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[masterblaster]

Indian Test Side:

Sehwag
Gambhir
Dravid (until he decides to retire)
Tendulkar
Laxman
Badrinath
Dhoni
Harbhajan
Mishra
Zaheer
Ishant

Reserves:

Vijay
Rohit Sharma
RP Singh
Munaf Patel
Piyush Chawla

Indian ODI Side:

Sehwag
Tendulkar
Gambhir
Raina
Yuvraj
Badrinath
Dhoni
Harbhajan
Mishra
Zaheer
Ishant

Reserves:

Praveen Kumar
Irfan Pathan
Yusuf Pathan
Rohit Sharma
Pragyan Ojha
RP Singh
Munaf Patel

The test side is fairly set in stone fo me. My ODI side can be rotated a fair bit though as I rate Praveen Kumar and Irfan Pathan to come in. I would stick to Mishra in both tests and ODI's and I rate Badrinath higher than Rohit Sharma in the ODI team so Rohit is on my reserves list.

 

[Goughy]

Interesting how little support Pathan gets. He is still young and had a decent record with both bat and ball.

I may think he is pretty poor, but there have been quite a few guys on here defend him quite strongly previously.

Where does his career stand now?

 

[Precambrian]

Interesting how little support Pathan gets. He is still young and had a decent record with both bat and ball.

I may think he is pretty poor, but there have been quite a few guys on here defend him quite strongly previously.

Where does his career stand now?

He had a good outing in Australia initially, contributing with both bat and ball and was moM in Perth win. However since then, hsi form has dipped, and was carted in the CB series finals. Post that his eco. rate in ODIs have been unimpressive, (To his credit,many of them were on absolute roads). Right now, he is at the top of the pecking order as demonstrated by selections.

 

[Goughy]

He had a good outing in Australia initially, contributing with both bat and ball and was moM in Perth win. However since then, hsi form has dipped, and was carted in the CB series finals. Post that his eco. rate in ODIs have been unimpressive, (To his credit,many of them were on absolute roads). Right now, he is at the top of the pecking order as demonstrated by selections.

Sorry, I was talking about Test selection.

 

[Prince EWS]

Jaques
Hayden
Ponting
Hussey
Katich
Watson/Symonds
Haddin
Krejza/Noffke
Lee
Clark
Bollinger

That probably looks a bit like a cop-out at the moment, but it'd depend on expected pitch conditions. If the pitch was expected to turn at any stage I'd play Krejza and Watson, else I'd go with Noffke and Symonds. I have more faith in Watson as a Test cricketer than Symonds overall despite their Test records at present but whilst I have an obvious preference (some might even say bias) towards Watson, I realise that his bowling would be pretty inconsequential if there were already four quicks in the team. Symonds would offer balance to the attack with his off breaks as the fifth bowler in the event of Krejza not playing and whilst I don't actually think he's as good a batsman as Watson as such, he's more suited to batting #6 than he is and has performed far beyond my expectations in Test cricket.

I think Jaques would offer more than Clarke as well and whilst Johnson hasn't really been poor enough to get dropped as such, I wouldn't pick him if I was picking a team from scratch which is what I'm doing here.

 

[S.P. Fleming]

NZ test side to face Australia

1. Jamie How
2. Tim McIntosh
3. Peter Fulton
4. Ross Taylor
5. Jesse Ryder
6. Jacob Oram
7. Brendon McCullam
8. Daniel Vettori
9. James Franklin
10.Kyle Mills
11. Tim Southee

Can you just tell me how good low that side bats, Mills at 10! Southee at 11!
this side has the three best quicks in New Zealand, and a sensible batting line-up: Fulton back where he always should be McCullam back where he belongs and the opening problem getting fixed. I also love having Jesse Ruder down at five.

 

[Prince EWS]

Haha, McIntosh. He's emulated Sinclair's Test career at First Class level, basically (strings of failures followed by the occasional huge score to keep everyone interested, averaging 32 odd), and yet he gets a mentioned in a thread like this. Does that mean I can endorse Sinclair in the World XI thread?

 

[NUFAN]

1 Simon Katich
2 Matthew Hayden
3 Ricky Ponting
4 Michael Hussey
5 MIchael Clarke
6 Andrew Symonds
7 Graham Manou
8 Ashley Noffke
9 Brett Lee
10 Stuart Clark
11 Ben Hilfenhaus

Backup
Haddin, Krejza, Watson, Bollinger, Hodge.

 

[biased indian]

to play aganist England

Sehwag
Gambhir
Dravid
Tendulkar
Rohit sharma
Laxman
Dhoni
Harbhajan
Chawla/Mishra
Zaheer
Ishant

 

[NZTailender]

My Australian team:

1. P Jaques
2. P Hughes
3. S Katich*
4. P Forrest
5. U Khawaja
6. S Watson
7. S Smith
8. B Haddin+
9. B Lee
10. N Bracken
11. S Clark

 

[NUFAN]

Steve Smith, might as well pick Cam White there, suppose he's not from NSW though.

 

[Flem274*]

Haha, McIntosh. He's emulated Sinclair's Test career at First Class level, basically (strings of failures followed by the occasional huge score to keep everyone interested, averaging 32 odd), and yet he gets a mentioned in a thread like this. Does that mean I can endorse Sinclair in the World XI thread?

Considering McIntosh is second fiddle to Martin Guptill (who is injured), you could possibly endorse Sinclair for a World 2nd XI thread.

 

[Prince EWS]

Considering McIntosh is second fiddle to Martin Guptill (who is injured), you could possibly endorse Sinclair for a World 2nd XI thread.

"S.P. Fleming" named him in his first choice New Zealand Test eleven though. Just above my post.

 

[Johnners]

Jaques
Hayden
Ponting
Hussey
Katich
Watson/Symonds
Haddin
Krejza/Noffke
Lee
Clark
Bollinger

That probably looks a bit like a cop-out at the moment, but it'd depend on expected pitch conditions. If the pitch was expected to turn at any stage I'd play Krejza and Watson, else I'd go with Noffke and Symonds. I have more faith in Watson as a Test cricketer than Symonds overall despite their Test records at present but whilst I have an obvious preference (some might even say bias) towards Watson, I realise that his bowling would be pretty inconsequential if there were already four quicks in the team. Symonds would offer balance to the attack with his off breaks as the fifth bowler in the event of Krejza not playing and whilst I don't actually think he's as good a batsman as Watson as such, he's more suited to batting #6 than he is and has performed far beyond my expectations in Test cricket.

I think Jaques would offer more than Clarke as well and whilst Johnson hasn't really been poor enough to get dropped as such, I wouldn't pick him if I was picking a team from scratch which is what I'm doing here.

Nice copy and paste

 

[Prince EWS]

Nice copy and paste

Yeah I seem to have said the same thing a lot of times recently. Has been relevant though.

I've actually been re-typing it FTR. Should have it handy so I can just shove it in everywhere. .

 

[Flem274*]

"S.P. Fleming" named him in his first choice New Zealand Test eleven though. Just above my post.

I know. I not disagreeing with you, I'm making comment that McIntosh is down the pecking order for a first XI, as is Sinclair (internationally though) so you can have him in a second XI

Geez, keep up PEWPEW!

 

[Johnners]

Katich
Jaques
Ponting
Hussey
Clarke
Watson/Symonds
Haddin
Noffke
Lee
Johnson/Krejza
Clark

Bias aside, Johnson, Watson, Krejza & Symonds' selections would depend upon the pitch really. Personally would play Johnson & Watson ahead of the other 2 as often as possible though.

 

[Prince EWS]

I know. I not disagreeing with you, I'm making comment that McIntosh is down the pecking order for a first XI, as is Sinclair (internationally though) so you can have him in a second XI

No, that doesn't make any sense in reply to what I was saying originally. If McIntosh can be named in this thread, then Sinclair can be named in a World XI thread as McIntosh's First Class career closes matches Sinclair's Test career (assuming equal competition, which isn't so, but anyway). By your strange logic, McIntosh can be named in a New Zealand Second XI thread, but regardless of how you got that, he's been named in this one. His actual stature in terms of domestic selection is irrelevant to my point totally (although if he is just a backup, then it makes the Sinclair-Test-career comparison even more valid).

I wasn't actually trying to make a case for Sinclair; I was just pointing out how bad a pick McIntosh actually was. It seems you struggled to see my point though and hence replied with something that followed a completely different line of "logic" so this'll be my last post on the matter whether you finally get it or not.

 

[Flem274*]

No, that doesn't make any sense in reply to what I was saying originally. If McIntosh can be named in this thread, then Sinclair can be named in a World XI thread as McIntosh's First Class career closes matches Sinclair's Test career (assuming equal competition, which isn't so, but anyway). By your strange logic, McIntosh can be named in a New Zealand Second XI thread, but regardless of how you got that, he's been named in this one. His actual stature in terms of domestic selection is irrelevant to my point totally (although if he is just a backup, then it makes the Sinclair-Test-career comparison even more valid).

I wasn't actually trying to make a case for Sinclair; I was just pointing out how bad a pick McIntosh actually was. It seems you struggled to see my point though and hence replied with something that followed a completely different line of "logic" so this'll be my last post on the matter whether you finally get it or not.

I got your point, and my logic was not serious.

And oh no you don't, you get right back in here in the Never Ending Confused Argument!

 

[lachlan43]

Aussie side to face NZ next week:

Hayden
Katich
Ponting
Clarke
Hussey
Symonds
Haddin
Krejza
Lee
Johnson
Clark

And I'll do a South Africa side for their next series whilst I'm at it:

Ontong
Ontong
Kallis
Kallis
Kallis
Ontong
De Villiers
Ntini
Ntini
Ontong
Ntini