Your Country's uncapped XI

[TT Boy]

England

Joe Denly
Billy Godleman
Paul Horton
David Sales- Captain
Mark Wagh
Tim Ambrose- W/K
James Harris
Tom Lungley
Adil Rashid
Steve Kirby
Steven Finn

 

[Bahnz]

Bruce Martin? Never heard of the guy. Whats he like?

Picking Broom, Ryder and Nicol to be good batsmen in the future. Tim Southee looks the best bowler by far.

Martin is Northern's spinner of choice whenever Danny is away (which is most of the time). He has a decent first class record (averaging 32, which isn't bad considering some of the green tops he would've had to bowl on over the years), and he's also a handy batsman with a first class century. Like our glorious leader, he's also a left-arm orthodox. And yes, Southee does look promising, he's still only 18 yet he's already looking like one of the lynch pins of Northern's side.

 

[Smudge]

Though if they were to play tommorrow a line up of:

Todd Astle
Peter Ingram/Shannon Stewart
Jesse Ryder
Greg Hay
Neil Broom
Rob Nicol
Bevan Griggs
Nathan McCullum
Bradley Scott
Hamish Bennet
Matthew Harvie

Would be better IMO

Pretty sure he's injured, so he wouldn't be much use for a game played today...

And I don't rate him at all.

 

[pskov]

Joe Denly - 21, Kent
Billy Godleman - 18, Middlesex
Nick Compton - 25, Middlesex
Michael Carberry - 28, Hampshire
David Sales* - 30, Northamptonshire
Samit Patel - 23, Nottinghamshire
Tim Ambrose+ - 25, Warwickshire
Adil Rashid - 19, Yorkshire
Tom Smith - 22, Lancashire
James Harris - 17, Glamorgan
Steve Finn - 18, Middlesex

 

[roseboy64]

Good thread, but also extremely eye opening if your a windies fan. A lot of the 17-20 year olds are better than those on my list but they haven't had enough FC experience.

Test XI

Adrian Barath - 17 year old genius, already 2 fc tons etc
Brenton Parchment - Might be capped soon though
Dale Richards - Attacking Bajan batsman with okish fc record
Travis Dowlin - Tres ordinary, but thats the level we've dropped to
Steve Liburd - Promising Leeward Islands batsman
Kieron Pollard - Extremely promising, brutal batsman etc
Patrick Browne - Okish Bajan keeper/batsman
Ravi Rampaul - Will be capped soon though
Kemar Roach - Genuinely quick youngster 1
Nelson Pascal - Genuinely quick youngster 2
Amit Jaggernauth - Travesty that he hasn't been capped yet


ODI XI

Adrian Barath
Brenton Parchment
Dale Richards
Shaun Findlay - Jamaican youngster
Travis Dowlin
Steve Liburd
Patrick Browne (wk)
Esaun Crandon - Big hitting allrounder
Nikita Miller - Stingy Jamaican left arm spinner
Jason Bennett
Kemar Roach

Pretty rubbish teams lets face it, only Barath and Pollard have outstanding FC records and they have only just started. Lets hope the youngsters develop quickly and replace the lost generation that we are dealing with at the moment.

You left out Brendon Nash and Andrew Richardson from the Test XI for Liburd and one of Roach/Pascal. Richard Kelly should be in there ahead of Liburd for ODIs.

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Juggernauth, best name.

 

[White Lightning]

can't believe anyone would consider Voges above North. I can't believe anyone would consider Voges in the longer form - averages 37 over the past 5 seasons in Pura Cup, and 36 in the first 2 and a bit seasons...

Chris Rogers
Michael Di Venuto
Marcus North
David Hussey
Dominic Thornely
Travis Birt or Mark Cosgrove (both about equal)
Brad Haddin
Ashley Noffke
Ben Hilfenhaus
Gerard Denton
Doug Bollinger

our spin stocks are ordinary. I would say Cullen Bailey is the best non-capped player around but he's not even in SA's best XI.

 

[Pup Clarke]

England might look something like this...

V Chopra
JL Denly
MA Carberry
JC Hildreth
SA Northeast
+TR Ambrose
AU Rashid
JAR Harris
TCP Smith
JD Lewry
G Keedy

Mentions to WI Jefferson, BM Godleman, CJ Jordan, SM Davies, PJ Horton.

I'd say...

M Wagh
J Denly
D Sales
J Hildreth
A Gidman
A Rashid
T Ambrose
R Martin-Jenkins
M Davies
S Kirby
J Lewry

 

[wpdavid]

Bopara, Broad & Swann would all be in England's uncapped XI, if we're talking about test caps, albeit not for much longer.

 

[bond21]

Any reason you've picked Perren before Thornely? Do you prefer to watch him play or is there something else? Also, there must be a better bowler in the country than Doug Bollinger. Lots of talent, but far too erratic.

thornely sucks ass.

perren>>>thornely

 

[Perm]

thornely sucks ass.

perren>>>thornely

 

[NUFAN]

Juggernauth, best name.

LOL I thought so too when I read it.

 

[Prince EWS]

Can you do me a favour and please stop quoting him?

 

[Shaggy Alfresco]

thornely sucks ass.

perren>>>thornely

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[Perm]

Can you do me a favour and please stop quoting him?

Haha, nah.

 

[honestbharani]

Asad Ali, ftw.

have seen it everywhere and yet somehow never got around to asking this...



what is FTW?

 

[Perm]

what is FTW?

For The Win.

 

[honestbharani]

For The Win.

thanks. need to bone up on all these abbreviations.

 

[Fiery]

thanks. need to bone up on all these abbreviations.

 

[SJS]

INDIA - some cricketers who come to mind.

• Uday Merchant - RH Bat - FC Avg 55.8
• DB Deodhar - RH Bat - 4522 runs at 39.3
• Bhaskar Pillai - RH Bat - 5443 runs at 52.8
• BB Nimbalkar - RH bat - 4841 runs at 47.9 each with a top score of 443 not out !!
• Also bowled RAFM - 58 wkts in 58 matches.
• Sreedharan Sriram - LH Bat - 8703 runs at 55.8 with 30 hundreds ! Also bowled LAS - 82 wkts in 115 matches.
• AG Ram Singh - All Rounder - 3314 runs at 35.3 and 265 wkts at 18.6 each (LAS)
• Anand Shukla - All Rounder - 4312 runs at 33.7 (highest 242 no) and 386 wkts at 21.0 (RALS) - 31 fifers in 98 games !
• PK Shivalkar - LA Spin - 586 wkts in JUST 124 matches at 19.7
• Rajinder Goel - LA Spin - 750 wkts in just 157 matches at 18.6 each