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Your Prime Ministers XI
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grecian
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Matt79
Hall of Fame Member
Prime minister XI?
Umm, I guess Howard is an obvious selection as a spinner/team nerd.
Reckon Fraser would be a good quick bowling alleounder in the mould of Brian McMillan. Menzies as a domineering Macartenay style batsman. Keating could don a Spoffirth moustache and have a bowl. Rudd can be in as a crowd favourite, despite still be pretty unproven.
Hawkey is clearly the Doug Walters of this team, when he isn't channelling Kim Hughes.
Holt looks great but sometimes goes missing inconviently.
Chifley
Evett
Menzies
Hawke
Holt
Rudd
Fraser
Deakin+
Whitlam
Keating
Howard
Perennial 12th man: Peter Costello.
Umm, I guess Howard is an obvious selection as a spinner/team nerd.
Reckon Fraser would be a good quick bowling alleounder in the mould of Brian McMillan. Menzies as a domineering Macartenay style batsman. Keating could don a Spoffirth moustache and have a bowl. Rudd can be in as a crowd favourite, despite still be pretty unproven.
Hawkey is clearly the Doug Walters of this team, when he isn't channelling Kim Hughes.
Holt looks great but sometimes goes missing inconviently.
Chifley
Evett
Menzies
Hawke
Holt
Rudd
Fraser
Deakin+
Whitlam
Keating
Howard
Perennial 12th man: Peter Costello.
stephen
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
See the problem thatyou have there is that Chamberlain gives his wicket away too easily, and is listed as both a batter and a bowler.
I think Replacing him with Thatcher up at the top of the order - she might be a grafter but you know she'll hang around.
stephen
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
I think that Howard was more of a top order blocker than a spinner. Rudd though is a spinner in the mold of MacGill - he occasionally gives a lot away, but he picks up a lot of wickets.
Whitlam might be a little expensive to use for long spells. Have to manage him like Tait.
Love Menzies at 3 and Hawke at 4.
Matt79
Hall of Fame Member
Kerry O'Keeffe once, being serious, nominated Howard as the most technically correct offie in the country. He'd be a genuine 11 in my mind.
SirBloody Idiot
Cricketer Of The Year
Would struggle against the Communist XI:
NS Khrushchev
MS Gorbachev
LI Brezhnev
E Honecker
Mao Zedong
GM Malenkov
+KU Cherenenko
YV Andropov
*J Stalin
JB Tito
FA Castro
Ho Chi Minh carrying the drinks.
NS Khrushchev
MS Gorbachev
LI Brezhnev
E Honecker
Mao Zedong
GM Malenkov
+KU Cherenenko
YV Andropov
*J Stalin
JB Tito
FA Castro
Ho Chi Minh carrying the drinks.
Jakester1288
International Regular
Bob Hawke would be a great number 4, he has a very keen eye for the ball.
Matt79
Hall of Fame Member
No Deng Xiaoping? Bah!
Matt79
Hall of Fame Member
But Grant Elliott doesn't bowl in a lacy teddy...
SirBloody Idiot
Cricketer Of The Year
Far too benevolent for that mob, though he might fit in with the other personality clashes. Stalin-Tito, Khrushchev-Castro; it's like the Pakistan national team!
Smudge
Hall of Fame Member
He does in my dreams....But Grant Elliott doesn't bowl in a lacy teddy...
Indipper
State Regular
You're missing some of the best commies. Jaruzelski, Ulbricht, Pol Pot. And Ho Chi Minh carrying drinks while you play Andropov or Cherenenko? For shame.
SirBloody Idiot
Cricketer Of The Year
Couldn't pass up Cherenenko behind the stumps - he covers WK and first and second slips!
Jamee999
Hall of Fame Member
Chamberlain needs 2 tries at stuff - that way he can say "peace in our time" and "**** off, adolf", and not be mocked in the future...