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Alphabet Teams

NUFAN

NUFAN

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Which letter of the alphabet would make the best ever test team?

All 11 players surname has to start with the same letter..

Feel free to do any letter, and perhaps we could Sim the top 4 or 8 teams or something along those lines to see the gun letter.
 
NUFAN

NUFAN

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B TEAM

1 Geoff Boycott
2 David Boon
3 Don Bradman
4 Ken Barrington
5 Allan Border
6 Ian Botham
7 Mark Boucher
8 Richie Benaud
9 Bishan Bedi
10 Sid Barnes
11 Alec Bedser
 
Matt79

Matt79

Hall of Fame Member
Done this myself in my spare time - the answer is M,, with L or H close behind

M:
Morris
Mitchell
McCartney
McCabe
Miandad
Miller
Marsh+
Marshall
Muralitharan
McDermott/McKenzie/MacDonald
McGrath

With Martyn, Mushtaq and MacGill on the bench.
Very even team with a lethal bowling attack.

H:
Hutton
Hobbs
Hammond
Headley
Harvey
Hill
Healy+
Hadlee
Holding
Hughes
Hall

Easily the strongest batting of any one letter, bowling not quite as good as "M" or "L", and no decent spinner is an issue.

L:
Lawry
Langer
Lara
Lloyd
Laxman
Langley+
Lindwall
Laker
Larwood
Lillee
Lohmann
L's bowling is top drawer, batting is quite strong, albeit a bit short.

G is not bad either:
Greenidge
Gavaskar
Grace
Gomes
Ganguly
Gilchrist
Grout+
Gregory, J
Gillespie
Garner
Grimmett

Cheating and playing Gilchrist as a specialist bat.
 
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NUFAN

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Cool cheers mate - please put in Richard Hadlee in the H Team!!

Also Gower instead of Gomes or Ganguly
 
Matt79

Matt79

Hall of Fame Member
NUFAN said:
Cool cheers mate - please put in Richard Hadlee in the H Team!!

Also Gower instead of Gomes or Ganguly
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Knew I was forgetting someone really really obvious in the H team - I was thinking "this team had a better looking bowling line up when I last did this"... Corrected above.
 
NUFAN

NUFAN

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Matt79 said:
Knew I was forgetting someone really really obvious in the H team - I was thinking "this team had a better looking bowling line up when I last did this"... Corrected above.
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Haha yeah it's easy to forget someone, let me know if you think anyone should be in the B team instead..
 
SJS

SJS

Hall of Fame Member
One of the strongest alphabet sides : The eleven W's

  1. Woodfull
  2. Waugh Mark
  3. Weekes
  4. Walcott
  5. Waugh Steve
  6. Worrell
  7. Woolley
  8. Wasim
  9. Warne
  10. Waqar
  11. Walsh
 
SJS

SJS

Hall of Fame Member
A modified M-side

  1. Morris, Arthur R
  2. Mankad, Mulvantrai H
  3. Macartney, Charles G
  4. May, Peter B H
  5. McCabe, Stanley J
  6. Miller, Keith R
  7. Marsh, Rodney W
  8. Marshall, Malcolm D
  9. McGrath, Glenn D
  10. Mailey, Arthur A
  11. Muralitharan, Muttiah
 
Matt79

Matt79

Hall of Fame Member
Washbrook for M Waugh, agreed re strength. Another option is to have Walcott keep and slot Walters in there.
 
pasag

pasag

RTDAS
H's have the strongest batting, M's the strongest bowling so far. Think we had the same thread as this not long ago iirc.
 
Matt79

Matt79

Hall of Fame Member
Matt79 said:
H:
Hutton
Hobbs
Hammond
Headley
Harvey
Hill
Healy+
Hadlee
Holding
Hughes
Hoggard

Easily the strongest batting of any one letter, bowling not quite as good as "M" or "L", and no decent spinner is an issue.
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Maybe Hirst for Hill to improve the bowling. Hammond is a plausible 5th bowler, but somewhat redundant with the 4 main seamers.
 
SJS

SJS

Hall of Fame Member
The Eleven L's

  1. Lawry, Bill
  2. Langer, Justin
  3. Lara, Brian
  4. Laxman, V V S
  5. Lloyd, Clive
  6. Lindsay, Denis
  7. Lindwall, Ray
  8. Larwood, Harold
  9. Laker, Jim
  10. Lillee, Dennis
  11. Lohmann, George
 
Matt79

Matt79

Hall of Fame Member
Yeah, I named an XI of Test/FC players, roughly in position, that started with Q. Archie had been doing Australian specific ones but quit at that point... :p
 
NUFAN

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S
1 Michael Slater
2 Herb Sutcliffe
3 Bob Simpson
4 Kumar Sangakarra
5 Gary Sobers
6 Ramnaresh Sarwan
7 Alec Stewart
8 Heath Streak
9 Fred Spoffoth
10 Brian Statham
11 John Snow
 
SJS

SJS

Hall of Fame Member
The S's XI

  1. Sutcliffe, Herbert
  2. Simpson, Bobbie
  3. Sobers, Garfield
  4. Sangakkara,
  5. Salim Malik
  6. Stewart, Alec
  7. Shastri, Ravi
  8. Saqlain Mushtaq
  9. Statham, Brian
  10. Snow, John
  11. Spofforth, Fred
 
NUFAN

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SJS said:
The S's XI

  1. Sutcliffe, Herbert
  2. Simpson, Bobbie
  3. Sobers, Garfield
  4. Sangakkara,
  5. Salim Malik
  6. Stewart, Alec
  7. Shastri, Ravi
  8. Saqlain Mushtaq
  9. Statham, Brian
  10. Snow, John
  11. Spofforth, Fred
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Pretty similar to my team - but I don't consider Salim Malik as S.. thought of Saqlain too..
 
SJS

SJS

Hall of Fame Member
The A's

  1. Atherton, Michael
  2. Amiss, Dennis
  3. Amarnath,
  4. Azharuddin, Mohammad
  5. Armstrong, Warwick
  6. Ames, Leslie
  7. Allen, George
  8. Abdul Qadir
  9. Adcock, Neil
  10. Ambrose, Curtly
  11. Alderman, Terence
 
NUFAN

NUFAN

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SJS said:
The A's

  1. Atherton, Michael
  2. Amiss, Dennis
  3. Amarnath,
  4. Azharuddin, Mohammad
  5. Armstrong, Warwick
  6. Ames, Leslie
  7. Allen, George
  8. Abdul Qadir
  9. Adcock, Neil
  10. Ambrose, Curtly
  11. Alderman, Terence
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Saeed Anwar would be close. Wasim Akram would make my team but I know he's a W for you. Zaheer Abbas and Azharuddin would have to be close or ahead of Ames..
 
Matt79

Matt79

Hall of Fame Member
Yeah, with my teams I've always used the "second" name, regardless of whether that is their family name or not - just as a consistency thing. Besides, it makes Q a lot harder.

T would be a wonderful team to watch - it would have one of the scarier pace attacks ever, plus the incomparable (to watch) Trumper and Tallon.
Trecothick
Taylor, M
Taylor, H
Tendulkar
Trumper
Thorpe
Tallon+
Trueman
Trumble/Tayfield
Tyson
Thompson
 
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