2011?? Your team

[NUFAN]

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2 Watson
3 Ponting
4 Clarke
5 Symonds
6 Haddin
7 Voges
8 Cullen
9 Bracken
10 Hilfenhaus
11 Tait

12 Birt
13 Hauritz
14 Henriques
15 Johnson

[andyc]

Originally Posted by Richard

Utterly pointless trying to look this far ahead, so many things can happen that you cannot allow for or predict.

Yeah, but that's the whole point of it. So you can have a guess and see if it works out.

[Richard]

You might as well stick pins in a wall IMO, but oh well... each to his own.

[Smudge]

Bit of a random NZ team, but:

Todd Astle
Jesse Ryder
Ross Taylor
Peter Fulton
Kane Williamson
Jacob Oram
Brendon McCullum
James Franklin
Daniel Vettori
Jeetan Patel
Corey Anderson

Very youthful - too youthful in fact, but food for thought.

[Hoppy1987]

Originally Posted by Richard

Utterly pointless trying to look this far ahead, so many things can happen that you cannot allow for or predict.

True, but if you could pick your team using players around today for 4 years time??

[Flem274*]

Originally Posted by Voltman

Bit of a random NZ team, but:

Todd Astle
Jesse Ryder
Ross Taylor
Peter Fulton
Kane Williamson
Jacob Oram
Brendon McCullum
James Franklin
Daniel Vettori
Jeetan Patel
Corey Anderson

Very youthful - too youthful in fact, but food for thought.

Isn't Anderson 16? as the future of our fast bowling I think the selectors will be very careful with him. I would hope so anyway. Same goes for Williamson. I hope Jesse Ryder comes good though, I believe someone on here said he had more talent than Taylor but had a poor attitude. I don't know much about Todd Astle though, is he a relative of Nathan by any chance?

[Richard]

I'll take a stab-in-the-dark at England...

Trescothick
Benning
Afzaal
Pietersen
?
Flintoff
Read (I'd go for Pothas if he was just a couple of years younger)
Mascarenhas
Tom Smith
?
?
(I'm not fool enough to think there's the slightest chance of RMJ being picked)

But it's every bit, and I mean every bit, as likely we'll be fartaessing around for the next 4 years with the Onionses, Amjad Khans and whoever the next Mahmoods are (those probably right now playing for Burnley and Uppingham Seconds). The whole English attitude to one-day cricket needs to change (and not just from the selectors), and until it does we won't get anywhere. We need batsmen who are capable of scoring runs, not just playing shots (and not just to pick those who are good in Test-cricket), and seam-bowlers who can bowl line and length, not be perceived wrongly as "wicket-takers".

[Flem274*]

Originally Posted by Richard

I'll take a stab-in-the-dark at England...

Trescothick
Benning
Afzaal
Pietersen
?
Flintoff
Read (I'd go for Pothas if he was just a couple of years younger)
Mascarenhas
Tom Smith
?
?
(I'm not fool enough to think there's the slightest chance of RMJ being picked)

But it's every bit, and I mean every bit, as likely we'll be fartaessing around for the next 4 years with the Onionses, Amjad Khans and whoever the next Mahmoods are (those probably right now playing for Burnley and Uppingham Seconds). The whole English attitude to one-day cricket needs to change (and not just from the selectors), and until it does we won't get anywhere. We need batsmen who are capable of scoring runs, not just playing shots (and not just to pick those who are good in Test-cricket), and seam-bowlers who can bowl line and length, not be perceived wrongly as "wicket-takers".

Have you ever thought of applying for the top job on the ECB?

[Richard]

No. I'm not fool enough to think I have a chance.

[Flem274*]

Originally Posted by Richard

No. I'm not fool enough to think I have a chance.

Fair enough. They would probably think your ideas were a bit too radical. After all, since when have run scorers and accurate bowlers ever been needed in ODI's?

[Pup Clarke]

Who knows what the Pakistan team will look like...This is my X1 for 2011.

Salman Butt
Yasir Hameed
Younis Khan
Mohammed Yousuf
Shoaib Malik
Shahid Afridi
Kamran Akmal
Yasir Arafat
Umar Gul
Rao Iftikar
Mohammed Asif

[Richard]

Yasir Arafat, Shahid Afridi and Rao Iftikhar Anjum...

Not to mention Younis Khan in the side and batting ahead of the skippa'.

[Pup Clarke]

Originally Posted by Richard

Yasir Arafat, Shahid Afridi and Rao Iftikhar Anjum...

It's only a guess...

[Richard]

My guess would be that those 3 useless entities would have finally run-out of time by then.

Actually, TBF Arafat's not certified useless yet, but I can't see him amounting to much really.

[Poker Boy]

Originally Posted by Hoppy1987

Ian Bell
Andy Strauss
Ali Cook
Kevin Pieterson
Paul Collingwood (C)
Andy Flintoff
Matt Prior/Steven Davies
Liam Plunkett
Stuart Broad
Simon Jones
Monty Panesar

That top three looks depressingly like our flops from this year. Bell and Cook might turn into one day batsmen in the next four years but not Strauss IMO - Benning should get a chance soon and hopefully can turn into the new Tresco we need (especially as the curent one's problems might come back). I have doubts about Freddie - will he be bowling at full pace by 2011 or will he be a batsman who bowls a bit like Collingwood is now? And if that is what he is, is he good enough to be just a batsman at ODI level? This WC suggests not - so I'd have Bopara in there instead. And for the sub-con we'll probably need two spinners so I'd have Rashid (hopefully he'll prove himself by then) as a wrist spinner who bats, if not him then Dalrymple - instead of Plunkett. Mind you England's team is a nightmare to predict - in the last two WCs we've come up with players (Anderson, Nixon) who hardly anybody would have put in their WC XIs four MONTHS before the event, never mind four YEARS!!!