 

[Socerer 01]

the cowards at bcci should have included the icl stats into t20 ones instead of ruling it illegal entirely

 

[Patience and Accuracy+Gut]

Bradman*
Trumper
Viv
Hammond
Sobers
Lloyd
Cameron+
Lindwall
Garner
O’Reilly
Barnes

 

[Kenneth Viljoen]

1.Don Bradman
2.Barry Richards
3.Viv Richards
4.Garry Sobers
5.Colin Bland
6.Mike Procter
7.Imran Khan (C)
8.Allan Knott (WK)
9.Malcolm Marshall
10.Bill O'Reilly
11.Derek Underwood

 

[AndrewB]

A pre List-A XI, making a lot of use of Charles Davis's list of fastest scorers:

Victor Trumper
Charles Macartney
Don Bradman
Frank Woolley
Stan McCabe
Gilbert Jessop
Jock Cameron+
Maurice Tate
Alan Davidson
Hedley Verity
Bill O'Reilly

Tate, Davidson, Verity and O'Reilly all conceded less than 2 per over in Tests; Tate was also a very fast scorer. All the batsmen except Trumper and Bradman did a fair amount of bowling in Tests.
Other candidates include Jimmy Sinclair (very fast scorer, but his bowling was expensive), Learie Constantine, Richie Benaud, Jack Gregory and Keith Miller.

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

Les Ames deserves a spot in historical XI. He used to hit it hard