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Never played a Test vote

Which 3 teams are the strongest?

  • Total voters
    16
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jimmy101

jimmy101

Cricketer Of The Year
Camo999

Mohammad Shahzad
Peter Roebuck
Michael Di Venuto
IL Bula
+Paul Nixon
Johnny Mullagh 6
Ian Harvey 3
John Wisden 2
Majid Haq 5
Dirk Nannes 1
Rajinder Goel 4

J_C

Sam Trimble
Richard Daft
Brian Davison
Bhausaheb Nimbalkar
Thomas Hayward (c) / 6
Alan Kourie / 4
Alfred Mynn / 5
Ryan Campbell +
Eric Bedser / 3
Stephen Jefferies / 2
Garth Le Roux / 1

Steve's Unknown XI

01 John Langridge
02 Hylton Ackerman *
03 Andrew Puttick
04 Amol Muzumdar
05 Pinky Burnup (6)
06 Ken Suttle (5)
07 Ray Jennings +
08 Vince van der Bijl (2)
09 Denys Hobson (4)
10 Jack Mercer (3)
11 James Shaw (1)

OS XI

Henry Fotheringham
George Parr (c)
Mahadevan Sathasivam
Fuller Pilch
Ryan ten Doeschate (6)
Peter Sainsbury (5)
Darren Berry (wk)
Utpal Chatterjee (4)
Thomas Wass (2)
William Lillywhite (3)
Eddie Gilbert (1)

jimmy101

1. Michael Klinger
2. Ed Joyce
3. Steve Tikolo (6)
4. David Hussey
5. Anura Tennekoon (c)
6. Niall O'Brien (+)
7. Franklyn Stephenson (1)
8. Mohammad Nabi (5)
9. David Saker (3)
10. Corrie van Zyl (2)
11. Don Shepherd (4)

morgieb

1. Jamie Cox
2. Dene Hills
3. Ken McEwan
4. Jamie Siddons
5. Kevin McKenzie
6. Emrys Davies (5)
7. Wade Seccombe +
8. Bart King (1)
9. Tony Nicholson (3)
10. George Dennett (4)
11. Jack Bannister (2)

fredfertang

1.Alan Jones
2.Karl Schneider
3.Bill Alley
4.Frank Tarrant
5.Cec Pepper
6.Raees Mohammad
7.+Craig Kieswetter
8.Alonzo Drake
9.Charles Kortright
10.*Glen Chapple
11.Tom Pritchard

CricZo XI

1. Gregory Shipperd /
2. MV Sridhar /
3. Amarjeet Kaypee /
4. Edgar Oldroyd /
5. Mick Taylor /
6. Nic Pothas + /
7. Clive Rice * o / - 1
8. Jack Newman o / - 4
9. Rupert Hanley o - 3
10. Padmakar Shivalkar o - 5
11. Ole Mortensen o - 2
 
kingkallis

kingkallis

International Coach
I think everyone should include a bit of write up here. Or at least give the link to their players so people can read about them before voting.
 
StephenZA

StephenZA

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
As suggested by kingkallis

Steve's Unknown XI
01 John Langridge
02 Hylton Ackerman *
03 Andrew Puttick
04 Amol Muzumdar
05 Pinky Burnup (6)
06 Ken Suttle (5)
07 Ray Jennings +
08 Vince van der Bijl (2)
09 Denys Hobson (4)
10 Jack Mercer (3)
11 James Shaw (1)

5 South Africans, 4 of which would have played for SA in the 80`s... 1 of which should have played for SA but could never quite make it (Steven Cook would have been the other if not for SA`s last test). Amol would probably considered the unluckiest of the Indian batsmen imo. And the rest are 1st rate English players who for one reason or another never quite made the test team.
 
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morgieb

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morgieb said:
Posting my lineup up now because it's not 2am :p

1. Jamie Cox
2. Dene Hills
3. Ken McEwan
4. Jamie Siddons
5. Kevin McKenzie
6. Emrys Davies (5)
7. Wade Seccombe +
8. Bart King (1)
9. Tony Nicholson (3)
10. George Dennett (4)
11. Jack Bannister (2)

Cox & Hills make up a very solid opening pairing, having done so for Tasmania with success throughout the 90's. Cox was the better of the two (and also played overseas to make sure that he got hyped), but Hills was pretty under-rated and both could have played Test cricket for another country.

My middle order is made up of two guys who probably would've been mainstays in the South African Test lineup thoughout the 80's if they were playing Tests at the time and another who is arguably the best non-Test batsman of all-time. In fact if you ask who was the best batsman to not play Tests, Siddons and McEwan's names would come up a lot.

Davies comes in at 6, the Welsh Wilfred Rhodes it seems. Seriously, he started his career as a specialist slow-left armer but became an opener in due course. Put him at 6 because I like to kill two birds with one stone :p

Seccombe as the keeper, lots of people talk about Berry as unlucky keepers in that era, but Seccombe was also a very good keeper and probably a better batsman. He made the Australian squad a few times in his career, but Gilchrist never wavered.

The star of my bowling is Bart King. Perhaps the best Associate cricketer of all-time, and probably in the Top 3 non-Test bowlers of all-time, he is the star spearhead for my side. Dennett was also very well-regarded and unlucky to not play for England - he took the second most wickets at FC level out of bowlers who never played Tests. Bannister is more famous for his off-field work (i.e. was a commentator post-cricket, and also set up the PCA), but he was a quality bowler in his own right, and in a weaker era may well have played Tests. Ditto Tony Nicholson, who averaged under 20, and actually made an international tour but had to pull out due to injury.
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As posted from the Draft thread, for your interest.
 
weldone

weldone

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Masud - Why are you having Sridhar as opener? He was a good middle-order batsman, but don't you have any other opening choice in your team? Otherwise I like your team.
 
kingkallis

kingkallis

International Coach
weldone said:
Masud - Why are you having Sridhar as opener? He was a good middle-order batsman, but don't you have any other opening choice in your team? Otherwise I like your team.
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If I am not wrong, Sridhar opened hence I picked him. I was a kid back then and my memory ditched me there or what?
 
kingkallis

kingkallis

International Coach
CricZo XI

Openers

1. Gregory Shipperd / | Runs 6806 @ 42.27 with the highest score of 200*
2. MV Sridhar / | Runs 6701 @ 48.91 with the highest score of 366

Greg Shipperd was a dour right-hand top-order batsman who appeared in the strong Western Australia team of the late 1970s and early 1980s before moving to Tasmania in 1988-89. In a 112-match first-class career that spanned 14 years, Shipperd established a reputation as a slow-scoring, difficult-to-dismiss batsman.

MV Sridhar appeared for Hyderabad and was a very reliable player throughout his career. I always wondered how he never played for India. His highest score of 366 suggests he could play long innings.

Middle Order & Wicket keeper

3. Amarjeet Kaypee / | Runs 7894 @ 52.27 with the highest score of 210*
4. Edgar Oldroyd / | Runs 15925 @ 35.15 with the highest score of 194
5. Mick Taylor / | Runs 5005 @ 46.34 with the highest score of 234*
6. Nic Pothas + / | Runs 11438 @ 40.85 with the highest score of 165 and dismissed 659 wickets with his wickey skills

Amarjit Kaypee, who devotedly turned out for Haryana, scoring 7894 runs at 52.27 with 27 hundreds from 1980 to 2000, was a big game player and always scored when it mattered.

Edgar Oldroyd played for Yorkshire County Cricket Club between 1919 and 1931. John Arlott commented in 1981 that "one credited Edgar Oldroyd of Yorkshire with being 'the best sticky-wicket batsman in the world'". A single innings of his has left in the memory an impression of quite elegant poise despite some awkward bowling; and, suddenly, when the bowler erred, an off-drive of superb style and timing. Men of much less distinction have been picked for England.

Mick Taylor was an excellent batsman who played agains strong South African team on the rebel tour and scored668 first-class runs on that tour against Rice, Le Roux, Jefferies, Page and Kourie.

Nic Pothas, a versatile wicketkeeper-batsman, who has became a more accomplished batsman as his career progressed to the extent he opened the batting at times for Transvaal in the Castle Cup in the absence of a genuine opening batsman. He is, however, better suited to the middle order where he can play his shots freely and without pressure.

All rounders and Bowlers

7. Clive Rice * o / - 1 | Runs 26331 @ 40.95 with the highest score of 246 & 930 wickets @ 22.49
8. Jack Newman o / - 4 | Runs 15364 @ 21.57 with the highest score of 166* & 2054 wickets @ 25.02

Clive Rice's career fell exactly into the period when apartheid South Africa was banned from the international scene. It is no exaggeration to say that Rice could have been bracketed with the four great all-rounders of the 1980s – Ian Botham, Richard Hadlee, Imran Khan and Kapil Dev – if politics had allowed.

Jack Newman was a splendid medium-fast bowling all-rounder, the mainstay of the Hampshire side. In 1909, against Monty Noble’s Australians, he captured a hat-trick for his county. John Arlott included him in a side of the best players who were never selected by England to play in a Test match.

9. Rupert Hanley o - 3 | 408 wickets @ 20.81 from only 113 games
10. Padmakar Shivalkar o - 5 | 589 wickets @ 19.69 from only 124 games
11. Ole Mortensen o - 2 | 434 wickets @ 23.88 from only 157 games

Rupert Hanley was a fast bowler whose career coincided with South Africa's ban on international cricket.

Padmakar Shivalkar – A sublime left arm spinner, Shivalkar’s career overlapped that of Bishan Bedi in a cruel juxtaposition of joy and sorrow. While the legendary batsmen of Bombay learnt their skills against balls turning away from the bat by playing Shivalkar in the nets, the man himself never got through to the national team.

In Six seasons @ Derby, Danish fast bowler Ole Mortensen topped the bowling averages four times and was otherwise nudged into second only by Ian Bishop and his other hero, Michael Holding, with whom he remains good friends. Barnett considered the Dane a "controlling factor", to whom, if necessary, he could set 8-1 fields, yet also one who regularly dismissed top batsmen, including the two men Mortensen regarded as his most difficult opponents: Wayne Larkins and Viv Richards. Kim Barnett, his captain for the duration of his stint in county cricket, as "the best bowler never to have played Test cricket".
 
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