ATG 'Mixed Experience' Test XI - Draft

[honestbharani]

Same as before, but reposting it just so it's easier to find.

1. Bruce Mitchell
2. Alastair Cook
3. Frank Worrell (*)
4. Garry Sobers (5)
5. Maurice Leyland
6. Mushtaq Mohammad (6)
7. Matt Prior (+)
8. Vernon Philander (3)
9. Harold Larwood (1)
10. Allan Donald (2)
11. Muttiah Muralitharan (4)

12. Tom Hayward

That is one sweet bowling side... If I have to mention one criticism, iti s that yours seems to be the opposite of Mister's... IN that he had rather weak bowling attack for an ATG side and yours is a little too strong on the bowling at the cost of your batting..

 

[Camo999]

Hanif Mohammad
Sanath Jayasuriya 5
George Headley
Martin Crowe
Mohammad Yousef
*Allan Border 6
Wilfred Rhodes 4
Alan Davidson 1
+Jack Blackham
Waqar Younis 2
Colin Croft 3

Warren Bardsley (12th)

Bardsley unlucky not to be in the XI but AB was reluctant to use himself much as a bowler so thinking I might need to give Jaya a game.

 

[Zinzan]

Fellas, before I start the voting thread I'll allow 48 hours or so for people to confirm their 12th-man, captain etc from what I have below, otherwise I'll be posting as is.


Camo999 XI

Hanif Mohammad
Sanath Jayasuriya 5
George Headley
Martin Crowe
Mohammad Yousef
*Allan Border 6
Wilfred Rhodes 4
Alan Davidson 1
+Jack Blackham
Waqar Younis 2
Colin Croft 3

Warren Bardsley (12th)


Coronis XI


Simpson
Morris
Turner
Barlow
Hussey
Faulkner
Dhoni
Akram
Trueman
Lock
Walsh


Mister's Men

Saeed Anwar
Geoff Boycott
Graham Pollock
Rohan Kanhai
Steve Waugh c 6
Tony Greig 4
Adam Gilchrist +
Shakib Al-Hasan 5
Dennis Lillee 1
Andy Roberts 2
Lasith Malinga 3


12th man: Darren Lehmann


Agent TBY's XI

1. Bruce Mitchell
2. Alastair Cook
3. Frank Worrell (*)
4. Garry Sobers (5)
5. Maurice Leyland
6. Mushtaq Mohammad (6)
7. Matt Prior (+)
8. Vernon Philander (3)
9. Harold Larwood (1)
10. Allan Donald (2)
11. Muttiah Muralitharan (4)

12. Tom Hayward


schearzie's XI

. Herschelle Gibbs
2. Matt Hayden
3. Sir Viv Richards*
4. Greg Chappell
5. Steve Smith
6. Keith Miller (2)
7. Vinoo Mankad (5)
8. Maurice Tate (1)
9. Ian Smith+
10. Frank Tyson (3)
11. Bishen Bedi (4)
12th man Paul Reiffel


J_C XI

Michael Slater
Barry Richards
Ricky Ponting (c)
Vijay Hazare
Michael Clarke
Clyde Walcott (+)
Brian McMillan (5)
Peter Pollock (3)
Dale Steyn (1)
John Snow (2)
Bhagwath Chandrasekhar (4)

12th Gary Kirsten


Honest Hunks...


Jack Hobbs - 5410 runs @ 57
Simon Katich (8)
Ken Barrington (7)
Charles Macartney (6)
Kevin Pietersen
Ian Botham (3)
Sarfraz Ahmed (wk)
Jim Laker (5)
Brian Statham (2)
William Johnston (4)
Glenn McGrath (1)



12th George Ulyett


Bagapath XI

Bill Ponsford
David Warner
Kumar Sangakara
Walter Hammond (6)
Aravinda de Silva
BJ Watling +
Shaun Pollock (3)
Richie Benaud * (5)
Jeff Thomson (2)
Shoaib Akhthar (4)
Shane Bond (1)

12 th man: Damien Martyn


Eggs Benedict XI

1. Trevor Goddard (6)
2. Graeme Smith
3. Ranjitsinhji
4. Sachin Tendulkar
5. Everton Weekes
6. AB de Villiers +
7. Chris Cairns (5)
8. Richard Hadlee (1)
9. Johnny Briggs (4)
10.Jason Gillespie (3)
11. Alec Bedser (2)

12th man: Joe Root

AndyZaltHair XI

1. Sunil Gavaskar
2. Graham Gooch
3. Kane Williamson
4. Peter May
5. Neil Harvey
6. Patsy Hendren
7. Les Ames+
8. Imran Khan
9. Mike Procter
10. Michael Holding
11. Bill O'Reilly


12th Archie Maclaren


CricZo XI

1. Len Hutton /
2. Herbert Sutcliffe /
3. Ted Dexter /
4. Lindsay Hassett /
5. Clive Lloyd / (c)
6. Doug Walters / o (5)
7. Denis Lindsay +
8. Kapil Dev o / (3)
9. Hedley Verity o (4)
10. Curtly Ambrose o (1)
11. Sydney Barnes o (2)

12. Fazal Mahmood o (4)

WalkingWicket XI


1. Bill Woodfull
2. Dennis Amiss
3. Jacques Kallis (4)
4. Denis Compton
5. Hashim Amla
6. Andy Flower (+)
7. Brendon McCullum
8. Chaminda Vaas (1)
9. Ryan Harris (3)
10. Wes Hall (2)
11. Clarrie Grimmett (5)

12.


Red Hill CC

Victor Trumper
Gordon Greenidge >
Ian Chappell * >
Virat Kohli
Graham Thorpe
Andrew Symonds (5)
Bert Oldfield +
Shane Warne (4) >
Malcolm Marshall (1)
Joel Garner (3)
Terry Alderman (2)


Nufan XI

Bill LAWRY
Virender SEHWAG
Brian LARA
Younis KHAN
Dudley NOURSE*
Andrew FLINTOFF (5)
Don TALLON+
Ray LINDWALL (1)
Hugh TAYFIELD (4)
Ian BISHOP (2)
Bruce REID (3)

 

[The Battlers Prince]

I can't see any bad teams there, this could be interesting

 

[harsh.ag]

AndyZ, CricZo, and Nuf my favorites

 

[Red]

Red Hill CC

Victor Trumper
Gordon Greenidge >
Ian Chappell * >
Virat Kohli
Graham Thorpe
Andrew Symonds (5)
Jack Gregory (2)
Bert Oldfield +
Shane Warne (4) >
Malcolm Marshall (1)
Joel Garner (3)

12th- Terry Alderman

Make this my side in the voting thread.

 

[WalkingWicket]

WalkingWicket's WalkingWicket XI

1. Bill Woodfull*
2. Denis Amiss
3. Hashim Amla
4. Jacques Kallis (4)
5. Dennis Compton
6. Andy Flower (+)
7. Brendan McCullum
8. Chaminda Vaas (1)
9. Ryan Harris (3)
10. Wes Hall (2)
11. Clarrie Grimmett (5)

12. WG Grace

Continuing my annoying habit of creating unglamorous sides, but I personally quite like it, full of several of my favourite players. The batting line-up would be difficult to dismiss, and with McCullum at seven, I have the capability to really up the rate when need be. The bowling attack, whilst not featuring any big guns, is nice and varied - right arm seam(?) in Harris, hit the deck stuff in Hall, left arm pace in Vaas, control from Kallis and funky leggies from Grimmett. Lack of an ATG pace bowler, as well as another ATG bat will cost me.

 

[The Battlers Prince]

Full points for originality bowling wise....

1. Herschelle Gibbs
2. Matt Hayden
3. Sir Viv Richards*
4. Greg Chappell
5. Steve Smith
6. Keith Miller (2)
7. Vinoo Mankad (5)
8. Maurice Tate (1)
9. Ian Smith+
10. Frank Tyson (3)
11. Bishen Bedi (4)
12th man Paul Reiffel

True, but I like Miller opening

 

[Red]

WalkingWicket's WalkingWicket XI

1. Bill Woodfull*
2. Denis Amiss
3. Hashim Amla
4. Jacques Kallis (4)
5. Dennis Compton
6. Andy Flower (+)
7. Brendan McCullum
8. Chaminda Vaas (1)
9. Ryan Harris (3)
10. Wes Hall (2)
11. Clarrie Grimmett (5)

12. WG Grace

Continuing my annoying habit of creating unglamorous sides, but I personally quite like it, full of several of my favourite players. The batting line-up would be difficult to dismiss, and with McCullum at seven, I have the capability to really up the rate when need be. The bowling attack, whilst not featuring any big guns, is nice and varied - right arm seam(?) in Harris, hit the deck stuff in Hall, left arm pace in Vaas, control from Kallis and funky leggies from Grimmett. Lack of an ATG pace bowler, as well as another ATG bat will cost me.

Interesting conversation around who should take the gloves between Flower and McCullum I reckon.

 

[WalkingWicket]

Interesting conversation around who should take the gloves between Flower and McCullum I reckon.

Whilst I know less of Flower in regards to his batting vs his wicket-keeping, I'm fairly sure that McCullum is/was a more dynamic batsman without the gloves, and that's exactly what I want in my XI. Plus he's a gun fielder. Also, I don't really know who is the superior gloveman in terms of technical skill, so I'm looking at the wicket-keeping situation from a batting point of view.

 

[harsh.ag]

WalkingWicket's WalkingWicket XI

1. Bill Woodfull*
2. Denis Amiss
3. Hashim Amla
4. Jacques Kallis (4)
5. Dennis Compton
6. Andy Flower (+)
7. Brendan McCullum
8. Chaminda Vaas (1)
9. Ryan Harris (3)
10. Wes Hall (2)
11. Clarrie Grimmett (5)

12. WG Grace

Continuing my annoying habit of creating unglamorous sides, but I personally quite like it, full of several of my favourite players. The batting line-up would be difficult to dismiss, and with McCullum at seven, I have the capability to really up the rate when need be. The bowling attack, whilst not featuring any big guns, is nice and varied - right arm seam(?) in Harris, hit the deck stuff in Hall, left arm pace in Vaas, control from Kallis and funky leggies from Grimmett. Lack of an ATG pace bowler, as well as another ATG bat will cost me.

What the hell?! Get WG to open ahead of Amiss!

 

[NUFAN]

Yeah Grace isn't going to take too kindly to being told that he's 12th man.

 

[The Battlers Prince]

Yeah Grace isn't going to take too kindly to being told that he's 12th man.

It's easy to forget sometimes how far past his peak he was by the time he played in the tests, and still was one hell of a player. I think Wisdon described him as "a bit rounder" I think, describing his physique delicately

 

[Red]

Must admit I don't know much about Amiss. Gotta say, his record is bloody impressive. He's not talked about a lot.

 

[Zinzan]

Must admit I don't know much about Amiss. Gotta say, his record is bloody impressive. He's not talked about a lot.

Most famous for his incredible 262 not out to save the 1973-74 Kingston Test vs. the Windies. Very fine player.

 

[Red]

Guess as an English opener in ATG discussions he sits behind Hobbs, Sutcliffe, Hutton and maybe Boycott.

Has Fred or anyone written a piece on him?

 

[The Battlers Prince]

And the Doctor...

 

[harsh.ag]

Everyone sits behind the Doctor

 

[WalkingWicket]

Alright, I'll put WG to open instead of Amiss. I tend to pick on stats when I don't know about players first hand, so that's why Amiss got in.

WalkingWicket's WalkingWicket XI

1. Woodfull*
2. Grace (6)
3. Amla
4. Kallis (4)
5. Compton
6. Flower (+)
7. McCullum
8. Vaas (1)
9. Harris (3)
10. Hall (2)
11. Grimmett (5)

12. Amiss

 

[honestbharani]

You wont give the good doctor a bowl? Really?