World XI the day you were born

[zaremba]

1.5.06

 

[Jarquis]

Are you sure Gilly has the gloves ahead of Sangakkara?

No I'm not. Nice one Marcuss
Made the mistake of scrolling down once I got to 10, missed him completely.

 

[G.I.Joe]

C.G. Greenidge
G. Wood
Zaheer Abbas
D.I. Gower
I.V.A. Richards
Kapil Dev
R.W. Marsh +
R.J. Hadlee
R.G.D. Willis
E.J. Chatfield
A.M.E. Roberts
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12th man G.M. Turner


Best possible ODI side on the day India won the World cup, featuring exactly 1 Indian Probably fittingly, Kapil was by far the best ODI all rounder, featuring in the top 10 of both batting and bowling rankings. I've left the batsmen and bowlers in the order they appeared in the rankings, other than the openers, Kapil and Marsh.

 

[Jarquis]

Based on your previous clue, w're talking May or June aren't we? I'll go May.

Yeah we are. Would you like to guess the day? Closest out of you and Z gets my avatar?

 

[Jarquis]

1.5.06

Now you know about Gilly/Sanga I'll let you have another guess at the date if you'd like?

 

[wpdavid]

Yeah we are. Would you like to guess the day? Closest out of you and Z gets my avatar?

I think it has to be 2nd half of may based on one of your clues, so I'll go with 20/5/2006.

 

[G.I.Joe]

Last clue.

The 30th of April is closer than the 31st of July.

So thats May or the first half of June? I'm so good at figuring these things out.

 

[zaremba]

No 1.5.09 was my guess - by then I was already resigned to Gilly being an anomaly

 

[Jarquis]

So thats May or the first half of June? I'm so good at figuring these things out.

Piece it together and you'll be close.

 

[zaremba]

C.G. Greenidge
G. Wood
Zaheer Abbas
D.I. Gower
I.V.A. Richards
Kapil Dev
R.W. Marsh +
R.J. Hadlee
R.G.D. Willis
E.J. Chatfield
A.M.E. Roberts
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12th man G.M. Turner


Best possible ODI side on the day India won the World cup, featuring exactly 1 Indian Probably fittingly, Kapil was by far the best ODI all rounder, featuring in the top 10 of both batting and bowling rankings. I've left the batsmen and bowlers in the order they appeared in the rankings, other than the openers, Kapil and Marsh.

An amazing array of strokeplayers in there.

 

[Jarquis]

No 1.5.09 was my guess - by then I was already resigned to Gilly being an anomaly

1st of July is closer than the 1st of April

Can't be the 1st of May, wpdavid was correct in saying :

I think it has to be 2nd half of may based on one of your clues, so I'll go with 20/5/2006.

Good effort. just 4 days out.
24th May 2006.

Avatar?

 

[G.I.Joe]

Piece it together and you'll be close.

16-5-06 to 15-6-06. Pick a date

Edit: Beaten.

 

[Jarquis]

16-5-06 to 15-6-06. Pick a date

Edit: Beaten.

Yeah, sorry. Dropped you at June

 

[G.I.Joe]

An amazing array of strokeplayers in there.

yeah, but they were no match for the team that unleashed the might of the dibbly dobblers on them.

 

[KiWiNiNjA]

Mine will pretty much be the same as Saggers and GIMPs.

 

[wpdavid]

Can't be the 1st of May, wpdavid was correct in saying :


Good effort. just 4 days out.
24th May 2006.

Avatar?

Gawd, I don't know. Something to remind us of our previous success in SA, and I don't mean Hansie's leather jacket. Maybe a nice piccy of Hoggard to encourage our current bunch of swingers.

 

[zaremba]

Loved that challenge Marcuss.

 

[Jarquis]

Loved that challenge Marcuss.

Yeah, I thought the "Guess the day" idea was quite original myself

 

[SJS]

BOWLERS

1 871 C.V. Grimmett AUS 901 v South Africa, 28/02/1936
2 848 W.J. O'Reilly AUS 901 v New Zealand, 29/03/1946
3 784 H. Verity ENG 853 v Australia, 01/01/1937
4 604 W.E. Bowes ENG 701 v West Indies, 22/07/1939
5 577 E.A. Martindale WI 577 v England, 14/03/1935
6 546 L.N. Constantine WI 622 v England, 19/08/1939
7 519 W. Voce ENG 739 v Australia, 18/12/1936
8 428 R.W.V. Robins ENG 520 v New Zealand, 14/08/1937
9 398 M.S. Nichols ENG 473 v South Africa, 15/06/1935
10 394 E.P. Nupen SA 463 v England, 13/02/1931


BATSMEN

1 931 D.G. Bradman AUS 961 v India, 06/02/1948
2 863 G.A. Headley WI 915 v England, 21/01/1948
3 749 W.R. Hammond ENG 897 v New Zealand, 31/03/1933
4 736 S.J. McCabe AUS 854 v England, 10/06/1938
5 669 B. Mitchell SA 781 v England, 01/01/1949
6 645 A.D. Nourse SA 922 v England, 07/06/1951
7 644 M. Leyland ENG 759 v Australia, 01/01/1937
8 583 L.E.G. Ames ENG 619 v Australia, 06/07/1934
9 548 R.E.S. Wyatt ENG 575 v Australia, 23/02/1933
10 518 W.A. Brown AUS 697 v New Zealand, 29/03/1946

So can make a pretty good team out of that list

January 1936 ??

 

[Jarquis]

Gawd, I don't know. Something to remind us of our previous success in SA, and I don't mean Hansie's leather jacket. Maybe a nice piccy of Hoggard to encourage our current bunch of swingers.

A choice for you.

Matthew Hoggard appeals | Photo | Global | Cricinfo.com

Matthew Hoggard claims Graeme Smith's wicket | Photo | Global | Cricinfo.com

Matthew Hoggard celebrates Andrew Hall's dismissal | Photo | Global | Cricinfo.com

Matthew Hoggard celebrates bowling Jacques Kallis | Photo | Global | Cricinfo.com