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The India and Pakistan combined ATG Thread : Open Voting

AldoRaine18

AldoRaine18

State Vice-Captain
Let's just go ahead with the number 3 for now, and we will see about the rest later.

Pick ONE out of the following, or nominate your own.

Rahul Dravid
Younis Khan
Mohindar Amarnath
Dilip Vengsarkar
Saeed Ahmed
Zaheer Abbas
Vijay manjrekar
Ijaz Ahmed
VVS Laxman
Ajit Wadekar
 
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doesitmatter

U19 Cricketer
I am going with Dravid as well for the number of test matches he has won for India and the obvious..almost went for Amarnath as well..Dravid for all his record was not that good in bouncy pitches with real pace (btw Dravid was a master against swing bowling) ..Amarnath was a great player of pace if not for that one horrendous series he is a legitimate threat to Dravid's position in the India ATG X1..If bounce and pace i will pick Amarnath and if there is swing then Dravid ..
 
The Sean

The Sean

Cricketer Of The Year
smalishah84 said:
Having Imran at 6 really depletes the batting.

It means that against another top class ATXI the pure batsmen are only up till number 5
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Saint Kopite said:
Not really, mate. If we have Kapil at eighth, it only makes the batting deeper. Doesn't it?

On the plus side, we will have five top class bowlers.
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Exactly. Surely anything you lose by picking Imran rather than a specialist batsman at no.6 (much like the Botham/Miller discussions) is more than made up for by having five great bowlers rather than four.
 
The Sean

The Sean

Cricketer Of The Year
Oh, and Dravid for no.3.

While we're at it, Tendulkar at no.4.

Surely these two are both locks and we can move on?
 
smash84

smash84

The Tiger King
The Sean said:
Exactly. Surely anything you lose by picking Imran rather than a specialist batsman at no.6 (much like the Botham/Miller discussions) is more than made up for by having five great bowlers rather than four.
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Not at all.

Do you really need 5 great bowlers?
 
The Sean

The Sean

Cricketer Of The Year
smalishah84 said:
Not at all.

Do you really need 5 great bowlers?
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Do you really need six great batsmen?

If the fifth bowler offered nothing with the bat then that's one thing, but when the fifth world class bowler also contributes more than usefully as a batsman then it's a no-brainer for me. I realise that the modern cricket fan tends to disagree with that and would happily sacrifice the fifth bowler completely in order to have an extra specialist batsman, but I don't necessarily hold with that way of thinking.
 
AldoRaine18

AldoRaine18

State Vice-Captain
The number 3 is settled.

Pick THREE out of the following(or add your own) and post in order you would want them in the team, that is number 4, 5 and 6.

Sachin Tendulkar
Javed Miandad
Inzamam Ul Haq
Mohd Yousuf
Vijay Hazare
VVS Laxman
Sourav Ganguly
Gundappa Vishwanath
Zaheer Abbas
MAK Pataudi
Mohd Azharuddin
Saleem Malik
Imran Khan
Wasim Raja
Ijaz Ahmed
Ravi Shastri
Dilip Sardesai
Younis Khan
 
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