Mystery Draft Test Team Vote

[Athlai]

Come on in and vote folks.

The teams:

Michaelf7777777's XI
ML Hayden
MS Atapattu
R Dravid
SR Tendulkar
MD Crowe
AJ Stewart (wk)
SM Pollock
AM Blignaut
J Srinath
Mushtaq Ahmed
CA Walsh

Bagapath's Test XI
Sanath Jayasuriya
Stephen Fleming
Richie Richardson
Brian Lara
Younis Khan
Saurav Ganguly
Tatenda Taibu (wk)
Shane Warne
Angus Fraser
Ian Bishop
Makhaya Ntini

The Precambrians
V Sehwag
G Kirsten
R Ponting
R Sarwan
De Silva
J Ryder
M Prior (wk)
A Khan
S Clark
M Mortaza
G McGrath

Athlai's Avengers!
Chris Gayle (WI) (vc)
Marcus Trescothick (ENG)
Hashim Amla (SA)
Michael Hussey (AUS)
Tillakaratne Dilshan (SL)
MS Dhoni (Ind) (+)
Chris Cairns (NZ)
Shakib al Hasan (Ban)
Wasim Akram (Pak) (c)
Waqar Younis (Pak)
Shoaib Akhtar (Pak)

RICHARD DICKINSON APPRECIATION XI (NUFAN)
1 Graeme Smith [vc]
2 Michael Atherton
3 Mahela Jayawardena
4 David Houghton
5 Steve Waugh [c]
6 Kumar Sangakarra [wk]
7 Thilan Samaraweera
8 Dion Nash
9 Harbajhan Singh
10 Curtly Ambrose
11 Mohammed Asif

****awera ****s - Tests (chaminda_00)
1. Mark Richardson
2. Justin Langer
3. Gautam Gambhir
4. Andrew Jones
5. Inzaman-Ul-Haq
6. Murray Goodwin
7. Jacob Oram
8. Jeff Dujon (wk)
9. Fanie de Villiers
10. Darren Gough
11. Muttiah Muralitharan

Somerset's Mystery Test Draft XI
Andrew Strauss
Carl Hooper
John F Reid
Jacques Kallis
Mohammad Yousuf
Hashan Tillakaratne
Adam Gilchrist (wk)
Heath Streak
Anil Kumble
Dale Steyn
Allan Donald

Matt79's XI
Saeed Anwar
MP Vaughan
KP Pietersen
VVS Laxman
S Chanderpaul
A Flower (wk)
A Flintoff
JN Gillespie
SE Bond
A Nel
BAW Mendis

 

[bagapath]

i like athlai and matt's teams.

 

[grant28]

wow! thats generally hard to decide who has the best team.

 

[ozone]

Personally like the look of Somersets XI and Matts XI. Went for Somerset XI because it (arguably) the two best all-rounders in the time-frame in Gilchrist and Kallis.

 

[NUFAN]

I went with Michaelf7777777's XI.

He's picked similar players that I picked in the Pre WW1 draft in Dravid, Tendulkar and Walsh.

Pollock, Hayden and Crowe makes it 6 world class players.

Atapattu, Srinath, Stewart, Mushtaq all had distinguinshed careers. Blignaut is the only exception.

 

[Matt79]

Went for Athlai's team. Gun bowling, very good batting - should win plenty of matches.

 

[Simon]

Matt's team fairly comfortably imo. Most of the teams have 1-2 weaknesses but Matt's is very strong.

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

Many of those teams struggling with the available choices of captain. Not many of those teams have a decent one available. And then the team with a good captaincy selection (NUFAN's) doesn't have a particularly strong bowling attack with only Ambrose being truly World Class.