The ATG Teams General arguing/discussing thread

[bagapath]

Looking at the "last letters of names XIs" for a change, my first thought was that the N team was unstoppable:

Len Hutton
Bob Simpson
Don Bradman
Ken Barrington
Younis Khan
Jock Cameron
Imran Khan
Alan Davidson
Fred Trueman
Dale Steyn
Muttiah Muralitharan

However, the E team might fancy their chances:

Herbert Sutcliffe
Alan Melville
Vijay Hazare
Mahela Jayawardene
Stan McCabe
Dudley Nourse
John Waite
Richard Hadlee
Shane Warne
Dennis Lillee
Curtly Ambrose

and the S's would also put up a decent fight:

Jack Hobbs
Barry Richards
Viv Richards
Jacques Kallis
Everton Weekes
Gary Sobers
Les Ames
Pat Cummins
Andy Roberts
Waqar Younis
Sydney Barnes

To fight the R team

Sunil Gavaskar
Victor Trumper
Ted Dexter *
Sachin Tendulkar
Andy Flower
Keith Miller
Mark Boucher +
Joel Garner
Jim Laker
Shoaib Akhthar
Bhagwat Chandrasekar

 

[Howe_zat]

Usman Khawaja
Sanath Jayasuriya
Kumar Sangakkara
Hashim Amla
Brian Lara
Aravinda de Silva
Basil D’Olivera
Ravi Jadeja
Kagiso Rabada
Ishant Sharma
Danish Kaneria

I had a pretty good feeling about the batting, the bowling turned out to be hard.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Head to Toe XI

Travis Head
May-ankh Agarwal
Dudley Nose
Sa-chin Tendulkar
NipPellew
Ian Belly
John Waist (wk)
Colon degrandhomme
Jimmy Knee-sham
Chanaka We-leg-edera
Daneil Vet-toe-ri

 

[vcs]

Niroshan Dickwella or Quinton de Kock for WK, shame on you for missing something so obvious

 

[vcs]

Shaun Bollock batting below De Kock would have strengthened the lower order as well as the bowling attack

 

[TheJediBrah]

Mohinder Arm-anath

 

[honestbharani]

Seriously, we have May-ankh and Arm-anath but no Arm-brose?

 

[OverratedSanity]

Seriously, we have May-ankh and Arm-anath but no Arm-brose?

For that to work, Ambrose would have to bat top 5. The whole point of it is to do it from head to toe.

 

[honestbharani]

oopsie.. What about Fred Toeman?

 

[smash84]

Mohinder Arm-anath

Too much forcing Amarnath.

Should use some other name. Probably some Armstrong if there was a cricketer with such a name, can't remember off top of my head.

 

[honestbharani]

Warwick Armstrong?

 

[smash84]

Warwick Armstrong?

At least would make sense, rather than name twisting Amarnath.

 

[vcs]

At least would make sense, rather than name twisting Amarnath.

That is the whole point, the more tortuous, the better

 

[trundler]

Don Beardman

 

[Flem274*]

neil wang-er

 

[Flem274*]

bj ****-ling

 

[Red]

Shaun Bollock batting below De Kock would have strengthened the lower order as well as the bowling attack

De Kock should be below the Bollock, at least until the Bollock gets a bit older.

 

[trundler]

Groin Morgan, anyone?

 

[TheJediBrah]

Probably some Armstrong if there was a cricketer with such a name, can't remember off top of my head.

and you crack at me for not knowing old-timey cricketers

edit: thought you were trundler

 

[honestbharani]

Jake Ball? May have to bat a bit higher in the order than he is used to, though.