The ATG Teams General arguing/discussing thread

[mr_mister]

has this given anyone else an idea for a draft? lol

 

[jimmy101]

The "Cash Please" XI

1 Mr Butt (vc)
2 Mr Vincent +
3 Mr Malik
4 Mr Azharuddin
5 Mr Cronje (c)
6 Mr Ashraful
7 Mr Prabhakar
8 Mr Asif
9 Mr Aamer
10 Mr Kaneria
11 Mr Sreesanth

 

[mr_mister]

Think Mr Cairns at 6 could strengthen that team a bit lol

 

[Zinzan]

Careful MM ...

 

[jimmy101]

Cairns could always be called in as an adviser, or possibly even a coaching role.

 

[Red]

Xs

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Xavier Marshall
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Xavier Doherty

 

[jimmy101]

No way should Doherty get picked ahead of Xenophon Balaskas

 

[Shady Slim]

Archie MacLaren
Andrew Stoddart
Aravinda de Silva
Adam Voges
Angelo Mathews
Anthony Grieg
Adam Gilchrist
Abdul Razzaq
Amar Singh
Abdul Qadir
Alec Bedser

tony grieg getting picked here is surely just as bad as picking him in your south african all time XI

 

[Burgey]

You know Tony Greig was actually a really good cricketer, right?

 

[Burgey]

Gideon Haigh selected Bob Simpson for his ATG Australian XI when part of the expert panel that picked the ATG XIs for ESPN. His team went;

01. VictorTrumper
02. Bob Simpson
03. Don Bradman
04. Greg Chappell
05. Allan Border
06. Keith Miller
07. Adam Gilchrist
08. Shane Warne
09. Alan Davidson
10. Dennis Lillee
11. Bill O'Reilly

It's a great side, that. I'd have McGrath in for O'Reilly tbh. Two spinners is a **** in Australia, England and SA unless it's crazy dry. Waste of time. He would play on spinning decks though, probably ahead of Davo if I was picking the team. But if you can afford to leave Davo out, you're probably travelling pretty well.

 

[Zinzan]

No Arthur Morris?

 

[Prince EWS]

You know Tony Greig was actually a really good cricketer, right?

I think he was just saying he thought he should be in with the Ts.

 

[Burgey]

I think he was just saying he thought he should be in with the Ts.

Ahh. Nvrmynd then

 

[the big bambino]

It's a great side, that. I'd have McGrath in for O'Reilly tbh. Two spinners is a **** in Australia, England and SA unless it's crazy dry. Waste of time. He would play on spinning decks though, probably ahead of Davo if I was picking the team. But if you can afford to leave Davo out, you're probably travelling pretty well.

Yeah I suppose but you're talking O'Reilly. Normal rules don't apply.

 

[Zinzan]

Yeah I suppose but you're talking O'Reilly. Normal rules don't apply.

They do when it means leaving out Glenn McGrath though.

 

[watson]

It's a great side, that. I'd have McGrath in for O'Reilly tbh. Two spinners is a **** in Australia, England and SA unless it's crazy dry. Waste of time. He would play on spinning decks though, probably ahead of Davo if I was picking the team. But if you can afford to leave Davo out, you're probably travelling pretty well.

O'Reilly was a 'medium spinner' rather than a classical leggie, and even opened the attack like Sydney Barnes. He's good everywhere.

 

[Burgey]

It's 2016 mate. Only in seriously backward conditions do you open with spinners. Come on.

 

[the big bambino]

They do when it means leaving out Glenn McGrath though.

I'd have both.

 

[jimmy101]

With all the commendation coming Misbah's way in the past couple days on CW, I was just wondering how close does he come to Pakistan's ATG XI?

Here's one off the top of my head

1 Hanif Mohammad
2 Saeed Anwar
3 Zaheer Abbas
4 Javed Miandad
5 Misbah-ul-haq
6 Imran Khan
7 Moin Khan
8 Wasim Akram
9 Waqar Younis
10 Fazal Mahmood
11 Saqlain Mushtaq

It feels pretty weird to leave Inzamam, Younis Khan & Mohammad Yousuf all on the bench.

 

[Zinzan]

I'd need to think about my greatest Pakistani XI, but in what universe does Misbah get in ahead of Younis, Inzi, Yousuf or even the likes of Mushtaq Mohammad for that matter?