The ATG World XI's game

[weldone]

Flower to keep with Walcott to be the specialist bat?

Yes, more so because we don't need more bowling options when we have Grace as the 5th bowler.

 

[NUFAN]

Fair enough. I have concerns about Flower's keeping but I can understand the benefits to the batting lineup if your two batsman get selected.

I was just having a quick look at our recently conducted 50 Greatest Cricketers of all time, Botham is the only Cricketer who finished in the top 25 who hasn't featured yet.

 

[G.I.Joe]

Andy Flower
Ian Botham

 

[ankitj]

Clyde Walcott and Shaun Pollock

 

[Howe_zat]

Neil Harvey and Farohk Engineer

Harvey the best strokeplayer left in the list, in the to compliment a batting lineup that looks a wee bit dour at this stage. I would've liked Worrell as 5th bowler (voted for him last time) but that's because I forgot we had Grace there.

I don't think Davdson would go well at #7 here, so this isn't the lineup to include "specialist" keepers like Evans or Tallon. Bit of a toss-up between Engineer, Lindsay and Healy.

 

[fredfertang]

This has passed me by - apologies to anyone who cares - Engineer and McCabe get my votes

 

[marc71178]

Clyde Walcott
Ian Botham

 

[weldone]

This has passed me by - apologies to anyone who cares - Engineer and McCabe get my votes

Would want to know how you rate Grace's bowling. Do you think we need someone like Kapil Dev or Ian Botham in the side when we have a 5th bowler like Grace?

 

[vic_orthdox]

Grace and Border combine to make a fine fifth bowling option, IMO.

 

[NUFAN]

This has passed me by - apologies to anyone who cares - Engineer and McCabe get my votes

Fred, I care.

Would want to know how you rate Grace's bowling. Do you think we need someone like Kapil Dev or Ian Botham in the side when we have a 5th bowler like Grace?

I thought about this when basing my decision but figured that Grace would struggle with the demands of opening the batting and bowling against so many other wonderful cricketers. I picked Botham to add some panache to the team.

Grace and Border combine to make a fine fifth bowling option, IMO.

You mean Steve Waugh?

 

[Howe_zat]

Grace and Border combine to make a fine fifth bowling option, IMO.

Whenever I see the word "combine" used like this I immediately think of it done the Megazord way.

 

[vic_orthdox]

You mean Steve Waugh?

Haha, yes.

 

[kingkallis]

Clyde Walcott

Shaun Pollock

 

[Jager]

Current tally
Last contributor: Blakus

BAT
Harvey: 2
Botham: 4
Worrell: 3
Walcott: 1
McCabe: 1
Pollock: 2
Weekes: 1

KEEP
Lindsay: 2
Walcott: 5
Engineer: 3
Flower: 3
Waite: 1

 

[kyear2]

Walcott was a better keeper than Flower, especially to spin.

Frank Worrell
Clyde Walcott

Was going to vote for Walcott and Faulkner, but that would have been a wasted vote as Faulkner has 0 votes so far.

 

[Jacknife]

Flower

Botham

 

[Blakus]

John Waite

Everton Weekes

 

[weldone]

Current tally
Last contributor: kyear2

BAT
Harvey: 2
Botham: 3
Worrell: 3
Walcott: 1
McCabe: 1
Pollock: 2

KEEP
Lindsay: 2
Walcott: 5
Engineer: 3
Flower: 2

Once this is done, and you start votes for the 5th side - please list all 4 sides...

 

[Jager]

Walcott wins the wicketkeeping slot and Botham steals the final batting position, which suprisingly leaves us with five bowlers (against what was voted for originally).

Final lineup: World C XI
1. Geoff Boycott
2. W.G Grace
3. Ricky Ponting
4. Ken Barrington
5. Stephen Waugh
6. Clyde Walcott +
7. Ian Botham (5)
8. Davidson (1)
9. Holding (2)
10. Laker (4)
11. Donald (3)

World XI
1 J Hobbs 2 L Hutton 3 D Bradman 4 V Richards 5 S Tendulkar 6 G Sobers 7 A Gilchrist 8 I Khan 9 S Warne 10 M Marshall 11 G McGrath

World A XI
1 S Gavaskar 2 H Sutcliffe 3 G Headley 4 B Lara 5 W Hammond 6 J Kallis 7 A Knott 8 R Hadlee 9 W Akram 10 C Ambrose 11 M Muralitharan

World B XI
1 B Richards 2 V Trumper 3 G Chappell 4 G Pollock 5 A Border 6 K Miller 7 L Ames 8 D Lillee 9 F Trueman 10 B O'Reilly 11 S Barnes

 

[NUFAN]

The question of 4 or 5 quicks was always going to be difficult to answer early on. I'm happy with our two choices today, but I can understand if others might not be.

There really isn't much between the last 3 sides that we've named at all!