Alphabet teams

[zaremba]

Not all Test players, but using middle names I can get it down to 3

John Elicius Benedict Bernard Placid Quirk Carrington Dwyer
Ramesh Laxman Hazare
Alfred Richard Gover

 

[Himannv]

Lets try a V team.

Victor Trumper
Virender Sehwag
Viv Richards
VVS Laxman
Vijay Hazare
AB de Villiers
Daniel Vettori
Chaminda Vaas
Bert Vogler
Headley Verity
Fanie de Villiers

 

[jeevan]

Not all Test players, but using middle names I can get it down to 3

John Elicius Benedict Bernard Placid Quirk Carrington Dwyer
Ramesh Laxman Hazare
Alfred Richard Gover

Another triple, 22 characters from the first one alone :-)

Warnakulasuriya Patabendige Ushantha Joseph Chaminda Vaas
Farooq Mirza for f,q,z
Xavier Marshall for x

 

[jeevan]

Andrew Strauss
Barry Richards
Clyde Walcott
Don Bradman
Everton Weekes
Farokh Engineer
Gary Sobers (just go along with this batting order, ok)
Hedley Verity
Imran Khan
Joel Garner
Kapil Dev (same as above)

 

[Blakus]

Oops, didn't see that you already made one. Only one change between this and my team I reckon.. Lara instead of Langer

How'd I forget him?

 

[Blakus]

Lets have a stab at the J team

Jack Hobbs
Justin Langer
Jacques Kallis
Javed Miandad
Douglas Jardine
Stanley Jackson
Jack Blackham
Mitchell Johnson
Jason Gillespie
Jim Laker
Bill Johnston

 

[NUFAN]

Lets have a stab at the J team

Jack Hobbs
Justin Langer
Jacques Kallis
Javed Miandad
Douglas Jardine
Stanley Jackson
Jack Blackham
Mitchell Johnson
Jason Gillespie
Jim Laker
Bill Johnston

The most obvious player I can think of not included is Joel Garner. Probably Johnny Wardle too, if you think he played enough games.

 

[Blakus]

Garner in for Gillespie or Johnson.

 

[Himannv]

Johnny Waite as stumper?

Jack Cowie ahead of Gillespie and Johnson perhaps.

 

[Blakus]

Johnny Waite as stumper?

Jack Cowie ahead of Gillespie and Johnson perhaps.

Still like Blackham. One of Australia's finest keepers and a better batmean than his average suggests. Very tough for batting during his era.

Don't know if Cowie played enough matches tbh.

That being said, I wouldn't quibble to much either way

 

[indian_legend]

"C" Team

Chris Gayle
Martin Crowe
Greg Chappell
Shivnarine Chanderpaul
Clive Lloyd
Dennis Compton
Clyde Walcott
CS Nayudu
Courtney Walsh
Curtly Ambrose
BS Chandrashekhar

Looks good enough to compete against most teams listed over here

 

[indian_legend]

And kudos as always to CK Nayudu for playing a first-class match (against the MCC tourists of 1963-64, IIRC) at the age of 68.


Yeah, Nourse, Noble and Ntini certainly. Never really saw Sidhu at his best.

Thats not all. CK Nayudu, after the age of 50 still averaged 30 in FC cricket with a bowling average of 35. Link - The Home of CricketArchive

And a batting average of 39 over 5 matches after the age of 60

Link - The Home of CricketArchive

Amazing achievement to still be playing FC cricket regularly even after the age of 50, to the age of 68. Even more amazing to still have a good batting average at that age

 

[jeevan]

Taking a 'last names with A-K' we get:

Atapatu, Marwan
Bradman, Don (c)
Chappell, Greg
Dravid, Rahul
Edrich, John (couldnt think of a good middle order bat)
Flintoff, Andrew
Gilchrist, Adam
Hadlee, Richard
Ironmonger, Bert
Johnson. Mitchell
Khan, Imran

Andrew Strauss
Barry Richards
Clyde Walcott
Don Bradman
Everton Weekes
Farokh Engineer
Gary Sobers (just go along with this batting order, ok)
Hedley Verity
Imran Khan
Joel Garner
Kapil Dev (same as above)

 

[Michaelf7777777]

Using Sir names only

A's

Bobby Abel
Aamir Sohail
Asif Iqbal
Mohammad Azharuddin
Dennis Amiss
Warwick Armstrong (*)
Leslie Ames (+)
Curtley Ambrose
Neil Adcock
Abdul Qadir
Terry Alderman

B's

Geoff Boycott
Sid Barnes
Don Bradman
Eddie Barlow
Alan Border
Ian Botham
Richie Benaud (*)
Jack Blackham (+)
Alec Bedser
Bishen Bedi/ Shane Bond
SF Barnes

C's

Herbie Collins
Colin Cowdrey
Ian Chappell (*)
Greg Chappell
Dennis Compton
Martin Crowe
Jock Cameron (+)
Chris Cairns
Learie Constantine
Colin Croft
Bhagwat Chandraesekhar

D's

Stewie Dempster
Joe Darling (*)
Rahul Dravid
Ted Dexter
Martin Donnelly
Duleepsinhji
Mahendra Singh Dhoni (+)
Alan Davidson
Fannie de Villiers
Dillip Doshi
Alan Donald

More to come

 

[stumpski]

Taking a 'last names with A-K' we get:

Atapatu, Marwan
Bradman, Don (c)
Chappell, Greg
Dravid, Rahul
Edrich, John (couldnt think of a good middle order bat)
Flintoff, Andrew
Gilchrist, Adam
Hadlee, Richard
Ironmonger, Bert
Johnson. Mitchell
Khan, Imran

Heh, I've done this before actually. Restricting myself to surnames/England,

Dennis Amiss
Geoff Boycott
Colin Cowdrey
Ted Dexter
Bill Edrich
Andrew Flintoff
Tony Greig
George Hirst
Ray Illingworth
Simon Jones
Alan Knott


Awesome array of all-rounders tbh, and it's easy to imagine the tail might wag a bit.

 

[zaremba]

Wayne Larkins
Archie Maclaren (c)
Mark Nicholas
Alan Oakman
Eddie Paynter
Willie Quaife
Jack Russell (w)
Brian Statham
Fred Trueman
Derek Underwood
Hedley Verity

Physically sickened by my enforced choice at 3.

Also disappointed not to have a specialist at 4.

Batting overall a bit weak. But a fine bowling line up with 2 top drawer quicks, 2 top drawer spinners and Oakman and Quaife competent back-up seamers.

 

[jeevan]

^ Only Englishmen allowed or did you forget Nourse, Dudley?

Starting where you please in the alphabet, here's another:

Gavaskar Sunil
Hobbs Jack
Iqbal Asif (not Faisal!!)
Jones Dean
Kallis Jacques
Lara Brian
Marsh Rodney
Nissar Mohammad
O"Reilley Bill
Pollock Shaun
Qadir Abdul ( 2 good leggies rather than pick Chris Old or Iqbal Qasim. Plus team has Kallis).

Opener pair to die for, 2nd best all rounder of all time, bowlers all very good bordering on greatness. Very competent keeper and not a passenger on this crew. Asif Iqbal to captain.

 

[Michaelf7777777]

Continuing on with my sir name letter teams.

1st a correction. Ken Barrington in for Eddie Barlow to bat at 4 for the B's

E's

Bruce Edgar
Matthew Elliot
John Edrich (*)
Bill Edrich
Ross Edwards
Farokh Engineer
Godfrey Evans (+)
John Embury
Phil Edmonds
Tom Emmett
Fidel Edwards

F's

Jack Fingleton
Roy Fredericks
Stephen Fleming (*)
CB Fry
Andy Flower (+)
Tip Foster
Aubrey Faulkner
Fazal Mahmood
Tich Freeman
JJ Ferris
Ken Farnes

G's

Sunil Gavaskar
Gordon Greenidge
WG Grace (*)
David Gower
Tom Graveney
Adam Gilchrist (+)
Jack Gregory
Jason Gillespie
Clarrie Grimmett
Joel Garner
Lance Gibbs

H's

Jack Hobbs
Len Hutton
George Headley
Walter Hammond
Neil Harvey (*)
Michael Hussey
Richard Hadlee
Ian Healy (+)
Harbhajan Singh
Wes Hall
Michael Holding

I's

Imran Farhat
Frank Iredale
Ijaz Ahmed
Inzamam-ul-Haq
Imran Khan (*)
Imitaz Ahmed (+)
Intikhab Alam
Iqbal Qasim
David Ironside
Jack Iverson
Bert Ironmonger

J's

Archie Jackson
Sanath Jayasuriya
Andrew Jones
Javed Miandad (*)
Mahela Jayawardene
Stanley Jackson
Mitchell Johnson
Ian Johnson
Barry Jarman (+)
Simon Jones
Bill Johnston

K's

Simon Katich
Gary Kirsten
Rohan Kanhai
Jacques Kallis
Alvin Kallicharan
Charles Kellaway
Alan Kippax
Kapil Dev (*)
Alan Knott (+)
Anil Kumble
Michael Kasprowicz

L's

Justin Langer
Bill Lawry
Brian Lara
Maurice Leyland
Clive Lloyd
Dennis Lindsay (+)
Ray Lindwall
Harold Larwood
Dennis Lillee
Jim Laker
George Lohmann

M's

Arthur Morris
Vijay Merchant
Charles Macartney
Stan McCabe
Peter May
Phil Mead
Keith Miller (*)
Rodney Marsh (+)
Malcolm Marshall
Glenn McGrath
Muttiah Muralitharin

N's

Marcus North
Nazar Mohammad
Dudley Nourse
Seymour Nurse
Monty Noble (*)
Dave Nourse
Bapu Nadkarni
Karl Nunes (+)
Dion Nash
Makhaya Ntini
Mohammad Nissar

 

[Blakus]

Like those teams. Just put in Clive Lloyd for Lamb in the L team. Perhaps Laxman for Leyland as well

 

[Michaelf7777777]

Had the feeling I was missing someone obvious for the L's

Anyway the rest of the alphabet:

O's

Tuppy Owen-Smith
Leo O'Brien
Norm O'Neill
Buddy Oldfield
Jacob Oram (*)
Simon O'Donnell
Alan Oakman
Bert Oldfield (+)
Bill O'Reilly
Chris Old
Iain O'Brien

P's and Q's

Bill Ponsford
Manoj Prabharker
Graeme Pollock
Ricky Ponting (*)
Eddie Paynter
Kevin Pieterson
Mike Proctor
Shaun Pollock
Adam Parore (+)
Peter Pollock
Erpil Prasanna

R's

Barry Richards
Rameez Raja
Viv Richards
Ranjitsinhji
Jack Ryder
John Reid
Clive Rice (*)
Wilfred Rhodes
Jack Russell (+)
Andy Roberts
Tom Richardson

S's

Virendar Sehwag
Herbert Suttcliffe
Bob Simpson
Kumar Sangakarra
Bert Suttcliffe
Garry Sobers (*)
Alec Stewart (+)
Reginald Schwarz
Sarfraz Nawaz
Dale Steyn
Brian Statham

T's

Mark Taylor (*)
Glenn Turner
Herbie Taylor
Sachin Tendulkar
Ernest Tyledsley
Don Tallon (+)
Maurice Tate
Hugh Trumble
Fred Trueman
Frank Tyson
Hugh Tayfield

U's and V's

Michael Vaughan (*)
Pieter van der Bijl
Dillip Vensarker
Gudappa Viswanath
Polly Umrigar
Lou Vincent (+)
Chaminda Vaas
Bill Voce
Hedley Verity
Vince van der Bijl
Derek Underwood

W's

Bill Woodfull
John Wright
Everton Weekes
Frank Worrell (*)
Steve Waugh
Doug Walters
Clyde Walcott (+)
Wasim Akram
Shane Warne
Waqar Younis
Courtney Walsh

X's, Y's and Z's

Bryan Young
Zaheer Abbas
Graham Yallop
Younis Khan
Yuvraj Singh
Norman Yardley
Tim Zoehrer (+)
Bruce Yardley
Zaheer Khan
Monde Zondeki
Jack Young