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The ATG World XI's game

NUFAN

NUFAN

Y no Afghanistan flag
I think we'll call it now.

World A XI openers and keepers are worked out. Number of votes in brackets.

Openers
- Sunil Gavaskar (18)
- Herbert Sutcliffe (11)

Wicket Keeper
- Alan Knott (10)

Now on to the batsman to fill the number 3 to 5 position, so consider who would be the best 3 batsman to compliment Gavaskar and Sutcliffe. Keep in mind that the World XI middle order is Don Bradman, Viv Richards, Sachin Tendulkar.


Select 3 from the following list:
Ken Barrington, Allan Border, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Greg Chappell, Dennis Compton, Martin Crowe, Ted Dexter, Rahul Dravid, Andy Flower, Wally Hammond, Neil Harvey, Vijay Hazare, George Headley, Mahela Jayawardene, Jacques Kallis, Rohan Kanhai, Brian Lara, Clive Lloyd, Stan McCabe, Javed Miandad, Dudley Nourse, Graeme Pollock, Ricky Ponting, Kumar Sangakkara, Inzamam ul-Haq, Clyde Walcott, Doug Walters, Steve Waugh, Everton Weekes, Frank Worrell

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Again if there is someone you would like included next round, tell me. After this lot of 3 players, we'll look to do the two opening bowlers and spinner and we'll save the number 6 and the third seamer/second spinner/bowling all rounder for last where hopefully the players who gets picked balances the team the best.
 
Jager

Jager

International Debutant
Middle order voting, last contributor: vic_orthdox

Lara: 12
Hammond: 10
Pollock: 6
Headley: 6
Walcott: 2
Chappell: 2
Worrell: 1
Waugh: 3
Miandad: 1
Harvey: 1
Dravid: 1
 
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Jager

Jager

International Debutant
On a side note, I think we should give everyone more freedom with the format of our teams by selecting bowlers as a whole instead of pacemen and spinners separately. Then, people like myself can include two spinners in our bowling lineups.
 
NUFAN

NUFAN

Y no Afghanistan flag
Jager said:
On a side note, I think we should give everyone more freedom with the format of our teams by selecting bowlers as a whole instead of pacemen and spinners separately. Then, people like myself can include two spinners in our bowling lineups.
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I plan to run it so in this round we select two opening bowlers and one spinner next. It will mean our team has 9 players selecting so then I'll run a round for the number 6 position, so that will include batsman and all rounders and then a round for number 8 (he might not bat 8 depending on which other bowlers have been selected so far) which will include fast bowlers, bowling all rounders and spinners. So those 2 rounds will be key rounds for people to work out which formation we are going to use.

I don't think we have to be completely consistent each round with the criteria. Like there is nothing wrong with next round starting off by saying pick 3 bowlers first and include the quicks and the spinners and 3 quicks finish with the 3 highest votes, that's who we select.
 
kyear2

kyear2

International Coach
Just to be clear, I rate Hammond higher than Chappell but Chappell would be a better fit at 5 as Hammond was a specialist 3.
 
NUFAN

NUFAN

Y no Afghanistan flag
I thing that I haven't quite worked out is how we are going to go about the batting order? Should I just post the order I think initially and make the XI pending. Then at the start of the voting for the next round (so the B XI this time) just ask the question if the order from the previous XI seems correct, if not what order do you recommend and which ever order gets the highest,we got with that.

Like at the moment its Lara, Headley and Hammond leading - I would personally bat them 3. Headley 4. Lara 5. Hammond, but I'm sure others would have different theories as kyear has just proven.

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Jager

Jager

International Debutant
I'm going to vote for Headley, Pollock and Harvey. Apparently Headley was the closest someone has ever been to Bradman- his final figures do not do his ability justice. If he had not been convinced to play six years after his initial retirement, he would have averaged a supreme 63.91, enough to keep him well in front of Pollock. I think his all-roundedness works well with Pollock's masterful boundary hitting. Harvey is my genius of spin bowling. His career tailed off towards the end, but I have to place him as one of the greatest batsmen ever. Two left-handers in the middle order adds some variety, too.
 
Jager

Jager

International Debutant
NUFAN said:
I don't think we have to be completely consistent each round with the criteria. Like there is nothing wrong with next round starting off by saying pick 3 bowlers first and include the quicks and the spinners and 3 quicks finish with the 3 highest votes, that's who we select.
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Yeah, that's what I was thinking along the lines of, just merging the spinners and bowlers together so that there's just a wider selection in general.
 
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