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.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.
Pretty sure he's injured, so he wouldn't be much use for a game played today...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
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.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.
I'd say...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.
thornely sucks ass.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
Juggernauth, best name.
Can you do me a favour and please stop quoting him?
I find your views intriguing, and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.thornely sucks ass.
perren>>>thornely
Haha, nah.Can you do me a favour and please stop quoting him?
have seen it everywhere and yet somehow never got around to asking this...Asad Ali, ftw.
For The Win.what is FTW?
thanks. need to bone up on all these abbreviations.For The Win.
thanks. need to bone up on all these abbreviations.