The ATG Teams General arguing/discussing thread

[TheJediBrah]

Think a good way to imagine Miller was having Mark Waugh (batting and fielding) and Jason Gillespie (bowling) rolled into one player.

He was a hell of a player, and is in the top 5 all rounders of all time, imo

+ movie-star looks and a war hero

I'm getting excited here

 

[Gob]

Lillee with the full beard looks great af

 

[honestbharani]

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Lillee with the full beard looks great af

Looks like Saif Ali Khan.

 

[_00_deathscar]

Looks like Saif Ali Khan.

Could never be mistaken for him. Saif Ali Khan has a great record in the subcontinent.

 

[Gob]

Looks like Saif Ali Khan.

Actually reminds me of Robin Williams

 

[honestbharani]

Could never be mistaken for him. Saif Ali Khan has a great record in the subcontinent.

Also this means Nawab of Pataudi is literally his baap (dad).

 

[Coronis]

bored so heres an Ashes XI

Hobbs
Sutcliffe
Bradman*
Chappell
Barrington
Hammond
Gilchrist+
Warne
Lillee
Trueman
McGrath

an Asia XI

Gavaskar
Sehwag
Dravid
Tendulkar
Younis
Sangakkara+
Imran*
Kapil
Wasim
Waqar
Muralitharan

and a rest of the world (NZ, SA, WI, ZIM)

Smith*
Greenidge
Richards
Lara
Kallis
Sobers
Flower+
Hadlee
Marshall
Tayfield
Ambrose

Probably missed someone obvious somewhere. Smith, Kohli, Williamson all poised to break into their respective XI’s.

 

[sunilz]

Steve Smith not in Ashes 11 ?

 

[kyear2]

Steve Smith not in Ashes 11 ?

I still can't get over How Hutton isn't one of the two best openers ever, far less for an Ashes XI. To me easily top 6 batsman of all time, period.

 

[_00_deathscar]

Probably missed someone obvious somewhere. Smith, Kohli, Williamson all poised to break into their respective XI’s.

Don’t see Williamson breaking into that XI - which of the 3 in the middle could he replace?

 

[sunilz]

Botham should also be there me thinks.

 

[ataraxia]

I still can't get over How Hutton isn't one of the two best openers ever, far less for an Ashes XI. To me easily top 6 batsman of all time, period.

Hobbs-Sutcliffe is just such a gun partnership. Hutton's in my top 6 batters all time but is fighting for a spot in my AT XI.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Don’t see Williamson breaking into that XI - which of the 3 in the middle could he replace?

Viv

 

[ataraxia]

Viv

no

 

[kyear2]

Ashes

Len Hutton
Jack Hobbs
Don Bradman
Greg Chappell
Steve Smith
Wally Hammond
Adam Gilchrist
Shane Warne
Fred Trueman
Dennis Lillee
Glenn McGrath

RoW

Barry Richards
Gordon Greenidge
Viv Richards
Brian Lara
Jacques Kallis
Garry Sobers
Jock Cameron
Richard Hadlee
Malcolm Marshall
High Tayfield
Curtly Ambrose

 

[kyear2]

no

Let me second that.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

no

By the end of his career say 135 tests, 40 100s, average of 55. I'd say yes

 

[Daemon]

Viv

LOL no

 

[sunilz]

By the end of his career say 135 tests, 40 100s, average of 55. I'd say yes

Of which 110 test would be in NZ .

 

[Gob]

Ashes

Len Hutton
Jack Hobbs
Don Bradman
Greg Chappell
Steve Smith
Wally Hammond
Adam Gilchrist
Shane Warne
Fred Trueman
Dennis Lillee
Glenn McGrath

RoW

Barry Richards
Gordon Greenidge
Viv Richards
Brian Lara
Jacques Kallis
Garry Sobers
Jock Cameron
Richard Hadlee
Malcolm Marshall
High Tayfield
Curtly Ambrose

bored so heres an Ashes XI

Hobbs
Sutcliffe
Bradman*
Chappell
Barrington
Hammond
Gilchrist+
Warne
Lillee
Trueman
McGrath

an Asia XI

Gavaskar
Sehwag
Dravid
Tendulkar
Younis
Sangakkara+
Imran*
Kapil
Wasim
Waqar
Muralitharan

and a rest of the world (NZ, SA, WI, ZIM)

Smith*
Greenidge
Richards
Lara
Kallis
Sobers
Flower+
Hadlee
Marshall
Tayfield
Ambrose

Probably missed someone obvious somewhere. Smith, Kohli, Williamson all poised to break into their respective XI’s.

If we are doing Ashes teams based on their Ashes exploits, Chappell has a relatively poor record in Engand. Also both Waugh and Border were Ashes giants and at least one of them should be considered.

Hobbs
Sutcliffe
Bradman
Smith
Waugh
Botham
Haddin (yep)
Warne
Lillee
Snow
McGrath