Pick Two Openers for the 1946-2006 World Test XI

[aussie tragic]

Players or bowlers?

Players, and as Phoenix said, excluding Bradman....and Sobers

 

[silentstriker]

Players, and as Phoenix said, excluding Bradman....and Sobers

Hard to limit it to three TBH. I'll do top five (in no particular order).

• Hobbs
• Headley
• Hammond
• Trueman
• Barnes

 

[aussie tragic]

Hard to limit it to three TBH. I'll do top five (in no particular order).

• Hobbs
• Headley
• Hammond
• Trueman
• Barnes

Damm, I should have said post 46 to nail you down on your selections

 

[bagapath]

Actually, I don't think he was close even though baga some how got him in as 12th man by not running a poll

ha ha. it was a mistake. my apologies!

i think these three teams are enough to choose the best XI of the post war era. lets forget the wild cards. personally i would love to see benaud, compton, border etc in contention. but they will certainly lose to better players. so lets not even go there.

i would obviously go for sir leonard hutton and sunil gavaskar as openers. barring hobbs, these two would open any all time xi.

 

[archie mac]

I will go with the Don and choose Morris, I like the idea of the left-right hand. Although that seems to have changed these days

 

[oz_fan]

Hutton and Gavaskar

 

[The Sean]

Hard to limit it to three TBH. I'll do top five (in no particular order).

• Hobbs
• Headley
• Hammond
• Trueman
• Barnes

No Trumper?

Seriously though - no Miller? Obviously I'd have him there, but even for you I thought he might rank above at least a couple of those blokes.

 

[bagapath]

Originally Posted by aussie tragic
Yeah but that's because you're obviously biased towards current players since you rate GM # 1

btw, what are your best three players that played before 1960?

i know you didnt ask me. but here is my top 5 cricketers pre 1960 excluding bradman and sobers.

hobbs
hammond
oreilly
miller
trumper

 

[Poker Boy]

Sunil Gavaskae and Len Hutton

 

[silentstriker]

No Trumper?

Seriously though - no Miller? Obviously I'd have him there, but even for you I thought he might rank above at least a couple of those blokes.

Nope, no Miller. Hammond, Hobbs, Barnes, Trueman and Headley may all make my all time XI. Miller probably wouldn't.

 

[The Sean]

Nope, no Miller. Hammond, Hobbs, Barnes, Trueman and Headley may all make my all time XI. Miller probably wouldn't.

Fair enough mate. Though with Bradman and Sobers both givens, and I assume you'd pick SRT as well, adding both Hammond and Headley means you'll be batting a long way down! As great as all your picks are - I reckon Miller ranks higher on an all time allrounders list than Headley does as a batsman or Trueman as a bowler.

They're all below Trumper though.

 

[silentstriker]

Fair enough mate. Though with Bradman and Sobers both givens, and I assume you'd pick SRT as well, adding both Hammond and Headley means you'll be batting a long way down!

Well I may replace SRT with Hammond, really. It depends on my mood. If SRT makes it, Hammond wouldn't. And vice versa.

1. Hobbs
2. Gavaskar
3. Bradman
4. SRT/Hammond
5. Headley/Chappell/Richards
6. Sobers
7. Gilchrist
8. Warne
9. Marshall
10. Trueman/Barnes
11. McGrath

Something like that.

 

[The Sean]

Well I may replace SRT with Hammond, really. It depends on my mood. If SRT makes it, Hammond wouldn't. And vice versa.

1. Hobbs
2. Gavaskar
3. Bradman
4. SRT/Hammond
5. Headley/Chappell/Richards
6. Sobers
7. Gilchrist
8. Warne
9. Marshall
10. Trueman/Barnes
11. McGrath

Something like that.

Cool mate - a great side regardless, didn't realise you actually rated Trueman in that highly. A couple of us were picking our XIs in the other thread - very similar to yours overall.

 

[The Sean]

Saeed Anwar with equal votes to Greenidge, and more than Morris?

Has Anwar's family joined the forum, or did the PCB "intervene"?

 

[silentstriker]

Saeed Anwar with equal votes to Greenidge, and more than Morris?

Has Anwar's family joined the forum, or did the PCB "intervene"?

Only three votes for both and IMO you can't read too much into that.

 

[The Sean]

Only three votes for both and IMO you can't read too much into that.

Awww...but I wanted to see a conspiracy....

 

[adharcric]

Awww...but I wanted to see a conspiracy....

Well, two of them are Pakistani and the third is Ganguly.

 

[shortpitched713]

Saeed Anwar with equal votes to Greenidge, and more than Morris?

Has Anwar's family joined the forum, or did the PCB "intervene"?

Nah, some people just don't rate anyone who played before 1980.

 

[Beleg]

why exactly is Anwar a lesser batsman then Morris?

 

[shortpitched713]

How exactly is he a greater batsman than Hutton, Hayden, and Greenidge?