The ATG World XI's game

[Jager]

Sounds good rvd, it's up to Nuf of course. Cheers for the list too!

 

[NUFAN]

I think the bowling attack would work really well together.

rvd, yeah run the World U team if you are keen.

 

[Jager]

What are we going to do about opening bowlers for teams where we selected three fast bowlers at once?

 

[Dan]

Updated List of Players

 

[Dan]

World U XI:

1. Select 2 Openers
2. Select 3 Bowlers
3. Select 1 Wicketkeeper

Openers
Marvan Atapattu, Charles Bannerman, Warren Bardsley, Bill Brown, Jimmy Cook, Gautam Gambhir, Herschelle Gibbs, Tamim Iqbal, Sanath Jayasuriya, Simon Katich, Majid Khan, Colin McDonald, Jackie McGlew, Archie McLaren, Alan Melville, Mudassar Nazar, Mark Richardson, Pankaj Roy, Navjot Sidhu, Jeff Stollmeyer, Andrew Strauss, Cyril Washbrook, Shane Watson, Kepler Wessels, John Wright

Bowlers
PACE Kenny Benjamin, Bill Bowes, Stuart Broad, Andy Caddick, Lance Cairns, Stuart Clark, Learie Constantine, Fanie de Villiers, JJ Ferris, Angus Fraser, Roy Gilchrist, Darren Gough, Charlie Griffith, Steve Harmison, Neil Hawke, Peter Heine, Ken Higgs, George Hirst, Rodney Hogg, Mitchell Johnson, Zaheer Khan, Lasith Malinga, Manny Martindale, Danny Morrison, Dick Motz, Laurie Nash, Sarfraz Nawaz, Chris Old, Vernon Philander, Paul Reiffel, Peter Siddle, Amar Singh, Ernie Toshack, Bill Voce, Max Walker.

SPIN Mushtaq Ahmed, Saeed Ajmal, Shakib Al-Hasan, Charlie Blythe, George Giffen, Subhash Gupte, Regana Herath, Bert Ironmonger, Jack Iverson, Ian Johnson, Lindsay Kline, Stuart MacGill, Arthur Mailey, Colin Miller, Bobby Peel, Iqbal Qasim, Sonny Ramadhin, Pervez Sajjad, Reggie Schwarz, Harbajhan Singh, Alf Valentine, Daniel Vettori, Bert Vogler.

Wicketkeepers
Wasim Bari, Jock Cameron, MS Dhoni, George Duckworth, Barry Jarman, Brad Haddin, Jackie Hendriks, David Houghton, Ridley Jacobs, Prasanna Jayawardene, Syed Kirmani, Gil Langley, Brendon McCullum, Kiran More, Deryck Murray, Bert Oldfield, Jim Parks, Adam Parore, Ian Smith, Herbert Strudwick, Brian Taber, Tatenda Taibu, Bob Taylor, Hashan Tillekaratne, Dave Richardson.

 

[Jager]

Sidhu
Jayasuriya

Toshack
Ajmal
Gupte

Oldfield

 

[NUFAN]

Bill Brown and Cyril Washbrook

Roy Gilchrist, Subhash Gupte and Bill Voce

Wasim Bari

 

[Jacknife]

Herschelle Gibbs, Andrew Strauss

Angus Fraser, Darren Gough, Sonny Ramadhin

MS Dhoni

 

[fredfertang]

Jimmy Cook and Sanath Jayasuriya

Gus Fraser, Steve Harmison and Bill Voce

Bert Oldfield

 

[Camo999]

J McGlew
S Jayasuriya

A Fraser
L Nash
L Constantine

W Bari

 

[Michaelf7777777]

Warren Bardsley, Shane Watson

Ernie Toshack, Charlie Blythe, Arthur Mailey

MS Dhoni

 

[Dan]

I have to make pretty tough decisions on all 3..

Votes:
Opening Batsman:
Sanath Jayasuriya - 3
N Sidhu - 1
B Brown - 1
C Washbrook - 1
H Gibbs - 1
A Strauss - 1
J Cook - 1
J McGlew - 1
W Bardsley - 1
S Watson - 1

Watson's batting and Gibbs' fielding were both taken into consideration, however I felt a more conservative batsman should partner Jayasuriya at the top of the order. That narrowed it down, in my eyes, to Washbrook, Bardsley, McGlew and Brown. In the end, I opted for Brown.

Bowlers:
Ernie Toshack- 2
Saeed Ajmal - 1
Subhash Gupte - 2
Bill Voce - 2
Roy Gilchrist - 1
Angus Fraser - 3
Darren Gough - 1
Sonny Ramadhin - 1
Steve Harmison - 1
Laurie Nash - 1
Learie Constantine - 1
Charlie Blythe - 1
Arthur Mailey - 1

Voce is highly underrated in my eyes, and despite Toshack being an incredible bowler, I would rather select Gupte at this stage.

Wicketkeepers:
Bert Oldfield - 2
Wasim Bari - 2
MS Dhoni - 2

I want to pick Bari, but he'd have to bat at 8, given the bowlers selected, and that is far too high for him. Oldfield, who was a somewhat better batsman and more-or-less as good a wicketkeeper, comes in ahead of Dhoni.

World U XI:
Sanath Jayasuriya
Bill Brown
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Bert Oldfield +
Bill Voce
Angus Fraser
Subhash Gupte


1. Select THREE middle order batsmen to bat at 3, 4 & 5.
2. Select ONE bowler, to bat at 7 or 8.
3. Select another player to fill the #6 position.


Batsmen
Ijaz Ahmed, Shakib Al Hasan, Mohinder Amarnath, Ian Bell, Colin Bland, Brian Booth, Herbie Collins, Daryl Cullinan, Charlie Davis, Martin Donnelly, Jack Fingleton, Sourav Ganguly, Larry Gomes, Gerry Gomez, Murray Goodwin, Asanka Gurusinha, Joe Hardstaff, Nasser Hussain, David Houghton, Darren Lehmann, Ken Mackay, Saleem Malik, Vijay Manjrekar, Brian McMillan, Phil Mead, Seymour Nurse, Lawrence Rowe, Thilan Samaraweera, Ramnaresh Sarwan, Arthur Shrewsbury, Raman Subba-Row, Ross Taylor, Hashan Tillakaratne, Johnathan Trott, Misbah Ul Haq, Polly Umrigar, Dilip Vengsarkar, Shane Watson

Bowlers
PACE Kenny Benjamin, Bill Bowes, Stuart Broad, Andy Caddick, Lance Cairns, Stuart Clark, Learie Constantine, Fanie de Villiers, JJ Ferris, Angus Fraser, Roy Gilchrist, Darren Gough, Charlie Griffith, Steve Harmison, Neil Hawke, Peter Heine, Ken Higgs, George Hirst, Rodney Hogg, Mitchell Johnson, Zaheer Khan, Lasith Malinga, Manny Martindale, Danny Morrison, Dick Motz, Laurie Nash, Sarfraz Nawaz, Chris Old, Vernon Philander, Paul Reiffel, Peter Siddle, Amar Singh, Ernie Toshack, Max Walker.

SPIN Mushtaq Ahmed, Saeed Ajmal, Shakib Al-Hasan, Charlie Blythe, George Giffen, Regana Herath, Bert Ironmonger, Jack Iverson, Ian Johnson, Lindsay Kline, Stuart MacGill, Arthur Mailey, Colin Miller, Bobby Peel, Iqbal Qasim, Sonny Ramadhin, Pervez Sajjad, Reggie Schwarz, Harbajhan Singh, Alf Valentine, Daniel Vettori, Bert Vogler.

 

[Noble One]

1. Daryl Cullinan, Thilan Samaraweera, Hashan Tillakaratne
2. Brian McMillan
3. Shakib Al-Hasan

 

[watson]

Dilip Vengsarkar
Vijay Manjrekar
Saleem Malik (one of a few batsman that had little problem with Shane Warne)

Brian McMillan

Daniel Vettori to bat at 7

 

[Michaelf7777777]

Martin Donnelly, Sourav Ganguly, Shane Watson

Ernie Toshack

Shakib Al Hasan

 

[Flametree]

1. Select THREE middle order batsmen to bat at 3, 4 & 5.
2. Select ONE bowler, to bat at 7 or 8.
3. Select another player to fill the #6 position.

Bowlers
PACE Kenny Benjamin, Bill Bowes, Stuart Broad, Andy Caddick, Lance Cairns, Stuart Clark, Learie Constantine, Fanie de Villiers, JJ Ferris, Angus Fraser, Roy Gilchrist, Darren Gough, Charlie Griffith, Steve Harmison, Neil Hawke, Peter Heine, Ken Higgs, George Hirst, Rodney Hogg, Mitchell Johnson, Zaheer Khan, Lasith Malinga, Manny Martindale, Danny Morrison, Dick Motz, Laurie Nash, Sarfraz Nawaz, Chris Old, Vernon Philander, Paul Reiffel, Peter Siddle, Amar Singh, Ernie Toshack, Max Walker.

I thought I knew my cricketers, but who's Laurie Nash? Did you mean Dion?

 

[kingkallis]

Cullinan, Goodwin, Vengsarkar
Brian McMillan
Shakib Al Hasan

 

[Dan]

I thought I knew my cricketers, but who's Laurie Nash? Did you mean Dion?

Laurie Nash | Cricket Players and Officials | ESPN Cricinfo

Only played two Tests, but was suggested a few pages back so I added him to the shortlist.

 

[NUFAN]

1 - Saleem Malik, Dilip Vengsarkar, Lawrence Rowe
2 - Learie Constantine
3 - Phil Mead

 

[Camo999]

Yep definitely Laurie. Though he was better known as a VFL footballer he sounds like he was also a frightening fast bowler, possibly the best in Australia in his time but was sadly largely ignored by the cricket establishment.

If Learie Constantine gets picked in one of these teams, I'll probably vote for Nash next.

I'll go:

L Rowe
D Lehmann
S Ganguly

L Constantine

T Samaraweera