Establishing the best decade for cricket: Finding the ATG XI from 12 decades of test cricket - then having a KO tourney to decide the best

[a massive zebra]

Dick Lilley
Tibby Cotter
Warren Bardsey

 

[mr_mister]

Liley 4 votes
Strudwick 2
Carter 1


Cotter 6 votes
Hirst 2


Noble 6 votes
Bardsley 1


Looks like we have a team!

 

[mr_mister]

So we've nearly finalised our first team, just need to pick a captain! We can do that while moving onto the 1870s/80s/90s team

1900s-1910s XI

Jack Hobbs
Victor Trumper
Clem Hill
Aubrey Faulkner 5
Stanley Jackson
Monty Noble 6
Frank Foster 2
Dick Lilley +
Tibby Cotter 3
Sydney Barnes 1
Colin Blythe 4


So,

Pick your 1900s-1910s XI captain
pick your two opening batsman for the 1870s/80s/90s XI
pick your number 3 batsman for the 1870s/80s/90s XI
pick your two opening bowlers for the 1870s/80s/90s XI

 

[trundler]

Grace and Shrewsbury, no other choice is valid.
Ranji, see above.
Spofforth and Lohmann

Shout-out to Tom Richardson.

 

[The Sean]

Grace and Shrewsbury, no other choice is valid.
Ranji, see above.
Spofforth and Lohmann

Shout-out to Tom Richardson.

Exactly all this for me too please, even down to the shout out for Richardson.

And Monty Noble for captain of the 1900s team.

 

[ataraxia]

Grace and Shrewsbury, no other choice is valid.
Ranji, see above.
Spofforth and Lohmann

Shout-out to Tom Richardson.

Same here, Stanley Jackson for captain.

 

[mr_mister]

Exactly all this for me too please, even down to the shout out for Richardson.

And Monty Noble for captain of the 1900s team.

and i'll third this

could be a quick round of voting!

 

[Red_Ink_Squid]

and i'll third this

could be a quick round of voting!

+1.

Jackson to captain the 1900s team.

 

[mr_mister]

alright let's keep this 19th century side moving! 5-0 in all areas says enough to me


Grace
Shrewsbury
Ranji
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-
-
-
-
Lohmann
-
Spofforth


So,

Continue voting on the captain for the 1900s-1910s team
Pick your number 4 and 5 in the batting order
Pick your main spinner

 

[Starfighter]

Damn, I've missed this and missed one of the eras I'd be best at.

 

[mr_mister]

Damn, I've missed this and missed one of the eras I'd be best at.

Would you have changed the XI much?

 

[Starfighter]

Would you have changed the XI much?

I'd have to think about it.

 

[Teuton]

I was about to vote for Hayward and push Shrewsbury in to the middle order.

Noble for captain

Grace, Ranji, Lohmann and Spofforth too.

 

[The Sean]

Billy Murdoch is a lock for me, but the other middle order spot is a tough one - funnily enough, both Hill and Jackson could easily make this team too! Joe Darling was the leading runscorer of the 1890s and normally played in the middle-order, but all his big runs came as an opener. And Syd Gregory played slightly less in the 1890s than he did in the 1900s, but was statistically more successful in the earlier decade. However, I'm going to plump for Allan Steel, who was not only one of the outstanding middle-order bats of the 1880s but a more than handy bowler as well.

As for the spinner, it's a bit six-of-one-half-a-dozen-of-the-other between Bobby Peel and Johnny Briggs, but I'm going with Peel because he had to play all his matches against Australia and didn't get any LOLstats matches against South Africa to boost his numbers.

So, that was a long way of saying:

Billy Murdoch
AG Steel

Bobby Peel

 

[Michaelf7777777]

Stanley Jackson
Billy Murdoch, Bobby Abel
Hugh Trumble

 

[trundler]

Murdoch, Abel
Peel

I'm not so sure about batting positions here. Would like to see Stoddart feature at some stage.

 

[a massive zebra]

Stanley Jackson
W.G. Grace and Arthur Shrewsbury
Ranji
Fred Spofforth and George Lohmann

 

[a massive zebra]

alright let's keep this 19th century side moving! 5-0 in all areas says enough to me


Grace
Shrewsbury
Ranji
-
-
-
-
-
Lohmann
-
Spofforth


So,

Continue voting on the captain for the 1900s-1910s team
Pick your number 4 and 5 in the batting order
Pick your main spinner

Could we not rush this please? Four hours is not enough time to allow people a chance to vote.

 

[The Sean]

I considered Abel for that slot as well, but if you look at his record he was predominantly an opener.

 

[trundler]

Stanley Jackson
W.G. Grace and Arthur Shrewsbury
Ranji
Fred Spofforth and George Lohmann

Rude not to 6th my picks