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The ATG Teams General arguing/discussing thread
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Love this team. Batting lineup would just demolish anyone. Totally get the logic of Hayden and Sehwag. If conditions suits them, they'd demolish the bowlers if they get out cheaply, you have Bradman and Tendulkar to rebuild. Richards at 6 is weird though. Sobers was plenty aggressive himself. Could play brilliantly with the tail too, and if you already have Gilchrist at 7, it kinda makes sense to split him and RichardsI am probably going to get laughed out of here but this is my ATG team formed by stuff I have seen(only priority unless its Bradman/Sobers) and have read. Reasons for my picks might not make sense to you but it does to me and I cbf making long posts explaining why I picked the players that I picked but I am willing engage people with one or two lines.
So here goes:
Matthew Hayden
Virender Sehwag
Don Bradman*
Sachin Tendulkar
Garry Sobers
Viv Richards
Adam Gilchrist +
Imran Khan
Malcolm Marshall
Muthiah Muralitharan
Glenn McGrath
Reserves:
Ricky Ponting
Jacques Kallis
Ian Healy
Wasim Akram
Shane Warne
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Shri
Mr. Glass
When you have Bradman at 3 why would you want defensive openers? All openers mentioned by you two were similar in some way with their scoring rate but you almost never have a chance to pick a guy who can score run a ball double and triple hundreds when he gets going. And the other guy's conversion rate is almost too good to be true. I didn't pick my side to play a hypothetical 2nd greatest XI but a XI that I consider to be second best. Considering who I have in mind for that side, this side is more than strong enough to flog them.
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International Debutant
Greenidge was infamously quick scoring, not quite to Sehwag's standard but I'd imagine even slightly quicker than Hayden.When you have Bradman at 3 why would you want defensive openers? All openers mentioned by you two were similar in some way with their scoring rate but you almost never have a chance to pick a guy who can score run a ball double and triple hundreds when he gets going. And the other guy's conversion rate is almost too good to be true. I didn't pick my side to play a hypothetical 2nd greatest XI but a XI that I consider to be second best. Considering who I have in mind for that side, this side is more than strong enough to flog them.
This knock is the stuff of dreams - 2nd Test: England v West Indies at Lord's, Jun 28-Jul 3, 1984 | Cricket Scorecard | ESPN Cricinfo - Botham takes 8fer in the first, Greenidge still reckons he's ****e. Tonked.
ohnoitsyou
International Regular
Would take trumper and greenidge. over sehwag and hayden myself.
Coronis
International Coach
Sadly my viewing experience is quite limited. I'm going to try and discount the slightly older stuff I've seen on youtube and only include the ones I saw live.
Sehwag
Hayden
Ponting
Tendulkar
Lara
Kallis
Gilchrist
Johnson
Warne
Steyn
McGrath
Would love to have Akram in for Johnson, but I must be honest with myself. Pretty damn good team.
Sehwag
Hayden
Ponting
Tendulkar
Lara
Kallis
Gilchrist
Johnson
Warne
Steyn
McGrath
Would love to have Akram in for Johnson, but I must be honest with myself. Pretty damn good team.
fredfertang
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Kris Srikkanth > Virender Sehwag if you want a biff-bang boy at the top of the order
harsh.ag
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Not to mention Vic Trumper > Matty Hayden as a .. ahem.. biff-bang boy.
ohnoitsyou
International Regular
Because ATG XIs are too boring here is an alternate XI that should compete with the best of them:
Barry Richards
Sunil Gavaskar
Donald Bradman
Wally Hammond
Greg Chappell
Gary Sobers
Les Ames
Ray Lindwall
Wasim Akram
Joel Garner
Bill O'Reilly.
Barry Richards
Sunil Gavaskar
Donald Bradman
Wally Hammond
Greg Chappell
Gary Sobers
Les Ames
Ray Lindwall
Wasim Akram
Joel Garner
Bill O'Reilly.
Coronis
International Coach
Love that team.Here's a team of players I love, none from my ATG team.
Warner
Barnes
Sangakkara
Ponsford
McCabe
Chanderpaul
Ames+
Hadlee
Akram
Lillee
Grimmett
No idea who would captain tbh. Hadlee maybe?
watson
Banned
I've watched a fair amount of batting on Youtube, but Kanhai's square-drive off Jeff Thomson in the 1975 World Cup Final remains my favourite shot to this day. It has the contempt of Viv Richards, but the grace of Gower;
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BjEWEB62bno
The Battlers Prince
International Vice-Captain
Love your theory on the team. Not particularly the players I'd choose. But that's the point I guess.