The ATG Teams General arguing/discussing thread

[bagapath]

Multi Skill XI



Shane Watson
Sanath Jayasuriya
Kumar Sangakkara (wk)
Jacques Kallis
Michael Bevan
Andrew Symonds
Lance Klusener
Shaun Pollock
Shane Warne
Wasim Akram
Brett Lee



Specialists XI



Sachin Tendulkar
Brian Lara
Viv Richards
Virat Kohli
A B De Villiers
MS Dhoni (c) (wk)
Andrew Flintoff
Richard Hadlee
Curtly Ambrose
Shane Bond
Muttiah Muralitharan

All-rounders XI

Jayasuriya
Gilchrist (WK)
Kallis
Shakib al hasan
S.Waugh
Klusener
Imran
Kapil
Flintoff
Afridi
S.Pollock

Specialists XI

Hayden
Amla
Ponting
Kohli
Hussey
Dhoni (wk)
Lee
Warne
Lillee
Garner
McGrath

Bit of this - bit of that XI

Tendulkar
Sehwag
Viv Richards
G.Chappell
De Villiers (wk)
De Silva
Yuvraj
Symonds
Hadlee
Akram
Hogg

 

[NUFAN]

How exactly does Flintoff qualify as a specialist and not a multi skill player? @hb

 

[honestbharani]

Coz I always felt his bowling was much better than his batting, even in ODIs... I am not adhering to the strictest sense of specialist there I guess.. Maybe I will get Michael Hussey there for Freddie.

 

[Shady Slim]

shady xi
Salman Butt*
Lou Vincent
Mohammad Azharuddin
Saleem Malik
Hansie Cronje
Kamran Akmal (there were those allegations and i was strapped for a WK)
Chris Cairns
Shane Warne
Sreesanth
Mohammad Amir
Mohammad Asif

slim xi
Matthew Elliott
Mushtaq Ali
Ranji
Greg Chappell*
Mohammad Azharuddin
Douglas Jardine
Jack Russell+
Fred Spofforth
John Traicos
Bruce Reid
Sulieman Benn

azharuddin bags a spot in both so i feel by default he has to be my favourite cricketer

but no

 

[TheJediBrah]

Flintoff was a fantastic ODI batsman. More suited than he was a Test batsman.

 

[Coronis]

South Africa
Barry Richards
Graeme Smith*
Hashim Amla
Graeme Pollock
Jacques Kallis
AB de Villiers+
Aubrey Faulkner
Mike Procter
Shaun Pollock
Dale Steyn
Allan Donald

Bit light on spin here, but Faulkner was a better bowler than Tayfield anyway and if it is turning, Procter can just switch to his offbreaks. Keeping to players who did play tests here, otherwise I'd take Rice over Pollock.

 

[Red]

I'd go:

Richards
Smith
Kallis
G. Pollock
Nourse
DeVilliers +
Faulkner
Procter
Tayfield
Steyn
Donald

Could swap S.Pollock for Faulkner or Tayfield if the deck didn't require two spinners.

 

[doesitmatter]

Best Teen XI

Hanif Mohammed
Archie Jackson
Neil Harvey
Sachin Tendulkar
Graeme Pollock
Sobers
Wasim Bari
Wasim
Waqar
Graham Mckenzie
Chandra

 

[JBMAC]

Best Teen XI

Hanif Mohammed
Archie Jackson
Neil Harvey
Sachin Tendulkar
Graeme Pollock
Sobers
Wasim Bari
Wasim
Waqar
Graham Mckenzie
Chandra

what about Ian Craig?

 

[mr_mister]

overweight XI


Mark 'Tubby' Taylor *
Grace (5)
Inzie
Lehmann (6)
Cosgrove
Ranatunga (7)
Jesse Ryder (2)
Shahzad +
Maurice 'Chubby' Tate (1)
Warnie (3)
Leverock (4)


unfortunately a bit short on quickies and uh... bowlers in general. lot of runs there for the taking tho

 

[OverratedSanity]

How do you not have Warwick Armstrong in there?

 

[mr_mister]

I actually did have him opening... then replaced him with Grace then forgot about him completely.

Swap Cosgrove out for him I guess, lol.

 

[Red]

Merv

 

[Victor Ian]

Best Teen XI

Hanif Mohammed
Archie Jackson
Neil Harvey
Sachin Tendulkar
Graeme Pollock
Sobers
Wasim Bari
Wasim
Waqar
Graham Mckenzie
Chandra

Am I the only nut on this site who takes great offense to Bradman non inclusions in 'Bestest' teams and then goes and checks his record just to make sure there is a valid reason (such as - in this case - making his debut after his teens)

 

[Red]

Best team with a test batting average under 99.94


Hutton
Hobbs
V.Richards
Tendulkar
Hammond
Sobers
Gilchrist
Wasim
Hadlee
Marshall
Warne

 

[mr_mister]

so basically Hammond in for Bradman and voila

 

[Red]

basically

 

[Red]

Batting average under 50, bowling average over 25 (quicks) and 30 (spinners), keeper not Gilchrist or Knott.

Gordon Greenidge
Bill Lawry
Rohan Kanhai
Frank Worrell *
Inzamam ul Haq
Neil Harvey
Kapil Dev
Shakib Al Hasan
Godfrey Evans +
Andy Roberts
Jeff Thomson

 

[morgieb]

overweight XI


Mark 'Tubby' Taylor *
Grace (5)
Inzie
Lehmann (6)
Cosgrove
Ranatunga (7)
Jesse Ryder (2)
Shahzad +
Maurice 'Chubby' Tate (1)
Warnie (3)
Leverock (4)


unfortunately a bit short on quickies and uh... bowlers in general. lot of runs there for the taking tho

Merv FFS.

Also Boonie was fatter than Tubby IMO.

 

[doesitmatter]

what about Ian Craig?

I understand he is a prodigy (had to read about him ) but my middle order is too strong and proven internationals..