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World XI which would be nightmare for your Team

Slifer

Slifer

International Captain
For WI

Sunil
Gooch
Kallis
Chappell G
Youssuf
Waugh S
Gilchrist
Imran*
Wasim
Murali
McGrath
 
K

Kirkut

International Regular
That pissed off West Indies side which toured India after losing 1983 World Cup.

Cannot think of another visiting side thrashing us like that.
 
sunilz

sunilz

International Regular
Kirkut said:
That pissed off West Indies side which toured India after losing 1983 World Cup.

Cannot think of another visiting side thrashing us like that.
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Lol that 83 Indian side was a garbage test side because of non-existent bowling attack except Kapil. Between Jan 82 to Nov 86 (59 months) IND had won just 1 out of 18 tests at home.?
 
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CodeOfWisden

CodeOfWisden

U19 Debutant
1 Jayasuriya
2.Anwar
3.Steve Smith
4.Damien Martyn
5.Kallis
6.Flower
7.Imran Khan
8.Saqlain Mushtaq
9. Mohd Amir/ Mohd Asif
10.Anderson
11. Mcgrath
 
K

Kirkut

International Regular
sunilz said:
Lol that 83 Indian side was a garbage test side because of non-existent bowling attack except Kapil. Between Jan 82 to Nov 86 (59 months) IND had won just 1 out of 18 tests at home.?
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Don't just count tests, we lost 5-0 in ODIs too. When was the last time an overseas side whitewashed us in an ODI series at home? Especially a non Asian side!

Besides had Gavaskar and Vengsarkar not notched up some top scores, we were surely losing the test series 6-0.
 
stephen

stephen

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Haynes
Sehwag
V Richards (c)
Lara
De Villiers
Kallis
Dujon+
Steyn
Marshall
Ambrose
Kumble

12th: Bumrah

Restricted it to only those I've watched..
 
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bagapath

bagapath

International Captain
am using the post packer reunion in mid 1979 and Malcom Marshall's farewell test in summer of 1991 to bookend the era of the great West Indies teams. both Lloyd and Richards captained those teams he played in during this era.

they lost once in between - the 1980 series in New Zealand of which Marshall and Viv Richards played no part.

during Macko's career West Indies didn't win thrice against Pak and beat them only once
they could not beat England in what was his last series
they didn't win against New Zealand in 1987 after which Holding and Garner retired.
they had to settle for a draw against India after the '87 world cup when he (and the other giant fast bowlers) didn't play
and they managed a draw against a very strong Lillee driven Australia in 1981-81 when Marshall was still raw and, again, didn't play.

otherwise they beat everyone everywhere for 13 years.
he was never part of any losing series after his debut tour in India.
and in most of those winning series and matches he played the decisive hand.
so I am taking his era as the dominant WI era.

Best XI against the great West Indies teams between summer of 1979 and summer of 1991

Sunil Gavaskar
Graham Gooch
Martin Crowe
Allan Lamb
Allan Border
Imran Khan *
Kapil Dev
Sir Richard Hadlee
Rodney Marsh +
Wasim Akram
Dennis Lillee
 
sunilz

sunilz

International Regular
bagapath said:
am using the post packer reunion in mid 1979 and Malcom Marshall's farewell test in summer of 1991 to bookend the era of the great West Indies teams. both Lloyd and Richards captained those teams he played in during this era.

they lost once in between - the 1980 series in New Zealand of which Marshall and Viv Richards played no part.

during Macko's career West Indies didn't win thrice against Pak and beat them only once
they could not beat England in what was his last series
they didn't win against New Zealand in 1987 after which Holding and Garner retired.
they had to settle for a draw against India after the '87 world cup when he (and the other giant fast bowlers) didn't play
and they managed a draw against a very strong Lillee driven Australia in 1981-81 when Marshall was still raw and, again, didn't play.

otherwise they beat everyone everywhere for 13 years.
he was never part of any losing series after his debut tour in India.
and in most of those winning series and matches he played the decisive hand.
so I am taking his era as the dominant WI era.

Best XI against the great West Indies teams between summer of 1979 and summer of 1991

Sunil Gavaskar
Graham Gooch
Martin Crowe
Allan Lamb
Allan Border
Imran Khan *
Kapil Dev
Sir Richard Hadlee
Rodney Marsh +
Wasim Akram
Dennis Lillee
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Need Qadir or Hirwani.
 
honestbharani

honestbharani

Whatever it takes!!!
bagapath said:
am using the post packer reunion in mid 1979 and Malcom Marshall's farewell test in summer of 1991 to bookend the era of the great West Indies teams. both Lloyd and Richards captained those teams he played in during this era.

they lost once in between - the 1980 series in New Zealand of which Marshall and Viv Richards played no part.

during Macko's career West Indies didn't win thrice against Pak and beat them only once
they could not beat England in what was his last series
they didn't win against New Zealand in 1987 after which Holding and Garner retired.
they had to settle for a draw against India after the '87 world cup when he (and the other giant fast bowlers) didn't play
and they managed a draw against a very strong Lillee driven Australia in 1981-81 when Marshall was still raw and, again, didn't play.

otherwise they beat everyone everywhere for 13 years.
he was never part of any losing series after his debut tour in India.
and in most of those winning series and matches he played the decisive hand.
so I am taking his era as the dominant WI era.

Best XI against the great West Indies teams between summer of 1979 and summer of 1991

Sunil Gavaskar
Graham Gooch
Martin Crowe
Allan Lamb
Allan Border
Imran Khan *
Kapil Dev
Sir Richard Hadlee
Rodney Marsh +
Wasim Akram
Dennis Lillee
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No spinner?
 
Migara

Migara

Cricketer Of The Year
bagapath said:
am using the post packer reunion in mid 1979 and Malcom Marshall's farewell test in summer of 1991 to bookend the era of the great West Indies teams. both Lloyd and Richards captained those teams he played in during this era.

they lost once in between - the 1980 series in New Zealand of which Marshall and Viv Richards played no part.

during Macko's career West Indies didn't win thrice against Pak and beat them only once
they could not beat England in what was his last series
they didn't win against New Zealand in 1987 after which Holding and Garner retired.
they had to settle for a draw against India after the '87 world cup when he (and the other giant fast bowlers) didn't play
and they managed a draw against a very strong Lillee driven Australia in 1981-81 when Marshall was still raw and, again, didn't play.

otherwise they beat everyone everywhere for 13 years.
he was never part of any losing series after his debut tour in India.
and in most of those winning series and matches he played the decisive hand.
so I am taking his era as the dominant WI era.

Best XI against the great West Indies teams between summer of 1979 and summer of 1991

Sunil Gavaskar
Graham Gooch
Martin Crowe
Allan Lamb
Allan Border
Imran Khan *
Kapil Dev
Sir Richard Hadlee
Rodney Marsh +
Wasim Akram
Dennis Lillee
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Robin Smith in for Gooch (51 vs 45), or even Smith and Gooch to open. Both average better than Gavaskar against WI.
Saleem Malik in for Lamb (46 vs 34)
Marsh out, Kirmani in (25 vs 17)
Lillee out, Qadir in (infinity vs 38 in away matches)

My Xi would be, Smith, Gooch, Crowe, Malik, Border, Khan, Dev, Hadlee, Kirmani, Akram, Qadir
 
Migara

Migara

Cricketer Of The Year
And if you want to select a team from modern era to face that team I'd pick

M. Hayden
G. Smith*
R. Ponting
S. Tendulkar
K. Sangakkara
AB Devilliers+
A. Flintoff
S. Warne
D. Steyn
M. Muralitharan
G. McGrath

All the batsmen are extremely good players of express pace, may be other than Hayden, but he has the intimidating presence. All fast bowlers bowl the brands of fast bowling that West Indians disliked. Flintoff relentless, back of the length bowling, Steyn, pitching it up, swinging and looking for the edge and McGrath, hitting top of the off stump relentlessly, and no bad balls at all. And picked the best Offie and leggie in cricket history, because West Indies found spin challenging.

Edit: Thought of picking Shakib as the all rounder to exploit the weakness of WI, but it's unlikely that he is better than Flintoff with the bat against express bowling.
 
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bagapath

bagapath

International Captain
Migara said:
Robin Smith in for Gooch (51 vs 45), or even Smith and Gooch to open. Both average better than Gavaskar against WI.
Saleem Malik in for Lamb (46 vs 34)
Marsh out, Kirmani in (25 vs 17)
Lillee out, Qadir in (infinity vs 38 in away matches)

My Xi would be, Smith, Gooch, Crowe, Malik, Border, Khan, Dev, Hadlee, Kirmani, Akram, Qadir
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disagree

Robin Smith never opened, not in this period at least

Allan Lamb was the true champ against West Indies. The no of 100s he scored against them bears testimony
 
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