The ATG Teams General arguing/discussing thread

[Shri]

There's a draft idea in there.

 

[marc71178]

There's a draft idea in there.

Burgey to win if he enters.

 

[mr_mister]

An England Eleven who played Test Cricket during my Father's lifetime.

1.Hobbs
2.Hutton
3.Compton
4.Hammond
5.May
6.Bailey
7.Evans
8.Truman
9.Larwood
10.Laker
11.Tyson

did your dad pass away before Botham emerged?

 

[Lillian Thomson]

did your dad pass away before Botham emerged?

If anyone wants to query my XI my father lived from 1916 to 1968. I only did the XI because it was what would have been his 101st birthday.

 

[Howe_zat]

Glass XI

1. Lokesh Rahul
2. Chris Gayle
3. Shane Watson
4. Michael Clarke
5. Jacob Oram
6. Daniel Vettori
7. Andrew Flintoff
8. Shane Bond
9. Ryan Harris
10. Zaheer Khan
11. Shoaib Akhtar

Unsurprisingly, it was tough finding batsmen for that XI.

Mike Atherton and Shaun Marsh over Gayle and Oram. Bruce French to keep wicket, Vettori out

 

[Shri]

1. Mike Artherton
2. Lokesh Rahul
3. Shaun Marsh
4. Michael Clarke
5. Shane Watson
6. Andrew Flintoff
7. Bruce French
8. Zaheer Khan
9. Ryan Harris
10. Shane Bond
11. Shoaib Akhtar

 

[fredfertang]

If anyone wants to query my XI my father lived from 1916 to 1968. I only did the XI because it was what would have been his 101st birthday.

He would have seen Knotty then

 

[AndrewB]

If anyone wants to query my XI my father lived from 1916 to 1968. I only did the XI because it was what would have been his 101st birthday.

Knott (debut 1967) instead of Evans, maybe?

Edit: as Fred has just posted...
Underwood's another option from the 60s (maybe as second spinner instead of Tyson, since you have Trueman, Larwood, Bailey and Hammond)

 

[jimmy101]

Atherton a harsh call for the Glass XI.

 

[Howe_zat]

same issues as mick clarke iirc

 

[Lillian Thomson]

He would have seen Knotty then

Alan Knott did play two Tests during his lifetime but I didn't pick anyone I consider to be my era, that's why there's no Boycott, Snow or Underwood either. (That's not to say Sir Geoffrey necessarily gets in.)

**Edit to add that I was an infant when my father died and I barely knew him so there's zero crossover in our cricket watching eras.**

 

[Red]

**Edit to add that I was an infant when my father died and I barely knew him so there's zero crossover in our cricket watching eras.**

Was thinking by the dates you originally gave it was likely you were born in the 1930s!

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Was thinking by the dates you originally gave it was likely you were born in the 1930s!

The original dates were correct. His lifespan was April 1916 to January 1968. He sadly didn't live long enough to lose the ability to knock out nippers.

 

[Red]

The original dates were correct. His lifespan was April 1916 to January 1968. He sadly didn't live long enough to lose the ability to knock out nippers.

Yeh I get that now. But my original assumption was you were probably born when he was in his 20s or 30s....

 

[the big bambino]

Mike Atherton and Shaun Marsh over Gayle and Oram. Bruce French to keep wicket, Vettori out

Injured.

 

[bagapath]

Best XI during my high school years

Gavaskar
Greenidge
Richards
Miandad
Border
Imran *
Dujon +
Hadlee
Akram
Marshall
Qadir

 

[vcs]

Name-based Childish Innuendo XI:

Fakhar Zaman
Salman Butt
Joe Root
Hardik Pandya
Niroshan Dickwella
B.J. Watling
Quinton De Kock
David Willey
Mark Wood
Ryan Sidebottom
Jake Ball

 

[srbhkshk]

All Rounder XI

R Shastri
W Rhodes
G Sobers
J Kallis
I Botham
C Cairns
I Khan
S Hasan
R Ashwin
K Miller
S Pollock

The only real problem was finding good openers.

12th Man - K Dev or A Flintoff.

(Batting cut-off average of 30 - In case anyone is missing Hadlee, Bowling cut - off of at least 100 Wickets.)

 

[OverratedSanity]

Get Trevor Goddard/Vinoo mankad/Eddie Barlow in for shastri.

 

[srbhkshk]

Get Trevor Goddard/Vinoo mankad/Eddie Barlow in for shastri.

Shastri is good as opener, averages 44.