Alphabet teams

[stephen]

Think M has the best bowling lineup.

Yeah, though their batting is weaker than the other strong sides - H, W, B and S.

 

[NUFAN]

Like my bowling attack better, but your batting line-up is gold. Forgot about Sutcliffe TBH

Yeah same! Take out Harbhajan and Hazare and I think we've got one hell of a team.

 

[stephen]

M team

Matthew Hayden
Michael Artherton
Mohd. Azharuddin
Mark Waugh
Javed Miandad
Mark Boucher
Keith Miller
Malcolm Marshall
Muthiah Muralitharan
Michael Holding
Glenn Mcgrath

I'd take Mark Taylor over Michael Atherton.
Miller should bat ahead of Boucher as well.

 

[NUFAN]

I'd take Mark Taylor over Michael Atherton.
Miller should bat ahead of Boucher as well.

I would take Arthur Morris over Mark Taylor. I would also go for McCabe, May, Mahela Jayawardena or Martin Crowe over Mark Waugh.

 

[stephen]

Yeah same! Take out Harbhajan and Hazare and I think we've got one hell of a team.

Was Hall better than Trumble?

Hmmmm.

 

[Shri]

I would take Arthur Morris over Mark Taylor. I would also go for McCabe, May, Mahela Jayawardena or Martin Crowe over Mark Waugh.

Made some changes. Took Mike Hussey over Azhar.

 

[Blakus]

Was Hall better than Trumble?

Hmmmm.

Trumble on a turner, Hall on a seamer. Easy

 

[stephen]

So Trumble vs Verity? (forgot Trumble was a spinner TBH)

 

[Pothas]

Had a go at the 'D's
1. Desmond Haynes
2. Stewie Dempster
3. Don Bradman
4. Rahul Dravid
5. Dennis Compton
6. M.S Dhoni
7. Kapil Dev
8. Alan Davidson
9. Dennis Lillee
10. Alan Donald
11. Derek Underwood

 

[Blakus]

P team

Bill Ponsford
Phil Mead
Ricky Ponting
Graeme Pollock
Eddie Paynter
Jim Parks
Shaun Pollock
Mike Proctor
Peter Pollock
Bobby Peel
Erapalli Prasanna

Struggled to think of openers TBH. Mead is more of a middle order bat

 

[Blakus]

So Trumble vs Verity? (forgot Trumble was a spinner TBH)

Hmm. Hard to split their bowling but Trumble is the better batsman (considering era) and has a really good catches to matches ratio. Therefore Trumble

 

[Shri]

P team

1.
2.
Ricky Ponting
Graeme Pollock
Kevin Pietersen
Ashwell Prince
Matt Prior
Mike Procter
Shaun Pollock
EAS Prasanna
11.

 

[zaremba]

Working on the Gs.

 

[Noble One]

The book Test Cricket Lists by Graham Dawson compiled a list of A to Z teams. I'll try and copy some later on. My copy is only current up to 1997, so some changes since then.

 

[NUFAN]

1 Ken Barrington
2 Gary Kirsten
3 Kumar Sangakarra
4 Jacques Kallis
5 Rohan Kanhai
6 Keith Miller
7 Imran Khan
8 Alan Knott
9 Kapil Dev
10 Anil Kumble
11 Ken Higgs

Okay, so Barrington is not usually an opener,but he did open a few times in Test Cricket. Am I overlooking someone instead of Higgs? I love how this team has 4 gun all rounders!

 

[zaremba]

WG Grace
Sunil Gavaskar
George Headley
Greg Chappell
Graeme Pollock
Garry Sobers
Adam Gilchrist
George Lohmann
Lance Gibbs
Joel Garner
Glenn McGrath

12th man: Garth le Roux

I'd back that team against any of the rest.

We are also leaving out some pretty good opening batsmen: Gooch, Greenidge, Graeme Smith, Geoff Boycott

 

[NUFAN]

Thank god for Ian

1 Tamim Iqbal
2 Ian Redpath
3 Ian Chappell
4 Inzamam Ul-Haq
5 Ian Bell
6 Ian Botham
7 Ian Healy
8 Imran Khan
9 Iqbal Qasim
10 Ian Bishop
11 Bert Ironmonger

 

[zaremba]

On reflection the other sides are damn good too. But the Gs have the best batting line up I reckon.

I forgot to mention thaty sub fielder is of course Gary Pratt

 

[NUFAN]

On reflection the other sides are damn good too. But the Gs have the best batting line up I reckon.

I forgot to mention thaty sub fielder is of course Gary Pratt

Yep the G's batting lineup is awesome.

My favourite team is the K team, it's probably not the best team on show, but I can't see this team getting defeated much (they should hold on for draws).

 

[zaremba]

I absolutely love this, and will be doing it in my head all day. I will resist the temptation to visit cricket archive though - as all of us must. This matters too much to cheat.