With your own eyes XI

[Hurricane]

What is the best home XI and visiting XI you have witnessed live - this means you were at the park with a paid ticket - it could have been an FC game, or an international event.

If this thread has been done before then a chance for some fresh answers from the newer members.

To pick a batsman you must have seen them bat and likewise with a bowler.

Home XI

John Wright
B McCullum
Fleming
Crowe
Taylor
Greatbatch
Hadlee
Vettori
Bracewell
Bond
Martin

Visiting XI

1 Tamim
2 Ghambir
3 Border
4 Tendulkar
5 Dravid
6 Azza
7 Botham
8 Dev
9 Healy
10 Johnson
11 Alderman

 

[Agent Nationaux]

Unfortunately, I have only been to one cricket match in my life and it was a T20. It was the Edgbaston T20 last year between Pakistan and Australia in which Pakistan won. The best bowler was Gul and the best batsman on the day was Umar Akmal. Therefore I can't really make a comment regarding a best Test XI.

 

[fredfertang]

Its a good few years since I saw much live cricket so, wearing my best pair of rose tinted glasses

Visitors (though Lloyd and Engineer are honorary Lancastrians)

Barry Richards
Gordon Greenidge
Viv Richards
Shiv Chanderpaul
Clive Lloyd
Gary Sobers
Farokh Engineer
Andy Roberts
Sylvester Clarke
Wayne Daniel
Lance Gibbs

Home

Graeme Fowler
Graham Gooch
Harry Pilling
Frank Hayes
David Gower
Neil Fairbrother
Warren Hegg
Glen Chapple
Peter Lever
Ken Shuttleworth
Gary Keedy

 

[Zinzan]

What is the best home XI and visiting XI you have witnessed live - this means you were at the park with a paid ticket - it could have been an FC game, or an international event.

If this thread has been done before then a chance for some fresh answers from the newer members.

To pick a batsman you must have seen them bat and likewise with a bowler.

Home XI

John Wright
B McCullum
Fleming
Crowe
Taylor
Greatbatch
Hadlee
Vettori
Bracewell
Bond
Martin

Visiting XI

1 Tamim
2 Ghambir
3 Border
4 Tendulkar
5 Dravid
6 Azza
7 Botham
8 Dev
9 Healy
10 Johnson
11 Alderman

Surprised you didn't select Miandad considering how epic he was vs NZ

 

[Zinzan]

^ Just noticed you meant 'watched live'

 

[Riggins]

Home

Hayden
Slater/Watson
Ponting
Martyn
S Waugh
Hussey/Clarke
Gilchrist
Johnson/S Clark
Warne
Gillespie
McGrath

Away

Sehwag/Vaughn
Dravid
Kallis
Tendulkar
Lara
Pieterson
Boucher/ABdV
Pollock
Kumble
Steyn
Tait

Thought of throwing Andy Flower in the home side from when he was with the 'backs!

 

[Neil Pickup]

The vast majority of cricket-watching I've done has been in Australia.

Does Strauss-Cook-Trott-Pietersen-Bell-Collingwood-Prior-Bresnan-Swann-Anderson-Tremlett count as my home selection or my away selection?

 

[Vijay.Sharma]

What is the best home XI and visiting XI you have witnessed live - this means you were at the park with a paid ticket - it could have been an FC game, or an international event.

Can you relax the criteria a little to include watching on TV as well. Unlike Aus, Eng, and NZ in India we don't get many chances to watch Test cricket in our cities. And also given the stadiums were not very spectator friendly there hasn't been a thriving culture of dedicated cricket match watchers at the stadiums who watch most of the games in the season that are played in their cities.

 

[Fusion]

I want to infract the OP for rubbing it in that I have never watched a cricket game live.

 

[Outswinger@Pace]

A bulk of the matches I watched live were first-class matches. Didn't have to pay for my 'ticket' though!

The Home team would consist of a few players who never played internationally, but happen to be some of my personal favourites. I am not passing it off as the best possible XI and must not be interpreted in that sense either. Just some guys I'd skip any work to go and watch.

HOME TEAM

1) Gautam Gambhir
2) Wasim Jaffer
3) Rahul Dravid (capt.)
4) Mukund Parmar
5) Cheteshwar Pujara
6) VVS Laxman
7) Irfan Pathan Jr.
8) Dinesh Karthik (wk.)
9) Zaheer Khan
10) Rakesh Patel
11) Murali Karthik

AWAY TEAM

1) Mark Richardson
2) Marcus Trescothick
3) Michael Vaughan (capt.)
4) Damien Martyn
5) Andy Flower
6) Younis Khan
7) Shaun Pollock
8) Mark Boucher (wk.)
9) Jason Gillespie
10) Matthew Hoggard
11) Glenn McGrath

 

[smash84]

It was one of the matches that I witnessed (an ODI)

1st ODI: Pakistan v Australia at Karachi, Nov 6, 1998 | Cricket Scorecard | ESPN Cricinfo

both pretty formidable ODI line-ups

Also had been to an ODI b/w India and Pakistan which also featured Sachin, Dravid, Ganguly so difficult to say which one to pick.

 

[zaremba]

Crim XI

Slater
Hayden
Ponting
Waugh M
Waugh S
Border (c)
Gilchrist (w)
Warne
Gillespie
McGrath
Reid

 

[Hurricane]

Its a good few years since I saw much live cricket so, wearing my best pair of rose tinted glasses

Visitors (though Lloyd and Engineer are honorary Lancastrians)

Barry Richards
Gordon Greenidge
Viv Richards
Shiv Chanderpaul
Clive Lloyd
Gary Sobers
Farokh Engineer
Andy Roberts
Sylvester Clarke
Wayne Daniel
Lance Gibbs

Quite impressed with some of these names. You are very fortunate.

 

[zaremba]

Saffer XI

Smith (c)
G Kirsten
P Kirsten
Gibbs
AB De Villiers
Kallis
Boucher (w)
Pollock
Le Roux
Steyn
Donald

Now that, I would suggest, is a serious battery of fast bowlers, comparable to any attack put out by Clive Lloyd.

 

[morgieb]

I've seen like 2 cricket matches live, and neither of them were internationals, so....

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Home Team

Trescothick
Gooch
Vaughan
Gower
Thorpe
Botham
Flintoff
Russell
Gough
Caddick
Tufnell

Away Team

Taylor
Gayle
Ponting
Tendulkar
Lara
Waugh S
Healy
Hadlee
Warne
Ambrose
McGrath

 

[sumantra]

i watched all my cricket matches in one ground only, and that is eden gardens...from 1996 to 2002...the visiting teams were south africa, australia, pakistan and west indies...so

home

navjot singh sidhu
sadagoppan ramesh
rahul dravid
sachin tendulkar
mohm. azharuddin
v. v. s laxman
nayan mongia
javagal srinath
anil kumble
harbhajan singh
zaheer khan


away

mathew hayden
saeed anwar
ricky ponting
inzamam
steve waugh
chandrapaul
gilchrist
wasim
saqlin
waqar
mcgrath

 

[ankitj]

India and Australia teams from Bangalore test in 2004 I guess: 1st Test: India v Australia at Bangalore, Oct 6-10, 2004 | Cricket Scorecard | ESPN Cricinfo

 

[Noble One]

Home Team

M Hayden
J Langer
R Ponting
D Martyn
S Waugh
M Hussey
A Gilchrist
S Warne
J Gillespie
C McDermott
G McGrath

Away Team

S Anwar
G Kirsten
B Lara
J Kallis
I ul-Haq
K Sangakkara
M Boucher
S Pollock
W Akram
A Donald
C Ambrose

Attended my first match in 1994. Not a bad period in cricket history to begin picking players from.

 

[Daemon]

Uhh..

Singapore

Chaminda Ruwan
Monish Arora
Chetan Suryawanshi
Mulewa Dharmichand
Buddhika Mendis
Rezza Gaznavi
Saad Janjua(Captain)
Shoib Razzak
Pramodh Raja
Timothy Singham
Mohammad Ali
Sagar Kulkarni
Christopher Janik
Riaz Hussien

Never seen an international game ever.