The ATG Teams General arguing/discussing thread (white ball edition)

[SillyCowCorner1]

No disputes here. Just gotta remember that big Curtly only played for roughly 6 months during the entire decade.

It's an honorary inclusion lol.
In that case, either Franklin Rose, Nixon McClean, Ian Bradshaw, Pedro Collins, or Jermaine Lawson can slot in.

 

[jimmy101]

Needs a sprinkling of Ryan Hinds imo ;-)

 

[stephen]

00s XI:

Gilchrist+
Tendulkar
Ponting
Yousef
Symonds
Hussey
Flintoff
Pollock
Lee
Murali
McGrath

 

[stephen]

Deano a little bit unlucky not to make it, unless of course you regard him to be an 80's player (which tbh is the right call). Junior could just as easily bat at 5 in place of Tugga.

Does Abbas happen to be a typo? Surely you aren't talking about Zaheer Abbas, are you?

Kaluwitharana has a decent claim to fill the 'keepers role imo.

Yeah I should have said Anwar. I was doing it all from memory :/.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Needs a sprinkling of Ryan Hinds imo ;-)

More batting down the bottom. Good choice!
Dwayne Smith walks into this side.

 

[jimmy101]

More batting down the bottom. Good choice!
Dwayne Smith walks into this side.

Quality Windies all-rounders XI

Phil Simmons
Lendl Simmons+
Marlon Samuels
Carl Hooper
Kieron Pollard*
Dwayne Bravo
Andre Russell
Dwayne Smith
Roger Harper
Jason Holder
Ryan Hinds

 

[CricAddict]

An ATG Aussie CW XI

Jimmy101
Mr_Mister
Spark(c)
Aussie Tragic
Red Hill
Stephen
TJB
Coronis
StarFighter
The Big Bambino
Burgey

Jimmy and MM provide the much needed calming assurance at the top. Spark controls the proceedings in the middle order with an explosive lineup to follow. Stephen is a master of tricky chases with TJB providing great support. Burgey leads the bowling pack with a great skill to hunt down opposition's best batsman when it matters the most.

One could create a second ATG XI as well but this will be difficult to beat for me.

Who out of RH, Stephen and TJB is Symonds in this team? I assume it will be TJB since 7 is the position they love to give to him.

 

[jimmy101]

Who out of RH, Stephen and TJB is Symonds in this team?

Whoever is the most overrated I suppose.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Quality Windies all-rounders XI

Phil Simmons
Lendl Simmons+
Marlon Samuels
Carl Hooper
Kieron Pollard*
Dwayne Bravo
Andre Russell
Dwayne Smith
Roger Harper
Jason Holder
Ryan Hinds

U missing out on putting Gayle in the there. But good list nevertheless.

 

[jimmy101]

The all-Simmons opening combo was too good to pass up :-)

 

[h_hurricane]

Can I please bat at #4?

I think you will have some trouble convincing AT to move out of his natural position That batting position is anyways tailor made for both of you, I am sure you both would do well.

 

[h_hurricane]

Who out of RH, Stephen and TJB is Symonds in this team? I assume it will be TJB since 7 is the position they love to give to him.

Australia would generally go with Symonds, Bevan and Watson in that order in an ATG team. There is no way Stephen isn't Bevan.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Australia would generally go with Symonds, Bevan and Watson in that order in an ATG team. There is no way Stephen isn't Bevan.

I'll be Watson. Handsome, well built and unfairly maligned.

 

[honestbharani]

Sucks at using technology?

 

[jimmy101]

“I said that there is a number of posters, a group in this team at the moment, that are like a tumour and if we don’t fix it, it’s going to turn into a cancer,” Michael Clarke said. “Jedi is one of those posters, yes.”

 

[h_hurricane]

Less than 100 ODIs ATG XI (excluding those not retired)

Glenn Turner
Neil Johnson
Zaheer Abbas
Greg Chappell
Clive Lloyd
Roger Twose
Rodney Marsh
Ajanta Mendis
Dennis Lillee
Shane Bond
Joel Garner

 

[vcs]

Surely Starc makes it.

 

[honestbharani]

Surely Starc makes it.

You didn't read between the braces?

 

[Migara]

90s ODI XI:

Tendulkar
Jayasuriya (5)
Lara
De Silva
S Waugh (6)
Bevan
Stewart+
Warne (4)
Akram (3)
Ambrose (2)
Donald (1)

Went with Jayasuriya over Waugh for his bowling. Ditto Waugh over Ranatunga. The unluckiest bloke was Abbas.

Massive lack of Dean Jones and Martin Crowe noted. Both were better than Aravinda / Steve Waugh IMO. It's just two of them did not have a god mode couple of years that Aravinda had, and the WC happened to be in between.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

The all-Simmons opening combo was too good to pass up :-)

I guess that's a good reason for that. Was just more interested in having more diversity in the team...too many right-handed batsmen in that XI.