Name your countries all star XI

[The Sean]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Matt79
If we're doing the team we'd most like to go see play my team would be:

Trumper
Hayden
Bradman
Chappell
M. Waugh
Miller
Gilchrist
Warne
Lindwall
Lillee
Thomson

Actually replace one of Chappell or Waugh with Walters...

I'd pay a lot of money to see that side in action. Couldn't argue with any of that really, though I reckon I'd simply have to find a spot for Stan McCabe.

Norman O'Neill and Charlie Macartney both pushing hard too.

EDIT - and no, I still haven't worked out multi-quote...

 

[Richard]

no, I still haven't worked out multi-quote...

Haha. See the nice multi-quote buttons? Click one, see it turn red, then click another, then click the quote button when you have all those you wish.

 

[The Sean]

Actually replace one of Chappell or Waugh with Walters...

Haha. See the nice multi-quote buttons? Click one, see it turn red, then click another, then click the quote button when you have all those you wish.

I even saw them and still couldn't work out how to use them.

Thanks mate.

 

[Beleg]

Now, this is what I call a compelling arguement.

 

[Richard]

ATWA TBH. Posts comprised exclusively of a single Rolleyes are pretty unconvincing ones really.

 

[Perm]

Now, this is what I call a compelling arguement.

I wasn't trying to make an argument, I questioned you as to why you thought Saqlain Mushtaq wasn't a good spinner and you responded with "He wasn't good enough", which is quite honestly a terrible response to a serious question. In this case I think you fully deserved the roll-eyes.

 

[Perm]

ATWA TBH. Posts comprised exclusively of a single Rolleyes are pretty unconvincing ones really.

Pot. Kettle. Black.

 

[Richard]

I only ever do it if it's at least in part non-serious, though. (Such as my ones directed at Nath, Whelan and Sriram of late.)

Either that or blatantly obvious (such as the one I directed at cpr vis-a-vis the old-whiskey stereotype crap).

 

[Beleg]

I wasn't trying to make an argument, I questioned you as to why you thought Saqlain Mushtaq wasn't a good spinner and you responded with "He wasn't good enough", which is quite honestly a terrible response to a serious question. In this case I think you fully deserved the roll-eyes.

If you had bothered to read the thread (and my post) correctly, you would have realized that they do not concern whether a player is good or not, but are about a country's all-time XI's. I never asserted (or thought, or wrote - quite the contrary in fact) that Saqlain's not good. He just wasn't good enough to be in MY XI because Pakistan has produced several bowlers better than him. Ergo, he's not good enough.

In summation, your initial question was poorly thought out and totally redundant - and the 'rolleyes' just sums up your attitude towards serious discourse.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Hutton
Hobbs
Compton
Grace
Hammond
Botham
Knott
Trueman
Laker
Underwood
Tyson

 

[ChipSomeSixes]

Australian team 1987-present

Australian team 1987-present (Why? Because im young - never saw Bradman, Miller, Lillee, or others play the game)

David Boon (52 stubbies...not a bad effort)
Matthew Hayden
Ricky Ponting (Captain material)
Allan Border
Steve Waugh (Vice Captain material)
Andrew Symonds (specialist fieldsman - whips them in from the boundary, most others have custard arms)
Adam Gilchrist
Shane Warne
Glenn McGrath
Jason Gillespie (hits handy 200s)
Scott Muller

 

[The_Bunny]

Australian team 1987-present (Why? Because im young - never saw Bradman, Miller, Lillee, or others play the game)

David Boon (52 stubbies...not a bad effort)
Matthew Hayden
Ricky Ponting (Captain material)
Allan Border
Steve Waugh (Vice Captain material)
Andrew Symonds (specialist fieldsman - whips them in from the boundary, most others have custard arms)
Adam Gilchrist
Shane Warne
Glenn McGrath
Jason Gillespie (hits handy 200s)
Scott Muller

Haha Gun team

 

[burr]

Team I’d like to watch:

Slater
Taylor (C)
Ponting
Chappell, G
Waugh, M
Martyn
Gilchrist
Warne
May
Lillee
Thompson

 

[honestbharani]

Team I’d like to watch:

Slater
Taylor (C)
Ponting
Chappell, G
Waugh, M
Martyn
Gilchrist
Warne
May
Lillee
Thompson

That looks an excellent side, although maybe prone to the odd batting collapse or two and might just struggle in the subcontinent to take 20 wickets consistently.


Still, would be one of the best XI s to watch.

 

[Shaggy Alfresco]

Gooch
Hutton (c)
Barrington
Compton
Pietersen
Botham
Stewart (wk)
Flintoff
Gough
Trueman
Panesar

Boycott initially invited into the starting XI, but refused selection after being overlooked for the captaincy.

 

[burr]

That looks an excellent side, although maybe prone to the odd batting collapse or two and might just struggle in the subcontinent to take 20 wickets consistently.


Still, would be one of the best XI s to watch.

Lol, now you mention it, it probably would be prone to a lot of batting collapses, and yes, with Warne’s record, don’t like our chances in India. Ahhh well, we may lose but I’d have fun watching

 

[The Sean]

Team I’d like to watch:

Slater
Taylor (C)
Ponting
Chappell, G
Waugh, M
Martyn
Gilchrist
Warne
May
Lillee
Thompson

Very handy side - light a bowler IMO, but with batsmen like that, who'd want to watch them bowl anyway?

 

[pasag]

For today:

Trumper
Ponsford
Bradman
Chappell
Harvey
Miller
Gilchrist
Warne
O'Reilly
Lillee
Spofforth

12th man McGrath

 

[honestbharani]

Lol, now you mention it, it probably would be prone to a lot of batting collapses, and yes, with Warne’s record, don’t like our chances in India. Ahhh well, we may lose but I’d have fun watching

Actually, I think it is only the subcontinent thing which will be the weak point of this side. Otherwise, I don't see too much wrong with it.

I mean, with Ponting, Greg Chappell, Martyn and Mark Waugh.... They won't really be prone to that many batting collapses, tbh.

 

[The Sean]

And TBF, Marto became quite the subcontinent specialist.