North of England v South of England

[Pratters]

North having the better bowlers makes them the better side in a first class match.

 

[superkingdave]

Jefferson
Sutcliffe
*Vaughan
Collingwood
Flintoff
Irani
Blackwell
+Sutton
Hoggard
Harmison
Anderson

 

[superkingdave]

or maybe slip Chris Adams in to strengthen the batting - Cork for Anderson?

 

[BoyBrumby]

Crawley for the north?

 

[kendall]

The point is it shows how the southerners are a load of underachieving softies...

I cant be botherd too get into a pathetic argument about north and south divides

 

[The Baconator]

Crawley for the north?

According to his cricinfo thing , he's from Essex originally.

 

[superkingdave]

yeah i guess he should be southern, he did go to my school though so he must have moved up here when he was young

 

[Scaly piscine]

Despite Irani's 8 more first class centuries, including a double hundred and his average being far better (38.72 to 32.74)?

Irani's international record is awful, I just think he's one of those players like Harvey and Ealham that look great batting against county sides and look like tailenders batting against international attacks (also Essex's home ground is a lot better for batting than Yorkshi*e's). McGrath is crap, but I don't think he gets as dramatically worse as Irani does when you put them in international cricket.

 

[aussie]

Jefferson
Sutcliffe
*Vaughan
Collingwood
Flintoff
Irani
Blackwell
+Sutton
Hoggard
Harmison
Anderson

why play sutton when their is Jones, Read & prior???

 

[aussie]

Crawley for the north?

good option but who are you going to make way to fit him in???

 

[The Baconator]

why play sutton when their is Jones, Read & prior???

Jones: Papua New Guinea/Australia
Read: Devon
Prior: South Africa

 

[aussie]

yeah i guess he should be southern, he did go to my school though so he must have moved up here when he was young

crawley went to Manchester Grammar, shocking

 

[aussie]

Jones: Papua New Guinea/Australia
Read: Devon
Prior: South Africa

oh i didn't know we were taking all that into consideration....

 

[BoyBrumby]

Jones: Papua New Guinea/Australia
Read: Devon
Prior: South Africa

Alternatively:

G Jones: Kent & Prior: Sussex

 

[Langeveldt]

By the way for those that are intellectually challenged this is purely hypothetical and not some silly regular series of 3 ODIs that no TV company wants to cover.

Or a market driven bashabout that has no value to anything ever?

Just joshing, tend to agree with those line ups, although Pietersen doesn't have much daan sarf blood does he?

 

[superkingdave]

oh i didn't know we were taking all that into consideration....

well it is North vs South

 

[steds]

According to his cricinfo thing , he's from Essex originally.

Should have guessed the traitorous scum was a Southerner.

 

[FaaipDeOiad]

Seems to me that South have a much stronger batting lineup, and North have the better bowlers by far. It would actually be a pretty interesting sort of match to see.

 

[Craig]

This would be my current South XI. I'm not sure if Coventry is south of the Watford gap or not, so if it isn't I'll drop Bell for Joyce. Didn't consider Butch as he's crocked just now.

Trescothick
*Strauss
Key
Bell
Thorpe
Pietersen
+G. Jones
Giles
Tremlett
Caddick
Johnson

Anybody notice that the South XI has four overseas born players?

 

[Scaly piscine]

They're welcome to Caddick, as I said earlier any claim to KP is dubious. Thorpe has retired from Test cricket so South can't have him. So that gives South a bit more of a spineless look to it that they deserve. I'm sure someone could put the teams into a cricket sim if they wanted, but we all know in reality North would win because they'd eke out runs from somewhere and skittle South decent but fragile batting out twice.