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Super wicket team

h_hurricane

International Vice-Captain
How about a super wicket team discussion ?

Rules:

Only 6 players allowed per team.
Only a pair of batsmen to bat. Once a batsman is out, the innings finishes. The only objective of the batsman is to face as many balls as possible. You bat more balls than the opposition, you win.
Only 3 bowlers allowed per team. One of them has to be a spinner.

My ATG super wicket team:

Bradman
Hobbs
Knott
Marshall
Steyn
Warne

Hate to leave Sobers out.
 

honestbharani

Whatever it takes!!!
Wont u be better served with Sobers over Hobbs then? Need batsmen and bowlers who were gun fielders too, I think.
 

h_hurricane

International Vice-Captain
Yep, that is a tricky trade off though. Hobbs was better I feel in saving his wicket. Sobers better in slips. Whom to chose ? Depends on which side of the bed I get up on a given day.
 

ParwazHaiJunoon

First Class Debutant
Bradman
Steve Smith
ABDv (based on 43(297) innings)
Wasim Akram
Glenn McGrath (his 4th stump line will get W of tuk tuk batters)
Abdul Qadir
 

h_hurricane

International Vice-Captain
If ABDv is chosen as a batsman, he has to open. Once one of the openers is out, the innings finishes.
 

a massive zebra

International Captain
Wont u be better served with Sobers over Hobbs then? Need batsmen and bowlers who were gun fielders too, I think.
Hobbs was one of the best fielders of his generation.The Surrey and England wicketkeeper Herbert Strudwick described Hobbs as "the finest cover point I ever saw". The 1907 Wisden reported:

1907 Wisden said:
It should be said here that Hobbs improved out of knowledge in his fielding, gaining so much in pace after the ball and smartness in picking it up that at third man and in the deep field he could be compared with anyone except Denton and Tyldesley.
Hobbs biographer Leo McKinstry wrote:

Leo McKinstry said:
Under Leveson Gower's captaincy at Surrey, Hobbs had moved from the outfield to the covers and in this new position he flourished. Batsmen became mesmerised by the sleek figure of Hobbs patrolling the off-side. Booming drives were blocked almost with insouciance. Quick singles were full of danger. Apparently safe runs were suddenly turned into desperate lunges over the line as Hobbs, in one flowing movement, pounced on the ball and then hurled it at the keeper or the stumps. 'I never saw - and never hope to see - a finer cover than Jack Hobbs; even when there was cut on the ball, which so often happens to take it away to the left, he hardly ever fumbled, and his throw-in was perfect,' wrote the long serving Daily Express cricket correspondent William Pollock. Hobbs later explained 'I studied the methods of the players who were admittedly good, and where I could imitate them I did. Very soon I noted the beneficial effects. And as soon I took a real pleasure in straining after perfection in this department, I may claim that in time I became quite adept,' he wrote in 1926.

Hobbs prowess in the covers was based on a number of attributes. First, although he did not have a long throw, he certainly had a fast and accurate one. Contemporaries found it uncanny the way he could hit the stumps or the keepers gloves from almost any angle, a skill that reflected the same unerring special judgement that he brought to his batting. Again, as in his strokeplay, the was a perfect sense of timing in his arm action that helped to make his returns so swift. 'The only similar speed I've experienced was when I first kept to Harold Larwood,' said Strudwick of Hobbs throwing. Hobbs unique batting talent also gave him an instinctive sense of anticipation as a fielder. In a perceptive passage in a coaching manual, the Somerset cricketer Dar Lyon argued that this was the key to Hobbs brilliance 'Why was Hobbs the greatest cover in the game in modern times? It was because from his knowledge of batting he could tell by the way the batsman shaped for his stroke, by the the movement of his feet, in what direction the ball was coming. He could judge at once whether the batsman was going to play the ball gently to cover or hard. If the former, Hobbs took two or three more quick steps in, so that the batsman would at least have to scamper like a frightened rabbit if he was to steal a short run. Again, he could usually tell, by watching a batsman's position, if the coming stroke would send the ball to cover's left or two his right.' Another factor was Hobbs capacity for deception, a gift that mirrored the playful, mischievous side of his character. He loved to surprise the batsman by sudden changes of pace in his movements or by deliberately straying out of position. A vivid description of Hobbs cunning art was provided by The Daily Telegraph's Jim Swanton after watching him in action for Surrey 'He would walk about in an innocent, preoccupied sort of way, hands often in pockets between times. If the ball were pushed wide of him and the batsman made to run, he would usually move at quite a leisurely speed to cut it off. Then suddenly an apparently identical stroke would be repeated and this time the relaxed figure would sprint into action with cat-like swiftness - there was a dart, a swoop, and the swiftest of flicks at the stumps, with the batsman pounding to the crease, as if for dear life.' All these skills were on display in the 1911/12 series, when he developed a fearsome reputation among the Australians for his dexterity and speed. During all matches on the tour he was estimated to have run out fifteen batsmen and it was said that in the Australian dressing room batsmen were instructed not to take a run to him. 'In Hobbs we had a cover point the equal if any fieldsman in that position I have ever seen,' said Plum Warner.
 
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honestbharani

Whatever it takes!!!
Makes sense. I might be tempted to get in Gilly and Sobers for Hobbs and Knott though. Sobers and Gilly demolished attacks even with 9 fielders. Imagine what they would do with 4 :laugh:
 

honestbharani

Whatever it takes!!!
You can face balls by smashing them too though. Its more fun that way. We used to play a variation of this between classes at school in the corridors. It was more fun hitting them hard and then seeing the guys fielding have to run and fetch it when there were no runs at play. :laugh:
 

weeman27bob

International Vice-Captain
Get George Gunn in the team.

Another good tale about George Gunn is the time he was challenged to a single-wicket contest by a local amateur for £100. He refused, but the amateur persisted, and eventually he agreed to play for a fiver just to get rid of him.
Two days later, Gunn was 620 not out, and the amateur asked if he was going to declare. Gunn offered instead to bat on using the heavy roller as the wicket.
When he reached 777, the amateur gave up in a fit of pique.

Incidentally, I think you've sold George short - he was 50 when he was recalled for the tour of the West Indies. (And, famously, Derek Sealy of the opposing XI was born after Gunn's previous Test).
 

Red

The normal awards that everyone else has
Len Hutton
Don Bradman
Ian Healy
Dale Steyn
Waqar Younis
Stuart MacGill
 

Red

The normal awards that everyone else has
If the Don was unavailable I think I'd go Sachin or Smith
 

trundler

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Sutcliffe
Bradman
Jack Russell
Richard Hadlee
Glen McGrath
Muralitharan

Bat long, bowl relentlessly. Think DKL would fit my vision perfectly too.
 

ataraxia

International Coach
Bradman
Hutton
Knott +
Marshall
Steyn
O'Reilly

No Bradman and I'd have Hobbs/Sutcliffe opening.
 

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