The ATG Teams General arguing/discussing thread

[Starfighter]

Any idea where he fielded ? Was he a good fielder ? Don't want him to end up dropping catches when Warne is bowling.

Cover, he was supposed to be excellent (except near the start of his career?) and was apparently good at getting run outs.

 

[OverratedSanity]

My fav xi

Anwar
Sehwag
Dravid
Lara
VVS
Younis
Gilchrist
Akhtar
Waqar
Steyn
Macgill

12th man Asif

 

[h_hurricane]

My childhood favorite XI

David Boon
Graham Gooch
Brian Lara
Sachin Tendulkar
Martin Crowe
Viv Richards
Kapil Dev
Dave Richardson
Wasim Akram
Curtly Ambrose
Allan Donald

Kapil, Viv and Curtly being the top 3.

 

[harsh.ag]

Yeah fair enough, that's a good side too. Akram a personal fave of mine so leaving him out was tough. Certainly would come in if I wanted some variation with a left armer, but Imran is to Wasim with the bat as Akram is to Ambrose I guess.

Heh. Who knows what Akram would do with the bat. Maybe score 257 again.

 

[CricAddict]

My childhood favourite XI. Mostly from the 90s which was most of my childhood. Had the poster of Lara-Sachin-Waugh together in a F1 scenario in my room for a very long time.

Sanath Jayasuriya
Saeed Anwar
Ricky Ponting
Sachin Tendulkar
Brian Lara
Steve Waugh
Adam Gilchrist
Wasim Akram
Shane Warne
Curtly Ambrose
Allan Donald

Some notable but not great omissions of some of my fav childhood players: Saqlain Mushtaq, Brian Mcmillan, Roger Twose, Nathan Astle, Graham Thorpe, Pat Symcox, Brett Lee, Shoaib Akhtar

 

[Burgey]

My childhood favorite XI

David Boon
Graham Gooch
Brian Lara
Sachin Tendulkar
Martin Crowe
Viv Richards
Kapil Dev
Dave Richardson
Wasim Akram
Curtly Ambrose
Allan Donald

Kapil, Viv and Curtly being the top 3.

Couple of quality ‘taches up front there.

 

[Burgey]

My childhood favourite XI. Mostly from the 90s which was most of my childhood. Had the poster of Lara-Sachin-Waugh together in a F1 scenario in my room for a very long time.

Sanath Jayasuriya
Saeed Anwar
Ricky Ponting
Sachin Tendulkar
Brian Lara
Steve Waugh
Adam Gilchrist
Wasim Akram
Shane Warne
Curtly Ambrose
Allan Donald

Some notable but not great omissions of some of my fav childhood players: Saqlain Mushtaq, Brian Mcmillan, Roger Twose, Nathan Astle, Graham Thorpe, Pat Symcox, Brett Lee, Shoaib Akhtar

Wonderfully entertaining side. Would pay a lot of dough to watch that outfit go around.

 

[Malcolm]

My favorite XI

Hayden
Langer
Ponting
Sachin
Hussey
Inzamam
Gilchrist
Warne
Gillespie
Rabada
McGrath

 

[h_hurricane]

My childhood favourite XI. Mostly from the 90s which was most of my childhood. Had the poster of Lara-Sachin-Waugh together in a F1 scenario in my room for a very long time.

Sanath Jayasuriya
Saeed Anwar
Ricky Ponting
Sachin Tendulkar
Brian Lara
Steve Waugh
Adam Gilchrist
Wasim Akram
Shane Warne
Curtly Ambrose
Allan Donald

Some notable but not great omissions of some of my fav childhood players: Saqlain Mushtaq, Brian Mcmillan, Roger Twose, Nathan Astle, Graham Thorpe, Pat Symcox, Brett Lee, Shoaib Akhtar

I remember Symcox giving me and my friend a pat on the shoulders when we went to catch a glimpse of the SA XI visiting one of my neighbourhood schools just before a warm up match during their 96 visit to India. Lovely bloke. The only reason he did not make my childhood XI was because I was a teenager at that time

 

[h_hurricane]

Couple of quality ‘taches up front there.

Absolutely. Merv Hughes as well.

 

[jimmy101]

Was the 2019 NZ team the strongest ever side to lost a CWC final?

Other teams that come to mind are Windies 1983, Australia 1996 & India 2003.

 

[vcs]

Surely 2015 NZ take that distinction, winning all their matches till the final, and beating the eventual champions as well.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Was the 2019 NZ team the strongest ever side to lost a CWC final?

Really? I would almost call them the weakest ever side to make a CWC final.

 

[trundler]

Really? I would almost call them the weakest ever side to make a CWC final.

Christ, dude.

Pakistan 99 were fairly strong.

 

[mr_mister]

Pakistan '99 for sure, they basically had their ATG ODI XI out there with 1 or 2 exceptions

 

[harsh.ag]

Weakest side to make the final probably India 1983. Weakest side to lose the final England 1987.
Strongest side to lose the final - Windies 1983.

 

[vcs]

Pakistan '99 had a lot of star names but lost three matches on their way to the final, including a defeat to Bangladesh. India '03 were better.

 

[harsh.ag]

Plus they had a weak top-middle order. Some Wasti dude as second opener to Anwar, Abdul Razzaq at 3, Ijaz Ahmed on his last legs at 4. No Waqar either.

 

[jimmy101]

It's tempting to say Pakistan '99, but one golden rule with Pakistan is no matter how strong/weak their side looks on paper, it's almost guaranteed that they will perform in the most unexpected way.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Why is this even a discussion? Surely WI 83 by a mile.