Pick An All Time XI Comp.

[andruid]

Nice idea.

Era One:
WG Grace
SF Barnes

Era Two:
Jack Hobbs
Wally Hammond
Don Bradman



Era Three:
Garry Sobers
Ray Lindwall
Frank Worell
Jim Laker

Era Four:
Malcolm Marshall
Alan Knott
Joel Garner
Roger Harper
Sunil Gavaskar
Greg Chappell
Ravi Shastri
Imran Khan
Ian Botham
Viv Richards


Era Five:
Muralitharan
Sachin Tendulkar
Steve Waugh
Ricky Ponting
Matt Hayden
Brian Lara
Adam Gilchrist
Glen Mcgrath
Shane Warne

My second effort then with players of all eras is

Jack Hobbs
Sunil Gavaskar
Don Bradman
Wally Hammond
Viv Richards
Sachin Tendulkar
Adam Gilchrist (wk)
Garry Sobers
Jim Laker
Imran Khan(c)
Greg Chappell

 

[Ikki]

My second effort then with players of all eras is

Jack Hobbs
Sunil Gavaskar
Don Bradman
Wally Hammond
Viv Richards
Sachin Tendulkar
Adam Gilchrist (wk)
Garry Sobers
Jim Laker
Imran Khan(c)
Greg Chappell

Again, players in the same era are too many: Richards, Khan, Chappell. LOL.

Just being a pedant, the game is over anyway. Archie revealed his squad.

 

[salman faisal]

i think the best 11 will not complete without wasim akram,brian lara and micheal bevan

 

[The Sean]

i think the best 11 will not complete without wasim akram,brian lara and micheal bevan

That may well be the biggest compliment Michael Bevan has ever or will ever receive.

And welcome to the boards.

 

[BhupinderSingh]

Archie has revealed its side & its an excellent one but don't u people think that Garry Sobers & Imran Khan were better captains than Sir Don Bradman?

 

[BhupinderSingh]

i think the best 11 will not complete without wasim akram,brian lara and micheal bevan

Sorry but couldn't resist.

 

[archie mac]

Archie has revealed its side & its an excellent one but don't u people thank that Garry Sobers & Imran Khan were better captains than Sir Don Bradman?

Never heard anyone say Sobers was a great captain, in fact many felt he became easily frustrated with players, because he could not understand why they could not do the things on a cricket field that came so easily to him

The older Bradman was thought to be a very fine captain, and I think all of these players would be very happy to play under the greatest batsman in the history of the game

 

[Perm]

Imran Khan was certainly a better captain than Donald Bradman, as the Don was quite often recognised as a poor leader and had a number of issues with various players during his reign for Australia. As a captain who could lead by example then I'd opt for Bradman, but Imran was much more inspirational.

 

[archie mac]

Imran Khan was certainly a better captain than Donald Bradman, as the Don was quite often recognised as a poor leader and had a number of issues with various players during his reign for Australia. As a captain who could lead by example then I'd opt for Bradman, but Imran was much more inspirational.

I don't agree, I can't remember any of the six bios I have read on the Don suggesting he was anything other than a great captain, especially after the war.

Imran also had problems with players

 

[Perm]

I don't agree, I can't remember any of the six bios I have read on the Don suggesting he was anything other than a great captain, especially after the war.

Imran also had problems with players

I thought Bradman had some pretty big problems with Bill O'Reilly and Keith Miller, just to mention a few names? Obviously I haven't read as much as you, but I certainly remember Bradman being labelled as nothing but an average captain.

 

[The Sean]

Archie has revealed its side & its an excellent one but don't u people thank that Garry Sobers & Imran Khan were better captains than Sir Don Bradman?

Imran arguably, Sobers certainly not. As wonderful a cricketer as Sir Garry was, he was not ever rated particularly highly as a captain.

 

[archie mac]

I thought Bradman had some pretty big problems with Bill O'Reilly and Keith Miller, just to mention a few names? Obviously I haven't read as much as you, but I certainly remember Bradman being labelled as nothing but an average captain.

Yes neither of those two were happy with Bradman on occasions, but neither ever said anything about his on field captaincy

Miller was not happy with his win at all costs, and Tiger was unhappy about some of his selections for Test tours. But even Fingleton did not have too many negatives on the on field captain that was Bradman

 

[The Sean]

I thought Bradman had some pretty big problems with Bill O'Reilly and Keith Miller, just to mention a few names? Obviously I haven't read as much as you, but I certainly remember Bradman being labelled as nothing but an average captain.

Bradman had his issues with O'Reilly certainly, though the Bradman-Miller feud has always been a little overplayed from what I can tell. Miller himself has been quoted as saying "I'm a Bradman man, always have been. We just didn't always see things the same way." I think that probably sums it up well.

Bradman was always highly rated as a captain - particularly, as Archie said, after the second world war. The men who played under him at that time such as Morris and Harvey invariably speak in awe about his reading and understanding of the game, and how much they learned from him as skipper.

 

[Goughy]

Imran had a number of issues with players and was often seen as aloof. As also was Bradman.

But to dismiss Bradman for that and not Imran is inaccurate. In fact Imrans runins with Javed Miandad could be seen to have been more damaging and on a greater scale than those experienced by Bradman with teammates.

Nothing wrong at all with Bradman as captain IMO

 

[BhupinderSingh]

Imran had a number of issues with players and was often seen as aloof. As also was Bradman.

But to dismiss Bradman for that and not Imran is inaccurate. In fact Imrans runins with Javed Miandad could be seen to have been more damaging and on a greater scale than those experienced by Bradman with teammates.

Nothing wrong at all with Bradman as captain IMO

Imran did have problems with Miandad that never became damaging because when on field,they would play with full commitment & never indulge in any strong arguments & leave all their issues to be settled outside.Don Bradman,without any doubt, is not only the greatest batsman ever but also the greatest cricketer but I don't think he was a better captain than Imran Khan.

 

[neville cardus]

You DID see most of them in action, didn't you...?

Yessir.

 

[SJS]

Imran has never had it so good.

He is one of the finest fast bowlers the world has seen but here the people will have you believe that :-

• He is the greatest fast bowler or as close tobeing one as not to matter.
  
• He is the greatest all rounder ever......and now
  
• He is one of the greatest (soon to be THE GREATEST) captains of all time.

Lets just accept all of the three 'facts' given above and start debating on whether or not Imran was the greatest fielder of all times.

 

[pasag]

Yeah everything I've come across indicates Bradman was a top captain, both tactically and with regards to the respect of most of his men.

 

[pasag]

Imran did have problems with Miandad that never became damaging because when on field,they would play with full commitment & never indulge in any strong arguments & leave all their issues to be settled outside.Don Bradman,without any doubt, is not only the greatest batsman ever but also the greatest cricketer but I don't think he was a better captain than Imran Khan.

Goughy never said Bradman was a better captain than Imran.

 

[BhupinderSingh]

Imran has never had it so good.

He is one of the finest fast bowlers the world has seen but here the people will have you believe that :-

• He is the greatest fast bowler or as close tobeing one as not to matter.
  
• He is the greatest all rounder ever......and now
  
• He is one of the greatest (soon to be THE GREATEST) captains of all time.

Lets just accept all of the three 'facts' given above and start debating on whether or not Imran was the greatest fielder of all times.

Imran Khan is one of the finest outfielders I've ever seen but he was not someone whom you could assign the role of fielding at more difficult positions like slips or point.