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Scorecard Draft

G.I.Joe

G.I.Joe

International Coach
Round 1:
NUFAN - Muttiah Muralitharan
weldone - Adam Gilchrist
Noble One - Glenn Mcgrath
Cevno - Curtly Ambrose
Blakus - Vivian Richards
Himannv - Imran Khan
honestbharani - Richard Hadlee
kingkallis - Malcolm Marshall
GI Joe - Brian Lara
Shri - Kumar Sangakkara
pskov - Shane Warne
HeathDavisSpeed - Jacques Kallis
Somerset - Sachin Tendulkar
marc71178 - Wasim Akram
Marcuss - Waqar Younis
Jamee999 - Ricky Ponting
Michaelf7777777 - Andy Flower
Riggins - Michael Slater

Round 2:
Riggins - Rahul Dravid
Michaelf7777777 - Shaun Pollock
Jamee999 - Courtney Walsh
Marcuss - Kapil Dev
marc71178 - Ian Botham
Somerset - Dennis Lillee
HeathDavisSpeed - Joel Garner
pskov - Sunil Gavaskar
Shri - Garry Sobers
GI Joe - Keith Miller
kingkallis - Donald Bradman
honestbharani - Wally Hammond
Himannv - Jack Hobbs
Blakus - Sydney Barnes
Cevno - Wilfred Rhodes
Noble One - Clarrie Grimmett
weldone - George Headley
NUFAN - Fred Trueman

Round 3:
pskov - Alan Davidson
Jamee999 - Len Hutton
Marcuss - Les Ames
GI Joe - Herbert Sutcliffe
kingkallis - Aubrey Faulkner
Riggins - Charles Macartney
Michaelf7777777 - Colin Blythe
Shri - Hugh Trumble
weldone - George Lohmann
Blakus - Frederick Spofforth
NUFAN - Charlie Turner
Cevno - W.G Grace
Noble One - Victor Trumper
HeathDavisSpeed - Warwick Armstrong
Himannv - Stanley Jackson
Somerset - Kumar Ranjitsinhji
marc71178 - Archie MacLaren
honestbharani - Johnny Briggs

Round 4:
marc71178 - Bobby Abel
honestbharani - Billy Barnes
Somerset - Billy Bates
Himannv - Dick Barlow
HeathDavisSpeed - Tom Garrett
Noble One - Arthur Shrewsbury
Cevno - Bobby Peel
NUFAN - Allan Steel
Blakus - Billy Murdoch
weldone - George Ulyett
Shri - Syd Gregory
Michaelf7777777 - Frank Woolley
Riggins - Bill Voce
kingkallis - Bill O'Rielly
GI Joe - Ray Lindwall
Marcuss - Jim Laker
Jamee999 - Clyde Walcott
pskov - Neil Harvey

Round 5:
Shri - Alec Bedser
Jamee999 - Peter May
honestbharani - Graeme Pollock
Blakus - Ken Barrington
Cevno - Frank Tyson
Michaelf7777777 - Arthur Morris
Riggins - Vinoo Mankad
GI Joe - Denis Compton
HeathDavisSpeed - Everton Weekes
kingkallis - Colin Cowdrey
Noble One - Brian Statham
pskov - Neil Adcock
weldone - Richie Benaud
Marcuss - Frank Worrell
Himannv - Rohan Kanhai
Somerset - Godfrey Evans
marc71178 - Hanif Mohammad
NUFAN - Ted Dexter

Round 6:
marc71178 - Alan Knott
NUFAN - Greg Chappell
Somerset - Javed Miandad
Himannv - Gordon Greenidge
Marcuss - Allan Border
weldone - Geoff Boycott
pskov - Michael Holding
Noble One - Martin Crowe
kingkallis - Rodney Marsh
HeathDavisSpeed - Andy Roberts
GI Joe - Bob Willis
Riggins - Garth Mckenzie
Michaelf7777777 - Colin Croft
Cevno - Farokh Engineer
Blakus - Bob Simpson
honestbharani - Doug Walters
Jamee999 - Bishan Bedi
Shri - Derek Underwood

Round 7:
HeathDavisSpeed - Peter Pollock
Marcuss - Graham Gooch
Cevno - Allan Donald
Jamee999 - Matthew Hayden
marc71178 - Harbhajan Singh
honestbharani - MS Dhoni
Himannv - Dale Steyn
Noble One - Andrew Flintoff
kingkallis - Virender Sehwag
NUFAN - Greame Smith
pskov - Steve Waugh
weldone - Shane Bond
Riggins - Mahela Jayawardene
Somerset - Mohammad Yousuf
GI Joe - Jeff Thomson
Shri - Darren Gough
Blakus - Ian Bishop
Michaelf7777777 - Desmond Haynes

Round 8:
Blakus - Zaheer Abbas
Michaelf7777777 - Clive Lloyd
Shri - Roy Fredericks
GI Joe - Bill Lawry
Somerset - Eddie Barlow
Riggins / JTRCXXX94 - Mohammad Asif
weldone - Ian Chappell
pskov - John Edrich
NUFAN - Conrad Hunte
kingkallis - Dennis Amiss
Noble One - David Gower
Himannv - Abdul Qadir
honestbharani - Shoaib Akhtar
marc71178 - Aravinda de Silva
Jamee999 - Anil Kumble
Cevno - Inzamam ul Haq
Marcuss - Shivnaraine Chanderpaul
HeathDavisSpeed - Mark Taylor

Round 9:
Somerset - Craig McDermott
kingkallis - Merv Hughes
NUFAN - Graham Thorpe
marc71178 - Chris Gayle
Himannv - Jason Gillespie
Noble One - Mark Waugh
Marcuss - Justin Langer
Cevno - V.V.S Laxman
weldone - Gautam Gambhir
honestbharani - Shane Watson
Shri - Andrew Strauss
Blakus - Kevin Pietersen
Michaelf7777777 - Michael Hussey
Jamee999 - Makhaya Ntini
GI Joe - Alec Stewart
pskov - Younis Khan
HeathDavisSpeed - Gary Kirsten
Riggins / JTRCXXX94 - Ian Healy

Round 10:
pskov - Jeff Dujon
HeathDavisSpeed - Syed Kirmani
GI Joe - Tony Greig
Jamee999 - John Snow
Michaelf7777777 - Mushtaq Mohammed
Blakus - Subhash Gupte
Shri - Vijay Hazare
honestbharani - Vijay Merchant
Riggins / JTRCXXX94 - Cyril Washbrook
weldone - K. Duleepsinhji
Cevno - Dudley Nourse
Marcuss - Maurice Tate
Noble One - Petsy Hendren
Himannv - Stan McCabe
marc71178 - Headley Verity
NUFAN - Jock Cameron
kingkallis - Bert Ironmonger
Somerset - Douglas Jardine

Round 11:
Shri - Bill Ponsford
Somerset - Eddie Paynter
NUFAN - Lindsay Hassett
Blakus - Sid Barnes
marc71178 - Bill Bowes
weldone - Manny Martindale
Marcuss - Bruce Mitchell
Riggins / JTRCXXX94 - Herbie Taylor
HeathDavisSpeed - Stewie Dempster
Noble One - Gubby Allen
Himannv - Harold Larwood
GI Joe - Tich Freeman
Michaelf7777777 - Jack Gregory
Jamee999 - Bill Woodfull
pskov - Maurice Leyland
Cevno - Allan Rae
honestbharani - Jeffrey Stollmeyer
kingkallis - Polly Umrigar

Round 12:
honestbharani - Bob Cowper
kingkallis - Wes Hall
Cevno - Colin Bland
pskov - Ian Redpath
Jamee999 - Alvin Kalicharan
Michaelf7777777 - Bhagwath Chandrashekhar
GI Joe - MAK Pataudi
Himannv - Jackie Hendriks
Noble One - Jim Parks
HeathDavisSpeed - Trevor Goddard
Riggins / JTRCXXX94 - Ken MacKay
Marcuss - Fazal Mahmood
weldone - Roy Gilchrist
marc71178 - Jackie McGlew
Blakus - Johnny Wardle
NUFAN - Hugh Tayfield
Somerset - Bill Johnston
Shri - Trevor Bailey[/QUOTE]

Jamee999 - Eden Gardens, Kolkata
Blakus - MCG
Himannv - Lords
Somerset - Perth
marc71178 - Headingley
Noble One - Bellerive Oval
Marcuss - Old Trafford
pskov
Michaelf7777777
weldone
NUFAN
Riggins / JTRCXXX94
honestbharani
Cevno
Shri
GI Joe
kingkallis
HeathDavisSpeed
 
P

pskov

International 12th Man
I'll take the Kennington Oval, London because three of my four bowlers have excellent records there (Warne 32 wickets in 4 matches, Holding 27 wickets in 3 matches, Adcock 7 wickets in one appearance).

Plus it's close to me so travel wouldn't be a problem. :)
 
kingkallis

kingkallis

International Coach
CricZo XI



Virender Sehwag & Dennis Amiss to open & World's arguably the best batsman to come @ No.3 Donald Bradman

Tests : 182
Runs : 17647
Highest Score : DA 262* / VS 319 / DB 334
Average : 66.79
50s : 46 / 100s : 61 [ Great conversion rate ]
200s : 15 / 300s : 4



A very stable and strong middle order of Polly Umrigar, Colin Cowdrey & Aubrey Faulkner

Tests : 198
Runs : 13009
Highest Score : PU 223 / CW 182 / AF 204
Average : 42.35
50s : 60 / 100s : 38
200s : 2



World's one of the finest & respected wicketkeeper Rodney Marsh to keep wickets for Marshall, Hall, Hughes, O'Reilly & Faulkner

Tests : 96
Runs : 3633
Highest Score : 132
Average : 26.51
50s : 16 / 100s : 3

Catches : 343
Stumps : 12



Bill 'Tiger' O'Reilly is the trump card with his fast leg-spin and hell or high water attitude

Tests : 27
Wickets : 144
Average : 22.59
5 wickets : 11 / 10 wickets : 3
Wickets per match : 5.33

Runs : 410
Highest Score : 56*
Average : 12.81



Malcolm Marshall, Wes Hall and Merv Hughes - arguably the most lethal bowling attack to tear apart most top orders.

Look @ the strength of the batting of my tail as well, all of these bowlers has scored more than 1 50 and are averaging more than 15 with bat.

Tests : 182
Wickets : 780
Average : 25.23
5 wickets : 38 / 10 wickets : 6

Runs : 3660
Highest Score : MM 92 / WH 50* / MH 72*
Average : 16.82
50s : 14

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Legends : Don Bradman, Malcolm Marshall, Bill O'Reilly, Virender Sehwag
Greats : Aubrey Faulkner, Wes Hall, Colin Cowdrey, Dennis Amiss, Rod Marsh
Finest : Polly Umrigar, Merv Hughes, Bert Ironmonger

12th man : Bert Ironmonger

Overall, [ Playing XI only ]

Tests : 685
Runs : 34289 [ No.1 to No.7 ]
Average : 45.21
Highest Score : 334 [ Donald Bradman ]
50s : 137 / 100s : 102 / 200s : 17 / 300s : 4

Catches : 366
Wicketkeeper : 355 [ 343 + 12 ]

Wickets : 1068
Average : 24.8
5w : 53 / 10w : 9 [ Bowlers & all-rounder ( Faulkner ) only ]

Honestly I don't see any weakness in the team but still I'd have preferred at least 1 more lefty in TOP 7...

Jeez thats a long post! ;)
 
G.I.Joe

G.I.Joe

International Coach
Round 1:
NUFAN - Muttiah Muralitharan
weldone - Adam Gilchrist
Noble One - Glenn Mcgrath
Cevno - Curtly Ambrose
Blakus - Vivian Richards
Himannv - Imran Khan
honestbharani - Richard Hadlee
kingkallis - Malcolm Marshall
GI Joe - Brian Lara
Shri - Kumar Sangakkara
pskov - Shane Warne
HeathDavisSpeed - Jacques Kallis
Somerset - Sachin Tendulkar
marc71178 - Wasim Akram
Marcuss - Waqar Younis
Jamee999 - Ricky Ponting
Michaelf7777777 - Andy Flower
Riggins - Michael Slater

Round 2:
Riggins - Rahul Dravid
Michaelf7777777 - Shaun Pollock
Jamee999 - Courtney Walsh
Marcuss - Kapil Dev
marc71178 - Ian Botham
Somerset - Dennis Lillee
HeathDavisSpeed - Joel Garner
pskov - Sunil Gavaskar
Shri - Garry Sobers
GI Joe - Keith Miller
kingkallis - Donald Bradman
honestbharani - Wally Hammond
Himannv - Jack Hobbs
Blakus - Sydney Barnes
Cevno - Wilfred Rhodes
Noble One - Clarrie Grimmett
weldone - George Headley
NUFAN - Fred Trueman

Round 3:
pskov - Alan Davidson
Jamee999 - Len Hutton
Marcuss - Les Ames
GI Joe - Herbert Sutcliffe
kingkallis - Aubrey Faulkner
Riggins - Charles Macartney
Michaelf7777777 - Colin Blythe
Shri - Hugh Trumble
weldone - George Lohmann
Blakus - Frederick Spofforth
NUFAN - Charlie Turner
Cevno - W.G Grace
Noble One - Victor Trumper
HeathDavisSpeed - Warwick Armstrong
Himannv - Stanley Jackson
Somerset - Kumar Ranjitsinhji
marc71178 - Archie MacLaren
honestbharani - Johnny Briggs

Round 4:
marc71178 - Bobby Abel
honestbharani - Billy Barnes
Somerset - Billy Bates
Himannv - Dick Barlow
HeathDavisSpeed - Tom Garrett
Noble One - Arthur Shrewsbury
Cevno - Bobby Peel
NUFAN - Allan Steel
Blakus - Billy Murdoch
weldone - George Ulyett
Shri - Syd Gregory
Michaelf7777777 - Frank Woolley
Riggins - Bill Voce
kingkallis - Bill O'Rielly
GI Joe - Ray Lindwall
Marcuss - Jim Laker
Jamee999 - Clyde Walcott
pskov - Neil Harvey

Round 5:
Shri - Alec Bedser
Jamee999 - Peter May
honestbharani - Graeme Pollock
Blakus - Ken Barrington
Cevno - Frank Tyson
Michaelf7777777 - Arthur Morris
Riggins - Vinoo Mankad
GI Joe - Denis Compton
HeathDavisSpeed - Everton Weekes
kingkallis - Colin Cowdrey
Noble One - Brian Statham
pskov - Neil Adcock
weldone - Richie Benaud
Marcuss - Frank Worrell
Himannv - Rohan Kanhai
Somerset - Godfrey Evans
marc71178 - Hanif Mohammad
NUFAN - Ted Dexter

Round 6:
marc71178 - Alan Knott
NUFAN - Greg Chappell
Somerset - Javed Miandad
Himannv - Gordon Greenidge
Marcuss - Allan Border
weldone - Geoff Boycott
pskov - Michael Holding
Noble One - Martin Crowe
kingkallis - Rodney Marsh
HeathDavisSpeed - Andy Roberts
GI Joe - Bob Willis
Riggins - Garth Mckenzie
Michaelf7777777 - Colin Croft
Cevno - Farokh Engineer
Blakus - Bob Simpson
honestbharani - Doug Walters
Jamee999 - Bishan Bedi
Shri - Derek Underwood

Round 7:
HeathDavisSpeed - Peter Pollock
Marcuss - Graham Gooch
Cevno - Allan Donald
Jamee999 - Matthew Hayden
marc71178 - Harbhajan Singh
honestbharani - MS Dhoni
Himannv - Dale Steyn
Noble One - Andrew Flintoff
kingkallis - Virender Sehwag
NUFAN - Greame Smith
pskov - Steve Waugh
weldone - Shane Bond
Riggins - Mahela Jayawardene
Somerset - Mohammad Yousuf
GI Joe - Jeff Thomson
Shri - Darren Gough
Blakus - Ian Bishop
Michaelf7777777 - Desmond Haynes

Round 8:
Blakus - Zaheer Abbas
Michaelf7777777 - Clive Lloyd
Shri - Roy Fredericks
GI Joe - Bill Lawry
Somerset - Eddie Barlow
Riggins / JTRCXXX94 - Mohammad Asif
weldone - Ian Chappell
pskov - John Edrich
NUFAN - Conrad Hunte
kingkallis - Dennis Amiss
Noble One - David Gower
Himannv - Abdul Qadir
honestbharani - Shoaib Akhtar
marc71178 - Aravinda de Silva
Jamee999 - Anil Kumble
Cevno - Inzamam ul Haq
Marcuss - Shivnaraine Chanderpaul
HeathDavisSpeed - Mark Taylor

Round 9:
Somerset - Craig McDermott
kingkallis - Merv Hughes
NUFAN - Graham Thorpe
marc71178 - Chris Gayle
Himannv - Jason Gillespie
Noble One - Mark Waugh
Marcuss - Justin Langer
Cevno - V.V.S Laxman
weldone - Gautam Gambhir
honestbharani - Shane Watson
Shri - Andrew Strauss
Blakus - Kevin Pietersen
Michaelf7777777 - Michael Hussey
Jamee999 - Makhaya Ntini
GI Joe - Alec Stewart
pskov - Younis Khan
HeathDavisSpeed - Gary Kirsten
Riggins / JTRCXXX94 - Ian Healy

Round 10:
pskov - Jeff Dujon
HeathDavisSpeed - Syed Kirmani
GI Joe - Tony Greig
Jamee999 - John Snow
Michaelf7777777 - Mushtaq Mohammed
Blakus - Subhash Gupte
Shri - Vijay Hazare
honestbharani - Vijay Merchant
Riggins / JTRCXXX94 - Cyril Washbrook
weldone - K. Duleepsinhji
Cevno - Dudley Nourse
Marcuss - Maurice Tate
Noble One - Petsy Hendren
Himannv - Stan McCabe
marc71178 - Headley Verity
NUFAN - Jock Cameron
kingkallis - Bert Ironmonger
Somerset - Douglas Jardine

Round 11:
Shri - Bill Ponsford
Somerset - Eddie Paynter
NUFAN - Lindsay Hassett
Blakus - Sid Barnes
marc71178 - Bill Bowes
weldone - Manny Martindale
Marcuss - Bruce Mitchell
Riggins / JTRCXXX94 - Herbie Taylor
HeathDavisSpeed - Stewie Dempster
Noble One - Gubby Allen
Himannv - Harold Larwood
GI Joe - Tich Freeman
Michaelf7777777 - Jack Gregory
Jamee999 - Bill Woodfull
pskov - Maurice Leyland
Cevno - Allan Rae
honestbharani - Jeffrey Stollmeyer
kingkallis - Polly Umrigar

Round 12:
honestbharani - Bob Cowper
kingkallis - Wes Hall
Cevno - Colin Bland
pskov - Ian Redpath
Jamee999 - Alvin Kalicharan
Michaelf7777777 - Bhagwath Chandrashekhar
GI Joe - MAK Pataudi
Himannv - Jackie Hendriks
Noble One - Jim Parks
HeathDavisSpeed - Trevor Goddard
Riggins / JTRCXXX94 - Ken MacKay
Marcuss - Fazal Mahmood
weldone - Roy Gilchrist
marc71178 - Jackie McGlew
Blakus - Johnny Wardle
NUFAN - Hugh Tayfield
Somerset - Bill Johnston
Shri - Trevor Bailey[/QUOTE]

Jamee999 - Eden Gardens, Kolkata
Blakus - MCG
Himannv - Lords
Somerset - Perth
marc71178 - Headingley
Noble One - Bellerive Oval
Marcuss - Old Trafford
pskov - Kennington Oval, London
Michaelf7777777 - National Stadium, Karachi
weldone
NUFAN
Riggins / JTRCXXX94
honestbharani
Cevno
Shri
GI Joe
kingkallis
HeathDavisSpeed
 
Himannv

Himannv

Hall of Fame Member
I think the censor thingy is down.. I saw a whole lot of stuff that the censor apparently missed a few minutes back.
 
weldone

weldone

Hall of Fame Member
Final XI for Poll:
Gautam Gambhir
Geoff Boycott
George Headley
Duleep
Ian Chappell
Adam Gilchrist+
George Ulyett
Richie Benaud*
Shane Bond
George Lohmann
Roy Gilchrist

Final XI for Sim:
Gautam Gambhir
Geoff Boycott
George Headley
Duleep
Ian Chappell
Adam Gilchrist+
George Ulyett
Richie Benaud*
Shane Bond
George Lohmann
Manny Martindale

Will post stats and short team description within a day. Wait for that before you post the poll.
 
Jarquis

Jarquis

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
1. Graham Gooch - England (1975-1995)
RHB - 118 Tests - 8900 runs @ 42.58

The most prolific domestic run scorer ever with well over 44000 FC runs and 22000 List A runs.
A fantastic opener who wasn't afraid to give the ball a whack.
His class is shown by the fact he was still competing at the very highest level until the age of 41 and in fact did not retire from the First Class game until he had reached his late 40s.
Besides his batting, Gooch was a wily medium pacer who recorded nearly 250 FC wickets at an average below 35.

2. Justin Langer - Australia (1993-2007)
LHB - 105 Tests - 7696 runs @ 45.27

The smaller half of one of the most dominant opening partnerships to ever grace the game, Justin Langer is a fantastic opener in his own right. Often, mistakenly (perhaps down to the fact of who he was often batting with), seen as a grafter, Langer was more than capable of playing his own shots, to find evidence for this you need to look no further than the 2005 Ashes series where Langer walked away as Australia's leading run scorer for the series. Where other failed, the little man stood tallest. A fantastic slip fielder to boot.

3. Sir Frank Worrell - West Indies (1948-1963)
RHB - 51 Tests - 3860 runs @ 49.48
LFM - 69 wickets @38.72

The first black West Indian captain, and the first cricketing hero of Barbados. Sir Frank Worrell is a true legend of the game, and the only batsman to be involved in two 500 run partnerships in First Class Cricket. He once helped save the life of former Indian captain Nari Contractor by donating blood after Contractor was hit by a bouncer from the West Indian Charlie Griffith. Worrell's act has since been commemorated by Sir Frank Worrell day in the state of West Bengal. Worrell's own life was cut tragically short as he died at the age of 42, but he will forever be remembered by those who knew him.

4. Bruce Mitchell - South Africa (1929-1949)
RHB - 42 Tests - 3471 runs @ 48.88
LGB - 27 wickets @ 51.11

A fantastic sportsman of whom few quieter or more modest men have reached the same heights. The leading run scorer for the South African Springbok side, Mitchell was a brilliant player in a side that often lacked batting depth. Ever conscious of his need to lay a sound foundation for the rest of his team, there is no doubt that Mitchell would've excelled even further in a more powerful batting team. Not content with being one of the star batsmen of the time, Mitchell was also a brilliant leg spinner though unfortunately he was unable to transfer his success in domestic cricket, where he managed 249 wickets at an average of 25.63, into Test matches.

5. Allan Border - Australia (1979-1994)
LHB - 156 Tests - 11174 runs @ 50.56
SLA - 39 wickets @ 39.10

You can't score runs if you get out could be a good way of wording Border's philosophy. A player who valued his wicket highly and had a steely determination that enabled him to score many thousands of runs and lead his side to masses of victories as Australia's captain. Rather underused as a bowler, Border was a more than capable left arm tweaker and and had a great throwing arm in the field. A brilliant allround cricket, a true all time great.

6. Shivnarine Chanderpaul - West Indies (1994-)
LHB - 126 Tests - 8969 runs @ 49.28

Despite a technique that will never be found in the MCC textbook, Chanderpaul has a natural ability of accumulating runs, though he may not compare to the greatness of other left handed West Indian batsmen of recent times, Chanderpaul has often singlehandedly carried the West Indian batting lineup since Lara's retirement and is the West Indies second highest run scorer, behind only Lara. Christened "The limpet" by many due to his obdurate batting style, Chanderpaul is one of only 6 men to have gone 1000 minutes in Test cricket without being dismissed and he has done so 4 times! The only man to have accomplished the feat more than once.
 
Jarquis

Jarquis

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
7. Les Ames - England (1929-1939)
RHB - 47 Tests - 2434 runs @ 40.56
Wicket Keeper - 74 catches & 23 stumpings

The fact that Les Ames is the only wicket keeper who has managed to record 100 First Class centuries speaks volumes for his ability as a player, especially when you consider the fact that his career was interrupted by war. Denying him of some of his best years. Ames managed 1000 runs and 100 dismissals in 3 different English county seasons, and achievement which has only been managed on one other occasion. A formidable opponent when stood either infront or behind the stumps and the holder of many, many records. Les Ames is the first true great wicket keeper-batsman.

8. Kapil Dev - India (1978-1994)
RHB - 131 Tests - 5248 runs @ 31.05
RFM - 434 wickets @ 29.64

India's best fast bowler ever, a gutsy batsman and India's player of the 20th Century. Had he not played in an era so gloriously overindulged in fantastic allrounders he would've surely stood out head and shoulders above the rest as the player of his generation. Though his bowling may have lacked the penetration of Imran or Hadlee, Kapil was capable of bowling marathon spells, running in over after over before finding a way through a batsman's defences. His fitness and longevity adds to his allround greatness and is a characteristic that distinguishes him from the rest.

9. Maurice Tate - England (1924-1935)
RHB - 39 Tests - 1198 runs @ 25.48
RMF - 155 wickets @ 26.16

The leader of England's bowling attack for a large period of his Test career and the founder of modern seam bowling, Tate was an exceptional allrounder who recorded over 1000 First Class runs in 11 consecutive English County seasons. His easy going action allowed him to bowl countless overs without seeming to tire, he bowled nearly 9600 deliveries in the 1925 season, all while opening the batting for Sussex in a great deal of their matches. To this day Tate holds the record for the most wickets by an Englishman in an overseas Ashes series, managing 38 wickets at an average of 23 in 1924/25, this was without any useful bowling support! Tate is also one of only 9 men to achieve the double of 20,000 FC runs and 2,000 FC wickets.

10. Jim Laker - England (1948-1959)
ROS - 46 Tests - 193 wickets @ 21.24

The man most well known for his 19/90 against Australia at Old Trafford in 1956, Jim Laker was an elegant offspinner and an exceptional bowler in general. Alongside his bowling, Laker did have another string to his bow; he was a brilliant close in fielder, something quite rare for a bowler during the time he played.

11. Waqar Younis - Pakistan (1989-2003)
RF - 87 Tests - 373 wickets @ 23.56

When all around him where banging it in short, Waqar opted to go full and fast. Though not the best option by itself, when combined with big, late inswing and Waqar's desire to smash the leg stump, or the batsman's toes, it was mighty effective. His philosophy earnt him the quickest strike rate of any bowler with more than 200 Test wickets, and it could've been a lot better had it not been for back injuries robbing him of some of his finest years. His long surging run up was a sight to behold, but sadly it put huge stress on his back.

12. Fazal Mahmood - Pakistan (1952-1962)
RFM - 34 Tests - 139 wickets @ 24.70

The father of Pakistani fast bowling, the "torch bearer" as he was called by Shoaib Akhtar. In both style and stamina he was comparable to England's own Alec Bedser, with his remarkable ability to cut and seam the ball and a good pace. He played a great part in Pakistan achieving Test status and then establishing themselves as a competitive nation. On several occasions he singlehandedly won games for Pakistan, such as the Oval Test against England in 1954, where England needing 59 runs to win with 8 wickets in hand, proceeded to crumble to the genius of Fazal Mahmood
 
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G.I.Joe

G.I.Joe

International Coach
You guys are going to be so disappointed when I choose not to include all the writeups in the vote :ph34r:
 
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