The Best of the 1980s and 1990s - POLL

[watson]

Draft: The Best of the 1980s and 1990s

The OP of the Draft was;

Would like to start a new draft to choose players who dominated Test cricket in the 80s and 90s. The idea is to build a Test XI using players who were active in those decades.

The conditions are:

Between Jan 1st 1978 and Dec 31 2002;

they should have played at least 40 tests
or
scored a minimum of 1500 runs
or
made at least 5 scores of 50 and above
or
taken 75 wickets or more
or
taken at least 5 four-wicket hauls
or
taken 50+ catches
or
won 2 "man of the match" awards
or
won one "man of the series" award


One very important condition: the player should have made his debut five years before the cut off, that is before December 31, 1997; and he should not have retired within five years from the start date, that is before January 1, 1983. We don't want champions from 70s and 00s polluting this team. No Gilchrist. No Boycott.

For R 12. we can select anyone who has played at least one test between Jan 1, 1980 and Dec 31, 1999

The Final Teams are;

Monk's XI
01. Gordon Greenidge
02. Mark Taylor *
03. Richie Richardson
04. Graham Thorpe
05. Sourav Ganguly (5)
06. Gus Logie
07. Kapil Dev (2)
08. Syed Kirmani+
09. Wasim Akram (1)
10. Harbhajan Singh (4)
11. Rodney Hogg (3)

12th Pat Symcox


King Kallis’ XI
01. Lawrence Rowe /
02. Alec Stewart / ( + )
03. Robin Smith /
04. Javed Miandad /
05. Steve Waugh ( c ) /
06. Carl Hooper / o
07. Mudassar Nazar / o
08. Darren Gough o
09. Angus Fraser o
10. Mushtaq Ahmed o
11. Courtney Walsh o

12th. Nathan Astle / o


Fred's Fertang’s XI
01. Michael Atherton*
02. Navjot Singh Sidhu
03. Dean Jones
04. Darryl Cullinan
05. Graeme Hick
06. Ian Botham
07. Jack Russell+
08. Joel Garner
09. Abdul Qadir
10. Sylvester Clarke
11. Colin Croft

12th Dion Nash


Watson's XI
01. Matthew Hayden
02. Aamer Sohail
03. Ijaz Ahmed
04. Mark Waugh
05. Stephen Fleming*
06. VVS Laxman
07. Jeff Dujon+
08. Dennis Lillee
09. Stuart MacGill
10. Allan Donald
11. Patrick Patterson

12th. 'Venkat'


Harsh’s XI
01. Majid Khan
02. John Wright
03. Rahul Dravid
04. Damien Martyn
05. Clive Lloyd
06. Lance Klusener
07. Adam Parore (w)
08. Shane Warne (c)
09. Derek Underwood
10. Shoaib Akhtar
11. Fanie De Villiers

12th: Javagal Srinath


Coronis’ XI
01. David Boon
02. Marvan Atapattu
03. Jacques Kallis
04. Mohammad Azharuddin
05. Andy Flower*
06. Saleem Malik
07. Freddie Flintoff
08. Malcolm Marshall
09. Jason Gillespie
10. Wasim Bari+
11. Saqlain Mushtaq

12th. Andy Caddick


Himannv’s XI
01. Justin Langer
02. Desmond Haynes
03. Ricky Ponting
04. Mahela Jayawardena
05. Gundappa Viswanath
06. Arjuna Ranatunga*
07. Rashid Lateef+
08. Shaun Pollock
09. Shafraz Nawaz
10. Makhaya Ntini
11. Murali

12th. Geoff Lawson


LongHop’s XI
01. G Kirsten
02. GA Gooch*
03. BC Lara
04. SR Tendulkar
05. Yousuf Youhana
06. RJ Shastri
07. Azhar Mahmood
08. IA Healy+
09. WPUJC Vaas
10. DW Fleming
11. CJ McDermott

12th. AJ Lamb


Justo's XI
01. Saeed Anwar
02. Herschelle Gibbs
03. Vinod Kambli
04. Inzamam Ul Haq*
05. Jimmy Adams
06. Brian McMillan 5
07. Moin Khan +
08. Daniel Vettori 4
09. Curtley Ambrose 1
10. Waqar Younis 2
11. Bruce Reid 3

12th. Jonty Rhodes


AndyZaltzHair’s XI
01. Geoffrey Boycott
02. Graham Yallop
03. Dilip Vengsarkar
04. Martin Crowe
05. David Gower
06. Shiv Chanderpaul
07. Rod Marsh+
08. Tauseef Ahmed
09. Michael Holding
10. Jeff Thomson
11. Glenn McGrath

12th. Mohsin Khan


Bagapath’s XI
01. Sunil Gavaskar
02. Kepler Wessels
03. Viv Richards (c)
04. Larry Gomes
05. John F Reid
06. Adam Gilchrist (wk)
07. Chris Cairns
08. Heath Streak
09. Graham Dilley
10. Andy Roberts
11. Iqbal Qasim

12th. Dave Houghton


Morgieb’s XI
01. Michael Slater
02. Sanath Jayasuriya (5)
03. Andrew Jones
04. Greg Chappell (7)
05. Zaheer Abbas
06. Asif Iqbal (6)
07. Richard Hadlee (1)
08. Dave Richardson+
09. Bruce Yardley (4)
10. Ian Bishop (2)
11. Terry Alderman (3)

12th. Hansie Cronje


Pothas’ XI
01. Shoaib Mohammad
02. Chris Broad
03. Mohinder Amarnath
04. Aravinda de Silva
05. Allan Border
06. Doug Walters
07. Imran Khan*
08. Mark Boucher+
09. Anil Kumble
10. Merv Hughes
11. Bob Willis

12th. Jeremy Coney


PLEASE SELECT 3 TEAMS THAT YOU BELIEVE TO BE THE BEST AND STRONGEST AND VOTE FOR THEM IN THE POLL!

 

[honestbharani]

Quick question.. why do Morgie and Fred both have Dean Jones in at 3 in their sides?

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

Voted for Watson, Pothas and LonghopC

 

[morgieb]

Pothas, AZH, watson pour moi.

LHC's one needs a better bowler.

 

[watson]

Have a preference for well balanced sides with depth in both batting and bowling - so Coronis and Morgieb without too much fuss.

Selecting the third team was really difficult, but in the end I can't go past a solid batting line-up and new ball attack consisting of McGrath and Holding - so Andy's XI it is.

 

[LongHopCassidy]

Pothas, AZH, watson pour moi.

LHC's one needs a better bowler.

u wot m8

 

[morgieb]

u wot m8

It lacks a really good one - Fleming, Vaas and McDermott compared to the rest is kinda meh although they are good. No real spinner either and Mahmood is a bit of a liability afaic.

 

[morgieb]

Monk - not really that high on the batting although it is deep and solid. Bowling looks really reliant on Wasim.
KingKallis - don't like the opening pair, like other parts of the lineup. However, it has the odd passenger. Reasonable but not really a strong contender.
Fertang - over-rated, batting is rather flawed, despite an excellent bowling attack.
Watson - very solid batting lineup, awesome opening bowling partnership. Only weakness is the lack of a 5th bowler, great lineup.
Harsh - poor openers, good bowling (by far the best spin combo here), some concerns about the lower-middle order. Meh.
Coronis - probably should've voted for this lineup, it's excellent. Excellent batting lineup, very good bowling too. Presence of Kallis and Flintoff covers the lack of batting aptitude from Bari.
Himannv - not a lot to fault here. I suppose it lacks the eyecatchness of other lineups and a 5th bowler, but it's pretty solid.
LHC - no real spinner and the lack of a gold-tier bowler hurts the lineup. Batting is easily the best though.
Justo - in general it's good, but it has a couple of average players which slightly hurt it.
AndyZaltsHair - apart from a mediocre spinner and a lack of a 5th bowler, it's brilliant.
Bagapath - not really a fan; batting is weak - it is short and has a couple of average players, bowling has a few passengers.
morgieb - in hindsight I wish I did some things differently, but there's a lot of good things about my lineup I feel.
Pothas - poor top 3. Rest is very good however.

In hindsight I should've voted for Coronis over Pothas.

 

[watson]

Watson - very solid batting lineup, awesome opening bowling partnership. Only weakness is the lack of a 5th bowler, great lineup.

Mark Waugh was OK with the ball: 59 wickets at 41.16 with a SR of 82.2. One Michelle Pfeiffer against England in '95.

 

[Coronis]

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Coronis - probably should've voted for this lineup, it's excellent. Excellent batting lineup, very good bowling too. Presence of Kallis and Flintoff covers the lack of batting aptitude from Bari.

In hindsight I should've voted for Coronis over Pothas.

Hindsight is 20/20

 

[bagapath]

despite having gavaskar, richards, gilchrist and roberts i have selected a **** all team. too many b grade players. i honestly believe they will make a very competitive playing xi. but they look **** on paper i realize.

 

[Flem274*]

you've got a player from the 60s too

 

[bagapath]

you've got a player from the 60s too

Who? John F Reid played in the 80 s

 

[Flem274*]

says JR Reid in the OP

 

[Red]

Monk - not really that high on the batting although it is deep and solid.

Bowling looks really reliant on Wasim.

Not "high" on the batting?

Would've thought we could rely on Kapil Dev (India's greatest quick) and Hoggy (Australia's angriest and most underrated quick) as well. And Harbhajan isn't my favourite cricketer, but he has taken over 400 test wickets. I'd say there's more than Wasim to rely on....

 

[watson]

*Presentation Time* And the medals go to;


GOLD.......AndyZaltzHair

SILVER.....Watson

BRONZE....Fredfertang & LongHopCassidy

 

[LongHopCassidy]