Alphabet Teams

[Western Warrior]

I love 'what-ifs' and 'Best XI's' and as such I didn't spend my week of Annual Leave gardening - as promised. Instead I sat down and tried to generate a viable test team based on each letter of the alphabet. It was, at times, a struggle (especially trying to figure out Indian and Pakistani surnames / first names - no offence intended), but fun never-the-less.

The A Team

Dennis L. Amis
Marvan S Atapattu
Nathan J Astle
Azharuddin, Mohammad +
James C Adams
Leslie E G Ames *
Asif Iqbal
Abdul Razzaq
Abdul Qadir
Curtley E.L. Ambrose
Terence M Alderman

The B Team

Geoffrey Boycott
David C Boon
Donald G Bradman *
Kenneth F Barrington
Allan R Border
Ian T Botham
Mark V Boucher +
Richard Benaud
Ian R Bishop
Alexander V Bedster
Sydney F Barnes

The C Team

Ian M Chappell
Shivnarine Chanderpaul
Denis C S Compton
Gregory S Chappell *
Martin D Crowe
Daryll J Cullinan
Christopher L Cairns
Horace B Cameron +
Colin E H Croft
Andrew R Caddick
Bhagwat S Chandrasekhar

The D Team

Rahul Dravid *
Edward R Dexter
Pinnaduwage A De Silva
Basil L D'Oliveira
Reginald A Duff
Peter J L Dujon +
Graham T Dowling
Alan K Davidson
Graham R Dilley
Allan A Donald
Dilip R Doshi

.....more to follow shortly

 

[Pratters]

Q,X,Z teams will be fun.

 

[Western Warrior]

The E Team

John H Edrich *
Matthew T G Elliott
Ross Edwards
William J Edrich
William R Endean
Farokh M Engineer
John E Emburey
Thomas G Evans +
Phillippe H Edmonds
Richard M Ellison
Fidel H Edwards

The F Team

Roy C Fredericks
John H Fingleton
Andrew Flower +
George A Faulkner
Keith W R Fletcher
Stephen P Fleming *
Andrew Flintoff
Damien W Fleming
Oercy G H Fender
Fazal Mahmood
Angus R C Fraser

The G Team

Sunil M Gavaskar
Gordon Cuthbert Greenidge
Herschelle H Gibbs
David I Gower
Graham A Gooch
Anthony W Greig
Adam C Gilchrist +
Jason N Gillespie
Darren Gough
Joel Garner
Lancelot R Gibbs

The H Team (My favourite)

John B Hobbs
Matthew L Hayden
Walter R Hammond *
Leonard Hutton
Robert N Harvey
Arthur L Hassett
Ian A Healy +
Richard J Hadlee
Wesley W Hall
Harbhajan Singh
Michael A Holding

The I Team

Imran Farhat
Inzamam-Ul-Haq
Brian L Irvine
Imran Khan *
Ijaz Ahmed
Raymond Illingworth
Intikhab Alam
Ijaz Butt +
Mohammad Iqbal Qasim
Mark C Ilott
Herbert Ironmonger

The J Team

Sanath T Jayasuriya
Javed Miandad
Douglas R Jardine *
D P Mahela Jayawardene
Dean M Jones
Andrew H Jones
Ridley D Jacobs +
Ian W Johnson
Brendon P Julian
Simon P Jones
William A Johnston

The K Team

Gary Kirsten
Simon M Katich
Jacques H Kallis
Rohan B Kanhai
Alvin I Kallicharran
Lance Klusener
Alan P E Knott +
Kapil Dev *
Syed M H Kirmani
Anil Kumble
Michael S Kasprowicz

The L Team - hell of a bowling attack

Justin L Langer
William M Lawry
Brian C Lara
Clive H Lloyd *
Darren S Lehmann
Vangipurappu V S Laxman
Denis T Lindsay +
Raymond R Lindwall
Harold Larwood
James C Laker
Dennis K Lillee

The M Team

Arthur Morris *
Bruce Mitchell
Stanley J McCabe
Damien R Martyn
Peter B H May
Keith R Miller
Rodney W Marsh +
Malcolm D Marshall
Muttiah Muralitharan
Craig J McDermott
Glenn D McGrath

The N Team

Mudassar Nazar
Seymour M Nurse
Arthur D Nourse
Nawab of Pataudi Jr *
Arthur W Nourse
Raghunath G Nadkarni
Iqbal Nafis
Naushad Ali +
Makhaya Ntini
Ashish Nehra
Andre Nel

The O Team

Norman Oldfield
Norman C O'Neill
Jacob D P Oram
Harold G Owen-Smith
Simon P O'Donnell *
Sydney O'Linn
Kerry J O'Keeffe
William A S Oldfield +
Christopher M Old
William J O'Reilly
Shayne B O'Connor

The P Team

William H Ponsford
Geoffrey Pullar
Robert G Pollock
Edward Paynter
Ricky T Ponting *
Michael J Proctor
Adam C Parore +
Shaun M Pollock
Peter M Pollock
Ifran K Pathan
Robert Peel

The R Team

Ian R Redpatch
Mark H Richardson
Isaac V A Richards *
Richard B Richardson
Lawrence G Rowe
Arjuna Ranatunga
Robert C Russell +
Paul R Reiffel
Anderson M E Roberts
Sonny Ramadhin
Bruce A Reid

The S Team

Herbert Sutcliffe
Virender Sehwag
Garfield St A Sobers *
Graeme C Smith
Kumar C Sangakarra +
Saeed Anwar
Salim Malik
John A Snow
John B Stratham
Frederick R Spofforth
Shoaib Ahktar

The T Team - Beautiful

Victor T Trumper
Mark A Taylor *
Sachin R Tendulkar
Marcus E Trescothick
Graham P Thorpe
Glenn M Turner
Hashan P Tillakaratne +
Hugh J Tayfield
Frederick S Trueman
Jeffrey R Thomson
Frank H Tyson

The U & V, X, Y, Z Team - Don't laugh it was bloody hard

Michael P Vaughan *
Lou Vincent
Syed Zaheer Abbas
Younis Khan
Pahlan R Umrigar
Dillip B Vengsarkar
Daniel L Vettori
W P U J Chaminda Vaas
Timothy J Zoehrer +
Zaheer Khan
Derek L Underwood

The W Team

William M Woddfull
Cyril Washbrook
Everton De C Weekes
Clyde L Walcott +
Stephen R Waugh *
Frank M M Worrell
Kevin D Walters
Wasim Akram
Shane K Warne
Waqar Younis
Courtney A Walsh

 

[Western Warrior]

Q,X,Z teams will be fun.

See above

 

[Pratters]

You are adding a lot to the forum. Good stuff.

 

[FaaipDeOiad]

Strongest is probably L, in my opinion. Very solid batting lineup, superb bowling. G is also a very good one, as are M and W. Interesting teams anyway.

Interesthing thread.

 

[GotSpin]

Nice work

 

[Western Warrior]

You are adding a lot to the forum. Good stuff.

Thank you. I think B (bloody Bradman ), H and L are probably my favourites. I have an old cricket simulator at home written by a chap called John Cole. It seems quite accurate and teams are very easy to code. If I have the time I might run a little 'what-if' series to see which letter comes out on top.

 

[Linda]

You need to get outside in the sun!

Thats amazing though... Well done. W's attack wouldnt be much fun to face.

 

[Natman20]

I want to see B vs. G

 

[Western Warrior]

You need to get outside in the sun!

Thats amazing though... Well done. W's attack wouldnt be much fun to face.

Neither would T's

Frederick S Trueman
Jeffrey R Thomson
Frank H Tyson

.....and I do get out in the sun now and then.

 

[Western Warrior]

Neither would T's

Frederick S Trueman
Jeffrey R Thomson
Frank H Tyson

.....and I do get out in the sun now and then.

.....or S for that matter

John A Snow
John B Stratham
Frederick R Spofforth
Shoaib Ahktar

 

[Zinzan]

Nice work dude, I've been hoping someone would do a surnames team, but couldn't be bothered myself

 

[Natman20]

These are very good teams and it would be great if there were clones made of people like 100 years ago so that we could all have them playing in a tournament.

 

[33/3from3.3]

cool good one

 

[Zinzan]

The E Team

I'd make a few minor changes off the top of my head..........

John Wright > Cyril Washbrook
John Reid > Paul Reiffel
Dion Nash > Ashish Nehra
Barry Richards > Redpath or Richardson
George Hedley > Arthur L Hassett

 

[andyc]

.....or S for that matter

John A Snow
John B Stratham
Frederick R Spofforth
Shoaib Ahktar

M?

Keith R Miller
Malcolm D Marshall
Muttiah Muralitharan
Craig J McDermott
Glenn D McGrath

 

[PY]

M?

Keith R Miller
Malcolm D Marshall
Muttiah Muralitharan
Craig J McDermott
Glenn D McGrath

Only one of that team is going to kill you with pace though unlike S who are probably more likely to retire you hurt than get you out.
Yes, I know that's grossly unfair to the S team bowlers.

Great effort Western Warrior, H is looking pretty good IMO. Hobbs, Hayden, Hammond, Hutton and Harvey in the batting lineup is never going to let you down.

 

[Western Warrior]

I'd make a few minor changes off the top of my head..........

John Wright > Cyril Washbrook
John Reid > Paul Reiffel
Dion Nash > Ashish Nehra
Barry Richards > Redpath or Richardson
George Hedley > Arthur L Hassett

God! How could I forget Barry Richards. I've thrown him in the R team at the expense of Arjuna Ranatunga. As there are no 12th men he wouldn't have a runner available and thus probably could not play anyway.

 

[steds]

The M Team

Arthur Morris *
Bruce Mitchell
Stanley J McCabe
Damien R Martyn
Peter B H May
Keith R Miller
Rodney W Marsh +
Malcolm D Marshall
Muttiah Muralitharan
Craig J McDermott
Glenn D McGrath

*cough*Dave Mohammed*cough*