Team Built For <<Challenge>>

[tooextracool]

Probably because you'd want Strauss on any track, flat or not!

certainly explains why he wasnt in the seamer frienly track team.

 

[willb88]

I would pick:

1. Strauss - can bat for a day with no trouble.
2. Langer - in great form.
3. Kirsten - can bat forever easily.
4. Vaughan - we all know how good he is when in form.
5. Thorpe - can bat for ages.
6. Atherton - great player bats for ages, boring.
7. Kallis - stays in and gets runs - used as a bowler too.
8. Boucher - best keeper/batsman that can block out/defend.
9. Warne - can bat well for a bowler.
10. Gillespie - can bat ok for a bowler.
11. Hoggard - worked hard on blocking out - another bowler

4 bowlers a keeper and 7 batsmen, best team balance you can get with a few part time bowlers

 

[Anil]

Because it's a match situation... and because I stated it in my initial post.

even so, imo, the best team whether it is to bat for 2, 3 or 5 days would need to have the best players(they can bat fast or slow and they can go on and on....), not necessarily good defensive minded players...

a good team from players i have watched would be:

gavaskar
gooch
dravid
kallis
lara
tendulkar
healy
imran
pollock
warne
gillespie

 

[marc71178]

4 bowlers a keeper and 7 batsmen, best team balance you can get with a few part time bowlers

Debateable as to the 4th one though.

 

[Mister Wright]

Scenario 1:

A. Strauss
G. Kirsten
R. Dravid
J. Kallis
A. Border
S. Chanderpaul
A. Parore
S. Pollock
W. Akram
D. Vettori
A. Caddick

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

I was hesitant to slip Strauss in there because, he is determined and can stay at the crease for a while, but the way he's gotten out lately has been a bit of a concern. He does seem to lose concentration for small periods and in those periods is succeptible to dismissal.

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

I would pick:

1. Strauss - can bat for a day with no trouble.
2. Langer - in great form.
3. Kirsten - can bat forever easily.
4. Vaughan - we all know how good he is when in form.
5. Thorpe - can bat for ages.
6. Atherton - great player bats for ages, boring.
7. Kallis - stays in and gets runs - used as a bowler too.
8. Boucher - best keeper/batsman that can block out/defend.
9. Warne - can bat well for a bowler.
10. Gillespie - can bat ok for a bowler.
11. Hoggard - worked hard on blocking out - another bowler

4 bowlers a keeper and 7 batsmen, best team balance you can get with a few part time bowlers

So Gillespie's bowling against himself?

 

[Mister Wright]

I was hesitant to slip Strauss in there because, he is determined and can stay at the crease for a while, but the way he's gotten out lately has been a bit of a concern. He does seem to lose concentration for small periods and in those periods is succeptible to dismissal.

I'd take him batting 78 overs for 130-140 any day, then making the odd really big score and then being inconsistent between those.

With such a strong batting line-up, the team is assured to bat 2 days if Strauss can see out 2 sessions & a half.

 

[James90]

Survival Scenario
1.Langer
2.Gibbs
3.Kirsten
4.Dravid
5.Thorpe
6.Atapattu
7.Gilchrist (take the sting out of the bowlers)
8.Mohd Sami
9.Gillespie
10.Hoggard
11.Tareq Aziz

 

[LongHopCassidy]

Survival XI:

1. Sunil Gavaskar
2. Hashan Tillekaratne
3. Mark Butcher
4. Rahul Dravid
5. Steve Waugh
6. Allan Border (captain)
7. Ian Healy (keeper)
8. Chaminda Vaas
9. Jason Gillespie
10. Tim May
11. Matthew Hoggard

Flat Track XI:

1. Graeme Smith
2. Matthew Hayden
3. Rahul Dravid
4. Michael Vaughan
5. VVS Laxman
6. Jacques Kallis
7. Adam Gilchrist (keeper)
8. Daniel Vettori
9. Anil Kumble
10. Andy Bichel
11. Glenn McGrath

What about a Sledging XI?

1. Justin Langer
2. Graeme Smith
3. Ian Chappell
4. Javed Miandad
5. Steve Waugh (captain)
6. Kumar Sangakkara (keeper)
7. Ian Botham
8. Shane Warne
9. Harbhajan Singh
10. Merv Hughes
11. Glenn McGrath

 

[cric_manic]

i think fleming should be in the sledging XI after what he did to greame smith

 

[LongHopCassidy]

Graeme Smith gives out some feisty verbals himself.

 

[cric_manic]

he could'nt hadle it when someone gives it back.after that the press was crying foul saying it was a personal attack on smith but smith was just a cry baby

 

[Craig]

Atherton fair enough, but who would you take out for Kallis?

Hussain?

 

[tooextracool]

i wouldnt drop hussain, the man is custom made to bat for his life. id drop chanderpaul quite comfortably, although not for kallis, but for one of the players ive mentioned in my earlier post.

 

[Craig]

Survival XI:

MH Richardson (would bat all day and some if he had to)
G Kirsten
R Dravid
JH Kallis
GP Thorpe
+A Flower
HH Streak
SM Pollock
DL Vettori
Wasim AKram
AA Donald

 

[Jono]

Survival Scenario:

Kirsten
Richardson
Dravid
Hussain
Kallis
*Steve Waugh
+Healy
Pollock
Kumble
Akram
Hoggard

Flat Track Scenario:

Hayden
Sehwag
Dravid
Tendulkar
Lara
Kallis
+Gilchrist
*Akram
Ambrose
Warne
Murali

 

[FaaipDeOiad]

Survival XI
1. Langer
2. Richardson
3. Dravid
4. Kallis
5. S. Waugh
6. Border
7. Stewart
8. Pollock
9. Vettori
10. Gillespie
11. Hoggard

Flat Track XI
1. Hayden
2. Sehwag
3. Ponting
4. Tendulkar
5. Lara
6. Gilchrist
7. Flintoff
8. Akram
9. Warne
10. Vaas
11. Harbhajan

 

[FaaipDeOiad]

What about a Sledging XI?

1. Justin Langer
2. Graeme Smith
3. Ian Chappell
4. Javed Miandad
5. Steve Waugh (captain)
6. Kumar Sangakkara (keeper)
7. Ian Botham
8. Shane Warne
9. Harbhajan Singh
10. Merv Hughes
11. Glenn McGrath[/QUOTE]

Not bad, but I think David Boon has to make it, and Ganguly could get a run as well.

 

[Pratters]

Survival XI

M.Richardson
S.M.Gavaskar
R.S.Dravid
B.C.Lara
S.R.Waugh
G.Thorpe
A.Flower
J.Oram
W.Akram
P.Symcox
J.Gillespie